Of course this wouldn’t justify targeting conservatives over liberals, but it’s still an interesting argument that raises questions about the policy choices underlying the laws in question.

Is the whole according of “charitable” tax-exempt status to obviously political groups like “Tea Party” organizations just an arbitrary legal fiction that everyone has come to accept, or is there more to it? To my way of thinking, groups that are out to effectuate political change (as opposed to feeding the hungry, curing the ill, etc.) probably shouldn’t be classified as “charities.” Perhaps political advocacy groups should be tax-exempt, anyway, but they aren’t charities in any traditional sense, I don’t believe.

Any thoughts on this?

I was thinking
Let me put it on the line
No one was making
their rent on time.

Let me put my thought on line’
People have lost family
They are ready to sacrifice everything’
And give it all to You

Stop trying to take Away Our Property, is the line one should use as Leftists.

Speaking of Leftist 501(c)4 corporations — Here’s something to lighten the mood (and lower the tone): at Ace, they posted this hilarious account of a couple of “Free Beacon” reporters who crashed the Nutroots, er, Netroots Nation convention in D.C.

http://freebeacon.com/the-rootless-netroots/

There were two or three “Coke through the nose” moments in there. Enjoy!

“Facts” for some people are whatever it is convenient to say at the time. As long as someone they trust has put the so-called “facts” in front of them for them to imbibe and parrot, engaging on the facts, as honest people of good will are inclined to do, becomes a fool’s errand.

(As I instructed my children when they were much younger, anyone who argues with a fool *is* *one*. Or better — but I never encountered this maxim until my children were no longer children — “don’t argue with idiots, you’ll be reduced to their level and get beat on experience.”)