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Topic: Paleoconservative


  
  Paleoconservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paleoconservatives esteem the principles of subsidiarity and localism in recognizing that one must surely be an Ohioan, Texan or Virginian as they are an American.
Paleoconservatives often esteem their America First principles as being commensurate with those of the Founding Fathers as embodied in the Neutrality Act.
The paleoconservatives' view of the mainstream conservative movement is that of a self interested movement tied to special interest groups, and lacking the self confidence to defend its old ideas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paleoconservatism   (1147 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Paleoconservative
The term paleoconservative (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear) refers to an American branch of conservative Old Right thought that is frequently at odds with the current of conservative thought as espoused by the Republican Party elite.
The paleoconservatives' view of the mainstream conservative movement is that of a self interested movement lacking the self confidence to defend its old ideas.
Notable paleoconservatives such as Pat Buchanan and Sam Francis have often written high praise of European parties such as the Flemish Vlaams Belang or the French Front National.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paleoconservative   (3561 words)

  
 Paleoconservative -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Paleoconservatives esteem the principles of (Secondary importance) subsidiarity and (A phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality) localism in recognizing that one must surely be an Ohioan, Texan or Virginian as they are an American.
Paleoconservatives often esteem their (Click link for more info and facts about America First) America First principles as being commensurate with those of the Founding Fathers as embodied in the (Click link for more info and facts about Neutrality Act) Neutrality Act.
Though paleoconservatives may often hold views considered to be out of the "mainstream" in terms of conservative thought, a distinction should be drawn between them and (Click link for more info and facts about right wing extremist) right wing extremists.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paleoconservative.htm   (1052 words)

  
 WHAT IS PALEOCONSERVATISM? A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE EDITORS OF CHRONICLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The paleoconservative believes that the federal government is one of limited and enumerated powers and that, as the Tenth Amendment provides, the powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the states, or to the people themselves.
The paleoconservative is equally alarmed by legislatures that seem cowed by overweening executives, and by a federal government that, in all three branches, has usurped the primacy in domestic policy that was supposed to belong to the states.
Hence, common paleoconservative goals should include (1) a long-term moratorium on all immigration, (2) the withdrawal of the federal government from involvement in all racial issues, and (3) the repeal of all federal laws and court decisions (including the civil-rights laws of the 1960’s and the rulings of the Warren Court) that authorize such involvement.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/January2001/0101RoundTable.htm   (7097 words)

  
 The Paleo Pundit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A paleoconservative, anti-war blog for Americans who love the US Constitution in the tradition of our Founding Fathers, and believe in states rights and local government instead of federal power and the welfare state.
Paleoconservatives, think of their movement, as the term paleoconservatism implies, as the older, classical incarnation of conservatism, dating back to Edmund Burke.
The End of Paleoconservatism by paleoconservative writer James P. Lubinskas is an essay outlining what he sees as the decline of paleoconservatism within the greater conservative movement since Pat Buchanan received less than one percent of the total vote in the 2000 presidential election.
paleoconservative.blogspot.com   (5601 words)

  
 Paleoconservative Digest
It should be noted that as a paleoconservative, there are probably very few issues which Congressman Hilliard, a liberal Democratic member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and I would agree.
This blog is dedicated to the dissemination of paleoconservative ideas, with a particular emphasis on foreign policy and the restoration of an overall cultural establishment that is favorable to the values enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and other works of the Founding Fathers.
Paleoconservative thinkers are encouraged to submit their essays for publication.
www.realnews247.com /paleoconservative_digest.htm   (926 words)

  
 The Paleo Persuasion
The greatest virtue of Scotchie’s book is that it makes perfectly clear (and even logically coherent) what the paleos believe and how their beliefs are related to their reactions to the conservatism of the 1980s and ’90s and the trends in American culture and politics they discuss.
Paleoconservatives mainly reject the whole concept of the “leviathan state” that they see lurching out of the American Civil War and later the first two World Wars.
Indeed, it was ostensibly and mainly Chronicles’ declaration of opposition to immigration that incited the neoconservative attack on Rockford and its subsequent defunding.
www.amconmag.com /2002_12_16/review6.html   (1436 words)

