High Ground Underground

A Perfect Storm & Flawed Administration It’s hard to know where to begin, with the rash of Obama administration scandals:  the IRS targeting conservative groups & leaking tax returns, Benghazi ineptness & cover-up, AP & Fox reporter phone intercepts, etc.  On top of Fast & Furious, etc. ABC News (Stephanopolous) is calling the IRS & Benghazi a “controversy,” not a scandal.  But the press continues to awaken from its slumber, and pressed Carney on Holder’s denial that he had anything to do with legal proceedings against the press – despite his having signed the court order.  There seems to be a general pattern of arrogance, denial, diminishment, obfuscation & ignorance.  From Clinton ’s aggressive “what difference does it make?” to Obama’s denial of knowledge of the IRS investigations (not only the Inspector General – he heard about that thru the press, but also the internal IRS investigation & targeting?), Sh...

Since my last post on the subject of the BSA membership standard (March 31), the BSA National Executive Committee met, completed their review of the findings from the listening phase of the Membership Standards Study Initiative, and drafted a Membership Standards Resolution.  The resolution is being reviewed by the full National Board, and will be voted on by the board on May 24.  If approved, it would be effective Jan. 1, 2014.  For those who have not seen the resolution, it is worth reading in its entirety, and is reproduced as follows.  Following the resolution (I have bolded & underlined more relevant text), I discuss ramifications especially from the LDS perspective (The LDS Church being the largest sponsor of Scouting units and members in the U.S.), present the LDS Church’s media statement on the resolution, and explain why I believe we can and should support both. Boy Scouts of America Membership Standards Resolution “WHEREAS, it is the m...

The Boston Marathon Bombers Is anyone but the Left shocked that Islamic radical terror continues despite our president’s “masterful” overtures to the Muslim world, and great care not to offend any?  The politically correct environment he fosters, with its lack of profiling, has resulted in the Ft. Hood shootings by Maj. Hasan (still officially called an incident of “workplace violence” despite all the evidence to the contrary), and now this bombing.  And how many more before we muster the courage to see it and address it for what it is?  Of course the Left had hoped it would turn out to be right-wing domestic terrorists, and Obama couldn’t bring himself to call it radical Islamic terrorism, even after the evidence was abundant.    We were fortunate they caught the terrorists relatively quickly.  Young men who had not assimilated into American culture, and who it now appears had been radicalized by Muslim extremists in Dagistan/C...