As the EPA and IRS Have Shown, with Big Government Comes Little Accountability

Victor Davis Hanson

 

. . . "The Environmental Protection Agency spilled 3 million gallons of toxic sludge into a tributary of the Animas River in Colorado. The stinky yellow flume of old mine waste — rife with cancer-causing mercury and arsenic — threatens to pollute the drinking and recreational water of three states.

"Had a private oil company acted so incompetently and negligently, it would have been fined billions of dollars by the same EPA. The company’s top executives might have been subject to criminal prosecutions. The business’s reputation would have been tarnished for years. Just ask BP officials what the Obama administration did to the corporation after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.

"But who will police the green police at the EPA?

"When EPA administrator Gina McCarthy promises that the agency will take “full responsibility,” what does that tired banality mean? Will she resign? Will bureaucrats responsible for the toxic spill face fines and jail sentences? Will residents be able to sue McCarthy and her subordinates for diminishing their quality of life? Will the Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund rush to federal court to file briefs?

"Consider the vast bureaucracy of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Is it culpable for knowingly not enforcing immigration law and thus allowing some undocumented immigrants to commit violent crimes?" . . .

Fascism Is Far Left, Not Far Right on Political Spectrum

Conservative Daily News   "There are many logical incongruities that are maintained on a populist level, especially when it comes to politics. Not least of these is the composition of the political spectrum in identifying ideologies and systems of governance. The most common fallacy is identifying fascism as a right-wing ideology, even though its ideological roots originate in the left-wing extremist models of communism and socialism.

" The most pervasive political spectrum is loosely based on a left/right orientation, and attempts to place political models somewhere along the continuum. But for a political spectrum to have any meaningful representation, it must be based on some set of absolute values. Since every system of governance has unique characteristics, those can hardly be used for the absolute reference points from which to measure.". . .

- See more at: http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/08/fascism-is-far-left-not-far-right-on-political-spectrum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheConservativeDailyNews+%28The+Conservative+Daily+News%29#sthash.zxx2pHsj.dpuf

 

There are many logical incongruities that are maintained on a populist level, especially when it comes to politics. Not least of these is the composition of the political spectrum in identifying ideologies and systems of governance. The most common fallacy is identifying fascism as a right-wing ideology, even though its ideological roots originate in the left-wing extremist models of communism and socialism.
The most pervasive political spectrum is loosely based on a left/right orientation, and attempts to place political models somewhere along the continuum. But for a political spectrum to have any meaningful representation, it must be based on some set of absolute values. Since every system of governance has unique characteristics, those can hardly be used for the absolute reference points from which to measure.
- See more at: http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/08/fascism-is-far-left-not-far-right-on-political-spectrum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheConservativeDailyNews+%28The+Conservative+Daily+News%29#sthash.zxx2pHsj.dpuf

The furthest to the right on the political spectrum, the more individual liberty is advanced. Taken to its extreme is anarchy. When analyzed logically, then, National Socialism and fascism are wholly incongruent philosophically and practically to the right of the spectrum. Those who refer to Nazism as “right-wing” are politically ill-informed and have fallen for Stalin’s tactic of referring to them as such. One scholar makes the point that Nazism is to Communism what Pepsi is to Coke: basically the same but with a little different flavor. - See more at: http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/08/fascism-is-far-left-not-far-right-on-political-spectrum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheConservativeDailyNews+%28The+Conservative+Daily+News%29#sthash.RdBjJSc9.dpuf

 . . . "The furthest to the right on the political spectrum, the more individual liberty is advanced. Taken to its extreme is anarchy. When analyzed logically, then, National Socialism and fascism are wholly incongruent philosophically and practically to the right of the spectrum. Those who refer to Nazism as “right-wing” are politically ill-informed and have fallen for Stalin’s tactic of referring to them as such. One scholar makes the point that Nazism is to Communism what Pepsi is to Coke: basically the same but with a little different flavor." . . .

