The Justice Department becomes a schoolyard bully in Wisconsin — Geo. Will in WaPo

War on non-govt institutions goes apace:

It is as remarkable as it is repulsive, the ingenuity with which the Obama administration uses the regulatory state’s intricacies to advance progressivism’s project of breaking nongovernmental institutions to government’s saddle.

Eager to sacrifice low-income children to please teachers unions, the Justice Department wants to destroy Wisconsin’s school choice program. Feigning concern about access for disabled children, the department aims to handicap all disadvantaged children by denying their parents access to school choices of the sort affluent government lawyers enjoy.

I’m all right, Jack, say affluent govt lawyers.

Don Harmon taking flak from anti-fracking people

Among other things, they do not like his attitude:

After the vote, Harmon said the committee was weakening the rules because the Department of Natural Resources made them stronger after an unprecedented turnout at public hearings. “We aim to displease both sides equally.”

That’s the kind of flippant comment a legislator usually makes in a Springfield session bar when they’re too intellectually lazy or too inebriated to explain their actions. It’s embarrassing language when discussing an issue that puts communities and lives at risk.

It’s a “Profile in Cowardice,” they say.

Sad day coming for U.S., when Obama goes royal (his word for it)

Royal, not presidential in character, he said.

Tomorrow promises to be a sad day for the United States, as the president will knowingly overstep his constitutional authority to regularize the immigration status of millions of illegals for narrow partisan purposes. Juliet Eilperin and Ed O’Keefe report Obama’s anticipated executive order at the Washington Post.

Consider “the instances and the relevant quotations here.” Plus videos.

Yes. He “he has baldly lied about his past statements.”

He “is a famously cold-blooded character. He now proves himself once again to be a cold-blooded liar.”

Bad news day from both sides of Atlantic

British Prime Minister Cameron says ‘red warning lights’ flashing on global economy – The Washington Post.

Not good to hear this:

LONDON — In a starkly downbeat assessment, British Prime Minister David Cameron has written that the world’s economy could be headed for another fall.

“Six years on from the financial crash that brought the world to its knees, red warning lights are once again flashing on the dashboard of the global economy,” Cameron writes ina piece published Monday inBritain’s Guardian newspaper.

Nor this:

David Stockman Interview On HedgeEye TV: The Bubble Is Global And Its Already Popping

SmarterTimes catches NY Times in self-concentration mode

Apology for mistake, saying IT WASN’T THE REPORTER’S FAULT!  Point is, who cares whose fault within the NYT, which is giant COLLABORATION for the sake of the reader who is the consumer whose interests are supposed to be supreme.

It’s like the counter man at a local “juice bar” cum coffee shop who, when I took note of the high price of their coffee, began to explain it as the high cost of doing things organically, not how much more I would enjoy the coffee knowing it’s good for my health.

Is it?

What ‘America’s Ratzinger’ would like to ask Pope Francis | Crux

​​Cardinal George would like to ask Pope Francis what’s going on.

To begin, George said he’d like to ask Francis if he fully grasps that in some quarters, he’s created the impression Catholic doctrine is up for grabs.
Does Francis realize, for example, “what has happened just by that phrase, ‘Who am I to judge?’ ”
. . . .

“I don’t know whether he’s conscious of all the consequences of some of the things he’s said and done that raise doubts in people’s minds.”

“The question is why he doesn’t he clarify” these ambiguous statements, George said. “Why is it necessary that apologists have to bear the burden of trying to put the best possible face on it?”

. . . . .

George recalled that one of Francis’ favorite books is “The Lord of the World” by Robert Hugh Benson, a converted Catholic priest and son of a former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. It’s an apocalyptic fantasy, written in 1907, culminating in a showdown between the Church and a charismatic anti-Christ figure.

George said he’d like to ask Francis a simple question: “Do you really believe that?”

“I hope before I die I’ll have the chance to ask him how you want us to understand what you’re doing, when you put [the end-times] before us as a key to it all,” he said.

Perhaps, George said, the sense that the end is near explains why Francis “seems to be in a hurry.”

More more more with more to come . . .