While Neil Cavuto reminded fact-challenged, Clinton operative Lanny Davis that 95% of homeowners are indeed paying their mortgages on time, Davis continued his recitation that America is spiraling downward.

Despite all the doom and gloom, America is not in a recession, in fact, according to our rule of economics, “if the economy contracts for six straight months it is considered to be in a recession. That, however, didn't happen in the last recession in 2001”, and it isn’t happening now.

Soaring gas prices, higher food prices, and a sputtering job market aren’t helping things but since the Democrat presidential candidates, in an effort to differentiate themselves from President Bush, chose the economy as a topic to beat on, well, if you repeat something often enough, people will believe it.

Just last fall, the stock market was soaring, jobs were plentiful, the sub-prime mortgage mess was just starting to rear its ugly head, but the economy was rolling along full steam. That is, until presidential candidates who have to appear at photo-op visits to people’s places of employment so they can understand what “ordinary people” do, decided to call ours the worst economy since the Hoover Administration.

According to Fox News and Associated Press,

Many analysts were predicting gross domestic product (GDP) growth would come in at 0.5 percent during the January — March 2008 period. Earlier this year, some economists thought the economy actually would lurch into reverse during the opening quarter.

The latest numbers reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department also did not meet what economists consider the classic definition of a recession, a retraction of the economy. This means that although the economy is stuck in a rut, it is still managing to grow, even if the growth is modest.

So why do so many Americans believe we are in recession? Ignorance of what the true definition of a recession is. The fact that presidential candidates are repeating this inaccuracy doesn’t help either.  Continued...

  For years, Democrats have lamented how badly the Bush Administration has left our “standing” in the world. Other nations “hate” us; wish us ill, blah blah blah. Even Mexicans are thinking twice before sneaking across our border.

According to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times,

“Clinton loses 11 consecutive races, and the photograph of Sen. Barack Obama in Somalian garb shows up.

 “Clinton falls behind in pledged delegates and gets caught in a lie about her Bosnia adventure, and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. story reignites.”

On Philadelphia radio, Bill Clinton accused the Obama campaign of playing the race card, while denying he said that a day later.

Barack Obama has sewn up the youth vote, indoctrinated with the ideal that affirmative action on the presidential campaign level is one whose time has come. Hillary Clinton, despite the pride Democrats boast with the historical possibilities of this campaign, is playing upon the no-longer inert racist concerns some have with having a black man in The White House.

Apparently it’s working for Hillary, and after her Pennsylvania primary victory, we’re assured of hearing more cloaked race talk from Bill and her surrogates as the race to the Denver convention drags on. It would appear the only way Hillary Clinton can win the Democrat nomination is to convince the superdelegates that a black man cannot beat John McCain, and (without being an elitist…) Democrats are not ready to shuck their deep-seeded racism and give the reins of power to a black Obama. 

A woman, yes; a black man no. For that reason, she’s the only person who can beat the Republican.  Continued...

How else to debunk a conspiracy theory on liberal indoctrination in schools? Try a survey conducted by academics.

According to the Associated Press,

“The research, to be published later this year in the journal PS: Political Science and Politics, analyzes separate surveys on the attitudes of about 6,800 students at 38 universities and how they changed between freshman and senior year. Then it examines whether those results are affected by the political attitudes of the faculty at their particular schools.”

 “The short answer is no, according to researchers Gordon Hewitt of Hamilton College (an active Democrat) and Mack Mariani of Xavier University (who has worked for Republicans).”

Of course not. The left would NEVER attempt to take advantage of young people with limited life experience, and whose grades are held over their heads should their coursework not emulate the thinking of their open-minded professors.

Tell that to Jay Bennish, Rachel Corrie, or any of the recent students who’ve become so depressed after hearing years of liberal whining, they go suicidal and/or berserk.

As I wrote before, if 40-plus percent of college students said they were going to vote Republican in November, Henry Waxman would be convening congressional hearings and the Democrats would be seeking some kind of fairness in the classroom legislation. But as young people around the nation are drunk with all things Democrat, the only thing left to do is cover their tracks.

“It's true that schools with more liberal faculty tended to attract more liberal students. But on the question of how students' views evolved, there was little impact, Hewitt said in a telephone interview Thursday.

 “About 60 percent of students didn't change their political outlooks much during college. Those that did moved slightly to the left, but the change mirrored that of 18-to-24 year-olds generally. There was no apparent boost from attending a school with a particularly liberal faculty.”

Sorry, but even college students aren’t stupid.  Continued...