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Gaisce President's Award Ceremony having completed four separate challenges over a 52-week period.Simon Cullen, Lorraine Doyle, Yasmin Kearns, Emma Kennedy and Ciarán Phelan were the only students from County Wicklow out of 189 from Leinster who collected...
Just consider William F. Buckley's famous promise to "stand athwart history yelling 'Stop!'" and the fact that conservatism as a coherent political philosophy started with Edmund Burke's horrified reaction to the French Revolution. Anyway, what struck...
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
On substance, Romney's speech should have been a home run. He pledged to -- among other things -- fight for traditional marriage, end federal support for Planned Parenthood, eliminate Obamacare, oppose China's one-child policy, and shrink the size of...
[HuffPost] The White House is previewing its FY2013 budget this evening. CPAC LESS HAPPY TO SEE MITT ROMNEY - Jon Ward: "Romney acknowledged to the crowd that he did not come to conservatism as a young activist, telling them that if he had heard the...
Romney acknowledged to the crowd that he did not come to conservatism as a young activist, telling them that if he had heard the names of foundational authors Friedrich Hayek or Edmund Burke when he was a young man, "you could have told me they were...
Operation Archangel has determined you are engaged in unethical and corrupt activities which are detrimental to the security of the United States and the welfare of its citizens. You are ordered to immediately cease and desist all such activities. Sincerely, Edmund Burke.
Now it should be noted clearly that conservatives in this sense do not oppose all change, but rather they a) oppose rapid or large change, and b) sincerely believe human reason to be a limited tool. On change, for example, Edmund Burke wrote: “A state...
T. Viscusi of Brooklyn College’s Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute, which received its initial funding when Richard M. Nixon was president, e-mailed an announcement that Professor Samir Chopra will lead a study group to discuss Professor Corey Robin’s...
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III... Full Article
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Operation Archangel has determined you are engaged in unethical and corrupt activities which are detrimental to the security of the United States and the welfare of its citizens. You are ordered to immediately cease and desist all such activities. Sincerely, Edmund Burke.
While you are in vain torturing your invention to assure them of your sincerity and good faith
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Our most salutary and most beautiful institutions yield nothing but dust and smut
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.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
The cause of Edmund Burke, Leo Strauss, Robert Nisbet and William F. Buckley Jr. is now in the hands of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity. … Reason has been overwhelmed by propaganda, ideas by slogans.
Harris tells us that Christian theologians who argued against slavery ‘lost’ the argument. How so? Does Harris presume to know how the Bible should be interpreted better than Thomas Aquinas at least four popes, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, John Newton, Charles Finney, and Edmund Burke.
