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Category Archives: Conservatives
David Frum In 2003 On ‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’
It turns out that those who opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq were right and were therefore the real patriots. It’s extra weird that Frum, a Canadian, is attacking the patriotism of Americans. David Frum wrote March 25, 2003: You … Continue reading
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Alan Clark
From Wikipedia: Clark held strong views on British unionism, racial difference, social class, and was in support of animal rights, nationalist protectionism and Euroscepticism. He referred to Enoch Powell as “The Prophet”. Clark once declared: “It is natural to be … Continue reading
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Conservative Principles & The Iraq Invasion Of 2003
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Not that I was aware of Ross Douthat back in 2002-03, but I recall reading later, around the time he was named as the NYTimes’ youngest columnist in history, that he was not only a … Continue reading
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Conservative Pundit
This National Review-style Twitter feed is brilliant! * Wishing all my fellow Americans a Merry Traditional Holiday Greetings! Enjoy your Winter Season Festivities! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanzaa! * Sometimes Trump speaks frankly to his supporters, without artifice, almost as if … Continue reading
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Rolling Back The Neo-Cons
The blogger Patterico seems to be moving from neo-con to conservative. Last night, watching the debate, I witnessed a bizarre interchange in which Hugh Hewitt appeared to assert that it is a necessary qualification for the presidency of the U.S. … Continue reading
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The Neocon Takeover Of The Conservative Movement
Paul Gottfried and Pat Buchanan don’t make the list. Nobody from Chronicles magazine (paleo-conservative). Ann Coulter and Mark Steyn are near the top, but their foreign policy has been largely neocon. From RightWingNews: 50) Katie Kieffer 49) Thomas Purcell 48) … Continue reading
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Portrait Of A Cuckservative
From Vox Popoli: It would be hard to get much more cucky than this. This is simply a straightforward and unabashed cuckservative surrender to left-liberal fantasy: Anti-Racism Is a Conservative Issue The Left is happy to go on endlessly promoting … Continue reading
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Everyone is conservative about what he knows best
LINK: Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that … Continue reading
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Commentary Magazine: The GOP Is Killing Itself
I love how Donald Trump sorts out the good guys (those who care about preserving America as a nation with strong borders) from the bad guys (the open borders Republican establishment, Democrats, media, Jewish activists, Catholic activists, mainstream Protestant activists, … Continue reading
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Mass Legal Immigration Will Finish Conservatism
Mark Krikorian writes: Conservative luminaries have been warning that Donald Trump poses a threat to the Republican party and to the political future of conservativism. Charles Krauthammer has called him “political poison.” Fred Barnes says Trump has “made the GOP’s … Continue reading
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