Hypocrites, even hypocrites that are too stupid to recognize their hypocrisy, cannot oppose anyone for any reason.
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Who now stands for Liberty?
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Independence Day Hangover
If we really are a Christian nation, then our national holidays should be in accord with our Christian values, and not merely of Earthly concerns.
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Where Social Conservatism Goes Wrong
Disagreements between people of different opinions is perfectly compatible with political conservatism, but let's not forget that conservatism is ultimately about leaving people alone...
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Why Is Liberty So Unpopular In America?
Defending liberty of everyone remains the best means of defending liberty for one's self.
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Breaking Free: Jeffersonian Liberalism
Historically speaking, human beings have always been kind of awful.
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The True Man
Who really believes that a true man, made in the image of God, hearing the cries of his hungry children, knowing the fears of his true wife, would let a wall stop him?
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Conservatism: A War Against Ideas, Not People
Conservatives believe all individuals, whether aware of it or not, desire the freedom to pursue their own happiness, and that this is morally good.
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Some isn’t Most and Racism isn’t “Right”
As it turns out, weaponizing the government against individuals is what the left does...
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Nationalism: Our Shame and Contempt
Nationalism doesn't require any deep intellectual commitment, only an unquestioning loyalty to the partisan nation-state.
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A Short Word: Who is the Left Again?
Ironically, red state voters became so focused on the "red scare" that they haven't notice they're every bit as red and every bit as nationalistic as the communists they oppose.
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A Short Word: The Conservative Ethic
At the heart of the conservative ethic, we believe that the truth supersedes opinion, because of this we must also believe that our ideas and political positions are always subject to scrutiny.
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Spend Your Tax Day Remembering Thomas Paine
Without Paine, the American Revolution dies stillborn in the hearts and minds of the American colonists, muttering impotently under the heeled boots of the King's army.
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Through the Wall: The Price of Liberty
It is clear for those living in constant fear and hopelessness, trapped in a ceaseless procession of funerals for young male victims of violence both by their peers and the very men and women sworn to protect them, that something has to change.
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Rational Liberalism: Self-Evident Truths
This principle that rights are derived from a superlative moral authority is necessary to the entire idea of rights preexisting a constitution or a nation state to begin with.
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Rational Liberalism: The Liberty Ethic
[T]he American conservative has less in common with the Founding Fathers, who contended that the proper amount to take from the people was practically nothing, and more in common with Karl Marx.
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So, Really, Why Does Inequality Exist?
There is simply no solution to basic inequality, but that's not to say that society shouldn't care about inequality.
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Holding the Line
At the very end of every collectivist's argument is always violence. Every collectivist. Always.
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Not the Freedom You’re Looking For
Did the Framers truly intend to condemn us to this charade of taxation, regulation, and coercive enforcement of "do as we say or else"?
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Who Wants to Rule the World?
In my America, only Liberty wears a crown. Long may she reign.
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Lighting Caves, Popping Bubbles
It's time to burst everyone's bubble and force them into the sunlight, even if they run shrieking back into the comfortable captivity of their caves and safe spaces of their bubbles.
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The Tyranny of Silence
If we lived in such a land where men and women were bound by a necessity of fear and anxiety of one another, how could they ever build a community, let alone a nation?