Moonbats at least have the redeeming quality that they care about the plight of wild animals — except when they don’t:

The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found.

If that’s the way you want it, AP, don’t be surprised when the Injustice Department starts snooping through your phone records.

More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country’s wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.

Each death is federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits, and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines. No wind energy company has been prosecuted, even those that repeatedly flout the law.

Here’s why:

Wind power, a pollution-free energy intended to ease [nonexistent] global warming, is a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s energy plan.

The mysterious benefits of this plan to our rulers have nothing to do with the cost-efficiency of outlandishly expensive and unreliable wind turbines — or with the welfare of birds.

Just how many birds these largely useless eyesores kill is impossible to say,

because many companies aren’t required to disclose how many birds they kill. And when they do, experts say, the data can be unreliable.

When companies voluntarily report deaths, the Obama administration in many cases refuses to make the information public…

Obamunist transparency is a good thing, for those with a seat at Big Government’s table.

There is no seat there for golden eagles, at least four dozen of which have been killed in Wyoming alone since 2009. Nothing could be more symbolic than the decimation of eagles — our national symbol — by ideologically deranged and/or corrupt federal policy — except maybe the falling eagle background on this screenshot from the White House Twitter page:

On tips from Dr. 9, Byron, and Ummah Gummah.

Our monstrously overgrown federal government produces so many scandals, not even top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi’s right hand flunky can keep them all straight:

At Rep. Steny Hoyer’s weekly meeting with reporters on Tuesday, the Maryland Democrat was asked if he was concerned about the DOJ seizing phone records from Associated Press journalists working in the House press gallery in the Capitol building.

His response:

“The IRS activity was inappropriate, inconsistent with our policies and practices as a country, very concerning, needs to be reviewed carefully [quack quack quack…]”

Eventually Hoyer grasped that the question was about the latest IRS scandal, not the latest Injustice Department scandal, and he recited some platitudes relating to it. However,

“I don’t know fully the rationalization or justification that was being used, but the president’s statement that it was outrageous, that there was no place for it and that they have to be held fully accountable is a statement in which I agree,” Hoyer went on to say.

But President Barack Obama didn’t comment about the DOJ story. And he certainly didn’t call it “outrageous.” In fact, the White House has declined to say much of anything about the DOJ investigation. Was Hoyer talking about the IRS story again?

He sure was.

Why is it that liberal apparatchiks would rather talk about the IRS targeting conservatives than the DOJ secretly helping itself to journalists’ phone records, and would rather talk about the DOJ than Benghazi? It’s a matter of how high the scandals are likely to be traced. Some unknown bureaucrat will be sacrificed at the IRS. Eric Holder may be brought down at the DOJ, but he was living on borrowed time anyway after Fast & Furious. But Benghazi, once the full implications get through to the public, spells absolute political doom for both Obama and Shrillary.

On tips from Bob Roberts and G. Fox.

Don’t assume the police won’t enforce draconian and brazenly unconstitutional anti-gun legislation. From the People’s Republic of New York:

Gregory Dean, Jr. was pulled over in New Lebanon, N.Y., Sunday for a light on his license plate being burnt out. But what began as a simple traffic stop ended up with Dean being arrested over two bullets in his registered firearm, which put him in violation of the state’s new law, the Journal News reported.

Direct links to the Journal News are avoided where possible, for obvious reasons.

The state troopers saw a .40-caliber pistol on Dean’s passenger side when they approached his window. Although it was lawfully possessed by Dean, they discovered nine bullets within the magazine, putting him two bullets over the seven-bullet max set by the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act.

Dean was arrested for this violation and charged with unlawful possession for the number of bullets in the ammunition feeding device and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, according to the Journal News.

It doesn’t take a law degree to grasp that this infringes upon a right that our Constitution guarantees shall not be infringed.

On tips from Wiggins and G. Fox.

Via Liberal Logic 101, on a tip from TED.

Sometimes firefighters will start smaller, controllable fires to stop the spread of major conflagrations. That could be why left-wing establishmentarians are suddenly willing to acknowledge that scandals like the IRS harassing patriot groups and the Injustice Department secretly helping itself to journalists’ phone records are unacceptable, just as the still more serious Benghazi debacle gets ready to explode into full public consciousness:

On a tip from The Only Other Conservative in Seattle.

It wasn’t easy to take Affirmative Action to a more absurd extreme than electing Obama president, but for the kooks in charge of hiring at the Seattle Police Department, that was no reason not to try:

In an effort to promote diversity on the force, candidates with troubled backgrounds will be evaluated on what they have overcome in their lives.

That is, instead of a criminal background counting against you when you apply for a job as a police officer, it will be considered a point in your favor. Alex’s droogs in A Clockwork Orange — the ones who became cops because of the opportunities it afforded them for random acts of the old ultraviolence — would be delighted.

Past gang membership, tattoos and a record of driving while intoxicated will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis in screening applicants for the Seattle Police Department under new policies designed to boost diversity on the force and hire officers who reflect the makeup of the community.

This was deemed necessary in response to pressure from Eric Holder’s Department of Injustice, which could be expected to regard law enforcement by the law-abiding to be “discriminatory.”

As part of the changes, the city will no longer require a $25 application fee, which was seen as a barrier.

What kind of recruit would be prevented from applying by a $25 fee? Just the kind you would expect to see policing the streets in a country where Eric Holder is the Attorney General.

