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In a recent speech, the president of Hillsdale College, Dr. Larry Arnn, said that many of the people leading the country today have not “read the books and thought the thoughts” that the Founders considered necessary to lead the America republic, and as a result they say and write imbecilic things.  Dr. Arnn is an intellectual man of letters.  The informed sensibility that emanates from him seems almost involuntary, an indicator of his virtuosity in classical liberal subjects.  He makes an old man feel like a young student again.  Anyway, in this speech linked above, no time or words go by without deep importance and mental efficiency.  No opportunity to educate is spared.

As would-be statesmen, the leadership of the Republican Party need to study Dr. Arnn closely.  While I commend the organizational results achieved by Republicans in Elbert County, and while efforts to defeat leftist politicians must remain a central focus for a freedom loving people, the political process must be about more than musical chairs.  Values and philosophies animate this endeavor.  The failure of the 2010 Elbert County Republican County Assembly to produce any political resolutions is a serious flaw.  No one spoke up from the floor to put a shared value or matter of political importance on the table for public discussion and debate.

On the one hand, the conduct of the assembly was orderly, amicable and efficient.  On the other hand, without resolutions or floor contributions, the assembly lacked soul.  A body cannot survive without a soul.

Spinning Present With Past (story about Ray Balsick of Falcon)

Colorado Beef Council Video

The Legacy of Cattle in Colorado Part 1.mp4 

The Legacy of Cattle in Colorado Part 2.mp4 

YouTube: Headed South from the Great White North

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“One perceives as if by a flash of lightning in the night why, in the twentieth century, the Nazi and Communist tyrannies could snatch power from the nerveless hand of the old order.  Hobbes wrote that the life of the savage, the man in a state of nature, is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”  Therefore, seeking safety and creature-comforts, men submit themselves absolutely to the power of the state.”  Kirk, The Roots of American Order.

And what geo-convulsions will our children endure to kill the 21st century Leviathan unleashed by the Left in America?