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Belgium university study indicates that conservative senior citizen voters have higher confidence levels than liberals.[1]

Atheist wiki editor admits that the evolutionary paradigm is disputable. Other atheist wiki editors don't challenge his assertion.[2]

A new astronomical fix for the Great Flood. [3]

America's allies are furious that Obama was snooping and spying on them, and Obama fails to explain why he did this to our friends. [4] Instead, Obama has Joe Biden focus on preventing Obama's young nemesis from traveling to Ecuador.

America's first monument to atheism is unsightly and appears to be crooked. [5] Once again, the notion that atheists are more intelligent is dispelled and the notion that atheists are crooked is reinforced. See: Atheism and intelligence and Atheism and morality

Joe Biden personally begs Ecuador not to grant asylum to Edward J. Snowden, but Ecuador is unimpressed. [6]

The Discovery Institute charges evolutionist Nick Matzke with a suspiciously fast and sloppy review of Stephen C. Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design.[7]

Setback for creation-deniers: Jane Austen is favored to replace Charles Darwin on Brits' £10 note! [8]

Jane Austen was a creationist and her father served as an Anglican rector.

The economies of the U.S., Germany and France have all recovered the output lost since the 2008 economic crisis. But Britain so far hasn't bounced back.[9]

Liberal double standard: liberal media are fine with the use of rubber bullets and even a stun grenade against people who were protesting Obama. [10] Imagine the outrage if a conservative government did that.

A Tea Party Democrat warns: don't let the IRS scandal die. [11]

Another win: Court of Appeals rules for Hobby Lobby in its challenge to an ObamaCare regulation. [12]

Christians are happier than atheists on Twitter.[13]

Despite a brutal homicide, NFL owners refuse to clean up the league: the underachieving Dallas Cowboys keep a jailed player on its team who has been charged with intoxication manslaughter and failing two drug tests. [14]

Don't let talking heads entertain you out of your freedoms. [15]

Nothing in the U.S. Supreme Court rulings on homosexual "marriage" affects Christian freedoms regarding the ability to follow Scripture or clearly teach the biblical view of marriage.[16]

Theologically conservative clergy can still preach that individuals who die homosexuals will burn in hell for all eternity.

The battle of the black robes will begin: judiciary against clergy. Where do you stand? [17]

The Hollywood left: so anti-gun in public, until the director yells "ACTION!" [18]

Star player in the anti-Christian NFL is now suspected of having murdered two others a month before he received a $40 million contract extension. [19]

The Supreme Court grants cert to reconsider a pro-abortion ruling by a state court, which is the first time in more than six years that the High Court takes an abortion case. The lamestream media, obsessed with the gay marriage issue, hasn't even noticed this cert grant yet.

That Supreme Court decision on gay marriage is only one symptom of a culture run amuck. See here for a full list. [20]

NFL values: a Pro-Bowl "star" with a $41 million contract is arrested for allegedly orchestrating a murder that included shooting the victim five times at point-blank range, while accompanied by friends. [21] Perhaps the NFL should welcome Christianity rather than shunning it.

More than 2/3rds of the United States continues to reject same-sex marriage, and judicial supremacy by the Supreme Court today does not change that one bit.

Supreme Court decision on gay marriage blasted by National Organization for Marriage leader. [22] And by Bradlee Dean: [23]

The immigration bill is a big pork fest, and now is an embarrassment to its chief sponsors on that account. [24] And: a Tea Party activist has a few choice words for New Jersey's appointed Senator, and the Republican Party in general. [25]

The liberal media admit: "President Obama in the doldrums." [26] If he cannot even control his own NSA, then why would anyone believe he can control the climate?

