For those of you who are still waiting to be offended by this current ad, don’t worry-America is also still waiting for the outrageous part. A woman talks about how she almost lost her son, and is glad that he is alive (along with the rest of Gator Nation) and this is somehow a grave sin committed against the almighty gods of choice. You see ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what the Tebow ad did was expose the strawman of the Left. You know-we aren’t pro abortion, we are pro choice, we aren’t anti-family, we are just for every kind of family, traditional or otherwise. The Tebow ad on national television made no specific mention of abortion, other than a very subtle celebrate life as the Focus on the Family ad, yet the feminazi choice gods found it offensive enough to go to CBS to attempt to have the ad pulled. Unfortunately for them, this little episode let the cat out of the bag for the Left, and their true views are out there for the world to see.

You see the Left has a very real interest in the destruction of the traditional family, because their true vision is to transform the very fabric of American society. Their goal is for American to eschew the Judeo-Christian moral fabric America was founded on for their new age moral relativism. Any attempt to portray abortion as a life altering procedure must be destroyed from the narrative. To the Left, their goal is to make abortion as much a product of American life as getting a physical or buying a new car. This is why they wish to call it a fetus, rather than a person, because once we dehumanize something, it is acceptable to destroy it, to kill it, to eradicate it from our minds. Any attempts to frame abortion as murder must be destroyed-so those who advocate life become sexists, misogynists, fringe lunatics, Bible thumping Christians stuck in the dark ages.

The same thing is done to those who would argue in favor of the traditional family. In order to push moral relativism, these same things must be done to our children as well as our teenagers. Marriage must become an irrelevant institution, the strawman here is the high rate of divorce. The goal here is not to point out what marriage is meant to be, rather what marriage has become. Therefore the Left is more than happy to give us the final push down the slippery slope of the degeneration of the American family. Heather has two Mommies for our preschoolers, "age appropriate sex ed for kindergartners", and fisting for twelve year olds while saying F you to the "religious right". Again, those who would argue against these procedures put forth by the radicals in the Obama administration such as Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings, sponsor of fisting for underage kids is branded a homophobe and fringe fundamentalist lunatic. But what is really driving the Left completely crazy is though they have attempted to redefine normality in America, America still rejects their vision. Republicans hold a 14 point lead 46-32 on the issue of abortion, a continuation of the findings last year by Gallup that America is a majority pro-life country .

Where does this leave us a party, and as a country. It leaves us to do as we having been doing since Obama was inaugurated as the only messiah the Left would ever be caught worshiping. We are left to fight for the family and to fight for our children. As the people from California to Maine fight to preserve the traditional family and reject the Left’s attempts to shift our society from tradition to moral relativism, we must ask if we are up to the task. Are we happy with RINOS Scott Brown, John McCain and Mark Kirk, who would fight to destroy the moral fiber of our society with the Left? Or do we stand for something more? Can we stand up and offer a true choice-the choice of life, the choice of the family, the choice that we will defend what made America great? Do we have the courage of Pam Tebow to make the rights choices out of morality rather than convenience, or are we content to become a majority without morals? This is the country we leave to our children-its up to us to make sure it is one they can be proud of.

Tomorrow Republican Scott Brown seeks to claim victory against what once was thought of as a shoo-in coronation of Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley. Tomorrow we being to reclaim the idea that conservatism, even in Massachusetts is preferable to Obama’s all powerful state. We have run in many ways, the perfect candidate, Scott Brown, White Knight of Massachusetts. All of you know that I love to use the Dark Knight (it being, the great conservative movie of the decade and all), to be short Scott Brown is our Harvey Dent. The People’s candidate for the People’s seat-I believe in Scott Brown. I also believe in Marco Rubio, another bright, attractive, young conservative candidate looking to reform the way business is done in Florida, and Michael Williams, Black Conservative running in Texas. Right now, the Republicans are preparing for a 1994 like wave that will possibly propel us to take back the House and the governorships. However, while I’m making Batman references, I’m reminded of an exchange between Gotham’s White Knight and Gotham’s Mayor (Yeah Guiliani )about promoting a likable candidate in an unlikable time full of citizen anger about the state of their government.

BW: People are dying Alfred, what would you have me do?

A: Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.

As we prepare to close the decade, we reflect on what has become an uneasy week for all of us with the third attempted terrorist attack in the Obama administration. For the third consecutive time, the Obama administration’s response has been what we have come to expect from weak kneed liberals-that of appeasement, deflection, and of course the rationale that this is one person, not a member of a group with a clear and concrete agenda. Obama’s response in other words, has been to give the Al-Qaeda Joker what they want-a population gripped with fear and terror, and no end in sight. Obama has shown that once again, he is more worried about hurting the feelings of Muslims than doing what is right for America. America is once again being shown to be the paper tiger without teeth that it was under the Clinton administration.

Contrast that with the last eight years, from 2000-2008. Many people, and rightly so, criticized President Bush for his poor fiscal policy, but his national security stance was something that was unprecedented. The United States under President Bush was quite clear that the USA would consider any country that aids and abets terrorists to be an enemy of the United States, and would be dealt with appropriately. 9/11, a response of the  security failures and responses of the Clinton administration to Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda was the first shot in the United States Global War on Terror, a shot heard by George W. Bush. Bush never cowered, never kneeled to other countries leaders in the hopes that they might like us more. Bush fought for justice, for freedom, and for the American way. President Bush understood that this is not a war that we could win in a day or on one front,and that it is more important to be safe and hated around the world, than to be idolized and left open for enemy fire.

This is something that the Obama adminstration refuses to do-even after Fort Hood, even after Arkansas, even after a Nigerian man sneaks onto a plane, trying to blow it up, with Al-Qaeda taking credit for all attacks. Obama still cannot acknowledge the fact that the War against terror did not end when President Bush left office, no matter how many foreign leaders Obama tries to appease. Remember, Obama said in the primaries that he would meet with leaders of terrorist states without preconditions, something that he is still talking about, with White House leaders still planning trips to Tehran. The DHS leader claims after a terrorist nearly ignites a bomb on a plane that “the system worked.” Where is the leadership? Remember that 3AM call? Are you still sure that you want Obama taking that phone call America?

Alfred Pennyworth: Some men aren’t looking for anything logical like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

This is the difference between President Obama and President Bush, because President Bush knew that the only justice for terrorists is death. The only reason they understand is on the receiving end of a bullet, and the only negotiation they deserve is whether they want to be shot in front or in the back. No retreat, no surrender, was the mantra under President Bush. We know he was no good on fiscal policy, and that the GOP grew fat with content under W. But on the most important job the President has, as commander in chief President Bush gets an A+. He doesn’t have to be eternally beloved, because he’s more concerned about keeping everyone safe.

Because he’s the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

For the last eight years, we thank you President Bush, for keeping us safe. As the USA descends into possible chaos, we remember a man who stood strong in the face of evil and never surrendered. A man who spat in the faces of our enemies and was killed in the media and by our own people for not retreating. Now the weakness of liberalism is on display, and our country is in danger. If only the Dark Knight were still here to protect us. For doing your job, America and history will look better on you than we did while you were in power. Thank you George W. Bush, millenium man of the decade.

As I’m sure everyone in the blogosphere knows, Left and Right, we are in the middle of an increasingly fierce partisan battle over the socialization of the healthcare system pushed forth by Obama and San Fran Nan. What some Republicans and Democrats have done, aided by the Council of Catholic Bishops is craft provisions within this bill that essentially add the Hyde Amendment to this bill, further ensuring that no federal dollars will be used in this bill to fund abortion. Many Democrats are willing to concede the point of abortion for the purpose of getting this bill through. However, there are enough Democrats that are wedded to the abortion lobby that they are willing to kill the entire healthcare bill in order to ensure that abortion on demand is covered in the socialization of the healthcare bill. The Church of course, stands against any bill that provides abortion, and is willing to deny Catholic politicians Communion, the holiest of rites for spouting their pro-choice viewpoints in the face of Catholic teaching.

