Lord knows how many times I have heard that idiom. It is used today in almost every imaginable context. Historians credit the Roman philosopher and political theorist/ lawyer Cicero with inventing the proposition. What it was originally meant to infer was that the fact that special exceptions were being made proved a rule existed. We have long since lost that simple definition and in its place installed the belief that somehow exceptions are the rule. Or to put it more clearly, there can be no actual rule because there are always exceptions.

We have lost the ability to draw reasonable conclusions because we are now far too politically correct to use our own eyes and ears and more importantly our own common sense. All the proof in the world makes no difference anymore. We are told we must look beyond the undeniable proof and embrace the liberal dream of exception to every fundamental fact.

A perfect example of this factual mumbo jumbo is occurring in the wake of the despicable deadly acts carried out at Fort Hood by yet another Muslim terrorist.

While shouting the Muslim mantra “God is great” in Arabic, US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan proceeded to slaughter 13 unarmed American military members and wound another 30 using weapons he had purchased off base probably for this premeditated purpose. Pundits and media members are examining every conceivable aspect as to why this American born lifelong Muslim would turn against his fellow Army enlistees. Theories abound as to why this man who received his college and medical degrees thanks to an Army education program that not only allowed him to earn his doctorate but paid him while he was doing so, would turn against the country that gave him everything he had. Why this seemingly pacifist psychiatrist, who didn’t want to be put in a combat situation, would wantonly murder unarmed, unsuspecting, and in one case pregnant, human beings.

I will leave the politically correct proselytizing and motivational theorizing to the talking heads the media always seems to have on call for just such an occurrence. I, on the other hand, will look at the facts to draw my conclusions.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan perpetrated this despicable act solely because he is a Muslim. Was this a terrorist attack? Absolutely. Hasan was successful at carrying out an attack similar to ones planned by other Muslims. Where others planned to shoot military personnel as they exited the base and fortunately were discovered and failed, Hasan had the distinct advantage of having a military ID allowing him on the base. He took full advantage of the benefits the Army had to offer, but when it came to fulfilling his end of the deal he chose the cowards way out. It was a well planned terrorist attack designed to inflict physical, mental and emotional damage on the US military. His goal was to inflict not only harm but terror and last time I checked that is the textbook definition of a terrorist. Hasan said on more than one occasion he is a Muslim first and an American second. If this had been about his objection to being deployed overseas and he was willing to die rather than serve in Iraq or Afghanistan against his Muslim brethren he only needed one bullet and didn’t even have to leave his apartment. Instead this terrorist came prepared with multiple clips and fired over a hundred rounds. While he knew this would likely be a suicide mission he never even attempted to use a round on himself, but as a psychiatrist I am certain Hasan is familiar with suicide by police. The debate as to his motives or possible stress disorders is moot. This was another terrorist act carried out against the United States by a Muslim.

As it relates to all Muslims Hasan may be the exception. But while all Muslims are not the enemy of the United States, all of the major enemies of the United States are Muslim.

We simply can no longer ignore that fact. As politically incorrect or presidentially inconvenient as it may be.

Let’s pretend that George W Bush is president and in the first year of his term in office he was visited by the head of the NRA 12 times. Do you think the press would make an issue of exactly what the NRA was doing with such access to the president?

Or let’s say that during the first year of his second term while the war in Iraq was in full swing the president of Halliburton was at the White House 10 times. Do you think the press would try to connect the dots as to what this major supplier to the military was doing so many times meeting with the president?

I don’t know your answer, but I think that major news media organizations would have focused on little else. Their stories and alleged reports would have been jammed with innuendos and suppositions as to what these groups were up to and why they had such unlimited access to the seat of American governmental power.

Now let’s stop pretending and switch to the here and now with the Anointed One, Barack Hussein Obama in the oval office.

