Allen West Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

by Stuart Shapiro

After calling for censorship of the media, and criticizing President Obama for visiting the troops at night, one might think Rep. Allen West would want to take a day off.  Now he wants Congress to focus on the infiltration of Sharia Law into the United States. (via Think Progress)

West said that, although he has not spoken with all of the new members, he hoped that Congress would focus on the “infiltration of the Sharia practice into all of our operating systems in our country as well as across Western civilization.” He explained that targeting Sharia should be part of America’s “national security strategy” and that a response to Sharia would somehow include “tailor[ing]” American “security systems, our political systems, economic systems, our cultural and educational systems, so that we can thwart this”

All I know is that Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin better bring their game up a notch or two.  There’s a new candidate for the king (or queen) of crazy.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.