This point about abortion is a non-negotiable point for Catholics who wish to remain in good standing with the Church; the sanctity of life is not for convenience, or something that is optional. Therefore, how can Notre Dame, the nation’s largest and most visible Catholic University, consider hiring pro-choice candidate Brian Kelly. Is Coach Kelly an excellent football coach? His record certainly points to it, but his positions are unacceptable for Notre Dame. If abortion is such an important issue that the Vatican would see fit to intervene (rightly so, I would add, especially considering that this is an overhaul that will affect the next generation for life), than how can the coach of the largest Catholic University be a pro-choice “Catholic”? I bring up this point about the Church because the Church, like political parties, recognizes that there are significant hills to die on, and one of those hills is in the fight for the lives of the unborn. We so often speak about the idea of a big tent within the GOP, but as we know, if you expand a tent too wide, all of the poles will eventually fall.

Like the Church, it is necessary to call out the RINOs, and the fake conservative Ds, who pretend to be one thing but do another.  Christ tell us “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” It is not enough for us to give lip service to abortion, and talk about it in blogs and in our friends, but we must hold the politicians responsible who insist on grotesquely distorting the value of human life, wherever we see it, whether it is in the football field of Notre Dame, or in the hallowed halls of the Capitol. It is not enough to celebrate passing an overhaul of the healthcare system or winning a college football championship if you have sacrificed your principles to get there. Indeed what do you benefit to gain the whole world and lose your soul? Some say not to turn this into a battle over abortion and then state that their is nothing that social conservatives can do in terms of legislative policy. We can stand athwart history yelling stop, as Buckley advised us to so many years ago. Many Catholics would rather see Notre Dame lose 100000 games in a row than to lose its Catholic identity, the same way that many conservatives would rather see nothing at all pass than any healthcare reform that aids and abets killing the unborn. Our time to fight is now on all fronts, and like Dylan Thomas advised us, we will not go gentle into this good night. Let us rage, rage against the dying of the Light!

As anyone who is not living under a rock knows, Governor Palin wrote a book about her experiences as McCain’s VP, as well as about family and life. While the mere fact that the woman who is unable to read can write a book was news to the Left, the fact that it shed some light on why her role as VP was botched has driven the far Left and the Republican Left completely insane, much like anything that might make the unfortunate mistake of mentioning Governor Palin’s name these days. Whenever you hear Sarah! mentioned in the MSM, or even in mainstream conservative circles, you can be sure that it will be accompanied by some kind of derision or sarcasm from the press, who see her as a dumb Alaskan hick leading the stupid Christians and fringe nutcases by the collar. But unfortunately for the Left, their psychology surrounding Sarah is quite clear; to quote The Dark Knight (one of the best and most conservative movies made in this decade) “the fact that they’re trying to kill you means you’re getting to them.” And that my friends is the problem with Sarah!-she has exposed the Left and is seizing the leadership mantle of the Right, and while putting a sexy fresh face on the conservative movement.

What Sarah has done by embracing the Tea Party movement, and the conservative movement is divide the party. She has drawn a line in the sand and stated clearly, and unabashedly that she stands with the conservative wing of the conservative party, and that it is more important for us to be a party with values and principles, than a party that is willing to stand for anything and fall for everything. This is the key to revitalizing the Republican Party-as much as some of us would at times want to pack our balls and go home, the only way for conservatism to have a political voice is within the structure of the Republican Party. Thus, we need to take our party back from the McCain wing of the party that wishes to tell us, like they told Sarah, to sit down, shut up, and bat our eyelashes for the cameras. Unfortunately for McCain and his minions, Sarah is a better reflection for the GOP than he is, based on the Rasmussen Report that 59 percent of Republicans believe that Sarah! best reflects our values, compared with the fact that 74 percent of folks in the GOP think that the Republicrats in Washington are out of touch with their base.  A new leader brings a new direction, and the fear that the fat cats could lose their place in the Washington elite and actually ::gasp:: be held accountable for their voting comes as a shock to most of the Congressional GOP. So why attack and address the message, when it is far easier to attack the messenger?

Governor Palin has promised to take the Republican Party in a new direction, one that Gingrich, McCain and their wing of the party are bound and determined not to take it. While Gingrich tells We the People to lie down and take a liberal being shoved down our throats, Palin advises us to stand up and fight. And as McCain goes from state to state, campaigning and fighting for liberal Republican candidates to stop the growing conservative movement within the party, Palin endorses the conservative candidates and speaks and campaigns on their behalf. It is no wonder that Mark Kirk, former McCainiac and aspiring Senator has written Palin, begging for her endorsement. NY23 has changed the game for Sarah Palin-she is no longer the former governor who resigned to early for a book deal. Sarah! is now shaping the party, and deciding who is worthy of the blessing (and GOTV soldiers) of the movement. Dede’s kiss of death was just the beginning.

We know know from Going Rogue that McCain and his people tried to muzzle Sarah, and control her throughout the campaign, a campaign that would have been further lost without her. We know that Sarah can energize crowds, decide an election and provide a boost or boon to a candidate who does not meet the conservative standards that she has help set within the party. The real problem that the Leftists have with Sarah is that she is Rudy without the legendary snarl. Sarah is a fighter, and one who is unwilling to back down to the folks who want to put her in a corner as a folksy but airheaded politician whose greatest accomplishment is being able to see Russia from her house. I admit, I orginially thought that the 2008 blunders were too much-until I started listening to what she had to say. The woman is conservative as it gets, and more importantly, she is willing to fight for the conservative cause, something that not even Fred ::ducks EPUS gunshot:: is willing to do. Considering this former Fredhead can become a Sarahcudda trooper, the question is not how do you solve a problem like Sarah; for the conservative movement, it is how many matches do we need for someone willing to pick up Reagan’s torch? It’s time to go rogue and make a differenec in our party and in our country. I asked a couple weeks ago where was our Leonidas? Perhaps our Spartan was a woman all long. You betcha!

What does this have to do with the state of the Republican Party today? Today we witnessed the unsurprising McCain like move of Scozzafava endorsing the Democrat, reaching around across the aisle to endorse the candidate who would best represent the district blah blah blah. As usual a McCainiac has come to stab conservatives directly in the chest, only to have the media and party leaders question the fact that conservatives are moving the party further to the right at the detriment of the party. However, under a closer examination, it has nothing to do with the party being taken over by extremists as much as it does that it is past time that a conservative party becomes taken over by conservatives. This is not a time for bowing down to the Democrats on bended knee as McCain and the Republican Main Street Leadership would have us do. This is a time, to quote Phylis Schafly, for the party to offer a choice, rather than an echo.

Scozzafava is the straw that broke the camel’s back in terms of who we are as a party. Many in leadership want us to be like Howard Dean, all things to all people depending on the region. I say that principle has not worked for the Republican Party; the more we have expanded the Big Tent as Karl Rove said, the more that conservatism has suffered. The liberals in the GOP have owned the party, and we spend far too much of our time covering liberals like McCain, Lapdog Lindsey and the stimulus voting Maine girls and not enough time advancing a comprehensive conservative agenda.

There are a concrete set of tested and true principles that are and should be non negotiable within the GOP-all of which revolve around the idea that the Judeo-Christian society and family are the best ways to create a strong America. This goes deeper than hot button issues of abortion and marriage; although those are important issues included in our party’s framework, it comes down to the way we view our society. We believe that the family is the focal point of our society, and whether it is through the use of increasing private and religous education or protecting the sanctity of life, we must provide an alternative to the liberal secular agenda.  We know of course that liberals believe that knuckle dragging Christians are incapable of raising successful children and must be indoctrinated by the village elders who believe that teaching God is dead and moral relativism is somehow more neutral than teaching that God is great, and there is a clear difference between good and evil.

