Indiana Gov: Empathy can revive conservatism

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, said Wednesday that his fellow Republicans need to work harder to show "empathy" if they want to emerge from the political doldrums.

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Look out, Limbaugh: Boy, 14, is eyeing your job

The freshest new voice of the Republican Party comes at you with the fervor of an evangelical preacher and the fast delivery of a tobacco auctioneer. His message is clear, his convictions rock-solid, his self-assurance in Rush Limbaugh territory.

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Some where Karl Marx is smiling a big "Told you so"

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"The threats uttered against a possible Palestinian declaration of independence by our leaders Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and Ehud Barak let the Israeli sanctimony (usually tedious and belabored) drop to the floor for a moment, like a woman's slip.

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Why is that on almost every issue, even ones that have little to do with one another, do Right and Left take the opposing viewpoints? With recent examples of the Fort Hood attack and the decision to try terrorists in Federal Courts in NYC, we see these conflicting visions of the …

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The president's critics are not all prejudiced but the crowd is mutating to the extremes. And we have a bad history on this topic

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This Tea Party Isn't Very Fun: Why District 23 Might Spell Doom for the GOP

Last Tuesday, conservatives across the nation rejoiced as Republicans Bob McDonnell of Virginia and Chris Christie of New Jersey won their respective state's gubernatorial elections.

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An essay on History's role in the development of a Conservative worldview. "I am not urging a lop-sided idolatry of the past; I am protesting against a lop-sided idolatry of the present!" -GK Chesterton

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What Would Straight People Say If Gays Divorced at a 50% Rate?

Ever think about this little question? Because, I have.

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Senator "I Caucus With The Democrats Unless There Is An Opportunity To Become Even More Famous By Abandoning My Principles" Lieberman Promises To Stand In The Way Of Senator Harry Reid, President Obama And The American People By Opposing Healthcare Reform…

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A growing number of current and former Nationally known and Once Republican figures are bucking the party standard and backing a third-party candidate in the sole congressional election scheduled this year, upstate New York's 23rd congressional district.

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We learn liberalism from liberals, but do we ever get the chance to learn conservatism from conservatives? This column is one in a series of essays intent on clarifying what it really means to be a "conservative."

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Last weekend, the White House fired some of its biggest guns at FOX News.

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Commentators, including writers from Blog for Our Future's Sara Robinson and author Neal Gabler, have observed a resurgent brand of conservatism that has taken on the characteristics of religious zealotry.

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Consider. Roughly half of scientists are religious, but fewer than 10% are conservatives.

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Conservativism and liberalism offer something for everybody. The parties, on the other hand, are factional. They (almost) always have been.

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After nearly a week of controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh's involvement in a bid to purchase the NFL's St. Louis Rams franchise, ESPN reports today that that the hate radio host has suffered a major defeat. Dave Checketts, chairman of the National Hockey League's St.

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National Football League owners could be on the verge of a catastrophic error in judgment. In a league that is 70 percent African-American, an unapologetic racist is in talks to buy a team. Yes, Rush Limbaugh, along with St.

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Before the Tea Party Express brought tens of thousands to protest in the nation's capital, and before town hall meetings about health care devolved into shout downs, there was the story of the boys of C Street.

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The topic of race in general, and charges of racism in particular, is political dynamite that typically explodes in the hands of the accuser -- just ask [Harvard] Professor Skip Gates, [New York] Gov. David Paterson, or Obama (whom I will return to momentarily).

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I think this is a very astute point that cuts to the heart of the problem on the right. The libertarians often prop up Hayek as their hero while we traditionalist conservatives like to trot out Edmund Burke.

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"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." That famous line, attributed to Jesus in Luke 23:34, could well apply to the folks at Conservapedia -- the "conservative version" of Wikipedia -- who have embarked on a project to rewrite the Bible.

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At Conservapedia, apparently there's a plan underway to "conservatize" the Bible.

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The Cato Institute's David Boaz had a great op-ed in yesterday's Washington Examiner with a little advice for today's floundering conservative movement:

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Over his decades as a columnist, lecturer, TV host and debater, William F. Buckley Jr.

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Now that popular conservatism has given itself over so avidly to racial resentment, it's curious to remember how hard the right once tried to scrub itself of the lingering taint of prejudice.

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DERBYSHIRE: Among the hopes that I do not realistically nurse is the hope that female suffrage will be repealed. But I'll say this – if it were to be, I wouldn't lose a minute's sleep. COLMES: We'd be a better country if women didn't vote?

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