As I sit in the lobby of the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., at the annual conservative gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC for short, writing this, it is quite obvious that conservatives are back.  Last year’s CPAC, the first one I attended, was dry. (more…)

Noam Chomsky is a hypocrite. Immediately, the Noam Chomsky disciple, who I shall from now on refer to as Bob*, will scream, “Prove it!” plus, if anonymous, various expletives. The problem with this claim is that Bob assumes that Noam Chomsky is God. In other words, Noam Chomsky is somehow infallible and thus a speaker of completely objective truth. This is obviously inaccurate, as Noam Chomsky is a human, and thus fallible. Being fallible, Noam Chomsky’s ideas include assumptions that cannot be considered part of an objective truth. While his thoughts may be “informed opinions,” it does not change the fact that whatever he says can never be objective truth. This leads Bob to assume there cannot be any objective truth. Bob is partially correct. (more…)

Joseph C. Phillips had an interesting article tackling one of the most common myths the New Left pushes when it comes to conservatives:  the belief that conservatives hate change.

I don’t know how this label got started; either conservatives opposed the liberals’ wishes to increase government power in the ’30s and ’60s, or it is just another way to call the GOP a party of “old white men.”  All Republicans are not Conservative, and not all Conservatives are Republicans. I refer to myself as a Conservative in public because the GOP needs to revitalize their ideals.  The party needs a leader, and they don’t have one.  Although 41% or so the country identifies itself as conservative, only about 21% identify with the Republican Party.

Conservatives desire change:  tax reform, health care reform (just not Obamacare,) and basic limiting of the federal government’s power.

Who among us wouldn’t want the government to just leave us alone?

The health care summit between the president and Congress a few days ago was pretty much more of the same. The point of the summit is to make some ground on finalizing the health care bill, which is what Congress has been trying to do for months. Republicans want to start over, which gets annoying after awhile when that’s 80% of what they say. The Democrats keep saying the two parties are in agreement on certain things but don’t seem to understand the difference in how the two parties want to handle the problems. The media had a field day, which somehow involved puppets. And then there’s Jon Stewart.

It would be great if we could have a world without nuclear weapons. This is a dream for many idealists, but a farfetched reality for most pragmatists. Some consider this dream possible, if we were able to rid the world of despotic dictators. Others say that human nature and its proclivity for conflict makes war inevitable. Thus, countries need the right to defend themselves from foreign threats. Meanwhile, the uninformed, without any regard for what’s happening in the world, say that every nation should make a pledge to destroy their nuclear weapons arsenal immediately.
This brings me to the United Nations and its new commitment to implementing nuclear disarmament. With its upsetting track record, the U.N. has rarely been effective in accomplishing anything from holding successful peacekeeping operations, to preventing genocide, or to maintaining human rights. Even with the support of President Barack Obama, the inherent corruption and bureaucracy of the U.N. will make disarmament nearly impossible. With unpredictable countries like Iran and North Korea, countries will not be willing to lessen their deterrence.
While Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad isn’t the most unstable world leader, his country is the biggest threat to our strongest ally in the Middle East: Israel. According to the New York Times, “Iran’s agreement in principle … to ship what American officials called ‘most’ of its declared stockpile of lightly enriched uranium to Russia and France to be turned into nuclear fuel.”^1,2 According to experts at the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency, Iran has all the materials to make an atomic weapon.³ Using this material, Iran is most likely gearing up to create weapons earmarked for use on Israel or, at the very least, to sell them off to any number of terrorist organizations. This may cause Israel to preemptively attack Iran. Considering that nearly all the oil leaving the Middle East passes through the Strait of Hormuz, right off the coast of Iran, Iran is likely (and has threatened) to choke off this passageway if Israel or the United States attacks.⁴ This would put 40% of the world’s oil in the hands of a single country, and a volatile one at that.
In contrast, North Korea has perhaps the world’s most deranged dictator, Kim Jong Il. While the man is of poor health, his third son is poised to take over. North Korea, with its habit of testing missiles and bombs, is a major threat to our ally, South Korea. North Korea also has the capability to strike Japan, and even Hawaii with its missiles.⁵
The UN’s dream of a nuke-free world is nice, but idealist, at least for now. If every nation were a democracy or a constitutional republic, it would be easier to rid the world of most of its nuclear weapons. But, for now, with some of the world’s farcical governments threatening proliferation and stockpiling, we’ll have to put that dream on hold.
1) http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/world/middleeast/02nuke.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
2) http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLP63169620090226
3) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_re_eu/eu_iran_nuclear
4) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,374905,00.html
5) http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/03/n.korea.military/index.html

On the night of September 17, 2009, in front of a packed audience at Baker Hall, TJ Leyden, a former Neo-Nazi white supremacist recruiter, gave Lehigh University students some StrHATE Talk on how to turn away from hate. At least, this is how it was advertised – and you know what they say about truth in advertising. It really should have been “Former Neo-Nazi talks about all the bad things he’s done in his life and why other people shouldn’t do them.”

