Simple Truths for Complex Times

Just a few points and reminders:

Making law by executive order is unconstitutional, and therefore illegal.  the states and the people are under no obligation to obey illegal laws, whether they be imposed by the power-mad President B.O. or by power-mad regulators.  Encourage your state and local governments to decline to obey illegal enactments like the EPA's anti-scientific CO2 standards.

There is nothing in the Constitution that allows one federal judge the power to nullify the votes of millions of citizens who have expressed themselves by ballot and referendum.  When a federal judge attempts to overrule a state law on anything - ANYTHING - that is not spelled out in the Constitution as a federal judicial power, the states should (politely, if possible; otherwise if necessary) tell the black-robed buttinski "Thanks for your opinion, but since you're not in our chain of command, we shall go forward as our citizens have determined to."

As Alan Caruba never tires of reminding us, carbon dioxide (usually deceptively referred to as carbon) is not a pollutant.  It is, in fact, the second most important gas to life on Earth.  It's plant oxygen.  Anyone who tells you by any communications medium that CO2 is a danger to the planet is a charlatan or a simpleton, and should be treated accordingly.

On a less serious subject, isn't it high time the NFL dropped its silly Roman-numeraling of the Super Bowls?  If they refuse, I think we should petition to have the next game played in Iowa and dubbed Super Bowl EIEIO.

The already infamous New Jersey lane closures on the George Washington Bridge going into Manhattan was scarcely the worst example of political retribution in the last five years.  I remember the wildfires in Texas which threatened to burn down a large area of wooded land and make homeless many, many more people than were inconvenienced on the GW Bridge.  (Also, you might consider which would upset you more -- getting stuck in a traffic jam or having your home burn down.)  It became plain that the reason that B.O. refused to designate the wildfire areas as disaster areas was because Texas's Republican governor, Rick Perry, had criticised and challenged (albeit briefly) the great Bolshevik Barry.  Knowing what we now know of the petty vindictiveness of the current President, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that B.O. let the homes burn to punish Texans for clinging to their guns, religion, and governor.

The notorious Hillary Rodham Clinton once scandalously said to General David Petraeus that accepting his testimony on the "Surge" in Iraq (which succeeded brilliantly) required "a willing suspension of disbelief".  Accepting Hillary Clinton's testimony on any subject requires "a willing suspension of disbelief."