Conservatives must keep up with the present issues and find ways to apply concervative principals. Cal Thomas, in his editorial today, highlights some of the issues and throws light on how to deal with them as Republican Conservatives. I concur.

Hillary Clinton has been advocating changing our individual health insurance policies to a universal health plan. We all know that only 40 million of our citizens do not have health insurance coverage. Right? That means that more than 300 million do have a plan. It also suggests that the 300 million are satisfied with their insurance and are able to pay for it. We also know that indigents (who would include the 40 million not covered) have avenues to take for medical care. They are not turned away from  most hospital emegency rooms when in need, and can turn to welfare for help. Rather than change our whole system, why not give the uninsured extra help by compelling each to walk a half hour a day as part of a preventative measure and send them packets of  oatmeal and bags of walnuts to insure their health. Wouldn’t that be less expensive to the taxpayer?

Why are so many politicians either lacking in the ability to express themselves clearly, or void of integrity? It appears that ALL politicians are totally dishonest.  Since this statement is true, our only hope is to stick to our guns and political party of choice.

Getting hate out of the head is tough, but the accomplishment adds years and enrichment to life. Think of hate matters as objects on a floor in a room with one door to the unknown. Place the objects on a flat table and take a long look at them before you open the door and toss them out forever.

What would our country be like if instead of spending our money on fireworks we used it to improve our highways and byways?

Mark Twain wrote in “Innocents Abroad”, 1869, ch. 26: To give birth to an idea – to discover a great thought – an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain plow had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find the way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first – that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which all other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Religion has always played a role in politics and always will. Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died recently, not only got involved but united many different Christian factions to create a huge majority of Republicans and Democrats to elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. It’s unlikely that we’ll see in our lifetime a successor to Falwell because he had one trait lacking in most all politicians: honesty.

All children must attend school; therefore, it is there that youth are trained to succeed or fail in life.

It’s depressing the way the news media repeats and blows up bad news about Iraq. The media maniacs succeeded in convincing people that to win a war is to lose international friends; phooey! Might makes right and always has.

Public opinion changes with a barrage of information disseminated by the news media. Four years ago the public was united in support of war against terrorism in Iraq. Now it’s the opposite. The Democrats, who control the news media and struggling to regain control of Congress and the White House, are keeping the American public blindfolded while ruthless gangs continue to murder people daily, mentally disturbed neighbors create their own terrorism, and innocent travellers die at a rate of more than 50,000 a year due to reckless drivers. When will the news media cease its effort to control politics and stick to reporting facts that could save thousands of lives daily?