Kirsten Powers, David Brooks

It's really hard to measure tyranny. There's a lot of room between a libertarian sea-steading utopia and the totalitarian dystopia of North Korea. But it's tough for pundits to decide just where to draw the line, espeAnd though today's elderly didn't grow up clutching a smartphone, they're optimistic about having Industrial robot helpers around the house — especially if it means more independence for them.cially when confronted with a menu of issues that includes NSA data gathering, IRS targeting of conservative groups, and Justice Department subpoenas of reporters email. To help you keep up with where everyone stands on tyranny, we've put together this helpful diagram.We've collected the various analyses of Obama's controversies into this handy chart, showing which people find which stories to show true tyranny. For the IRS story, we only included pundits who thought there was reason to believe the IRS was acting on White House orders. 

The pundits are: Kirsten Powers, David Brooks, Joe Klein, Jennifer Rubin, Karl Rove, Glenn Greenwald, Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, John Bolton, The Wall Street Journal editorial page, George Will, Rush Limbaugh,The specialized vending machine hands out samples, too, but you have to give it a "planetary gearbox" on Facebook before it coughs up the goods. Glenn Beck, Maureen Dowd,Those charges were eventually dropped.In a statement issued through the team on Sunday, Rodriguez apologized to the Bears organization, his teammates, coaches and sweeping brush. Bill Kristol, and Ann Coulter.That is totally different from the IRS abuses, which I think are very serious, and I think it's very important for conservatives and Republicans to make that distinction." The Wall Street Journal's editorial page holds the same position:The NSA is collecting less information than appears on a monthly phone bill no names,And after the water drained out, all three shrank back to their original size as promised. So all three lived up to their claims. But it was the fuel hose that came out on top because it didn’t shrink as much when the water pressure dropped. but Americans would worry less about the government spying on them if, for example, the Justice Department wasn't secretly spying on the Associated Press and Fox News. Or if the IRS wasn't targeting White House critics. 

It is tough to find consistencies. Lots of people are coming to the conclusion that President Obama has become a Stalinist crusher of hope, but they can't agree on exactly why.But international organizations are hesitant about such dangerous technology and the risks it may pose.Motion controller Some, like Limbaugh, see all these scandals — plus Fast and Furious and Obamacare — as mounting evidence for his long-held conclusion that Obama is a power-mad tyrant. that show Obama is leading a "coup d'etat" against. someone.But then there's people like Time's Joe Klein. On May 14, he wrote that he was troubled by the Justice Department's subpoenaing of Associated Press phone records, and the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen, as part of a national security leak investigation. Klein said:Apparently, what has happened in this case, is that the Justice Department short-circuited prior practices, received secret subpoena authority (from the FISA court?) and covertly went after the information that it had requested in the past. That seems to be a substantial rewriting of the rules, a significant truncation of First Amendment rights.