The Context of the Time

Labyrinthine
Two recent oil pipeline spills have prompted new criticism from opponents of the proposed Keystone XL project, while raising more questions about whether the federal government is adequately monitoring the nation’s vast labyrinth of pipelines. (NYT, 4/2/2013)

Here's the thing: pipelines will leak, ships will sink, cars will break down, walls will crumble, storms will wreak damage. Man-made devices will fail and nature will deliver unexpected results. It is the way of the world. When disasters - human and natural - occur, man reacts and recovers. Notwithstanding, Liberals would deny the U.S. a friendly source of energy. 


Puzzle Pieces
President Obama has been telling America for months that special tax breaks for the oil and gas industry must come to an end. The presidential demand always prompts puzzled gazes among tax and energy-industry experts, who ask: What special tax breaks? (Merrill Matthews, WSJ, 4/2/2013)

We are reminded of that wonderful moment during the recent presidential campaign when - after repeated battering from Obama - Mitt Romney said....."tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas? I've been in business for forty years and I have no idea what you are talking about!"

Tax breaks for oil and gas? Turns out to be another Liberal myth. 


Unhealthy
And now, with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and others calling for a federal Healthy Families Act that would establish national sick day standards, that movement has a chance to sweep the entire country.

America has reached a tipping point, and we’re sick of waiting. (Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post, 4/2/2013)

Coming to American business soon: The Healthy Families Act! Liberals can't understand why U.S. businesses move as many jobs as they can overseas even as they layer more and more mandates on them. Pelosi follows Liberal tradition in giving an uplifting name to her bill (how could mean Repubs vote against healthy families?) just as vanden Heuvel justifies it by describing the plight of some poor sad sack who was allegedly fired for calling in sick. Why do we suspect a hoax? Well because no tort attorney appears to have stepped forward to represent our victim for wrongful termination.