May sweeps for TV network ratings show that the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric last week recorded its smallest audience since her dramatic debut, while NBC's Nightly News tallied its fourth- lowest figure since 1987.

Newsweek's cover WANTED a New Truman hits the news stands where inside are polls indicating which president showed the greatest political courage—meaning being brave enough to make the right decisions for the country, even if it jeopardized his popularity. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton 18 percent each top the poll, while 55 percent vs 40 percent of Americans believe Bush is not politically courageous. And nearly two out of three Americans (62 percent) believe his recent actions in Iraq show he is “stubborn and unwilling to admit his mistakes,” compared to 30 percent who say Bush’s actions demonstrate that he is “willing to take political risks to do what’s right.”

Tony Blair announces his retirement while Russian President Vladimir Putin compares the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich and the Russia's Parliament voted to restore the communist-era hammer and sickle to the official flag of the Russian Army.

In Sweden a poll carried out by Demoskop on behalf of the Organization for Information on Communism found that 90 percent of Swedes between the ages of 15 and 20 had never heard of the Gulag.

The poll also found that 40 percent of young Swedes believed that communism contributed to increased prosperity in the world; 22 percent considered communism a democratic form of government, 43 percent believed that communist regimes had claimed less than one million lives. A fifth of those surveyed put the death toll at under ten thousand. The actual figure is estimated at around 100 million.

I don't put faith in polls, but ignorance of Communism, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain combined with a socialist government and a media controlled by the far left indicate history is capable of repeating itself.

If one was an artist and the news was dabbed on his pallet, the colors to choose from would not be pastel and earthly, they would be bold and vivid. Stepping back one would view visible brushstrokes upon the canvas of the characteristics of a radical impressionist painting of the New Left, a socialist movement spewing it's virtually unchallenged poisonous venom, emerging from the infiltration of illegal immigrants, reaching political legitimacy under the banner of democratic internationalism using the Iraq war as it's catalyst.

Hmmmmm... it is almost a demonic image. Isn't it?