Bradlee Dean warns again: as ye sow, so shall ye reap. And that includes what your government sows for you. [27]

Obama is more like a dictator than Vladimir Putin, as Putin observes: "Assange and Snowden consider themselves human rights activists and say they are fighting for the spread of information. Ask yourself this: should you hand these people over so they will be put in prison?" [28]

Russia to Obama and John Kerry: stop lying about Russia's role concerning Edward J. Snowden. Vladimir Putin said Russia wouldn't extradite him anyway. [29]

A former Senate candidate offers his alternative immigration reform plan. [30]

Reddit is seeing its web traffic plunge in 2013. The year 2013 is the WORST year in the history of atheism/Darwinism just like Question evolution! campaign fans predicted![31]

Salon publishes an article which declares: Christopher "Hitchens’ “God Is Not Great” is an intellectually shameful book". Why are atheists so low-class and so low brow?[32]

Liberal John Kerry says that Russia should hand over Obama's nemesis to the Obama Administration. [33] And he's only one example of liberal hypocrites who now talk about "rule of law" after standing for its opposite – during a previous administration. [34]

A grassroots activist asks sobering questions about Edward J. Snowden and his motives, in light of unproven allegations about acts beyond revealing to the public that the American government spies on its own citizens. [35]

Switzerland, a beacon of European creationism, has the world's most competitive economy. The United States, a land filled with creationists, is expected to dominate the world economy for years. [36]

Christianity has great depth and sophistication. Also, 7 reasons why atheism has developed a reputation of being low-class and "low brow". [37]

Reuters: "For Obama, a world of Snowden troubles ... Leaders Obama has wooed - and met recently - were willing to snub the American president."[38]

Pew Research Center: 'Incompetent' and 'liar' are now among the top 5 most frequently used words to describe President Barack Hussein Obama. [39]

Edward J. Snowden apparently lost confidence in the Rule of Law of the amoral communist China and Hong Kong, packed his bags and headed for the increasingly Christian and conservative Russia.

The South China Morning Post reported this morning that Snowden may be en route to Iceland or Ecuador while others have said he is bound for Venezuela via Havana, Cuba. [40]

Mashable admits one of the internet's largest atheist communities, Reddit atheism, has developed a reputation of being "low brow" over the years by "some" (translation: by people who are not "low brow").[41]

Bold evangelism is seeing results in India. 75 - 100 people became Christians in an Indian village. Reports of the miraculous occurring.[42]

Atheist wiki drops in global market share while Gotquestions.org saw an increase in global market share.[43]

Liberal claptrap of the week: "Hillary Clinton wants a female president ‘in my lifetime.’" [44] Translation: Hillary lacks any good reasons for seeking the presidency.

A candidate in a special Senate election may not showcase her own good works in her campaign. Why not? Blame the IRS – and the late Lyndon Baines Johnson. [45]

Mimolette Cheese, a French cheese eaten safely for hundreds of years, is suddenly deemed unsafe by the nannycrats of the Barack Hussein Obama Administration.[46]

Bradlee Dean, speaking out about an attack on one of his teams, calls on America to stop asking permission to obey God. [47]

Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed that her much-admired maternal grandmother was the child of unwed teenage parents who “did not have access to services that are so crucial that Planned Parenthood helps provide.” So Mrs. Clinton would never have been born if abortion had been available. [48]

Liberal double standard: an offensive racial joke by an Obama Cabinet official is somehow not racism, [49] yet the liberal media crucified golfer Sergio Garcia for making an offhand joke about Tiger Woods.

"My Deerest; another tale of evolution" [50]

Hate speech is always defended when a liberal does it. [51]

A New Jersey activist reaches a stunning conclusion: the PRISM system has always been Barack Hussein Obama's ace, and we must shut it down. [52]

Announcing a new grassroots organization evoking the life of Judge Deborah: Women of Faith in Action. [53]

NY Times fact-checkers are unfamiliar with the Bible, and had to issue this correction to a David Brooks column: An earlier version of this column incorrectly identified the biblical texts in which three figures — Saul, David and Esther — appear. Their stories are told in other books of the Jewish Bible, but not in the Torah. The column also incorrectly described a passage from I Corinthians that ends with the statement, “God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” It was written by Paul, not spoken by Jesus. [54]

Retired investigators of TWA Flight 800, downed a few months before Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996, say that the government "falsified" the findings. [55] Recall that the Clinton Administration imprisoned one reporter for trying to determine the truth.