  
 Paleoconservative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The term paleoconservative (sometimes shortened to paleo when the context is clear) refers to an American branch of conservative thought that stands against both the mainstream tradition of the National Review magazine and the neoconservativess.
The name "paleoconservative" ("old conservatism") was chosen to differentiate itself from "neoconservatism" ("new conservatism").
The best known paleoconservative is probably the commentator Patrick Buchanan, whose culture war speech is probably the most widely known paleoconservative critique.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/paleoconservative   (658 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Beautiful Losers, by Samuel Francis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
...Related to the paleoconservative discomfort with liberal democracy is the belief that the difference between Western liberalism and Communist totalitarianism is a difference of degree and not of kind...
...Like many paleoconservatives, moreover, Francis defends a certain version of isolationism, which is based, essentially, on the belief that an activist foreign policy is yet another manifestation of 20th-century statism...
...According to this view, it is the paleoconservatives on one side and the neoconservative "moderates" and Left-liberal "radicals" on the other...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V97I2P57-1.htm   (1747 words)

  
 PaleoConservative Wisdom
Paleoconservatives call themselves such because they adhere to the notions of the Older Right.
There are many variants of paleoconservatism, but one thing we must all acknowledge is that the Constitution of the America’s founders is no longer in effect, except for the parts that still seem important to our current government.
Paleoconservatives, on the other hand, want to lower taxes as much as possible to limit the federal government’s ability to centrally plan as much as possible.
www2.gvsu.edu /~haffs/views.html   (3245 words)

  
 VDARE - The End of Paleoconservatism? Not quite, By Scott McConnell
Paleoconservative writers and activists (including me) deserve no credit for it.
The apparent re-evaluation of the conservative establishment’s immigration position is but one sign.
The battle endures although many paleocons left the GOP with Buchanan and others were purged from their journalism jobs years ago; and although the neocons have played their cards assiduously, made sycophantic pilgrimages to Austin from early 1999 onward, control the key publications, the money, etc. etc.
www.vdare.com /mcconnell/end_Paleoconservatism.htm   (505 words)

  
 ESR | May 26, 2003 | Too far east is west
Political junkies are tremendously fascinated by the ongoing trench warfare between the paleoconservative and neoconservative camps.
The long and short of it is that paleoconservatives often refer to themselves as anti-statists that oppose the established order.
Lastly, hard right paleoconservatives are not part of the modern mainstream conservative movement as we know it – and paleoconservatives are certainly not Republicans, or Reaganites.
www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0503/0503paleocons.htm   (1223 words)

  
 Southern Loyalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The gulf between neoconservative and paleoconservative thought is extremely vast right now.
As a paleoconservative I am adamantly opposed to the war and why we are fighting it.
All the same, there is an element of folks there fighting for what they view and their way of life.
www.southernnationalist.org /elcid/2005/03/inside-mind-of-warrior.htm   (315 words)

  
 An Introduction to Neoconservatism by Gary North   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
If the paleoconservatives had any institutional turf to defend, their resentment might be compared with the reaction of the Establishment.
But because the paleos have served the Right as non-interventionism's John the Baptist, crying in the wilderness, they were on the attack against neoconservatism as early as the first Bush's Administration.
Thurow's aphorism illuminates the primary difference between the paleoconservative and the neoconservative.
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 Are You a Neocon? [Free Republic]
Paleoconservative — "Paleocons" want less US involvement in foeign affairs than other conservatives and oppose mass immigration.
"Paleoconservatives" should actually be called Fringe Right-wing Populists if you ask me. Just because someone is right wing does mean they share most of their ideas with "conservatives".
Paleoconservatives certainly do not seem to have much interest in being "conservative"...
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b381f0661b2.htm   (1971 words)

  
 Paleoconservative Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Since the end of the Cold War, paleoconservatives the rift within the conservative movement has deepened with the assent of the neoconservatives.
popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/Paleoconservative   (1310 words)

  
 LewRockwell.com Blog: Outing the neocons?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I have been making a similar argument on this blog, and his comments are worth quoting at length.
After nearly two decades of paleoconservative criticism, complaints, and general grousing about the ideological hegemony of the neoconservatives, the establishment press finally began to notice the existence of the latter.
This silence about the paleos was the result, in part, of the abysmal ignorance of the writers of most such articles but also of the hidden purpose that lurked beneath much of what they wrote.
blog.lewrockwell.com /lewrw/archives/001406.html   (334 words)

