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Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Alan Keyes are fighting for the Illinois Senate seat. I am from California, but this is the first time I have seen two minorities on extreme sides of the political spectrum, Obama an extreme liberal Democrat, and Keyes an extreme conservative Republican, and both highly educated, going toe to toe. So I've been following this race somewhat closely. Throughout their discussions on abortion, Obama gave his reasons for supporting abortion , Obama said he opposes abortion after a fetus becomes able to exist outside a woman's body. "Prior to viability, the problem is that this potential life is in someone else's body. ... I don't feel it is appropriate for me then to simply dictate to that person, to that woman, what she should do with her body," Obama said. There are two arguments here, one is the "Viability Argument" the other is the "Choice Argument". I have already addressed the choice argument at lengt...

About a week and a half ago I was at a friend's wedding in Burbank California. This friend, and his family, have known me for almost ten years now. They know that I am very interested in politics and that I have strong opinions on the subject. Because of this, as soon as the celebrations started, I was informed by a couple of the family members that one of the guests at the wedding was a Political Science Professor and thought that we could probably have a good conversation on the topic. What resulted was a confirmation of the stereotype I have of "elite" liberals. The high level liberals that I believe run the Democrat Party. These characteristics are, Very weak understanding of basic Economics When I asked her what capitalism was she replied, "Greed". When I asked her what the main objective of the study of Economics was, she had no idea. She would say stuff like, "Greed", "Power", or even "To Make Money". Not once did she m...

"Life begins at conception". So says Presidential Candidate John Kerry . Yet Kerry continues to support the most ardent pro-abortion legislation. He voted against a law that would make it a federal crime to abort a child in the second and third trimesters, the partial birth abortion ban. The ban itself is named after how the abortion is performed. He voted against the Laci Conner law, a law that would make it double murder if you kill a pregnant woman and her unborn child. He voted against parental notification in abortion. Etc. Everybody knows John Kerry is the most pro-abortion Senator in the US Senate. My point here is not to prove that. My point is to ask the question of how someone can be both? How can someone be both, one who believes life starts at conception, and be the most pro-abortion senator in the US Senate? Let's put aside that this is probably another Kerry flip flop, where he tries to be on both sides of every issue. Let's give him the benefit of the...

The Washington Post has an article claiming Latino voters are overwhelmingly in Kerry's camp. This is really troubling and, I must admit, very hard for me to understand. Why do my fellow Hispanics overwhelmingly(2/3) support a liberal candidate over a conservative candidate? Maybe it's time for me to lay down my beliefs, and open up the floor to challenges among Hispanics. I am not going to get specific into an individual candidate, unless it relates to the overall point, but going to concentrate on giving an overall belief why I lean conservative(Republican) over liberal(Democrat). Please feel free to critique where you see necessary in the arrival of my beliefs. Economy: Capitalism is the heart and soul of the American economy. As my previous blogs have shown, capitalism is what separates a prosperous nation from an nonprosperous nation. It is precisely this economic system that makes it possible such that a person like my father who came here at age 20, with no education, ...