Protesters Have Jumped the Shark
By Victor Davis Hanson: Contemporary protesters have reached that moment, when demonstrations exist for demonstrations’ sake, without any consistent or coherent agenda of dissent.
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How Do We Win Victories for Liberty?
Here is an abbreviated version of a post by the Heritage Foundation’s Alex Adrianson: That was the central question at this year’s Resource Bank. Here are some of the answers we came away with: 1….
Read MoreHillary Clinton’s Superdelegates Are Designed To Suppress Voter Voice
By Greg Sorrell: The vote of a single superdelegate is the equivalent of thousands of citizen votes.
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Upholding Free Speech Begins At Home
Here is Vanessa Rasanen writing at The Federalist: My generation supports speech policing. In a liberal household, I was taught the opposite. I don’t talk to my parents much about politics anymore. Like many families…
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Donald Trump Needs Message of Opportunity Conservatism
Close friends will tell you that from early on during this campaign cycle my biggest problem with Ted Cruz was that I believed that his style — his presentation — couldn’t win a national election….
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By Kimberly Bloom Jackson
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Following the Money in Illinois Politics
By Bruce Donnelly — Polls consistently show that voters favor more disclosure of political donations. Democrats and liberal media routinely decry the influence of “millionaires and billionaires” even as they raise more money from…
Read MoreHow many more Lies are we Really Willing to Accept from our Politicians?
By Wallace S. Brushweiler and William Palumbo
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That Persistent Conservative Majority
Here is Bruce Walker: George Washington University announced on April 25 its latest Battleground Poll. The single most resilient datum in the history of that poll has been the persistent conservative majority. Nothing has changed….
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The Big Picture, the Long Term
Here’s the first of two days of Bill Muehlenberg posts — in both he says what I’ve been saying for many years regarding the information war: There are various reasons why the secular left…
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A Time for Heroism
Tomorrow and the next day I’m going to link to two articles by Bill Muehlenberg that outline the need for conservatives and Christians to fight the information war. Here is an excerpt from a…
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Pat Brady Appointed to IL GOP Platform Committee
A couple of Illinois political friends and I have been joking for many years about the old saying “it can’t get any worse.” For the Illinois Republican Party, that saying has never been true….
Read MoreSuper PACs: Funding liberal media
By Bruce Donnelly If you have watched TV recently, you have probably seen advertisements by Super PACs (political action committees) in support of, or in opposition to, candidates of both parties. OpenSecrets.org publishes a…
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Finding Shakespeare and Conservatism
First up is an excerpt from a great article by Jonathan F. Keiler. He writes about having seen the episode of Firing Line, the late William Buckley’s talk show, where he interviewed Charlton Ogburn, author of the…
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The Problem with Liberal Activism Culture
Here is another take on what needs to be done from Christopher Chantrill: Here’s Maggie Gallagher worrying about social conservatives losing the culture war because we don’t do activism. What do we do when more…
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