Truth, Lies and In Between

Here are a few that I read today. I read more than this, but thought these stood out more than the others.

Enjoy.

Daily Reading:

Opposite Day Obama
By D.L. Hammack

As kids, we played a variety of games for entertainment. I recall one such game called “opposite day.” On opposite day, a pledge would be made that we would say the exact opposite of what we were feeling for the entire day. For example, if my socks were black, I would tell everyone that they were white. If I liked my breakfast, I would say that I hated it, and so on. Soon the other kids would catch on and start playing along until Sally Parker (the cutest girl in the school) would ask me if I liked her. Game over!

Brain-Dead in Berkeley
By Robin of Berkeley

A week in the life of an ex-leftist:

Disneyland may be the happiest place on earth, but Berkeley is the looniest. Imagine commingling with people who act like Keith Olbermann on steroids. Not a day goes by where I don’t scratch my head in utter disbelief — not just because of the insanity, but because two years ago, I was one of them!

Video: The Tea Party’s diversity
by Ed Morrissey

Normally, I wouldn’t play the game of counting heads based on ethnicity as a means of justifying the authenticity of a grassroots organization, even when challenged by a broadcaster from a network whose hosts range from lily-white to a light ecru. As I told Tommy Christopher in a video that he will publish sometime today or tomorrow, it’s a no-win scenario; if one can’t produce enough examples of diversity, then the movement somehow excludes minorities — and if one does produce enough, suddenly it’s too self-conscious and must be hiding a latent bit of racism.

The Greek Lesson
By Victor Davis Hansen

No, I don’t mean the classical Greeks, but their present-day counterparts.

Economists have given us all the usual diagnoses of what went wrong in a now bankrupt Greece — high taxes, tax cheating, too generous retirements, unsustainable entitlements, government corruption, and anemic demography.

Excuses for Obama’s Failure to Lead
By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON — In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary executive control. America had become ungovernable.

Then came Ronald Reagan, and all that chatter disappeared.

Exclusive: The Airhead Liberal Political Disorder
Robert Weissberg

On Wednesday, February 10th, the American Psychiatric Association proposed its latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the Association’s official, encyclopedia-like catalogue of psychiatric disorders. The DSM’s certification has enormous consequences for dispensing therapy, insurance payments, future research and peoples’ self-definition. This latest DSM is, however, only a proposal designed to solicit public feedback and after preliminary trials, the final version will be published in 2013. Inclusion or exclusion can be tricky business, often reflecting both shifting politics and social conditions. DSM’s mental illness catalogue once included homosexuality; today, “Internet Addiction” and “lack of sexual interest” are candidates for admission.

Brady releases its annual report card
Posted by David Hardy

“The Brady Campaign’s report uses five categories to score states: how well they curb firearm trafficking, whether they perform background checks, how effectively they keep guns from children, whether they ban military-style weapons and how they regulate guns in public places.

Massachusetts scored 54 out of 100 points. No. 1-ranked California scored 79. Utah scored zero.”

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