As conservatives, we know that there is a difference between good and evil, and that as conservatives we are called upon for the greater good. We are not afraid to show our children the greatness of God, why should we deny this in front of our party and our nation? We must not put a few votes over the principle of saving the fabric of our society. Remember what Christ has taught us.

If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8:34-38)

It’s time to close this big Tent and rebuild this party as Reagan, the greatest and most conservative President of our time showed us how-within the principles of freedom, justice and the American way. We will stand and fight, not because we are dividers, but because we offer a clear alternative of society, one where we will stand up and fight for our children’s society. The tent has only room for principle, not party. Let us stand up for the family, and for our country from the McCains and Pelosis, for they are one and the same. We will do it ad majorem dei gloriam-for the greater Glory of God.

We have reached the point, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, where there is a full blown war going on in America. We are in the middle of a war for America’s heart and soul, a war that has implications from the coasts to flyover country, land of the bitter, God-Loving gun clingers. However, many on the Left accuse us as conservatives, of ignoring the inner city, and ignoring, in particular the African-American community. They believe that we should be promoting their increases in education subsidies that have proven to do nothing in terms of raising the quality of education, or supporting their War on Poverty that has not moved the number of Americans living in poverty by a full percent in forty years. Liberals are content to believe that their secular, big government programs and ideology are what the African-American family needs, despite the fact that the 40 years of LBJ’s Great Society have proved to be anything but great for African-American society. Once again, the true solution comes not from the village elders top down solutions, but from ground up, conservative values, including the most important value, which is the value of life.

The past couple of times that I have written, I have talked about the disintegration of American society, aided by the moral relativism of our times. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in the African-American community, where Black women are 5 times more likely than white women to have an abortion. However, this is only the beginning of the abortion holocaust that occurs in the Black community. It is not simply the fact that a disproportional number of Black women seek out abortions, but the question of why Planned Parenthood puts a disproportionate number of clinics in African-American neighborhoods. While we certainly have heard the shaky argument that the reason that more Black women have abortions is the lack of contraceptives, the real issue has yet to be discussed-that this was the vision of Margaret Sanger, noted eugenicist, Nazi sympathizer and founder of Planned Parenthood who believed that abortion was to be used to stamp out undesirable races. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not an issue of choice, this is an issue of targeted genocide.

The Center for Disease Control found in their most recent report that “Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC.  During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide, and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined.  These were the seven leading causes of death for black Americans that year. So what do we get from the race hustlers, the NAACP, the Jesse’s and Al’s, the first Black President on this issue? Deafening silence. The reason for their silence is because abortion is one of the problems, but is not the main disease. The disease is the breakdown of social, intellectual and cultural capital within the African-American community, which comes out of the breakdown of the African-American family.

When we look at statistics like the fact that over 1500 Blacks are killed by abortion each day, they are mind numbing, but unfortunately, hardly surprising given the state of the Black community. When you have 70 percent of children being born out of wedlock, with 60 percent never seeing a father, is it a surprise that this is a community being adversely affecting by the moral relativism of the village elders? These are the dark days envisioned by the Moynihan report, in which Senator Moynihan famously declared “At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.” This remains true today, with the high rates of homicide, abortion, drug abuse and crime within the African-American community being attributable to the lack of a familial structure that existed pre-1964, when African-Americans made the greatest progess in African-American society. It is not the village, along with the big government subsidies that Blacks need, but the a strong family and communal structure looking to lead  with good examples, rather than with good looks.

The shift in thinking is not simply with acknowledging the problem, but with offering a different solution. It is not enough as pro-family, pro-life conservatives to acknowledge that there is a disease effecting Black America, but we must be willing to step up with our own anecdote. My solution is to engage to rebuild a broken community from the bottom up, rather than top down. Marriage must be at the forefront of the community, and it is something that must be rebuilt, by encouraging marriage, rather than simple cohabitation. Mentorship programs helping fathers realize their roles within the family structure as well as church and pro-life activism seeking to include men within our ranks as positive examples of doing the right thing is infectious. Life begins at conception, but does not end there; if we are to convince more women to choose life, we must convince more men of the necessity of choosing life as well-the lives of their children. As Obama declares swine flu a national health hazard one could only wish that he could see the real health hazard going on in the Black community. One could only hope for his priorities to change-the lives of a dying generation depend on it, and all of us.

The latest example? NY23, where Doug Hoffman, a credible and conservative challenger running under the banner of the Conservative Party being endorsed by Sarah Palin, former VP of what used to be the opposition party to the Left’s agenda. NY23 being a solid R district, it is certainly one of the districts where we should be pushing the most conservative candidate, rather than the squishiest moderate who will maverick as soon as the New York Times comes calling. 2009 and 2010 seem to be banner years for conservatives, who have a chance to repeat 1994 if we could muster up the chance to fight. In a year of irony, Newt Gingrich plays Efialtis, the traitor who shows the Persians the path to victory by standing with the moderates, and kneeling to the party establishment, which wants us, the common people to kneel to it as a false god.

As I said, this is happening all over the country, with the party establishment countrywide working for the moderates and against conservatives who have an equal chance to win. We see it with Mr. Hoffman in New York, we see it happening with Marco Rubio in Florida, and we see it happening with Chuck Devore in California. Here in Michigan, we have a fighting chance of getting a true conservative as governor with Mike Cox, the attorney general proving that Michigan will elect conservatives if given the chance. However more often than not, the Republican Party has presented itself as Xerses, the Persian God, planning to take over and step over those who are unwilling to knee, as most of us are. We are the men who have carried the party on our back, blogging, fighting, joining committees and working as precinct captains for the Republican Party. And what is our thanks? They spit in our faces and work to remake the party to look like John McCain(McCain Party). However, it is not as though this should be surprising given McCain’s recent pledge to help Kirk in Illinois, Crist in Florida, and a host of other candidates around the country hijack our party and swing it to the Left and become liberals while the Democrats march towards socialism.

It is time for conservatives to stand and fight for what we believe in, against the Left of both parties. This is not a time for us to appease our enemies, as Obama and McCain continue the march towards Gomorrah. This is a time for the brave 300 to rise up and fight against the tyranny for liberty. This is about more than just an election, this is about the future of our nation. We have seen that simply having an R after your name is not enough. Giving the country to the McCainiacs would be almost as bad as giving it to the Obamas. Liberalism in the name of maverickism or socialism hardly sounds like a choice. Out of control spending with nods towards earmarks (which really isnt much when you look at the whole of our budget), abortion on demand, the eradication of the family and the church as the building block of society, and the breaking of America as a superpower and the end of American exceptionalism. The liberals and socialists want to break America and rob it of greatness to appease our enemies and the countries they want as our friends. They believe that if only we gave away our healthcare and taxed our rich and our businesses to another country, and eliminated God and guns folks would like us more.

Every great army has had a great leader, be it a great general (Patreaus will never betray us, hoo-ra) or a great commander in chief (George W. Bush, you had your problems, but security of America was never one of them). Where is our leader who will fight for our values? That leader is inside of all of us, the Tea Party goers, the town hall protesters, the 9/12 marchers. Obama says that we get in line and do what we are told, and Gingrich who is unable to lift his spear and fight with us tells us to get in line for the Republican Party. If we lose, we lose with glory, we lose with principle, we lose with honor. But by God, we must fight. We must fight so we can hold our heads high and tell our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren that there is an America that we believe in, an America that believes in liberty, freedom, and justice. Conservatives cannot stand and wait for a Leonidas to lead us, because right now we have none but ourselves. Pawlenty is an establishment fraud and a coward, Fred gets bored too easily and Sarah couldn’t even finish being governor. That puts me in the shaky position of looking at Huckabee who has backed conservatives like Rubio, called out the bailouts, and being moving and staying to the Right since 2008. But the real conservative fighter is within all of us, who will not let the Obamas and McCains tell us to kneel. Between Death and Surrender, there is an easy choice. Spartans never retreat, never surrender. America is worth fighting for.

