The New Colossus

By Ryan Carvano

    I find it very interesting the amount of outcry by our liberal peers over the "trumpban"/"muslimban" when this is not trump's idea nor is it a ban. Over the past few days we've all heard pestering outcries for social justice by our friendly neighborhood leftists. We've heard the rhetoric being thrown by them and it seems they lack the burden of proof and their very arguments are uprooted by hypocritical nature, and double standard championed by the left. I'm here to show dispute the nonsense, garner the truth, and point out hypocrisy.
So we've heard many claims that this is a Muslim ban, that Only Muslims are barred from entering the country because the prohibition only involves Muslim majority countries. However, many of these complaints are oblivious to the actual people who have been turned down which included christians. The order banned all immigration not just Muslims, and has already redirected a Christian family back from whence they came. In order to bypass the order, you have to be a religious minority and be able to make a valid claim of religious persecution. Now liberals may point out that this is the ban, that muslims can't claim persecution! See they got us they got us!! No, I'm sorry you didn't... there are Muslim minorities in Muslim countries. What liberals offensively don't recognize is that there are two major groups of muslims that contain many subgroups. If we look at a Shia majority in Iran, Sunni Muslims can leave and make the claim of religious persecution from the reactionary government. Not to mention that the Obama backed government in Iraq continued to hold genocidal tendencies towards the Kurds which follow a more secular and progressive form of Islam. So, in reality the only people really prohibited entry are those whose values seek to oppress others. Not to mention this is in fact temporary.
     The fact of the matter is that the countries on this list do not even fall in the top ten categories for Muslim population, with the exception being Iran. So why is it that muslims from different countries can come in, oh yeah because it's not a Muslim ban. Some of my rather progressive friends have pointed out that trump didn't prohibit countries he does business in. Well, you may have a point if it wasn't  for the reality that the Obama administration had used this same list to warn U.S citizens and that Reince Priebus, the day after the ban, said we are open to adding more countries to the prohibition including Saudi Arabia whom has relations with Trump's business. I believe I established well enough that this isn't targeting Muslims, but some may still ask whom is it targeting we haven't had a terrorist attack from these countries. Unfortunately that is not true, the OSU' attacker was from Somalia, at least one Paris attacker was funneled in through the Syrian Refugee portal, the Boston Bombers were refugees, the father of the nightclub shooter was an immigrant from Afghanistan and an avid supporter for the ousted Taliban, that father radicalized his son who proclaimed allegiance to ISIS as the "Islamic Soldier", and "Soldier of God". My point is we have valid reason to expand vetting, Orlando. Wouldn't have happened if the immigration looked at Omar Mateen's dad's Facebook posts. Unfortunately liberals prefer to use infallible statistics like you have a better chance of getting struck by lightning or eaten by a shark than getting killed by a terrorists; I get that 100% but I still wouldn't let the shark swim in my bathtub or walk around with a metal pole during a lightning storm just to prove a point. 
     Now i know this is all a lot to take in but we must continue to point out the hypocrisy on the left. In 2015, Senator Chuck Schumer was recorded saying that he would support the prohibition of southwest Asian immigration to the United States, however when Trump wants to do it it's not ok and he has to fake cry about it. Chuck Schumer didn't even cry on 9/11 so you really do see that his loyalists are with his radical partisan rather than with the American people. In Obama's second term he did the same thing to Iraq. While composing the list of countries trump is using, Obama personally ordered a prohibition on Iraqi immigration and refugees. Where was the outcry when he did this? What's amazing is that a large portion of Muslim countries have a an on Jewish immigration because they don't recognize the right to exist of any Jew or any Jewish state. Where was the outcry? 
     I'll leave you with this, maybe we need to grow up. We need to defend our borders and defend our beliefs and ideals from those who wish to take advantage of it. If we are to be a bastion of democracy, a shining city on a hill we must make sure that future immigrants continue to be the electricians who keep the city lit for thousands of years. I believe this is a country of refugees, immigrants and exiled democratic legionaries. I believe in the new colossus. Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” However I also believe that the only way we can defend this principle is by re asserting it as a privilege and not a right. We will accept all those who love, all those who dream and all those of benevolent spheres. There are people who will take advantage of our good nature and fraternity, people who want to destroy our way of life, and I believe the only answer to this problem is three simple words. Trust, but Verify.

Male Privilege is a Myth. Get Over It.

