Tucker Carlson: 'Our Elections Are Not Working' (VIDEO)

Tucker's opening commentary tonight:

Thirty-Seven Percent Containment at Lake Tahoe's Caldor Fire (VIDEO)

Extreme weather. All over the country. 

It's really biblical, and, frankly, all you can do sometimes is pray. It's all in His hands.

At the San Jose Mercury News, "Caldor Fire containment jumps to 37% as weather calms":

Friday a ‘monumental day’ for more than 4,500 crews battling blaze.

One week after the Caldor Fire made a terrifying push into the Lake Tahoe basin, a promising shift in weather conditions allowed crews to start gaining sizable containment of the Northern California wildfire that has threatened thousands of homes and forced mass evacuations in two states.

Thanks to cooler, more humid weather conditions, an influx of 1,000 more firefighters and the strengthening of lines on both western and eastern flanks of the fire, crews had contained about 37% of the blaze as of Saturday, more than doubling progress in the past week and evoking a cautious sense of optimism for the first time since the fire broke out in mid-August.

“It’s starting to come together,” said Cal Fire spokesman Capt. Keith Wade. “It seems like big containment jumps, but it’s days and days of work.”

Terror surrounding the blaze’s spread skyrocketed on the evening of Aug. 29, when it roared across the face of Echo Summit, flung embers that set spot fires across Highway 89 and crept down toward the beloved Tahoe Basin, home to more than 40,000 people and the iconic lake. Some 22,000 residents of South Lake Tahoe were ordered to evacuate, creating a massive traffic jam that lasted for hours.

But just two days later — as crews staved off flames from the communities of Christmas Valley and Meyers — a favorable shift in winds arrived before the fire could explode farther northeast, giving more than 4,500 firefighters the chance to clear new firebreaks with dozens of bulldozers, strike down dry trees, lay hoses near homes and drop 500-gallon buckets of water on hotspots.

By Saturday, with 13 large wildfires burning across California, nearly a third of personnel, engines, helicopters and even bulldozers battling the blazes were committed to the Caldor Fire — a massive effort that fire officials say is beginning to pay off. Overnight Friday, the wildfire grew just a few thousand acres to reach 214,017 acres total. High winds that gripped the region last weekend receded Wednesday and remained calmer through the rest of the week, according to the National Weather Service, bringing relief to hand crews charged with stopping spot fires that soared out a mile ahead of the fire and letting helicopters make more water drops. Temperatures meanwhile cooled slightly and humidity rose.

A thick layer of smoke bearing down over the fire also helped to block out the sun and quiet its spread, though it brought air quality to hazardous levels around South Lake Tahoe and blew smoke toward the Bay Area, where the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a Spare the Air alert for Sunday...

Still more.

 

Reopening Las Vegas

Interesting video, at CNN:

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman's Bizarre Interview with Anderson Cooper (VIDEO)

Look, everybody wants to open back up the economy, and I'd love to hit the roulette tables at New York New York myself (to say nothing of scarfing dinner across the way at MGM's fabulously delicious buffet). But this lady's whacked.

Honestly, let's open back up safely. Soon, yes, but safely.

At CNN:



BONUS: At CBS News, "Americans prioritize staying home and worry restrictions will lift too fast — CBS News poll."

False Flag? Ku Klux Klan Members Support Donald Trump at Nevada Caucuses (VIDEO)

I personally don't believe it.

I suspect these "KKK members" are a couple of leftists out to smear Donald Trump, and it worked. Far-left media and blog outlets are all over the story on Google.

It's a false flag operation.

Watch, at KTNV News 13 Las Vegas:

#RNC Spokesman Furious GOP Lumped with Cliven Bundy — Furious!!

At Mememorandum, "RNC Spokesman Is Furious the GOP Has Been Lumped With Bundy (VIDEO)."

And one of the things I find amusing is how everyone's tripping over themselves running away from the guy. Myself? I think it's a fabulous story, and Mr. Bundy's tapping into a real sense of federal overreach. But honestly, as I wrote earlier, "Sounds as if the Bundy family may have bitten off more than they could chew." So it's way beyond that now. It's about the real racists attempting to turn an inarticulate old man into a Klansman, when the real Klansmen are in the Democrat Party killing people (and they always have been). Further, you've got stupid race-trading leftists attacking Mr. Bundy as satanic like it's nothing.

