Reagan Conservatives

OMG, I hope my suggestion that Bill Buckley fall on his sword, in atonement for the racial nuttery of one of the contributors to the National Review , had nothing to do with his departure from this earth today. Bill Buckley founded the National Review in 1955, when conservatism was considered by polite people as some kind of mental infliction. Conservatives were odd indeed, having opposed Roosevelt's New Dea l, ranted against the income tax , and been essentially isolationists before World...Read Full Story

While the odds are clearly stacked against proponents of liberty and capitalism, it is nevertheless somewhat encouraging to see that the battle lines are being drawn anyway. To coin a phrase from a certain state lottery campaign, "You gotta be in it to win it". To simply roll over and accept the crushing advance of socialism from this administration and 111th Congress would be completely unfathomable. So it is with great cheer that I read this morning that republicans have a growing...Read Full Story

Conservatives Protest! One of the things I never thought I'd see in my lifetime is a conservative protest. That has always been the bastion of the liberals; something I have always scorned yet something that has been very effective for the past 40 years, much to my chagrin. Even in the Clinton era, conservatives were always too busy making things work to take time out to march with placards, while the liberals - despite having complete control during Clinton's first term - still found not...Read Full Story

I’ll never forget an incident that took place in the summer of 1984, while ThoughtRogue was just a young buck serving aboard a nuclear missile submarine, purposefully lost somewhere beneath the steely, frigid waters of the North Atlantic.  A “Boomer” submarine’s mission is to lurk in a designated swatch of ocean, its exact location known only to those sailors onboard the boat, ever-ready to rain destruction (Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), to be exact) down upon any nation which exhibits...Read Full Story

Why didn't we think of this much sooner? Oh my, how the left of every stripe has gone utterly apoplectic over the "Tea Parties". It is quite a spectacle to behold as they writhe and squirm and whine over the dastardly conservatives stealing their bread-winning strategies. Why, how dare we exercise our rights as citizens to protest, even though we build the roads and fund the weak? What further forms of gall could we possibly exhibit, continuing to donate to charities even without the tax...Read Full Story