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Truckers roar to D.C. with impeachment movement
MICHAEL CARL
'The goal is to wake up the sleeping giant, the people of America'
'The goal is to wake up the sleeping giant, the people of America'
STONING, TERRORISM DEFENDER KEYNOTES D.C. BANQUET
'Plotter' of World Trade Center bombing raises cash for CAIR
It was a sellout crowd at the Council of American-Islamic Relations’ 19th annual fundraising banquet this weekend at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va.
And one of the featured attractions was a notorious imam who has variously supported stoning or jailing apostates of Islam, the arming of American Muslims and turning the U.S. into an Islamic state governed by Saudi-style Shariah law.
It was a sellout crowd at the Council of American-Islamic Relations’ 19th annual fundraising banquet this weekend at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va.
And one of the featured attractions was a notorious imam who has variously supported stoning or jailing apostates of Islam, the arming of American Muslims and turning the U.S. into an Islamic state governed by Saudi-style Shariah law.
Gun Control: Double-Speak of Our Time III
By Jeb Blackwood
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| A Bushmaster AR- 15 and the standard military issue M-16 |
With the establishment of the ATF in 1972, the federal government officially declared war on guns and on gun owners. As firearms evolved, the Left and their bias toward guns did, as well. In the 1990s, arbitrary laws were created, ostensibly to stem the tide of gun violence in the United States. Most of these policies were aimed at larger cities, so when the Clinton gun ban was being drafted in 1995-1996 the goal was to decrease the supply for urban criminals, specifically for the types of guns criminals favored.
Gun Control: The double-speak of our time, Part II
By Jeb Blackwood
As referenced in my previous post, guns and the gun control laws surrounding them are as misunderstood as Ozzy Osborne. They mean no harm, even though they both look awfully scary.
Gun Control: The double-speak of our time
By Jeb Blackwood
Recent polls suggest gun control is not that important to the American populous. Except those at an NRA meeting, where people ranked gun control a top priority.
20 Ordinary Americans Talk About The Economic Despair That Is Growing Like A Cancer All Around Them
There are hundreds of formerly prosperous communities all over America that are being steadily transformed into rotting, decaying hellholes. The good paying middle class jobs that once supported those communities are long gone, and they have been replaced with low paying service jobs if they have been replaced at all. When you visit those communities, it is almost as if all of the hope has been sucked right out of the air. It can be absolutely heartbreaking to look into the hollow eyes of someone that has totally given in to despair, but unfortunately the number of Americans that are giving up on the economy continues to grow.
Downsizing America: A MUST READ ! THANK YOU DEMOCRATS AND RHINO'S .
A Letter From an “Obama Peasant” and a List of Over 300 Employers Who Have Cut Their Employees’ Hours Because of Obamacare
It’s a different dustbowl, but this time the media is telling everyone how great it all is.
House Bill Would Protect Catholics from Discrimination on Marriage
By Matthew Archbold
Legislation that is garnering some
support from both sides of aisle and leading Catholic bishops was introduced recently
in Congress which would prevent the federal government from discriminating
against citizens and organizations —including The Cardinal Newman Society and
Catholic schools and colleges — that believe and act in support of
traditional marriage.
H.R. 3133, The Marriage and Religious
Freedom Act, was introduced by Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho with more than 60
co-sponsors.
“Regardless of your ideology, we can
all agree about the importance of religious liberty in America,” he said,
according to Christian News. “Our bill will protect freedom of
conscience for those who believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman.”
Incidents abound where those who
believe and support traditional marriage face legal consequences for their
beliefs, especially Catholic schools, colleges and universities.
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of The Cardinal Newman Society. Click here for email updates and free online
membership with The Cardinal Newman Society.
Politics, Ideas, and the West
By Samuel Gregg
This is the first contribution to ISI’s symposium,Conservatism: What’s Wrong with it and How Can We Make it Right?
In 2008, the writer George Packer argued in a New Yorker article
entitled “The Fall of Conservatism” that the disarray then engulfing the Republican Party was actually symptomatic of deeper problems characterizing American conservative thought.
A Humane Economy Needs Growth
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In his article, “Roots, Limits, and Love,” Mark Mitchell captures the sentiments of Front Porch Republic fans, who have been crucial to the internal debate within conservatism in recent years. I genuinely admire people on the “crunchy con” side of the conservative spectrum, who remind us that politics should start with human beings, tradition, and localism—not the cult of talk-radio.
Are We Slaves To Our “Freedom”?
By Elisabeth Cervantes
The modern Conservative, Mark Mitchell claims, is represented as an advocate of “pro-growth, pro-war individualism”. And if growth is some sort of motion or action, nobody in their right mind would posit that this is purposeless.
If this is true, toward what, exactly, are we moving?
Ignoring History in the Fight for Conservatism
By Chase Padusniak
“It is almost impossible to express the truth of conservatism in our society without seeming to justify our present capitalism. To avoid this, a careful theory is needed in which the idea of limit includes within itself a doctrine of history as the sphere for the overcoming of evil.” – George Grant
The above epigraph is a sort of maxim for me. It puts the horrible impossibility of modern conservatism into succinct, and yet powerful, terms. Mark Mitchell’s recent article “Roots, Limits, and Love” grasps the truth of the first part of what lies above while managing to entirely deny the problem raised in the second sentence. What of time? What of history? What of progress?
Overpopulation: Mother of all myths
The world’s population is declining.
Those are fighting words in most circles but it’s the truth, and it’s occurring right before our eyes.
What Is Wrong with Conservatism, and How Can We Make It Right?
By The Editors
The American conservative movement is facing a crisis. While a strong plurality of voting Americans identify as conservative, it’s apparent to anyone who’s watching that college students are more liberal than ever, and even those who may have identified as conservatives ten years ago are now identifying as libertarians, “pro-liberty,” or, in many cases, not identifying at all.
The need for Anti-ideological Realism
This article is in response to “The Duties of a Free Citizen,” by Kevin Gutzman and is part of the symposium on “What’s Wrong with Conservatism?”
The Problem with the Conservative Movement is Movement
What does it mean to be a conservative? Well, Michael Oakeshott once wrote an essay titled “On Being Conservative” and not “On Conservatism.” Oakeshott’s title is deliberate because it reflects his insistence that being conservative is about having a particular disposition.
The Duty to Protect Freedom
This article is in response to The Duties of a Free Citizen and is part of the symposium on “What’s Wrong With Conservatism“?
The Awful Responsibility of Time
By Jacob Culberson
“Well kan Senec and many a philosophre / Biwaillen tyme more than gold in cofre, / ‘For loss of catel may revovered be, / But loss of tyme shendeth us,’ quod he.”
“Well kan Senec and many a philosophre / Biwaillen tyme more than gold in cofre, / ‘For loss of catel may revovered be, / But loss of tyme shendeth us,’ quod he.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Man of Law’s Tale,lines 25-28)
With every passing hour, it seems, some task, great or small, which we had previously to accomplish by some independent or elaborate means is streamlined, minimized, and absorbed into some ostensibly beneficial and ecumenical instrument (the computer, the smartphone, even the automobile).
Hence, an imperfect illustration: the Swiss Army knife. Such an object combines many of the varied tools of the woodsman, workman, or tinkerer –– the functionality of scissors, knife, pliers, tweezers, etc. available in the form of a single implement. It seeks to save time by saving space and adding convenience.
Adam Smith is rolling over in his grave!
By Jeb Blackwood
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| Adam Smith, Scottish moral philosopher and the father of modern economics |
Economics is quite possibly the most misunderstood discipline at American colleges and universities.
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