Four years later, we have a new president, and I, aided by the births of my two wonderful, healthy (and at times overactive) boys, see a new purpose in life, and within my mission inside of the GOP. While I hold firm in my belief that the free market is the answer to our fiscal problems, it is impossible to look at the fiscal problems without also addressing the moral crisis that America faces in the age of Obama. I once was a moral relativist myself, having adopted the libertarian stance that the government should stay out of all affairs and let the people govern themselves. This is not a stance that I have abandoned; however it must be noted that one persons freedom should not be allowed to trample on someone else’s. While the Left believes in the village of Big Government overseeing the bitter, clinging people in flyover country, I know that it is not a village and all purposeful Big Brother government that the people need, but the family. While I once viewed this as the talk of radical Christian fundamentalists, it has become abundantly clear under Obama that the family is under attack.

Many of my socially conservative friends told me that I would become more socially conservative as I grew older with my two sons. I scoffed then, but I look now and see the need for a return to moral values and sensibilities as I worry about what kind of world that I am sending my children off to, both in the sense of school, and in the sense of morality around them. The problem is not the Christian Right attempting to foist a morality on the United States,a s I previously believed, but a need to defend our way of life from the liberal left which would seek to destroy our institutions in the name of the “common good”. I of course, can turn to the arguments for both abortion and gay marriage to confirm this moral decay. Liberals want us to turn a blind eye to both abortion and gay marriage because they are convenient for adults. The need to get rid of something out of a matter of convenience is simply the way things are supposed to be done according to today’s leftist. It is not a question of whether it is right or wrong for a woman to kill something living inside of her, it is simply a question of whether this decision makes the woman happy and feel better about her place in society. The same goes with marriage: it does not matter that marriage is created for the purpose of a family, and raising children within that marriage; in today’s society, marriage has shifted from being about children, to a societal need to confirm a sexual relationship between two adults. Since Walmart marriage for convenience is already on the table, it is no surprise that with this we are also treated to no fault, easy out divorce which makes it easier to get out of a marriage than it does to break a contract for chicken feed.

But really BlackCon, why should you care? Why should it matter what two loving couples choose to do within the walls of their own home? Shouldn’t we, as conservatives support freedom and liberty? I know these are the counter arguments, because I once made them in a diary on Redstate where I made the conservative case for gay marriage. However, my road to Damascus has been paved with light, in seeing that it is not a case where both parties are able to co-exist peacefully. Marriage is only the tip of the iceberg in which the liberals have used to seek and destroy the family. We have already seen how the gay rights agenda has begun the breakdown of Christian society, which would be more than happy to live in peace, undisturbed by the government. But when liberal insist on Christians adopting the gay agenda, that is when we are called to fight back for our own things. This has begun in Massachussetts, where the Catholic Church was forced to close because it would not adopt to gay couples in Catholic Charities. How long before Christian Churches would be stripped of their tax exempt status and sued for refusing to marry gay couples? How long before Catholic and Christian schools would be sued for discrimination for refusing to allow “Heather has two mommies” in their kindergarten classrooms? And what’s more, how is this appropriate material to begin discussing with kindergarterners in the first place?

The proof is in the pudding of the Obama administration, which employs a man who believes the Earth would be better without people, a man who believes in forced sterilization and abortions, a weather underground terrorist, someone who believed 9/11 was government conspiracy, and most recently, the Safe School Czar who wants to “queer the elementary schools”, has a goal of promoting the homosexual agenda within the classroom, and encouraged a child to continue to seek sex with older men as long as he is sure to wear a condom. The President who told us that personnel is policy, and to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with, has presented this statement to America: the age of morality is over, and the age of moral relativism has begun.

This is unfortunate not only for all Americans, but especially for African-Americans, who are the hardest hit among dysfunctional families, and because of this, unsurprisingly, are most affected by crime, abusive relationships, teenage pregnancy, and of course, a disproportional amount of abortions. Where people like former Senator Santorum stood up and addressed this with among other things, the Welfare Reform act, from Obama, Black America has been treated as if it does not exist other than when it is necessary for a photo op. Obama claims to believe that the key to Black America’s success is through the creation of stronger families, and yet gives all of the power to the Left which seeks to destroy the family that even he claims to understand is the key to success for the impovershed.

So where does that leave us as a party? It leaves us to take up the mantle of the family, because this is no time for hyphenated conservatism. Too many of us, myself included, sat back like fat cats in the Bush years, all too content to fight amongst ourselves while we were certain we were marching towards a permanent Republican majority. We must remember that our 90 percent friends are not our 10 percent enemies, in every single facet of conservatism. We must throw out the liberal McCainiacs, who seek the moral relativism of accomplishment and praise over principled leadership and moral stands. If we are to die like Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, let us make a glorious stand for conservatism, for we know that a new army of conservative Spartans is coming. Now is no time to appease and kneel to our liberal enemies in the name of compromise. We will fight, we will fight, we will fight. Because in the end, it is not our village that is under attack, but our families. And our children deserve it.

As some of you may or may not have noticed, I have been absent from the blogosphere for the past 2 months, doing some political soul searching as a Presidential election came and went past me. A variety of reasons caused me to go on this hiatus, but I have returned because I have been able to conclude that I still have something worthwhile to add to the blogosphere. The first time that I ever blogged 3 years ago and was recommended was when I blogged about the subject of race. Since then we have seen one of the most racially diverse administrations leave and make way for the first African-American President of the United States. This makes me proud, because we are moving towards a country that has realized Dr. King’s dream of seeing men for the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. However, this has especially meant something for me as a Black conservative libertarian; as the guy who has spent the last year in politics disagreeing with everyone, Obama’s candidacy and Presidency has put race in the forefront of the conversation like nothing else in my entire generation. This does not have to be a bad thing, except it is a terrible thing for the Republican Party, mainly because although the GOP was the party of abolition and civil rights, Republicans and conservatives have no idea how to begin or participate in a discussion about race relations.

I admire Republicans for many things, among them a commitment to a color blind society; however in order to bring that society about, the GOP has to understand the world that we live in is a world of identity politics, and to ignore them is something that the party will do to it’s own peril. Case in point, this whole Magic Negro nonsense that was caused by Chip Saltsman, who is running for the chairman of the RNC. Mr. Saltsman was giving out a CD, which of the 44 songs that were on it, included the song, “Barack the Magic Negro.” Republicans, as usual ran around like chickens with their heads cut off, with some ignoring it, some saying it was offensive, and some complaining that this whole thing was taken out of context, and was a parody done on Rush Limbaugh. All of this provides a gross miscalculation of the fact that Barack the Magic Negro is an offensive portrayal, and I don’t care who said it first or what color they were. More importantly, and what some people do not seem to get is that when the GOP does stupid things like this, it undermines the credibility gap that is already low for Republicans among Blacks and Latinos. If Mr. Saltsman were to get the RNC nod (and for the record, I don’t think he will), he would spend the first month answering questions about this stupid CD track. It is not why it was done, it is the fact that it was done that showed a lack of common sense that has already been sorely missing while Republicans were in the majority that we cannot have if we ever plan to break out of minority status.

The Republicans need a fresh face, and more importantly, they need someone who can go to the inner city, into the Black community, and into the Latino community and talk about why Blacks should vote for conservative measures. The old adage of talking “white” is something that has been addressed by Black conservatives, and indeed by President Obama himself in his 2004 DNC convention speech, referring to the need to say that a Black boy reading a book is not acting white. Republicans must emphasize the real issues in the Black community, not just socially conservative issues, but the real issues that are plaguing the lower class in urban environments. We must push for better schools, more accountability from teachers and parents, and a commitment to clean up the streets. We need to fight for true conservative reforms, like ending the drug war, which is locking up kids and wrecking their lives for doing non violent drug offenses. We need to improve the economy by breaking the stranglehold the unions have in keeping more jobs from coming into the city, and we must push things like cutting the corporate tax, cutting the business tax, and cutting the capital gains tax to bring businesses into the cities where unemployment is highest in a state. Not only that, we need to recruit African American candidates in our deep red states, where they will win, not just on the Blue/Purple states where a D tide will doom them. A start would be nominating Michael Steele to the post of RNC chairman, because he is someone who knows how to speak to everyone, and he knows how to talk about race without sounding like a stuffed suit Republican who is there because he has to be; Michael Steele is a man for all of the people who is always there because he wants to be. Conservatism is not dead, but with President Obama in office, the GOP has completely ceded the mantle on race. It is time to seize the day, or be permanently relegated to a white talking party shouting at a Magic Negro.

