The Conservative Sage

President Donald Trump returned home from his highly anticipated summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore. Such a meeting seemed like fantasy just a few short months ago. Kim was testing nuclear weapons by firing them over the airspace of US allies Guam and Japan. President Trump responded with his now legendary "Fire and Fury" threats of nuclear destruction and boast of having a "bigger button" than Kim's. This sent a uneasiness throughout not only the Korean peninsula but global financial markets which feared a potential nuclear conflict. However such fears soon dissipated due to back channel diplomatic efforts by China and South Korea along with stifling economic UN sanctions which forced Kim to the table. The summit culminated with the signing of a vague non binding joint statement which included security guarantees and a commitment to end US-South Korea joint military exercises. The joint statement is intended to pave the way towards com

On a March night earlier this year in Rio, the city's first black council woman was shot and killed along with her driver. The killing of Marielle Franco, also a lesbian champion of the LGBTQ and afro Brazilian communities, sparked protest for justice from tens on thousands in Rio and an out pouring of support from around the world. Ms. Franco was an outspoken critic of alleged abuse of power by military and police in the Rio slums or favelas . Ms. Franco was raised in Mare' one of the most dangerous slums of Rio. Extrajudicial killings by police and military in the Favelas' has been a major political issue for human rights activist around the world. Of 1,275 registered cases of killings by on-duty police between 2010 and 2013, 99.5 percent of the victims were men,79 percent were black. Brazil is country in spite of its multi racial population has made very little progress with regards to minority advancement. Many Afro-Brazilians are still confined to the margins of societ

According to many on the race obsessed left, one only needs white skin in order to be bestowed the best of what America has to offer. To be born black or brown is most likely a first class ticket to a life of at worst poverty and despair. At best a life of second class citizenship and marginalization. It's called "white privilege". What is white privilege? It’s defined as " the level of societal advantage that comes with being seen as the norm in America, automatically conferred irrespective of wealth, gender or other factors". Several months ago Greg Popovitch, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs weighed in on the subject: "...Because you were born white, you have advantages systemically, culturally, psychology there. They have been built up for hundreds of years. Many people can’t look at it. [It] can’t be something on their plate on a daily basis.... People don’t want to give it up. Until it’s given up, it’s not going to be fixed. So apparently white

The recent massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland Florida in which 17 people were shot to death has resulted in an all out assault on the National Rifle Association. As customary after a mass shooting a deluge of criticism and blame is directed at the NRA. The country's largest gun lobby has long been deemed responsible for obstructing gun control legislation, however this time the anger seems to have reached a tipping point. Large corporations such as Fed Ex, Enterprise rent-a-car, United, Delta and United airlines have announced they will no longer honor NRA discounts. The popular perception from the left is the notion that the NRA greases politicians in order allow mass murders to obtain weapons. If only their financial hold upon our federal legislatures could be lifted as many on the left believe, common sense gun control laws could be enacted. If only this were true. There are no laws that could be enacted that would have prevented the Florida shooting.

To honest observers, the mainstream media's love affair with former President Barack Obama was hardly veiled. CNN, and MSNBC'S coverage of Obama was at times downright gushing. The fawning CNN and the adoring White House press core covered Obama more like a Hollywood celebrity than a President of the United States. Conservative news sources although not without its own bias, served for many as a counterweight to the sycophant major networks. The President's constitutional overreaches were largely unnoticed by his fans and ignored by the media. Except for Fox news, who was a favorite target of Obama who accused it of grossly distorting facts surround his administration and creating "phony' scandals. The comments he made this week about Fox News were particularly interesting. " If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you, you know, listen to NPR ," Obama told David Letterman on his new Netflix series "My Next Gue

It seems like a lifetime since the beginning of Donald Trump's Presidential campaign. One centered on traditional populist rhetoric aimed primarily at the working class. Trump ranted against unfair trade deals, foreign interventions and illegal immigration. Even going as far as to flippantly mention taxing the rich, a popular mantra of left wing democrats. Many of Trump's positions seemed to overlap with those of Bernie Sanders. Some on the right labeled Trump a non-conservative Republican whose election wouldn't necessarily result in policies much different than that of Hillary Clinton or Sanders. To call the first year of the Trump administration turbulent would be the understatement of the decade. Undisciplined tweets, beefs with NFL players, the media, the Obama care debacle and a flurry of staff departures underscored a dizzying for year. A year that was salvaged with the passage of tax reform legislation-the first since the Reagan administration. For all of the "