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I wanted to ask, but didn't.  Perhaps I should have.  But it was at the end of a long day and I was tired, so I didn't.

All day some guy kept prefacing his editorial comments with, "I heard on NPR...."  I just wanted to ask, "Wait!  Why should you believe NPR any more than I shouldn't believe what I might listen to or read?"  Is NPR the gold standard of neutrality?  I don't think so.  But, the "99%ers" are OK and the "Tea Partiers" are not.  And "Bush lied," but Obama never does/did (Yeah, right....).

Interesting letter-to-the-editor today from Congresspersons (?) Candice Miller and Dave Camp.  It's title says it all, "Why does the IRS care who you vote for?"  Hmmm......  Good question.  Ah, but I forget....  The IRS, Benghazi, NSA, and other episodes are just "phony scandals."  How silly of me!  I also forget that Watergate was just "a third-rate burglary."  When will I learn??????

I know "Bush lied," but when are people going to question Obama's ham-handed, unconstitutional actions? His latest is to impose, or at least try, a tax on cell phone use.  Granted, the amount ($5/year) is trifling.  But I disagree with the editorial that holds "nor is his plan for the tax objectionable," the plan to pay for Internet access in schools.  (Here we go again, bowing to the new educational god "Technology.")  The President, the Executive Department, the FCC is not empowered to tax anyone!  Now I know the President claimed the power to do so because this is not a "normal atmosphere."  C'mon, people buy that?  And when he made the announcement before the press, the Fourth Estate merely sat there on its collective thumb and spun. Let's try to remember this:   authority to tax constitutionally lies with the Legislative branch, Congress.  Can I toss in recess appointments, the czars, EPA, and more?  I keep getting confused.  When is it, again, when the Constitution is sacred and when it isn't?  I must have skipped Professor Latham's class that day, I guess.