Friday, May 15, 2015

Assortment

Jim Treacher has a hilarious caption contest underway over at The Daily Caller featuring George Stephanopoulos and his idol.

Lyndon McLellan calls IRS's bluff, IRS caves. Here are words that should make your blood boil: "U.S. Attorney Steve West threatened McLellan that going public would only make things worse for him. He told McLellan it 'just ratchets up feelings in the agency. My offer is to return 50% of the money.'" McLellan stuck to his guns and got his whole hundred grand back, plus interest.

In some school districts, it seems that the stars and stripes are the new stars and bars.

Bob Belvedere takes a hard look at Pope Francis. I share Bob's concerns. The Pope has made the rookie theological mistake of confusing Our Lord's call for charity on the part of the individual with demands for coercive (and inherently arbitrary, inefficient and corrupt) schemes for redistribution by governments. And he's made the rookie economics mistake of viewing wealth as a pie of fixed dimensions that has to be doled out as if it were simply handed down from heaven with instructions for an even distribution of slices. For God's sake, the man spent much of his life in Argen-freakin'-tina; how can he not have observed the link between heavy-handed government and poverty?

More on George Stepandfetchitopoulos from Ed Driscoll, Ace and Ed Morrissey.

Remember those nasty old earmarks? They're baaaaaack!

ISIS leader just can't stick to Obama's program.

C'mon, man, what would some old dead white dude know about the law?

8 comments:

Veeshir said...

Earmarks never left.

They just kept doing continuing spending resolutions.

Our fine political betters and our fine media betters could pretend that there were no earmarks in CRs because only budgets have earmarks.

Notice there was little talk of deficit spending, again, because CRs don't have deficit spending.

smitty1e said...

Over Macho Grande?

RebeccaH said...

That IRS thing had me doing a happy dance. It was outright thievery.

Anonymous said...

"The Pope has made the rookie theological mistake of confusing Our Lord's call for charity on the part of the individual with demands for coercive (and inherently arbitrary, inefficient and corrupt) schemes for redistribution by governments. And he's made the rookie economics mistake of viewing wealth as a pie of fixed dimensions that has to be doled out as if it were simply handed down from heaven with instructions for an even distribution of slices. For God's sake, the man spent much of his life in Argen-freakin'-tina; how can he not have observed the link between heavy-handed government and poverty?"

Amen. Brilliantly and succinctly stated.
Mike_W

Paco said...

Thankee, Mike.

Dad29 said...

Umnnhhhh....Catholics have ignored Popes for about 2000 years or so, on ANY topic, whether the particular Pope was right or wrong.

His thoughts on econ are not doctrinal, nor will they be dogmatic, so ignoring him is no big deal.

Bob Belvedere said...

I second Mike_W's sentiment!

And thank you for the linky love, Sir Paco.

Paco said...

Dad 29: Right you are. His opinions on such subjects are merely "pastoral".

You're very welcome, Bob.