. . . thought the inspected might be armed? Solzhenitsyn wondered.

. . . Look in any phone book for names of more qualified people.

. . . from Chicago City Council, always a good source.

Too precious for words.

. . . and pesky, ongoing newspaper coverage and staying on the case.

Though sometimes newspaper people don’t understand Tea Party’s role being much like their own in their pesky, ongoing, raucous complaining. What’s more raucous than a Sun-Times page-one headline-with-pic anyhow?

. . . bit by bit, like lobsters.

“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd . . .

We get used to it, you see: “Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people . . . “

Retiring from Congress, was bad banker, forced money from others to “make a difference” in people’s lives.

The mirror tells the story.

Oh?

. . . have all self-defense mechanisms in their sights.

. . . the piper came a-calling, demanding payment.

Now the house.

Last night, without any legislative language, the Senate Republicans and Democrats voted to raise taxes. They did not just vote to raise income taxes. They voted to raise the payroll tax on all Americans.

Rubio and Rand held firm. Now Ryan?