It's a new year and a lot of us feel like we're starting with a clean slate. Nothing wrong with that. Personally I feel like I'm starting with a clean slate as well. So let me start by asking so many of you to stop hammering me in to stereotypical roles.

For beginners, stop writing me complaining about what a terrible "journalist" I am. Don't put me in their ranks. I'm not a squealing, crying, simple minded little lefty who thinks you're too stupid to make up your own mind. I'm not going to sit here and apologize for Muslim terrorists killing innocent people. Nor will I sit here and grant glowing praise to liberals trying to steal the freedom of everyone around them.

I'm also not going to present the other side of the argument. Why on earth would I try to sell you on an idea that I don't believe? This is a throwback to "The Fairness Doctrine" an unconstitutional regulation done by the FCC to force the three (and only three) broadcast stations back in the 30's to discuss more than one side of the political debate. (Can you say "retraction of Free Speech"?) The Fairness Doctrine was killed under Reagan when Cable exploded on to the scene. In a day and age where the Internet brings us every type of information you want, the Fairness Doctrine needs to remain buried. The history lesson aside, the Fairness Doctrine *never* applied to print media. If you don't like my columns feel free to write your own.

Stop prejudicing me for being from Nebraska. If the libs really are so open minded, non judgemental and never look at things like skin color and the ethnicity of people why do I get so many letters saying "You people from Nebraska..." Don't forget, the Leftist Icon Malcom X was from Nebraska. (He didn't live there his whole life.) What did I just say about stereotyping people? Cause I haven't lived in Nebraska my entire life either. In fact, I've spent less than 30% of my life living in Nebraska. And while I lived there, I knew outspoken Communists and Anarchists. I knew Republicans and Democrats. I knew Nazis and Black Nationalists. I knew Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, Witches, Christians, people who (literally) worship the DNA of our bodies, agnostics and outright athiests. I knew black people, white people, mexican people, illegal aliens, German legal aliens, Russian legal aliens, etc.

Stop challenging my credentials. I got a Bachelor of Science of History from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1998. I studied a wide variety of literature spanning the ages and the world at large. In fact, I dedicated quite a bit of time and energy to it. I have done my homework on this subject. It's fine if you want to take issue with something *and provide sources* that I can read myself. But stop writing me just ranting in general. But expect me to sneer at the paper thin pamphlets you've been handed at your local Mosque/Rainbow Coalition Office/Communist Headquarters/etc.

"The History books are written by the victors." I don't believe this for several reasons. Am I to believe that the Nazis and the Confederacy of the United States were agencies of good? With that in mind, shouldn't we also be taking a more critical eye at all the various Muslim empires that I'm told were great (because they wrote books saying they were great)? Sometimes the history books are written by the side that is actually literate (Roman conquest of the Celts, Europe's struggle against the Vikings, China's struggle against the Western Barbarians, American Indian's struggle with the European powers, etc).

Stop writing me letters saying things like "All you Christians just so prejudiced." I'm not a Christian. I'm also not a Jew. As far as I'm concerned my religion isn't the issue of most of my columns (unless I make it the issue.) Although they often overlap, it is possible for religion to be independent of political ideology. Not every Christian is a Conservative Republican voter. Not every Jew is a Liberal Democrat. This doesn't make these people any less Christian/Jewish any more than it makes them any less Republican/Democrat.

I'm not a warmonger, but there are people out there intent on hurting the citizens of our nation that must be stopped. I'm not in favor of polluting the environment, but I haven't seen anything that would convince me that Global Warming is actually happening. I'm not in favor of discrimination on any grounds, which is why I'm opposed to Affirmative Action (a practice that discriminates against white people.) I don't believe in animal rights, but I don't torture my house pets and wildlife that live around me.
 
You leftists really need to open your minds to a wider point of view.