Bill talks about the advantages of small government and free enterprise.
Showing posts with label What Do Conservatives Believe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What Do Conservatives Believe. Show all posts
Monday, December 24, 2012
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - Small Government and Free Enterprise
Bill talks about the advantages of small government and free enterprise.
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - The Problem with Elitism
Bill looks at the problems and dangers associated with elitism and elitist philosophy.Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - Wealth Creation
Bill shows how wealth can be created from thin air.Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - Natural Law
What makes some laws worth obeying, while others demand to be overturned? Bill examines the difference between Natural Law and Political Law.Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - Gun Rights
Bill examines to role of gun ownership as a bulwark against the power of the Big State, and deals with some of the logical problems of the gun control movement.Gun Control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars.
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - Immigration
Bill looks at the critical distinction between legal and Illegal immigration, and how apologists for illegal immigration end up hurting the legal immigrants that have always been the backbone of America.Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe - American Exceptionalism
Bill looks at how America is indeed exceptional -- a once-in-history success militarily, economically, scientifically and culturally.Friday, September 16, 2011
Andrew Klavan asks - Is Barack Obama Jesus Christ?
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."Barack Obama
"... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama"
Barack Obama
"Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?"
Daily Kos
"He communicates God-like energy..."
Steve Davis
"This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament...I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event."
Chris Matthews
Louis Farrakhan: "...And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Part 5
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Part 1
What We Believe, Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 7
Bill looks at how America is indeed exceptional -- a once-in-history success militarily, economically, scientifically and culturally.Thursday, March 10, 2011
Joseph C. Phillips - Conservative or Conservationist?
Russell Kirk wrote, “Conservatism is not a political system, but a way of looking at the civil order.” Put more plainly, it is a world view. People often confuse being a conservative with being a Republican. However, Republican is a political party not a way of thinking. All republicans are not conservatives. In fact as we have seen over the years there are even some republicans that are not republicans. Being a conservative is really about the embrace of an idea.
There is a film I recommend everyone rent and watch. It is called “Amazing Grace.” It is the story of William Wilberforce and his struggle to end the slave trade in the British Empire.
During an especially poignant moment, the former slave and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano, opens his shirt displaying the brand burned into his chest when he reached the West Indies from Africa. In his words it was a mark that let him know that he no longer belonged to God, but to men. This moment in the film is striking not because it affirms the cruelty of slavery. Slavery was/is not evil because of its cruelty, but because it violates the natural state of man by reducing the divine to the profane.
For me this moment eloquently illustrates the seed idea of conservatism—that all men belong to God! Thomas Jefferson was equally eloquent when he said that “some men were not born with saddles on their back and others with boots and spurs to ride them by the grace of God.” Jefferson of course codified this idea into the Keystone document of our Republic.
It is the assertion of divine ownership that is the basis upon which we claim our liberty. The natural rights of man emanate from this simple truth: God made man free and independent. As free men, we must own our bodies, our ideas, and the fruits produced by same. No man or no government can morally lay claim to that which God has made ours through his grace and mercy. It is upon this concept that rights are properly defined; upon this rock that America was founded and this idea that is the bedrock of conservatism.
Not too long ago I was in my home town of Denver, Colorado. I was speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the Claremont Institute of which I am a Lincoln fellow. I was on the phone with a very old and dear friend of mine trying to make plans to meet following the event. “The Claremont Institute?” She asked, “What is that?”
I responded, “It’s a think tank devoted to restoring the founding principles to our national life.”
“Oh,” she said. “Ultra right wing…”
“Uhm exactly which of the founding principles do you disagree with?” I responded.
I have made it my habit to never admit to being a conservative unless I am allowed to define what that means. It is routinely and wrongly asserted that the conservative objects to change. Frankly it is a fallacious argument the new left routinely makes and one conservatives far too frequently – and to our detriment - neglect to refute. The fact is that to conserve has never meant simply arguing for the status quo. Conservatives might be more properly understood if we referred to ourselves as conservationists.
Like conservationists conservatives are not content with current conditions. Rather they are both seeking to prevent the depletion of some treasured resource. Both Conservatives and conservationists act to defend and protect; to restore, to supervise and nurture those things essential for the survival of a society or culture. Preservation is achieved through education and prudent management or husbandry.
For many citizens stepping forward and demanding that we conserve trees or some rare species of bird is looked upon as a noble undertaking. It is a pity that some of those same eyes view the act of conserving, defending, restoring and supervising the prudent management of the principles upon which this nation was founded as a whacky or evil endeavor.
Equiano was correct and the power of that small idea – to quote a young Muhammad Ali – “Shook up the world!” I would submit that conserving that idea and the principles which grew from it are as important as conserving our natural resources. Better yet I contend that idea and those principles are our greatest natural resource.
Joseph C. Phillips
Joseph C. Phillips is the author of “He Talk Like A White Boy” available wherever books are sold.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 1
Bill Whittle chalks out the basics of Tea Party Conservatism. In this segment, Bill talks about the advantages of small government and free enterprise.Small Government and Free Enterprise
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 2
In Part 2 of his series on what Tea Party Conservatives believe, Bill looks at the problems and dangers associated with elitism and elitist philosophy.The Problem with Elitism
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 3
In Part 3 of the series, Bill shows how wealth can be created from thin air.Wealth Creation
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 4
What makes some laws worth obeying, while others demand to be overturned? In Part 4, Bill examines the difference between Natural Law and Political Law.Natural Law
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 5
In Part 5 of the What We Believe series, Bill examines to role of gun ownership as a bulwark against the power of the Big State, and deals with some of the logical problems of the gun control movement.Gun Rights
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Series Part 6
In Part 6 of What We Believe, Bill looks at the critical distinction between legal and Illegal immigration, and how apologists for illegal immigration end up hurting the legal immigrants that have always been the backbone of America.Immigration
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Bill Whittle - Politically Correct - The Narrative
Politically Correct - The Narrative
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Bill Whittle - What Conservatives Believe Part 6
What We Believe, Part 6: Immigration
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