An NRO editorial on the 5000-word investigative New York Times article (you read that right) about how the Pigford case, which started out as an attempt to determine if any black American farmers had been wrongly denied USDA loans, morphed into a grab-bag of largesse for all claimants from all the favored supposedly beleagured demographic groups. A whole apparatus of activists, lawyers and bureaucrats sprang up to find four-year-olds and city dwellers and anybody else who could be remotely construed as qualifying for some gummint gravy.
Of course, the Most Equal Comrade really flung the grain bin doors open to an unprecedented degree. Will this be the scandal that finally delivers the hurt to his sham stature as a great leader, in the way we'd hoped for with Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the string of bankrupt "green" "companies," and attampts to make the sequester look like a Pub idea? The fact that the NYT felt compelled to look unblinkingly at it is encouraging, but that alone won't be sufficient. It will take sustained examination by those with a far greater commitment to restoring America.
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