Statistics, one of three kinds of lie:

James Pethokoukis: What the plunging unemployment rate really means for Obamas reelection. Those headline economic numbers are terribly misleading, hardly reflecting the devastation most Americans still see every day. An 8.5 percent unemployment rate? Please. If the size of the U.S. labor force [were] as large as it was when Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 10.9 percent.

But since so many people have gotten discouraged and stopped looking for work and [were] thus disappeared by government statisticians the jobless number has been artificially depressed.

A better gauge of the jobs picture is the broader U-6 rate, which includes part-timers who would rather have full-time jobs. It stands at a whopping 15.2 percent. [Italics,
boldface added]

Statistics don’t lie, White Houses do. [Much
obliged, Instapundit]

I refuse to believe that these creepy characters represent a main stream of same-sex-oriented people.

It’s the first time in his tenure that I have felt like going to the mat for, not with, Cardinal George, whose obvious main crime is not using the KKK word but in being outspoken about their behavior and violating the city’s smothering political correctness.

Lift the steins in the hiring hall, 12 big months comin’ up.

Planned Parenthood reports 329,455 abortions in last year. And $487.4 million in tax dollars received.

Among whom is the current president of U.S.:

. . . please, stop thinking that the worst thing a white politician can do to you is call you a nigger . . .  The worst thing any politician can do to you is refuse to take your demographic seriously and thus . . . neutralize your political power.

The worst thing a politician . . . can do to you and me is saturate us with symbolism and starve us of substance, as is the case with our current President who sends us Christmas cards showcasing a beautiful black family, with few policy initiatives that actually support any black families other than his own . . . .

Writer has soft spot in heart for Ron Paul, whom she much prefers to Obama’s ” slightly more evil twin – Mitt Romney.”  Heh.

Fascinating story here of everyday, work-a-day pastor.

Henninger of WSJ vial Real Politics, a warning to Romney.

. . . It’s all about Obamacare and immigration. It’s made by Coulter, VERY PERSUASIVELY.

Rev. James Martin SJ: GRINCH.  He just had to get this off his chest, feels better already.

See Dick.  See Dick Durbin.  See Dick Durbin continue to do dumb things.  (With one hand tied behind back):

Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Frank Lautenberg (N.J.) called on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Orange Bowl Committee on Thursday to cancel a sponsorship from Camacho Cigars for the event. 

“Tobacco has no place in sports, and the promotion of cigars at the Orange Bowl sends the wrong message to young fans,” the senators wrote in a letter. “[C]amacho Cigars’ sponsorship is at odds with the NCAA rules prohibiting tobacco use by student athletes and all game personnel in any form at practice and in competitions.”

There is no word yet on whether the NCAA wil consider the senators’ request.

It’s part of Dick’s hell-for-leather trying to make private companies bend to governmental will.  What a fellow he is!