Bradlee Dean warns Barack Hussein Obama of a Biblical truism: you reap what you sow. [56]

A congressional human rights committee in Brazil approves legislation to authorize psychologists to treat and cure homosexuality. [57] The homosexual agenda continues its decline globally.

Conservative "Rand Paul: Youth with me on NSA issue." [58] "They see [Obama] now as a hypocrite," the likely 2016 presidential candidate observes.

An ugly chapter in the Republican primary for the special Senate election in New Jersey came to a close today. An Administrative Law Judge ruled that Alieta Eck, a newcomer who dared challenge the political establishment, can stay on the ballot. [59]

"Remembering Jesus, really remembering!" by Bishop Bert: [60]

Chinese dissident claims communist China now controls U.S. academia: [61]

State Senator Elbert Guillory of Louisiana becomes another ex-Democrat after seeing that party for what it really is. [62][63] “At the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful big government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing: control. And they disguise this control as charity.”

AT&T iPhone Users Forced to Receive Obama Alerts Which Can't Be Turned Off. [64] First the Verizon phone calls scandal and now this.[65]

Russia, fed up with Obama's pushing of the homosexual agenda on its own country, tells Obama to quit trying to overthrow the leadership in Syria. [66]

Edward J. Snowden continues to stand up against Obama by declaring today on a live newspaper blog, "Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped." [67] Why are liberals like Obama so opposed to the public learning the truth?

Jane M. Orient, M.D., Executive Director of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons discusses the Internal Revenue Service administering ObamaCare. [68]

Is the reason why atheists are more likely to commit suicide that so many of them have bad relationships with their earthly father and their heavenly father?[69] See: Paul Vitz and Atheism and suicide

If Barack Hussein Obama likes Father's Day so much, then why is the Obama Administration striving so hard to have lesbians get "married".[70]

"Britain's biggest climate problem is with cold winters that lead to thousands of excess deaths." [71] Yet liberal denial continues about the hoax of a global warming crisis.

The world's biggest population of atheists run by secular leftists may implode under crushing debt in about 6 months. Hard landing may be in store for China's economy. [72][73]

Expect the explosive growth of Christianity in China to continue. Biblical Christianity thrives under economic adversity.[74]

‘Natural’ or ‘unnatural’ human behaviour? Many evolutionists consider much of today’s human behaviour ‘unnatural’ — except when it comes to homosexual ‘marriage’.[75]

Now the Obama Administration pretends they do not know where Edward J. Snowden is, perhaps to avoid criticism if Obama tried to extradite him now. [76]

Today, a Question evolution! campaign blog went over 450,000 page views. Also, 20-30 young people will be reading the newest draft of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students.[77]

Dr. Joseph James Kennedy: Deceit: the Modus Operandi of Evolution.[78]

Vetoed! Conservative Texas Governor Rick Perry vetoes more than two dozen bills passed by RINOs. [79] Will Perry run for the presidency next?

The President of Equatorial Guinea has warned African leaders not to tolerate, accept or allow the issue of homosexuality to get roots in their countries. Also, 7 reasons why homosexuals have lower moral standards.[80]

News from the Left Coast: "'Less liberal' is the new conservative," as Dems find it necessary to restrain reckless spending by other Dems. [81]

In New Jersey, candidate Steve Lonegan wages an ugly fight before an Administrative Law Judge against a prospective primary opponent. [82][83] A grassroots activist today begs him to knock it off. [84]

Happy Flag Day: "A yearly contemplation of our flag strengthens and purifies the national conscience." — President Calvin Coolidge

God gives victory when His people fight, especially in His Name. [85]

Liberal policies have destroyed Detroit, and now the city defaults on its debt. [86] It may pay only pennies on the dollar to its creditors.

