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NEA Violates the Law, White House Offers Creative Solution

The National Endowment for the Arts is a federal agency that funds a lot of really bad "art."  The kind of stuff I could produce.  Someone said it best, "I can't define art.  I will say this: If I can do it, it ain't art."  True dat playa.  In any event the NEA is in trouble (well, it's not; but it should be) because the NEA isn't supposed to fund partisan speech.  Sure, nearly all speech coming from NEA grant receipients is leftist.  That's just an unintentional, disparate impact.  Or perhaps a coincidence.  Besides, we all know conservatives aren't creative except when manipulating the law.  (Perhaps NEA should fund a Yoo & Bybee Legal Writing Workshop?)  Whatever the case, in its latest conference call, the NEA told people who wanted money from it:I would encourage you to pick something, whether it's health care, education, the environment, you know, there?s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).