As the cold rays of sunlight pierced the County Council chamber like pins in a cushion this morning, our prediction from October came true. Vice-President Roger Berliner did not ascend to the Council President’s chair as tradition would hold. Full Article at Maryland Politics Watch

Edmund Burke, the brilliant 18th century British author at the time of the American revolution once wrote: "Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and the appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more... Full Article at Associated Content

"Mailer was a Left Conservative. So he had his own point of view. To himself he would suggest that he tried to think in the style of [Karl] Marx in order to attain certain values suggested by Edmund Burke." Full Article at In Medias Res

Forget Adam Smith and his invisible hand, Edmund Burke’s little platoons and Karl Marx’s cry that the workers have nothing to lose but their chains. There is a new political philosopher — Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the easyJet founder. Full Article at Times Online

The near-unanimous opposition of Republicans in Congress to climate change legislation strikes me as inconsistent with the tenets of modern conservatism laid down by Edmund Burke (1729-97), the movement's patron saint. Full Article at Huffington Post

This is the final installment my three part report on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s one day conference on The Roots of American Order. So here is part two of mine titled Lift a Glass to the Past: America Rooted in Tradition or a New Covenant? Full Article at Stop The ACLU