Nearly 100 bright, young conservative students from universities and colleges across the country gathered at the elegant "Great Elm" family estate of William F. Buckley Jr. in Sharon, Conn. on Sept. 10 and 11, 1960, to challenge America's leftist lurch and turn its political compass to the right.
The late Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater made some very prophetic statements in his book, "Conscience of a Conservative," that are worth repeating in light of today's overreaching extravaganzas by our current administration.
Other than the Georgia peanut farmer turned governor and now a Chicago community rabble rouser turned senator, there is little substantive political difference between President Barack Obama and President Jimmy Carter.
When Western communist sympathizer Lincoln Steffens returned from the Soviet Union in 1921, he infamously proclaimed, "I have seen the future - and it works."
Review of BRINGING AMERICA HOME: HOW AMERICA LOST HER WAY AND HOW WE CAN FIND OUR WAY BACK
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At the office, I had a bit of fun with "Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement." I held up the back of the book, told colleagues what it was about and asked them to guess the subjects of the three portraits on the front. Most everyone guessed Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. Nobody got Barbara Bush.
At the office, I had a bit of fun with "Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement." I held up the back of the book, told colleagues what it was about and asked them to guess the subjects of the three portraits on the front. Most everyone guessed Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. Nobody got Barbara Bush.
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