Conservative of the Week: Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt

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Mississippi Senate: Conservatives of the Week

Why They're the Conservatives of the Week: for passing a common-sense law that protects citizens of the state from the Godless tyranny that is the Gay Mafia. Billed as 'controversial' by the liberal press that advocates for the anti-God Left, on Wednesday, the Mississippi Senate voted to pass the "Protecting Freedom of Conscience From Government Discrimination Act."

The bill says that businesses, social workers and public employees cannot be punished for denying services based on the belief that marriage is between a man and a woman or that "sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage." It also protects individuals who believe gender is determined at birth.

Sounds reasonable to me. By not allowing Christians to be forced into choosing between their conscious and anti-God, man-made laws that are causing some to go bankrupt, be jailed and/or lose their businesses, conservative politicians are standing up against a lying Gay Mafia that only seeks to reign terror on innocent Christians who could care less about who someone chooses to sleep with, but just wish to live their lives with respect to their faiths. 

Of course, with Ellen Degeneres-run Gay Mafia being as powerful as it is, who knows if Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant will succumb to pressure from the anti-God Left and veto the bill (as fellow Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal just did) once it reaches his desk, but either way give the Mississippi Senate kudos for attempting to protect the rights of social conservatives and Christians.

Conservative of the Week: Tavis Smiley

Age: 51

Claim to Fame: Author, talk show host and longtime political commentator

Why He's the Conservative of the Week: while Smiley isn't really a 'conservative' per say, unlike 90% of his colleagues in the liberal media, Smiley can almost always be counted on to play it down the middle when it comes to news, politics and his often on-point criticism of Barack Obama--especially when it comes to Barry's lack of concern for the plight of Blacks in America during his terms in office. For the latter, Smiley has earned the ire of both white and black liberals time and time again, who expect their colored journalists to bow down and never dare utter a bad word about the 1st Black President publicly, much less critique him or point out his many lies and hypocrisies. But Smiley ain't having it, as he showed once again this past week in an interview with Hillary Clinton.

From Newsbusters:

Just how leftist is PBS? When late-night host Tavis Smiley interviewed the Democratic candidates for president this week, he read them both a jeremiad attacking the Clintons from The Nation magazine claiming that welfare reform and the crime bill of 1994 “decimated black America” and the Clintons failed to stand up to "the right-wing demagoguery about black communities."

This may be the harshest set of questions Hillary Clinton has allowed to be spoken in her presence in this cycle. He began with Hillary on Tuesday:

SMILEY: So, obviously, the media is focused on how well you're going to do with African American voters. There's no doubt about the fact you have lined up the Black establishment pretty much in favor of your candidacy. Here is a quote from the article I'm sure you saw that Michelle Alexander wrote, author of The New Jim Crow, the article in The Nation magazine, for those who want to read it if you haven't read it. It's in The Nation magazine, the February 10 issue.

The headline was "Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote. From the crime bill to welfare reform policies, Bill Clinton enacted and Hillary Clinton supported, decimated black America."

Here's the quote. "What have the Clintons done to earn such devotion? Did they take extreme political risk to defend the rights of African Americans? Did they courageously stand up to the rightwing demagoguery about Black communities? Did they help usher in a new era of hope and prosperity for neighborhoods devastated by deindustrialization, globalization, and the disappearance of work? No. Quite the opposite."

She makes the argument and Bernie Sanders last night on this program agreed with her that you may be winning the Black vote at the moment, but you don't deserve the Black vote. How do you respond to that?

Smiley also wasn’t impressed that Mrs. Clinton’s tactic of embracing Obama to gain black votes, since he's perpetually complained Obama wasn't enough of a president for the black people:

SMILEY: His historic election notwithstanding, the data is clear about this, that black folk have lost ground in every major economic category over the last 10 years. So where that particular community is concerned, where you’re headed to South Carolina, tell me how you’re going to serve differently than Barack Obama. Because whatever his intentions were, we didn’t get it done for black people economically.

When Hillary replied that the financial crisis could be blamed on Bush and “trickle-down economics” and deregulation, Smiley shot back “Respectfully, deregulation didn’t start when the Republicans took over in 2000 when Bush came into office. Deregulation started in the Clinton era of Wall Street and many people have made that point time and time again in this campaign.

Conservative of the Week: Dr. Richard Lindzen

Age: 76

Claim To Fame: Atmospheric physicist and top MIT Climate Scientist

Why He's The Conservative of the Week: for continuing to speak out against the false narratives surrounding 'climate change' by  environmentalists, the media and liberal politicians. For years Lindzen, a professor emeritus of atmospheric sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came to the defense of fellow scientists who don't support man-made global warming and were part of a recent Democratic witch hunt.

Most recently, on RealClear Radio, Lindzen, rallied against the media repeating the so-called “97 percent consensus” statistic to show just how strong the global warming agreement is among climate scientists. It’s purely “propaganda,” argued Lindzen.

With the media spin continuing (TIME magazine has already declared that  '2016 Expected to Be the Warmest Year on Record, Lindzen, a climate scientist who isn't receiving government grants to validate the pre-determined global warming outcomes, made the observation to the Climate Depot:

“Frankly, I feel it is proof of dishonesty to argue about things like small fluctuations in temperature or the sign of a trend. Why lend credibility to this dishonesty?”

“All that matters is that for almost 40 years, model projections have almost all exceeded observations. Even if all the observed warming were due to greenhouse emissions, it would still point to low sensitivity,” Lindzen continued.

“But, given the ‘pause.’ we know that natural internal variability has to be of the same order as any other process,” Lindzen wrote.

...“When someone says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period,” Lindzen said in November 2015.

