America: this is why we can't have nice things.

Where is this heading? | Catallaxy Files

First there’s this:

Dinesh D’Souza, director of the 2012 documentary “2016:
Obama’s America,” was arrested and indicted for campaign finance fraud
on Thursday, Reuters reports.

And then there’s this:

Conservative activist James O’Keefe is accusing New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration of targeting his group with document
requests and a subpoena, claiming the Democratic governor’s recent
comments critical of conservatives “aren’t simply words.”

But who cares about this?

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 259.

You have to be very brave to be on the right side of politics in the United States today.



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If only there was some sort of Constitutional guarantee against this sort of thing.