“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”-Barry Goldwater

As I write this, the United States is in a crisis mode, with everything from the economic meltdown on Wall Street, to the upcoming elections between John McCain and Barack Obama. It seems that in an election year, absolutely everything is magnified; threats are bigger, blips are catastrophes, and losses in war become bloodbaths. Yet throughout all of this, I am unsatisfied with both of the candidates’ positions in the War on Terror. Let me begin by saying that the United States has done an excellent job of recovering from the Bush administration’s bungling of the Iraq War to the point where victory has gone from impossible to a strong possibility. The promotion of General Patraeus also gives me great hope that he will continue to take the fight to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, where they are attempting to grow strong once more. Yet through all of this fighting against Al-Qaeda, we slowly allow our true enemies to gain power.

<p>Ladies and gentlemen, once again there is a specter invading the world again, the specter of imperial expansion, and our enemies are preparing for war as we sit and try to appease them just as we attempted to appease our enemies in World War II. We ignored Hitler, and attempted to appease him, and let him convince the world that he was for peace, and then we were all shocked when he began to invade Western Europe. The same thing is happening today as Iran pretends to have nuclear ambitions for peace, and out of the other side of their mouths, they call for Israel to be wiped off of the face of the Earth. Iran must not and cannot be allowed to gain nuclear capabilities, because we will know when they have been successful when a nuclear bomb is dropped on Tel Aviv. However, this is obviously not just an Iranian problem. The Iranians are aided by their allies in <s> Russia </s> the USSR, who have been moving back to their old ways as the Communist superpower they were before the Gipper destroyed them. Meanwhile, China continues to fund Iran’s weapons with the full knowledge that we are indebted to them economically, tying our hands militarily.</p>

Many people say that the United States is not supposed to be the world’s police force; however, since we are always the world’s savior we do have the right to protect ourselves. As the tyrant dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims that the era of “the American empire is over”, he plans to build his own Islamic empire and expand as Hitler did, murdering Jews in the process. The man who claims that the Holocaust never happened and that the “Zionist bankers” are responsible for the financial problems of America and Western Europe shows the same signs of anti-Semitic race baiting to a people that are all too willing and ready to blame the Jews for their problems, just as Germany was willing to blame the Jews for their economic problems. And make no mistake, Ahmadinejad would make the Holocaust look like a family barbecue, for his barbaric hatred of Jews makes Hitler look like a instrument of world peace. We cannot allow this madman to gain nuclear power, because he wants not energy, but weapons of war. We made the mistake of waiting until Hitler had already attacked to prepare for war with the Axis powers. Our enemies have already prepared for war; last month’s Soviet excursion into Democratic Georgia was simply a drill for more Soviet expansion, just as they did in the earlier part of the 20th century. I am willing do risk being labeled extremist and paranoid, for it is better to be paranoid that to let the next version of Hitler rise to power and begin to expand. The Iranian threat must be destroyed, and the Soviets must be vanquished before they can become the superpower that they wish to become. A World War III cannot be waged on our enemy’s terms, and we cannot wait for the war to be declared in the form of a mushroom cloud on Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. This is not a time for a moderate pursuit of justice, but a time for America to shine our light brightly for the rest of the world. We must show that America will always stand up to the enemies of freedom, justice, and the pursuit of happiness, and not let those who choose to amass power through fear, terror and tyranny control the world. We let one Holocaust happen, we must not stand idly while the second happens. As we look forward to the election, there are some things that matter more than electoral colleges. We must continue to fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at home and abroad. America is an exceptional nation, and the values that make us a great superpower make us exceptional and leaders to the world. We must be extremists in defense of liberty for extreme times, and we must pursue justice fully, not as moderates. The former Repub turned cowboy Maverick decrees it so, the only question is which path will our nation choose. When the smoke clears will it be said that America stood for greatness, or will we be remembered as falling as all other great civilizations did, because we sought to appease terror rather than stand up and fight. There is only one man who I trust to fight for us, and I only hope that President McCain will not wait for the rest of the world, but be willing to take on the next phase of the War on Terror unilaterally if necessary, for the sake of the world, even in the ungrateful region of Western Europe.

[http://townhall.com/Columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/09/16/the_neocons_palin_project?page=2](http://townhall.com/Columnists/PatrickJBuchanan/2008/09/16/the_neocons_palin_project?page=2)

Buchanan asserts Yet, on Tuesday, Palin was behind closed doors with Joe Lieberman and officials of the Israeli lobby AIPAC. There, according to The Washington Post, Palin took and passed her oral exams…AIPAC’s mission, like that of Likud, is to goad America into launching air and missile strikes on any and all Iranian nuclear facilities. In other words, the Jews have gotten to Palin, just as they have gotten to Bush. Good to know that Buchanan is still ranting and raving about the evils of the Jews, and it makes me happier every day that I no longer read TownHall because of this jerk. In case anyone still wondered why the party couldn’t get behind Paul this season, see exhibit A.

<p>The United States is rapidly moving towards the 2008 national elections, ushering in a new era in politics. However, before opening a new chapter, it is necessary to first close the chapter on the old book, and reflect on the past eight years where the Republicans have held the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate for the majority of George W. Bush’s term in office. Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, you need not look any further than my title to realize how I, as a conservative feel about the Bush years. Many conservatives, myself included got into the trap of believing that George W. Bush would serve the Republican party well, that he would be a president very similar to Reagan, in the same way that while they never connected with the elites, they both always connected well with the American people. Unfortunately, not only was President Bush not like Reagan, but he completely dismantled the Reagan legacy of conservatism for socially conservative, big government populism. Before we move forward, we must understand what we are moving forward from, which is the Bush years that were a complete failure for conservatism and for the Republican Party. </p>

One of the biggest failures, that has been widely documented, and is still widely discussed, is Bush’s failures on the domestic front. On this front, even with a majority Congress and a mandate, Bush refused to forward the conservative belief that the government is not the solution to the problem, but that the government is the problem. Bush’s Republican Congress tried to cut taxes like Republicans, and spend like Democrats, and President Bush let his veto pen gather rust in his pocket. Instead, in the interest of getting things done, President Bush pushed a huge federal education plan stripped of all conservative goals such as school choice as well as increasing entitlement plans such as Medicare D. He tripled the education budget from what it was under Clinton and doubled the amount of foreign aid to other countries. This was the beginning of “compassionate conservatism” that would guide Bush’s domestic policy, being defeated by his own Congress on conservative reforms such as privatizing social security, drilling in ANWR and making his tax cuts permanent. Each year, we grew to see that our President was no Reaganite, but instead was pushing through a nanny state on steroids with a supposedly beefed up national security and stronger foreign policy, which is the other issue to be addressed.