But it's understandable, in our PC-drenched culture. Leftists can scream "RAAAAACIST" and instantaneously shut down the discussion. Notice, though, that the idiots progs aren't messing with me, because they know I'll call 'em out on their lies and they know they'll lose. They'll be exposed as the ASFLs they are, everything. F-k 'em.

Bonus: I think Ron Christie's comments just destroy the leftist meme at the clip, and Carol Costello is the most brainless shill for the Democrats it's hilarious.

Bill O'Reilly Slams Media Hack Brian Stelter on Ridiculous Cliven Bundy Fox News Smear

O'Reilly takes a lot of heat from conservatives for his alleged "liberalism," but more often than not he's the most balanced commentator on the air. He eviscerates Cliven Bundy's slavery comments, for example, listing point by point the horrors of America's system of chattel slavery. But he's especially good here ripping CNN media hack Brian Stelter, who comes up with an outlandish claim that he's never seen any network run as much supportive issue coverage as Fox News has done on Bundy Ranch. In rebuttal, O'Reilly cites MSNBC's pathetic, month-long attack on Gov. Chris Christie's Bridgegate scandal, although an even better example would be the endless race-pimping coming out of the same network, on any number of stories, but captured particularly well in the Trayvon Martin coverage a couple of years ago. MSNBC's the left's network, pushing a far left agenda and constantly shilling for the White House. Those are simply facts. It's not a fact that Fox News has been endlessly pumping the Cliven Bundy story, although I think Sean Hannity sure got splattered by all this, and he's been doing some serious backtracking.

Harry Reid: A Joseph McCarthy for Our Time

From VDH, at RCP, "Reid Has Become a McCarthy for Our Time":

We should ask Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) the same question once posed to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by U.S. Army head counsel Robert N. Welch: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Reid is back in the news for denigrating the peaceful supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, a popular critic of the Bureau of Land Management policy, as "domestic terrorists."

McCarthy in the 1950s became infamous for smearing his opponents with lurid allegations that he could not prove, while questioning their patriotism. Reid has brought back to the Senate that exact same McCarthy style of six decades ago -- and trumped it.

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Reid libeled candidate Mitt Romney with the unsubstantiated and later-refuted charge that Romney was a tax cheat. "The word's out that he [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years," Reid said.

Later, when asked for proof, Reid offered a pathetic rejoinder: "I have had a number of people tell me that." One wonders how many names were on Reid's McCarthyite "tell" list -- were there, as McCarthy used to bluster, 205 names, or perhaps just 57?

When asked again to document the slur, Reid echoed McCarthy perfectly: "The burden should be on him. He's the one I've alleged has not paid any taxes."

When the Koch brothers donated money that was used for political ads -- just as liberal political donors George Soros and the Steyer brothers have done -- Reid rushed to the Senate floor to question their patriotism: "These two brothers ... are about as un-American as anyone that I can imagine." The charge of being "un-American" is also vintage McCarthyite slander.

Reid also has a bad habit of racial bigotry. He once praised fellow Sen. Barack Obama because he was, in Reid's words, a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

When Reid was worried that he would not get enough Hispanic voters to the polls, he condescendingly lectured the Latino community: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK. Do I need to say more?"

Reid once singled out for damnation just one Supreme Court justice -- Clarence Thomas: "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court."

Reid has also brought back McCarthy's custom of vicious and sometimes profane insults.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Reid announced: "I can't stand John McCain." Of then-President George W. Bush, Reid said: "President Bush is a liar." Reid claimed that fellow Mormon Mitt Romney had "sullied" his religion.

When Gen. David Petraeus brought proof to Congress that the surge in Iraq was beginning to work by late 2007, Reid declared, "No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening."

He elaborated on that charge by labeling Petraeus -- at the time the senior ground commander of U.S. forces fighting in Iraq -- a veritable liar. Reid alleged that Petraeus "has made a number of statements over the years that have not proven to be factual."

When an African-American and Democratic appointee to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, William Magwood, opposed Reid on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site controversy, Reid called him a "first-class rat," "treacherous, miserable liar," "sh-t stirrer," and "one of the most unethical, prevaricating, incompetent people I've ever dealt with."

Like a pre-reform-era politician, Reid entered public service relatively poor and will leave it as a multimillionaire. He has granted lucrative favors to casinos and rich investors who hired his sons' legal firm. While in office he made considerable profits on private business and real estate deals. Some of those who donated to his campaigns got favorable government treatment.

