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I was somewhat taken aback when I heard Ann Coulter saying something close to “our blacks are better than theirs”.   When did her Republican Party take ownership of conservatism? Being a conservative is not limited to any party and does not tag anyone as a particular member of any party.   There are conservatives who are members of the Democratic Party as well as Independents.   It has never been a big part of any real party to label themselves as one party or another.   We are mostly conservative in some areas while being liberal in others.   We can hold principles from all areas while following either party.   This explains why many of us may agree with those of our own party while also disagreeing with them at the same time. History has taught us that being so lamented in one phase or another limits our ability to compromise and make the tough decision necessary for the betterment of a nation.   No one should ever be in any situation where ...

Listening to President Barack Obama’s speech today about infrastructure spending tells me that if Mr. Obama continues on this path, the road to the White House by any Republican will be long and hard. We all remember Senator Mitch McConnell’s direction to his party to make this president a one-termer.   Their idea was to do everything that they could to keep unemployment high and block every idea he supports.   They could not have been more wrong.   What this is showing voters is that even if unemployment numbers are high, blocking things that will help Americans or not proposing one job bill or doing anything that will benefit the majority; they too cannot be trusted to govern. The Republican party is not making the choice of enduring their party to the American public, they are showing that they cannot be trusted to govern and are willing to let this country fail apart just to try and prove a point about this administration.   Pundits are saying that this ...

America wonders why politicians do not hear them when they speak except when it’s close to election time, but Occupy Wall Street and its off-shoots all over the world is beginning to change that. When Occupy Wall Street protestors decided to collect signatures of individuals willing to close out their accounts with Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, the banks finally decided to honor their customers by putting them before profit when they cancelled the proposal to raise surcharges.   The main argument about falling profits is the same for big business as it is for government. Every time there appears to be a need to reduce spending, government looks immediately at the salaries or income of those in the middle class and if you listen closely to their talking points, they will say that the biggest expense is payroll.   Government also looks to cut programs that serve the middle class and poorest among us.   Now here comes big business doing the exact same thin...

We all have heard that a Tea Party group is requesting that Republican Presidential Nominee Michele Bachman step down as a candidate but maybe the reason she hasn’t is as simple as the nose on your face. Ms. Bachman may be looking at this run as an opportunity to elevate her status in the political arena and provide her an opening to have a bestselling book sometime in the future.   She probably saw herself as a better possible candidate than Sarah Palin but like Palin would resign herself to a book deal, king maker and a reality show star. We must ask ourselves if this is not where the status of our political world is.   The status of not asking what we can do for our nation but what our nation can do for us.   Have we really become that selfish where only our thoughts, ideas and desires matter and not the welfare of our country.   We need to demand that if you take on the job of serving and protecting America, you must do all that you can to accomplish tha...

After hearing so much about the need for a new tax system and a few unconventional plans like the “999” plan   or the choice of a flat 20% and staying with the current system, I decided that I would give it a shot.     With the reduction in the brackets, standard deductions, estate taxes and the elimination of the alternative minimum tax, I think this plan has something for everyone.   Information from Government Spending in the United States retrieved from www.usgovernmentspending.com , says that the normal federal expenditures is 6 trillion dollars divided as 18% for Healthcare, 15% for Education, 12% for Welfare, 16% for Pensions, 15% for Defense and 24% Discretionary/Remainder.   I have taken this 6 trillion dollar number to use in my calculations and attempting to reach this number in my tax reform plan.   It was also important to take a look at what is reported to be the current breakdown regarding revenue.   This information was retrieved...

I was watching MSNBC and saw a report from Luke Russert regarding the super committee and their work to reduce the deficit by 1.2 trillion dollars.   Mr. Russert and Savannah Guthrie spoke about how Republicans really had an incentive to reach a compromise if for no other reason than to avoid the deep cuts to defense. I may be wrong but I cannot help but think that a party who were willing to allow this country to go into default and have been targeting social security, Medicare and other social safety nets, would not really care about deep cuts to any program as long as it does not give this president a supposed win on anything.   I would consider it a miracle if they worked really hard at anything which involved this administration. How soon we forget, that before this president was even inaugurated, the Republicans had met and decided not to help this president in any way.   What allowed him to get as much done as he did was the majority in the House and the S...

One of the major reasons why protestors in the national occupy Wall Street movement is receiving enormous support from the public is its willingness to work with city leaders and police.   It appears that some in other places are looking to challenge that premise. We are not sure if it is because they have been infiltrated with people whose primary mission is to do anything to give this movement a bad name or by people who meant well but have been overwhelmed by anger and want to act accordingly.   What we do know are those who wish to defying the law loses creditability when advocating for the law.   In order to show that all Americans should be treated equally under the law, it must be done within the confines of the law.   Breaking the law to make a point only clouds that point because the only thing remembered is the point became mute after it was revealed that you stepped over the boundaries. Occupy Wall Street protestors should be careful to monitor th...