Wolf Bytes: The 'We're Watching You' Edition

Taking joy in one's holidays: A Rube Goldberg Passover Celebration

Indiana isn’t targeting gays; liberals are targeting religion: Indiana's RFRA & The New Intolerance

And the shameless leftie hypocrisy award has to go to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who just bashed Indiana for their RFRA: Apple Does Business In Countries That Execute Homosexuals

Perhaps some of the left's priorities are misplaced: It’s Legal to Kill Babies, But Let’s Worry About a Gay Person’s Right to Cake

Of course, religion in the west is not the penultimate target of the left: Noam Chomsky On How The Foundational Document of Western Civilization, The Magna Carta, "Messed Up The World"

Would that the left showed the same degree of concern for the ever growing e-mail scandal: Hillary, despite claiming that she set up a private e-mail account so she could use one receptor device, regularly used two devices for her e-mail

Even Nixon wasn't this shameless: Hillary Wiped Her Personal Server Clean, Quite Possibly In Violation Of Several Criminal Statutes

Meanwhile, we get to live life in a socialist regulatory bureaucracy run wild: You Are Probably Breaking The Law Right Now
While I agree with Prof. Reynold's comments about partial correction, the real correction is to reestablish the Constitutional balance. Nothing should pass with the force of legislation that has not been voted upon by our elected representatives. See Art. 1 Sec. 1 of our Constitution.

Peer review is not a measure of reliability or accuracy, nor is it in any way a substitute for the scientific method: The Peerless Pitfalls of Peer Review

And while on the subject of peer reviewed articles: Institute of Physics Accused of Corruption as Climate Change '97% Consensus' Claim is Debunked

South Korea doesn't have a welfare state: The Sea Women of South Korea

Let's round this out with the greatest hits of MSNBC:

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The Left's Problem With Truth & Honesty

One line that I wished Romney had used during the 2012 election was to explain that while Obama refused to waterboard our enemies, he had no problem whatsoever with waterboarding facts and statistics to make them claim whatever he wanted. And of course it is not just Obama - the entire far left has virtually no relationship whatsoever with objective truth or intellectual honesty.

Today's case in point, the scum that is Steve Benen, a blogger for "Maddow blog" at MSNBC. This from Bennen:

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) appeared on Fox News on Sunday, and when the discussion turned to a possible self-imposed budget crisis, the Virginia Republican said lawmakers should be "focused on trying to deal with the ultimate problem, which is this growing deficit."

What Cantor said was the opposite of the truth -- he said the nation has a "growing deficit," when in reality, we have a shrinking deficit. We can have a discussion about whether the House Majority Leader was deliberately trying to deceive the public -- Republicans have an incentive to convince the public that U.S. finances are in worse shape than they really are -- or whether Cantor simply doesn't know the basics of current events. But I'm afraid it's either one or the other.

"Opposite of the truth?" When I woke up this morning, the total U.S. debt stood just shy of $16.9 trillion. That total debt is right now on pace to have increased by $642 billion by the end of this year. The objective truth is that we have a "growing deficit." Of all the things Obama is doing to our nation - and he is doing a lot, good and hard - the one thing he is most decidedly not doing is shrinking our budget deficit.

But here is how the leftie scum like Benen waterboard the numbers. The annual budget deficit this year is "shrinking," but only in relation to the annual trillion dollar budget deficits that Obama ran in his first term. Thus according to Benen, anyone who points out any other reality than the meaningless one that he wants to highlight is a "LIAR!!!!" Here is Benen's intellectually dishonest analogy:

Imagine your home town has experienced a heat wave, which then faded, and I told you, "You know, it's actually getting hotter," despite the fact that it's getting cooler.

The problem of course is that, unlike yesterday's weather relative to today's, the deficit is cumulative. That is what this dishonest worthless piece of pond scum is studiously ignoring, as if doing so somehow makes it go away. Honestly, if we are ever to right this nation, people like Benen need to be ridiculed and driven completely from the public square.

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Olbermann Gets An Invite From "Racist" Tea Party In Dallas

(H/T Ex Cathedra)

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(H/T Dr. Sanity)

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McCain, The Anbar Awakening, & Intellectual Honesty At MSNBC

McCain, in a statement yesterday, stated that the surge was responsible for the Anbar Awakening. Though the Anbar Awakening was solicited by the U.S. - and indeed, soliticing popular support is at the heart of counterinsurgency strategy - it actually got its start in September, 2006, three months before the formal adoption of the counterinsurgency strategy. In any event, the Anbar Awakening was fully supported by the surge and was, as part of the counterinsurgency, used as the model to spread throughout the rest of Iraq.

The left has been swarming on this one, claiming McCain does not know what he is talking about because the Awakening technically started before the surge. Joe Scarborough and former Democratic Senatorial candidate Harold Ford Jr. put this one in brutal perspective.



I may have to start watching Mr. Scarborough. (Video from Olbermann Watch)

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