The Conservative Opinion

Friday, May 6, 2011

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Why I’m Conservative

Why I’m Conservative

By N. D. Cordon

In this highly polarized political era in which we live, its easy to develop a us vs. them mentality; Republicans vs. Democrats, conservatives vs. liberals, right vs. left, us vs. them. With such a mentality, it’s easy to forget that we aren’t always right and that each side has valid points. So here's why I side with the conservatives.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Keep Up the Good Work!

Wisconsin is in the hole $3,600,000,000.00. They can't print money and going into debt to pay it off makes even less sense. So Wisconsin Governor, Scott Walker, proposed drastic cuts to get the budget in line and put Wisconsin's financial house in order. And just like in New Jersey when similar cuts were announced, the teacher's union flipped out.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Obama's Egypt

President Obama was quick to call for the ouster of President Mubarak; so did the Muslim Brotherhood, but both have been slow to say who or what type of government should replace him. Many others have been similarly quick in their praise for the rioters.
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011

You're Not Listening

I attended a forum on gay marriage at Brigham Young University, presented by the Sociology department. The keynote speaker asked, “Why would you study the effects of pre-marital, physical intimacy on subsequent marriages?”

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

State of the Union: New Tone, Same Tune

According to President Obama, "...if we truly care about our deficit, we simply cannot afford a permanent extension of the tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. Before we take money away from our schools, or scholarships away from our students, we should ask millionaires to give up their tax breaks."

Is the President seriously asking us to suspend our reasonable disbelief and buy his argument about whose responsibility the deficit is? That doesn't make sense; Every spending bill signed by President Obama directly added to the ever increasing federal deficit.