Women and feminists of America, men have it worse in society. Stop acting like we're invincible.

By Noah Cristian

New wave feminism and misandry plasters men as being "Misogynistic, Chauvinistic and racist". We apparently need to, "check our male privilege" as well. Women believe that they're the most victimized, vulnerable group of people out there. They expect the rest of society to coddle them and play along to pretend they have it bad. Yes, being a woman can be stressful in certain cases. But men have it worse. We have it worse in every category. I'm going to go over the most drastic statistics.

Men are 97% of combat fatalities. Men have been on the front lines of war since the beginning of time. We have been fighting for and defending women for centuries. We are the first killed, and the last to be saved. This is an indisputable fact, yet Hillary Clinton famously thinks of women as the primary victims of war. Give me a break.

Men pay 97% of alimony. According to Judges and Juries across the country, men need to take care of the women once they break up. No matter our salary, we are forced to pay alimony, no matter the circumstances of a divorce or breakup. Listen boys, sign a prenuptial agreement. You'll thank me later.

Men make up 94% of work suicides. Men are the majority of the workers in this country, and we work under the most stressful jobs as well. Most neurosurgeons and soldiers are men. These jobs have incredibly high suicide rates because of how stressful they are, and how much of a toll it takes on a worker. Women, you try and take over these jobs. You couldn't handle it any better than us.

Men make up 93% of work fatalities. Yes, men do tend to choose jobs with a much higher death rate than others, such as law enforcement and the military, but this does not make this problem any better. We construct your buildings, police your neighborhoods, and fight your wars. Some appreciation would be nice.

Men make up 81% of war deaths. We are the ones charging head first into battle. We were the ones shot like cattle during the invasion of Normandy on D Day. We were the ones castrated and beheaded by ISIS. We've been fighting your wars for hundreds of years. We fought to end slavery and bring the Confederacy back to the union, and we ended the tyrannical rule of Britain in the Americas. No Hillary Clinton, women are not the primary victims of war, you old fool.

Men lose custody in 84% of divorces. Okay, maybe some fathers were shitty. I'll give it that. I'll give a 14% leeway. That is still 70% of good, hard working fathers, who lose custody of their kids, for what? Because the jury and judge favor mothers over fathers? Its ridiculous, its sexist, and its just plain unfair.

Men make up 80% of suicides. Men suffer from depression significantly more than women, and we are not invulnerable. Suicide is not to be taken lightly. Many of these suicides are from war veterans. Do you think that's okay?

Men make up 77% of homicide victims. The media portraying women as this helpless victim, always the ones killed first in horror movies, is just plain stupid. Its not a privilege to be killed more than women, it really isn't.

Those were just some statistics expanded upon. This article would reach an insane length if I fully added my opinion on every piece of evidence, so I'll just list the rest here.

To sum it up. Men are 97% of combat fatalities, pay 97% of alimony, make up 94% of work suicides, make up 93% of work fatalities, make up 81% of war deaths, and lose custody in 84% of divorces. We make up 80% of suicides, we make up 77% of homicide victims, and 89% of men are more likely to have a violent crime committed against them. Men are twice as victimized than women, we get 63% longer sentences for the same crime, and have a court bias against us, much worse than racial bias. We are discriminated against in school and universities, face more punishment in schooling than girls, and make up 60%-80% of the homeless population. We receive 15 times less funding than women for cancer funding, and 10% of us are victims of paternity fraud. One third of fathers have lost custody of their children, their own flesh and blood. We're also more likely to be raped, when you put in statistics from prison.

And you say we need to check our privilege.

