"Repeal the Bill of Rights?" (OK, sure ... why not)

This, in the US of A - a land of idiots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k0he0cqHH20

Fall of the Humanities

..."although Fish finally left Duke in 1992, his influence continues as evidenced by President Brodhead's initial handling of the Lacrosse case in 2006: The radicals, who rallied behind a black prostitute as a symbol of their beloved class warfare against white males, were able to sweep him along  in the tide of multicultural fantasy. White boys from wealthy families -- bad; black female employed in the sex trade -- good. Brodhead should have been fired. Instead he is co-chairman of a prestigious panel peddling the importance of humanities studies that no longer exist.

Brodhead is not simply a fraud. He is a witting player in the collapse of scholarship, easily observable in a conversation with college graduates of the past four decades, or by the absence of ethics and morality dramatized regularly in American society. But the audacity to list the subjects that comprise the humanities as we knew them, and omit the courses offered today that have undermined, or in many cases replaced them, is a testament to the abandonment of the lessons they were designed to teach. What's left is not worth the effort to preserve"...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/the_fall_of_the_humanities.html

How to destroy an economy

a) Be economically stupid
b) Demand wages that bear no relationship to reality
c) Be economically stupid
d) Demonstrate envy towards those jobs creators that create jobs - why?  go to (a)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-districts-terrible-message-to-job-creators/2013/03/15/ddcb046e-8cdc-11e2-9838-d62f083ba93f_story.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wal-mart-in-wage-law-vote-the-dc-council-has-forced-our-hand/2013/07/09/dee907d4-e8c5-11e2-8f22-de4bd2a2bd39_story_1.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/higher-minimum-wage-could-hurt-dc-development/2013/07/08/fb898e94-e330-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wal-mart-pursue-locations-nations-capitol-dc-councils/storynew?id=19627062#.Ud3vdFRDtq9

"Commit any felonies lately?"

"As The Wall Street Journal has reported, lawmakers in Washington have greatly eroded the notion of mens rea — the principle that you need criminal intent in order to commit a crime. Thanks to a proliferating number of obscure offenses, Americans now resemble the condemned souls in Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” — spared from perdition only by the temporary forbearance of those who sit in judgment.

“What once might have been considered simply a mistake,” The Journal explains, is now “punishable by jail time.” And as 20-year-old Elizabeth Daly has now learned, you can go to jail even when the person making the mistake wasn’t you"

http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/our-opinion/columnists-blogs/bart-hinkle/hinkle-commit-any-felonies-lately/article_58344fc1-7d4f-584a-8d16-36a1b1f2cdc0.html

Ray Charles - ... "America the Beautiful"

Nothing more beautiful ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8xk1P1913y0

#1 Public University Producing Idiots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rytC4QsIiG8

Breitbart versus the Arrogance Bastards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ldrQKYuSWA&feature=youtu.be

Mr. Johnny Barnes

Mr. Johnny Barnes

http://vimeo.com/36673515

Why we need whistleblowers, and how Obama is terrorizing them

"As recently reported by the McClatchy Newspapers, the Obama administration views whistleblowing and leaks as a species of terrorism. According toMcClatchy: "President Obama's unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach. It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of 'insider threat' give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct. ... Leaks to the media are equated with espionage."

The Peace Corps? The Department of Agriculture? Really? There's irony in this, given President Obama's famous 2009 pledge to make transparency a "touchstone" in his administration. "For a long time," he said, "there's been too much secrecy in this city." His views on this subject seem to have evolved. Now, like many officeholders, he wants to control information to avoid embarrassment.

But that's a mistake. Because while leaks can bring embarrassment, leaks -- or at least their possibility -- also bring legitimacy.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/07/01/glenn-harlan-reynolds-on-snowden/2477569/