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This is on them, those brave and bold MSNBCNN warriors who sold out the conservatives who once took their cruises until Trump exposed the grift; these True Conservatives™ then proceeded

For Alabama conservatives, toll opposition creates strange political alliances and disputes AL.com 48 mins ago John Sharp, al.com © John Sharp Alabama Auditor Jim Zeigler speaks during a public hearing hosted by the Common Sense Campaign tea party on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, at the Five Rivers Delta Resource Center in Spanish Fort, Ala. Jim Zeigler rattles off the number of followers to his grassroots anti-toll Facebook group like a stock trader can readily recite the numbe...

As Tesla Solar Roof customers file another lawsuit, California is set to decide whether to combine them into a single class-action complaint kshalvey@insider.com (Kevin Shalvey) A new lawsuit filed in California against Tesla sought class-action status for Solar Roof customers. A California judge is set to decide whether to combine the two in-state lawsuits. A California judge will decide whether two complaints filed against Tesla will be combined into a single lawsuit, as plain...

A California judge is set to decide whether to combine the two in-state lawsuits. A California judge will decide whether two complaints filed against Tesla will be combined into a single lawsuit, as plaintiffs across the US pursue a class action over Solar Roof price hikes.  Eight Tesla customers this week filed a complaint in US District Court in the Northern District of California, alleging the company violated California law by increasing the price after theyd signed contracts.  The compla...

Ranked-Choice Voting: A Conservative Election Reform “[T]he thinking conservative understands that permanence and change must be recognized and reconciled in a vigorous society.” When Russell Kirk penned his famous “Ten Conservative Principles [1]” in 1993, he was not writing specifically about reforming the modern electoral system. But with the recent political frenzy over laws to address “voter fraud” and subsequent charges of “voter suppression,” the need for prudential elect...

Education Next Jonathan Marks urges a recommitment to reason by Jonathan Marks As reviewed by J. Grant Addison In Let’s Be Reasonable, Jonathan Marks argues that higher education should rededicate itself to the project of liberal education. Taking his cue from John Locke, Marks describes the aim of liberal education as creating a certain type of person: that is, a reasonable one. “Reason,” as opposed to syllogism or simple debate, is both a habit of mind and a standard to hold while p...

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Arguments for and against no-excuse absentee/mail-in voting Kevin Kosar, Marc Hyden and Steven Greenhut ( R Street): “Voting absentee or by mail is a safe, trusted and age-old practice. Moreover, expanded access to absentee voting comports with conservative principles, which helps explain why a number of conservative state policymakers have advanced proposals to achieve it. Finally, and critically, policymakers should take note that polling data indicate very clearly that the public strongl...

Jonathan Marks The politics of higher education are changing. For decades the basic arrangement has had ascendant conservatives arrayed against it and liberals engaged in a defensive rearguard action. The rightwing onslaught was spearheaded by the likes of William F. Buckley, whose God and Man at Yale (1951) decried the secularization of an elite institution overrun by Keynesians and collectivists. The onslaught endured through the end of the twentieth century in the work of people like Allan ...

The Trump administration forced a lot of conservatives to rethink issues. For me, I had to revisit the topic of tariffs. Initially, I was knee-jerk hostile to tariff schedules. We should support free trade at all costs, right? That was what Milton Friedman told us, and that is what we should be fighting for. After four years of Trump, I realized that Pat Buchanan and other economic nationalists had a good point about tariffs. Indeed, every nation needs to take steps to ensure that essential ind...