  
 New Haven Advocate: The Paleoconservative Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
But there are conservatives who consider what passes for a conservative today--George W. Bush, for example--equivalent to the Red under one's bed in the 1950s.
The paleoconservative heyday occurred in the early and mid-1990s with anti-immigration, isolationist, anti-free trade, ultranationalist Pat Buchanan making more than a marginal impact in his runs for the Republican presidential nomination.
After fighting a losing ideological battle against neoconservatives--well-connected, well-funded, well-organized leftists in the paleoconservative's eyes--the paleos, to a large degree, went the way of the dinosaur.
www.newhavenadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:23234   (260 words)

  
 American Conservative Union Foundation
Thomas Fleming, the brilliant editor of the self-styled paleoconservative magazine, Chronicles, deserves much of the blame for the founding of ConservativeBattleline.
Chronicles proclaims itself paleoconservative but I must confess that, after all of these years of regular readership, I do not know precisely what it is. Its writers say it differs from Frank Meyer, fusionist conservatism so it would be insulting on my part to claim we are the same.
If the creation of a new victim class to replace the Democratic one is the paleoconservative platform, we must reject it.
acuf.org /issues/issue2/chronicles.asp   (1372 words)

  
 PointofLaw.com | PointOfLaw Featured Discussion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I once wrote that a paleoconservative is not quite certain that the American revolution wasn’t a mistake, and that we might be better off if we had institutions such as a House of Lords which could offer some competing traditional or aristocratic guidance to that now vested exclusively in the United States Supreme Court.
I share the good paleoconservative sentiment, but I thought I might touch, for the moment, on a different topic, now beginning to surface in the discussion of the "document dump" regarding Roberts’s various memoranda in the Reagan Library and elsewhere.
As a young government lawyer, probably at the bidding of superiors, Roberts appears to have drafted memoranda opposing busing to achieve racial balance, and perhaps attacking race-based remedies generally.
www.pointoflaw.com /feature   (11440 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Keeping America White
Some might have expected the well-heeled financial commentator, book author and influential nativist intellectual to feel somewhat out of his element at this gathering of the very far right.
They call themselves paleoconservatives — but a more accurate term, and one that is actually used by many of those who attended the New Orleans meeting of the Rockford Institute's John Randolph Club, might be racial nationalists.
The club used to include libertarians and others with a variety of political views but, as chronicled in an important article by James Lubinskas, that has changed.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=152   (631 words)

  
 Rabe Ramblings
While I certainly don't agree with everything the movement seems to believe, I think many of them would be suprised to know that I share their views on an increasingly substantial number of things (though the personal abrasiveness of some of them can make it a difficult movement to stomach).
I have been heartened to see many of the paleoconservative stripe come here to unambiguously condemn the racist rantings of a few who claim the "paleo" banner.
As I become more and more convinced that racism and anti-semitism does not lie at the heart of the paleoconservative movement, my hope for them is that they will turn their attention towards expelling the racists, who currently don't feel all that uncomfortable there, from their movement.
johnrabe.blogspot.com /2003_08_03_johnrabe_archive.html   (3454 words)

  
 History News Network
by Peter K. Clarke on May 13, 2004 at 6:28 PM "Paleoconservative" was Mr.
Moser's term, which seems to be part of a tradition here at HNN to apply labels rather than engage in objective or historically persuasive analysis.
I suppose you could say that it is redundant, in the sense that most self-styled paleoconservatives would probably argue that there aren't any other conservatives around, but that is a whole new argument.
hnn.us /readcomment.php?id=34865   (765 words)

  
 Paleo Youth Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Congress Tom Tancredo has put the Islamic world on alert -- if they nuke the U.S., he will advocate that nuclear weapons be deployed against Mecca.
Tancredo does not justify the war on terror through vague pleasantries about freedom, he understands that it is a kulturkampf.
According to his campaign website, GOP gubernatorial candidate and state representative Jack Hoogendyk has proposed a "bill making English the official language of Michigan." This is good news for the people of Michigan.
www.smashleftwingscum.com /blog.html   (584 words)

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