America’s Discontent
Some post State-Of-The-Union notes from a local newspaper columnist, Salena Zito…
“Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction,’ he [Obama] said. He shamelessly went on to embellish statistics, claiming 14 million new jobs, including 900,000 manufacturing jobs. Afterward, FactCheck.orgshowed that it’s more like 9 million jobs, many of them lower-paying service jobs. And, over Obama’s time in office, manufacturing jobs have plummeted by 230,000. In short, if you “made” something in the Obama economy, you lost your job; if you “served” someone, you got a job — but probably needed two, so you could make ends meet.”
So what took the media, at least some mainstream media folks, so long to call what the Obama Administration is doing a “Lie?” This 
One really cannot feel too much empathy for the fact that billionaire Mark Cuban was pursued by the federal government on insider trading charges. He could, after all, afford either to fight the charges or pay the fine without feeling any pain. Cuban decided to do the principled thing, the costlier thing, the less expedient thing and fight the charges. Obama’s Securities and Exchange Commission pursued Mr. Cuban on civil charges and not criminal charges. I would guess that the burden of proof is less stringent on civil cases so they took the easy path expecting Mr. Cuban like many others to buckle and pay the fine.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stormed the Burgh yesterday to plug the Affordable Care Act snarkily referred to as Obamacare. With a big ASSist by Pittsburgh Steeler owner Dan Rooney. Rooney has not been shy about prostituting his football team to ASSist Obama in all things liberal. It did pay off as Rooney is coming off of his Obama-sponsored stint as Ambassador to Ireland. This latest gig has raised the ire of many conservatives as he used the publically-funded Heinz Field for the show. I don’t get the dismay or surprise. This Rooney and his Steeler empire have been feeding off of the public trough for a long time. They are a privately owned company until they need a new field, additions to the field, more seats in the field, the property around the field to name a few.
One great thing about reading is articles or books often lead to other interesting articles or books. I recently read $100 Startup which mentioned a Wall Street Journal article by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. As a nearly lifetime cubicle dweller Adams is beloved by me. The following is a 
The front page of my paper offered a story this morning. It was, again, front page, above the fold. I was relieved to learn that;
Unless you are one of the under-informed (low information voter), you have probably heard the story of the young man from West Virginia who got suspended from school for wearing a pro Second Amendment t-shirt. The 14 year old was told to remove the shirt and when he refused he was arrested. According to his attorney (yes there are some good ones out there) the school code does not prohibit such shirts (his had a picture of a hunting rifle).
The title of this post was one of the comments after a C/Net story about how invasive the NSA domestic spying capabilities truly Think this quote from 