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Web Foot Conservative: Why Civilizations Die
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Friday, November 25, 2011. Is perhaps the most important book I've read this year. It changed my mind about an important issue in American national security on which I thought I would never be moved. More about this later. Mr Goldman writes under the nom de plume. Spengler" after Oswald Spengler, the German author of the 1917 book The Decline of the West. Spengler's Universal Law #1. Such die-offs...
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Web Foot Conservative: The Inevitable ad hominem
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. The picture above, posted on a friends Facebook wall, became the subject of a debate between a few of us middle-aged conservatives and a young woman who is participating in the "Occupy" Portland group. I thought it might be interesting to share the debate with everyone in this more permanent forum. Here's how it went:. What's bleeding this country dry are the wars and a ...
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Web Foot Conservative: July 2014
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Sunday, July 06, 2014. Wordsmithing, part 10. 1 a direct pecuniary aid furnished by a government to a private industrial undertaking, a charity organization, or the like. 2 a sum paid, often in accordance with a treaty, by one government to another to secure some service in return. 3 a grant or contribution of money. 4 money formerly granted by the English Parliament to the crown for special needs.
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Web Foot Conservative: September 2009
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Saturday, September 26, 2009. The origins of the term straw man. Are unclear according to the Wikipedia article. For my money, the second account makes more sense, and certainly matches the metaphor. Democrat apparatchiks, Obama sycophants, and leftists of various stripes are using the straw man. With abandon. The range of people engaging in the practice is staggering: from New York Times. The rac...
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Web Foot Conservative: November 2009
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Sunday, November 29, 2009. And Now for Something Completely Different. I've been watching a six part documentary on the British comedy team Monty Python's Flying Circus. On IFC. I became hooked on these guys as a teenager when Public Broadcasting replayed their BBC television show back in the 70s. The first week of our marriage I took my wife to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail. As a teen and a...
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Web Foot Conservative: November 2011
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Friday, November 25, 2011. Is perhaps the most important book I've read this year. It changed my mind about an important issue in American national security on which I thought I would never be moved. More about this later. Mr Goldman writes under the nom de plume. Spengler" after Oswald Spengler, the German author of the 1917 book The Decline of the West. Spengler's Universal Law #1. Such die-offs...
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Web Foot Conservative: May 2014
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Thursday, May 08, 2014. Free" College and the Minimum Wage. I got into an online discussion with a friend of a friend about the minimum wage. The discussion started with my friend’s friend saying that we should offer free college education to everyone, to which I said,. Free college education. That's an interesting idea. How do you propose this? Compel them to work for nothing? Deem fit, too bad f...
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Web Foot Conservative: November 2013
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A blog of conservative opinion from one who lives in a bastion of leftist and progressivist ideology.Oregon. Friday, November 29, 2013. Why I Am a Republican. Before I get into why I am. A Republican, let me give you the problem I have with the Republican party. It's perhaps best illustrated by an oft-stated axiom by my cultural hero, Dennis Prager: "There are two parties in the Untied States- the destructive party, and the stupid party. I belong to the stupid party." I'm not. So, why am. Of greatest imp...
