Profiles in Conservative Courage

Conservatism in America, as one early-twentieth-century politician said, is “as old as the Republic itself.” But what are its foundational principles, and how did they form the modern conservative movement?

Author Garland S. Tucker III tells the story in this lively look at fourteen champions of conservative thought—some well known, others hardly remembered at all. Taking readers on an exciting tour from the American Founding to the modern era, Tucker traces the development of conservatism’s basic tenets and shows how leaders put principle into action (some more successfully than others).

Conservative Heroes offers brief but penetrating profiles of:

• The Founders who agreed on the two primary purposes of government—but differed on how best to achieve the balance between them
• The pair of nineteenth-century congressional leaders who fought to preserve the founding vision of a limited national government
• The towering statesman whose defense of slavery has obscured his considerable contributions to American constitutional history
• The last Democratic president to advance conservative principles
• The president and treasury secretary who together reduced taxes and the size of the federal government—and sparked an economic boom
• The forgotten leaders, both Democrats, who spearheaded the conservative challenge to FDR’s New Deal (more…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  ICON Lecture Series is very excited to announce our next guest speaker – Richard Miniter, an award winning investigative journalist and New York Times best selling author of Shadow War,  Leading From Behind,  Eyes on Target and numerous other books   (see a detailed listing of all his incredible accomplishments below).

  Richard Miniter is an award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author. He writes the “national security” column on Forbes.com. He was editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal Europe and was a member of the famed investigative team of The Sunday Times of London. As vice president of The Washington Times, Miniter turned around an ailing division and managed a team of 17 journalists.He is the author of Eyes on Target, Losing bin Laden, Shadow War, Mastermind and Leading From Behind. Miniter has been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Forbes, New Republic, National Review and others.

He appears regularly on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and hundreds of radio programs every year.

Miniter started the American Media Institute, non-profit news service, that delivers original investigative content through 82 major newspapers and other news outlets. AMI’s funds investigative reporting that exposes violations of the public trust in governments, businesses and unions. Its motto “First and Fearless.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the left:  Beverly Inchalik, Lou Ann Geis and Betsy Nininger

 

 

 

 

 

Report from the Future: The Umma States of America

Written by:Diana West 5/24/2014

---

 

Imagine a curious soul or two in the not-too-distant future furtively peeling back the layers and learning the cruel truth: that their forbears willingly exchanged all of their precious liberties for tyranny rather than assess and educate and protect themselves against Islamic conquest — violent, pre-violent, smooth, explosive, financial, political, kafiyya-wrapped or Armani-suited. I think they will marvel because, as they will so very tragically know first-hand, Islam is so simple: its culture of death, its oppression of women and non-Muslims, its defilement of children, its suppression of conscience, religion and speech. They will be astonished, also very angry, over the way free men and women in 20th-21st centuries saw fit, not to embark on emergency measures to ensure energy independence from Islamic oil, block Islamic immigration, and shield financial markets and academia from sharia-compliance, but rather to erect a massive and invasive security state that robbed all citizens of their liberties as they fiddled away the Islamic threat. Mustn’t offend? Mustn’t offend? That was more important than saving the blessed beauty of our lost civlization…?! Incredulously, they will learn how “public intellectuals” invented all manner of “division” within Islam, detected endless “signs” of “evolution” to come,  supported disastrous “democracy” movements, diagnosed “moderation” ever-aborning, projecting all in a static of isms and ists that confounded and dumbfounded and confused. To be sure, it kept “public intellectuals” gainfully occupied, but it did nothing to stem the waves of conquest that made life in the West a sharia-compliant and, of course, post-Communist hell on earth. Obamacare Allahu Akbar. (more…)