And in today’s Cover Story, six disparate items deserving serious consideration you won’t see covered by the MSM.  First up, courtesy of Townhall.com, Guy Benson predicts yet another Progressive October Surprise just in time for Election ’14:

Manipulating Obamacare Stats: The Census Bureau’s Suspect Timing

In her post this morning, Carol [Liebau] linked to a New York Times story describing the US Census Bureau’s ridiculous decision to change its formula for determining health coverage rates in America. “Ridiculous” not because it’s out of bounds to overhaul methodology on principle, but because after three decades, they’re implementing this shift at the exact moment we need a consistent baseline off of which to measure the impact of Obamacare. The brand new survey questions will unquestionably “reveal” a dramatic decrease in the uninsured population, bureau experts say, which will deliver Democrats a super handy talking point. And oh-by-the-way, the artificially improved numbers will be released…this fall…

Can you say “September 2012 jobs report”?

We KNEW you could; he’s already been there, done that.  As it turns out, the WSJ‘s John Fund saw this coming all the way back in February of 2009 when he answered the question…

Why Obama Wants Control of the Census

Counting citizens is a powerful political tool.

President Obama said in his inaugural address that he planned to “restore science to its rightful place” in government. That’s a worthy goal. But statisticians at the Commerce Department didn’t think it would mean having the director of next year’s Census report directly to the White House rather than to the Commerce secretary, as is customary. “There’s only one reason to have that high level of White House involvement,” a career professional at the Census Bureau tells me. “And it’s called politics, not science.”…

Second, courtesy of Jeff Foutch and CNSNews, yet another egregious Enviro-scam is exposed as the fraud it is:

EPA Concedes: We Can’t Produce All the Data Justifying Clean Air Rules

A committee staff member confirmed to CNSNews.com that “EPA gave us what they have of both studies, which is a significant amount of data, but not sufficient “to allow independent reproduction or verification of results.” “We’re at a point where EPA has conceded that they don’t have in their possession the data necessary to fully comply, and in some cases, never did possess the data,” he added.

“Never did”, i.e., “made it up”, aka…

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy collating data in support of her latest Environazi initiatives.

It’s deja vu…or in this case, East Anglia University…all over again!

Third, writing at Patriot Update, Tad Cronn wonders…

Is Bundy Ranch Standoff a Warm Up?

…Given BLM efforts over the years to discourage other ranchers who used to live in the area, it appears that Cliven Bundy and his family stand in the way of what the BLM calls the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone, a stretch of BLM-controlled acres where energy developers could build but would pay into a government fund to “mitigate” the Gold Butte and other areas under BLM jurisdiction.

But some people have expressed concern that the standoff in Clark County is about still more, that Bundy may be the first test case for an overreaching, increasingly unconstitutional Administration that many believe has been prepping for civil war…

Gee; what on earth would give any American loyal to the Constitution…

…that…

…impression?!?  But let’s set all that aside and assume, just for a moment, the snipers, SWAT teams and police dogs were all somehow necessary to ensure public safety.  It STILL doesn’t explain the necessity, let alone the legality, for creating…

…and solely for the purpose of infringing upon Mr. Bundy’s First Amendment rights.  Yet another reason these two…

…should be in prison, not politics.

And since we’re on the subject of policies and practices which should, by any sane definition, constitute direct violations of any oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Dimocratic decimation of America’s Military, with the full and active support of the Pentagon Bras, continues to steam full-speed ahead:

Marines, Army prepare women for combat

The military is taking steps to prepare women for combat roles in 2016. The Marine Corps announced that it would give young female lieutenants who wash out of the grueling Infantry Officer Course a second shot, same as their male counterparts. The Army is conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat…

And here we thought the only answer has always been AS FIT AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE!!!

Here’s the juice:

Outside of furthering a Progressive political agenda intended to purposefully weaken the U.S. Military, they’re about as useful as a…

And…

Next up, Issue #5, and an amended excerpt from NRO‘s Andrew McCarthy’s book The Grand Jihad telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth behind…

The Roots of CAIR’s Intimidation Campaign

Brandeis sides with a spawn of Hamas over a champion of women’s rights.

…In the U.S., Hamas was now perceived as the principal enemy of the popular “peace process.” After all, its charter explicitly called (and continues to call) for Israel’s annihilation by violent jihad. Therefore, its known supporters — the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, the IAP, and the others — were tainted in the American mind as terror-abettors, hostile to U.S. interests. As one attendee urged in Philadelphia, “We must form a new organization for activism which will be neutral, because we are placed in a corner. . . . It is known who we are. We are marked.” The new entity, by contrast, would have a clean slate. Maybe it could steal a page out of Arafat’s “hear what I say, don’t watch what I do” playbook. The new entity’s Islamism and Hamas promotion would have to be less “conspicuous.” It would need to couch its rhetoric in sweet nothings like “social justice,” “due process,” and “resistance.” If it did those things, though, it might be more attractive . . . and effective. A Muslim organization posing as a civil-rights activist while soft-pedaling its jihadist sympathies might be able to snow the American political class, the courts, the media, and the academy. It might make real inroads with the transnational progressives who dominated the Clinton administration…

And so it has…likely far beyond their wildest dreams.  Which should come as no surprise, as those who believe in nothing…

…will quite literally believe anything!

Lastly, a truly amazing must-read essay from Commentary Magazine‘s Peter Wehner entitled…

Mozilla and the Prophet Isaiah

…At the core of what’s driving this effort by some supporters of gay marriage is the belief that holding traditional views on marriage is akin to being an anti-Semite and a racist. That is, holding views that until 15 years ago were almost universally embraced and that have been held by every major religious faith since their founding is now deemed not only wrong but also so offensive that those who hold them must be punished. Their views are deemed so malicious – so obviously and unequivocally evil — that if held there must be a cost…

Today’s it’s a job, or forfeiting the right to free speech; tomorrow…

…who knows?!?

Finally, on the Lighter Side…

Magoo