“Yes, this title may appear pretentious. But just as the Protestant Reformation was a call for Christians to return to fundamental principles, so conservatism must return to a proper understanding of that for which it fights. If we do not acknowledge that liberalism (meaning the worldview of the Left) has effective control of America and all of Western Civilization, and if we do not aim to discredit publicly liberalism’s fundamental ideas, we conservatives will continue to lose. Face it: Conservatism is losing. The sagacious reader will acknowledge that although an occasional conservative counterattack has limited success, the overall tendency in America, and the rest of Western Civilization, is toward the left.” (01/06/09)