Pandora's Box

This weekend's Newsweek story alleging that the Holy Koran had been desecrated by interrogators at Guantanimo Bay is the latest example of News organizations institutional bias against the Bush Administration and the U.S.'s war on terror. Newsweek's haste in reporting this story has enraged Muslims worldwide and caused rioting and deaths in Afghanistan.

It turns out now that Newsweek's source cannot be proven and the magazine is now beginning to moon walk faster than Michael Jackson. Despite the fact that Newsweek is backtracking they will not print a retraction. This smacks of journalistic hubris of the highest magnitude. Newsweek and other left leaning news organizations have become so focused on bringing down a twice elected president, that they have lost sight of what they are supposed to do, help to defend the constitution by informing the people of what government is doing.

Yet because of an institutional media bias permeates the mainstream press to such a degree that I honestly believe that they do not realize their ridiculous bias against Conservatives and traditional values. They have become so blinded by their hatred of President Bush and his policies that they refuse to report stories when liberals are involved.

But what is more disturbing is that it seems that the liberal media has become so blinded by this hatred that they rush to press with any story that helps to damage the Bush Administration without first checking and confirming sources. It has been going on for years and culminated with the 60 Minutes piece about Bush's guard duty that was later discredited. And now again the liberal media is at it again with this story. While the National Guard story could have affected the election, this story has had global consequences.

But the question is whether or not a retraction will be heard by the Muslim world and be accepted as false. This story has, by the White House's own words, damaged America's image in the eyes of Muslims all over the world. Al Jezerra and other Arab news outlets reported on the original story but have not reported Newsweek's backing away from the story. Al Jezerra has basically become the propaganda arm of Al Qaida, and I doubt even if Newsweek does print a full retraction that Al Jezerra will relay that retraction to the Islamic world. But even if they did I don't think that many Muslims would believe the report.

Islamic culture has for decades fostered a general disdain and distrust of anything that comes from the West. The Islamic religion, while propped up as a religion of peace by the mainstream press, is really just the opposite. They look at Christianity not just as a sin but rather an abomination. Muslims call Christians "Infidels." Fundamentalist Muslims blamed the West for the corruption of their religion. In summary, Muslims generally hate non-believers. They consider them lesser people. So for a story to originate from the land of the infidel that purports desecration of something held so deeply sacred would understandably infuriate Muslims. A full apology and retraction (which Newsweek has yet to publish) amounts to little more than closing Pandora's Box after all sorrow had been released into the world.

Before the US just had Fundamentalist Muslims declaring Jihad, now more moderate leaders are declaring Holy War against the Infidel.

Thanks Newsweek for unraveling US foreign policy with such a well researched story.

Flippin Cheaters!!!

I keep hearing about how if Barry Bonds had not been juicing for the last number of years, it would not matter because steroids do not make a person have better eye-hand coordination. This has to be one of the most short-sided points of view I have ever heard in my entire life.

Lets consider Barry Bonds. Sure he is a great baseball player, probably one of the greatest to come around in the past twenty years. Yes he did win three MVP trophies before people think he began using steroids. I have little doubt that such performance enhancing drugs like steroids, while increasing strength, have little if any effect on a person's eye-hand coordination.

However there is no doubt that steroids have helped Bonds. Balls that would have been deep fly-outs, just clear the wall. Balls that are home runs go farther. Soft line drives that might have been caught become hard line drives that split the gaps. Ground balls that may be gobbled up by infielders make it through holes and mean more hits. Because Bonds is such a difficult player to pitch to, he walks more.

Then there is the issue of injury and recovery time. It can easily be argued that when a person is on steroids, his or her recovery time from working out is much shorter, allowing that athlete to work out longer, harder and build more muscle mass. For a baseball player in a 162 game season, this is an invaluable advantage. Playing day in and day out over a six month period wears on a persons body. That is why there are so many injuries in modern sports. Bodies break down. Baseball players on steroids do not have as many problems with wearing down during the "dog days" of summer when the season is drawing out and players are getting tired.

