[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1137282048.shtml

It begins:

	Precisely what does it mean for someone to be a
	“liberal” as opposed to a “conservative”? I
	am reminded of the late Justice Potter Stewart’s
	despair of defining “pornography.” “I know
	it,” he famously remarked, “when I see it.”
	After a number of failed attempts, I similarly
	despair of defining the terms “liberal” and
	“conservative.” In one sense of the term, I
	know a “liberal” when I see one. Teddy Kennedy
	is a liberal. So is Mario Cuomo. Their
	“liberalism” is opposed to the
	“conservatism” of, say, William F. Buckley and
	Ronald Reagan. “Liberals,” in this sense of the
	term, defend...