OK, I admit it.  I'm a recovering liar.  If there were an organization called Liar's Anonymous (LA), I'd have joined it years ago, when I finally quit lying, cold turkey.  To show you I'm telling the truth about lying,  just look in your Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary and you'll see my picture next to "prevaricator."  It's sad, but true.  Or is it?  What is truth anyway? 
For the relativist there is no truth.  Everything is, you guessed it, relative.  Everyone is his/her own standard of right and wrong.  Each individual has a right to express his/her own views as long as those views don't contain any suggestion of absolutes that would compete with the prevailing standard of relativism.  Since there is no transcendent standard of right and wrong, judgments become merely expressions of feelings or preference. "Lying is wrong" becomes "I hate liars" or "I prefer that you not lie." Moral claims are reduced to the level of someone's opinion.  What someone else accepts as truth is met with the mantra of the last four decades, "That might be true for you, but it's not true for me."  Right and wrong have no meaning and moral judgments are based on nothing other than ones "feelings."

Eight years of the Clinton administration gives us the premier example of how the relativistic standard of right and wrong plays out.  Lies, lies, and more lies.  If Liar's Anonymous were available on Capitol Hill for those who are trying to quit but cannot do it on their own, undoubtedly LA would be teaming with politicians, journalists, lawyers, lobbyists, bureaucrats -- maybe even network television news anchors.  But lying is a hard habit to break.  And for some liars it would seem impossible.

Which leads me to Bill Clinton.  This week I came to the startling realization that it's entirely possible that Clinton's picture will not be chosen to replace mine in the next printing of Webster's Dictionary.  It's suddenly become a toss up between Clinton and Gore.  And it's anyone's guess which prevericator will prevail. 

Like many other Americans, I thought that when Bill Clinton stared stonily into the TV camera and said with all the sincerity he could muster, "I did not have sex with that woman…..Ms Lewinsky," history would record his denial as "The Whopper of the Century."  And I'm not talking burgers.  Clinton's whopper, however, pales in comparison to Gore's latest lie.  Gore says,  "All I want is for every vote to be counted."  Those words roll off his tongue as easily as molasses runs off a spoon.  What he really means, though, is, "All I want is for every vote to be recounted until I can be declared the winner!"

Am I missing something here?  Does Mr. Gore actually believe the American people don't know that every vote has already been counted?  Not once, but some of them have been counted two and three times.  Will someone pa-leeze send him a bumper sticker that says, "DO I HAVE "STUPID" TATOOED ON MY FOREHEAD?" 

Here's the Democrat spin on the vote count in Florida: There are more than 10,000 votes in Miami-Dade that have never been counted.

Ahem…

Now here's the truth:  Every ballot in Miami-Dade was counted at least twice - once on election night and again during the automatic recount. 

Election statistics are bor--ing, but here they are anyway:  In every election, there Turn the page