The Conservative Sage

Newark New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker certainly has one of America's toughest jobs. His city has for decades been plagued with all the stereotypical inner city blues: high crime, population decline, urban blight. One would think that Booker, a rising star in the Democratic party, would be lobbying the Obama administration for cash in the form of some sort of new age urban renewal plan. In fact, the liberal Mayor has decided to get in touch with his more conservative side and call on the private sector-non other than the under taxed rich-which even include some of the much maligned "fat cats" from Wall Street. Booker, mining his vast network honed from his days and Stanford and Yale, has attracted more than $250 million to his poverty stricken city from hedge fund managers, entrepreneurs and Hollywood moguls.. Most famously, Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg pledged $100 million to help the city's dismal school system which sadly sports a 61% high sc...

Jessica Kenny worked as a concierge in the Excalibur hotel-casino. She was at her normal station at the concierge desk as a vendor for Las Vegas.com.  In walks 31 year old Edward Brandt who shoots Jessica, critically wounding her and then turning the gun on himself. Jessica is rushed to the hospital where she later dies. Kenny and Brandt had briefly dated but severed ties in 2009. This type of murder suicide plays itself out everyday in America. A deranged gunman walks into his or her workplace, a shopping mall or another public place and opens fire, killing strangers, acquaintances or an estranged spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend. Earlier this year in Cleveland Katherina Allen 42, who had informed her husband Kevin she was leaving him and taking the children two days earlier, was dining in a Cracker Barrel restaurant with the couples two pre-teen daughters. Kevin, thrice divorced with a long history violence stormed into the restaurant and accor...

    During the reign on Mao Zedomg, Capitalist were considered the enemy of the Chinese state. The government often persecuted Capitalist and sometimes even took over their businesses. However during the 1990's Deng Xiaping was suddenly bitten by the capitalist bug and declared "to get rich is glorious". Then in 2002, a constitutional amendment allowed private enterprise into the party system. We are all aware of the astounding growth of the Chinese economy over that past decade. The Chinese State Capitalist model whereby the government subsidizes and controls most industries has produced a powerful economy indeed but has also produced many millionaires and billionaires who are members of the Communist Party. According to the Hurun report, a Chinese research firm, 160 out of the 1024 richest people in China were seated on the Communist Party Congress, which is a legislative body and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)...