The licensing Nazis are working overtime in Kentucky:
On May 7, Kentucky’s office of attorney general sent a letter to newspaper advice columnist John Rosemond. The letter ordered him to sign a consent decree that he would stop practicing psychology without a license in their state, and stop calling himself a psychologist in Kentucky as well, since he was not licensed by the state’s Board of Examiners of Psychology.
Alongside President Obama, Mr. Bush commemorated this milestone award, an honor for volunteers who represent “a thousand points of light,” a phrase Mr. Bush first used in his 1988 speech accepting the Republican nomination for president and repeated in his 1989 inaugural speech.
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I guess 3rd District Rep. Marlin Stuzman is a little put out with me. The editorial I wrote criticizing the House version of the farm bill was posted online at 8:30 yesterday morning, and his communications director called me from Washington less than two hours later. This was the part that especially irked them:
I generally stayed away from the hoopla surrounding the George Zimmerman trial, nothing only that the state's case seemed (from a distance) to have enough holes in it to create reasonable doubt. Apparently, the jury agreed, so that's that.
The good news-bad news story of the day:
The U.S. government posted an unexpectedly large budget surplus in June, a further sign of the rapid improvement in public finances that has taken the heat off Congress to find savings and raise the nation's borrowing limit.
Why the progressive movement should find common cause with some on the right who have problems with the NSA's extensive program of snooping on Americans:
New Metropolitan Human Relations Commission Executive DirectorDawn Cummings explains what the agency does:
Metro combines law enforcement with education and outreach, Cummings explained, with types of discrimination falling into three groups: overt, covert and unconscious.
