Are You A True Conservative?

    The issue is not who is “true conservative” or even a plain old conservative, but who is willing to gamble his own power to achieve a result beneficial to everyone. In the power struggle between the DC Establishment and grassroots, labeling of the two sides often conceals the battle lines.  Language frames the debate, and I am still not completely comfortable with the labels “establishment” and “grassroots”. | Read More »

    Let’s At Least Get Our Class Warfare Right

    Even liberty-loving, highly doctrinaire conservative tea partying Redstate Republicans like me have dreams of dragging our party into the light on an issue or two.

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    The Two Kinds of Republicans

    For the past several months there has been a controversy over whether to be a Republican one has to be conservative, and in the end just how conservative one must be.  Even now, we haven’t decided the matter, based on the way people talk about the races in — to pick two states at random — Alaska and Delaware. There are really just two kinds | Read More »