Reid recently paid his granddaughter thousands of dollars from his campaign war chest to make jewelry gifts for his donors and friends. Only after a storm of criticism did he reimburse his campaign fund.

So how does Reid's reckless career continue with the Senate leader avoiding the sort of congressional censure that finally did in McCarthy? Why is there is no progressive muckraker to take on Reid the way that Edward R. Murrow once exposed McCarthy?

For the left, Reid's utility as an attack dog (like McCarthy's utility to Republicans) outweighs the downside of his crude bombast...

He's an abomination. An inhuman wretch. A pile of steaming refuse. And a Democrat (but I repeat myself).

More.

PREVIOUSLY: "Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power and Wealth — #Democrat #Corruption."

Ann Coulter on Cliven Bundy

Hey, careful on those political mascots.



My thoughts on all of this here, "Shiree Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's Daughter, Hammers Sean Hannity."

Another 'Uncle Tom' Weighs In on Bundy

It's Derrick Grayson, via iOWNTHEWORLD.

The man nails it.

But you're not supposed to think for yourself these days. And a black man agreeing with Cliven Bundy? RAAAAACIST!!!

And see, "Shiree Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's Daughter, Hammers Sean Hannity."

Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power and Wealth — #Democrat #Corruption

He's like an old time machine boss.

A two-part report from Adam O'Neal, at Real Clear Politics:

Contrary to popular belief, Reid arrived in Washington wealthy; he had a net worth of at least -- and likely more than -- $1 million, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Although Reid had spent most of the previous 15 years in public office, or pursuing public office, he still proved to be a robust earner. After his term as lieutenant governor ended in 1975, he would not return to public office full time until 1983. (The Gaming Commission is only part-time work.) All told, he worked at least 14 years as a private-practice attorney between 1964 and 1982.

As a former public official with strong political connections, he found lucrative work in Las Vegas. It appears his personal boom was simply part of the broader expansion of Nevada’s economy. Some attorneys at the time, particularly those with political networks, would occasionally receive payment in the form of real estate. Given Nevada’s rapid growth, such payments would become extremely valuable over time. It’s unclear if Reid received land as compensation then, but he certainly made good money and invested in real estate early on.

Theoretically, working as a lawmaker should have severely limited Reid’s earning potential. In the early 1980s, members of Congress received a salary of about $70,000 per year. Though pay has generally risen -- and Reid receives more than most lawmakers because of his leadership position -- he has never earned more than $200,000 per year in salary.

Yet, his estimated net worth peaked at around $10 million just a few years ago, and he has remained consistently wealthier than when he entered Congress. (Reid reported that his net worth in 2012 was somewhere between $2.8 million and $6.3 million. His 2013 financial disclosures will be released later this year.) As of 2012, real estate composed about one-third of his portfolio. The rest was made up of government bonds; stakes in energy, electronics, pharmaceutical, and chemical companies; and other investments. He also possesses significant mining claims potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

How did Reid manage to grow his net worth so significantly while raising a large family, on a public official’s salary, and incurring the expenses associated with maintaining two residences on opposite sides of the country? Reid has lived frugally -- before buying a house in recent years, he kept just a trailer in his hometown of Searchlight -- and he has made undeniably savvy investments.  More significantly, however, is his willingness to enter political and ethical gray areas to make money.

Reid has walked a fine line over the years, occasionally breaking rules or engaging in brazenly unseemly behavior during his pursuit of wealth. Further, he has also used his position to save money in ways that the general public can’t -- a practice that creates public relations issues and raises questions about the senator’s ethics. As for any illegal behavior or obvious wrongdoing, Jon Ralston told RCP, “There’s been some smoke but there’s never any fire on that.”

There may be quite a bit of smoke.

Keep reading. It's the part of the story to which Reid's political handlers objected, and RCP's included their objections bracketed in the text, in italics.

Heh, he's a shady fucker.

One of his the responses goes like this, "Senator Reid is not the first person in America to have made a profitable land sale and I suspect he won't be the last but the last time I checked there's nothing wrong with selling land."

Yep, everybody does it so stfu. Sounds like a two-bit criminal.

And at Part II is here, "Harry Reid's Long Coattails."

Reid is what's wrong with Washington politics. I'm astonished that a corrupt f-ker like this still remains on the public's dime. Damn. Just a disgusting specimen of crass political corruption and social decay.

Shiree Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's Daughter, Hammers Sean Hannity

Well played, leftists. Well played.

