…is nicely captured in this comment from fellow Chestertonian Deacon Nathan Allen, who writes: Anyone who uses the words “conservative” — or “liberal”, for that matter — in the context of American political discourse ought to be asked what exactly they mean by that word. Most of what is called “conservatism” these days has nothing [...]

So to demonstrate that our gun culture is perfectly rational, the conversation in my comboxes regarding Federico Lombardi’s common sense remarks managed to turn, rather quickly, toward fantasy scenarios about secession from the Union.  Nothing says “engagement with reality” like fantasy scenarios about violent revolution.  And all because of a couple of mild proposals made–reluctantly–in [...]

Remembering everything.  Learning nothing: “In the debates and in sweeping rallies across the country, Mitt Romney captured the imagination of millions of Americans.”  - Some Romney functionary, doubling down on the epistemic closure bubble Screw prolifers and become a more effective corporate tool while throwing candy and a pretence of caring to disregarded minorities, like [...]

Bruce Bartlett describes his experiences trying to break into the epistemic closure bubble of the amazingly delusional Thing That Used to be Conservatism. It’s oddly reminiscent of accounts of deprogrammers working to bring people out of the grip of a cult. The Thing that Used to be Conservatism, both in his account and in my [...]

…who has personally paid in blood for the adventurism of chickenhawks among the Ruling Class and the militarism of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism, loyally loves his country and offers some ideas on how to recover a conservatism that conserves: In recent decades, the Republican Party’s version of conservatism has emphasized three major [...]

but I tend to be idiosyncratic, colloquial and casual in my speech when I blog.  I know.  If you need to lie down for a while as that reality sinks in, I understand. Anyway, because of this, I toss off little coinages for various ideas under the assumption that a regular reader will generally understand [...]