Turning on the television or opening a newspaper at Christmas time is a crapshoot. You either have your hand slapped by self righteous journalists on behalf of the downtrodden or you can't find the newsprint for the advertisements. Christmas is once again upon us and the media is in full whine. It's the time of year when the press seems to gang up to denounce capitalism, commercialism, materialism and all the other isms which make it possible for us to live better than them. No mention is made of the fact that the news business is a purely commercial endeavor. Journalists would have us believe they're above the great unwashed masses busily engaged in our seasonal money changing orgy at the malls.

I don't know about you, but I thank God on a regular basis for capitalism and commercialism. Without both, we would be picking up the wheat for our daily bread from a runway because it had to be air-dropped due to the repressive left wing government's having closed the airport to keep CNN out of the country. While keeping CNN out of one's country is certainly a worthwhile endeavor, it doesn't make people's lives as full and complete as free markets.

Christmas is also a Christian holiday. Most of the year the media is busy telling us that Christians are villains trying their best to inflict a rampant morality on unsuspecting youth who are constitutionally required to wallow in the secular world of sex, drugs, gangs, state sanctioned ignorance and television induced consumerism. We're told that anything remotely religious will lead to (gasp) praying. Except during the holiday season as we approach Christ's birthday. Then…the season honoring the life that has wrought all this evil is used like a club to denounce free market capitalism…a secular entity.

Now I'm not saying the talking heads of America's news outlets are embracing Christianity. That isn't happening. Instead, they're inventing a new slant on religion. Somehow, leftist politics and Christianity are merged into an unholy alliance that assumes it is somehow "Christ like" to pass laws making one segment of the people pay in order that others can lead the same kind of life as those who work hard all their lives.

One would think, after listening to the various preachers, journalists and reading the modern Biblical interpretations, that Christ demanded the government in Rome organize and train a domestic army of bureaucrats to force people to pay taxes for welfare programs. "Render to Caesar" has become one of the Commandments and the left in this country has become Caesar. Christ, in their estimation, is a local socialist from Nazareth, cheer-leading for Caesar's tax-collecting efforts.

Well I'm not going to all my Christmas to be ruined. I'm going down to the mall this afternoon and buy toys for my kids and not feel the least bit guilty. As a matter of fact, I may spend money on stuff I don't need just to engage in consumerism for consumerism's sake. I'll make it all plastic non-bio-degradable stuff to boot. Then I'm going to empty the recycle tub into the regular trash, fire up the barbecue grill (with extra starter fluid) and cook meat….preferably some sort of game animal.