"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!" The famous words of the late president John F. Kennedy, much different from the verbiage you hear coming from the spouts of modern day Democrats. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas* recently was quoted as saying, "The message today seems more like ask not what you can do for yourselves or your country, but what your country must do for you." What ever happened to our message of liberty? How has our country been so polluted by this mentality of entitlement? These are questions I hear on a very regular basis, now a days everyone feels as though the government owes it to them to provide for their every need. But why is this? I don't believe there is any one person or event that we can point our fingers at but I can tell you now that the Obama administration and most of Washington are not helping the cause of smaller government. There isn't a Democrat politician alive today who would give a speech like JFK's January 20th 1961, Inaugural Address. In fact there are few Republicans who give speeches and have voting records that promote the three tenants we as Conservatives hold so dear. Small government, free markets, individual liberties and thus in the words of Ann Raynd, "We are now moving forward into complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody."
-Griff

*The Conservative Declaration is pleased to announce that we have unconfirmed arrangements to interview Justice Thomas on our talk show in late March or early April! Stay tuned for details...

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As anyone who knows me on a personal level can attest, I am not much of a football fan. Call me un-manly or un-American or whatever you want, but it simply won't change the fact that I am not a fan of the sport. Don't get me wrong, I love to play a recreational game of it from time to time, but when it all comes down to it. I don't watch any of the games until it comes down to the Super Bowl. Same goes for most other sports, baseball is the one exception, I will usually go to 1-3 games a year and I play softball for my church. But even then, most regular season games I pay little mind to. A lot of my friends who are big into sports think I am some sort of a nerd because I pay more attention to politics than I do sports. I would argue that it is not me, but the person who pays more attention to and invests more time and energy into sports than politics is the truly crazy person. Let me explain...

Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday, and the vast majority of Americans gathered around their TV's, got together with their friends and invested money into the team that they believed would win. Some people would put down as little as $5 and others would gamble away several hundred dollars! The anger, excitement and passion these people have for this sport is unreal. Gambling issue aside, once the hype had died down by morning, it was all over. Other than "bragging rights" for the Steeler's until next fall, nobody was effected long term by this game. I mean the game is over and the aftermath of who ever won is not in any way a life-changing event in the grand scheme of things!

When it comes to politics most Americans are like me when it comes to sports. They pay as little attention to them as possible up until the BIG GAME. In the sport of politics the big game is the first Tuesday of November, and it only comes every four years. After spending years not paying attention to the sport and once there is only two teams left competing, they just vote for the person who has the same letter after their name as they do whether that be an (R) or a (D). Most Americans don't even know what half of the plays these politicians are planning on executing during their time in office. All they know is once the election is over they will go back to living their lives in anticipation of the next big sporting event!

This last election season is the perfect example of how pathetic it is that people don't follow-up on their politics. America has elected a man to run their country who ran a campaign on the premise of taking their rights away. Yet not a single person who voted for Obama even realizes that in electing this man they are essentially surrendering some very basic rights. Like the right to more money that the government will tax them for. Like the right to continue choosing where they will go to the doctor. Like the right to keep and bare arms or should I say the right to self-defense! The right to protect your family from an armed predator!

I suppose the theme of this blurb is that politics affects you on a day-to-day basis. Once your government has taken away one of your rights by force you will never have it back. Every socialist program an Obama administration will implement will affect your children and your children's children. Just like the politicians your parents and grandparents elected affect you today. The American dollar would actually be worth a dollar today and we would have never suffered from its inflation, if it weren't for Woodrow Wilson implementing the Federal Reserve in 1913 and Richard Nixon abandoning the gold standard in 1971. All of the problems senior citizens face with Social Security could have been avoided by not electing FDR. All the news you hear about peoples identity's being stolen wouldn't have happened if not for FDR's 1935 Social Security Act and the New Deal and the SS number becoming identification. Not many people can tell you what happened in the sport of basketball in 1935. Medicare and Medicaid wouldn't be the disaster they are today or better yet wouldn't have ever been implemented in 1965 if not for LBJ and the people who elected him. Super Bowl I of 1966 was played some 43 years ago and the results of it have no serious impact on our lives today but the effects of LB flippin' J sure do. So I ask you, who is the bigger fool? The man who pays all of his attention to a sport that has no long-term effect on the American people? Or is it the man who has a watchful eye out for corrupt politicians and failing social programs?
-Griffin
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Today, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, millions of people all around the world will celebrate the life of MLK and the dream that he had. This years festivities will undoubtedly be kicked up a notch or so from any other year because today is the eve of Martin Luther Kings wildest dream coming true. Isn't that right? Wasn't this Martin Luther King's goal to advance the movement of blacks in society? Wasn't his hope that one day a black man would be elected president based on his skin color and not his character? Let's take a look at his life to find out, for starters let's reflect on what King is known for, his legacy if you will. I believe that when most American's think of MLK they think of him as an inspirational speaker. MLK was a Baptist preacher whose public speeches made him great fame during the Civil Rights Movement. King was most noted for his "I have a dream" speech that he delivered on August 28, 1963. King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and proclaimed, "I have a dream today, that one day my four little children live in a world where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Now whether King actually meant every word he said in that speech or any of his others is debatable. The sad truth about King is that he is also known for his hypocrisy. King was known to have had numerous affairs on his wife even when the Bible that he preached out of spoke strongly against that sort of behavior. There are also pictures of King sitting in communist training camps and as we all know, Communism does not proclaim to judge people according to their character or merit. But that's neither here nor there. My point is simply this: we as Americans have decided long ago to overlook who King really was behind closed doors and remember him for what he preached. What King is remembered for is not that he wanted blacks to become superior but that all men and women would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. This is why tomorrow may not be as historic as we are making it out to be. We are judging Obama by his skin color and not by his accomplishments. In my opinion the only thing historic about tomorrow's inauguration is the fact that we are swearing into office the most inexperienced, socialist president this country has ever seen, and that is nothing to write home about.
-Griffin
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