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	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1156805249.shtml

It begins:

	An often heard objection to conservatism is that it
	is committed to the mindless perpetuation of the
	conventions that happen to prevail in a particular
	society. There may have been conservatives who
	actually held this commitment, but, if they did,
	they should not have. What conservatives should be
	committed to is the perpetuation of conventions
	that have endured for a considerable length of
	time, measured in decades or more rather than
	months, because people have voluntarily adhered to
	them—and have been right to do so because the
	conventions have made their lives better. I shall
	say that conventions that meet these...