Specifically, the flyer for the speech said Leyden became “one of the nation’s most compelling advocates for the importance of diversity and cultural importance.” Pfft. Leyden spent maybe five minutes of his two hours on diversity. He mostly talked about his history in the white supremacy movement and the violent acts he committed. The explanation of his exit from this lifestyle was more of an afterthought.  He never really explained how he repented. He also found time to insult the US military, equating the Marine Corps to a racist organization that hates gay people. He even said that “The military made [him] a better racist.”

TJ Leyden was a white supremacist, and this feeling was deeply held. He recalled one particularly gruesome event in which he kicked a kid in the thumb with his steel-toed Doc Martens so hard that air escaped the body as the bone broke the skin. His explanation for leaving the white supremacist movement was even more confusing than that event was grotesque. He said he got out of it because he didn’t want his two sons to become radicalized and end up in prison. This led him to turn his life around, somehow. The problem here is repentance. He goes into an anecdote about how his mom forced him to go to a Jewish tolerance center. At no point in the lecture did he explain how he realized his beliefs were wrong, nor did he fully explain these so-called activities of repentance.

Leyden is a consultant for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization. But he didn’t really explain how his “expertise” is of value to their efforts. For all we know, he’s just capitalizing on his knowledge of the skinhead movement. I doubt he talks to them about diversity…

This lecture was marketed as a Neo-Nazi turned diversity advocate. If he’s the latter, he didn’t make that clear. He had some compelling words about how important diversity is, but he also made a very judgmental remark. First off, he told everyone to “Fight racism with your mind, not your fists.” Powerful words indeed, but not something most college students haven’t heard before from sources with considerably greater moral authority.

That’s not to say this lecture wasn’t interesting. The fact that there’s a video game where the objective is to kill the “Master Jew” in the subway is twisted enough to border on comedy. I also learned that the inventor of the electric can opener, Ben Klassen, founded a white supremacist group called the “World Church of the Creator,” which advocates a whites-only religion. And there’s at least one thing Leyden and I can unequivocally agree on: he’s a Packers fan.

Abortion was popularized in the United States by Margaret Sanger, founder of the American Birth Control League, known today as Planned Parenthood. Though the name is more benign, the organization’s purpose remains the same. Interestingly enough, Margaret Sanger promoted abortion as a method of eugenics. Approximately 1.37 million abortions occur every year in the United States alone. [1]

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Traditionally, Democrats claim to support tolerance, but, from the looks of the mainstream media, can’t seem to stand the conservative viewpoint. Excluding Fox News, there are two conservative anchors on television: John Stossel of ABC and Glenn Beck of CNN Headline News. Since Beck is moving to Fox News in the spring, soon Stossel will stand alone. Although Fox News was determined to have the most balanced election coverage by the bipartisan Center for Media and Public Affairs , it is regularly bashed by liberal pundits from Keith Olberman to Katie Couric. They see it as being the network of the far-right fringe, with Bill O’Reilly leading the sheep off a cliff. Not only is this blatantly false, but they also practice the exact tactics that they unsuccessfully blast Fox News for. At least Fox News has had guests like Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Rosie O’Donnell, and other members of the liberal fringe. When was the last time you saw Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter on MSNBC? Bernard Goldberg, political commentator and former 28-year member of CBS News, has elaborated on this topic in all four of his New York Times bestselling books.

Prior to a few weeks ago, I had never really had any real world experience with the intolerance of the left. All that changed when, against my better judgment, I attended a party hosted by staunch Democrats. I wasn’t expecting much, especially since it was only an hour after the first presidential debate. The party pretty much went without a hitch for the first few hours. But as the party started to wind down, I got into a discussion with someone who lived in the house and was an obvious Obama supporter. I knew it would be a fun debate. He was quick to say Obama won the debate. I disagreed, but he couldn’t stand it. After a few exchanges, he proceeded to call me a name so awful I can’t repeat it here. Then he kicked me out. Obviously, I really got to him. And the Left preaches tolerance?

While the Right cannot be given a free pass on tolerance, the Left has made a sport out of their intolerance to conservative values. Keith Olberman believes a “race riot” will occur if Obama loses the presidential election. Liberals in the mainstream media also ignore the huge stories that showcase the successes of Conservative policies and practices. For example, it has just come to my attention that earlier this year US soldiers removed some 550 tons of Uranium from Iraq. So, when Liberals say that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction, they really mean 550 tons. None of this surprises me; it happens all the time. Fox News is the closest thing to unbiased news reporting there is. The Liberals can have their faltering ratings and crazy soapbox-mounting guests. I’ll take the number one name in news.