The right to vote any way you want, while we watch
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] “Today the practice of casting secret ballots is so commonplace that most voters would not consider that any other method…
Deception & Misdirection
Tragedy, as politics: Exploiting Ferguson
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and policy.] African-Americans have long been the victims of oppression by politicians and bureaucrats. That’s been true from the 17th Century when slavery,…
What they’ve done to public health: a laughing matter (if it weren’t so deadly)
"You cannot get it [Ebola] from just riding on a plane or a bus," the President said. ...which would be true, unless, say, someone with Ebola were to cough on you. Then it…
That Lyndon Johnson quote (Part 2)
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] Last week, at http://capitalresearch.org/2014/10/we-have-lost-the-south-for-a-generation-what-lyndon-johnson-said-or-would-have-said-if-only-he-had-said-it, I took a look at that story that has circulated in recent years as, in essence,…
“We have lost the South for a generation”: What Lyndon Johnson said, or would have said if only he had said it
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] “We have lost the South for a generation,” President Lyndon B. Johnson told an aide after he signed the 1964…
This is what “Al Qaeda on the run” looks like
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] Now it's the Intelligence Community's fault. You know -- that Clapper guy! We know the President's telling the truth because…
Shut up! Just shut the heck up! argued Kennedy and the Warmers
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] This may be the week the Global Warming movement jumped the shark. In New York, where, in 1933, 250,000 marched…
Why scientist-activists are always wrong (Part 1)
The collapse of Global Warming theory puts a harsh spotlight on the involvement of scientist-activists in efforts to deceive opinion leaders and policy-makers. Later this year, I’ll attempt to explain…
Trolling Facebook
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] This week I’m giving our faithful blog-readers some insight into various aspects of deception and/or Big Government, as noted in…
The President’s deliberately deliberative policy of deliberation
[Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy.] The word of the day is “deliberative.” Last week, President Obama let slip that “we have no strategy’ for dealing…