As many of have been saying, this whole Cliven Bundy "racist" affair is one monumental distraction. Frankly, as I said from the first get-go, Mr. Bundy's comments were simply inarticulate. But being raw as they were, the left pounced, screaming "racist" to the high heavens. Sadly, some of the biggest voices on the right refused to speak truth to the lies, and have stood down in the face of genuine regressive evil.

Pat Dollard has the comments of Cliven Bundy's daughter, "Bundy’s Daughter Slams Hannity: He’s ‘More Worried About His Ratings’ Than My Dad."

The Hannity clip is here, which aired a couple of nights ago: "Sean Hannity Addresses Cliven Bundy Racist Remarks on Fox News - 'Racist' and 'Bigoted'."

Some conservatives are urging folks to listen to the whole "context." At Truth Revolt, for example, "Unedited Tape of Bundy Emerges, Sheds Light on 'Racist' Remarks." And from top black conservative Bob Parks, "Update: Deceptive-Edit of the Day."

But no, I can't go there. Simply, Mr. Bundy's comments on their own were inflammatory enough for the left to gain traction.

As always, it's the hypocrisy and opportunism that's key here. Leftists will stop at nothing to drive conservative speech from the public square. While Bundy's daughter swears her father's not racist, his comments stand alone as a gift to the despicable race baiters on the left, who won't stop at Bundy. They'll go all the way to the top of the conservative ranks and the GOP to tar the right-wing as irredeemably racist.

As I wrote last night, the race-trading leftist Jamelle Bouie went all out to portray the entire conservative movement as racist, claiming arguments on things like the continuing black Democrat plantation should be banned from the public realm. Typical totalitarian leftists.

For a loser like Bouie, towering intellectuals like Walter Williams are Jim Crow racists whose views are beyond the pale. People like WSJ's Jason Riley, a black conservative, are somehow "white supremacists" to be banished from respectable society.

In fairness to Bundy, he’s repeating some rhetoric pretty common on the Right. Here’s the WSJ! http://t.co/eainBHUVBz

— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) April 24, 2014

This is the state of intellectual debate today. Cliven Bundy simply stepped in it. The disgusting leftists picked it up and threw it America's collective face.

Kira Davis: 'This is an issue of freedom, and not racism...'

Oops!

Kyra Davis steps off the plantation, holla!

At Barracuda Brigade, "Kira Davis ~> 'I Don’t Care if Cliven Bundy is a Racist."

Krya's thoughts almost perfectly sum up how I feel at this point. Hers and Dana Loesch as well, who's just been on fire on this issue for weeks.

Enjoy this video. This lady is so well grounded it's ridiculous:

Sick Leftist Jamelle Bouie Attacks Alleged Racist Rancher as Demonic 'Cloven' Bundy

Jamelle Bouie's one of those standard black leftist race-traders who claims moral superiority on the basis of skin color. Seriously, he's been around the leftist fever swamps for sometime now, and very little that he spews is exceptional or original.

But he did go off on a little rant yesterday on Cliven Bundy, slithering down to a pretty sick Biblical attack on Mr. Bundy as some kind of demonic figure of purported boilerplate conservative racism.

Here's his tweet attacking Mr. Bundy as "Cloven," which I forwarded to the editor of Slate David Plotz:

Hey @DavidPlotz, are you down with your writers attacking Cliven Bundy as the devil? https://t.co/G4amPhjMao pic.twitter.com/SMPvEKBfhu

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

And here's the oh-so tolerant Bouie on Alex Wagner's MSNBC show last night:



As I posted yesterday, Bouie's just a typical leftist hypocrite: "Leftists Shamelessly Exploit Cliven Bundy Comments to Smear GOP as 'Racist'."

And I just love how Bouie's fellow regressive tweeps thought "Cloven" was an "awesome typo," the hacks.

I sent out quite a few tweets to some of the Slate folks. I'll update if I get a response, especially an apology.

.@JBouie You attacked Cliven Bundy as "Cloven" Bundy. That's real classy, hack.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@JBouie So, how's about folks call you Jamelle "Burple" Bouie? Would that be cool? "Burple Boy"? How would you like that?