College: The Last Bastion of Liberalism

By Ryan Carvano

In this we shall discover that last bastion of the liberal stronghold. This place is a center for the spread of political correctness, and is also the conduit for unfounded progressivism that fuels the Socialist Machine on the left. We've come to recognize this place as a jumping point for our careers, careers that only a capitalistic free market society could make available. However, these places have become a breeding ground for the bacteria of social justice, progressivism. Welcome to college.
     College is, for many of us, the most important stepping stone to finding success in life. Capitalism has made it such a desirable commodity, unfortunately the great and all knowing ivory-tower has a left slant. For years, colleges have been the center of civil/uncivil disobedience during some of the nations most temulteous times. They played such a crucial and positive role in the civil rights movement and in all fairness helped question the U.S involvement in Vietnam. These positive movements have only gone to put a veil over the socialist and communist leanings of the professors. The magnitude of liberal professors has shaped milenials and is being attributed to the rise of BLM and Feminist groups across the country. What these professors are doing seems to be backfiring. New England is home to some of the worlds most prestigious institutions however, it's average liberal to conservative faculty ratio is 26-1! According to the Higher Research institute, 60% of college professors identify as Far-Left in 2014. This is generating a problem for the left wing youth, they have always been told they're right and college professors have only weakened rational and pragmatism among students. Professors have also in at least one way made it better for young conservatives, because the young right students have their opinions pushed to the edge of the cliff. Granted, some conservatives fall off the cliff and into imagination land AKA the Democratic Party of 2017. The other students who hold steadfast to their beliefs become the next Karl Roves, Sean Hannitys and Ben Shapiros. College is like the coming of age for conservatives while liberals act so immature the closest they get to maturity is expiration. Granted however, it is not easy being a conservative in College. In 2016 alone there were numerous incidents in which conservative students and professors were attacked verbally and even physically by the same "pacifist liberals" who are defending social justice. It's ironic that college students are for peace and love while they wage war against the conservative minority on campus. Professors like Daniel Brewster at the University of West Virginia are the epitome of the backwards culture. Daniel Brewster told his students that he would outright fail them if they disagree with him in class. Brewster has offered extra credit to students who showed up at anti-trump and pro-lgbtq events instead of seeing conservative speakers. This action caught the attention of the most fabolous super villain on the internet Milo Yiannopoulos whom proceed to call Brewster the "Fat Faggot" and "Professor Hamburger".
     Now that I've covered the professors, we have to cover the ignorance of the students. If you look at some students on campus it really makes you think about how poor of a job professors are doing. In defense of the professors I must say you can't teach this kind of stupid. I want to bring up the futility, actually no, the hypocrisy of safe spaces on campus therapy culture. Ever since the election of Donald Trump, campuses have entered a mourning period which envelopes the idea of safe space  and therapy culture. The office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs at the University of Michigan offered itself "open space of support" after the Trump victory. Not only this, but minority groups have claimed asylum in the white free depths of a college campuses. Why? Nobody knows, but one can only assume that they burn Paula Deen cookbooks and chastise men for man-spreading. According to the U-Michigan Students4Justive Facebook page the election of Donald trump threaten their iminent safety, the released. “Trump is a product of white supremacy,” their Facebook page outlining the message of the protest states. “White supremacy is responsible. . . The University must place the safety of its students first and foremost. Most of a University’s population now have their lives at risk. The University must protect us with every power it has available.” What's truly amazing about these words is they are completely hypocritical and contrary to what the civil rights leaders fought for. The whole civil rights movement by Reverend King was founded on the principles that rejected the notion of spectate, but equal. Watching this happen is like a social regression of civil liberties that were one by the heroic black leaders of the 60s civil rights movements. Forget the fact that College is enabling this and breeding therapy culture; I'm more irate with the fact that safe-spaces rewind the liberal thought process to Antebellum American. What's ironic is we already had safe spaces and laws for minority students, it was called black on schools and Jim Crow. This milenial idea with rejecting integration is the greatest regression of progress and it is only widening the race divide. 
    College will be the last bastion of liberalism to fall, the new upcoming generation is ripe with liberterians and moderate conservatives who will ideologically combat that illiberal arts professors. The only way we can move forward is through discussion and compromise and not political regression something that is absent in colleges today. 

Let's talk about Abortion.

Abortion is a very known and controversial subject, especially in America.
Disclaimer: My views do not reflect 100% of the views of our other writers on the Conservative Herald. We generally have the same view on abortion, with some differences.

When you abort a baby, you are not destroying a ball of cells, and you are not aborting a fetus. You are killing a child. You are killing a living, breathing thing. You are killing the potential for a future for someone. Life begins when the sperm meets the egg, and that is a scientific fact. That is a living organism. Granted, at that stage, it is not capable of thinking, but it is a living thing, nonetheless. Leonardo Da Vinci, Ernest Hemingway, and Mesut Ozil, all started out as a tiny little zygote.

Sounds like I'm pro life, right?

Well, sort of. I am pro life, in moral terms. I wish we wouldn't have to live in a world where the potential for accidental pregnancies existed, and I wish that couples would take better caution when having sex. But alas, we do not live in such a world. I am pro choice, and I am pro life. I think abortion is disgusting, immoral, and wrong, but a woman needs to have the right to choose, from up to two months, in my humble opinion.

