Fire Lerner- Suspend Obama's Pay-Close Swarthmore- Fumigate The IRS!

A proud dad !

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I was devastated to find out my wife was having an affair; but, by turning to religion, I was soon able to come to terms with the whole thing.
I converted to Islam, and we're stoning her in the morning!

 I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated, but must come back as a different creature.

She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said, "You obviously haven't been listening."

The Red Cross just knocked on my door and asked if we could contribute towards the floods in Pakistan . I said we'd love to, but our garden hose only reaches the driveway.
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Is the White House mandate to keep Obama in the dark so he can disclaim whatever happens?

That seems to be the case time and again.  What are we paying him for?  To improve his golf game?

Do you believe this? (See 1 below.)
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A former Israeli Amb. to the U.S. speaks. (See 2 below.)
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Swarthmore College and its top administrators prove campus liberalism has gone beyond sanity.

They need to teach what Skousen wriote about the 28 principles underlying our Republic.

 Sowell believes the 'barbarians' could be at the gate again. (See 3 below.)
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Lerner is a disgrace.

When a senior official of a government agency refuses to answer questions representatives of  the government she works for that person should be fired and lose all benefits. (See 4 below.)
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I wish everyone a Happy and Safe Memorial Day.

Off to Callaway Gardens to be with 16 members of our immediate family and will miss two who could not come.
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Dick
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1)More Obama Aides Knew of IRS Audit — Obama Not Told

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior presidential advisers knew in late April that an upcoming report was likely to find that IRS employees had inappropriately targeted conservative political groups. That disclosure on Monday expanded the known circle of top officials who were aware of the audit beyond those identified earlier by the White House.

The White House says McDonough and the other advisers did not tell President Barack Obama about the impending report, leaving him to learn the results from news reports later. The White House defended the decision to keep the president in the dark, with press secretary Jay Carney saying Obama was comfortable with the fact that "some matters are not appropriate to convey to him, and this is one of them." 
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2)The Arab League's New Peace Proposal
 By Zalman Shoval ·


 Even a perfunctory examination of the "Arab Peace Initiative," which the Arab League adopted on March 28, 2002, shows that it was no more than a list of take-it-or-leave-it demands requiring Israel to commit itself in advance to "full withdrawal from all territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights"; east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state; and the "right of return" of Arab refugees. ·

Future political historians will probably be frustrated when they attempt to unravel how the idea of "land swaps" between Israel and the Palestinians ever achieved traction. After all, this wasn't what UN Security Council Resolution 242 had said about Israel's future borders. · Resolution 242 never intended that Israel should return to the vulnerable pre-'67 cease-fire line. The UK's Lord Caradon, the resolution's co-author, said "it would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of 4 June 1967."

On June 5, 1967, Jordanian artillery began to shell west Jerusalem and Jordanian soldiers occupied the UN observers headquarters. It was an unprovoked act of aggression against the State of Israel. Arthur Goldberg, the U.S. ambassador to the UN and the resolution's other co-author, said: "It is clear that Israel exercised the right of self-defense in the 1967 war."

One may, therefore, be justified in asking why Israel should now be required to compensate the aggressor with land?
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3)Wimps Versus Barbarians
By Thomas Sowell

 An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object. Although there were professors and administrators in the room -- including the college president -- apparently nobody had the guts to put a stop to these storm trooper tactics.

Nor is it likely that there will be any punishment of those who put their own desires above the rights of others. On the contrary, these students went on to demand mandatory campus "teach-ins," and the administration caved on that demand.

Among their other demands are that courses on ethnic studies, and on gender and sexuality, be made a requirement for graduation. Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

At a prestigious college like Swarthmore, every student who trampled on other people's rights could be expelled and there would be plenty of replacement students available to take their places. Although colleges and universities across the country have been giving in to storm trooper tactics ever since the nationwide campus disruptions of the 1960s, not all have.

Back in the 1960s, the University of Chicago was a rare exception. As Professor George J. Stigler, a Nobel Prize winning economist, put it in his memoirs, "our faculty united behind the expulsion of a large number of young barbarians." The sky did not fall. There was no bloodbath. The University of Chicago was in fact spared some of the worst nonsense that more compliant institutions were permanently saddled with in the years that followed, as a result of their failure of nerve in the 1960s. When the nationwide campus disruptions and violence of the 1960s gave way to quieter times in the 1970s, many academics congratulated themselves on having restored peace. But it was the peace of surrender. 

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender and other "studies" were among the price of academic peace.

All too often, these "studies" are about propaganda rather than serious education. Academic campuses have become among the least free places in America. "Speech codes," vaguely worded but zealously applied to those who dare to say anything that is not politically correct, have become the norm. Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender or other "studies" courses.

 Why did all this happen? Partly it happened because of the lure of the path of least resistance, especially to academic administrators and faculty. But there was no such widespread surrender to every noisy and belligerent group of student activists prior to the 1960s.

Moreover, the example of the University of Chicago showed that surrender was not inevitable. The cost of resistance to the campus barbarians may not have been the only factor.

Resistance requires a sense that there is something worth defending. But decades of dumbed-down education have produced people with no sense of the importance of a moral framework within which freedom and civil discourse can flourish. Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others.

Neither can sustain a free society. Disruptive activists indulge their egos in the name of idealism and others cave rather than fight. It's not just academics who won't defend decency.

Trustees could fire college presidents who cave in to storm trooper tactics.

Donors could stop donating to institutions that have sold out their principles to appease the campus barbarians.

But when nobody is willing to defend civilized standards, the barbarians win. Whether on college campuses or among nations on the world stage, if the battle comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are bound to win.
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4)Top IRS Official Will Take Fifth Before Congress

By Greg Richter

The IRS official over the division that reviews tax-exempt applications will invoke her Fifth Amendment right not to testify before Congress, her lawyer says.

Lois Lerner was scheduled to appear Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee. But in a letter to committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., her lawyer says she will not offer testimony under her constitutional rights against self-incrimination, the Los Angeles Times reports.

"She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course," said the letter from Lerner's defense attorney William W. Taylor III.

Taylor says in the letter that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into why conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny and that Issa's committee has asked Lerner for an explanation why she gave "false or misleading information" four times in 2012. 

Taylor asked that Lerner be excused from appearing since she will not be answering questions. Since she will not testify, Taylor argued that making Lerner appear would "have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her."

The inspector general's report said Lerner was made aware in June 2011 that agents had used terms such as "tea party" and "patriot" to single out groups for additional scrutiny. She ordered that the criteria be changed.

In testimony to Congress, however, she never admitted the practice had taken place, even when asked multiple times by legislators.

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