First Principles

In her column this last Friday, Peggy Noonan discusses the ever more mind-boggling absurdity that is the “Baghdad Diarist” TNR debacle. (If you don’t know the Scott Beauchamp story, a soldier agreed to blog for the magazine, and decided to fictionalize his account in ways that a) painted our soldiers in the worst possible light, […]

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence When I first started conceiving of this blog, I imagined the Principles to […]

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…will liberals give him credit for the “almost festive atmosphere” in Qualcomm Stadium? Of course not.  And nor should they. By almost all accounts, the federal-state disaster relief coordination has been far, far better in California than it was in New Orleans.  But was the difference that FEMA and President Bush had learned their lesson? 

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So just what is (or what should be) a “real” Conservative? “con·ser·va·tism n. The inclination, especially in politics, to maintain the existing or traditional order. A political philosophy or attitude emphasizing respect for traditional institutions, distrust of government activism, and opposition to sudden change in the established order.” — The American Heritage® Dictionary of the […]

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