After two months, the baby begins to look like a human. How can you say to yourself, as a mother, "Its been two months, and now its starting to look like a human. Because I have now decided that having a child is inconvenient for me, I'm going to kill it."
To all of you telling me a mother might not know by two months if she's pregnant, take that logic elsewhere. A woman knows by six weeks, most likely earlier. If a woman is having sex, it is her responsibility to take regular birth tests. If you are not responsible enough to take regular birth tests, you are damn sure not responsible enough to take the life of a potential human being. Contraceptives are available everywhere for little to no cost. If there are no planned parenthoods near you, I am sure that there are many institutions that give out free contraceptives.
By 60 days, if you haven't made up your mind, that's awful. This isn't a plant you can just uproot. You should not kill a baby just because its inconvenient for you. You can, due to very relaxed laws in some states. I applaud John Kasich for decreasing the time to get an abortion down to 6 weeks. That's a good compromise. Women who live in Ohio: You aren't being oppressed, stop whining. He isn't taking the right away from you, he's just making you think and practice protected sex. God forbid, he's saving some lives. What a monster, huh?

Not all contraceptives are 100% effective, and I completely understand that. By banning abortion, you would be taking that right away from responsible couples who use contraceptives as well. Condoms break, the pill doesn't always work, diaphragms are sometimes faulty, etc. It would be wrong to take that right away, but I'm damn sure that it isn't wrong to limit the time.

I want you to tell us in the comments. Have you seen a late term abortion? Why don't you look up a video of a doctor crushing a baby's skull, and sucking out its innards. Why don't you look at that and say, "Wow, that's totally okay, that should be legal." If you look at that and say to yourself that that's okay, quite frankly, I find that despicable. Did you know babies can feel pain once their brain is fully formed? Did you know that they feel pain much more intensely inside the womb than outside the womb? Did you know that sometimes, due to mistakes in the abortion process, the baby is sometimes aborted outside of the womb? That is murder, in my opinion.

Much of the leftist media thinks that anyone who dares challenge the right to have an abortion 6 months in, has an "agenda" to "ban all abortion". No, I do not want to ban all abortion. I do not want to take that right away, and that will never happen. I guarantee, you'll have the right to kill your kids as much as you want.

Ladies, I am not demonizing you for having an abortion. I understand that sometimes you can't afford to have a child, and the psychological pain endured when putting a baby up for adoption is unbearable. You are not a bad person for having an abortion. You are a bad person for waiting months and months to have one. I know its a hard decision, but for the sake of the child, make up your mind before it can think. Please. Its not fair to you, and its especially not fair to the baby.

Feel free to disagree. I'm all ears.

The Fallacy Of Income Inequality

By Ryan Carvano(L)


The Bernie Sanders Campaign sent ripples through the DNC and the entire country in all fairness. How can a white-haired Christopher Lloyd looking Socialists change the narrative for so many young Americans? If you paid attention, you may have heard free college, and end income inequality as the trademark of the Bernie Sanders campaign. However, what the left and its surrogates don't tell their young and passionate supporters is that income inequality is not a bad thing. Liberal economists such as Joseph Stiglitz preach that the rich are getting too big of a slice of the money pie and are taking it from the little guys. He also notes how the income inequality gap is worse than in most South American countries. To be fair, I'm not an economics major from MIT, but I can distinguish between wealth and political inequality from income inequality. What Liberals don't know is that income inequality is actually a sign of capitalistic progress. If the top 1% are making 5x their present income and the 99% is making 3x their income technically that would cause a 2x gap in income inequality. You might actually have some brain cells and realize that this was a good thing! Everything is based on production in a capitalist system which recognizes that its participants are not perfect. There is a reason that the wealthy are wealthy, they are good producers. You see in a market people compete for to sell the best product at the best price, and naturally there will be those who succeed and profit and those who fail. Now, part of the Sanders narrative was that this wasn't fair, and that the American Dream is rigged in favor of the top 1%. In my opinion, sobriety, ambition and hard work are all things you need to be successful in this country. 
Our current generation is in the façade of  mediocrity and complacency. In this world it's all wants and no work. We have coddled the less fortunate with state welfare, food stamps and other government benefits. This breeding of complacency has brought about this socialist movement where all your wants can be met through the money of others. A society where the wealthy pay global wealth tax and whose children loose their inheritance to the government. In brutal honesty, those people who have adopted the socialist credo exhibit a wide array of human mental deficiency caused by the nurture of the state. These people lack the imperative  drive to work and become rich, they are at odds with the inner workings of our free market economy. Our founding fathers said that all men were created  equal, in doing so they recognized that humanity is perceived as imperfect. Let's go back and see all the great inventions that were created here all possible do to the benefits of the capitalist system. These people profited from their hard work while others found varying degrees of success and failure. So, when people complain about the income inequality gap they are really complaining that other people are just harder workers and more dedicated. Who is to blame? We've established that it's not the fault of affluent Americans, so who is it? The government is the problem, they've developed a political inequality in which the lazy rely off government programs. This is like a 21 year old snowflake still clinging to his mother's bosom sucking other people's hard earned cash in order to maintain mediocrity. I leave you with this, try working hard for your own money and I guarantee you will no longer want to line up for "bread" because it will be lining up for you. 

