WHO DO YOU BELIEVE? Me, or those lying White House visitor logs?

FBI: We’re still keeping the gun purchase background system online. Why? Because gun owners purchase guns.

MSM WARNING: the plantation is forever.

EXPERIENCE OBAMACARE at HealthCare.gov.

WORSE? How could they possibly be worse?

WOW: Five Iowans manage to purchase health insurance through ObamaCare exchange in 8 days. I suspect the smallest car dealer in Manassas sells twice that many cars in a single day....

CIVILITY: "Maybe it should start with you, Mr. President."

NOW WE KNOW where the alien spacecraft are hiding.

Linked from Instapundit.

NEWT GINGRICH: the Obama-Reid gamble. Pray for a Republican spine.

LEGISLATION PASSED by the House to minimize the government shutdown. Courtesy of Speaker John Boehner.

NO POINT IN PISSING OFF BIG CONTRIBUTORS: National Park Service Leaves Ritzy Golf Course Open During Shutdown.

I'm sure the Andrews AFB golf course is still open too.

iCANDY: You 3-D Printed What?

DAVID GELERNTER: How to talk to liars.

SHOCKER: Liberals’ ‘Anti-Bullying’ Programs May Be Teaching Kids How To Be Better Bullies. Obvious to anyone who lives in the real world as opposed to the liberals' 'reality' world.

Related thought: There's a reason why it's called 'reality television'; it ain't real.

THIS POST in one easy-to-read chart:

[Update] an observant reader (my brother) noted an error in the 'total budget cuts' line (circled above). It should read $385.00 instead of $38.50. So now the budget hit is 1.8% instead of only 0.18% of earnings ($21,700). Or if you prefer, only 1% of total expenditures instead of 0.1%.

Not what I would call major suffering either way....

"THE 'TEA BAG REPUBLICANS' want to sow even greater cynicism about the capacity of government to do much of anything." Why? The Obama administration seems to be doing a fine job on its own....

NEWT GINGRICH: I was there; you weren't.

IOWAHAWK tweets:

2009: cover banks with TARP
2013: cover national monuments with tarp

The Obama administration in 68 characters.

"DOING THE JOBS the GOP establishment won’t do, I guess." The GOP establishment should keep in mind that I vote with -- and donate to -- Sarah.

WHY YOU should be a cat person.