Category — For The Record

It’s now evident that the president lied about Obama Care. Nancy Pelosi’s comment, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” takes on a whole new meaning. Politics and ideology prevailed over truth, as they always do with this president and deceptions, both overt and covert, abound.   Read the rest of this entry »

So what if Obama lied? That’s what moral relativists do. What’s a lie to people who believe truth is an artificial cultural construct. In any case, truth is irrelevant in the larger scheme of things. Machiavelli wrote, “the end justifies the means,” and the end relentlessly pursued by this president is the preservation and extension of government power and control.   Read the rest of this entry »

Just in case you haven’t heard, the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, has set new standards for government ineptitude. A website that works about as often (and as well) as my brother-in-law, insurance companies forced to drop customers faster than the Food Network dumped Paula Deen, and presidential guaranties as worthless as, well, presidential guaranties. All of this adds up to President Obama’s approval ratings nose diving to an all-time low of 37%. Further, only 7% of Americans believe the Affordable Care Act is working well and requires no changes. For perspective, that is less than the 9% of Americans who believe Milli Vanilli should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.   Read the rest of this entry »

And now for something completely different.

On a whim, a few months back, I bought some tickets to see Vince Gill.  I’ve always liked Gill, but was never a fan in the way I am a fan of Suzy Bogguss …

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Some thoughts on what is rational and what is self-delusion. Reason is no more than a tool that can be used for good or ill. Its use. President John Adams wrote that reason depends upon the strength of the self-love of the one who employs it. Self -love empowers self-deceit to cloud the world as it is and replace it with a more agreeable reality. ... Well agreeable to the person engaging in the deception anyway.   Read the rest of this entry »

October 1, 2013 could be considered the new “Black Tuesday.” That was the day the government rolled out the Health Insurance Marketplace website. This, of course, is the website for the insurance exchanges required as part of the Obamacare law. Although the Obama administration has tried its best to put on a smiley face, there is no denying this so far has been, much like the Obama foreign policy, the Obama domestic policy, the Obama economic policy, etc., an unmitigated disaster.   Read the rest of this entry »

The government shutdown may have just cost me $300. If I thought we could get rid of Obama's signature piece of legislation, I, and a lot of other people would happily pay ten times that amount.   Read the rest of this entry »

Thornton accomplishes several things in this article. His primary purpose is to illustrate the genius of our system of government. Secondarily, he shows the idiocy of the MSM, specifically, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin. Baldwin suggested, in somewhat less than eloquent prose, that the Republican's approach to controlling the house was: “Certainly not the way the Founding Fathers maybe drew this thing up.” Thornton shows that, like or not, this is precisely how the house is supposed to function.   Read the rest of this entry »

With every expansion of government under the Obama administration, President Obama helps make the case for smaller government. Just in case the NSA didn’t get you too riled up (it’s all in the name of national security – right?), the blob known as Obamacare continues to grow.   Read the rest of this entry »

Here we have our Commander and Chief Incompetent outsmarted by Vladimir Putin thanks to the bumbling of Sec of State John Kerry. Obama’s recent speech about Syria was uncharacteristically brief and unlikely to persuade the nation that he actually knows what he is doing. His message in brief was that military action against Assad is vital, but not now. Congress should delay voting until Putin negotiates with Syria. That should take at least until the bodies are buried and no longer featured on the evening news and a new “crisis” like gun control or free preschool absorbs Obama’s and the media’s attention. Then Syria can fade away in the fog generated by endless diplomacy.   Read the rest of this entry »