Your Life Matters.

Yes, Black Lives Matter. So do White lives, Hispanic lives, Oriental lives, Native American Lives, Blue lives, and everything in between. We all matter.

Yes, Black Lives Matter. Of course they do. Any rational thinking person would agree with that. Yes, All Lives Matter. We all matter, no matter our beliefs, culture, race, creed, or religion. We all matter. Most importantly, Your Life Matters. You, as an individual. Everyone is here for a reason, whether you like it or not. Your life matters. We, the human race, need each other to thrive in this growing hostile and politically divided environment. We all have a purpose, and we all have individual thoughts that need to be heard. So stop grouping races like we're different breeds. Your life matters. Don't let this election damage your relationships. Everyone has the right to an opinion- granted, some opinions are better than others, but still, everyone has the right to have one- that's the beauty of America. Don't be pushed apart because of disagreement. That's the worst of it, that's the real enemy. So appreciate your neighbor, your fellow man, and your fellow American. Your Life Matters. The goal of this post, is not to start a debate, or to accuse anyone. With this post, we are trying to set a precedent for anti violent and aggressive politics.

Creating groups like Black Lives Matter will only continue to divide us and cause more violence and problems. The creation of Black Lives Matter divided the African American community even more, as many don't identify with the group. For example, my step father, who is black, doesn't associate or like Black Lives Matter. He appreciates and likes the ideal, as do I, but he doesn't like the connotation of division and prioritizing one race over another. I do believe most of us can agree on this. No, I do not disagree with the basis of Black Lives Matter. At first, I thought it was great. I thought it would help to unify the races, and would be peaceful and gain support. Little did I know, the opposite happened. So, my main point, is that we are all equal. If you believe in the big guy up there, he thinks of us as equals, no matter our race, and you should too. Please, don't let this election make you love or appreciate anyone any less.
#YourLifeMatters 

The Conservative Herald

Who we are, and what we do.

At The Conservative Herald, we're a group of young Conservatives, focused on sharing our political opinions and stances on certain topics, mainly being political and controversial. We aren't politically correct- but don't confuse us with the alt right. We simply aren't afraid to voice our opinions, and we aren't afraid of the aggressive left accusing us of being racist, prejudice, homophobic, or anti semitic. We are none of these things. Yes, we support Trump. No, we do not support Hillary Clinton or any of her associates. We support states' rights and individual liberties. We do not support government monopolization. We support equal rights among genders. We do not support feminism. We have a small group of writers here. Our head writers, me (Noah), and Ryan, along with some other potential writers. We have a YouTube Channel, under the same name, and plan to upload content and videos in the near future, along with an Instagram account, again, under the same name. We all know each other in person, and decided to create this blog out of our love and passion for politics. We are a group of students based in Long Island, New York. We come from different households, and different walks of life, and we hope that these differences can help bring more knowledge onto the table.

We are simply tired of conservatives being portrayed as racists and homophobes by the regressive leftist media. We are tired of Liberals and Democrats scaring themselves and others of things that aren't really happening. We are tired of the misinformation presented by schools and news sources, and we are tired of the Conservative voice being shot down and unheard. We wish to change that. If your opinion differs from ours, and you wish to tell us what you believe, feel free to comment. We embrace other people's opinions and potential for debate, and we will not disrespect you intentionally. We simply just want to demonstrate our view on social, political, and economic matters.

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