Justice Department – the Clintons' Caretakers

Do you remember Adelaide Abankwah?

She is the woman who appealed for asylum in the United States, claiming to have been chosen "queen mother" of her tribe back in Ghana. She said, too, that if she returned there, she would be forced to undergo female circumcision because she is not a virgin.

Politicians, pretty celebrities and human rights activists hopped on the bandwagon. Luminaries such as Hillary Clinton, Julia Roberts and Vanessa Redgrave supported her case. Abankwah eventually won asylum in a federal appeals court.

Now it turns out to be a lie. Another fraud endorsed by feminists and other leftists. The truth is that this woman’s genitals were in no danger whatsoever from any ritual in Africa.

An investigation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service revealed that Abankwah is actually Regina Norman Danson, a former hotel worker from Ghana. She made up the "queen mother" story after she was caught entering the United States in 1997 with a stolen passport. She’s a criminal, not a queen.

The real Adelaide Abankwah is a former college student who lives near Washington. Her passport was stolen in Ghana four years ago.

Time for the Justice Department to step in and prosecute, right?

Wrong. It’s not time for prosecution, it’s time for cover-up. It’s time to sweep this all under some convenient rug somewhere.

Why is Danson not being prosecuted or deported for illegally entering this country with a stolen passport? Well, because it might embarrass some people, that’s why.

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Hillary was running for the U.S. Senate and there was no sense in Justice giving any ammunition to her opponent, right?

A British professor isn't too keen on snowmen. Yes, the professor is a woman, Tricia Cusack, an art historian from Birmingham University in England.

Art historian – now, there’s a stunning career choice. Anyway, Cusak says snowmen reinforce gender stereotypes by portraying men in prominent public roles. In promotional literature from the university, Cusack writes that "the snowman's location in the semi-public space of garden or field reinforces a spatial-social system marking women's sphere as the domestic-private and the men's as the commercial-public."

What kind of an idiot walks around talking about "spatial-social systems"? People who wouldn’t have a prayer of earning a decent living in the private sector, that’s who. People who are so impressed with their own so-called intelligence that they have no hope of ever identifying with real-world people living and working outside the hallowed fantasy world of academe.

Bottom line: This lady thinks snowmen reinforce the old idea that a woman's place is in the home. Yeah, that's what I think when I see a snowman. I think he's just an instrument of male oppression against women. Not only that, he's made out of

Then again, we are talking about merry old England, where political correctness runs rampant.

So, are we going to ban snowmen?

The Libertarian Party issued a press release yesterday with some figures tabulated by the Americans for Tax Reform. They took a look at local, state and federal government taxes on hotels and lodging, fuel, bus, train and airline tickets, and other travel-related items. And they discovered that the tax bill adds about 41 percent to the overall cost of your trip. No misprint there – 41 percent of your travel costs!

Just look at the savings you'd realize without the taxes:

· A $400 airline ticket would cost only $240. You'd save $160 in federal excise taxes, passenger facilities charges, fuel taxes, arrival and departure taxes, air traffic control surcharges, customs, immigration, and agricultural inspection fees, and the additional taxes airlines pay directly to the government.

· An $80-a-night hotel room would cost $45.60. Forty-three percent of the cost of a hotel room comes from states’ sales and use taxes, occupancy taxes and tourism taxes – combined with all the employment, income, and property taxes the hotel owner pays directly to the government.

· That $50 restaurant bill would cost $36.20, if not for sales taxes on food and drinks, plus taxes on alcohol, property taxes, income taxes, and payroll taxes.

· A $20 tank of gasoline would cost $9.80. But 43 different local, state, and federal taxes add 54 percent to your fuel bill.

Now maybe your understand – at least a little bit more clearly – what’s happening to you. Now maybe you see why when you go to work in the morning you don’t start earning any money for yourself until sometime after lunch.

This is government, my friends. It's a bloated leviathan with an ever-increasing hunger for your money.