The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

I sometimes get flustered by the lies that get spread by people over the Internet and through other mediums. It seems that ever since the government shutdown's inception, these myths have been increasing in frequency on an almost daily basis and all I can say is, I feel sorry for Snopes.com . Most of these rumors and posts have been about President Obama - showing him in a negative light. All of them have been false to one degree or another. This isn't the first such week or two that this has occurred. Peruse Snopes.com under Barack Obama and you'll find well over 100 chain emails being spread about him - close to 90% of which are false on some level. What's even sadder is often times, even when I take the time to fact-check such nonsense and report my findings to the sender, he or she tends to believe it anyway and continue forwarding the debunked information onto others. Why do some do this? Why, even when their spread lies are proven to be such, will they continu...

During a speech in for the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Friday, Republican Vice Presidential candidate - Paul Ryan - uttered the following words: "'We're all in this together' - it has a nice ring. For everyone who loves this country, it is not only true but obvious. Yet how hollow it sounds coming from a politician who has never once lifted a hand to defend the most helpless and innocent of all human beings, the child waiting to be born." He continued by saying, "President Obama has chosen to pander to the most extreme elements of his party..." Mitt Romney's running mate was attempting to play off the president's words from his speech at the Democratic National Convention, where he said that "We're all in this together." What I find laughable is Ryan of all people trying to paint Obama as the extremist when it comes to the issue of abortion. Ryan himself believes abortion should be illegal even in the cases of rape or...