Gardening Grandma Arrested for Failure to Prune

Overcriminalized.com  "On April 3, 2002, Kay Leibrand* surrendered to the police. She was fingerprinted. They took her mug shots. The 61-year old grandmother and software engineer was told that she had broken the law. She might go to jail or perhaps she would get off with just a fine. On May 30, 2002, she was arraigned. Her crime was allowing street-side xylosma bushes to grow more than two feet high."
Palo Alto; Pelosi/Democrat country.

etsy.com game pieces

*Kay Leibrand's website;  "In the last few years it has become increasingly common for schools to institute a "zero tolerance" policy against students possessing weapons, real or replicas, at school. It is a reasonable attempt to ensure the safety and the perceived safety of school staff and students. Often the penalty for a student who is found to have a weapon is suspension or expulsion. One particular case was in the national news. A student was found carrying a piece from the game Clue. It was a gun! The principal acted quickly and following the weapon policy to the letter, sent the student home."
Clue game pieces pictured; see the gun?

Mike Luckovich on Mark Twain

http://blogs.ajc.com/mike-luckovich/

Issa to business: Tell me what to fix

Politico ""Is there something that we can do to try to ease that [regulatory] burden and stimulate job creation?" he added. "Is there a pattern emerging? Is there a consistent practice or regulation that hurts jobs? Until you have all the facts, you really can't make a lot of determinations and judgments."

"At the same time, Issa is getting his cue from and a voice to a chorus of largely disgruntled industry groups and companies that have collectively groaned about regulations in the pipeline and on the books."

Obamacare Waivers Go To Allies

Judicial Watch  "In the latest of many scandals to rock the administration that promised change and a new level of transparency, a disproportionately high number of Obamacare waivers are being granted to the president’s allies in a secretive process."

ObamaCare Rewards Friends, Punishes Enemies "In a speech at the University of Iowa last March, the president heralded health-care reform as "a new set of rules that treats everybody honestly and treats everybody fairly." Determining whether that is true will be another task for House Republicans. They have an obligation to look into this matter, and Mr. Obama can hardly object. It was former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, whom the president frequently quotes, who wrote in 1913 that sunlight "is the best of disinfectants."" Karl Rove

Repeal Doesn’t Increase the Deficit

Heritage  "Only someone so out of touch with reality that they could claim that “deficit reduction” has been their “highest priority” while simultaneously adding more than $1 trillion a year to the debt could possibly claim that repealing Obamacare would add to the debt. But that is exactly what Pelosi wants us to believe. Also on Tuesday she claimed that repealing Obamacare would do “very serious violence to the national debt and deficit.” Nothing could be further from the truth."

OBAMACARE AND THE DEFICIT .. WHO IS RIGHT?? 

Democrats and the CBO's ObamaCare numbers  "The crucial thing to understand is that the CBO is just a calculator: It only adds and subtracts the numbers Congress gives it. For example, a bill -- to be called ObamaCare -- that has $857 billion in expenses over the first ten years; approximately $500 billion in tax increases, in addition to approximately $500 billion in Medicare cuts over the same period, will give you a savings of $143 billion. This is what the CBO tells you. However, the CBO will not be there to make sure that the planned Medicare cuts indeed take place or that the tax increases will be enacted."

The Bill of Rights and the reading of the Constitution

Archives.gov via Constituting America  "Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers. What Jefferson did was to summarize this philosophy in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country."

Slate’s Shot At Constitutionalists Misses The Mark … Again  "With typical hyperbole of which liberals are so adept at accusing  conservatives, Ms. Lithwick goes on to label the interest in the document around which the framework of this entire nation was constructed as a “fetish.” "