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Lies, Damn Lies, and Talking Points

I don't know about you, but I like to think I'm a pretty level-headed guy. You almost have to be to survive in the corporate world for as long as I did. I may indulge in the occasional fantasy but, for the most part, I know where my feet are. Planted firmly on the ground.I've never been one to get all worked up over conspiracy theories, either. I know Google and the federal government know far more about us than they should, but I don't believe there's an alien cover-up in Area 51. I know that "Men In Black" and the "X-Files" aren't real. They're fiction.That's precisely why, if you'd told me years ago, say back in the '90s, that someday the IRS would solicit confidential information and use it to target Americans that leaned a certain way, and that same agency that already strikes fear into the heart of every working American would also be privy to our confidential health information and police the nation's entire health care system, I would have said, "You've got to lay off the Kool-...

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