The Conservative Sage

It has been two years since the 2008 Presidential campaign has ended and a pressing question has finally been answered: What does Sarah Palin read? The question was asked of Palin by Katie Couric during the 08' campaign with John McCain. Palin admittedly didn't handle the question well and later confessed that she was "annoyed and insulted" by it. Barbara Walters dug up the infamous question again during a recent interview with Palin. What's more astonishing is the amount of reaction her response has generated-mainly from the left of course. Palin said she reads Chronicles of Narnia author C.S. Lewis for "inspiration".Joy Behar, that great political thinker from ABC's The View who mocks Palin relentlessly quipped "aren't those children's books"? Striking a similarly sarcastic tone was MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe. While appearing on Chris Matthews show Harball dismissed Lewis as someone who "wrote a series of Children'

The American Lefts role model is crumbling right before our eyes. The world watched as protesters to the streets earlier this year in Greece after massive budget cuts which were implemented to deal with its massive debt crisis. Now the contagion has spread to other members of the EU. The Irish governments budget cuts precipitated by its recent bailout of has also sent protesters into the streets in Dublin. Riots have also taken place in the UK, Italy and Spain over budget cuts with fears that Portugal could be next. The 16 member EU nations instituted the Euro as the common currency over a decade ago and the results have been mixed at best. German is the only member nation that has produced positive economic growth-due to its large trade surplus and less spending. The left in America has longed felt that we should be more like Europe with it's highly taxed welfare state. The economic incongruity is clear: The only way to pay for a welfare state is to tax the wealth of the producti

President Obama much to the ire of his own party reached a compromise on the so called Bush Tax Cuts of 2001 and 2003. The deal will keeps the exisitng tax rates in place for all tax payers including the those earning over $250,000 or the often repeated Tax cuts for the rich-representing a huge reversal for the president. In return the President received an exstention of the jobless benefits, a payroll tax reduction and protection from the alternative minimum tax for middle class families. The Republicans gained a victory by keeping the estate tax rate fixed at 35% for two years as well as keeping the existing cuts place for all taxpayers. If the tax cuts were allowed to expire, it would revert back to 55%. The far left wing of the Democratic party has become completely unhinged at this deal. Insisting that the president should have stuck to his guns and forced to the Republicans to to fight for the cuts. Democratic Congressman John Conyers of Michigan to Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa have