Your Veritas Senior Editor in his younger days, deep in thought
Just Asking: Will Lisa Jackson do as much for Apple as she did for the EPA and the US economy?
Newly released emails show EPA director’s extensive use of a fictional alter ego Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
Richard Windsor never existed at the EPA, but the agency awarded the fictional staffer’s email account certificates proving he had mastered all of the agency’s technology training — including declaring him a “scholar of ethical behavior,” according to documents disclosed late last email alias used by former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, who resigned earlier this year amid questions about whether her agency was complying with open-records laws.
Veritas Observes: Finally, someone has said it in its starkest terms. And he will be criticised unmercifully, even by the GOP’s sanctimonious wing. But what he says in this column needs to be said and should be read by those “folks” who think Obama is just another liberal politician.
The Smoking Gun in Plain Sight, By Herbert E. Meyer, American Thinker
As the Obama administration descends into a whirlpool of scandals, a race has begun among Congressional committees and news organizations to find the proverbial smoking gun — the document that will link President Obama directly to the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, or to the Justice Department’s unprecedented legal actions against the Associated Press and Fox News reporter James Rosen, or to the Pentagon’s ghastly failure to launch a rescue mission when our consulate in Benghazi came under attack last September.
Study history, and you will understand why no such document is ever likely to be found: That just isn’t how these things work. Very few people are aware of this, but there is no document — not one — linking Adolf Hitler to the Holocaust. Why not? Because Hitler didn’t need to sign a document ordering the slaughter of six million Jews. All he needed to do was to demonize his enemy in speeches at the Reichstag, on the radio, and from one end of Germany to the other — then hire thugs like Herman Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Josef Goebbels. They knew what der Fuhrer wanted, and der Fuhrer knew he could trust his henchman to get the job done — no matter how, no matter what may be the law — and to not bother him with the gory details.
Reader, take a deep breath. Nowhere in this essay will I suggest, or even imply, that President Obama plans the mass murder of his opponents the way Hitler murdered his . . .
Caution: Don’t be surprised if Christie appoints his buddy, Democratic mayor of Newark, Cory Booker to fill the now officially empty Lautenberg US Senate seat. (Note: our illustrious Senior Editor issued the caution early this morning before this Drudge linked article appeared — R Mall).
Philadelphia Inquirer, by Jonathan Tamari
WASHINGTON — New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a defiantely liberal Democrat who represented his home state for nearly 30 years, died overnight, the Inquirer has confirmed. Lautenberg was 89. He died of viral pneumonia, according to the Bergen Record, which first reported the news. Lautenberg had struggled with health issues for months, including a bout of the flu and bronchitis in the winter and pain and weakness in his legs, which have forced him to miss most Senate votes since the end of February. Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, will appoint a replacement.
We Wonder: Did Eric Holder Invite Gary and Mark? I haven’t heard but, was Mark Ridolfi of the QC Times invited to Holder’s meeting? Probably not necessary. Don’t need to ask about KWQC’s Gary Metevier, one of Obama’s closest confidants.
Michael Goodwin writes in the New York Post:
If you can judge a man by his friends, surely you can judge a president by the complaints he cares about most. By that rule, it is revealing that President Obama, beset by scandals and anger across the land, is making the care and feeding of the media his first priority.
The president ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to meet with journalists upset over prosecutors seizing Associated Press phone records and labeling a Fox News reporter a potential “co-conspirator” in a leak case. Obama also ordered Holder to solicit proposals for changing the rules governing such cases — and did it publicly to demonstrate his concern about “government overreach.”
Leave it to the media barons to miss the irony — and the joke at their expense. The president who has made government overreach the defining issue of his tenure is now concerned about it when it gores their ox. Aren’t they special!
Even more telling, Holder’s demand that the meeting be off the record didn’t bother some of the credulous people normally regarded as cynics. The Washington Post, one of the few organizations to attend, reported in breathtaking fashion that Holder “completely endorsed the president’s statement that reporters should not be at legal risk for doing their job.”
DLH