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@JBouie "In folklore and popular culture, a cloven hoof has long been associated with the Devil." It's personal? https://t.co/G4amPhjMao

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

You know, we have conservatives and Republicans across the board denouncing Bundy, and leftists hacks are getting off with "cloven"? #DEMS

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@RachaelBL You at @Slate spend a lots time on race issues, but attacking purported "racist" ranchers as the devil? https://t.co/G4amPhjMao

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@RachaelBL Your writer doing a character assassination on Bundy is @JBouie: https://t.co/G4amPhjMao Does he represent @Slate's values?

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@Slate Leftists are supposed to be sophisticated and tolerant, except when it comes to Nevada ranchers I guess: https://t.co/G4amPhjMao …

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@DLoesch Just wanted to share this @JBouie tweet with you, attacking Cliven Bundy as "Cloven" Bundy, the devil: https://t.co/G4amPhjMao

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@DLoesch It's been a big day of leftists attacking #TCOTs as "racist," but leftists attacking Bundy as "Cloven"? https://t.co/3UNyPs6i6c

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@JBouie "Pressure cooker"? Why? Cooking some chitterlings? You know slaves ate chitterlings. Guess old "Cloven" was hitting close to home?

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@JBouie That's why you're attacking him as "the devil," kinda like the massa in the big house, no? I mean ya gotta love those chitterlings?

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@JBouie And how do I know about chitterlings, a.k.a. "chitlins"? My dad used to make 'em. His grandparents were slaves.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@JBouie I guess you can't attack me as "Cloven" Douglas then, right? Doesn't fit the meme of the evil "demonic" white racist, you hack.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

Depraved leftists thought that @JBouie "Cloven" attack on Bundy was an "awesome typo"! https://t.co/3UNyPs6i6c #Leftist #Hypocrisy

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@DLoesch Just wanted to share that with you as yet another sick example of #Leftist #Hypocrisy. https://t.co/l7lCOewmOh cc. @DavidPlotz

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

.@DavidPlotz So, looking forward to your response and Mr. Bouie's apology: https://t.co/3UNyPs6i6c cc. @EmilyBazelon @JDickerson

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 25, 2014

Leftists Shamelessly Exploit Cliven Bundy Comments to Smear GOP as 'Racist'

I was getting a kick out of Dana Loesch this morning.

Listening to her radio show she was almost prophetic on the left's shameless hypocrisy. As always, leftists are the biggest racists --- Dana went down the line reciting their racist comments, from Bill Clinton to Harry Reid and then some --- but the lamestream media never misses an opportunity to smear Republicans.

At LAT, "Cliven Bundy's 'better off as slaves' remark about blacks draws fire." And again at Memeorandum.

Shot: http://t.co/oXDM6LLWOZ Chaser: http://t.co/gY40mar9oF

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 24, 2014

Governor Rick Perry on 'This Morning' Discusses Property Rights

I'm listening to Dana Loesch on Radio America. She's talking about Bundy Ranch, Cliven Bundy, and the left's despicable race-bait politics. See, "On Cliven Bundy’s Remark *UPDATED: Video Link," and "Politico’s Jonathan Topaz’s Smear Attempt."

Here's the big roundup at Memeorandum, "A Defiant Rancher Savors the Audience That Rallied to His Side."

.@DLoesch Bundy's saying that blacks have gotten screwed by the government, in many ways worse than slavery. http://t.co/GJ5p3Bp4GD

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 24, 2014

.@DLoesch Frankly, Jim Crow was in many ways worse than slavery, especially the terror used to enforce it. Democrats did that. #Democrats.

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 24, 2014

.@DLoesch You nailed it with that analysis. Lefties always smear #TCOTs as "racist," the brainless big gov't shills! #Progs

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 24, 2014

Live now. Discussing the Bundy remarks, plus more. Listen live here if I'm not yet on the dial in your area: http://t.co/b7Z1Wsh60Q

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 24, 2014

'Forgive me if I have a healthy suspicion of the New York Times..." ~~ @DLoesch

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 24, 2014

.@DLoesch Here's Governor Rick Perry on "This Morning," talking about property rights in Texas. "Not about Bundy": https://t.co/MfoG1JMw8T

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 24, 2014

Leftists "want to shut down criticism of the BLM, period." ~~ @DLoesch #BundyRanch #PropertyRights

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) April 24, 2014

Cliven Bundy and the Rural Way — #BundyRanch

From VDH, at Pajamas Media:

I’m sure that Cliven Bundy probably could have cut a deal with the Bureau of Land Management and should have. Of course, it’s never wise to let a federal court order hang over your head. And certainly we cannot have a world of Cliven Bundys if a legal system is to function.

