The Conservative Sage

After just over two years in office President Obama, with his bombing campaign of Libya has completed his metamorphosis into George W. Bush. During the campaign, then candidate Obama repeatedly demonized president Bush's policies while over promising the American people that if elected he would make wiser decisions. With the complicity of the mass media, Obama rode into the White House with unprecedented euphoria behind the ambiguous slogan "Change" and the promise of restoring America's standing in the world. The same media that gushed over Obama in 08' has been shockingly silent regarding some of President's rehashing of Bush era policies. First, the President extended the so called Bush tax cuts for the rich of which he was critical of during the campaign. He has also largely left the Bush foreign policy apparatus in tact. According to a recent Newsweek expose, the number of predator drone attacks in Pakistan has dramatically increased under Obama. The Obam...

Whenever there is any controversial issue taking place in our country there are two things you can count on: Someone will invoke the name of Adolph Hitler, Nazi Germany or Slavery. During the Cleveland Cavaliers controversy, Spike Lee stated that Cavs Owner Dan Gilbert was treating Lebron like a "runway slave". Just this week, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson compared the current NFL labor strife to "modern day slavery". Just when you thought there was just one bonehead slavery comment this week, Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall came up with this gem: "Adrian Peterson was correct in his analogy of this game...anyone with knowledge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel one another". I'm sure that getting hit in the heard causes some damage so let's first give these dunderheads a definition of slave. Slavery is involuntary servitude and/or unpaid labor. Slaves have no choice or control over their lives...