‘They don’t want to integrate’: Fifth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm:

“In Sweden you’ve got welfare, access to the educational system – up to university level, you got access to public transport, libraries, healthcare – to everything. And still they feel that they [immigrants] need to riot through stones and Molotov cocktails. It’s ridiculous and a bad excuse,” Swedish Democrats MP Kent Ekeroth told RT.“Police can put down these riots in five minutes – if the politicians were to allow them,” Ekeroth added.

Althouse has thoughts.

These lyrics, for example. According to them that's The New Shakespeare. The true voice of black Americans.

If that is what brown-skinned Americans are all about, I guess I don't get out enough because I never see people talking or acting like that, regardless of skin tone.

How far can you bend over to make it convenient to have your head cut off? English Flag Might Offend Muslims

Related:  The Great Liberal Death Wish, London Edition

Prof. Mead claims to be a Liberal Democrat, but he dares to think outside the 1930s box. American Bladerunner with Food Stamps

Steyn

The American federal government has gone crazy, and power-mad. VDH: It Can Happen Here:

Government has become a sort of malignant metasisizing tumor, growing on its own, parasitical on healthy cells, always searching for new sources of nourishment, its purpose nothing other than growing bigger and faster and more powerful—until the exhausted host collapses. We have a sunshine king and our government has become a sort of virtual Versailles palace.

I suppose that when a presidential candidate urges his supporters to get in someone’s face, and to take a gun to a knife fight, from now on you better believe him...

This is tough.

The Jobs Question: Work Is A Human Right

Do you remember Blair Hull and Jack Ryan? 

For some reason, these guys never followed up on all the stories about Obama hanging out in gay bars in Chicago. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Byron York: IRS scandal raises fears about enforcing Obamacare:

 A look at the text of the health care law reveals that much of it consists of amending the Internal Revenue Code to give the IRS more power. When Obamacare goes fully into effect in January, every American will have to prove to the IRS that he or she has "qualifying" health coverage, meaning coverage with a list of features approved by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. That will be done by submitting a document to the IRS, something like a W-2, to confirm coverage...

In addition, the IRS will keep track of even the smallest changes in Americans' financial condition. Did you get a raise recently? You'll need to notify the IRS; it might affect your subsidy status. Have your hours been reduced at work? Notify the IRS. Change jobs? Same.

Claim: Obama Campaign Co-Chair Attacked Romney with Leaked IRS Docs

This from a piece at Politico:

For five years, this president has been making the case that a growing and activist government has good intentions and can carry these intentions out with competence. Conservatives have warned that government is dangerous, and even good intentions get bungled in the execution. In different ways, the IRS uproar, the Justice Department leak investigations, the Benghazi tragedy and the misleading attempts to explain it, and the growing problems with implementation of health care reform all bolster the conservative worldview.

Big storms are on the horizon, headed towards Washington DC.

The mainstream media, after over five years of protecting, insulating, glorifying, romanticizing Obama and his administration, is beginning to realize that, if they continue on that same path, they will be left behind. With the MSM running interference for the admin., perhaps they felt invulnerable in Washington. 

I recall Michelle Obama once bragging about that. No longer. Now the election is over.

I suspect the MSM and talking heads feel torn between doing their job and protecting their political hero and Leftist ambitions in general. Probably many Dems in Washington are feeling the same way this week.

This administration is dead in the water, will need to be towed to harbor, will not recover even with MSM help. Too many problems, with maybe more to come, and the MSM has already focused on constructing a Hillary narrative as the next savior.

But how likely is it that Americans would elect two Chicago Alinskyites in a row?

The Director lied. IRS Scandal Expands.

We now officially have a "scandal-ridden administration" in Washington. That is not a good thing for us citizens.

Via Zero Hedge:

    On Jan, 25, 2012, the criteria for flagging suspect groups was changed to, "political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform/movement," the report says.

    So, by implication those who still believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are if not enemies of the US, then certainly subject to far more scrutiny by the country's tax collectors?

Educating on the Constitution seems very dangerous. Subversive. The populace can not be trusted to read it because they won't understand that it doesn't mean what it says. Something like that.

The IRS never got to auditing Maggie's Farm's accounts as far as I know. Whew. Under the radar. We're just a bird-watching site, anyway. We hide our vast advertising income in the Caymans, like everybody else, and it is delivered to the contributors to Swiss accounts, in gold bullion carried on private sailboats to the port at Zurich and thence by courier to our private bank.

Posting for Maggie's is a good, tax-free gig if you don't mind spending the income overseas. But who would mind doing that, as long as it's done quietly at the craps tables in Monte Carlo?

Latest at Drudge: IRS also targeted Jewish groups

Going after the Jews too? To get serious for a moment, political corruption of the IRS is about as bad as it gets in America. Criminal at the least. Not funny. Heads must roll for this. I will assume that smart lawyers are on top of this already because it is an outrageous abuse of power in a free country.

