Pep Talk From Huckabee
March 31, 2009
Put Conservatism Into Practice
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 9:51am
Enough already of the hand-wringing and night sweats about the demise of the conservative movement!
Conservatives aren’t challenged because of the basic principles that define us, but by the failure of the principles being translated into policy and practice.
Gandhi once said, “If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”
I would be so brazen to say that if conservatives would really live according to the principles of classic conservatism, all of America would be conservative today.
The crisis is not one over the precepts, but the practice. It’s not that we’ve failed in our doctrine, but our “doing.”
Conservatives believe that the best government is the most local government possible and that the 10th Amendment means something and should be followed. Yet, the supposedly conservative Republican Party has been a drum major for the expanded role of the federal government.
Our founders feared a highly centralized and endowed federal government, instead preferring a system of strong and virtually independent states so that no one person, party, or power broker would exercise a great deal of control.
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This looks like a movie I want to see.
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Amber has been doing the daily maintenance on the garden since I’m out of town. The corn is starting to pop up out of the dirt.
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BO Cartoon
March 29, 2009
Besides getting my laundry done, I wanted to adventure out on my day off. I decided that an airboat ride out to see alligators would be fun, so I searched and found an alligator farm on the edge of the Everglades. This place got started as an airboat ride attraction, then added an alligator farm in the 80s when the government allowed the breeding of the animals. The boats are big enough to seat 5 across in 5 rows, and are powered by a 500 CID Cadillac V8. The driver would take us up to about 40MPH, and flip the rear of the boat around, putting us in a 360 degree spin, pretty fun stuff.
This is one of the grow out pens for the baby alligators.
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