For the sake of posterity, here are seventeen reasons that I proudly remain #NeverTrump.
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A Short Word: Paranoia vs Patriotism
It does not matter if you are tired of the Left's accusations of racism and bigotry, if those accusations turn out to be true.
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In The Shadow of the Russian Bear
Abandoning a core tenet of western civilization is the opposite of conservatism.
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q2
GDP GROWTH DATA The GDP Growth Rate for 2017 Quarter 1 was officially 1.4%, considerably below the 15-year mean, which includes the 2007-2008 recession that makes that number considerably easier to beat. The 4-year trend …
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Independence by Dissent and Treason
True patriot Conservatives understand that our nation was itself born of dissent and literal treason and, so long as the cause is just, such dissent and treason is our right and our duty.
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Painting the Leopard: Never Means Never
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
So 100 days later, how have Donald Trump's central campaign promises held up?
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A Light in the Darkness
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
Inconsistency, it seems, is the only consistent policy between the Obama and Trump administrations.
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q1
The economy has been moving upward since about 2015, but, from a purely political standpoint, much of this growth could be attributed to the general impression that the political winds were going to change in Washington.
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How Pushing Price Over Principle Is Killing Conservatism
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
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
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
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?
Liberty is For The Win 