Column: Conscience of a Conservative

Our founders understood that a government as powerful, and as coercive, as the federal government must be forced to act slowly, deliberately, and yes, at times, not at all.

A crushing defeat in January, has shown us that the only thing that should, and will, remain national about this bill is its rejection.

By focusing on the minutia of GPAs and standardized test scores, we sacrifice that which is only possible in college and that which we will scarcely find after we leave — an intellectual forum for conversation

Our thinking should capture that link between the current, the past and the future. In probing the past, we discern those lessons only revealed over time and import their wisdom to our current day.

There is nothing more that the European liberal elites could have hoped for than an American president willing to apologize for and consequently weaken his own country.

If we celebrate the American vision on the 4th of July, then on Sept. 17 we celebrate the American character. And this we must do, today more than ever.

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