News that the State Board of Elections has asked the Wake County district attorney to determine whether to prosecute the speaker for criminal violations, came as no surprise to many North Carolinians.  What does, however, is the excuse that Black’s culpability is mitigated because of the corrupt political system he works in.  Paul Chesser doesn’t buy it, as he stated in the Charlotte Observer.  The local paper, which has touted the speaker’s success as a leader in the past, came out against the politician, lending more credence to Paul’s view that ultimately the individual is to blame for decisions lacking rectitude.  But then again, maybe the system is partly to blame – a view George Leef explores in a review of James Bovard’s Attention Deficit Democracy