Down the Rabbit Hole

Consider the following juxtapositions:

• A country whose national character is typified by the great melting pot is continually being redefined by individuals who promote racial, ethnic, religious, and gender division.

• Elected officials who literally swear an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution casually break that very same oath.

• Servicemen and women who are fighting a determined foe in Iraq and Afghanistan are undermined by service chiefs who announce the military’s number one strategic priority is not winning these wars but instead to achieve diversity in the ranks.

• The Internal Revenue Service — placed in the hands of a Treasury Secretary who is a bona fide tax cheat — implements tax policy written by a House Ways and Means Chairman who is also a tax cheat.

• American businesses have shed millions of jobs due to inane economic policies while billions of taxpayer dollars are spent to subsidize “green jobs” that lead to nothing other than bloated government bureaucracy.

• In Congress, the term “cut” is not a decrease in spending but is instead only a slight reduction in an expected spending increase that is well-beyond the inflation rate.

• Government employees are among the most handsomely compensated in America even though the public sector is the most dysfunctional and inefficient component of our economy.

• The President appoints as the nation’s “Safe Schools” Czar a lifelong activist advocating the sexual exploitation of children.

• Major press outlets celebrate the lives of morally repugnant individuals such as Ted Kennedy, Michael Jackson, and George Tiller and ignore the passing of actual heroes such as Medal of Honor recipient Robert Howard.

• A national leader who accomplished absolutely nothing was given the Nobel Peace Prize over freedom-loving grassroots leaders and citizens — including scores who were killed – who opposed totalitarianism in Iran.

• The practice of religion — particularly Christianity — is treated like a hate crime.

• Officials in charge of the Justice Department’s anti-terrorism policies are the same people who worked feverishly to free to terrorist detainees.

• The federal government overturns two centuries of banking law by subordinating the rights of secured creditors to the interests of politically-connected unsecured creditors.

• The Administration argues that pro-lifers, supporters of the Second Amendment, opponents of the flood of illegal aliens, and even military veterans pose a domestic terrorist threat while actual terrorists who slaughter Americans are coddled.

• American citizens and businesses generously donate more than a billion dollars to ravaged corners of the globe such as Southeast Asia and the Caribbean yet other countries that offer a mere pittance dare to criticize our motives.

• The Administration’s employment program consists of a childish claim of “jobs created or saved” that are credited to phantom Congressional districts and imaginary zip codes.

• The cultural elite canonize brutal murderers and cop killers such as Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Leonard Pelletier, and Mumia Abu Jamal while forgetting about the innocent victims they murdered.

• The trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists is moved to the U.S. while the trial of Navy Seals alleged to have given a fat lip to a terrorist leader may be moved to Iraq.

• Society dubs as civil rights leaders individuals who work tirelessly to foment the racial, political, ethnic and religious divide.

• The national press literally ignores reporting legitimate news stories.

• The fiction of manmade global warming is promoted by dishonest scientists using fake data. Global warming cheerleaders stubbornly refuse to acknowledge facts that undermine their silly beliefs.

• After a president declares no lobbyists will work for him he immediately appoints high-powered lobbyists to positions throughout his Administration.

• Elected officials engage in world record-setting government spending while making the absurd claim it will grow the nation’s economy however, it only results in world record deficits.

• By any measure, the U.S. leads the globe in spending the most money on public education and yet, academic performance continues to plummet.

• The political left finds it reprehensible that U.S. intelligence agencies listened in on telephone calls between suspected terrorist cells in the U.S. and known terrorist entities abroad but are silent when school officials spy on minor-aged children using school-issued laptop web cameras.

• American families are told their taxes will increase “not one single dime” yet legislative measure after measure includes billions in new taxes they will be forced to pay.

Of course, I don’t fully agree with all of these (and there are even some I removed), but it does seem like our country has gone crazy in some ways. I can even think of some of my own…

• Insurance is something that can be bought after an accident happens, and this will somehow “lower insurance costs.”
• Those who claim a pro-life ideology in the name of the “sanctity of life” are the first to assure the world that torture is acceptable, defying the Geneva Convention, the UN, and other moral entities like the Vatican.
• The pro-lifers also insist that the state-sponsored killing of criminals is acceptable, while claiming the state has too much power.
• Pro-choice proponents assure the world that the killing of defenseless babies is ok while capital punishment of some of the most ruthless individuals to walk the planet is wrong. 
• The most effective way of a woman to exercise her femininity has become to divorce her from the biological processes that make her a woman, namely the ability to get pregnant.
• Tobacco and fat in food kills more people every year than even try drugs, but drugs’ legal status can still lead to life imprisonment for simple possession.