CofCC National Conference 2008!

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The Decline of the “Old Right” Didn’t Start With Bush

George W. Bush should be the poster boy for Hayek’s dictum of Why the Worst Get On Top; in other words, he is the worst. His statements are the worst; virtually everything that comes out of his mouth is either stupid, illiterate, ill informed, false and/or a lie (e.g.; “Major combat operations have ended,” “I’m the decider.”). His administration is the worst, responsible for putting the US in its worst condition in terms of the economy, military readiness, international standing, education, and medical care. From the 2000 election to the present, Bush and his administration have consistently and successfully worked to undermine the remains of the constitutional republic that was the United States.

Discussion of ENR at Paleocon blog

If you really want to understand New Right’s Paganism (as opposed to just read nonsense about it on a hostile blog; btw, faileo-conservatives should be the last people in the world to call anyone else a “failure”), I suggest that you get a copy of Alain de Benoist’s newly translated masterpiece On Being a Pagan.

Is There Conservatism Beyond Christianity? (or how to book a mental vacation in Athens or Valhalla).

Defending Non-Interventionism

Whenever I debate the original American foreign policy of non-interventionism with an advocate of America’s 20th Century foreign policy of interventionism I am confronted with the statement that World War II occurred because America returned to its policy of “isolationism” after World War I. They argue that our failure to adopt the Versailles Treaty and to join the League of Nations allowed Hitler to come to power and eventually conquer Europe after the appeasement of Great Britain and France.

Gottfried: Paleoconservatism is Dead

In October 2004, my longtime friend Sam Francis responded to a recent commentary by Franklin Foer in the New York Times about the paleoconservatives as a rising antiwar opposition to the neoconservatives. Foer, a New Republic editor, believed that a defeat for Bush in the fall 2004 election might lead to a repudiation of his neoconservative advisors, and the return of the Old Right to favor. Sam and I had our doubts. In a letter printed in the Times, I noted that the imbalance of forces between the two sides was so overwhelming that no matter what occurred in the election, the paleos would not likely gain influence. Sam offered this interpretation: “A Bush victory would more likely mean their [the paleocons’] obliteration since neo-conservative domination would be locked in. But even if Bush loses, it’s dubious very many Republicans would leap on the paleo bandwagon.” For Sam, this represented a glaring historical contradiction: despite the “bad press” the paleos received, he was convinced, “more rank and file conservatives agree with them than with the neocons.” If they therefore “could learn to play more effectively, they could deal themselves a better hand in the future, even if it’s outside the Republican Party.”

Malaise on the Right

by Patrick J. Buchanan
The New York Times report that social conservatives are talking of bolting to a third-party candidate, should Rudy Giuliani get the GOP nomination, is another sign of the disintegrating Reagan coalition.

The Conservative Intellectual Uprising

It is time to contemplate, post “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, the reality and the implications of “regime change” with respect to Iran. One fact has been made perfectly clear by the American reaction to the Iranian President’s recent visit to the UN and to Columbia University in New York. The de facto U.S. policy toward Iran is “regime change.” Nothing less. It has been that way for some time, of course, but now the White House policy is unambiguous. Concurrently the policy seems to have acquired support in the mass media to match that already evident on Capitol Hill. For all practical purposes, we are at war with Iran. The dauphin, as Maureen Dowd sometimes refers to G.W. Bush, has probably signed a secret executive order, at the direction of the Regent, Dick Cheney, spelling out the policy. Is it too much to ask our rulers to share this document with their subjects?

Living in an Imperial World

The republic is dead. Not sick, not dying, not failing, or in a gradual decline, not waiting to be resuscitated, but already stone cold dead.

America: Infantile Nation [Buchanan]

Americans: The World’s Village Idiots.

But whom would Jebus bomb next?

Does this generation possess the gravitas to lead the world?

Considering the hysteria that greeted the request of Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to lay a wreath at Ground Zero, the answer is no.

Is Terrorism a Mortal Threat? [Buchanan]

It may have been politically incorrect to publish the thoughts on the sixth anniversary of 9-11, but what Colin Powell had to say to GQ magazine needs to be heard.

The Washington Post And The Color of Crime [Buchanan]

The execution-style murder of three African-American college students” in Newark, N.J., forced to kneel and shot in the head—allegedly by an illegal alien from Peru who was out on bail for the serial rape of a 5-year-old—has the makings of a Willie Horton issue in 2008.

Pat Buchanan: What is a Nation?

Watch Buchanan omit to say that race is also a factor that unites a nation. He enumerates various categories (even common literature) except the most important one.

It was the decisive moment of the South Carolina debate, by Buchanan

Hearing Rep. Ron Paul recite the reasons for Arab and Islamic resentment of the United States, including 10 years of bombing and sanctions that brought death to thousands of Iraqis after the Gulf War, Rudy Giuliani broke format and exploded:
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The Federal Mass Murder of Innocents at Waco and the Lesson Unlearned

by Glenn Jacobs

April 19 marked the 14-year anniversary of the BATF-FBI massacre of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. Some might say that the use of the word “massacre” is harsh, instead opting to call it a “tragedy.” After close examination of the events of April 19, 1993, however, any reasonable person must conclude that massacre is the appropriate term. The tragedy is that all too many Americans failed to reach this conclusion when the news about Waco broke and that the lessons of Waco still go unrecognized by so many.
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Neither Democracy Nor Republic

by Andrew S. Fischer

Media talking-heads, President Bush and other public figures love to blather on about our “great democracy.” As others have noted, our political system was not born a democracy, but a constitutional republic. Most of us are well aware of Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote after the 1787 Constitutional Convention: [We’ve created] “a republic, if you can keep it.”

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Americans Have Lost Their Country

by Paul Craig Roberts

The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America’s moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians. Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon as well.

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Jews want the U.S. to fight Iran NOW

HERE WE GO AGAIN …

Neo-conmen setting us up for new war in Middle East

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Stringing Up Saddam

An excellent piece by Rockwell, I could’ve written every word of it myself.

Tragedy, Farce, and Worse
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

The last-minute Surprise is a great American political tradition, but the Bush administration should get the award for the most preposterous and strategically wacky.

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Is Bush Insane?

BUSH’S LEARNING PROBLEM
by Joe Sobran

When I was a kid learning to play chess, I couldn’t wait to move my queen. She was the most powerful piece on the board, so I wasted no time using her to attack.

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They Lied Us into War

They Lied About the Reasons for Going to War
by Jacob G. Hornberger

In determining whether someone has lied, circumstantial evidence can oftentimes be as critical as direct evidence. For example, suppose someone says, “I was outside all last night and it did not rain.” A person who was inside might be tempted to conclude, “Well, since I wasn’t outside, I must assume that he is telling the truth.” However, if the person on the inside looks outside and sees that everything – the houses, yards, driveways, and cars – are wet and that streams of water are running in the streets, his conclusion might be different. Using such circumstantial evidence, he might well conclude that the person who is claiming that it did not rain is lying.

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