Undernews: May 22, 2013

How not to tame the IRS controversy

Morning Line: If you have to ask, there's a problem

More on federal government telephone spying

State Department names Israel lobbyist as special envoy on anti-semitism

Bloomberg and taxi fleet chief come to blows

Underground water supply dropping at much larger rate

Obama's criminal war against journalists

Obamacare encouraging employers to cut health services

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. -- Jane Jacobs

Pocket paradigm

Unfortunately, complex failing systems have little capacity to save themselves. In part this is because the solutions come from the same source as the problem. The public rarely questions the common provenance; official Washington and the media honor it. Even a failure as miserable as that of Vietnam had little effect on the careers of its major protagonists, those men who not only were wrong but were wrong at the cost of 50,000 American lives. They remained quoted copiously, cited as experts and transmogrified into statesmen.- Sam Smith

One of the greatest myths of America's elite is that it functions by logic and reason and that it is devoid of myth. In truth, elites function like other people; they choose their gods and worship them. The gods, to be sure, are different. For example, many in Washington believe fervently in the sanctity of data, the Ivy League, the New York Times op pages and the Calvinist notion that their power is an outward, visible sign of an inner, invisible grace. And some, even while professing to be without myth, spend their lives creating myths for others. We call them political consultants and ghostwriters...- Sam Smith

33% work more than 40 hours a week

Jews & secularists are best tippers

The payoff for being on a reality show

Apple has $30 billion tax free in Irish accounts

18 big corporations that keep huge amounts of money overseas

Stereotype buster of the day

Action notes

How a group of nuns shook up the Vatican

Freedom University teaches the unregistered immigrants George doesn't want taught

Hundreds of low wage workers go on strike in DC

March on Monsanto May 25

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