Gumment

Last month, a federal judge in California threw out the case, writing that a “citizen may not gain standing by claiming a right to have government follow the law.”

Worse

An apt axiom for government and the next administration is: “It can always get worse.”

How...?

How can I miss you if you won't go away?

Idaho

“Idaho does not have the same totally dysfunctional political system as New York and Illinois, but we’re working on it.”

New law

so-called Digital Economy Bill being slithered through Parliament by Lord Mandelson.

Labour

NuLabour always thinks they are right as they probably ask the same five people all the time.

Mother Teresa

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta gave us years ago:

“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”

Wash Post

I wish the Post would stop writing sophisticated trash talk

Fairness

David Riesman, I believe-- who said: "The tests are not unfair. LIFE is unfair and the tests measure the results."

Hoover & the Japanese internment

J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, opposed the internment of the Japanese, regarding it as completely unnecessary, but his views sadly were ignored

Abp. Chaput

Additionally, we live
in an age when almost every scientific advance seems to be matched by some
increase of cruelty in our entertainment, cynicism in our politics, ignorance of
the past, consumer greed, little genocides posing as "rights" like the cult of
abortion, and a basic confusion about what—if anything at all—it means to be
"human."
...
Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M Cap.

"Equality"

[rg notes: From this logic, then, I assume he will force charities for blind people also to offer their services to deaf people. I've long thought it discriminatory that, as an able-bodied person, I'm not entitled to a disabled parking permit. How far is this ludicrous equal rights scenario going to go? Even further down the road to ridiculous extremes under the Tories than it already has under Labour, it seems.]

Cure d'Ars

that fellow who, day-after-day sat in the back of the Church staring at the altar as the Curé d’Ars said Mass. When the curious Curé asked why he just sat there, seemingly not participating, just staring at the altar, the man replied, "Oh, I'm not staring at the altar, I'm looking at Jesus."
"Oh," replied the Curé, incredulously. "And tell me, what is Jesus doing?"
Smiling the man said, "He's looking at me."

Wilson

Why did Woodrow Wilson undo years of Republican progress on race by re-segregating the civil service?

Feminism

"National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time."