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Lieutenant General Sanchez made a speech criticizing all aspects of the war in Iraq. The heaviest hit by his remarks would have to be the press:

“For some it seems that as long as you get a front-page story, there is little or no regard for the collateral damage that will be caused… The speculative and often uninformed initial reporting that characterizes our media, appears to be rapidly becoming the standard of the industry… Once reported, your assessments become conventional wisdom and nearly impossible to change. Your unwillingness to accurately and prominently correct your mistakes and your agenda-driven biases sometimes contribute to this corrosive environment… What is clear to me is that you’re perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war, in some cases… For some of you, just like some of our politicians, the truth is of little to no value if it does not fit your own preconceived notions, biases, or agendas.” - Lt. Gen. Sanchez

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Recently, I’ve seen a lot of media coverage about Katrina. At first, I just figured the media had grown tired of Election 2008 and needed something to fill the void. Then I remembered: it’s been two years since Katrina. Two years. Has it been that long? Well, I guess I lost track since I’ve been waiting for all those continuous hurricanes that were supposed to decimate American soil over the past two years. Remember those? Weather experts have predicted that we would have multiple significant hurricanes reaching our shores. So far, nothing. Dean has been the most notable storm since Rita, much to the chagrin of the weather alarmists that desperately want to retrofit my SUV to run on chicken fat. How do you convince the populace that we need more federal legislation if the hurricanes don’t cooperate? Bush must have turned down the knob on his weather machine.

As a part of all the “anniversary” stories, presidential hopeful Obama was interviewed on GMA. He introduced a plan to “reduce government bureaucracy” by involving government more. The federal government should 1. hire police and doctors 2. hire more people to work in the government 3. rebuild the infrastructure and 4. tell the insurance companies how to run their businesses. In reference to the last point, he claims he believes in the insurance companies making a profit, and yet criticizes that very thing. Do we stop to think that since they paid so much for Katrina policies that they had to raise their rates in anticipation of what the aforementioned weather experts were saying, and when no disaster happened, they had extra money? Now the federal government needs to tell them what to do with that money? Well, if they are going to get lessons in finance and spending, maybe we should consider how good of stewards the government is with our money…
The Sun Herald recently ran a story about Katrina and all the government money that has been pouring into the area.

It’s hard for the average working stiff to contemplate a number as vast as the $23.5 billion the federal government has allocated to Mississippi for Katrina recovery.

Think of it this way:

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This special report from the Business & Media Institute is a little old (May 06), but it’s quality and impact are unmatched. The report quite simply decimates the entire climate change hysteria. Warming or otherwise.

Thanks to the release of Al Gore’s latest effort on global warming – this time in book and movie form – climate change is the hot topic in press rooms around the globe. It isn’t the first time.

The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years. Only they can’t decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling.

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