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Hate Speech & The Right

     The idea that “Hate Speech” is not free speech and thus can be made illegal and criminally punished.   While this is consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights, it runs afoul of America’s Bill of Rights. For an … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: A Firing Line Debate. Resolved: That We’re Suing Ourselves to Death

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      America is known as a very litigious country, and has been known as such for quite a long … Continue reading

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Happy Constitution Day!

     The Constitution of the United States of America is one of the crowning achievements of mankind. It was a distillation of the Anglo-American tradition and heritage set as the Law of the Land and sets the rules above the rulers. … Continue reading

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A Natural Born Proposition?

     America has a common culture that defines it and defines what it means to be America. While there are regional differences, those commonalities outweigh our regional and local diversity, or even the diversity between individuals. America is unicultural abet with … Continue reading

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Social Media Is A Poor Therapist

     One of the best things about the internet is that it allows anybody to voice their opinion uncensored; one of the bad things about the internet is that it allows anybody to voice any insane thought they have unfiltered, and … Continue reading

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Commissarial Dictatorship Of Fallen Angels

     A “utopian” ideology is any ideology that is predicated on good people beyond temptation creating and/or maintaining a good and wonderful society, even when those “good people” do so on an oracular basis, or via the will of the people … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: Should We Drastically Reduce Immigration? Part II

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      One of the hottest political topics today is the question of immigration. Let us look back thirty years … Continue reading

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America Is An Idea

     America is indeed an idea. But it is not a proscriptive—or propositional—idea. It is a descriptive one. Classical Liberalism was but an attempt to distill its core elements; conservatism was an attempt to distill, and protect, the causal factors that … Continue reading

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Cracker Barrel Crack-Up

     Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Everything seemed better in the past and businesses that catered to nostalgia have gained, in some minds, mythical status (and sub-mythical sales) while others are condemned for not having the logo or motif … Continue reading

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Firing Line Friday: Should We Drastically Reduce Immigration? Part I

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      One of the hottest political topics today is the question of immigration. Let us look back thirty years … Continue reading

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