The Conservative Sage

It's official! anyone who has done something in the public eye and/or of note is a "legend". There isn't much imagination among journalist to come up with another descriptive word other than legend or legendary. Legend is defined as : a story coming down from the past; especially : one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable b : a popular myth of recent origin. I hear this word constantly ascribed to athletes and entertainers daily. Some of them are very good at what they do and have been for a long time; however to deem them "legends" simply because they have been in their respective field for a decade is hyperbolic at best. Much of this is done out of pure laziness. I guess it's too much work to spend a few seconds searching for a simpler term like veteran, pioneer or famed. Instead of calling Wayne Newton a Las Vegas veteran, its sounds more glossy to describe him as a 'Las Vegas Legend'. Maybe in this case after forty y...

I wish I could express some relief that the vote on the health care bill will be over this weekend. The vote only marks the beginning of a long battle that will have large numbers of political opponents at each others throats for years to come. In what is certainly a pivotal moment for national politics, this health care debate will have serious implications on the midterm elections in November. The Democrats are almost assured a beat down at the polls for their support for Obamacare. Their short lived "super majority" will be firmly in the rear view mirror after January 2011 which will leave President Obama naked for the remainder of his term. The president is in a very unfavorable position of being faced with failure no matter if the bill passes or not. If it passes, the backlash against him and the Democrats will be massive. The Attorney Generals of at least a half a dozen states have already promised lawsuits challenging the legislation's constitutionality. If the bi...

It seems that there is a severe common sense deficit in Black America, which is evidenced by our knee jerk reaction to the old hanging noose trick. Whenever some dimwit wants get the ire of black folks, he or she simply goes into their bag of gags and hangs a noose. Then, just like Pavlov's dog, The Neo- civil rights mafia comes out in force, staging protest, demanding investigations and giving these childish pranks far more attention than its worth. This reaction only paves the way for the next imbecile. The imbecile in this case is a yet to be identified University of California at San Diego female student who for unknown reasons hung a noose on a lamp in the student library. When will people figure out that the over reaction to this silly attention grabbing stunt is exactly the the end goal? To get Blacks to over react. If some Neo Nazi wannabe or frat boy for that matter wants to piss blacks off or miss class, he just pulls out his noose and watches the fireworks. Even blacks h...

More than a year ago, while participating in a panel discussion on the radio I asked the question: Can anyone name a liberal Democrat over the past twenty five years who has been labeled stupid? As the saying goes, the silence was deafening. The fact is that there isn't a single democrat that has been characterized as an idiot, buffoon or stupid-they have all been conservatives. Less one believes that this is a coincidence, then there is something rotten in mediaville . You can go back as far as Gerald Ford, who was relentlessly parodied as clumsy and bumbling by Chevy Chase and the Saturday Night Live crew at the time. Ford-who was an outstanding athlete in his day- made the mistake of falling down while coming off of Air Force one during a visit to Austria and has forever been portrayed by the comedic left as clumsy. Chase admitted in a 2008 interview that their lampooning of Ford was deliberate since he was "not their guy". The plethora of comedians who now moonlight ...

I guess we can count on one of these stories at least once a year. A prominent black athlete gets himself into trouble because of poor judgement and irresponsibility. Last year it was New York Giants wide out Plaxico Burres who shot himself in the leg at a Manhattan Nitelub. Burress has since been sentenced to a two year prison term. In what has become the standard bearer for a superstars who fall from grace, the Michael Vick dog fighting scandal reigns supreme. The latest millionaire run amok is Washington Wizards star point guard Gilbert Arenas who has landed in hot water for pulling a gun on a teammate in the locker rocker room during a dispute over a gambling debt. "Agent Zero" as he is ironically called has been suspend by the NBA for the remainder of the season and could still face jail time. If that isn't bad enough, he runs the risk of having his $110m contract voided by the Wizards. I have always disagreed with the liberal worldview that jobs and education are t...

The political world is abuzz with the stunning victory by Republican Scott Brown over his Democratic challenger Martha Coakley-a senate seat previously held by the late Ted Kennedy. There was no one who was more a political institution that Kennedy who served 46 years as senator of Massachusetts. The people of this staunchly liberal state decided enough was enough and elected Republican senator for the first time since 1972 and perhaps putting a death nail in Obamacare in the process. Since 1968, America's inner cities which are largely populated by blacks have not elected a Republican in decades. The left wing/liberal mindset is as ingrained in the black mind as deeply as their religion- and we know how difficult it is to change one's religion. Black America after forty years of Democratic/liberal rule which has not coincidentally produced dismal results. What are the chances that say, Chicago or Baltimore would elect a Republican mayor? Could the results be any worse than the...

You are not human if you have not been gut wrenched by the massive earthquake in Haiti. The scenes of death and devastation are depressing. This disaster underscores the exploitation, poor leadership and corruption that has plagued Haiti over the past one hundred years. Haiti's kleptocratic regimes during the past 60 years in particular has kept the country in a perpetual state of poverty and squandered over $4 billion dollars in US and foreign aid since 1992. The failure of Haiti's leaders to implement free market economic and democratic principles has been highlighted by this tragedy. The poorly developed infrastructure, and anemic government services are the results of decades of leaders that have put their own financial interest ahead of the Haitian people. Most recently, the ineffective Jean Bertrand Aristead was driven from power by way of a rebellion in 2004 after his corruption was uncovered. Hundreds of billions of dollars will be needed just to make Haiti a semi -fun...