Congratulations to President Obama, whose reputation for lying received another boost courtesy of Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s fact-checker. When one attempts to govern in  opposition  to the will of the American people, a certain amount of lying is necessary. Hence: President Obama, seeking to explain his veto of a bill that would have leapfrogged the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, in an interview with a North Dakota station repeated some false claims that hadpreviously earned him Pinocchios. Yet he managed to make his statement even more misleading than before, suggesting the pipeline would have no benefit for American producers at all. (snip) As we have noted before, when the president says “it bypasses the United States,” he leaves out a very important step. The crude oil would travel to the Gulf Coast, where it would be refined into products such as motor gasoline and diesel fuel (known as a distillate fuel in the...(Read Full Post)