Update: IRS officials knew of tea party targeting

It is, indeed, looking much worse than Watergate. 

Oh Good Grief… Jay Carney Blames Romney for Benghazi Scandal

David Gelernter: Who is on trial for Benghazi?

MSNBC (!): Benghazi-Gate Is a Potential Impeachment Issue; Is Comparable to Watergate

Unlike Watergate, an unremarkable political dirty trick with a dumb and unnecessary White House cover-up (if a handful of people had been fired it would have been a big nothing), in this case American public servants died seemingly because of State Dept and possibly White House incompetence or indifference, and both may have been complicit in an attempted cover-up a few weeks before a national election. Possibly the CIA too. People have been intimidated about speaking out, but maybe no longer.

If this is the way it smells, this is a big problem for Washington. One more from Jim Hoft:

Benghazi Whistle-Blower Attorney: I Have More People Who Want to Testify, Including CIA Officials

In a week in which the IRS finally admits that they were harassing Conservative organizations prior to the elections, the administration is looking terribly corrupt. Whatever happens, I think this Chicago administration has blown itself up and lost whatever credibility it ever had. Plus, with the low-life Putin making John Kerry wait three hours to meet with him, it's looking sort of pitiful too.

Buddy suggested that I add the tar and feathers image to this post. Seems right. Even though we disagree with the administration on most policies, we take no pleasure in seeing our US govt in this position. An embarassment for all of us. Respect must be earned, and these people thought they could easily fool us low-information citizens.

I agree with this take: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Next Bull Market.

I hate bubbles. I am 100% out of equities right now. My self-directed IRA. Market is just floating on hot air. Just my humble opinion, of course. Time will tell whether I was lucky or unlucky.

"Our problem is we can’t have everybody in the world who lives in a hell hole coming to America."

Sen. Lindsay Graham, via Sailer. As we always advise here, show some gumption and fix your own darn place. Otherwise, we'll just import hell holes.

23 Signs You've Lived In New York City Too Long

People mostly wish to leave when they realize they will never be able to afford to live comfortably there. Too many other people want to live there.

New York’s War on Food Trucks Rolls On

Everybody loves the food trucks. Amazing variety, ethnic, cheap, and in NY nobody has time to sit for lunch.

The Incredible Talking Weiner

Amusing, from Derbyshire. Weiner's a dick and everybody knows it.

5 Benghazi Mysteries that Must Be Solved

As we have said ad nauseum, if this had happened under Bush, imagine the media uproar.  However, they are attempting to run interference for Hillary ("at this point, what does it matter?") Clinton.

Were she male, would they love her so much?

For the purposes of income, satisfaction, challenge, skill-enhancement, personal growth, relationships, and pleasure, I have been planning and pursuing my life goals for ten years. Like Prof. Boudreaux, I have zero interest in income equality. I want to be prosperous, but I recognize that most people do not if they have to work or plan for it too hard, or take too many risks. I want to support a wife and kids without help, I want to help my parents when and if they need it, I want to keep learning, I want to be my own boss and to learn how to lead, I want my own Conquest, I want a white picket fence, I want a cushion of cash in the mattress, and I want to go places the way Bird Dog does.

Also, I am also entirely opposed to the idea of minimum wage, especially for people under 18 or 20 years old. All it does is to deprive the youth of valuable work experience. Labor is a market, same as cars or arugula. Child labor is a good thing, much better than teen tours. Work never hurt anybody. Not working seems pretty bad for people unless they are Moms raising a young litter.

Robert Rector’s Study: Open Borders + Welfare State = Disaster

Related, Rubio and McCain are being played for fools by Shumer

Steyn: The Immigration Transformation
-  A rational immigration reform would attempt to reorient, not accelerate, current policy.

 Not so very long ago, its national mythology notwithstanding, the United States was little different from most other countries. In 1970, its foreign-born population was 4.7 percent. And, while most of the West has embraced mass immigration in the last half-century, America differs significantly from those developed countries, like Canada and Australia, that favor skilled migrants. Personally, I don’t see what’s so enlightened and progressive about denuding Third World nations of their best and brightest to be your doctors and nurses, but it does demonstrate a certain ruthless self-interest.

By contrast the majority of U.S. foreign-born residents now come from Latin America, and more than a quarter of them — 12 million — from Mexico. A policy of “family reunification” will by definition lead to low-skilled immigrants: An engineer or computer scientist is less likely to bring in an unending string of relatives — because his dad’s a millionaire businessman in Bangalore and his brother’s a barrister in London, and they’re both happy and prosperous where they are. Insofar as there is any economic benefit to mass immigration, it’s more than entirely wiped out by chain importation of elderly dependents and other clients for the Big Government state.