Very few things in our world today are certain.  For example, planes and trains run off schedule more than they run on schedule.  Appliances break down after the warranty has expired.  Clothes come into and then go out of fashion (but if you hold on to your clothes long enough, you will be in style again).  Many times, the check isn’t in the mail and our job, which we think we will have until retirement, changes or we get laid off.  Change is inevitable and the future is very hard to predict.

Friday’s decision by the Obama Justice Department to strike down South Carolina’s voter ID law should surprise no one who has been following Attorney General Eric Holder’s idea of justice.  The South Carolina law is similar to laws passed in Texas, Rhode Island, Kansas, Tennessee and Wisconsin but so far the Justice Department’s interest has rested solely on Texas and South Carolina; the two states on the list that are among nine covered under the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 

If your primary source of news is the mainstream media you are likely convinced that the Occupy Wall Street protests are insightful, peaceful, and growing by the minute.  Last week, Diane Sawyer of ABC got so excited she reported the Occupy Wall Street movement had “spread to more than 250 American cities, more than a thousand countries…and every continent but Antarctica.”  For the record, according to the U.S. State Department there are only 195 countries in the world. 

You know you are in trouble if one year ago, you were the darling of the mainstream media and now, one year later a Washington Post writer uses the phrase “began to wander off” to describe a crowd at one of your speeches.

It happened on Friday during a speech President Obama gave in Charlotte, North Carolina.  During a question and answer period, a woman name Doris asked the president whether it was a “wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care” package.  She then punctuated her question with the blunt statement, “We are over-taxed as it is.”  You could almost feel the crowd lean forward in anticipation of the spirited and pithy defense the president was about to offer for his agenda.