<p>Lately, Bush is getting credit for standing his ground on Iraq, the only area where Bush has stood up to Democrats. Bush does and should receive credit for pushing for victory in Iraq, but should be equally blamed for not listening to Senator McCain and General Powell who told him from the beginning that Iraq would need more troops in order for the war to be waged successfully. Not to mention extreme laws such as the Patriot Act, which increases the power of the federal government as well as dramatically increasing executive power. People who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither goes the saying, and these laws were passed soon enough after the 9/11 attacks on our soil that no one was willing to stand in the way of national security, even to think that legalizing warrantless searches and seizures on US citizens, as well as giving the government the ability to wiretap its own citizens might be a step in the wrong direction, and once again, an increase in the federal government’s power under the Bush administration.</p>
<p>The biggest problem with George W. Bush was his failure as a communicator, something that was Reagan’s biggest asset. Reagan could articulate and defend conservatism in a way that President Bush cannot and will not ever be able to. Certainly some of that is due to the fact that Reagan was a gifted and talented speaker; but much of that comes from the fact that George W. Bush was never selling conservatism; instead he was selling Scoop Jackson Democrat policies wrapped up in the American flag. There was no Morning in America, no shining city on a hill; this has been eight years of red state/blue state and politics that divide the American people, rather than unite them. This has been eight years of the GOP prostituting itself as a majority, selling out to lobbyists and special interests groups and losing sight of what matters to the American people. As the Reagan landslide victories show, one does not have to sacrifice conservatism in order to govern and win an election as a conservative, but nor does one have to feed into what makes us different as Americans. While Bush pushed a socially conservative nanny state, worrying about Bob marrying Bill and what happens to embryos being thrown in the garbage at clinics, the American people were hurting at the pump, with no drilling and no new energy bill. While we spent billions of dollars on a failing Iraq strategy, rather than planning for security and reconstruction of Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the American people and American youth saw no plan for their future, as the President and his Congress sold out to the AARP lobbyists and let them kill meaningful social security reform. And as the American people looked for jobs and ways to increase their income, the President and members of his Party along with the Democrats sought to legalize illegal immigration into the United States, with the President of Mexico, George W. Bush’s friend Vincente Fox justifying it on the ground that “Mexicans do the work that not even the Blacks want to do.” Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, it is truly, truly time for a change in Washington.</p>
<p>This is not a time to panic, as we saw the Democrats landslide victories in 2006, many running on the same socially conservative, big government programs that swept the GOP into power for the previous six years. This is a time for a choice, not an echo, as conservative columnist Phylis Schafly so brilliantly wrote in 1964 before the GOP nominated my political hero, Barry Goldwater. This is a time to return to the values of Reagan, the values of Goldwater; a time when we remembered that the nine most dangerous words are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” This is a time for John McCain and Sarah Palin. John McCain and Sarah Palin understand that the GOP has lost because we have become just like the Democratic Party that we swore to defeat in 2000. One of my most recent columns I wrote that what we needed instead of the Democratic Party’s plantation was to burn the whole damn thing down. But the more I reflect, the more I was obviously too kind. It is not just the Democrats that need to go, but the fat cat Bush Republicans that have stolen the mantle of conservatism and damaged the Republican brand. This is indeed a time for a man who requests zero dollars in earmarks and understands that you don’t cut taxes without cutting spending as well. This is a time is a man who understands the need to win a war without passing pork laden defense and spending bills, and someone has called out his fellow Senators as porkers. This is a time for a man who will clean up Washington, throw out the fat cats and special interests groups and give the American people their government back.  John McCain knows that it is time for small government, an aggressive foreign policy that will make America strong and powerful abroad, and a booming and powerful economy boosted by lowered spending, tax cuts, and investments in America that will increase America’s growth at home. And indeed, this is not just time for a man, but it is time for the American Maggie Thatcher to rise as the future leader of this nation. A future leader, a maverick in her own right, who has gone after the good ol’ boys Republican leadership and won. This is a time for a woman who understands energy and economics and who understands the necessity of using domestic resources for energy rather than being held hostage by countries with ties to terrorist regimes and dictatorships. To quote Senator Thompson, “The Democrats have chosen themselves a historical candidate. Historic in the sense that he is the most liberal, inexperienced candidate to ever run for President in the history of this nation.” For the last eight years, we’ve offered nothing more than an echo. It’s time to offer a choice. It’s time for the restoration of the Reagan legacy. It’s time for John McCain and Sarah Palin.</p>

We will all remember exactly where we were and what we were doing from the moment that we realized that this was no accident, but that our nation had been attacked. I was still in high school at that point, and around 9:00, one of my friends came up running to our group and told us that a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center. We dismissed her telling us as another useless drama story, and went upon our day. By the time I got to my first class, the second plane had hit the World Trade Center, and it had been reported that the Pentagon had been hit as well. It was clear by then that we were under attack. It was then that our class prayed (Catholic school, don’t get too excited) for the victims and the attackers. But as I watched the Towers collapse on television to the screams of the people in New York and saw people leaping to their death, I did not want prayers and forgiveness; what I wanted was plain, simple vengeance, just like most of the American people.

Seven years later, 9/11 is able to come and go without any real mention of the attacks on our nation. The American people, having been kept safe from farther attacks by President Bush (though the Left will never admit that little factoid) have once again grown complacent in terms of national security. With September 11th firmly out of the minds of America, we have moved on with our lives, leaving only the families and friends who have directly been affected to remember the tragedy that happened that day. However, I believe that we must remember as Americans how we felt that day. For a time, America was united not as liberal or conservative, red state or blue state, but as the United States. We were all New Yorkers, all Washingtonians, and all Pennsylvanians. We waved our flags, hugged our neighbors, and came together as a country, and as a country we understood and knew what had to happen after the tears were swept aside and the hugs were over. The ragtag thugs who dared to attack us would have to face the wrath of the world’s strongest, most disciplined, and most advanced military on the planet. Bin Laden and his thugs who supported the politics of terror would have to be eradicated, and on top of that, any nations with any intentions of doing harm to the United States would be dealt with in a similar severe manner.

As we sit here on September 9th, 2008, we are in the same spectacle that we were in on September 10, 2001. The same attitude of complacency exists; the same pervasive attitude that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should not focus on winning the Global War on Terror; that isolationism truly can work. Ladies and gentlemen, the century for isolationism has passed, and with a global economy comes a global connection to our enemies and to our allies. America has been snidely accused of having an “arrogant bunker mentality”, and we have been told that we brought the September 11th attacks on ourselves-and those are just the Republican attacks. Liberals have come up with everything from the fact that this is the result of our support for Israel’s sovereignty to Bush blew up the World Trade Center for the gold underneath it, like some sort of crazed leprechaun. Seven years later, it seems that we no longer remember why the War on Terror started in the first place.

Many people conveniently forget as they point out that Iraq is the reason we were attacked that we were not in any country on September 11th, 2001. We had pulled out of places like Somalia under the orders of Clinton, leading Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to refer to the United States as a paper tiger, and allowing him to fund the 9/11 plots with the time he received to flee after Clinton refused to take Bin Laden from Sudan because “he didn’t have anything to charge him with, despite the fact that Bin Laden was responsible for bombing our African embassies and that Al Qaeda had flourished in Africa and the Middle East. But with Clinton being too busy taking care of his hobby as a cigar connoisseur, America was left to “put some ice on it” after 9/11.

However, instead of the ice and another intern that Clinton would have recommended as national security, George W. Bush in one of the few positive things that came out of his presidency decided instead to apply a severe amount of ass kicking to our enemies. In Afghanistan, where the terrorist, Al Qaeda sympathizing Taliban lived, the government was uprooted and told to take their women beating, freedom hating act to another part of the world. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein was captured, hung, and democracy has slowly but surely and continuously grown. Al Qaeda, which has called the war in Iraq their central front against the United States, is being defeated to the point that they are throwing temper tantrums to their own Muslim radicals and asking why they are not joining jihad. It seems that we’ve killed so many terrorists, Allah’s running out of virgins and incentives for the jihadists. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States will declare victory.

However, we face a growing threat in the form of Iran, which is insistent on developing a nuclear weapon that it will no doubted use to attempt to create a nuclear holocaust on the state of Israel. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated repeatedly his intention to wipe Israel off of the face of the Earth, and it is not in our nation’s interest, or in interest of any other free Democratic nation in the West or in the world to allow a radical Muslim country to become a nuclear power. We must not wait to react to a nuclear attack on our nation or on one of our allies. As we remember September 11th, we must remember why we had to fight. It is one thing to say you support freedom, and another thing to have to defend it. The United States is the greatest country in the world, and we must never let the memories of those who died be forgotten, nor why we had to defend their honor and memory.

