// Reclaim Conservatism

In August of 1963, a muggy, sweltering day, a Senior at Mt. Vernon High School stood by the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.  The student was only one of many many thousands that day, gathered in the hopes that some day there would be peace between white and black Americans.  [...]

Two interesting facts regarding the Associated Press: (a) the AP is now charging fees to excerpt even small snippets of articles*; and (b) it has pegged the needle on the bias-o-meter with two of today’s national articles.
• Where’s our can-do psyche? (”Everything Seemingly Is Spinning out of Control”) by Alan Fram and Eileen Putman; [...]

Well, last night after work I went to the Downtown Renaissance Hotel inSt. Louis with some College Republicans.  I may not be the greatest fan of McCain, but Iam totally against the Obamassiah. So we waited there to see if we can get a glimpse of our next Messiah, but he arrived and entered at [...]

In 1962 and 63, my awareness of politics went overnight from “yawn” to “what the hell does congress think they are doing.  The overnight cause was a single reading in one fell swoop of Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative, a fairly short book given to me by a High School buddy along with a [...]

Now that Obama has won the nomination to be the Democrat Presidnetial Candidate,do wer eally know who he is???  Well, I know who he is, but does the country know who he is???  He is running as the uniter, which is very hard to understand, since he is the most partisan in his votes in [...]

Ed Morrissey wrote Time to return to the first principles of conservatism? several days ago. He makes a great point about the basics of conservatism.
What is the first principle of conservatism? Limited government. Our founders understood this, which is why they tightly constrained the jurisdiction of the federal government in the Constitution. Henry David Thoreau [...]