… President Obama and liberals in both the Republican and Democratic Parties seem to have thought he was giving them a suggestion to follow and have.

Once again, we have the federal government stepping in to help people who have no skills that are marketable in our society? What terrible lives these former employees of Ocean Logistics must have lived. I mean to be so incompetent and so completely unskilled that no one other than Ocean Logistics had menial positions for them to fill? Are we seriously to believe that these employees have no skills that anyone would want to pay them for? How utterly sad. How utterly pathetic. And how even more pathetic that they had to turn to Big Brother to help them get the skills they themselves were too lazy to acquire on their own in preparation for the inevitability of the modern marketplace where people are often required to change jobs.

Or maybe this was just a convenient excuse for Big Brother to throw a pittance their way. You know, to help them remember come November that Obama loves them? We have trillions of dollars in debt and here we are paying for things people need to be doing themselves.

This was the goofy thought process used to dismiss the obvious racial intent:

“They just didn’t have that in this case,” [Tasha Jamerson, D.A. spokeswoman] said. “If they had somebody who, two blocks before, heard them say, ‘We’re going to beat somebody up because they’re white, brown or purple,’ it might be different.”

Ok, so the racial slurs hurled in at the location of the assault were not enough? But if they had been hurled “two blocks” away they would have been? The cabbie affriming that such statements were made at the scene is not enough? This is just mindless justification on the part of the District Attorney.

This is one reason why “hate crime” laws are bad ideas because they are so subjective. The other reason they are bad is because crime is crime is crime and all who commit crime should be treated equally before the law. Having special subsets of the law that make a crime more of a crime for political correctness taints our entire justice system.

Gerald Ford? Please. The man couldn’t even walk straight. He almost was bungling enough to make Jimmy Carter look sane.

Jimmy Carter? Oh, yeah, sure … he was so incompetent that he makes Obama look like Mr. Perfect.

JFK? The man who wilted in the face of Soviet aggression and caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? Don’t fool yourself.

Herbert Hoover? Ok, he did denounce overbearing government regulation as a problem. But then he turned right around and proposed a fair number of unconstitutional and overbearing government programs of his own like the unconstitutional Department of Education. And let’s not forget to mention his idea for $50 per month pensions for the elderly, a forerunner to the ponzi scheme of Social Security. He even exasperated the Great Depression by rejecting tried and true laissez-faire economic strategies.

William H. Taft? This is the man that proposed income taxes on corporations. Taxes like this, I remind everyone, are paid in the end by the consumer and just a tax on the people writ large. This is a favorite ploy of the left to soak the working class with hidden taxes and keep them from accruing wealth. He also led a crusade against companies he felt, arbitrarily of course, were too big.

Ultimately, when you boil it all down, Reagan’s only real competition for the title of Best President of the 20th Century was Warren G. Harding. And how many people even know that much about Mr. Harding other than the Tea Pot Dome Scandal? How many people even know about that? At least Harding practiced and implemented conservative fiscal policies that made the economic downturn which happened during his time in office short and all but forgotten to history.

Like so many better than average to almost great Presidents in American history, Reagan gets more than his fair share of praise. He even gets a little deified from time to time. That miffs me because people who fall over themselves to praise Reagan do so very blindly. Let us all remember, Ronald Reagan was not a god. Like with other greatly flawed leaders of this nation, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson come to mind, people mindlessly throw Reagan’s praises around. They forget his plethora of broken promises and his naive agreement with liberal Democrats who he actually thought would cut spending like they said they would. And let’s not forget his insane support of amnesty for illegal aliens. In the process of this blind idol worship those who have placed Reagan upon a pedestal of infallibility fail to think critically about things he actually did which were wrong. When trapped without an answer to these things they haphazardly spout off some quote or belief of his without care to its truth or substance. Which brings me to Reagan’s “11th Commandment”.

This “Commandment”, as if that was not the most arrogant thing one could call words spoken by a mere man, was simply “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” I have heard this Golden Rule evoked more times than warranted in this election cycle and by both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supporters upset that the other side is attacking their candidate. Some of these attacks are valid. Some of them are not. Some of them are downright lies. And both sides have engaged in them.

