Some Things To Ponder

President Obama and liberals should have learned this lesson a long time ago.  But, alas they have not yet learned.   http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/12/11/the-smartest-president-ever-cant-drill-his-way-out-of-this-problem-n1930030/page/full

Think the CIA is an upstanding, efficient, effective and lawful bureaucracy?  If this stuff is true we may want to think again.   http://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2014/12/11/government-ineptitude-ciastyle-n1930152/page/full

This item discusses the consequences of a failure to take personal responsibility, a cultural failure building in this country concurrent with the rise of progressivism.   http://unfilteredpatriot.com/demanding-personal-responsibility-is-not-victim-blaming/ 

This offers proof that what economists who do not subscribe to Keynesian economics have long known and written about.  The fact is that for a variety of reasons the minimum wage mantra touted by the left is bad policy.  This piece deals with one of them.  Minimum wage laws actually increases unemployment.  A government that thinks it can effectively mandate private industry minimum wage levels is a government willing to defy logic and sound economics.   http://patriotnewsdaily.com/study-higher-minimum-wage-leads-to-lower-employment/

Quote: "A highly secretive Obama Justice Department (DOJ) unit known as the Community Relations Service (CRS) played a highly active role in the federal response to the controversy over the police shooting and subsequent riots in Ferguson, Missouri. CRS went in at the behest of the NAACP, and as one might expect from a DOJ with Eric Holder at the helm. Their actions appear to be anything but impartial."    http://www.teaparty.org/exposed-holder-uses-tax-dollars-attack-police-71886/

Did you ever wonder what the basis for mainstream media selection of what to present as the news of the day?  Seems to me that it seeks to either avoid or to minimize anything that does not neatly fit into their liberal/progressive narrative or world view.  News to them seems to be present trivia to deflect from items that they consider negative for their preferred narrative.  They embellish items when they makestheir narrative look good or conservatives look bad.   http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nets-appear-finished-gruber-coverage-morning-shows-silent  and  http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nothing-see-here-major-newspapers-sweep-gruber-front-page   Too often the truth suffers when they perform a disservice to the public they are suppose to serve.

This professor deserves to be severely reprimanded if not fired.  His rant is inappropriate and assertions are complete fabrications of left wingers.  If he were a stand up guy he would not have told his students not to tell anyone what he had  to say.  http://www.campusreform.org/?   The sad thing is that he is but one of a huge number of professors who spout this inappropriate  and false rhetoric. http://www.campusreform.org/?

This is incredible.  Isn't that what she did countless times while she was Speaker?  Apparently it's okay when she and her Democrat colleagues do it but never okay if Republicans return the favor.  But in this case she is ignoring what the results of the last election and current polling data mean?   http://patriotupdate.com/2014/12/pelosi-vote-spending-bill-says-dems-blackmailed/

George Burns