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After years of reader mail and surfing dozens of high traffic conservative blogs reading thousands of “conservative” comments concerning who or what is or isn’t “conservative,” it is clear that Republicans no longer agree on what the word “conservative” means. Unless conservatives can agree on what it is to be “conservative,” the conservative movement in America will remain fractured and powerless. (snip) I am convinced that there really is only one realistic definition for the term “conservative.” One can be “conservative” about many different things. But at the foundation, no matter the issue or subject at hand, to be conservative...

Written by JB Williams ©2008 USA Whether the RNC is trying to destroy the GOP or not, it’s clear that they couldn’t do a better job of destroying it, no matter how hard they try. Making John McCain the RNC nominee is the most certain way to lose the 2008 election. But even if McCain could actually win in November, almost a numerical impossibility by the way, many conservatives have already predicted that even a McCain victory would be the end of the GOP as we know it. What’s the RNC thinking? Can McCain Win? While MSM polling data aims...

Nearly every American senses a horrific problem on the horizon. But due to massive amounts of disinformation, few know the cause or can see what, if anything, to do about it. Every news agency in America is predicting a landslide victory for the left on November 7th. Many American voters are still stuck on Democrats versus Republicans, the balance of power between media-friendly liberals, better defined today as secular socialist progressives and the media’s favorite whipping post, the Republicans, who have been in charge and giving the left and their press anxiety attacks since their 1994 landslide victory. The Democratic...

On February 24th, a few days before a Florida judge issued Terri Schiavo a stay of execution until the 18th of March, I wrote for the first time on a subject I admittedly knew little about in a piece titled Decision on Terry Schiavo Case Too Difficult. As I stated in that piece, I was writing in response to reader mail asking me to take a position on a national debate that I had spent little time researching. Both before and since, I have been inundated with mail from folks on both sides of the debate, most of whom, knew...