Mark Steyn
The Orange County Register
7/8/2011
…If one were so inclined, one might be heartened by the swift responsiveness to pressure of the allegedly all-powerful bogeyman Murdoch. But you can’t help but notice that this supposed public shaming is awfully selective. In the week of the News Of The World revelations, it was reported that the Atlanta Public Schools system has spent the last decade systemically cheating on its tests. Not the students, but the Superintendent, and the union, and 38 principals, and at least 178 teachers – whoops, pardon me, “educators,” and some 44 of the 56 school districts…
…The whole rotten stinking school system is systemically corrupt from the superintendent down. But what are the chances of APS being closed down? How many of those fraudulent non-teachers will waft on within the system until their lucrative retirements?
Or consider “Operation Fast and Furious,” about which nothing is happening terribly fast and over which Americans should be furious.
The official explanation is that the federal government used stimulus funding to buy guns from Arizona gun shops for known criminals to funnel to Mexican drug cartels…Stimulus dollars went to fund one federal agency to buy guns for the paid informants of another federal agency to funnel to foreign criminals in order that the first federal agency might identify the paid informants of the second federal agency…
…If, by this stage, you’re wondering why U.S. stimulus dollars are being used to stimulate the Mexican coffin industry, consider the dark suspicion of many American gun owners – that the real reason the feds embarked on this murderous scheme was to plant the evidence that the increasing lawlessness on the southern border is the fault of the gun industry and the Second Amendment, and thereby advance its ideological agenda of ever greater gun control…
…Our pitchforks are misdirected.
Read the complete article at The Orange County Register.
H/T Kathy Shaidle at Five Feet of Fury who writes, “Mark Steyn demonstrates why he makes the big bucks.”
Related: James Murdoch Could Be Prosecuted In Phone-Hacking Scandal — News Corp Succession Plan Suddenly In Doubt, at Business Insider.
Also read, Carney’s outright lie on the Obama administration’s assault on the Second Amendment, at The Right Scoop:
…What is apparently holding the administration back from just attempting to “steamroller” is the looming election. Previous attempts at gun control have cost the Democrats, according to Dave Kopel, Research Director for the Independence Institute: “Bill Clinton himself said that the issue cost Democrats the House of Representatives in 1994 and cost them the presidency in 2000.” But this fact, well known to Democratic strategists, apparently has fallen on deaf ears when it comes to Rep.McCarthy and her anti gun ally in the Senate, Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ).This from an April story in the Washington Post on Obama’s gun policy adviser, Steve Croley:
McCarthy and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D) of New Jersey offered a bill that would ban the clips that hold large volumes of ammunition. The pugnacious McCarthy said that if the administration continued to stay on the sidelines, she and Lautenberg would get the job done themselves, but added that she “certainly had higher hopes with the administration.”
Lautenberg attempted to express optimism. The senator recalled that Attorney General Eric Holder visited him on March 29 “and tried to give us his assurance to help us with the legislation.”
The Washington Post article, while a tad dated, is quite revealing and contains some forgotten Obama policy statements from his election campaign. Statements in light of the upcoming election that I’m sure he’d just as soon keep under the radar…
At JammieWearingFool, Uhh, Texas, About That New School Superintendent Y’all Just Hired…
