…In 1964, 76 percent of Americans trusted government to do the right thing “just about always or most of the time”; today, 19 percent do. The former number is one reason Johnson did so much; the latter is one consequence of his doing so.

…When Johnson became president in 1963, Social Security was America’s only nationwide social program. His programs and those they subsequently legitimated put the nation on the path to the present, in which changed social norms — dependency on government has been destigmatized — have changed America’s national character. 

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I am an ardent defender of free speech but there are some words for which I have little use.  The only time you will ever see or hear me use the “N-word,” is when I am quoting some liberal, typically a black liberal, and only in context.  It’s offensive no matter who uses it, but some folks get a pass and that’s typically the only reason I’d bring it up.

This past week 82-year-old Bob Copeland, an old white guy from Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, called the President an F-word N-word, so this is a departure for me.  He’s not the typical liberal hypocrite or a protected servant on the progressive plantation.  He is a former lawyer and an elected police commissioner, and the world wants him to resign.

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From AEIdeas:

I got my license right after OPEC declared war on the US with an oil embargo so I remember the outcry that the US had to become “Energy Independent”!  And for the last 50 years I have listened to politician after politician say “I WILL DO THAT!” during every election cycle – and all we ended up with was higher net oil imports from unfriendly countries and a Department of Energy that has failed its basic mission.  Instead, it has been the PRIVATE SECTOR that has created that downslope (via fracking on private lands).

“According to data recently released by the Energy Information Administration, America’s net petroleum imports fell to 28.4% during the first three months of 2014 (see chart above, data here). That’s the lowest dependence on foreign sources of petroleum since 1985,

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He’s got questions, I’ve got answers!  I would have thought that this would have been self-evident:

“Why haven’t conservatives put Benghazi to the side for a moment and gone full bore into reported 40 deaths at VA hospitals that could immently take out a member of Obama’s cabinet?”

A number of reasons, James:

• First off, the clamor and justified outrage is bi-partisan in nature – BOTH Republicans and Democrats in DC are either actually mad or need to appear to be such at the treatment of our veterans. If anyone needs to be stood up for, it is the veterans and public opinion means much. So why would Republicans not allow Democrats carry some of that political water instead of hoisting it all by themselves?  Also, it seems to be mushrooming in size and scope – once simply limited to the Phoenix VA, the tactic of the VA Managers to make themselves look good has spread system wide.  This will continue (and rightfully so) Congressional forays into what has happened – this story has legs all by itself. 

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I know that Steve is having great sport (here, here, here, here, and here) with the utter stupidity that seems to inhabit both the White House (see left) and the upper echelon of the State Department; sorry but just “saying” it is insufficient to “doing it”.  After all, God can do that (did that!) but He refrained from imposing His version of Utopia upon us (Obama will be learning the meaning of the word hubris soon).

In the mean time, the adults over at Black Five decided to give the right answer: 

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Global Warming Mythology has evolved into climate change, and then climate catastrophe.  The Global Warming book of Revelations predicts the coming of the Gore Horseman of the apocalypse.  And if we do not spend massive amounts of other people’s money (again) on things only Democrats want, the world as we know it will end.

The only evidence to support this is the cyclical and hyperbolic ranting by the benefactors of the money and policies prescribed as the cure.  So what if it is cooling, that’s warming too–we need more of your money so we can fix the weather.

This used to be called fraud, but now it is called science?

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Yup.  ‘Grok friend John Hawkins of RightWingNews has a column up at Townhall giving a few examples of some Liberals  (the real rich people) that have made it into the 1%, and then try to pull up the drawbridge behind them:

You don’t think it’s true? You don’t think the liberals are engaged in a huge scam designed to pull the wool over the eyes of gullible socialists and low information voters who don’t know any better? Well then, maybe you’ll change your mind after seeing all these quotes from filthy rich liberals railing against “the rich.”

2) “This book is about how Washington is rigged to work for those who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers and make sure that everything that they want gets done in Washington. The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.” — Elizabeth Warren. Net Worth: 14.5 million.

3) “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.  Somebody else made that happen.  The Internet didn’t get invented on its own.  Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.” — Barack Obama. Net Worth: 11.8 million 

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