New Jersey grassroots activists have reason to cheer: two genuine conservatives in a Republican special primary for the United States Senate. [87]

Russians overwhelmingly reject liberal values on homosexuality. Lawmakers pass anti-homosexuality bill in a 435-0 vote. Weak gay activists are easily overpowered by police.[88]

Liberal denial continues: Joe Biden denies that George W. Bush defeated Al Gore for president in 2000, and the liberal media praises Biden for his denial! [89]

Southern Baptist Convention blasts Boy Scouts over stance on homosexuality, votes to encourage defectors. [90]

America's first atheist monument to stand outside Florida courthouse.[91]

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deputy director Michael Morell has "decided to spend more time with his family" and resign post terror attack in Benghazi.[92]

Why moderates leave an acrid taste in a conservative's mouth. [93]

The modern civil rights movement consists of "demoralizers of the faith" – a far cry from Martin Luther King's day. [94]

The Mainstream Media always ignore this key fact about any mass murder story they cover: it happens in a gun-free zone. [95]

Pope Francis plans to purge the Vatican of the "gay lobby," and speaks candidly about the problem. [96] Why aren't Republican Party leaders as candid?

James Clapper, head of the NSA and now under-fire, said in March that he had no knowledge of the massive phone and email collecting by his agency. [97]

The socialist "paradise" of Venezuela is now on the brink of hyperinflation. [98]

Love Obamacare now? If you live in Ohio, your health insurance premiums went up 88% percent. [99]

NSA officials overheard on how to cause Edward Snowden to be "disappeared". [100]

From the IRS "Keep your religious beliefs to yourself." [101] "You cannot, you know, use your religious belief to tell other people you don’t have a belief, so I don’t believe you need the right to do this, start confrontation, protesting, uh, prot, uh, protest...you don’t apply for tax exemption."

The bright Patriots head coach treats the liberal media with disdain in dismissing their inane hostility to Tim Tebow, on his first day of practice. [102]

Is Edward J. Snowden, who revealed the breathtaking extent of how our government monitors us, a hero, or a traitor? Judge for yourself. [103]

The world's biggest mental health research institute is abandoning the new version of psychiatry's "Bible" (DSM-5).[104]

Great Conservative Sports Star Tim Tebow is reportedly joining the New England Patriots, from where he will be able to crush twice-a-year the liberal New York team that cut him. [105] God does indeed have a sense of humor.

Why is big government a Goliath and why should you fear it? Start with watching a girl with cystic fibrosis nearly die from some arcane rule, while the government waives said rule for a big campaign donor. Then remember a little bit of history. [106]

Homeschooling surge underway: Education at home is growing seven times faster than K-12 enrollment. The homeschool option makes perfect sense, "significantly higher ACT-Composite scores as high schoolers and higher grade point averages as college students." [107]

Michael Reagan: Reform the U.S. tax code. [108]

The joke sport of "rhythmic gymnastics" is part of the 2020 Olympic Games roster.[109]

Britain has a debt-to-revenue ratio of 212%. Britain's external debt to GDP ratio was 390% in 2011.[110]

Multi-ethnic, Bible-believing church is adding 40-50 new members a year via the internet. Also, will a "God-ordained meeting" prove to yield more fruit than boring atheist meetings led by boring, white, atheist males? [111]

Conservative Rand Paul may challenge the privacy-invading conduct of the Obama Administration in court. [112] Even a few Dems express their opposition to the Big Brother program.

Promoters of marijuana are quiet about the arrest Saturday of a crane operator charged with causing the deaths of 6 people while under the alleged influence of the drug. [113] Authorities still conceal how much pot was in the system of "College Weed Dealer" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. [114]

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(Difference between revisions)|fake townhall, kkk teaparty, Agent Provocateur|a term to describe a deceitful method of placing an operative that appears to be part of a group in order to push an agenda or to make a competing agenda look ridiculous.  |a term to describe a deceitful method of placing an operative that appears to be part of a group in order to push an agenda or to make a competing agenda look ridiculous.  |we the people democracy, Minarchism |first testament to this was the [[U.S. Constitution]], defining [[Reagan]]s presidency, can't be found in Merriam-Websters. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/limited%20government Limited government - Not found] Merriam-Webster's|first testament to this was the [[U.S. Constitution]], defining [[Reagan]]s presidency, can't be found in Merriam-Websters. [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/limited%20government Limited government - Not found] Merriam-Webster'sEach year the English language develops about a thousand new words. The King James Version of the Bible contains only about 8,000 different words;[1] many good words have developed since.

