Google Logo Honors Soviet Accomplishment

Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to achieve orbit.  It started off the great Space Race, and the United States and the Soviet Union both made amazing advances in those decades.  But Sputnik was, after all, a creation of the Soviet Union, and it’s frustrated some onlookers to see Google honor it.

Several days ago, a Google doodle incorporated a picture of Sputnik; this is the way in which Google celebrates many special occasions, including St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween, and Roald Dahl’s birthday.  But Joseph Farah, the editor of WorldNetDaily.com, noted a couple of omissions.

“When they ignore Veterans Day and Memorial Day, I think they’re telling us something about the way they view America,” Farah said in an interview with the