Conservatarian Chronicles

A new PragerU video asks that socialists explain themselves as to why their ideological abomination still exists We’re coming up on a bicentennial of sorts. It was almost 200 years ago that   socialism ‘officially’ failed for the first time in history , but we’ll talk about that momentarily. A recent poll indicates very bad news for the authoritarian leftists:   An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll   conducted Jan. 26-29 of 1,000 registered voters with more than half of whom were reached by cell phone had these results: Fifty-two percent of all voters say they have a positive view of capitalism, versus 18 percent who have a negative opinion. The numbers are reversed for  socialism, with 53 percent having a negative view  and 19 percent a positive one. Yet there’s a striking difference by party and age. Democratic primary voters have a net-positive impression of socialism (40 percent positive, 23 percent negative), and Dem voters ages 18-34 view i...

A new PragerU video highlights how we need to frame our arguments for the conservation of liberty. Sometimes it is quite fascinating to witness certain spontaneous events taking place. In this circumstance, it is that many  patriots of the pro-liberty right  have begun singing the same tune in unison seemingly without a central directing influence. We submit that the ‘how’ in this situation isn’t as important as the ‘what’. The past few weeks have seen many come to the same conclusion, that we conservators of liberty need to step up and  begin pushing back  on those who are actively working against this cause. That merely defending freedom isn’t sufficient, that we need to go on offence. Framing the argument. The PragerU we are presenting succinctly makes this point with a some suggestions on how we can structure our arguments to counteract the tactics of the left in pushing their socialist national agenda. This begins with determining how they fra...

Liberty will be in jeopardy if the dominant social media organs can have it both ways, censoring speech while pretending to be public forums. A new 5-min video from PragerU perfectly encapsulates the issue of censorship of the dominant social media organs. Presenter Eric George goes through the background of the PragerU v. YouTube lawsuit and the controversy over whether these corporate giants are publisher or public forums. This case is the critical point because these behemoths wield tremendous power and have the best of both worlds. They started out acting as public forums where they acted as conduits – enjoying the legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. They are now acting as publishers deciding on what content is acceptable such as PragerU videos, while still being under the protection of being a ‘public forum’. From the  transcript : Here’s why this is so important: A few years ago, the social media giants—Google, Facebook, Yo...

Which party founded the KKK, supported slavery, and opposed civil rights and giving blacks the vote? A recent video from Will Witt from PragerU exposes that people do not really know that much about the Republican and Democratic parties. The revelation of the facts of the matter shocked most of the people, showing that the government indoctrination system is woefully inadequate to educating the country. No matter how much money they waste. Now that the Left is doing all they can to render the words racist and sexist meaningless, while numbing everyone to real crimes against certain minorities. It’s vitally important to correct the record on which political party began with the purpose of the abolition of slavery. The party that started the  – and revived –  the KKK and which party opposed civil rights and giving blacks the vote. Originally published on the NOQ Report

PragerU has a new video from Jocko Willink on Discipline on the hard road to inevitable success. In this year’s 2019 PragerU Commencement Address, Navy Seal (Ret.) and best-selling author, Jocko Willink, offers some hard-learned, practical advice. It all starts with Discipline. That’s what will get you on the road to personal fulfillment and success – and keep you there. Watch and find out why. We cannot do justice to this short [5:43 min] Commencement Address, so this will just be summary of the main points: [Our emphasis] One of the best things I’ve learned is that anyone has what it takes to travel the hard road – to walk The Path that leads to success. That includes you. It won’t be easy. It will demand everything you’ve got to give. But you can do it, and I want to give you three key principles I’ve learned that will help you to get it done. Principle number one: Discipline. Equals. Freedom. That’s not a contradiction – it’s an equation. Discipline might appear ...

Dennis Prager presents the case of why some forms of organised evil are ‘ more equal’ than other forms of organised evil. Even though it was from a few years ago, this 5 minute video from PragerU lays out some of the reasons why the Far-Left collectivist ideology of Communism aren’t as reviled as another Far-Left collectivist ideology, Nazism . Reason Number 1: There is, simply put, widespread ignorance of the communist record. Whereas both right and left loathe Nazism and teach its evil history, the left – and I’m talking about the left, not traditional liberals like Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy – has never loathed communism. And since the left dominates academia, almost no one teaches communism’s evil history. Reason Number 2: The Nazis carried out the Holocaust. Reason Number 3: Communism is based on nice sounding theories; Nazism isn’t. It’s based on heinous sounding theories. Intellectuals in general – including, of course, the intellectuals who write history...

