Just when I get completely cynical someone posts something like this. I even have a granddaughter named Tatum.

Way to go, Jon, you've revived some of my faith in human beings.

I spent nearly 25 years working for one of those big, evil corporations. Yes, they're bureaucratic. People occasionally can skate away from  responsibility for their actions.

But more often than not people were held responsible for their failures (including demotions and firings)--they were also awarded for their successes. It was imperfect, but then everything is.

As far as I can tell, IRS higher-ups regularly receive large bonuses, but none of them ever seem to be held responsible for their screw-ups (except for the guy who was going to retire in a week or two).

Guys like him make me ashamed to be a lawyer.

Mormon here:  I do believe in the reality of Satan.  Our theology teaches that he is real.  Nothing I've seen in the world gives me any reason to deny his existence.

Was the Pope performing an exorcism?  I have no idea, but unlike Jay Carney, if the Pope says he wasn't, I accept his statement. His credibility is very high.

I suppose some may have reached that conclusion, but by far the greatest source of single-parent families is women bearing illegitimate children.

I hope all is not lost, but that 60 percent number was 45 percent a little over a decade ago.  This is not a positive trend.

Doc:  If and when you get subpoenaed by Congress, I hope you send a  letter telling them you intend to rely on the Second Amendment.

Isn't she the one who said she's not good at math?  I'm shocked that she didn't decide to rely on the Second Amendment.

Eliana Johnson at NRO is reporting that the Issa committee immediately issued a subpoena.  Whether they can get it served in time remains to be seen.

When high government officials plead the fifth, I think we can conclude (1) it's an official scandal and (2) it's time for a special counsel.

It's an excellent story.

I thought the Democrats were the party of science?  

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse did his own version of this rant on the Senate floor yesterday.

Is there anyone here who can apologize on behalf of Rhode Island?

You can put me in the same camp as Schrodinger's Cat.

For a supposedly rational people, it's baffling why 60% of Americans consider it morally OK to have a child out of wedlock.  Social science hasn't proven many things, but it has shown beyond all doubt that, on average, kids raised in single-parent have have much higher chances of experiencing a broad range of negative life experiences (including much higher poverty rates).

Totally aside from religion, one can only wonder why making a decision so deleterious to another human being is empty of moral implications for sixty percent of us.  I would call it a moral failure of the highest order.

Sigh!

Query:  Would it have been a problem for my 501(c)(4) application if I disclosed that my group prayed that the good Lord would temper the plagues of Egypt and remove other great pestilences from the earth, including the IRS?

If Texas gets to leave, then Utah, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Idaho should be allowed to accompany ya'll.  Obama got 25%, 28%, 33%, and 33% respectively.  I think we've proven our conservative bona fides.  

They can make 46 stars look good, and our five would look good in a circular pattern (maybe we could join Israel and go with a six-pointed star). With Israel, the population of our new country would be about 42-43 million.  I think we'd be able to punch well above our weight.

If it were my restaurant, it would be fresh:  because I have the greatest incentive to (1) get customers to come back and (2) to not make them sick.  This is not a problem that requires EU regulations to solve.

I also trust that cooks in good restaurants won't spit in the soup.  That too is a "problem" that doesn't require government intervention.

Remember John Dean's comment to Nixon?:  "a cancer is growing on the presidency." (I paraphrase).

Watergate was a true scandal and the cover-up demonstrated the existence of a cancer.  

I think the cancer on the Obama presidency is just as profound for the reasons KC has articulated.  Obama likely didn't order any of this, but he allowed a cancerous environment to grow in his administration.

I hope the Republicans don't move on impeachment unless the evidence is overwhelming.  That lacking, they shouldn't do it because it will give Obama the power to condemn those insane Republicans, thus making the Republican overreach the issue instead of the administration's sins.

If the result of all this is (1) neutering the Obama administration's ability to get bad legislation through Congress and (2) destroying a Clinton run in 2016, you can color me ecstatic.

You've not heard to the thousands and thousands of olive oil poisonings all over Europe?  Public health crisis.  People are hurting--government must move.

Judith's story could just as easily run in the Onion, and everyone would have laughed at the irony of making fun of silly and useless regulation and bureaucracy.