Ok, first of all, let’s get something straight. This was not even “Reagan’s” “Commandment”. This actually came from Gaylord Parkinson who was Chairman of the California Republican Party. It was drawn up because of the mindless attacks by the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party against Barry Goldwater in 1964. But a mindless rule in response to a mindless attack is just, well, mindless.

Think about this for just one second. All you Reagan aficionados who get excited at the mere mention of the man’s name in vain settle down. Everyone now, take a deep breath. It is time to think critically. If a “fellow Republican” is a creep, a scumbag or a liar are we seriously suggesting that he not be called a creep, a scumbag or a liar? I am not talking about baseless attacks. I am talking about attacks based on the facts.
I am sorry. But isn’t bearing false witness against the laws of God? How can you seriously sit there and ask people to not tell the truth? Well, I hate to tell you this, but when it comes to a choice between the laws of God and the laws of men, or a man, I will choose the laws of God every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Reagan’s 11th Commandment is absurd. Those who spout it when anyone dares points out the truth about another Republican and how they often act in most unRepublican ways are mindless partisans who do the Party no favors. Get over yourselves and realize that, oh no, Reagan was, at times, wrong.

I understand all you Newt and Mitt partisans do not like lies being told about your candidate of choice. But you also do not seem to like too much the truth being spoken about them either. That is because both of them have a long and not so glorious past of acting like Democrats.

Personally I will ignore Reagan’s silly commandment because it is just that; silly. Reagan was not infallible. And this “commandment” proves it. Truth must be spoken.

These two are the same person with different hairdos. They both cannot run on their full records because their full records are so splattered with liberalism that it makes such a tactic impossible. They are both distorting and lying. If you trust that either of these men have the spine and the conviction to solve America’s real problems and not just nibble around the edges then you are going to be in for a big surprise once election day has come and gone.

And no, the answer is not the unconstitutional earmark promoting, American military bashing Ron Paul either.

The government “adjusts” employment data in order to smooth out bumps to hide these sorts of seasonal changes. So how do you feel about 2.2 million people losing their jobs last month? That 8.3% unemployment rate still sound good to you knowing this?

But the 0.2% drop is just the smoke screen to cover up the fact that fewer Americans are working today, as a percentage of our population, than when Obama took office. Yes, there were 243,000 jobs created in January. But the number of unemployed dropped by 339,000. That means 96,000 Americans just simply stopped looking and almost 30% of those that wanted work are now sitting idle.

The fact is that when President Obama took office in January of 2009 the civilian labor force participation rate was 65.7%. Today it is just 63.7% (bls.gov). Consider that the population has increased and that 2% drop is magnified and glaring and points to an overall loss of jobs because they were never created to keep up with the traditional 65-67% historical participation rate of the previous decade.

Make no mistake, the President has found his strategy to get the unemployment rate appear as low as possible by November. They are just going to discourage the living heck out of US workers. As Americans stop looking for work the rate will in turn drop and to those not paying attention it will look like the current Administration has done something wonderful. In fact all they are doing is sweeping the dirt under the rug and hoping you won’t find it.

Of course since the GOP has basically run out the most solidly conservative candidates over the past few months there isn’t much that is better left to vote for.

What chutzpah! What Would Obama Do? Nothing different than any other liberal desperate to justify themselves apparently; do as he says not as he does.

Honestly, it doesn’t matter. Trump is a RINO, Mitt is a RINO and so is Newt. He would have been comfortable with either one. So who really cares? Well, other than Newt’s people who feel slighted of course.

If anything Trump’s endorsement should hurt Mitt among conservatives. But it won’t. It won’t because there is no real conservative in the GOP field for conservatives to support. So who are they going to run to? And please, spare the the “what about Santorum?” question. Look, Santorum has his share of support for unconstitutional liberalism staining his record too. He has been for subsidies and price controls as well as continuing existing government medicine programs as well as expanding them. So he is not much better.