J. Randal Matheny

Obamacare, record borrowing, record spending, and hundreds of hard-left presidential appointees and judges.

Maybe — and that's a ganormous maybe —Obamacare can be repealed. But the president and his allies have, with consent of the majority of Americans, done irreparable harm to the country, harm that cannot be undone with a wave of the hand nor with a bill in Congress. Obama has proved to be the beginning of the end. When he leaves office, he will leave in place his legacy that will pull the country to its knees.

As much as Americans dislike France, they now have more more in common with the Europeans than ever — not a positive statement, this — with etchings that have been scarred deeply into the social and economic fabric.

Some things are damaged beyond repair. It is my prophecy that the United States belongs to that category.

Our hope lies elsewhere, beyond the heavens and the earth, our faith is firm in the divine project over and through mankind, but we can think of nothing that would kindle any flicker of warmth when we consider the American future.

Electing a Republican or a conservative to the presidency in 2012 will only delay the inevitable. Pundits and lobbyists, politicians and laity, all seem to find a reason for optimism, but their zeal is suspect, for their livelihood is at stake. Together, however, they have sold their birthright for a bowl of pottage in a desire to have it now or die.

They ate it all, and the death will come soon enough.

Attention senior citizens: what Obama is saying, by making this threat, is that all your lovely Social Security money is his to spend right now, as he sees fit.  He may decide to spend it on other things, which will leave no funds for the Social Security checks you depend on.

And who is surprised? Hello?

Bebee did tell the group that he favors same-sex couples being foster parents.

Ark. Gov. Mike Bebee made everybody unhappy by speaking to a Democrat Party homosexual group. He told them there'd be no gay marriages or unions in Ark. But, hey, you unofficial couples can be foster parents and corrupt the kids! Ain't that smart!

. . . When my wife and I were expecting our first child in 2000 (turned out to be children, twins), we did the usual thing of picking out potential names. I was pushing hard for Frederick Nathaniel, which would have given us Fred N. Barney.

No soap. Oh, well. Probably for the best. . . .

. . . did I mention that I did most of my growing up in Flintstone, Ga.?

Chuckle, chuckle.

Medicare is a scam. The people who designed and perpetuated it would be serving more jail time than Bernie Madoff if they pulled a fraud like it in the private sector. As it is for the victims Madoff swindled, so it is for we who’ve been swindled by Washington: The money is gone. We can make provisions for the needy elderly who are about to hit eligibility and have relied on Medicare in their assumptions. But the party is over — and the sooner we grasp that, the fewer victims there will be.

Preserving a scam in the vain hope of making it less offensive may be well-meaning, but it’s not right, and it’s not courageous.

Television reflects those who create it and transforms everybody else." That's a very frightening 10 words about the future of our culture.

Please click above and read the whole article. Must-read.

INDEPENDENCE, MO (AP) - Police responding to an alligator sighting in a suburban Kansas City pond took quick action to dispatch the big reptile.

It wasn't until after the second rifle shot bounced off the beast Sunday that the three Independence officers realized it was a concrete lawn ornament.

The show-me state officers saw it, but still didn't believe it. So seeing isn't believing, maybe?

the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News.

Most of the increase was recorded in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

They blast her for incompetence, but grudgingly acknowledge that she is a master of social media who has changed the rules of the presidential campaign game.

The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta griped that “reality TV star Palin” was “treating pol reporters like paparazzi — needing and hating, inviting and making chase.” Perhaps Franke-Ruta needs a reminder of what a truly parasitic press-pol relationship looks like. I have stacks of Obama 2008 profiles exulting over his glistening pecs and soaring oratorical skills, followed by countless spurned-lover laments from reporters disappointed about the control freaks who stage-manage his every press appearance.

What makes Sarah stand out in the national GOP field is that she is beholden to no one and controls her own destiny. She doesn’t need media kingmakers to make her. They need her. She doesn’t need newspaper or TV producers to drive her story. She drives them. Crazy.

The unhinged reaction of the Palin-hating convoy reveals what its attendants fear most: a politician who doesn’t fear them.

Read the whole article. Hilarious.

So several GOP senators are worried that third-party candidates will draw support from tea partyers at the expense of Republican candidates. “I think it’s a very real possibility,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

Oh, BTW, in case you forgot: Murkowski ran as a write-in candidate after she lost the GOP nomination to tea party-backed Republican candidate Joe Miller.

They're running from the wave, not riding it.