Recently, there have been a lot of complaints that some businesses and other organizations are "mounting a war on Christianity" by not mentioning Christmas or other reminders of the Christian aspect of Christmas. The people who are supposedly doing this are defending themselves by claming that they don't want to offend the Jewish or athiest populations by imposing another religion onto them. This is all done in the name of Political Correctness. I'm not trying to say PC is bad.  But this is not the PC version. One of America's Values is the diversity of its people. It is more politically correct to celebrate all religious holidays of our people; Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Mormon... Besides, we'd have more holidays to get off from work. As for separation of Church from State, the Founding Fathers meant to stop the government from setting up a Church of America, not to stop us from worshiping and taking a few days off while we're at it. So, Merry Christmas!

Labor Unions Endorsing Strickland Now Represent
More than 200,000 Ohio Workers & Retirees

Note to radio: Audio clips of Strickland and Dwyer available at the following link: http://www.tedstrickland.com/multimedia

Columbus, Ohio - The Strickland for Governor campaign announced today that the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council has endorsed Ohio gubernatorial candidate Congressman Ted Strickland to be Ohio's next governor.

"The Building Trades are proud to endorse Ted Strickland for governor," said Mike Thomas, president of the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council. "Ted has always been a friend of ours.  We are going to work hard to get Ted elected because Ohio's working men and women deserve a leader who will champion their cause."

Disregard the momentary uptick in his approval rating, and ask yourself, was there ever a president in worse shape a year after reelection than George Bush? Nixon, maybe. Was there ever a president more fortunate in the quality of the party opposing him? Bush wins that one in a walk. These days, the only Democrat who sounds like Sam Ervin is John Murtha, and if his fellow Democrats had cold-shouldered Ervin the way they have Murtha, Nixon would have served out his second term.

The list of Bush's adversities scarcely needs repeating. On every front he's in trouble: the unpopularity of the war; the onslaught by fellow Republicans on the rendition flights and secret torture centers; the humiliation of Condoleezza Rice in Europe; the abandonment of New Orleans amid the surfacing of more incriminating e-mail traffic from the White House in the early days of the emergency. Even Haley Barbour, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, said in early December that the Bush administration was failing to live up to its obligations.

With public support for the Iraq war at low ebb, the White House is more eager than ever to conflate Iraq’s insurgency with terrorism. But last week, just after President Bush gave yet another speech repeatedly depicting the U.S. war effort in Iraq as a battle against terrorists, Rep. John Murtha debunked the claim. His refutation deserved much more news coverage than it got.

“You heard the president talk today about terrorism,” Murtha told reporters at a Dec. 7 news conference. “Every other word was ‘terrorism.’” Speaking as a lawmaker in close touch with the Pentagon’s top military leaders, he went on to confront the core of the administration’s current argument for keeping American soldiers in Iraq.

“Let’s talk about terrorism versus insurgency in Iraq itself,” Murtha said. “We think that foreign fighters are about 7 percent -- might be a little bit more, a little bit less. Very small proportion of the people that are involved in the insurgency are terrorists or how I would interpret them as terrorists.”

Murtha threw cold water on the storyline that presents U.S. troops as