During Georgia’s senatorial runoff election last month, the press quoted an anonymous woman who stated she was voting Republican because she was afraid of Socialism under Obama.

Well, there is always something out there to scare the children… Communism, new immigrants, gay marriage, terrorists, Black men… There’s always a group to exploit.

Socialism is getting a good play on Fox and other Neanderthals outposts. For the uninformed, Socialism is when the government assumes the duties th...
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America is marking time until the Obama presidency begins…with hopes soaring. His task is enormous as he starts to dig us out from the last eight disastrous years.

Obviously, the economy is the pervasive issue that the new President will be facing. If you read the polls and paper, it is almost as if the war in Iraq doesn’t exist. Obviously, the Mideast will absorb a great deal of the Obama’s attention…but America’s danger, these days, seems to be less from terrorists and more from th...
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For some political pundits, in vastly different camps, the honeymoon for Barack Obama is over before the wedding march has been played.

Perhaps it is because we have around-the-clock news channels which in the absence of news try to hold viewer attention with shocks and scares. There’re a handful of commentators for who shock and scare is their signature…even if the result is an erosion of media integrity.

Let’s take a look at the extreme reactions to the Obama transition which in my eye...
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Recently, the Sunday Daily News TV section boasted a cover that shouted out PRIME TIME FOR CRIME, calling attention to a CSI, one of the numerous shows pre-occupied with anti social behavior.

In fact, it is always prime time for crime. Start with the local news, which invariably opens with the crime of the day, no matter what else is happening in the world. The old axiom, if it bleeds, it leads, remains true.

A careful scanning of TV listings reveals that during a week’s span there is crime ...
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