The Common Conservative

Lt. Col. Allen West: A Voice for the Leavenworth 10

ibbetsonusa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:57:35 +0000

Is somebody watching over you today? Is there someone somewhere that is willing to put your well-being ahead of theirs? Those are powerful questions that we seldom ponder here in America. Why? The answer is that safety, security and most importantly freedom, the delicacies sought in so many places in the world, are things we [...]

Classic Monster Politics

ibbetsonusa — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:52:38 +0000

What do Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney Jr. have in common? They are forever known as the faces of the classic monsters Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, Phantom of the Opera, and the Wolf Man. Whether you were frightened by these classic representations or the continual evolutionary adaptations that have followed, we all [...]

Gay Marriage: Court Decisions from Sodom and Gomorrah

ibbetsonusa — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:18:18 +0000

In a recent court decision, California’s Proposition 8 initiative, which stated that marriage was to be between a man and a woman, has been struck down as unconstitutional. As reported by Fox News, the decision that overruled the voters of California was made by openly gay U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. Walker, one of three [...]

Too Dangerous to Print: Liberal University Bias

ibbetsonusa — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:01:18 +0000

Thomas Paine once said, “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.” How true these words are. One of the most fundamental reflections of liberty is the freedom to question, challenge and debate the world [...]

Mega Mosques and the Territorial Mark

ibbetsonusa — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:10:57 +0000

Right now at ground zero in New York a battle over the construction of buildings following 9/11 is raging. It is hard to believe that almost nine years following the Islamic attacks that took thousands of American lives, post-9/11 construction has moved at the speed of a dying snail. Even more perplexing than the failure [...]

Obamaca: Reshaping society through government control

ibbetsonusa — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:16:05 +0000

In 1997, under the direction of Andrew Niccol, people viewed on their cinema screens a sterilized world of growing government perfection. The movie, “Gattaca,” depicted a world where through genetic selection only children with their parents’ desired hereditary traits were given societal acceptance. The children that were born naturally, void of the process called preimplantation [...]

The “Barefoot” Culture and the Promotion of Deviance

ibbetsonusa — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:38:58 +0000

CNN reports that police authorities in the Bahamas have captured 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, known by the media as the “Barefoot Bandit.” This 19-year-old boy has been on the run from the law for more than two years for stealing cars, boats and even airplanes. Even his arrest ended in a dramatic fashion with a high-speed [...]

Barack Obama: Securing the border, one sign at a time

ibbetsonusa — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:48:44 +0000

No one likes to be opposed. As people, we pick a side of an argument we believe in and try our hardest to win. That’s life, but there are differing ways in which we oppose one another and some are much more inflammatory than others. See if you agree. Is it not more frustrating, more [...]

Burning Drudge, burning Weigel: A fiery view from the Washington Post

ibbetsonusa — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:41:02 +0000

The forced resignation of David Weigel by the Washington Post will probably be forgotten by tomorrow, nothing more than a little blip on the radar of those submersed in the world of the Washington Post. Weigel’s online communications were nabbed and made public to expose the writer as a liberal who thinks Matt Drudge should [...]

Get out of my tent! Fruming over the Tea Party movement

ibbetsonusa — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:40:39 +0000

What does it mean to be a Republican? What does it mean to be a Democrat? Are they both the same? The answer is no they are not, well not completely. I was disheartened to read David Frum’s article, “The Tea Party is a turn-off for US moderates,” not simply because it misrepresents the Tea [...]