DOJ Official May Have Lied About the New Black Panther Case

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/07/30/federal-court-doj-official-may-have-lied...

But what is most disturbing about this court order is that it strongly suggests that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez essentially lied in sworn testimony. At a hearing before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on May 14, 2010, Perez was asked by Commissioner Peter Kirsanow whether “any political leadership [was] involved in the decision not to pursue this particular case.” Perez’s answer, on page 79 of the transcript of that hearing, is an uncategorical “No.” When the statements of Perez are compared to the documents that Judicial Watch forced DOJ to release in the FOIA lawsuit, it is clear Judge Walton was polite when he said they are contradictory and “cast doubt on the accuracy” of Perez’s account.

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DEA Gone Wild

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312666/dea-gone-wild-kevin-d-williamson

In short, the DEA here commandeered private property from a law-abiding businessman and ineptly deployed it in an operation that got a man killed and now endangers a family that had nothing to do with the case. There is a term for what the DEA did with that truck: grand theft auto.

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Krauthammer’s Epic Takedown of Obama’s Elizabeth Warren Impersonation

On NRO (via Instapundit):

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309605/krauthammers-epic-takedown-obamas-elizabeth-warren-impersonation-noah-glyn

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Instapundit: You Didn’t Build That

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/146801/

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6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/6-charts-that-show-the-welfare-state-run-amok/

These charts show an out-of-control welfare state that is about to get even bigger, increasing both budget costs and dependency.

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Incinerating America’s West

http://pjmedia.com/blog/incinerating-america’s-west/?singlepage=true

The beetles have been spreading uncontrollably because continuously connected and extremely thick forests densely populated with mature trees provide the ideal environment for their proliferation. Logging to thin the forests of mature trees that afford the beetles their favorite homes would slow their growth considerably. Logging out tree-free gaps between sections of forests would impose quarantine limits on the epidemic. Logging out trees that have already been killed would remove fuel for the otherwise inevitable conflagration.

the same environmental groups that have halted western logging regard the idea of using DDT to stop the pine beetle with near hysteria. Rachel Carson’s 1962 tome Silent Spring (which falsely argued that the vital pesticide DDT should be banned because it was killing the birds, when actually it was protecting them — and us — from insect-borne diseases) is virtually sacred scripture to the greens, and the successful campaign to ban DDT that followed from its promotion serves as the core of their proudest creation myth. In enshrining this myth, the anti-technology cult has chosen to heartlessly turn its head away from the massive amount of human misery it has caused through its narcissistic sacrifice of millions of African children to malaria. It must perforce regard the very idea that its object of hatred might be used to save our forests and their wildlife from incineration as nothing short of outright heresy.

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