I share Carl’s frustration and outrage of course. It is at least as much the insult of the defenses offered by the IRS as the offenses themselves. So the new guidelines were needed to deal with a flood of applicants even though they were instituted before any spike in applications. So if they . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s tough to comment on the various interconnected scandals. The main reason is it’s so tough to keep up. The MSM media experts are having the same problem: Still, very few Democrats are in complete denial about how bad this might be. If I were to combine several little lectures I . . . . Continue Reading »
Picking up from my nightmare post below, proceeding into the daylight of what’s come to light so far, I would say that . . . . . . even a glance at the most reassuringly-framed wire-service newspaper stories about Friday’s hearing on the IRS scandal must leave one seriously appalled. . . . . Continue Reading »
A tremor was felt rumbling through the land . . . . . . fitful dreams interrupted, of mobs and protests, shrill cries, a yellow flag is waved in great swoops, festooned with the sign of the black pistol, there are other flags, secret meetings, solemn pledges, stockpiled cans and legal briefs, . . . . Continue Reading »
The truth of the matter is that, generally speaking, things are typically getting better and worse. We conservatives have a standard based in human nature or the whole human person—the free and relational being—by which we can evaluate political, moral, and technological change. Our . . . . Continue Reading »
1. So I’ve gotten a couple of complaints (really) that my contribution to BBS below was insufficiently sensitive to diversity issues. Well, that’s true. 2. The HR officer who called Sheldon in was a black woman skilled, as Leonard would say, in handlIng human relations issues. . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s a round-up of reactions to the new Obama administrative mandate—the if I’m offended (however unreasonably) you’re in trouble college speech code. Ken Masugi reminded me of the trouble Sheldon Cooper has had with his university’s human resources officer. But . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE (Sorry about the earlier link.) . . . . Continue Reading »
Marxists, libertarians, and other progressives often mistake conservatives for reactionaries. Conservatives, the progressive allegation is, want to return us to a time when we were less free and less responsible. And that’s because we have a romantic or even utopian view of the past. The . . . . Continue Reading »
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