Conservative terms, expressing conservative insights, originate at a faster rate, and with much higher quality, than liberal terms. Conservative triumph over liberalism is thus inevitable.

Powerful new conservative terms have grown at a geometric rate, roughly doubling every century. For each new conservative term originating in the 1600s,[2] there are two new terms originating in the 1700s, four new terms in the 1800s, and eight new terms in the 1900s, for a pattern of "1-2-4-8". This demonstrates that the future is increasingly conservative.

Century # New Conservative Terms "a.m." means "before noon" in Latin (ante meridiem); it became popular much as "A.D." did. Also, a morning work ethic is a conservative concept. a pejorative term for unnecessarily abstract mathematics of doubtful rigor; liberal denial insists that this term, which describes something as "nonsense", is somehow not negative! the willingness or obligation to be held responsible for one's actions- a fundamental conservative ideal, unlike liberals who believe that 'society,' and not individuals, are responsible for their wrongdoing. conservatives strive for accuracy, while many liberals are masters of deceit an extraordinary, unforeseeable event, such as a massive flood or earthquake; term was probably inspired as a reference to the Great Flood Newton's acceptance of this concept -- which became fundamental to electrostatics and quantum mechanics and has a basis in Christianity[4] -- was central to the development of his theory of gravity.[5] Materialists censor this concept, while Einstein criticized it as "spooky". this differentiates conservatives from inactive people; this term might have originated in connection with Prohibition and efforts to pass the Eighteenth Amendment the intrinsic characteristic of certain things or activities to induce repetitious involvement, usually with a harmful effect on the participant, as in gambling, or video games. invented by the Christian Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper[6] to describe his self-help program to improve health; he gave the title "Aerobics" to his ground-breaking book in 1968, and eventually it revolutionized attitudes toward exercise. propaganda designed to incite agitation, originally coined to describe communist propaganda needless warnings, as in the politically motivated claims of global warming excessive or addictive drinking of alcohol an efficient and consistent step-by-step methodology for achieving a goal, the opposite of liberal style a lawyer who searches for victims to persuade them to sue for his profit the vision that, with hard work, anyone in American can attain happiness and prosperity the idea that the United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity later conservative entrepreneurs used this to coin a new name for what became a highly successful and uniquely American business model: "Amway" opposing Christian ideals and institutions interfering with open competition and the enormous benefits that flow from it term criticizing a tendency to oppose life and lifesaving care the origin is the passage of the Republican-sponsored Sherman Act to prohibit restraints of trade, one of the greatest pieces of legislation in all of history term critical of the those who are deliberately inactive and disengaged mentally an official who blindly does what he thinks his government superiors want, as in communism honesty, simplicity, wholesomeness. Relating to, or characterized by traditionally American values. [8] the desired absorption of immigrant groups into the culture and mores of the resident population An adjective pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism. correlated with intelligence, the attention span is how long someone can concentrate on something. It is rapidly shortening; the Lincoln-Douglas debates 150 years ago lasted for hours, but none do today.[10] The average length of sentences in speech is another indication of attention span, and it has been shortening significantly. self-evident (first usage), and later it developed the meaning of being based on a set of axioms an increase in birthrate, which is a good thing; note that what is known as post-World War II baby boom actually started before the war, contrary to what textbooks teach. Perpetuating the mistake, the U.S. Census Bureau counts the generation born between 1946 and 1964 as the baby boomers.[13] inactive status away from attention, as in "RINOs try to put social issues on the back burner" a woman, typically unmarried, whose life tragically degenerated into a homeless existence of wandering in a city while carrying bags of worthless possessions wasting taxpayer money to rescue, temporarily, a failing company to break a region or neighborhood into divisive components; the opposite of the American concept of assimilation or "E pluribus unum" an American term for unbroken solid rock underneath fragments or soil, which adopted the figurative meaning of strong values: "bedrock principles"[14] popularized by Paul Weyrich though possibly first used by then-Governor John Sununu ("captives of yourselves"), it refers to a governing style that sees only as far as the highway that surrounds its capital, especially the one around D.C. a quality standard for which people can strive A term coined by Andy Schlafly to express the idea that one does not need liberal credentials that so-called "experts" have. Indeed, many great historical figures would have failed the liberal "expert" test. to show prejudice for or against something; American society is rapidly becoming biased against Christian and Conservative beliefs. an idiotic remark that would subject the politician to enormous ridicule if he were a conservative, but when spoken by liberal Joe Biden the media are just fine with it government constantly watching its citizens; George Orwell first coined this term in his classic, 1984 how each woman begins to lose her ability to have children at age 27, no matter how much feminists try to conceal this scientific fact from women Michael Barone quoted Jeane Kirkpatrick as saying that the "San Francisco Democrats" (site of the Democratic National Convention in 1984) "always blame America first."