One of the greatest blessings of being an American is the freedom of speech. Others would say, please add limited government and free enterprise - the ability to have a dream and, through hard work and perseverance, watch that dream come true. It is becoming more apparent, is it not, that these blessings upon which our country was founded, are being challenged.

It comes as no surprise to you if I say the main stream media in our country are liberally biased. This is not a derogatory statement, it is just a fact. You know that, I know that and so does the rest of the country. But in a Gallup poll, it was determined that 63 percent of Americans are conservative in their belief system.

With this fact in place, how is it that the lone voice of Fox News has come under such criticism by the present administration? Add to that the campaign against individual conservative radio talk-show hosts.

Put all that on hold for a second and let us ask, "Whatever happened to truth?" Should that not be the emphasis upon which any news organization is based? Are you not so tired of the term "politically correct" you could scream? And why does it always seem that the only people overstepping the boundaries of the P.C. hard-liners are those with conservative thought? Our democratic congress just came out with a health care bill, formulated basically in secret of more than 1,000 pages and the tax-paying public not only had no input but was not apprised of the internal debate (if there was one) before its completion. This of course has the eternal (subject to revision) attached, but that is not enough information for the citizens of the United States.

If all of us will be honest, I don't think we have seen in our lifetime (if the polls are correct) where a minority dictates to a majority. Well, you say that is what happens when you have a liberal Congress, a liberal Supreme Court and a liberal president. OK, how did it get that way? It has to be that the 63 percent in this country are content to sit on their hands and watch this happen. But one can understand their reluctancy to speak up when the result of anyone doing so is to be ridiculed in the press, such as all of the protesters in the recent town hall meetings were. They were painted as obnoxious lunatics with low IQs.

That seems to be the impression - the administration and the congressional majority would like us to have of Fox News and any who would speak up for all the freedoms mentioned above that we enjoy as Americans.

Does it strike you as odd that a Muslim can make any statement he wants to our media and it is treated with great dignity, but if a Christian mentions God or Jesus, they are dismissed as some kind of fanatic? Last time I checked this is still the "United States of America, one nation under God" and it is high time the 63 percent became more vocal.

History is full of failed governments and countries whose citizens did not speak up when they should have.

Let us not be listed among those who stood by and watched.