BEWARE THESE TIMES!

There is sufficient truth in the peaks and valleys of history; our challenge is to ferret it out and to share the riches with the world. * * * England, too, discovered the ideal of a Free Press, and discovered along with it that the press serves him who owns it. It does not spread free opinion it generates it.* ... The (Whig) Party agent Dodington described his parliamentary activities in these words: I never attended a debate if I could help it, and I never missed a division that I could possibly take part in. I heard many arguments that convinced me, but never one that influenced my vote.* *Both quotes are from Oswald Spenglers The Decline of the West. This edition is abridged with a new Introduction by H. Stuart Hughes. Oxford University Press, New York, 1991. * * * A CAUTION When the change from Democratic Party, as a descriptive term) to Democrat as a noun was made, the political battle was lost when the single word was adopted as the Party of choice the war was lost. And when the good use of the word

liberal was high-jacked and thrown into the fire and forged into Liberal the truth was consumed in the flames. We must always consider the Spanish phrase: Poderoso Caballero es Don Dinero! (Powerful Knight is Sir Money!) Beware these current times and the media of the day.