Editorial

Well this is the week. For six months now I’ve been waiting to see how President Barack Obama would handle his first real tests as our nation’s leader. I didn’t expect so many of them to occur at once but when you are the leader of the free world you can’t expect things to come at you at your own convenience – and boy have these past few days presented our country with a variety of simultaneous crises.

A Gallup poll last week showed that far more Americans describe themselves as "conservatives" than as "liberals." Yet Republicans have been clobbered by the Democrats in both the 2008 elections and the 2006 elections.
In a country with more conservatives than liberals, it is puzzling-- in fact, amazing-- that we have the furthest left President of the United States in history, as well as the furthest left Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Back when I was on the receiving end of racial discrimination, it was to me not simply a personal misfortune, or even the misfortune of a race, it was a moral outrage. But not everyone who went through such an experience sees it that way.
When it comes to subjecting other people to the same treatment in a later era, some have no real problem with that. They see it as pay-back.

Lately people have been talking alot about the different media outlets in our country and how things have radically changed over the past fifteen or so years since the advent of the internet. Many prophets of doom have already predicted the eventual end of newspapers altogether with the internet becoming the all powerful source of all our news (that does not mean they collect the news).

We Americans are getting so accustomed to slow but sure socialistic moves by the democrats who control the federal government that nothing surprises us anymore. There is no outrage over the pending demise of the free enterprise system that made this country the greatest in world history. The freedoms that we have enjoyed, and yes, taken for granted by young people today, are being taken away one by one. Few seem to care as like lemmings, we march in lock step towards the sea of disaster.

The second amendment will be under attack by the liberal democrats again. The right to bear and keep arms was put into the constitution by the founding fathers because in their wisdom they knew, from history, that citizens without arms could not protect themselves, their families, their property or their country.