This scandal is as bad, in my opinion, as the Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919. Every record broken in the last ten years is tainted. Every MVP trophy awarded can be called into question. Everyone who loves this game now wonder if their favorite player is on "roids". Thanks baseball. Thank you for further corrupting a kids game.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I wanted to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Please Go!!

I am reading news stories stating that some liberals are so distraught over the election results that they feel that this is no longer their America. Some are saying that they may leave the country and move to places like Canada and Euorpe.

My answer to those people who might feel that way is, "You are right. This not your America." The America that I believe in holds true to values such as faith, life and freedom. So Stop wringing your hands and threatening to move to Europe and just do it. Go live where you can commiserate with other malcontents across the Atlantic and feel good about bashing America.

We will see you in our wake as a united America continues to lead the world and be banner of freedom and truth for others to look to for hope.

Moral Values

Its been eight days since America reelected president Bush and increased Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. What amazes me is that the elites cannot figure out what happened. The amazing thing that came from this election is the fact that moral values rated as a major issue among people who voted in the election, and the vast majority of those people who cited values as important, voted for President Bush.

Those of you wondering why Bush won this constituency is because he has them. Listen to this message elites. Being religious and thinking morals are important is not a political strategy. Those of us who think that morals are an important issue cannot be pandered to.

The Democratic party is losing ground because their party is now completely void of a moral center. Their party has been hijacked by the radical left headed by Michael Moore, Al Sharpton, Madonna, and the like.

Religious Persecution?

It seems that the some people in the United States, have become increasingly more hostile toward God and religion.

At the center of this discussion right now is President George W. Bush. President Bush is being vilified by a left leaning press and the liberals in this country for openly discussing his faith. Al Gore even went to the extreme of comparing Bush's faith to the extremism of Islamic Fundamentalists. The still bitter loser in 2000 seems to think that Bush's religiosity is somehow wrong, yet Gore plans to speak at churches throughout the south in order to try to scare black voters into falsely believing that they will be intimidated from voting, as the left continues to falsely claim happened during the 2000 election. Does Gore believe the people that he will speak to in these places are not religious? Many of them might even share the same beliefs that President Bush holds true.

Why is it that only conservatives are criticized for their faith? Joe Lieberman was open about his Jewish faith during the 2000 campaign, yet never once was criticized about it. John Kerry keeps trying to tell everyone that he is a man of faith, and he gets a pass. Oh wait. I get it. Liberals know that other liberals who claim to be religious are really just pandering to get idiots willing to accept someone like Kerry's or Clinton's religiosity as genuine.

Fran Libowitz of Vanity Faire has said recently that secular governments are the ones that have fostered progress in the world and that faith or religiosity has limited progress and change. Does she forget that most of the major political movements that have fostered change in this country have been lead by religioous people in the United States. I believe that it was religionists were the ones leading the way to end slavery, viewing the enslaved Blacks as children of God and deserving of the same rights as all others in this country. The women's suffrage movement of the early 1900's got much of its traction by religious groups in the USA. And Dr. Martin Luther King was a REVEREND not a secular humanist.

And lest we forget that among the first successful settlements in this country were Puritans seeking religious and economic freedom. The constitution asks simply for a separation of Church and State. This means that the Government should endorse no religion as an official state religion. It does not mean that the people should remove the word God from the Pledge of Alegiance.

I for one am comforted by the fact that President George Bush prays. I pray and I know that it helps me. Its better to hear it from a man like George Bush, who is sincere in his faith (no one doubts this) and men like Clinton, Gore, Kerry and the like who slap on the moniker of "faith" only when it suits their political needs. Liberals if you want to live in a secular society move to Europe.

Kerry's Sound and Fury

When I listen to John F. Kerry in the debates and then hear from common people that he won especially last night's debate I am reminded of a quotation by William Shakespeare.

"Life's...a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
--Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5.

People stop listening to how the man sounds. Listen to what the man says. Kerry sounds great but what he says has so little meaning. Kerry says he is going to create jobs. That sounds great but what is he going to do to create jobs? Is he going to implement a plan to stimulate the economy that will create jobs or his he going to add more government bureaucracy? Come on people. Please tell me that you are smarter than this. Please tell me that what one says and does means more than how one sounds.