The Conservative Sage

When President George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq, his vision-albeit a risky one- was to see create a stable democracy in the Middle East which would in turn put pressure on Iran and Saudi Arabia. Democracy in Iraq has been a mixed bag thus far but the signs are promising. However the winds of change in the North African Muslim world have been at light speed this week. Demonstrations in the streets of Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria and Egypt erupted this past week where protesters demanding that President Hosni Mubarek step down from power after 30 years. Mubarak has been a staunch ally of the United States during his reign-which has caused the US to turn a blind eye to human rights abuses. Quite often, our foreign policy choices involve a bad choice and worse choice. In foreign policy decisions, political stability often takes precedent over democratic rule-a very difficult and unfavorable sacrifice. This wave of change taking place in the Arab world presents a dilemma for US policy maker...

They Bring a Knife,We Bring a Gun”,“Get in Their Faces!” “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!” Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”, Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“,“Punish your enemies.” “I’m itching for a fight.”... It only took about 60 seconds after the news of the Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to blame it on " Heated Right wing rhetoric on talk radio and cable Television." in general and Sarah Palin specifically. I will outline in a moment why this is complete nonsense however it's important to know that the rhetoric above doesn't belong to Palin-Those words belongs to Barack Obama. You haven't heard any of these words replayed in the aftermath of this tragedy. Sarah Palin has become the poster girl for heated political rhetoric which more than likely did not motivate this loon in Arizona. Whenever these events happen , the med...

There has been heated debate and protest by some Muslim groups about their treatment here in the United States. However this debate and the media attention surrounding it has cast a huge shadow over the war being waged by extremist Muslims against Christians in various hot spots around the world. The church bombing over the weekend in Alexandria Egypt is just the latest in a string of attacks targeting Christians. In September a suicide bomber attacked a Catholic Syrian Church in Baghdad killing 58. Iraq’s Christian population has dwindled; once numbering anywhere between 800,000 and 1.4 million, at least half are thought to have emigrated since 2003. There were two bombings of churches in Pakistan over the past three months resulting in 2 deaths and 10 wounded. As far away as the Philippines there has been terrorism directed at Christians, such as the bombing of a church on the predominantly Muslim Island of Jolo. Terrorist group Abu Sayyaf is suspected in the attack. The Christian p...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve last week implemented a new round of stimulus by pumping billions of dollars into the U.S. economy has further eroded the Obama administration's popularity around the world. The Fed will purchase $600 billion in U.S. Treasury bonds-in an attempt to hold down long term interest rates and jump start the economy- a measure known as Quantitative easing . President Obama defended the move while on a 10 day Asian trip. "The Fed's mandate, my mandate is, to grow our economy. And that's not just good for the US but the world as a whole". The backlash from an increasingly jaded international community is growing. During this weeks G2o summit in S. Korea, US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has lectured other nations to reign in their trade imbalances-which hurts US exports. Germany, which relies heavily on exports has been vocal in its criticism of Washington. "It doesn't add up when the Americans accuse the Chinese of currency manipulation...