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  • Painting the Leopard: Never Means Never

    Posted by LIFTW on June 24, 2017December 29, 2017

    Like many conservatives in 2016 and 2017, I believed the definition of "never" was well understood and generally accepted, and when people said it, I thought I knew what they meant. I was mistaken.

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  • A Culture of Vice or of Virtue

    Posted by LIFTW on June 14, 2017June 28, 2018

    Why should we care at all about "virtue"? Because people will protest over the political. They will kill over virtue.

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  • Bought with Blood

    Posted by LIFTW on May 29, 2017October 26, 2017

    Today is Memorial Day. It is not a day to thank those who served nor those who are now serving.

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  • The Shoes Begin to Fall

    Posted by LIFTW on May 20, 2017October 26, 2017

    [T]he guiding philosophy of the "MAGA" movement has been "victory at any cost", from the very start. Unfortunately for them, the bill has come due.

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  • A Simple Solution to the Grievance War

    Posted by LIFTW on May 18, 2017October 26, 2017

    To everyone that demands that this nation change to become something it is not, I invite to do the only thing that makes sense: Go away.

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  • One Idea, One Word, and One Republic

    Posted by LIFTW on May 13, 2017November 3, 2017

    If these people cannot be bothered to reclaim something as simple as a word, how do they fool themselves into believing that they can ever hope to reclaim their nation?

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  • True North: Rediscovering Our Compass

    Posted by LIFTW on May 6, 2017October 26, 2017

    If the Culture War is a conflict of ideologies, anyone who rejects ideology is engaging in this battle totally unarmed.

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  • Marxist America

    Posted by LIFTW on April 29, 2017October 26, 2017

    In a country once founded upon Locke's "Life. Liberty. Property.", we've become a nation shockingly comfortable with policy that is rooted in "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

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  • Running Out of Rails: Trump’s 100 Days

    Posted by LIFTW on April 23, 2017October 26, 2017

    So 100 days later, how have Donald Trump's central campaign promises held up?

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  • A Light in the Darkness

    Posted by LIFTW on April 18, 2017October 26, 2017

    What if there were a political party purpose built for the great philosophical hunger of our times?

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  • Playing with Fire: The Syrian Problem

    Posted by LIFTW on April 11, 2017October 26, 2017

    Inconsistency, it seems, is the only consistent policy between the Obama and Trump administrations.

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  • How Pushing Price Over Principle Is Killing Conservatism

    Posted by LIFTW on April 4, 2017January 31, 2018

    Whether you agree in whole, in part, or not at all with Reagan's politics, let's agree that Ronald Wilson Reagan could be considered a "subject matter expert" on American conservatism.

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  • Beautiful America: Our Moral Revolution

    Posted by LIFTW on March 28, 2017September 2, 2018

    After a bloody war of independence, the Founding Fathers sought to let natural Liberty loose into spacious skies, across fruited plains, and from sea to shining sea.

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  • Shattering the Overton Window

    Posted by LIFTW on March 21, 2017October 26, 2017

    As both the Democratic and the Republican Party are enslaved by their political apparatus, only a third party, free of major party establishment influences, has any hope of smashing through the Overton Window for liberty.

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  • Building a Nation

    Posted by LIFTW on March 14, 2017October 26, 2017

    Should we stop to think about the underlying assumptions that we've made our entire lives or allow those in media, in movies, in music, in politics, and behind golden microphones to tell us what we should and shouldn't believe and, more importantly, why we believe anything at all?

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  • Health Care Reform: The Mouse Trap

    Posted by LIFTW on March 7, 2017May 13, 2018

    The Republican Party has, at long last, revealed the final iteration of their grand health care reform plan to "Repeal and Replace" the failing Affordable Care Act.

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  • Stay Off of Reagan’s Grave

    Posted by LIFTW on February 25, 2017November 18, 2018

    Here, however delayed, is a four point argument on the differences between Ronald Reagan, a titan of American conservatism, and Donald Trump, a populist, celebrity loudmouth.

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  • Rediscovering Capitalism

    Posted by LIFTW on February 21, 2017December 5, 2018

    As long as there are those that believe the state has any claim to any portion of the wages, salaries, or properties of any individual, then we are not a capitalist society.

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  • The High Road: Walking the Walk

    Posted by LIFTW on February 8, 2017October 26, 2017

    What is just, what is honorable, and what is dignified has long since been abandoned by both major political parties.

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  • The Mainstreaming of Bigotry

    Posted by LIFTW on February 3, 2017November 18, 2018

    If we are to hold to the principle of pluralism that those on the left and the right both at least pretend to seek, we have to reject the purposeful intolerance of those whose political ideas may be antithetical to our own, so long as they do not harm others.

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  • The Islamic Question: Peace or War?

    Posted by LIFTW on January 30, 2017November 2, 2017

    Good people must always stand with those who attempt to do good, just as they stand against those who attempt to do evil.

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