There is no such thing as a free lunch or a free ride. Somebody must pay. The supreme goal of politics is to manage the flow of information so that those who pay do not complain. Successful politics is like a mosquito’s bite: the victim itches only after his blood is gone, along with the mosquito. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, Winston Smith worked in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth. His job was to drop printed records of politically incorrect facts down the memory hole. The memory hole destroyed public traces of the now-inconvenient record of the … Continue reading No Matter What Obama Says