DC Delegate To Congress Says No Right To Know What White House Does

[From article]
Eleanor Holmes Norton, the non-voting congressional delegate for the District of Columbia, angrily sputtered during a congressional hearing Friday that the White House should not be held up to scrutiny, saying that there was no right to know what it was doing behind closed doors.
"You don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government," Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn't be asking questions in the first place.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton says 'you don't have a right to know' what's going on in government
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Obama Did What?

60 Minutes Video Shows Obama Denied Benghazi Was A Terror Attack

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2228247/Missing-clip-60-Minutes-shows-Obama-did-NOT-attack-embassy-Libya-terrorism.html Missing clip of 60 Minutes filmed day after attack on Libyan embassy shows Obama did NOT call it 'an act of terrorism' CBS quietly released interview filmed a day after Benghazi attack In the interview, he refuses to call the incident a terrorist attack Contradicts his previous and later claims he had known it was terrorism By DAILY MAIL REPORTER PUBLISHED: 14:29 EST, 5 November 2012 | UPDATED: 17:45 EST, 5 November 2012

George Will Fires Up Robert Reich

http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/12/19/sound-bite-of-the-day-firestarter/

Sound Bite Of The Day: Firestarter
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Dec 19th 2011 at 11:05 am

Look Who's Talking

New Light Bulbs

The new compact fluorescent bulbs mandated by government regulations do not perform as advertised. They allegedly last longer than ordinary incandescent bulbs. But experience shows that is not true. One more counterproductive government program that is a financial gift to some corporation at taxpayer expense.

This is a new light fixture installed by Harvard University in a residential building. The bulb was not working properly after one day, less than 24-hours. Let me guess. It is a compact fluorescent bulb with 10,000 hours of life promised. In another fixture, another bulb was going on and off the second day after installation.