[17] irresponsibly giving someone unlimited spending authority or power, as in "a Con Con would be a blank check to destroy the nation" nonsensical or insignificant babble, as in "liberal blather is common in the lamestream media" a person who adheres to conservative principles within the Democratic party, once called a Boll Weevil; as of 2009 there are 45-50 Blue Dog Democrats in the House of Representatives, which is enough to form a majority with Republicans "popularized during the New Deal as a contemptuous word for make-work projects for the unemployed." [18] The term gained popularity in Canada following a corruption scandal tied to the Liberal government in 2000. originally coined to describe a throwing device that returns to the thrower, the term became increasingly useful to describe how wrongful conduct returns to bite the perpetrator unaided effort, personal merit, hard work coined by William Safire to refer to how Democrats savage a conservative nominee, such as their defeat of Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork. it takes an open mind and heart derived from the Chinese term "xinao" soon after the communist takeover of China, "brainwashing" means forced abandonment of faith in favor of regimented atheism. In a more general sense, it refers to the manipulation and control of the human mind through torture and propaganda techniques. a clear, unwavering line dividing what is allowed from what is prohibited; increasingly favored to avoid confusion and requirements that arbitrarily change the art of displaying a willingness to use military force in order to obtain a just resolution to a conflict between nations meaningless activity under the pretense of accomplishing something Phrase coined in a short story by Rudyard Kipling that has come to refer to an attitude that espouses individual ability and responsibility and not reliance on entitlements creating jobs and wealth based on a private invention, ownership and investments rather than state-controlled resources a term used for the entrenched communist government officials in Yugoslavia, with whom even President Tito was fed up a politician who moves to a new area to be elected to a government position, as in Hillary Clinton moving to New York to become a U.S. Senator unconditional authority or power, without any limits on misuse of that power a reduction in price for payment by cash, in recognition of how cash is more efficient facilitating forgiveness and spiritual renewal by expression, as in writing or teaching or confession citizens or representatives gathering to meet and reach political decisions as a group while harnessing aspects of the best of the public; first coined by John Adams[22] when he described a meeting of political Boston elders as a "caucus club"; the word may be from an Algonquian term for a group of advisers or elders. an evil or corrupt place or state. care and well-being of youths overseen by adults literally "a gift from God", charisma is a personal magic of leadership found in conservative public figures (but beware of the liberal tendency to put style before substance!) one who falsely predicts disaster, especially for silly reasons: "global alarmists" are the Chicken Littles of our time[23] another conservative innovation that apparently did not exist earlier, even though mail did; cards that say "Seasons Greetings" are a cheap imitation now. a person who makes an effort, during the 168 hours in a week, to attend a church service regroup with family and friends, when under attack. usage from settlers in the old US west. private enforcement of the law without the need of a taxpayer-funded police officer civilians protecting themselves and their community against attack or natural disasters pretentious, verbose, and often liberal nonsense; example usage: "the professor wasted the rest of the class on his liberal claptrap" exemplify conservative principles with values, integrity and a work ethic this concept was initially coined by Karl Marx in The Communist Manifesto, but it has become so discredited that it is now used mostly by conservatives to point out liberal demagoguery a business that requires membership in a union as a condition of working there; 22 conservative states prohibit this hopelessly ignorant about something important, as liberals often are an efficient result or bargain based on market forces without the distortions caused by transaction costs compelling with the powerful force of reason, the opposite of liberal claptrap relating to Christopher Columbus or the United States coined by George Orwell shortly after he wrote Animal Farm,[24] as recognition that communist nations were at war with American freedom even in the absence of actual military conflict when decision-making