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Do you still have year-end charitable giving to do? If so, please remember CAPR. CAPR Legal Fund is a registered 501(c) (3) organization which makes your donation to the Fund tax deductible!Each year the Legal Fund takes action in support of property rights, like our fight to restore the property rights of the Mill’s family in Duvall, Washington. In violation of the Clean Water Act, the City of Duvall is using the Mills’ property as part of its storm water sewer system and CAPR has filed suit in federal court to halt this abuse. With success in this case we will not only help the Mill’s family but also confirm that we have an effective tool to help the many others in similar situations!
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BOOKWORM ROOM:CONSERVATIVES DEAL WITH FACTS AND REACH CONCLUSIONS; LIBERALS HAVE CONCLUSIONS AND SELL THEM AS FACTS.
To sell their ideas, conservatives must first re-train Americans to recognize their humanity
BY BOOKWORM
One of the striking paradoxes in Marin is that the same people who reliably vote for Democrat candidates actually have quite conservative values. In my Marin world, people are educated, ambitious, hard-working, married, and family-oriented, and they happily live in almost entirely white communities. As to that last, it’s not that they would object if a black family moved it. It would simply have to be a black family that was “one of us,” meaning educated, ambitious, etc. Despite their essentially conservative values, these hard-working people support endless welfare; these family-oriented, helicopter parents happily consign poor children to the tender mercies of the state; and these married parents, who have the luxury of a stay-at-home mom, support any policy that advances single motherhood. The Marin dwellers I know are the living embodiment of Charles Murray’s wonderful observation that elite Democrats don’t preach what they practice.
Tiburon and Belvedere, in Marin County, California
On the rare occasions when I’m able to speak with my friends without using political labels, they invariably agree with me about the benefits of hard work and marriage, about the social and economic virtues of two-parent families, about the problem with the hypersexualization of young children, and about the fact that the best defense against bullies is projecting a strong attitude of self-defense. Point out, though, that these values align them with Ted Cruz or Mitt Romney, who support profiting from ones own labor, being married as a predicate to children, encouraging (although not legislating) a more wholesome popular culture, and projecting American strength abroad, and they’ll back away from you as if you’ve suddenly sprouted horns.
How Democrats are trained to view conservatives/Republicans
It’s that last phrase that explains why theseDemocrats, even if their values are completely at odds with their own party, would never, never vote Republican. In their minds, it’s not that DemocratsRepublicans have bad ideas; it’s that they’re eeeevvviiiilll. Not just “evil,” but eeeevvviiiilll. To them, Republicans haven’t merely sold their souls to the Devil, which implies that it’s possible to regain those lost souls. Instead, it’s that Republicans have no souls. To the Marin liberal, politics are controlled by a simple syllogism:
Republicans/conservatives are evil.
I am not evil.
Therefore I can never be a Republican/conservative. Continued
We The People address President Obama
From Oklahoma State University:
The Real Life of Julia
Remember the Julia character used in Obama’s campaign?
See the full adventure here: http://reallifeofjulia.tumblr.com/