Cartoon Of The Week: The Department Of 'Just-Us'

Humor is effective because it is the needle that draws the blood of truth from the vein of life.

This cartoon is quite effective.

Corzine Walks, Zakaria Gets His CNN and Time Jobs Back

Dog bites man. Corzine walks away from a massive, in many cases crushing, destruction of the wealth of his depositors (not his investors, his depositors), and the Justice Department clears him.

The sun rises in the East. Plagiarist Fareed Zakaria gets his gigs back with Time and CNN after publishing other people's work under his own name.

The stealing of depositors funds from the bank down the street would have resulted in the local bank president going to the sheriff, begging to be arrested for his own protection. He would not have a house to return to, in any case, it having already been burned to the ground by his customers.

But Corzine is OneOfUs, sez Mr. Holder. Nothing to see here, move on. Let all those ruined farmers recover their lost wealth via civil litigation. They'll get a dime on the dollar eventually. After all, those guys aren't going to vote for us, anyway.

Let's just move on, nothing to see here.

Since Mr. Zakaria is a champion of All Things Progressive, well--boys will be boys. Even if they are 48 years of age. Old enough to know better, still too leftist to care. After all, he was presenting a passionate case for one of our pet projects, gun control. Completely understandable mistake by one of our GoodOldBoys. He's OneOfUs, after all. Let's not look too hard, lest we allll come under scrutiny.

Let's just move on, nothing to see here.

This blatant plagiarism, which is what it is--not a 'mistake'--, would have resulted in Mr. Zakaria's failure in classes and perhaps dismissal from any number of universities that insist their 20-year-olds actually do their own work, and write their own words. As the father of one of those kids who lives with this risk, OS objects.

Close your eyes and imagine if the offender were of a much more conservative shade of opinion, and had plagiarized someone else's words.  One can smell the tar being heated even now, as the deliveries of feathers are being signed for in every mainstream media outlet in the nation.

The Double Standard lives, be it a thief of ideas, such as Zakaria, or a negligent destroyer of the wealth of depositors, such as Jon Corzine.

Boys, after all, will be boys...Good Old Boys...One Of Us...

Welcome to the Nixon Administration Redux. Heaven help us all.

Multiple Choice Test: What Would Eric Holder Do?

A bit of...shall we say...black humor.

HT: Doug Ross

Secure The Border Sing-Along, And Gov. Brewer's Remarks

First, since all the members of the Obama administration need a teency-weency bit of encouragement to read that little ten-page-long piece of legislation, Governor Brewer has provided a sing-a-long to help them out:




Second, Gov. Brewer has posted both the law, and her remarks delivered at its signing, at securetheborder.org.

OS thinks everyone should read both the law and remarks--you'll be miles ahead of the Harvard Law Review Editor Who Won The Nobel Peace Prize. You know, Himself.

And his Attorney General. And his Secretary of Homeland Security. And (one suspects) the Vice President, Speaker of the House, Senate Majority leader, White House Chief of Staff...

Governor Brewer said this:

We must acknowledge the truth – people across America are watching Arizona,seeing how we implement this law, ready to jump on even the slightest misstep.

Some of those people from outside our state have an interest in seeing us fail.

They will wait for a single slip-up, one mistake, and then they will work day and night to create headlines and get the face time they so desperately covet.

We cannot give them that chance.

We must use this new tool wisely, and fight for our safety with the honor Arizona deserves.

We must react calmly.

We must enforce the law evenly, and without regard to skin color, accent, or
social status.

We must prove the alarmists and the cynics wrong.

I know in my heart that this great state, my home for more than 40 years, is up to the task.

I believe every one of us wants to be safe, and none of us wants to compromise on the subject of civil rights.

I believe we must love and honor those who fight beside us – just as we must love and honor those who look and believe nothing like we do.

I believe Arizona,like America, is governed by laws.

Good laws... well-intentioned laws...laws that confer respect and that demand respect in return.

In his third State of the Union address, President Theodore Roosevelt said, ―No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

So, let us move forward -- ever mindful of our rights ...

-- ever faithful to the law ... and ever conscious of our bond as Arizonans, and the blessing we share together.

Thank you.

Please, someone, somewhere explain to this old boy how this woman is a racist, and that the law is racist...

You Mean I'm S'pozed To Actually READ A Law Before Denouncing It?: Janet Napolitano Admits She Hasn't Read The Arizona Law, Either

Simply, utterly amazing...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted Monday that she has not read the controversial Arizona immigration law even though she's gone on television to criticize it, and continued to assert that it was "bad law enforcement law."

The admission comes after Attorney General Eric Holder, who earlier warned the law could create a "slippery slope" toward racial profiling, told a House committee last week that he had not read the bill either. On Tuesday, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said he too had not read the bill, even as he defended diplomatic official Michael Posner for comparing the law to Chinese human rights violations.

Remember, these public servants were appointed by the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the former editor of Harvard Law Review.

You Mean I'm S'pozed To Actually READ A Law Before Litigating Against It?: Eric Holder and the Arizona Immigration Enforcement Bill

(Damn! Barry didn't tell me the job would actually involve reading stuff!)

Some moments are too good to pass up, and this is one of them. After all the condemnation heaped upon the heads of the folks in Arizona, and threats of civil rights action against them by the Department of Justice, AG Eric Holder admits in testimony before Congress that he hasn't even read the law!

If ever a video should go 'viral', this is one. 





This is the sort of nonsense one expects to encounter at a local zoning board meeting in a county somewhere in Appalachia. (Well, no suh', me and Bubba didn't realize that puttin' those dubble-wides on that flood plain would cause no problem. Hell, we didn't even know we wuz s'posed to get no bildin' permits, or look at no maps!)

Except this is the Attorney General of the United States. Our chief law enforcement officer. The one who is supposed render legal opinions for the Executive Branch. The one who is supposed to stand for the law and constitution, and not be a political hack.

And, lest we forget, the guy who appointed him once served as editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Shall we pause and reflect on the treatment recent Republican AG's have received at the hands of the Democrats and the MSM?

If this man is not sent on his way, then the country owes a posthumous apology to Nixon's AG-cum-BagMan, John Mitchell.