by a group takes priority over the good ideas of an individual, often preventing progress abbreviation for "communist" that captures their simple-minded totalitarianism popularized by Phyllis Schlafly to highlight the deception and risks inherent in proposed national constitutional conventions hysteria or alarm, as in "having a conniption fit"; a typical response by liberals when confronted with their double standards and illogical positions overall charge does not change in an isolated system; it is neither created nor destroyed; the concept was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin but the date of origin for this term is surprisingly recent someone who adheres to principles of limited government, personal responsibility and moral values[25] a type of physical force over a region such that items moving throughout the region can store energy without loss, as in the planetary system and electrical products[26] the extra benefit received by consumers above the price they paid for a good or service, illustrating the value of the free market; specifically, consumer surplus is the difference between what consumers would have paid for something, and the lower price they did pay. (noun) something unchanging in value someone who advocates views contrary to that of others; this type of person frustates liberal attempts to gain control Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, tap dancer extraordinaire, claimed the invention of this word; it was first popularized by African Americans taking the easy way out, usually by shirking one's responsibilities extending private property to protect expressive works the tendency of large corporations to act in a socialistic manner, at the expense of meritocracy and productivity (verb) to show that one thing relates to another, such as atheism or homosexuality and selfishness or lack of charity; liberals falsely rely on anecdotes to deny the general relationship an example that is contrary to the proposition. A common point in logical, reasoned debate. especially assumptions that are contrary to fact; Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the U.S. Supreme Court, "petitioners' standing does not require precise proof of what the Board's policies might have been in that counterfactual world."[30] interfering with a worthy goal. Example usage: "nearly everything a liberal supports is counterproductive." a movement in response to another movement, as in a counter-reformation to the homosexual agenda concealment by government officials of the truth about a matter of public concern crazy talk, lunacy, a person on the fringe of reality an ability, unique to God and his likeness, to make something from nothing the most effective tool against liberal deceit, better than even the requirement of an oath widespread use after the book Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America by James Davison Hunter a type of obnoxious and hurtful liberal behavior on the internet the loss in overall wealth and efficiency imposed by monopolies and taxation, due to the loss in extra value that someone would have received beyond what he would have paid for a good at a free market price a provision of Obamacare that will enable a panel of government bureaucrats to decide who receives medical treatment interestingly, the term was coined by Canadians opposed to the high estate tax on their assets held in the United States; Frank Luntz is credited with later popularizing this term in the United States.[33] the dispersion of power, as in a shift from national to local control military code-breaking, which played an instrumental role in World War II in deciphering enemy codes that many felt were unbreakable; illustrates the "can do" approach of conservatism in a patriotic way a negative attitude that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy a style of driving a car that always focuses on avoiding accidents, even those potentially caused by others; nearly a half-century later, dictionaries still do not recognize this term an increase in the value of savings refers especially to termination of government funding of a wasteful or hurtful program used by Edmund Burke in describing the British parliament during a speech to voters in Bristol; he meant a body of persons meeting to discuss and decide common action under parliamentary law Reagan won in 1980 by campaigning on this. pejorative term directed against collective production by a group Disincentive of committing a crime based on the amount of punishment describing an unwelcome attitude or act, as in "devaluing human life" someone who espouses the position of the wrong side, in order to test, sharpen and strengthen the right side ardent follower, supporter, or loyalty to. 56 years separates devotee and devoted false information spread (and sometimes manufactured) by groups with a strong political agenda increasing productivity through specialization of labor, as in a husband working in manufacturing while his wife cares for children an overblown event, typically having more fanfare than substance; liberals like to run a "dog and pony show" in towns having a large public university, where students brainwashed by liberal professors are led like cattle to the events how the fall of one nation to communism can result in its harmful spread to neighboring nations applying harsher criticism against one group, such as churchgoers or conservatives, than against another group, such as atheists or liberals; recognition of a double standard by the Prodigal Son led him to repent and convert a term first coined by George Orwell in his dystopian novel 1984; it means simultaneously holding contradictory beliefs, which is a characteristic of status worship someone who believes only what he can see and touch, and doubts all else someone whose residency wanders about aimlessly, failing to become a permanent, productive member of any community First coined by the LA Weekly to criticize the LA Times for failing to criticize a publicly funded study that concluded that pessimistic people are often in bad moods.