We will all remember exactly where we were and what we were doing from the moment that we realized that this was no accident, but that our nation had been attacked. I was still in high school at that point, and around 9:00, one of my friends came up running to our group and told us that a plane had just flown into the World Trade Center. We dismissed her telling us as another useless drama story, and went upon our day. By the time I got to my first class, the second plane had hit the World Trade Center, and it had been reported that the Pentagon had been hit as well. It was clear by then that we were under attack. It was then that our class prayed (Catholic school, don’t get too excited) for the victims and the attackers. But as I watched the Towers collapse on television to the screams of the people in New York and saw people leaping to their death, I did not want prayers and forgiveness; what I wanted was plain, simple vengeance, just like most of the American people.

Seven years later, 9/11 is able to come and go without any real mention of the attacks on our nation. The American people, having been kept safe from farther attacks by President Bush (though the Left will never admit that little factoid) have once again grown complacent in terms of national security. With September 11th firmly out of the minds of America, we have moved on with our lives, leaving only the families and friends who have directly been affected to remember the tragedy that happened that day. However, I believe that we must remember as Americans how we felt that day. For a time, America was united not as liberal or conservative, red state or blue state, but as the United States. We were all New Yorkers, all Washingtonians, and all Pennsylvanians. We waved our flags, hugged our neighbors, and came together as a country, and as a country we understood and knew what had to happen after the tears were swept aside and the hugs were over. The ragtag thugs who dared to attack us would have to face the wrath of the world’s strongest, most disciplined, and most advanced military on the planet. Bin Laden and his thugs who supported the politics of terror would have to be eradicated, and on top of that, any nations with any intentions of doing harm to the United States would be dealt with in a similar severe manner.

As we sit here on September 9th, 2008, we are in the same spectacle that we were in on September 10, 2001. The same attitude of complacency exists; the same pervasive attitude that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should not focus on winning the Global War on Terror; that isolationism truly can work. Ladies and gentlemen, the century for isolationism has passed, and with a global economy comes a global connection to our enemies and to our allies. America has been snidely accused of having an “arrogant bunker mentality”, and we have been told that we brought the September 11th attacks on ourselves-and those are just the Republican attacks. Liberals have come up with everything from the fact that this is the result of our support for Israel’s sovereignty to Bush blew up the World Trade Center for the gold underneath it, like some sort of crazed leprechaun. Seven years later, it seems that we no longer remember why the War on Terror started in the first place.

Many people conveniently forget as they point out that Iraq is the reason we were attacked that we were not in any country on September 11th, 2001. We had pulled out of places like Somalia under the orders of Clinton, leading Bin Laden and Al Qaeda to refer to the United States as a paper tiger, and allowing him to fund the 9/11 plots with the time he received to flee after Clinton refused to take Bin Laden from Sudan because “he didn’t have anything to charge him with, despite the fact that Bin Laden was responsible for bombing our African embassies and that Al Qaeda had flourished in Africa and the Middle East. But with Clinton being too busy taking care of his hobby as a cigar connoisseur, America was left to “put some ice on it” after 9/11.

However, instead of the ice and another intern that Clinton would have recommended as national security, George W. Bush in one of the few positive things that came out of his presidency decided instead to apply a severe amount of ass kicking to our enemies. In Afghanistan, where the terrorist, Al Qaeda sympathizing Taliban lived, the government was uprooted and told to take their women beating, freedom hating act to another part of the world. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein was captured, hung, and democracy has slowly but surely and continuously grown. Al Qaeda, which has called the war in Iraq their central front against the United States, is being defeated to the point that they are throwing temper tantrums to their own Muslim radicals and asking why they are not joining jihad. It seems that we’ve killed so many terrorists, Allah’s running out of virgins and incentives for the jihadists. In both Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States will declare victory.

However, we face a growing threat in the form of Iran, which is insistent on developing a nuclear weapon that it will no doubted use to attempt to create a nuclear holocaust on the state of Israel. The president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated repeatedly his intention to wipe Israel off of the face of the Earth, and it is not in our nation’s interest, or in interest of any other free Democratic nation in the West or in the world to allow a radical Muslim country to become a nuclear power. We must not wait to react to a nuclear attack on our nation or on one of our allies. As we remember September 11th, we must remember why we had to fight. It is one thing to say you support freedom, and another thing to have to defend it. The United States is the greatest country in the world, and we must never let the memories of those who died be forgotten, nor why we had to defend their honor and memory.

Many of my friends have asked me why I cannot support Obama. I am not driven by social issues, and indeed I would even say I am socially liberal. And after all, what’s wrong with change? That my friends, is a fair and accurate question that ought to be posed to the Senator himself. Since Obama clinched the nomination, he has been running for his life towards the political center, seeking to grasp the same independent right leaning voters that have eluded the Democrats for five out of the last seven elections. But one would think that the Boy Wonder could win simply with his base of young and Black voters just as his did in the primaries, especially considering that these were the only two groups that bought into his message that he was going to be different from every other politician. However, when he talks, the only change that Obama is delivering is the skin color of the man delivering the same message.

When looking at his policies concerning education, Obama does not support school vouchers. He tows the Democratic Party line that more funding is needed, always more funding, while ignoring the fact that high needs schools have gotten better funding than at any other point in their history. Ignoring the success that charter schools private schools have had on African-American males, a significant part of Obama’s base, he chooses to tow the line of the party. Sounds like Washington to me if I’ve ever read it.

When looking as his policies on energy, the economy, and Iraq, once again Obama sounds like every other politician. Save the environment, tax the rich (who are always you) and bring all the troops home, consequences be damned. Of course, I’d be lying if I said those were Obama’s positions today-those were his positions when he was running against Hillary Clinton. Theses are his positions now that he’s running against McCain/Palin-I’d look into offshore drilling, there needs to be tax cuts for the middle class, and I’d look into hearing what the generals on the ground say about Iraq (which is a good thing, since Obama’s only been once since his nomination, three times overall and is about as qualified to speak on Iraq as he is to be president.) Talk about being for something before you were against it; Obama has gone through positions on the issues this election like Joe Biden goes through speeches that he didn’t write. What’s next-is he going to give hunting lessons to all of those people who were bitterly clinging to their God and their guns?

We all know about the famous rhetoric of the Obamessiah, but the funny thing about it all is how he attempts to define himself as different, a new kind of politician when he is very much the same liberal elite snob just like the rest of his party. Someone who claims to take the high road as a new politician however, wouldn’t be caught up in the Chicago machine and mixed up with mobsters and crooks like Tony Rezko, who helped Obama purchase his house in the wealthy Hyde Park community on Chicago’s South Side. This is just the tip of the iceberg on Obama’s supposedly new politics. Who did he pick for his Vice President-not someone who would reinforce his message of change. Not someone who had been on board with him on the issues-he picked Senator Joe Plagiarism Biden, a man who has been in Washington for over 30 years. That’s change? A 30 year Senator who voted for the War and called your Iraq plan gravely irresponsible? Senator, what happened to hope? What happened to change? Or did they get in the way of your real slogan-power, by any means necessary.

