(Via Seattle Times)  About 8,000 Washington residents who are purchasing health insurance on the state’s fledgling exchange marketplace may be getting less of a subsidy than they thought they had coming to help pay for it.
The exchange, called the Washington Healthplanfinder, said Friday that a calculator on its website mistakenly overestimated tax credits for about 6,000 applications that cover about 8,000 people, said Michael Marchand, communications director at the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, which operates Healthplanfinder.
The error represents a setback for the state-run exchange, which has received favorable reviews once it got up and running as one of the few online marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act that has a functioning website and is posting strong enrollment figures.  (read more)

Fitting this comes out today – considering we posted this earlier.
(Via WeaselZippers)  Apparently the NSA has been bugging the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, since 2002. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, President Barack Obama told Merkel on Saturday that he would have stopped the bugging had he known about it.

#Handygate: @BarackObama knew since 2010 that Merkel's phone was spied by NSA @BILD am SONNTAG #BamS pic.twitter.com/tLgzro1IPO

— Alexandre Lafleur (@boulevard_blum) October 26, 2013

However, Bild is reporting that not only did Obama know about the bugging, but that he himself personally ok’d it in 2010, and stepped up surveillance on Merkel, calling for a “comprehensive dossier” on her.  According to Bild:  (continue reading)

You have probably seen multiple written accounts, stories and publish articles, recently about a growing international backlash.   This stems from revelations that under the specific direction of President Obama  the NSA (National Security Agency) has been spying upon a growing contingent of international leaders. 
Our allies are furious with the NSA for spying on them and their respective leaders.   Consequently U.S. credibility and trust has been deconstructed.
Indeed, by recent count the list of Allied Western nations rising in open opposition to President Obama, and his administration, stands around 35.  That’s THIRTY FIVE.
It is against that bold and visible backdrop we wish to draw back your attention.

In July of 2012, during his Term-two presidential bid, President Obama gave a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nevada. His speech was specifically constructed to outline his accomplishments:

“Because we’re leading around the world, people have a new attitude toward America.” “There’s more confidence in our leadership. We see it everywhere we go.”
– Barack Obama July 2012

At the time many of us just about fell out of our seats. With quick dispatch, and working purely from immediate memory, we outlined the following:

[2012]  There are many administration claims that I shake my head when I hear, but this one is perhaps the worst. It is a complete and utter fallacy to proclaim President Obama’s foreign policy has been even remotely successful. This is just freestyle off the top of my head, but consider: (more…)

The one constant in an ever changing universe is how progressives are committed to the whole “I’m friends with my children” schtick.   This generic communal immaturity creates profound liberal hypocrisies.    Cue –  Maryland AG, Doug Gansler, who was photographed at his son’s party in Bethany Beach Delaware taking merry pictures of teenagers engaged in binge drinking, and having a grand ol’ time.

Doug Gansler says breaking up party with underage drinking was not his job. http://t.co/3l8KEDmiwF pic.twitter.com/DhPAgZO2MI
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) October 24, 2013

Gansler’s first auto-erotic response was to claim he had no moral authority to do anything about the underage drinking….. D’oh….   But then the political “betters” got a hold of him and shaped his messaging to be, well, more gubernatorial.  He now has “regrets“….
(Via Huffington Post)  Maryland Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Doug Gansler (D) is facing questions over a controversial photo from a beach party attended by his son last summer. (more…)

(Via CNS News)  Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau. The recipients also out-numbered the total population of the Philippines.

There were 108,592,000 people in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2011 who were recipients of one or more means-tested government benefit programs, the Census Bureau said in data released this week. Meanwhile, according to the Census Bureau, there were 101,716,000 people who worked full-time year round in 2011. That included both private-sector and government workers.
That means there were about 1.07 people getting some form of means-tested government benefit for every 1 person working full-time year round.  (read more)

Earlier this week conservative radio host Sean Hannity called the Obamacare hotline and spoke to an operator. The operator, Earline Davis, was honest and told Hannity nobody liked the website. The next day she was fired. He interviewed her for his TV show, and is “gifting” her a years’ salary and more:

Proof of Intent

I’ve been searching and waiting all day for CNN to post video and transcript of this exchange between Erin Burnett and Congressman Henry Waxman from last night 10/23/13.

Why?
Because Waxman accidentally outlined the TRUTH.    When he was questioned by Burnett about President Obama’s promise that everyone will be able to keep their health insurance, against the backdrop of hundreds of thousands of cancellations for private insurance being received, the question was:  “Is/Was the President being honest? (more…)

Mrs. Sebelius certainly is not doing herself any favors with sound bites like this.  In the video press conference she is questioned about her feelings stemming from people calling for her resignation.   She claims she doesn’t work for *those people*, she works only at the whim and request of the President – not you.

pub′lic serv′ant n. – a person holding a government office or job by election or appointment.

Typical detached response similar to that which you find in broad based government systems (including teachers).   They tend to forget they are public servants’ hired by the taxpayer’s productivity outcome –  to do a job FOR and on BEHALF OF the tax payer.

This should come as no surprise; it is, quite simply, only about the hundredth time people have reported on the aloof detachment of President Obama.   
Even Bob Woodward wrote an entire book in general about how disingenuous Dear Leader was/is toward fiscal policies, and more specifically his indifferent and bored outlook regarding negotiations with Congress that might actually involve work.  
Remember too, during the OBL kill/capture mission – Obama had to be dragged off the golf course; and then, according to Reggie Love, didn’t want to participate in the event preferring instead to play cards because his presence was required *near* the situation room.
(New York Times) With rebel forces in Syria in retreat and the Obama administration’s policy toward the war-ravaged country in disarray, Secretary of State John Kerry arrived at the White House Situation Room one day in June with a document bearing a warning. President Bashar al-Assad of Syria had used chemical weapons against his people, the document said, and if the United States did not “impose consequences,” Mr. Assad would see it as a “green light for continued CW use.” (more…)

There is an often spoken phrase in the search for truthful information which aligns with Occam’s razor analysis of events:

…”The absence of something, is not, by itself, proof or confirmation of the existence of another thing”…

This general rule is most often correct.   However, when it comes to outlining the existence of biased intention – absence of parts of a story often does showcase the bias behind the narrative.
By now almost everyone is familiar with the incredible lengths the media has gone to just to find people who have enrolled in Obamacare.   CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Orlando Sentinel and many other media publications have publically requested for people to contact them with their Obamacare sign-up success stories.
The Miami Herald, New York Times and Huffington post found no-one despite repeated requests for conformational contact.  Likewise ABC and NBC, also came up goose eggs.   The Orlando Sentinel did find two, however both were DNC operatives.  Likewise a few others located all seem to be attached to Democrat fundraising operations, or groups affiliated with DNC operations – perhaps a dozen in total broadcast. (more…)