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Eco-Logic / Powerhouse Commentary... My college supports treason and terrorism! By Judson Cox On August 25th of this year, I went back to college. I chose Lees McRae College, a small, Presbyterian college in the mountains of North Carolina. I expected a degree of liberalism common to most colleges and universities, but I hoped for diversity of opinion and a healthy debate. Except for a handful of students, I have encountered no ideological diversity at Lees McRae College, but a group-think style of hard left indoctrination. I was not shocked when a literature class devolved into a uniform trashing of...

//2 How Conservatism Works Conservative social orders have often described themselves as civilized, and so one reads in the Wall Street Journal that "the enemies of civilization hate bow ties". But what conservatism calls civilization is little but the domination of an aristocracy. Every aspect of social life is subordinated to this goal. That is not civilization. The reality is quite the opposite. To impose its order on society, conservatism must destroy civilization. In particular conservatism must destroy conscience, democracy, reason, and language. ***snip*** * The Destruction of Reason Conservatism has opposed rational thought for thousands of years. What most...