Recently, on his little world tour including the G20 economic summit in London, President Barack Obama said to the gathered European socialists that his country, we..., the United States Of America.., have been arrogant.  That we need to practice humility.

United States citizens gave approximately 306 billion dollars to charity in 2007, more than at any time in our country's history according to the center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
 
Is that arrogance, Mr. President...?

According to the government agency USAID which works through the State Department to aid countries who have suffered disasters or extreme poverty, The Us provided $1,620,422,634 in food and related assistance worldwide in 2007, $1,475,127,549 in 2008.
 
Arrogance, Mr. President...?  We need to practice humility, Mr. President?
 
Countless thousands of United States soldiers, our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, spilt blood and died defending freedom in foreign countries in defense of our values of freedom at home.
 
Yet, you say We are arrogant, Mr. President...?

I find it very disturbing that the self-annointed Conservative illuminati bloggers and media pundits in the DC beltway still find themselves reluctant to proclaim the prinicples of the ideology.  This highlights why the Republicans are crumbling as an institution.  The tremendous opportunity being wasted by those on our side who seek to criticize Conservatism as out-of-touch or a values system that doesn't belong in this day and age is heartbreaking. This is a moment in history that is crying out for unity all the way back to our founding fathers. It is important that we all stand on solid ground with an approach to reaching out by defining the prinicples of Conservatism, and bringing home the foundational values of Conservatism as a rising tide lifting all boats, wanting everyone big or small to succeed, sweeping away the debris of red tape and government tax burdens to open opportunites as wide as they can be. A leader motivates people with grand vision, not policy wonking. Look at Obama, he sold a fantasy to a public that was ready to buy into anything that would change What they felt was wrong with the Bush administration. It was a phony pledge of cutting waste and restoring consumer confidence, ending war and making peace with world leaders who want to destroy us. It was all a ruse, just like his phony economic summit and phony healthcare summit where he asks people to form groups and come up with answers to all of our problems in a few hours. Absolute garbage and nonsense, a sideshow designed to make it seem like he's being bi-partisan or non-partisan. Conservatism is a real philosphy with principles that work. Conservatism is not a complicated philosophy, it's a common sense approach to life that people more often than not follow without even realizing it. There's a golden moment here, when the heralds of Conservative values should all be standing up to enjoin a common cause, to restore the real vision of this country, the freedom from which everything great that we have attained as a nation has arisen. To restore the reverence the Constitution deserves as the document that has so far kept us from falling into the tar pits of socialism and communism. To put the real history of our country back into its proper perspective. At this pivotal moment we can't afford to have petty bruised egos in the punditry of elitist Conservative circles trying to undercut the push to salvage the American way of life.
 
 I think what the liberals fear most about talking about thier goals of a socialized American society, is that they KNOW liberal ideas can not withstand being debated. Liberalism falls flat on its face when it has to be defended in logical rational context. When exposed, liberalism makes no sense at all, and in fact is clearly antithetical to freedom. The liberals know that Obama's agenda is pure socialism and can only succeed without debate. I work in customer service at a major international company that is currently in the process of laying off about 2400 people worldwide. People who I know and have worked with have been cut, fortunately no one in my immediate group, but it certainly puts focus on the fact that a slowdown in the economy effects everyone, even big coporations that are in the black financially such as the one I work for have had to make some cutbacks due to a depressed market, cutbacks that effect people's livelihood. All the spending bills being crafted and passed in DC are not going to drive people to increase personal consumption. Most people know this about thier own situations. And that's why there's is palpable disgust with the exorbitant spending coming out of DC. It not only will do nothing to restore the consumer base of the country's business, but it also drives down the markets that invest in  businesses because of the uncertainty that comes from the government artifically propping up failing consumer industries. Putting pressure on big companies by raising taxes on them is putting people OUT OF WORK. The evidence is everywhere.    Everything that is great about our culture and society arises from one single overarching ideal, freedom.  Socialism and facism, both of which are in the process of happening, is pure poison to freedom. Our founders gave us an incredible document for structuring our government so that it does not become a debacle like the socialized European nations who are collapsing under thier own failing systems. We need to turn the country's vision, heart, and soul back to understanding why we have progressed as far as we have. And why this agenda of destructive government intrusion is exactly the opposite vision that our founders had for this country.

 - Mike Silverman

  As a nation we've been psychologically neutered. We have given psycho-chiatrists along with willing culprits in the liberal children's interests and congressmen, the status of GOD and have not challenged them when they say that children are so all important that we can not punish them, nor reprimand them, nor actually give them failing grades or losing scores when they fail in academia or competition, nor deny them any sexual exploration they choose to engage in but instead foster it by helping them with condoms. We have been convinced that children are little ceramic angels on a shelf that we need to tend carefully, not jostle in any way, and treat like priceless objects of art that can do no wrong. We have been liberalized. It's one of the 100% wins for liberalism. We can't dare speak out against anyone proposing higher spending and taxes when it's labeled as "for the children". The liberals have really bamboozled the masses on this one.  This is liberalism at it's most deadly, at it's darkest. When liberalism attacks the foundation of normal , natural learning at the elementary level, and implants in the minds of children that they are deities who rule, rather than ignorant children who must learn, it sets them up for absolute destruction. Liberals may think it builds thier self esteem ( though I don't think they really believe that... I think there's another agenda behind this...), but it does precisely the opposite. It will send children into confusion, despair and morbidity as they grow up when they finally confront the fact that thier every whim is not going to be carried out... when they finally realize that they are very, very fallible creatures. Those are the sheltered coddled kids who suddenly will realize that the world is far more unfair than they were led to believe and fall into a morbid form of self pity. In an almost ingenious way, however, it sets up liberal ideologues to hold power over the resulting adults who can not fend for themselves because they never learned how. This is an age of cultural decay and the rot is thick in some places. By tiny steps and little nudges that don’t upset the apple cart, we have been inching toward a society that will welcome a socialized form of government as way of life. Life is complicated, often filled with more failures than successes, stresses and emotional strains, joys and tragedies. But that’s life. If we allow our financial failures to be mitigated by tax money, our personal failings to be blamed on others or on society, and our moral vestment in the ethic of working for what we need and for what we want… to be superseded by an attitude of entitlement …, then we are not engaged in life. Such a scenario places us in a plastic bubble controlled by a faceless societal leviathan known as our Federal Government who will take the role of surrogate parent from prenatal to postmortem. This should be relegated to the vistas of science fiction and fantasy, not a part of our real world.

