Jonathon Turley in Washington Post

today's Washington Post has an article on 10 reasons we are no longer the land of the free. Interesting post.

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Thomas Sowell is an idiot, too.

Thomas Sowell, another right-wing fanatic, has a new column today about the reasons we need to get rid of the post office.
Now generally, we see these pious dumbasses railing over how much they love the constitution and if something is not listed in the constitution, its unconstitutional. Today he'll make an exception, because maybe he doesn't realize that the postal service is constitutionally mandated under Article One, section 8. But you must give Mr. Sowell some leeway, he's an idiot and he has a typewriter.
My favorite part of his rant, though, is the crux of his argument, that no other company is allowed to carry mail.
And why not, you may ask?
"Moreover, the government makes it illegal for anyone else to put anything into your mail box, even though you bought the mail box, and it is your property." Now, hold on, the next sentence is a masterpiece of logical deduction....
"That means you don't have the option to have some other private company deliver your mail."
WHAM!!! BRILLIANCE ON STEROIDS!!! That's what that means! Except that it doesn't. I've have both UPS and Fed Ex deliver mail to me, did'nt they realize they are breaking the law?
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. Watch out for other drivel emanating from that fine "think" tank.

Mitt v. Truth

A number of people have pointed out that Mitt Romney is truth-challenged, so this won't be a ground breaking column. I'm still waiting for someone to point out how natural it is for him to lie lately-like when Wolf Blitzer started one of the debates by saying, "yes, Wolf is my real first name," to which Mitt replied, "well yes, Mitt is my real first name." Its not, though, its Willard.

Lately he's been making up stuff out of whole cloth, completely fact-free. And the press, in their new role as stenographers, generally won't challenge, although the Washington Post has examined some new claims and says they are at best, misleading, and at worst, lies. Greg Sargent wrote on this recently and I'll post a link when I can find it.

Having said all that, I ran across the above recent photo of Mitt, Willard or whatever being fitted with a brace designed to keep his nose from growing from all that fabricating. Lets hope it works.