Scott Ott’s writing.

It seems the argument (from the best of intentions, by the most caring of persons) for a full-time legislature would lead to the conclusion that we also need a professional, career legislature — for who can unravel the red tape which our legislature has created but an insider who has devoted years to the process? [...]

In the battle over immigration reform, some believe we need to grant amnesty to “undocumented workers” because they do the jobs “Americans won’t do,” as George W. Bush once said. But there’s a new class of vacant jobs in U.S. manufacturing — call them “the jobs Americans can’t do.”
Thousands of jobs go unfilled because [...]

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Tuesday, May 18th, my name is on the ballot for Republican State Committee. Why would I run for this obscure, no-pay post?
I run because I’m just sick of the political manipulation which is carried out in our name.
In February, I attended the annual meeting of [...]

Henry David Thoreau, in his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” wrote:
“How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved?
If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not [...]

Does the New York Times really crave a society in which the federal government can restrict the Constitutional rights of citizens who have committed no crimes?
In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, the New York Times editorial board this week (5/6) lambasted the National Rifle Association and Congress for opposing further restrictions [...]

By Scott Ott
Pity the poor soul
who lives in ordinary times,
when all lies serene, and
greatness idles for want of challenge.
Pity the poor soul
whose mettle untested,
whose courage sits on casual haunches,
whose genius abides a-bed
as no one cries for rescue,
nor smites the cheek of honor with disdain,
nor yearns for unseen vistas,
soils untrodden,
to go in vessels uncrafted,
to sweep through [...]

Contrary to statements from Republican operatives, the Medicare actuary’s report on health care reform did NOT languish on HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius’ desk for a week before the bill passed.
It appears those GOP rascals are lying again, according to ABC’s Jake Tapper.
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What really happened, is that [...]

Update:: This movement now has a Facebook page: http://www.Facebook.com/BuyArizonan
As San Francisco considers an ordinance to boycott Arizona products due to the state’s recent decision to enforce immigration laws, and several so-called civil rights groups take up the boycott call, I offer a counter protest: Buy Arizonan!
Civil rights come with civil responsibilities in this nation of [...]

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Hello, this is Scott Ott, editor of ScrappleFace.com, and I have a great idea for an outlandish political satire…the problem is, it really happened. Let me lay it out for you dramatically…
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Since 2004, our State Department has spent about $1,000,000 of your dollars and mine buying liquor…$294,000 in the past year.
Months after President Obama urged federal agencies last year to cut wasteful spending, the U.S. Department of State paid $3,814 to fill an order of Jack Daniel’s whiskey for gratuities at one of its many [...]