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Michigan's Mackinaw Center for Public Policy does a good job advocating for the individual over the State. They also recently put together a nice Tea Party Toolbox too! The following is an outline of Tool #1.
Tea Party Activists Have Attitude!
A. Tea Party Activists are Unimpressed by “Nice” Politicians.
Tea Party Activists hold politicians accountable for their deeds. Elections are not popularity contests.  Pictures and press conferences with their families tell us nothing of their politics. In fact, the Tea Parties were born out of frustration with “nice,” “well-meaning,” "caring" politicians.

B. There is No Virtue In ...

After denying for 4 years that the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 will contain 44 inscribed memorial panels (equaling the number of passengers, crew, AND terrorists) the Memorial Project has announced a new design that appears to collapse three of the panels into one:

Artist's depiction of the slightly altered design for the Sacred Ground Plaza.

[If you are a newcomer, the Plaza sits in the position of the star on architect Paul Murdoch's giant Islamic crescent and star flag. They call the giant crescent ...

“There is no commonly-acknowledged conservative position today,
and any claim to the contrary is easy to make sport of.” —William F. Buckley, Jr.

Buckley wrote those words in 1959, as the introduction to his conservative manifesto Up from Liberalism.  As we've noted in previous posts, the right-side of the political scale has always been divided ... so for now, the question remains, "What is a conservative?"

Here's a few thoughts from William F. Buckley ...

George Will and William F. Buckley (Oct. 9, 2005)

[George] Will: Today, we have a very different kind of foreign policy. It's called Wilsonian. And the premise of the Bush doctrine is that

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I'm working on the next entry (William F. Buckley on Conservatism) in our series trying to answer the question, "What is a Conservative?"  I don't like all the links at the beginning of the posts meant for navigation, so instead, I created a page dedicated to the Define Conservatism Series.

If you haven't had a chance to skim through it yet, please do.  You're certain to find points of interest.

What is Conservatism?

The goal is to find some common ground shared by each. At first, I didn't think it mattered beyond "getting along," but I've come to believe the war between conservative factions does matter. Here's why ...

It's Rule 5 Saturday, from The Other McCain's How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog in Less Than a Year! The Kristanna Loken Edition!
"Everybody Likes a Pretty Girl!" - R.S. McCain

Post will be updated tomorrow with all the links!

Rule 5 Sunday
The Recession Has Made the World Suck Less
A Bombshell Drops a Bombshell

If Men Ruled the World...

Representative Michael N. Castle (R-DE) got an earful at a townhall meeting after he voted for the disasterous Cap-n-Tax bill.  This is starting to become a common theme.  Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) recently got himself an earful too!

Too bad suckers! That's all I've got to say.  Because there's nothing conservative about 95% of the Republican politicians anymore.

Oh, let's start here ... Only needing 60 votes to pass an amendment that would allow citizens with a concealed carry permit to carry in other states that also allows for concealed carry, it failed obtaining ...

The talking heads and policy wonks keep telling us we're in a depression because we're not borrowing enough.  Even though we all know the real reason we're in a depression is because we've borrowed too much!

You Can't Print Production and Prosperity by Doug French

It's hard to imagine that the monetary policy talk can get any nuttier, but we've likely only just begun. After all, despite the Federal Reserve growing its balance sheet by 140 percent and dropping rates essentially to zero, the bankruptcies just keep on coming. Ex-Fed governor Wayne Angell told Larry Kudlow's ...

Last week, a bunch of "big name" economists signed a petition in support of Federal Reserve "independence."  Never one to pull any punches, Robert Higgs says of our esteemed economists petition, "[it] reflects the astonishing political naïvité and historical myopia that now characterize the top echelon of the mainstream economics profession."

These pro-Fed economists gave three arguments in support of their position.  The following includes their arguments and Higgs reply, from "Economists’ Pro-Fed Petition Discredits Its Signers."

Central bank independence has been shown to be essential for controlling inflation.

A little difficulty for this claim, however, resides in the undeniable fact that for more than a century before the Fed’s establishment, the purchasing power

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