What we and others have been tweeting this past week

.

A round-up of news items, articles and colunmns that set us to Tweeting this past week.

To be the smartest kids in the room, at some point, you have to move beyond, "I don't know" and "I don't remember."#IRS #AP#Benghazi

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 22, 2013

This well-travelled line of defense for Team O means they are either lying through their teeth or are completely incompetent. Of course, we do realize that those are not two exclusive features of one another.

I hope the feds tap my cell phone. My boring ass conversations about what we're having for dinner will make them want to cry. #caring

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 22, 2013

Heh.

thecollegefix.mobify.me/post/13043/Progressive Ivy League school that sponsors "Sex Week" has a "harmful sexual climate."#ThisIsMyShockFace

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 22, 2013

We're over the deference given to Ivy League schools. They've been dead to us for years.





The President's black audiences are growing tired of his lecturing tone?

m.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…Sorry, not just black Americans;Prez has been scolding/lecturing all Americans for over 4 years now.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 22, 2013

It's just who he is and what he does.






On the Woolwich machete' murder this week:

ITV calls this "Baghdad-style violence" but no off-duty soldier was ever beheaded with a machete on an Iraqi streetitv.com/news/update/20…

— Toby Harnden (@tobyharnden) May 22, 2013

Look at it this way: at least #MSNBC can save themselves their blithering over hoping it was a white guy.#woolwich

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 22, 2013

@tunkuv @instapundit "we flee broken societies to functioning ones. Then seek to recreate the failed society we fled. Your fault we fail!"

— Howard Roark (@shortwave8669) May 24, 2013

Important foreign policy speech given by the President in which he clarified... nothing.

Good news:Nobel Peace Prize winner gonna try to dial back killing people with drones.#WoT

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 24, 2013

STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN:Obama pledges to rein in drone use, close Guantanamowashingtonexaminer.com/obama-pledges-…

— Instapundit.com (@instapundit) May 24, 2013

Obama has droned more Americans than Bush waterboarded terrorists washingtonexaminer.com/morning-examin…

— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 23, 2013

And Sebelius, ahem, requesting donations of Enroll America to get us all up to speed on ObamaCare?

thehill.com/blogs/healthwa…Given recent events, explain to me how #EnrollAmerica is a non-profit.#ObamaCare

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 23, 2013

thehill.com/blogs/healthwa…#EnrollAmerica "just an arm of the administration"#ObamaCare

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 23, 2013

Tiger Woods vs. Sergio Garcia?

m.espn.go.com/golf/story?sto…@mad_maxamillion @psudrozzOh, jeez... In sports, is there anything more ridic than a golf feud?

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 22, 2013

On double standards:

detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/con…GOP Congressman attends Klan rally.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 24, 2013

detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/jew…Detroit media affiliate:Calypso Louie Farrakhan is "biased".

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 24, 2013

In Congressional hearings, Holder said he recused himself in the case of his Department of Justice seizing the phone records of the AP. Further, he stated that he did not ever get involved with the seizure of media outlet communication records. Then... oopsie.

hotair.com/archives/2013/…Miserable hack that runs the #DOJ kinda perjured himself, didn't he?

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 24, 2013

Why, yes, it certainly looks that way now doesn't it?

RT @rbpundit: I'm running to get lunch. Before I go, I'd like to remind you that ERIC HOLDER PERJURED HIMSELF -> bit.ly/11ioY0h #DOJ

— Kimberly Haney (@kimberlyhaney) May 24, 2013

Majority of commenter pushback on stories featuring DOJ snooping on Fox News' James Rosen and IRS targeting of conservative/tea party groups appears to be based on the fact they just don't like Fox News and/or conservatives. There's been scant principled logic offered.

People OK with DOJ's actions against #Rosen simply don't like #FoxNews.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 24, 2013

Litmus test:if you are cool with #IRS actions against conservative groups, consider yourself a partisan hack.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 24, 2013

Some pop culture?

nydailynews.com/entertainment/…Lighten up, #LenaDunham, its no longer cover of Rolling Stone but porn parodies that determine cultural zeitgeist.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 25, 2013

And now for the sad yet inevitable Woolwich aftermath:

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…Arrests for FB posts and tweets.Yep, it's the progressive post-democracy end game unfolding before our very eyes.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 25, 2013

Remember, British citizens - words hurt. Probably not as much as getting your head hacked off with a machete, but still.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 25, 2013

@deanriehm Looks like someone's been committing thought crimes again. One more tweet like that and I'll report you to #attackwatch

— K T Cat (@ktcat) May 25, 2013

@ktcatWhat happened at #Woolwich pretty much indicative of Western Civilization pulling up stakes and getting out of Dodge.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 25, 2013

nationalreview.com/node/349308Epic smack from Mark Steyn.#Woolwich h/t: @ktcat

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 25, 2013

And in totally related news, here stateside:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/alice…New college speech codes out of Moral Majority playbook..if MM had fascist, police state impulses of Dept. of Edu.

— Dean R. Riehm (@deanriehm) May 27, 2013

Lefty descendants of the 60s free-speech movement would appear to have gone off the rails a tad, no? This will probably be the greatest political irony of the last 50 years: that the politics of the New Left would morph into the politics of repression and abuse of one's political opposites via government bureaucracies.




OK, gang, that's it. We'll catch up with you all later.