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Veritas et Sapientia-Let Us Quest To Become “High Tories”

Mandeville, LA - [Editor's note: From a review of Ron Dart's The North American High Tory Tradition, by Grant Havers. This list of "High tory" values looks very familiar to me and will to those studying the Ancient Regimes of Christendom. - MC] What, then, constitutes the philosophy of High Toryism? Drawing heavily upon the ideas of Hooker, Swift, Johnson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and especially George Grant, Dart outlines ten principles […]

February 14, 2017 8

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The Root of ‘Murican “Conservatism” Is ‘Murican Big Government

How Does a Conservative Really See The World? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "To me, at some point we have to get down to not just who said what, who did what, what does it mean for you and me, but how do these people think? That’s really what I wanted to do with this book and say: What is the philosophy, in other words, how does a conservative […]

December 8, 2015 9

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The Founders Were Anti-Christian On The Eve Of American Revolution

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – He wrote this piece titled “10 Things You Should Know About the American Founding – On this Fourth of July, 238 years after Congress declared independence from the British Empire through the Declaration of Independence, it’s well worth reminding ourselves of a number of things about the Founding era.” I’m not going to do the first six. We’ll do seven, eight, nine, and […]

October 1, 2015 7

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Why Defending A Tradition Is Not Radical & Conservatives Should Do It With Glee

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "So when we welcomed Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to the United States and he was counseling us about how God had been kicked out of all life in Russia and that was the principle problem, that the churches were all razed and God was stricken from the public record or the public dialogue, was Solzhenitsyn being some sort of a radical nutjob that should have been […]

December 19, 2013 9

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Caller Russ: I Knew Edmund Burke, You Might Be an Edmund Burke Midder Church

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "What you just said was sensationally, it’s appropriate, it’s pertinent to today, and I don’t think there are very many of us that are even capable of understanding that without sitting here and reflecting and pondering. What he said, folks, was that he thinks Burkean conservatism is only relative to the time that you live in or the era you live in, which would mean […]

December 15, 2013 8

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Stephen Klugewicz On Real History Quiz #3, Secession And More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "We have the third edition of the American history quiz posted at FranklinsOpus.org. Where do you get this story that makes up the question about the Maginot Line? I had never heard that. That’s one of the ones I did not know. I’m looking at it going: Oh, crikey. I’m just gonna guess." Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin Mike Church Show Transcript […]

December 5, 2013 12

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For The Umpteenth Time, You Cannot “Fix” The Federal Leviathan, You Cannot “Fix” Politics, You Must Secede

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – As far as your third party, I don’t have the answer to your political question, because I don’t think that politics is going to solve or is capable of solving any of this. If it were, then I would think since the Roman polis was created, or if you want to go back to the Athenian republics of ancient Greece, I would think over […]

November 13, 2013 8

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Senator Mike Lee, Talking True Conservative Sense And Reason

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This story here in The Atlantic, Mike Lee, talking about how the GOP has got to part with spin and personality. Well, now, Lee is wise to say this because spin and personality are what? What is that? That’s sophistry. It means nothing. All it does is allow people to use the term “conservative” to personally and monetarily benefit from it. In other words, […]

November 5, 2013 8

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It’s Not Left-Right, Red Sox Vs Yankees! It’s Conservator Vs. Liberator

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "It's not Red Sox Vs Yankees, it's Conservationists Vs Liberationists." Conor Friedersdorf has an interesting post at The Atlantic website. It operates under the title, “What Parts of the New Deal Do ‘True Conservatives’ Want to Scrap?” I can answer that question in three notes. How about the whole thing? How about we start with Wickard v. Filburn? How about that, Conor? If we […]

November 1, 2013 12