The White House released the visitors list recording those who were allowed past the gates at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the first 10 months of the Obama administration. There were representatives from a number of special interest groups and just as many major celebrities on this official record. But the number one name on the list with the most visits inside the White House was the president of the Service Employees International Union, Andy Stern. You don’t get into the White House without first getting some pretty high level clearance. Records show that Mr. Stern was granted access to the White House 22 times in the first 10 months of Obama’s presidency. That is more than twice a month or just about every other week for Obama’s term thus far. And do the major media outlets raise the question as to what in the world this union boss is doing so many times in the White House? Nope. Nary a word. Only a scant few lines simply reporting the fact. With 22 visits in 10 months Andy Stern may well have been in the oval office more than the first lady, but the major press organizations choose to focus instead on the fact that the Michael Jordon and the Jeremiah Wright shown on the list are not the famous ones but instead others with those same names.

The SEIU is the fastest growing organized labor union in the country. They made their claim to fame as the Building Service Employees Union founded in Chicago in the 1920’s representing janitors, elevator operators and window washers and heading the Justice for Janitors campaign. But now as the SEIU their focus is on the healthcare industry attempting to organize nurses, hospital workers, home healthcare workers and nursing home employees.

SEIU was one of the leading supporters to candidate Barack Obama and it is apparent that the old Chicago style quid pro quo is now in full swing. You see along with nationalizing health insurance and healthcare the ObamaCare bills currently being crafted in the halls of both the Senate and the House requires a large portion of healthcare workers to become, you guessed it, union employees. And what union would these tens if not hundreds of thousands of employees join? Why the SEIU of course.

With the stroke of a presidential pen Barack Hussein Obama could effectively double the size of the SEIU currently estimated to be 1.8 million strong. No wonder it was the SEIU that sent hired thugs to beat up and intimidate attendees at local tea party gatherings and ObamaCare protest rallies.

An organized labor union with a penchant for assault and battery carrying out a plan to forcibly stifle free speech and political activism with seemingly unlimited access to the White House and the president they helped put in place. And the major media outlets are too intimidated or too blinded by the liberal charisma of this bought and paid for president to say a word about it.

Be afraid America. This isn’t pretend anymore.

It seems like only yesterday that the Democrats and their faithful lapdog counterparts in the news media were lambasting President Bush for inciting the Taliban and Al Qaeda to violence. Almost every move the president made and every word the president uttered was dissected and analyzed for its negative impact on America’s enemies.

If Bush said “Bring it on”, he was described as a cowboy who put our troops on the battlefield in even greater peril by stirring an already very dangerous pot. If he suggested inclusion of former members of Al Qaeda who had not committed violent acts against our troops he was damned for being passive and putting our troops in danger by inciting our enemy through weakness. Democrats stood on the sidelines and played Monday morning quarterback after each and every press conference or directive. The now infamous position John Kerry took during the presidential debates of being against something before he was for it before he was against it became the order of the day for the entire Democrat Party.

It was a much simpler time to be a Democrat when all you had to do was oppose. It was also a much simpler time for the blatantly liberal news media when the only tool they needed to deal with then President Bush was a hammer and the only reporting they needed to provide on Barack Obama was the worldwide Hope and Change he would bring. Flash forward to today and it gets much more complicated.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was noticeable by her absence at the latest summit meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai regarding the recent Afghan elections with its alleged claims of vote fraud and corruption. In her place was US Senator John Kerry representing the United States. Constitutionally a US senator has no authority to represent the entire country in matters of foreign affairs, that is the constitutional task of the Secretary of State under the direction of the president. Barack Obama said he had nothing to do with it. But there stood Kerry with no sign of Clinton. You figure it out.

Now just three hours after Clinton arrives in Pakistan the Taliban blows up over a hundred innocent people. Clinton’s immediate reaction is to call them “cowardly”. A woman who is also an official of the US government, calling Muslim terrorists cowards and the press makes no mention of possible incitement.

October has been the deadliest month in years for our brave troops in Afghanistan. It also just happens to be the month Barack Obama has made a spectacle of his inability to give our troops the desperately needed support requested by General McChrystal. The press remains mum on that point too.

Barack Obama addresses airman at a military base in Florida making a solemn pledge to not send them into harms way without a firm strategy in place. The press gleefully reports on the speech but fails to mention that we already have tens of thousands of America’s finest in harms way who are just waiting for some backup.

