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Selected quotes from Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s Leftism Revisited

Selected quotes from Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s Leftism Revisited      Americans (or Britishers) are basically conservative.  Being evolutionary rather than revolutionary they like familiar things and...

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No college football playoffs!

No college football playoffs I know it’s the popular thing to advocate, but I’ve hated the idea of college football playoffs since the first day I heard it.  Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I like the...

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Non-partisan research: The 2000 Presidential Election

Non-partisan research: The 2000 Presidential Election   Did George W. Bush steal the 2000 Presidential Election through the Supreme Court, as Democrats have been claiming for almost a decade?  I’m...

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Guest commentary: Why “Buy American” isn’t best for America

By The Last Sober Irishman Now before you go and bite my head off, I first want to point out that until I was recently laid-off, I was an American factory worker in a union controlled plant in the...

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What’s the Big Deal About Illegal Immigration?

I’ll admit it; I used to be one of those conservatives who never thought immigration was a big deal.  That’s partly because of my libertarian background.  Libertarians, while more tolerant of social...

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Why can’t conservatives appeal to minorites?

What is conservatism’s problem with race?  Why does everything done in the name of the conservative movement (and by proxy, the Republican Party) fail to appeal to a majority of self-conscious...

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Chicken Soup for the Conservative Soul

I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous By Harry Stein 199 pages.    Encounter Books.  2009....

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Stuck in the middle between you resentful jerks

Migrations and Cultures A World View By Thomas Sowell 516 pages.    BasicBooks.  1996.   As I’ve been reflecting on the presently dormant Arizona immigration pother, I figured that a responsible,...

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Are conservatives the new feminists?

To be a conservative public figure is to be mocked by Americans.  George W. Bush will forever be an inarticulate shrub.  Glenn Beck, a fear-mongering conspiracy theorist.   Even Ronald Reagan will be...

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The Triple Package and its Critics

I wasn’t going to read The Triple Package, but the critical reception to it has been too over the top to ignore.  Perhaps that was inevitable.  In America, any discussion which touches race, even...

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