Conservative Conversation + Podcasts

| December 6, 2020

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In the movie The Santa Clause, an elf informs Santa’s replacement: “Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.” He doesn’t trust his eyes because what he sees is so wildly different from his expectations. The elf, a permanent child, mysteriously knows what to look for… and sees the truth. How can someone look at a beautiful […]

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By Aaron Miller

| December 1, 2020

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So much of life involves prioritizing. Often I think people mistake a challenge of priorities for a lack of interest. We live in a wonderful time of almost limitless information and ideas. But who has the time for every interesting article and video? Who has money for every book — even those that seem important? […]

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By Aaron Miller

| November 8, 2020

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If you were visited by someone from the year 1900, what inventions would you introduce them to first? Airplanes? Helicopters? A Tesla automobile? A child’s go-kart? Preview Open

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By Aaron Miller

| November 7, 2020

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We live in a time when most Americans carry a pocket-size camera on a smartphone every single day. Nearly every household in America has a hard-drive for storing data. The FBI, NSA, and other security agencies famously store huge amounts of data on secure servers. So why do we not record election counting and maintain […]

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By Aaron Miller

| October 29, 2020

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The West, and America in particular, has an underdog problem. Our histories are full of righteous revolutions that overcame tyrannical governments. That’s fine. But those stories are not well balanced with warnings of unjust and destructive revolutionaries. A few examples are included in American history courses, but often presented with emphasis on expressed ideals rather […]

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By Aaron Miller

| October 26, 2020

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The oil embargo of the 1970s greatly increased the price of everything. Prices had to rise in order to account for increased shipping and production costs. But when those costs fell with the return of adequate oil supplies, consumer prices remained inflated. In the short term, perhaps companies needed to recoup losses from lean years. […]

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A Letter to Legislators

By Aaron Miller

| October 18, 2020

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I sent the following letter to my state legislators. I hope that others will send a similar one:

Emergency powers are designed to temporarily consolidate authority to address a situation requiring an immediate response. Those powers are not meant to endure until that special authority decides to relinquish them. The extraordinary powers end as soon as time allows for the normal legislative process to resume.

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By Aaron Miller

| October 5, 2020

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Black mud boiled beneath a torrent of furious rain. What fool could hope to spy movement in such a riotous storm? But Jack had to know. It was happening everywhere. To everyone. Even to the genteel, sensible folk of Spring Valley. Or so they claimed. Thunder growled from the nearby woods. Good, Jack thought. Where […]

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By Aaron Miller

| October 3, 2020

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Having grown up in the post-Civil Rights era of Affirmative Action programs, I’ve always been irritated by the only institutional racism practiced by US government in my lifetime — its prejudice against whites. Countless scholarships, contracts, and other opportunities are set aside not for the poor but rather for preferred ethnicities. Favored races are often […]

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By Aaron Miller

| September 17, 2020

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The most recent Goodfellows conversation ends with a little debate about illegal immigration. As usual, an important subtext is left unaddressed. Yes, even many Republicans welcome lawless immigration in lieu of any impetus to reform legal immigration standards. Businesses like cheap labor. Preview Open

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Hurricane Country

By Aaron Miller

| September 16, 2020

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Why live on a coast prone to devastating hurricanes?

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By Aaron Miller

| September 14, 2020

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The last time I chatted with someone in a public place, we were discussing the change of local lizards this year. We usually see mostly green anoles — “chameleons” that can change from green to brown at will. But this year brown anoles — striped cousins that can’t change color — are all one sees. […]

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By Aaron Miller

| September 6, 2020

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Here in PDF format is this year’s political guidance letter from the American Catholic bishops. For someone who has repeatedly thought about the issues in depth and has been educated about many Church teachings, the document might be more bother than aid. Ethical principles are touched on too briefly to offer much insight or to […]

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By Aaron Miller

| August 30, 2020

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Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, “God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you.” […]

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Tis the Season

By Aaron Miller

| August 27, 2020

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Ahh, those final hours before a hurricane hits.

Thank you, Lord, for air conditioning and electricity. Thanks for bottled water, pretzels, and mixed nuts. Please protect the freezer… oh and, um, yeah, our neighbors. I’ll see if Meemaw needs a hand. Oh okay, that old grump too.

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By Aaron Miller

| August 22, 2020

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President Trump might not be a typical Republican, but he is making the same mistake Republicans always make. It’s true that Democrats are baiting federal officers to shoot violent insurgents. But all Republicans should know after a lifetime of experience that Democrats attack with slanderous narratives regardless of the facts. Whether or not federal officers […]

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By Aaron Miller

| August 18, 2020

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Yoram Hazony proposes a theory at Quillette that we are witnessing a natural progression from neoliberalism (liberalism as defined by the modern Left) to neomarxism that must end either with reform of Democrat culture or with destruction of American democracy. […] Enlightenment liberalism sets freedom and equality as the standard by which government is to […]

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By Aaron Miller

| August 15, 2020

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During an interview regarding Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator 2020, the developers were asked where they would recommend players fly first. “Home” was the immediate answer. “It’s not advice” another developer explained, “It’s what people just do.” Preview Open

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By Aaron Miller

| August 13, 2020

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While I was a kid playing various sports, kids were expected to play through the game in its entirety regardless of almost anything. When it rained on us in football or soccer, we kept playing. When only five players on our basketball team showed up and two fouled out, we played the rest of the […]

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The Biden Conspiracy

By Aaron Miller

| August 6, 2020

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Let us begin with the now-common conclusion that US presidential candidate Joe Biden is, to one degree or another, senile; and thus physically incapable of acting as President of the United States of America, the most powerful and influential office on the planet.

It has come to my attention that some Republican voters believe the worst possible outcome of this fraud would be for the Democratic candidate for Vice President to immediately take Biden’s place after his election to President. If only that were so. In that case, most voters would know who they were truly voting for or against: the VP candidate versus Donald Trump.