I have always believed that the Democratic Party leadership was full of liars and hypocrites, people who would say anything to get elected. I used to think that this was personified in the Clintons, and watching Obama send the Clintons to their political death was a moment of great joy and satisfaction to me. However, right now Obama is the greatest threat to youth and African-Americans, his two core groups and the groups that will die with him to the very end of this bloody cage match. I titled this burning down my master’s house because as a Black male generally you are born into Democratic politics-the same mentality that had slaves trapped and afraid to leave the reservation even after they were free has blacks afraid to leave a Democratic Party that takes the African-American vote every four years and leaves them with absolutely nothing. So my solution is to burn the whole damn thing down-destroy the Democratic Party and call them out as the faithless, gutless cowards that they are. Obama can and must be questioned and exposed as the America hating messiah that he truly is. Someone who does not need to wear a flag lapel pin, that has a wife who does not love her country, and has friends in the mob and in the Weather Underground is not someone who should be in charge of holding the nukes and protecting the American people. Obama has already shown that when the going gets tough in times of war, he will fold like a used chair. Once again, this is the same tendencies that all of the cut and run Democrats (which is all Democrats sans Lieberman) have shown; if it is a tough fight, we will wave the white flag. Obama will embolden and strengthen our enemies, between his willingness to meet with terrorist leaders and enemies of the state (something that his vice president once Joe Biden called gravely irresponsible) and his belief that we should give all illegal aliens drivers licenses (what you thought we forgot about that one Barry?), Obama has shown countless times t hat he cannot be trusted with our national security, and far from being a change candidate on national security, he gives us the same Democratic Party French foreign policy.

Fortunately, where there is darkness, there is a light, because there is another man running for President, believe it or not, who has a history of acting on real change. John McCain has been the corrupt pork barrelers worst enemy, calling out members of his own party and the other party, accepting $0 in earmarks, and being a hawk on fiscal spending. John McCain, unlike Obama supports the right of young people to save and invest tour own money in private accounts, rather than raising the payroll tax as Obama advocates to continue to pay for a Social Security program that we will never receive benefits for. John McCain advocates cutting wasteful spending and look at revamping our fiscal budget, rather that continuing to throw money at things such as the education system which have borne no fruits. And just as important, John McCain has cultivated this great image with the selection of the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin as his running mate. While Obama succumbs to the corruption of the Illinois and Chicago political organizations, Palin has made her political name by fighting against the corruption in her own Party and in the Democratic Party. She has made enemies in Alaska by fighting for ethics reform and the fact that she spent time as a mayor and a governor gives her more executive experience than anyone on the Democratic side of the ticket, especially when the top of that ticket spent his four years in the Senate writing books and running for President. McCain and Palin advocate offshore drilling as well as looking into nuclear energy (and finally entering the US into the 21st century). This is a real ticket of change-this is Americas winning ticket for the future. Lower gas prices, money back in the pockets of Americans, and tax and spending cuts-now that’s change we can all really believe in.

Much has been made recently of liberal network CNN’s decision to showcase a program called “Black in America”. In this age of constant political correctness as well as extreme liberal bias, this was a documentary that posed as factual news while merely serving as intellectual masturbation for the Political Left. In arguments that have been rebutted time and time again by Black intellectuals from Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and even liberal Black columnist Juan Williams, the Left is still content to maintain the facts that African-Americans are in a financial rut because of the catastrophic effects of slavery. This caused me to take a deep breath rather than screaming, and wonder to myself, really? In 2008, generations who have not even known segregation, let alone slavery are suffering from the adverse effects of something that occurred over 200 years ago. And so because the argument that Blacks are affected because of racial instability in consistently made on the Left to the point where many repeat these arguments as known facts, it has become necessary to look at where the Left chooses to fight its battles; as long as the GOP and conservatives are unwilling to have the conversation about race in the name of forgoing the acknowledgement of identity, we will cede ground to the Left and the Democratic Party to continue to brainwash generation after generation.

Up first is the idea of education, one of my favorite battering rams to use against the Left. Many people argue that it is the poor financial status of the schools that causes schools in predominantly African-American neighborhoods to do poorly. Many liberals point to the fact that as long as schools are financed based on property taxes, there will continue to be a large achievement gap between Blacks and whites and Asians. Ah, but there is a key, insomuch that this is not simply a Black-White achievement gap; rather this is an achievement gap between Blacks, Whites and Asians. In addition, African-Americans even trail Latinos who have to overcome a language barrier to achieve in school, and who have a mean income very similar to African-Americans. So what it comes down to is not property taxes, but the ability of the public school system to monopolize the free market unlike any other business in the country. While there is a problem with the coddling and swaddling of African-American students by liberals, the real problem is the lack of choice within the public school system through the great equalizer of our society, the free market. This is where the Democrats prove themselves to be so dangerous, because while they talk about the evil of big business controlling the little guy, they are in charge of the biggest business of all-the public school system and the teachers unions, who vehemently oppose anything that would challenge their status as protected radicals who are given a free ride to indoctrinate children with whatever agenda comes to their minds that particular day. School choice would allow schools to actually function as legitimate businesses, in the sense of performing or being closed, rather than continuing to act as a shadow business benefiting only the employers and not the customers. This is brought up because schools are the first blow when we talk about inequality between the races, but by going point by point, it is not schools but liberalism that is killing African-Americans.

Since its inception as we define liberalism in the 1960s, liberalism has been the most destructive factor for African-Americans in the United States. It began with the beginning of the welfare state and LBJ’s “Great Society”, which destroyed the Black family by replacing fathers with Uncle Sam and focusing on shipping a busload of African-American kids to all white schools rather than focusing on educating all skin colors of children. The welfare state which began in the 1960s, is the single most responsible factor for the destruction of African-Americans, because rather than giving African-Americans more responsibility in lieu of the progress Blacks had made in terms of integrating and fully functioning as equal citizens of American society, the government negated these accomplishments by implementing affirmative action, showing the world that Blacks were not able to achieve on merit; rather Blacks must be included to meet racial quotas, and constantly be questioned on whether there really was a more deserving person to get their job, place in school, or house. The Honorable Justice Clarence Thomas mentions this in his book, My Grandfather’s Son, that his degree in Yale was treated almost as invalid because there was the sentiment that he received it not on merit, but based on the color of his skin. And the final blow on Blacks and liberalism comes in the denunciation of the Moynihan Report, which reports that the Black family is in a crisis, as racist conservative diatribe. Here is where liberals make their bread and butter, and where the line between liberalism and fascism becomes blurred in the way that this becomes a shibboleth to liberals, that any disagreement on the basis of race becomes racist and just as importantly, conservative. The entire goal is to change their opponent from a disagreeing human to a monster, in which only they can conquer. And that is how liberalism functions today in 2008.

We see the swirling of liberalism in fascism from everything from their talk about race to their leader, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama. This is one of the most important points that must be made, because Obama is, and never will be the candidate of African-Americans. Obama is much more dangerous because he is the candidate of the American Far Left, which includes everyone from Jesse Jackson to Bill Ayers, to more violent radical anarchist groups. And Obama is the cultural icon of fascism, who says things like he is the symbol of the possibility of America returning to her best traditions. Like the fascists who preceded him, Obama seeks to become more than a man running for President; Obama wishes to become a symbol of something bigger. These signs began early in his campaign with his constant talk to his supporters that “we are the change that we’ve been waiting for”, evoking the image of a Messiah rather than a President. Like the fascists of the past, the media is there to consistently reinforce their message from Chris Matthews indicating that Obama gives him a “tingle up his leg”, to anchors comparing him to the last sainted President, John F Kennedy, talking of how someone like Obama comes along only “once in a century.” The media has been for Obama another tool to reinforce his message of Messianic deliverance for America. And true to the legacy of the Left, Obama has already struck with the tone of race, accusing America of not wanting to support someone who doesn’t look like the other guys on the dollar bills; ie old and white. Long hailed as a disadvantage Obama knows he can frame his race as an advantage, offering whites ailed with centuries of guilt a way out; a vote in exchange for liberation from decades of claims of racism. Now, a simple I’m not racist because I voted for Obama will expunge all whites who wish to worship at the holy altar of Saint Obama, and he will deliver us the change that we have been waiting for. While Obama stokes the flames for a race war, he has attempted to blindside us with another war; the war of the fascist Left on an unsuspecting public. It is up to us to beat the Left on both fronts.