In a practical sense, I also know that if I were to burn brush on a no-burn day, or toss an empty pesticide container in the garbage bin, or shoot a coyote too near the road, I would incur the wrath of the government in a way someone does not who dumps a stripped stolen auto (two weeks ago) in my vineyard, or solvents, oil, and glass (a few months ago), or rips out copper wire from the pump for the third time (last year). Living in a Winnebago with a porta-potty and exposed Romex in violation of zoning statutes for many is not quite breaking the law where I live; having a mailbox five inches too high for some others certainly is.

So Mr. Bundy must realize that in about 1990 we decided to focus on the misdemeanor of the law-abiding citizen and to ignore the felony of the lawbreaker. The former gave law enforcement respect; the latter ignored their authority. The first made or at least did not cost enforcers money; arresting the second began a money-losing odyssey of incarceration, trials, lawyers, appeals, and all the rest.

Mr. Bundy knows that the bullies of the BLM would much rather send a SWAT team after him than after 50 illegal aliens being smuggled by a gun-toting cartel across the southwestern desert. How strange, then, at this late postmodern date, for someone like Bundy on his horse still to be playing the law-breaking maverick Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) in (the David Miller, Dalton Trumbo, Edward Abbey effort) Lonely Are the Brave.

But the interest in Mr. Bundy’s case is not about legal strategies in revolving fiscal disagreements with the federal government.

Instead, we all have followed Mr. Bundy for three reasons.

One, he called attention to the frightening fact that the federal government owns 83% of the land in Nevada. Note that “federal” and “government” are the key words and yet are abstractions. Rather, a few thousands unelected employees — in the BLM, EPA, Defense Department, and other alphabet soup agencies — can pretty much do what they want on the land they control. And note, this is not quite the case in Silicon Valley or Manhattan or Laguna Beach. The danger can be summed up by a scene I see about once a month on a Fresno freeway: a decrepit truck stopped by the California Highway Patrol for having inadequate tarps on a trailer of green clippings, just as a new city garbage truck speeds by, with wet garbage flying over the median. Who will police the police?

Two, this administration has a long record of not following the law — picking and choosing when and how to enforce immigration statutes, depending on the particular dynamics of the next election; picking and choosing which elements of Obamacare  to enforce, again depending on perceived political advantage; and picking and choosing when to go after coal companies, or when not to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, or when to reverse the order of the Chrysler creditors, or when to allow Lois Lerner to destroy the credibility of the IRS for partisan advantage.

In other words, the Obama administration regularly breaks the law as it sees fit. So we wonder why a federal agency sends out swarms of armed security agents to the empty desert on behalf of a tortoise, when it could just as easily storm Jay Carney’s press conference and demand that the president promise to enforce the Affordable Care Act. Or start apprehending those who are not just violating immigration law, but also serially signing false federal affidavits or providing employers with fraudulent identities.

Finally, Bundy, for all his contradictions, is a throwback to a different age...

Keep reading.

'Don't come here with guns and expect the American people not to fire back...' — #BundyRanch

Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore bitch slaps leftist propaganda pimp Chris Hayes. Seriously. Why does this loser still even have a show? No, why is MSNBC still even an ongoing cable network? They're just a bunch of dirtball losers with low ratings. Pretty pathetic.

I saw Assemblywoman Fiore on Twitter last week.

The truth about the Bundy’s vs. BLM #BundyRanch http://t.co/QE8HRHyNwR

— Michele Fiore (@VoteFiore) April 14, 2014

And check this at Hot Air, "MSNBC host debates Michele Fiore on Bundy ranch. Does not fare well."

The lulz.

Majority Leader Harry Reid Attacks #BundyRanch Patriots as 'Domestic Terrorists'

Really?

Really Harry Reid you sick Democrat Party coward?

At CNN, "Harry Reid defends ‘domestic terrorists’ comments." (Via Memeorandum.)

Evidence of #BLM Death and Destruction of Cliven Bundy Cattle — #BundyRanch

An ugly, ugly situation all around.

At 21st Century Wire, "EXCLUSIVE: Evidence of BLM’s Deadly Abuse of Animals Taken from Bundy Ranch."

And at Pat Dollard's, "WATCH: Apparent Federal Mass Grave of Bundy Cows Discovered."

Here's the clip, "Greta - Possible BLM mass cattle grave at the Bundy Ranch."