Dennis Prager makes the point that Leftists parasitically feed off that which has been built up by others. In his latest video, Dennis Prager lays out the case that Leftists are generally incapable of building on their own and instead have to use up that produced by others. Please note that as always he makes the distinction between Leftism and Liberalism. A distinction many on the Pro-Liberty Right fail to make, lumping many supportive of individual liberty in with those of the collectivist mindset. Many have the unfortunate tendency to use a ‘word salad’ in describing the nation’s party in opposition to Liberty. Referring to Leftists as being ‘progressive’ or ‘Liberal’ in one instance, then ‘democratic’ the next, followed by using the correct term in another. “The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call ...

Liberals and Conservatives are allies in the conservation of Liberty and individual rights. We are in a battle for the soul of the country and for the conservation of Liberty. It is vitally important that we recognize that Leftists and Liberals are diametrically opposed. Leftists are of the collectivist mindset while true Liberals are of the individualist mindset as are Conservatives. True Liberals are our allies in the fight against the Socialist-Left in their quest to attain absolute power. It only makes sense that we refrain from insulting our allies in the defense of Liberty by using the word Liberal [or it’s variations] as a pejorative. Originally published on the NOQ Report

The overwhelming evidence makes it difficult to have enough ‘faith’ to be an atheist. The book entitled I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist and the subheading are expressions of the idea that it takes a certain level of ‘faith’ in atheism to deny all the evidence of the existence of God. Consider this idea in terms of this aphorism attributed to Albert Einstein: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” One can try to believe that ‘nothing is a miracle’ but this would take a tremendous amount of denial. There is either overwhelming evidence of the existence of God or there is not. Take into account just a couple of examples of miracles or evidence that the astronomical odds that it’s all a ‘cosmic accident’. Miraculous recoveries such as the one in the story reported here by Lorie Wimble : Doctors baffled as inoperable brain tumor in 11-year-old Roxli Doss miraculously disappe...

On why it’s critically important to use the proper words such as Leftist instead of Liberal.   PragerU has published a new video on a very important subject. Many argue that we are in a culture or civil war with the Left, thus it is extremely important that we don’t accede to their linguistic propaganda.  PragerU: Control the Words, Control the Culture The culture war is first and foremost a war of words – and the left is winning. The consequences can be seen everywhere: in politics, in education, in media. In this video, Michael Knowles, host of the Michael Knowles Show, explains why we should not cede another syllable. It should be axiomatic that one doesn’t concede ground to an enemy without making them pay a price for taking it. But in essence, that is what we on the Pro-Liberty Right are doing every time we use certain terms that help the Left in their deceptions. As mentioned, we are in a culture war with the Left and every time we use a word such...

Image Credit: PictureQuotes.me What’s a greater leap of faith: God or the Multiverse? What’s the multiverse? Brian Keating, Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, explains in this video. What’s a Greater Leap of Faith: God or the Multiverse? Published: Apr 23, 2018  Originally published on the NOQ Report  

The rich are getting richer, and the poor are… also getting richer. What’s driving this wealth creation process? In this video, Daniel Hannan explains why it is capitalism — and capitalism alone — that has led to the unprecedented enrichment that is the central fact of Western life. As the Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Richer Published: Apr 9, 2018 Originally published on the NOQ Report

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H/T MEOSO.COM   Liberals have far more in common with Conservatives than they realize, it is time to welcome them to the freedom side of the political spectrum. The classic liberal used to be the man who believed the individual was, and should be forever, the master of his destiny. That is now the conservative position. The liberal used to believe in freedom under law. He now takes the ancient feudal position that power is everything. He believes in a stronger and stronger central government, in the philosophy that control is better than freedom. The conservative now quotes Thomas Paine, a long-time refuge of the liberals: “Government is a necessary evil; let us have as little of it as possible.” Ronald Reagan YouTube has a very curious series of videos that feature people who are leaving the Left. It should be noted that the nations’ left has always been deceptive in the false front it portrays to the general public. Most political movements have i...

  Venezuela is falling apart. Its economy? Ruined. Its people? Hungry. Its government? Corrupt. What happened? In a word, socialism. Debbie D'Souza, a native Venezuelan and political activist, explains. Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Globalization means the ever-increasing ability to move goods, people, and ideas from one distant location to another. Free trade is open access to markets and people from all over the world with few, if any, barriers. Property rights is ensuring that what belongs to you can’t be taken away on a whim by the state. The rule of law safeguards contracts, assuring that they will be respected and lived up to whether the deal is made in Peru or Poland. And entrepreneurship is the creativity of free people to dream up new products that we never knew we wanted or needed. Did you know that since 1970, the percentage of humanity living in extreme poverty has fallen 80 percent? How did that happen? Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, explains. The next time you hear someone complain about capitalism, consider this: The percentage of people living at starvation level poverty has fallen 80% since 1970. Before then, more than one in four people around the...