Lindzen cautioned: “The most important thing to keep in mind is – when you ask ‘is it warming, is it cooling’, etc. — is that we are talking about something tiny (temperature changes) and that is the crucial point.”

“And the proof that the uncertainty is tenths of a degree are the adjustments that are being made. If you can adjust temperatures to 2/10ths of a degree, it means it wasn’t certain to 2/10ths of a degree,” he added.
– “70% of the earth is oceans, we can’t measure those temperatures very well. They can be off a half a degree, a quarter of a degree. Even two-10ths of a degree of change would be tiny but two-100ths is ludicrous. Anyone who starts crowing about those numbers shows that they’re putting spin on nothing.”

Climatologist Dr. John Christy said it best: “If you want the truth about an issue, would you go to an agency with political appointees? The government is not the final word on the truth.”

Despite the dubious nature of the consensus, liberal politicians continue to use the '97% consensus' figure to bolster their calls for policies to fight global warming. President Barack Obama even cited Australian researcher John Cook's paper while announcing sweeping climate regulations.

“Ninety-seven percent of scientists, including, by the way, some who originally disputed the data, have now put that to rest,” Obama said in 2013, announcing his new global warming plan. “They’ve acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it.”

Lindzen disagreed with Obama and other liberal politicians who cite Cook’s paper to call for stricter energy regulations. He said it’s part of a political machine that’s used by scientists and politicians to direct more taxpayer dollars to pet projects.

“If you can make an ambiguous remark and you have people who will amplify it ‘they said it not me’ and he response of the political system is to increase your funding, what’s not to like?” Lindzen said.

Conservative of the Week: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Age: 79

Claim to Fame: stalwart of constitutionalism on the Supreme Court for 30 years, passed away in his sleep during a hunting trip in Texas, this past Friday.

Why He's the Conservative of the Week: a strict constitutionalist, a legal genius, a man who wasn't afraid to speak his mind even when he wasn't in the majority of decisions and best of all, a Supreme Court justice who pissed off a lot of liberals with his scathing dissents, there was no more principled man than Antonin Scalia.

The first Italian-American Supreme Court justice, Scalia was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, winning confirmation by a 98-0 vote. Immediately, the Jersey-born and New York-bred Scalia would prove to be an aggressive questioner from the bench who relished pointing out what he saw as the logical fallacies of arguments made by attorneys. Known for his wit, brashness and sarcasm, Scalia readily advocated an “originalist” constitutional interpretation that hewed to the words of the document and the meaning they had at the time of adoption. He disdained the concept of a “living Constitution” whose meaning could change as society evolved and different justices took the bench.

Scalia called the 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage a “threat to American democracy,” said a 1992 abortion-rights opinion “cannot be taken seriously,” and predicted a 2008 ruling favoring Guantanamo Bay inmates “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
In 2002, Scalia blasted a decision that invoked the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment to bar executions of mentally disabled killers. “Seldom has an opinion of this court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members,” Scalia said in his dissent. Scalia was a heavy influence on Justice Clarance Thomas and often sparred with Justice Ruth Ginsburg, his polar opposite on the bench.

The leading conservative on the Court, Scalia leaves behind a wife, nine children and a legacy for mainstreaming of conservative ideas about ­jurisprudence—in particular the principles of originalism ­(interpreting the Constitution as the framers intended it rather than as an evolving document) and textualism (that statutes must be ­interpreted based on their words alone).

Conservative of the Week: Senator Todd Weiler (Utah-R)

Age: 48

Claim to Fame: Republican member of the Utah State Senate since 2012

Why He's the Conservative of the Week: for his fight against the dangers of pornography, especially when it comes to kids. Weiler, a Mormon, attorney, businessman and married father of 4, wants to declare pornography a 'public health crisis', echoing an argument being made around the U.S. by conservative religious groups as porn becomes more accessible on smartphones and tablets. Weiler's actions are backed by research that shows that pornography not only objectifies women, but more often leads to riskier sexual behavior, addiction, family destruction, adultery, depression, violence and sexual dysfunction.

Weiler contends that children are being exposed at young ages to pornography, leading them to engage in riskier sexual behavior. He has said recent research from the United Kingdom found that people who compulsively view porn showed similar brain activity as seen in drug addicts.

"It's not just a kooky thing that some, you know, politician from Mormon Utah came up with," Weiler said. "When I was a kid, people might sneak a Playboy magazine and look at it. Now, you've got all kinds of horrible, graphic images that are available to anyone with an Internet connection one or two clicks away."

Four Republicans and one Democrat on a Utah Senate health committee agreed with Weiler and endorsed the resolution Friday afternoon in Salt Lake City after an hour-long meeting where they heard from anti-pornography activists, a marriage therapist and residents who said they or loved ones struggled with pornography addictions.

Weiler's proposal would encourage the federal government to take steps to do something, such as requiring Internet providers to make pornography only accessible if subscribers opt-in.

Conservative of the Week: Bishop Fred Henry

Age: 72

Claim to Fame: 7th and current Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Why He's the Conservative of the Week: for refusing to apologize after criticizing new LGBTQ guidelines for Alberta schools. After calling the guidelines 'madness' and 'totalitarian' the bishop was met with harsh criticism by Canada's Godless Gay Mafia along with their cohorts in the 'progressive' media. Yet Henry has admirably refused to back down, stating clearly that he 'will not retract' his remarks. Bishop Henry also noted that 'only God can judge the human soul', but it is 'pure nonsense' to state that 'human behavior cannot and should not be judged'. The Alberta Education minister has a meeting scheduled within the next coming weeks with Catholic leaders to discuss the guidelines, which must be implemented in all Catholic schools by the end of March.