I'm just curious about what everyone thinks people should believe before they may call themselves conservative.
If you owned a Conservatives-only Club. What's you're membership requirements?
When you get someone like Jeb commenting like this, and distancing himself from the current crop of "conservatives", that says something. This go around may well see the "conservative" movement relegated to the ash heap. They're abandoning the middle for the fringes and playing to fear...
That's the question they and their supporters will be asking over the next year. As Laurence Vance at the FFF points out, tho, it really doesn't matter in the long wrong. Conservatives are all about big government, regulation and all the things their supporters supposedly abhor. Just like their...
Bush was no fiscal conservative, although he attempted to call himself one. Now our current big-spenders in Washington continue to paint Bush's brand of statism in the same way, in order to demonize all laissez-faire capitalism. In reality they are following all the same fiscal policies...
Why I Am Not a Conservative
Why I Am Not a Conservative
By Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek
In het Nederlands
In The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960)
"At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities...
I've been thinking a lot, lately (dangerous, I know) about politics, conservatism, liberalism, etc... I've been trying to learn to articulate my views well, and to truly understand why I have them. In other words, I want to be able to state concisely and convincingly what exactly I believe...
via Facebook comes this new piece by the Southern Avenger at the American Conservative. He takes a look at the origins of conservatism and who gave birth to whom. Conservatism arose from libertarianism, not vice versa. And the modern usurpation of the movement by the neo conservative movement...
I saw a little discussion about this and realized that not everyone is that familiar with the differences between these two brands of political thinking. I thought this would be a worthwhile discussion to have here.
This group contains a wide variety of people, both Conservatives and...
Telegraph.co.uk produced a list of the top 100 conservatives and top 100 liberals who most influence American politics. Our very own Indiana congressman Mike Pence was placed in the Top 20 conservatives. Congratulations, Mike!
Top Conservatives
100-81
80-61
60-41
40-21
Top 20
Top Liberals...
Here's a thread from the Long Guns forum that I am moving because it started to get political.
https://www.indianagunowners.com/forums/long_guns/64222-fbi_buys_20mm_rifles.html
After getting pretty heated last night because I loathe Nancy Pelosi and another member was defending her (and he...
Found this on the "other" forum I frequent,
Difference Between Liberals & Conservatives
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian...
Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group
Compared with 2008, more Americans “conservative” in general, and on issues
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ -- Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in...
Long read but a good one; worth the five minutes.
There are two ways to define 'libertarianism': philosophical and political. The philosophical definition refers to a theory of natural rights, which holds that it is necessarily wrong to interfere coercively with voluntary exchange and private...
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August 06, 2009
By Robin of Berkeley
I get asked by readers all the time: how can you go from left to right at such a rapid fire pace? Were you a conservative all along? Are you just yanking our chain; you're really still a liberal in conservative clothing...
So, here is my political rant. I am sure that everyone who reads this will probably disapprove. But, here it goes. I think "Liberals" and "Conservatives" are almost the same people.
It has become apparent to me in the last 9 years, that when President Bush was in office, "Liberals and/or...
From Glen Beck's latest email newsletter- a great read:
July 8, 2009
Last week Glenn got a call from a very impressive young man named Jerome Hudson, who told Glenn he had written an op-ed during the 2008 election on being a black conservative. He sent it in and it's fantastic. Enjoy...
We've had a lot of threads lately that refer to "real conservatives," getting rid of the RINOs, "moving to the right," and "returning to conservative roots."
My question is, what kind of conservatism are you talking about?
There are lots of different sub-types of conservatives, and they...