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The Audacity to Barricade

Thank goodness the National Park Service reversed its shutdown policy and reopened the World War II memorial in Washington, D. C. Blatantly disrespecting our veterans by choosing to barricade them out to make the shutdown painful and noticeable is frankly un-American (yes, I did use that word). The veterans were having none of it, pushing …

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Conservatives Are Not Immune To the Toxic Rhetoric of Revolution

Against the backdrop of the current budgetary battle and the ensuing shutdown of the federal government, there has been much chortling and wry humor bandied about on Twitter and in the conservative blogosphere about “essential” vs. “non-essential” government employees. Many a pundit ask the question, “Well, if these employees are ‘non-essential,’ why should we have …

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Conservatives Should Claim the Future

Neoconservatives and libertarians have something in common that they tend not to share with traditional or classical conservatives. I don’t mean some policy, but something philosophical. Unlike nostalgic conservatives (to which camp I admit to belonging), neocons and libertarians are future-oriented, comparatively optimistic about where things are going. Less hindered by a view of human …

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