 - Mike Silverman,

There are generally two schools of thought regarding bullies. The first approach is to take them head-on and show them you will not tolerate being abused. The other approach is to ignore them, don't feed thier ego, and eventually they give up. It's been soundly proven that the second approach is almost always an abysmal failure. Ignoring the bully either entices him to be even more brazen in his attacks, or it appears to give the bully credibility since you won't defend yourself..., or both. So why bring this up? Sarah Palin has been bullied by the press, by Hollywood, by every Democrat pundit, from nearly the very first day that McCain announced her as his choice for a running mate. Her children, her husband, her stature as a mother, her intelligence, have been ridiculed in the way a mindless bully attempts to ridicule who he perceives to be the most defenseless target on the playground. As a politician a certain amount of this comes with the job, and you have to allow it to roll off your back..., to a degree. But there comes a time when it's reached its limit and the bullies need to be taught a lesson. When people who were on your side are turned against you launching the most petty, snide, cowardly, immature attacks from deep in the shadows, helping your enemies to tear you down, it's time to go after those traitors. Senator McCain proves again he is an absolutely bitter ingrate and a waste of time, as he sits idly by allowing lies from his own campaign staffers to be tossed at Governor Palin. Why? Because he never liked Conservatives and thinks they are the problem with the Republican Party. Sarah Palin worked harder than McCain himself in the last nine weeks of the campaign, to try to get him elected. And everyone I know thinks it's also disgraceful that Fox News drools this garbage all over it's network without first waiting for a response from governor Palin so that it can be presented as a fair and balanced report. Cameron should be fired for his hack journalism in aiding this spreading of innuendo and lies and violating the credo of his own network's slogan of fair and balanced.

Also have you heard of Obama's plan to force all public school students to perform community service? This is the sort of thing courts punish criminals with. Obama wants to do this to students. Obama said... "So when I'm President, I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year. This means that by the time you graduate college, you'll have done 17 weeks of service.". So what is this supposed to be, Obama's forced labor camps? Will the students have to wear t-shirts with Obama's image on them while they perform thier forced labor? What's next? Every school room must have a portrait of Obama on the wall that the students have to salute? Looks like we better hold on tight. The Obama presidency is going to be a very bumpy ride for those who cherish freedom.

 - Mike Silverman

 I learned three things from Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech at the Democrat National Convention last night. She thinks very highly of herself. She supports Obama for President. she thinks the typical US citizens are living in their own feces and it's all the fault of George Bush. Biggest lie in the speech; when she said that she believed the US is a great country. She doesn't believe that. Her examples of citizens she met during her campaign were of desperately struggling people in terrible situations. Victims. That was what Hillary presented. The US is filled with victims because, by her standards we are not enough of a socialist nation. Tell us Hillary, where were the examples of citizens who succeeded in reaching thier dreams, without needing the government to make it happen for them? They are out there, Senator. Did you even bother to try to find those success stories? What else did we learn. We learned that the US is still envisioned in a caste system of wage classes by Democrats. The rich are always too rich and need to be taxed more, oil companies are evil and need to be taxed more than ever, and the availability of health services to those in need is not good enough and therefore needs to be taken over by the government for all people and be doled out like watered down soup at a homeless kitchen. Hillary asked her voters, if they were "in it" for all the people in the country who feel invisible. Apparently, to Hillary, being "visible" means having your needs taken care of by the government, but more importantly having a Democrat in the White House. Who are the IN-visible people that Hillary thinks need a Democrat politician to make them visible? This is a sick view of the United States, and a wrong view. In this country individuals are as visible as they choose to be. Just ask the Re-Create 68 protesters outside the Democrat National Convention. But let's look at what a real American success story is. How many people have heard the name Sam Walton? Probably a lot. The reason is that this Oklahoma farm boy who started out with very little grew up through hard work and creative ideas to become founder of the biggest retail chain in the world, Wal-Mart. But that's just one example of the great success that can be grasped by anyone with the drive and inspiration to avail themselves of the opportunities of a capitalist marketplace in this country. Hillary's sob stories about victims are not motivational, not inspirational, do not speak to what can be achieved nor point out the greatness of the US. We need a leader who looks out across this country and sees the great things that are happening now and that "can" happen because of the freedoms and opportunities that are not tamped down by an overbearing government implementing a socialized system of sameness for all people.

- Mike Silverman