On a tip from Tchhht!!!

Other than the malfeasance being much more varied and serious this time around, the differences between the Obama Regime and Nixon’s collapsed administration mostly boil down to party affiliation.

Compliments of Gary A.

Remember when Obama put Biden in charge of his anti-gun initiative? It took him awhile, but Slow Joe has finally come up with a policy to stop people from hurting each other with guns. However, he didn’t come up with it all on his own:

[A] 7-year-old, second-grade student at Downtown Montessori Academy [in Milwaukee] wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden and other officials a few months ago with a simple idea for making the world safer.

His teacher Jenny Aicher says his letter suggested that if guns shot chocolate bullets, no one would get hurt.

The student — and the rest of the school — got a surprise Monday when Biden’s handwritten response arrived in the mail.

In the note, the vice president says he agrees that chocolate bullets would make the country safer and happier. The note concludes: “People love chocolate. You are a good boy, Joe Biden.”

Obediently indulging in hoplophobia earns a pat on the head for Americans of all ages.

Hopefully it was not rash to trust Biden with the serious responsibility of answering letters from schoolchildren.

On a tip from Wiggins. Graphic compliments of Jim Lavery.

Poverty has plagued mankind since before recorded history, but now at last an ingenious solution has been discovered. All we have to do is give people money:

Chris Hayes is what passes for a progressive intellectual at MSNBC. Which makes his simple-minded and manifestly mistaken proposal that much more maddening. Making a peek-a-boo video-clip appearance on [Sunday]'s Melissa Harris-Perry's show, which focused on finding solutions to poverty in America, Hayes was seen holding up a hand-written sign with his solution, reading “Giving people money: It’s actually that easy.”

Hopefully it won’t spoil Hayes’s bid for the Nobel Peace in economics if I point out that this has been tried. Since LBJ’s catastrophic “War on Poverty” was commenced in 1964, the federal government has given people over $15,000,000,000,000.00 that other people worked for, a sum too vast to properly comprehend. This has done nothing to alleviate poverty.

If you want less of something, you tax it. If you want more of something, you subsidize it. Our rulers tax wealth creation and subsidize poverty. The results were predictable to anyone not rendered imbecilic by leftist ideology.

On a tip from Clingtomyguns.

Between the IRS caught targeting Tea Partiers, Eric Holder caught snooping through AP’s phone records, and the press finally being forced to take an interest in Benghazi, the wheels are predictably coming off the farcical Obama Administration. But at least the President is stepping forward to accept responsibility for his many failures. Just kidding:

President Obama told donors like Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake (who was wearing hipster glasses), and Tommy Hilfiger that Washington gridlock is pretty much Rush Limbaugh’s fault on Monday evening at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein’s house in New York’s Greenwich Village. Obama admitted that his theory — that after the 2012 election, the Republican “fever” would break, and they’d decide to co-sign some of his agenda — was wrong. “My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet,” Obama said, according to the White House pool report. This is because of a certain corpulent radio host. “I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them. And as a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government.”

Actually, we’ve got the kind of incompetence, corruption, power-drunkenness, and malignant left-wing radicalism that make people cynical about government.

Obama left Weinstein’s home for another DNC fundraiser at the home of Alexandra Stanton in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, before a DCCC/DSCC event at the Waldorf Astoria, capping a busy day in which he addressed the dueling scandals about the IRS and Benghazi — and maybe even cried.

The reader is left to wonder who might be performing the duties of the presidency as this whiny adolescent goes from fundraiser to fundraiser to stonewaller to fundraiser.

Encouragingly, this piece appeared in the Atlantic. Now even liberals are laughing.

On tips from A. Levy, G. Fox, and Sean C.

S.O.P. for Obama Regime scandals is to stonewall for months and then scapegoat a few low level flunkies. That won’t be easy to do with the AP phone scandal:

On Monday afternoon, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had “secretly obtained two months of telephone records” from 20 phone lines assigned to reporters and editors from the global news organization.

The reason throwing a few cube-dwellers under the bus might not do the job is that

requests to subpoena news organization records require the approval of Attorney General Eric Holder. …

So, either attorneys ignored procedure in obtaining phone records without proper approval, or Holder directly approved an operation that involved obtaining journalists’ work and personal phone records.

Hopefully someone in the GOP will show a little spine when Holder testifies before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow. Considering that Obama et al. are now biting the hand that feeds by spying on the “mainstream” media, a journalists might want to join in to finally get Holder thrown out of office.

On tips from Clingtomyguns, Sean C, Muddypaw, G. Fox, Dr. 9, and Sam Adams.

Via God and Country Molon Labe.

Compliments of Stormfax.

Originally, if the people didn’t like their elected representatives, they would replace them. Now it works the other way around.

A familiar face from the smash hit video It’s Free Swipe Yo EBT helps us understand that the demographic transformation of America into a country more to the liking of our oligarchical collectivist ruling class didn’t begin with the Gang of Eight Quislings’ amnesty bill:

The point of this social engineering? To ensure that takers outnumber makers, so that socialists can never lose an election.

Via Weasel Zippers, on a tip from Ummah Gummah.

Wherever there is a need, capitalism will step in to see that it is met — even under Obama:

Via 100 Percent FED Up, on a tip from G. Fox.

Can you tell which is the true Cornholio?

Via BCN, on a tip from Zilla.