October | 2013 | Truth, Lies and In Between

Only now — five years into his presidency — are we seeing some cracks in the protective shield surrounding President Obama, and then only after the abuse of reporters\’ privacy has been threatened. Mainstream journalists have not scrutinized his controversial policies, nor have they held him accountable for questionable actions that have caused outrage among fair-minded critics and produced irreparable harm to the nation.

Some facts are irrefutable, but the president has, by and large, deflected all blame and few in the media have dared question his policies and actions. Investor’s Business Daily reports that we are becoming a welfare state. The Census Department reported this week that almost half (49 percent) of Americans (151 million) are on federal aid. The U.S. has spent nearly $4 trillion ($3.7) on welfare over the past five years — that is five times greater than the money spent on transportation, education, and NASA, combined. Further, more than 70 percent of all federal spending goes to assistance programs, and the Congressional Budget Office projects that welfare spending will rise 80 percent over the next decade. Even with all that spending, though, 46.5 million Americans live in poverty and nearly half of all Americans pay absolutely no federal income tax. It doesn’t take an economics genius to realize that with the nation’s debt at $17 trillion and with more than $50 trillion in unfunded liabilities, we are in deep economic trouble. In short, the buck stops with President Obama when it comes to assessing blame for “the weakest recovery from a recession in modern American history.”

via Articles: The Obama Facade Cracks at Last.

Every day, it seems, more people who have been screaming their hatred for those who predicted all we see coming true are admitting what we have known all along. The president is incapable of telling a truth, and what conservatives have been predicting for three years about ObamaCare has been entirely correct. Indeed, we haven’t seen anything close to the worst of what is to come, since the system hasn’t even begun to function in its utmost state of disarray and confusion. We’ve seen a website and estimates of premium and deductible figures which have been panic-inducing all on their own. There is not one single fact about this monstrosity that has been truly presented by the president, and his law, its destruction of lives and fortunes, and the pattern of fraud that have accompanied it rest solely and squarely on the Democratic Party. They did this to the United States of America and they did it on purpose.

The left has fought the factual arguments of their opponents with screaming accusations, smears, slanders, and character assassination, with the hysterical label of “racist” trumping all others. It has become reflexive, and thus almost meaningless in its lack of substance, but not entirely so. It bespeaks a psychosis that infects every response of the left to facts, experience, knowledge, and hard-earned wisdom. The finger pointing has been calculated and malicious. And it has been sadly effective with the indoctrinated. Many on the left actually believe that reasoned, factual opposition to policies founded on lies is motivated by racism, rather than what such policies have done and are doing to those who have the courage to speak out against them.

via Articles: Can We Finally Stop Pretending?.

Daily Reading (10-29-13)…

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 in Daily Reading List
Tags: Daily Reading List

…here’s today’s reading list.

Guns/Gun Rights/RKBA

Man shot after breaking into home, ranting about zombies…

Politics/Congress/Government

Scandal Central

Obamacare/Healthcare/HHS

Illegal Immigration / Shamnesty / Amnesty

Exclusive: Mike Lee Welcomes Rubio’s Change on Immigration

RINOs

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder

OFA sends out defensive email about Obamacare, wants your story

Benghazi

Lindsey Graham ‘Blocking Every Senate Appointment’ Until Benghazi Survivors Can Testify

Global Warming Scam/EPA/Ecotards

Military/Defense News/Veterans/DOD

Israel

Israel to Release Next Round of Prisoners

Middle East

Africa

Drone Strike Kills Two Al Shabaab Terrorists in Somalia

Muslim/Islam/Jihad Douche Bags/Terrorism

Media Bias

Hollywood Morons

Hollywood Homes Now Featuring Moats for Security…

Race/Race Baiting

NASA / Science/Tech/Computer

Vietnam court convicts dissident FACEBOOK user…

Odds & Ends/Misc.

Quote of the Day…

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 in Media, Media Bias, Politics
Tags: Media, Media Bias

…is quite pertinant to today’s issues, but comes to us from last century.

This is from William F. Buckley:

Conservatives in this country — at least those who have not made their peace with the New Deal, and there is serious question whether there are others — are non-licensed nonconformists; and this is dangerous business in a Liberal world, as every editor of this magazine can readily show by pointing to his scars. Radical conservatives in this country have an interesting time of it, for when they are not being suppressed or mutilated by the Liberals, they are being ignored or humiliated by a great many of those of the well-fed Right, whose ignorance and amorality have never been exaggerated for the same reason that one cannot exaggerate infinity.

via The Hungry and the Well Fed | RedState.

Unfortunately, National Review has pretty much tanked for the establishment GOP these days.

Go read the rest, it’s good stuff.