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: Self-Evident Truths
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Winning the Life Argument
Unfortunately for the abortionist, direct rights, such as the woman's right to her own body, are not the only component of Natural Law.
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Pomp, Adulation, and Avarice
The Republic has been through this fire before and need not go through it again.
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A Line in the Sand Marks the Man
Outnumbered ten to one, with the promise of death even if the defenders surrendered, Texas legend holds that Travis laid out the dire situation that faced them, and their options were few and grim.
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A Short Word: The 3 Reactions to Trump
There are three types of reactions to Trump by Republicans and independents on the right, and, unfortunately, most of them betray the character of our Founding Fathers.
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The Ides of March
While Buchanan, Trump, and Limbaugh pretend at a benign brand of Nationalism, they know that waving American Flags and singing the National Anthem will do less than nothing to improve trade or immigration issues, and that's why they aren't saying what they aren't saying.
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In the Shadow of Terror’s Reign
In the fanatical heights of the Revolution, the Jacobins abandoned all middle ground positions, embraced absolutism to whatever political fever suited them at the time, and betrayed the very principles they claimed to be defending.
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Conservative Party Now, Seriously
So what is going to happen? If anything is going to happen at all, we will need a functional, "big tent, firm foundation" political party that represents the values of enough Americans to gain political efficacy, in the next four to eight years.
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A Short Word: Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
I could spend days going through the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of tweets these lunatics spewed forth, but it only takes one to sum the movement up nicely.
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A Short Word: A Civilizational Problem
When it is clear that our police officers are no longer patrolling civilized city streets but a paved wilderness where the law is seen as a hostile threat, should the state continue to impose itself on people who have so rejected society that they can no longer see any benefits of remaining part of it?
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A Short Word: What Comes Next
Newsflash, our Natural Law rights to speech, to religion, to assembly, to association, to contract, to keep and bear arms aren't granted to you by the United States Constitution, friends.
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A Short Word: A New Conservative Party
It is time to set ablaze the groaning garbage heap that the Republican Party has become, if only to create the political space necessary for a new conservative party to bloom.
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The Grand Masquerade: Are We Better Than This?
A true liberal society, consistent with the principles of ideological conservatism, cannot remain free without leaders with the will to defend the sacred Liberty of their fellow citizens.
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A Short Word: Have a True Independence Day
Each and every individual must decide whether they are a free person, "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights", or if they are a subject of the government of the United States.
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30 Pieces of Silver
Like any economic activity, wherever there is a dollar to be made, invariably someone will eventually seek it out.
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Requiem for The Republican Party
While the nationalist may believe that even the private interest is, in fact, national, there is nothing more fundamentally un-American.
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A Short Word: Why NeverTrump?
The result of such a decision is as functionally irrelevant as the choice between being shot in the left temple as opposed to in the right temple.
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A Short Word: A Modest Proposalish
This is clearly the perfect solution to the gun violence problem as well as practically any other kind of violence.
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The Supreme Law of the Land
An America without Natural Law is not America at all and no different than the ages of nations that have come before nor those that will come after.
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A Short Word: Liberty Love Letters
As comfortable as blaming the left may be, personal responsibility must be shouldered, and much of the blame remains on us, you and me, for allowing the culture to come to what it has.
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The Great Deception
Conservatism is conserving the principles of Natural Rights and Rule of Law (the basis of Natural Law), for the purposes of economic liberty, civil society, and self governance, via limited state power, as described in the Declaration of Independence and codified by the Constitution of the United States and its Amendments.
Liberty is For The Win 