The furthest to the right on the political spectrum, the more individual liberty is advanced. Taken to its extreme is anarchy. When analyzed logically, then, National Socialism and fascism are wholly incongruent philosophically and practically to the right of the spectrum. Those who refer to Nazism as “right-wing” are politically ill-informed and have fallen for Stalin’s tactic of referring to them as such. One scholar makes the point that Nazism is to Communism what Pepsi is to Coke: basically the same but with a little different flavor. - See more at: http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2015/08/fascism-is-far-left-not-far-right-on-political-spectrum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheConservativeDailyNews+%28The+Conservative+Daily+News%29#sthash.RdBjJSc9.dpuf

This Is Sick! Elijah Cummings Threatens Planned Parenthood Whistleblowers

Independent Sentinel

“No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.”

~ Thomas Paine, Four Letters on Interesting Subjects, 1776

. . . "Where is the outrage from Americans?

"Elijah Cummings actively persecuted Catherine Engelbrecht of True the Vote but she’s fighting back and has sued him at great personal cost. Cummings has tremendous power. He’s the man who insists we need a police czar.

"Cummings has protected government agents who targeted conservatives. He is a statist who would see all power rest with the state. If he were the only member of Congress like that it would be one thing, but there are plenty more just like him.

"Elijah Cummings won’t investigate Hillary Clinton and he protected Lois Lerner. He won’t investigate the former DA in Wisconsin who targeted innocent Americans misusing the John Doe laws. He will, however, investigate political opponents.

"The unlawful selling of baby body parts has been going on for years. There were cases of illicit sales in the 1990’s but no one cared. There was a brief media uproar and then it was over. No one paid a price and the public was apathetic as they are now." . . .

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples’ minds.” ~ Samuel Adams

"We must awaken the American soul."

The Guardian of the Constitution

John Kasich; I’m fine with abortion; it is the law of the land

RedState

 

"Today in New Hampshire, even as a new video from Center for Medical Progress was circulating which described cutting open the face of a still living baby to extract its brain, John Kasich had this to say about abortion:

“I would like to ask whether you can respect the Roe versus Wade decision, and I ask because as a lifelong libertarian, I’m looking for a candidate to support who is both a fiscal conservative and not a threat to a woman’s right to control her own body,” said a voter at a town hall event in Salem, New Hampshire.

“Obviously, it’s the law of the land now, and we live with the law of the land,” Kasich replied.
"The full answer is a bit more expansive, he added: “It’s the law of the land until it changes.”
"This is straight out of the John Weaver play book. Via CNN:

“I think (abortion) is an important issue, but I think there’s many other issues that are really critical. Early childhood. Infant mortality. The environment. Education,” he said. “I think we focus too much on just one issue, and now that the issue of gay marriage is kind of off the table, we’re kind of down to one social issue.”

"It makes you wonder what kind of a dunderhead could place the environment and education above the life of a child." . . .

Trust But Don't Verify

HopeNChangeCartoons

 

"Obama's Iran deal just keeps getting better and better - assuming, of course, that you're either Iranian or just a rabid anti-Semite who wants to see Israel vaporized on general principle. . .

"How else to explain the recently revealed little detail in "the toughest deal ever made" that says inspection of Iran's Parchin nuclear weapons development site will be handled through the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has agreed to let the Iranians themselves conduct the inspections.

"Unlike most agreements of this sort (which is to say, agreements not negotiated by our ludicrous, Lurch-like, Nobel Prize-chasing Secretary of State) the IAEA experts who would normally conduct investigations and take samples will be barred from visiting the Parchin site, and must instead rely on whatever samples and photos the Iranians decide to give them. Even more astoundingly, the Iranians are already saying that the deal allows them to withhold photos or video of anything being worked on that has military significance.

"So there's Barry's "years in the making" deal in a nutshell: all sanctions on Iran will be lifted immediately, Iran will receive $150 billion with which to buy weapons and deploy terrorists, further billions will roll in from oil sales with which to raise hell, AND they're free to work on nuclear weapons as long as they have military significance." . . .

The immigration swamp

Charles Krauthammer

“This was not a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement.”

— Donald Trump, on immigration, Republican debate, Aug. 6

. . . "But that is not to say that he should be exempt from normal scrutiny or from consideration of the effect of his candidacy on conservatism’s future. If you are a conservative alarmed at the country’s direction and committed to retaking the White House, you should be concerned about what Trump’s ascendancy is doing to the chances of that happening.

"The Democrats’ presumptive candidate is flailing badly. Republicans have an unusually talented field with a good chance of winning back the presidency. Do they really want to be dragged into the swamps — right now, on immigration — that will make that prospect electorally impossible?". . .