Beware the stranger bearing gifts. Or as the law teaches, caveat emptor, buyer beware. Look before you leap. All these warnings apply to the emerging Republican positioning on the Voting Rights Act.

Forty years ago, after the bloody march in Selma, Ala., Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, which requires that states with a history of discrimination get pre-approval from the Justice Department for any changes in their voting procedures.

This was a great victory for the movement that Dr. Martin Luther King led. Give us the vote, King taught, and we can begin to change America. As African Americans were able to register and vote and segregation slowly came to an end, a new South was created. The New South became a center of investment.

Politics changed, too. As Lyndon Johnson predicted when he signed the Voting Rights Act, Democrats paid a great price for being the party of progress. In the South, Republicans made themselves the party of white sanctuary. The current Republican majorities in the House and Senate are founded on the racial politics of the South.

I just cannot see for the life of me how the majority of citizens here in Ohio, and America are buying into the deceitful antics of the Republican Party, including the ones who are so hard right on their American views and standards. Look at what's going on, gas prices are higher than ever before. The president is talking about "adjusting" the socialk security system by privatizing it. Our schools and libraries are losing their funding. And we're still losing jobs. Worse yet, religion-oriented people care more about abortion, national security, and stem-cell than they are about the future of our children, the poor, the underemployed, the unemployed, the underprivileged, and the uninsured. What is this country coming to? As I recall, in a political campaign ad put on by the Bush Administration and conservatives like "best-selling journalism author" Ann Coulter and 300-lb Southern GOP-supporting "shock jock" Ben Ferguson (who wrote a book tiled "It's My America Too", Republicans were blaming John Kerry and his "liberals in Congress" for the cause of job loss, underfunded education, and outrageous gas price inflation. Wrong, I don't think so!! I think the GOP

Without his make-up, Dan looked like hell warmed over: old, defeated, yet angry. And he told our television audience something that just blew me away. Dan Rather said that American reporters may not ask tough questions about George Bush or his wars.

"It's an obscene comparison," Rather said, "but there was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dissented. In some ways, the fear is that you will be neck-laced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck."

Talking to another reporter, Dan told it straight about the careerism that keeps US journalists in line. "It's that fear that keeps [American] journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions and to continue to bore-in on the tough questions so often."

Back in the early 1990s, the right-wing taste of the year was Newt Gingrich. He led the Republican sweep into Congress in the 1994 mid-term elections. His "Contract With America" loomed in every headline. Liberals wailed that Gingrichism was invincible.

The counterattack began right in Gingrich's front yard, in Georgia. The Atlanta Central Labor Council and Jobs with Justice staged a noisy sit-in in Gingrich's local Congressional office and seized the headlines with stinging descriptions of the Contract as a cruel assault on the poor and the working class. For months, groups of union workers dogged the congressman at his every stop across the country. This noisy guerrilla warfare rallied the faint-hearted and threw Gingrich, then speaker of the house, off balance. By 1995, a rattled Gingrich had lost his touch, faltering badly in the famous budget face-off with Clinton.

“Yes, son there is a Santa Claus.” “Yes, Son and Daughter, George W. Bush did win the Presidency fair and square.” Yes, Son and Daughter Bloggers are condemned to extension.” ”Yes, son and daughter, Iraq did have Weapons of Mass Destruction.” “Yes, son and daughter, Social Security is in crisis and must be privatized!!”  Now I ask you, which one of these statements are true??  The answer is that NONE of these statements are true!!! Everyone knows this but in the media only a Blogger will tell you the stark shock and awe truth.

Presently the popular term “Blogging” denotes the existence and growth of the many People with a Personal Computer, Who use them to report facts, figures, and events as they see them. This reporting, by Bloggers has become a problem for the Military and the Administration, which presently are using the “Traditional Media” for a propaganda vehicle for the undeclared “War On Terrorism.” Blogging has made it difficult for propaganda to maximize its impact on public opinion.