At the same time car bombs planted by Al Qaeda in Iraq kill hundreds of innocent shoppers. Does the press even ask if this could have anything to do with the weakness shown by a president more interested in political damage than military of civilian lives? Nope, not a word.

The sad truth is that if the Taliban and Al Qaeda want to get this pacifist president to take action they will have to go to work for Fox News.

Maybe then the mainstream media will give it some coverage.

We are entering another PR blitz by those that would have you believe that homosexuality is simply an alternative lifestyle. Having failed in every state where the question was placed on the ballot regarding gay marriage they have now taken that well trodden road of making up facts to match the story.

A few years ago it was the pandemic spread of aids amongst heterosexual couples that the gay but not happy public relations wing of activist organizations were trying desperately to push. Newspapers across the country dutifully printed the dire warnings of the almost plague like spread of HIV and aids in heterosexuals. Graphs and charts printed on the front pages of major newspapers showed an increase in incidence that resembled a NASA rocket being launched into orbit and stories from the four corners of the country focused on seemingly happy families now being destroyed because mom or dad got aids. Sexually promiscuous heterosexuals were flocking to clinics for HIV/aids tests and doctors were being deluged by patients that were sure their sore throat was the first sign of the deadly disease.

But it was all a well orchestrated ruse. Gay activists figured if they could get straight people worried that they might in fact get the disease more funding would be made available to find a cure. The real facts showed that the only population segment where HIV/ aids was increasing was within the homosexual community.

Nobody in the media bothered to check the facts before they ran with the story. An activist group would come out with some official sounding report and get a doctor to put his name on it and the next thing you know it was a full blown epidemic.

The same thing is now happening with gay marriage. The headline from the AOL Political Machine news segment read “Rick Warren Abandons Fight Against Gay Marriage?”. The accompanying story stated that Warren the founder and pastor of the Saddleback megachurch, and the pastor that Barack Obama invited to give the invocation at his inauguration had made a recent turnaround in his position on the issue.

The writer went on to state that the recent overturning of the governor’s veto by the Vermont legislature and the Iowa Supreme court decision that banning gay marriage is unconstitutional according to the Iowa State Constitution is further proof that public sentiment has changed. But his statements are as deceiving as the headline was misleading.

First, did you notice that the author conveniently included a question mark at the end of his headline. While the punctuation mark is not what first grabs your attention its purpose is clear, it changes the statement to a question although there is no question needed.

What Rick Warren said was that he has never been an anti-gay marriage activist. He doesn’t even address the issue. But the church which he founded like most evangelical Christian churches still maintains their position that homosexuality is a sin and that someone actively involved in homosexual activity cannot be a member of the church. Christians are taught to accept the person but not their actions. If a homosexual is willing to remain completely celibate of homosexual activity he or she can become a member. Warren has worked tirelessly to council and bring comfort to all those suffering and dying from HIV/aids, including homosexuals.

The further statements that the Vermont legislature shows some dramatic shift in public opinion doesn’t take into account the profound liberal views that have been part of Vermont state politics for decades. Let’s not forget that it is in Vermont that several towns have arrest on sight orders for George Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes.

The action taken in Iowa was in the legal realm and not an indication of public opinion. It was the Iowa Supreme Court and not the state legislature or voters that made the decision.

Any state that has the power to grant homosexual marriage has the power to rescind it. It will eventually be up to the voters to decide who they want to represent them based on how they feel on this issue. All the unbiased data makes it clear that the majority of voters do not approve of homosexual marriage and maintain that marriage is between one man and one woman. Legislators who go against that will find out how easy it is to lose an election regardless of how long they have served.

The gay activists know this so having failed to sway the public through vague threats and boycotts they now turn again to the faithful media who are more than willing to publish reports without fact checking. They figure if they can convince enough people to believe there is overwhelming support they will be less likely to oppose.

The backlash from this new ruse may be more significant than anyone is bargaining for. That goes for the gay activist groups, the state legislators and the news media.