[35] Searching through dumpsters for food or other material that can used rather than discarded; first known use: "Restaurant and store owners have complained about drunks panhandling during the day and 'dumpster diving' through trash at night."[36] the highest rank in the Boy Scouts, the term also means "a straight-arrow and self-reliant man."[37] "A provision in congressional legislation that allocates a specified amount of money for a specific project, program or organization."[38] "to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts"[39] ultimately from the Latin efficientem, meaning "working out, or accomplishing"[40] the root of atheism, as explained by Paul in Romans 1:21-22; the root of depression and anxiety also to work for the success of a particular candidate, party, ticket, etc., in an election. a mathematical proof based on the minimum assumptions associated with real analysis; term probably does not predate complex analysis and its first use may have been the English mathematician James Joseph Sylvester's paper, "On an elementary proof and generalisation of Sir Isaac Newton's hitherto undenionstrated rule for the discovery of imaginary roots."[41] Search this term on the internet and see the spectacular photos of the unborn child ("embryo") that were "scoped" by tiny cameras. widely recognized and even advocated by some,[43] yet the dictionary doesn't yet recognize it social standards of behavior that promote dignity and discourage inept communications (or lack thereof) A satirical word based on the idea that Europe is rapidly becoming Islamized. someone who opposes joining the super-socialist European Union; some prefer the term "Eurorealist" to express this opposition, and sometimes "Eurosceptic" is used to criticize opponents of the EU often used in the phrase "exculpatory evidence," it took nearly 50 years to develop this term after origination of the legal term suggesting guilt: "incriminate" to give up one's own citizenship, or be banished by one's own nation (noun) a statement of the facts, typically to discredit wrongdoing by government Example usage: "The facade of a liberal politician is often conservative." approaching an idea or concept with an open mind first emphasized by Karl Popper in 1934, this helps define science: if a proposition is false, then it can be shown to be false. If not, then the proposition is not scientific. widespread use after a speech by Vice President Dan Quayle, 1992 a place where obese people -- such as self-centered atheists -- might go to try to lose weight someone who fulfills the essential role of a father the unique system of dual sovereigns, state and federal (national), established by the U.S. Constitution stir up exaggerated fear by the public, typically to expand government an all-important element of accountability and improvement, and a key consideration in good engineering design may have existed earlier, but popularized in 1924 by Leon Trotsky. Describes a sympathizer of a cause but who does not formally belong to the cause, such as a communist sympathizer who is not part of the communist party. The term was invented by the communists in its original, non-negative sense, but the conservatives were the first to use it as a pejorative term. first coined by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, it refers to the effect on the economy of a sharp drop in spending and perhaps an increase in taxes scheduled to take effect at approximately the same time.[47] verb, meaning to change political position, typically due to liberal pressure. First used by the Republican S.I. Hayakawa campaign to describe California Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator John Tunney, whom Hayakawa defeated in an upset. planning for the future rather than dwelling on the past the several dozen Christian men [48] who helped draft the formative documents of the United States something acquired ostensibly without paying for it, as in welfare; often used to remind people that "there's no such thing as a free lunch" in order to point out that it must cost someone something, now or later. shorthand for "freedom of speech," but with a connotation that extends to non-citizens and listeners; first used in a U.S. Supreme Court opinion in dissent in the Slaughter-House Cases by Justice Bradley areas of the world free of communism someone who avoids paying or working for his share of a benefit living and working in a self-sufficient manner and with courage in a new land. non-computational math designed to obscure the differences between the correct answers and the incorrect -- but perhaps politically motivated -- answers as in, "the liberal proposals galvanized the grassroots in opposition" abuse of alcohol/marijuana eventually leads to harder drugs cocaine/heroin coined by a newspaper editor to criticize the manipulation of the lines of a new district into a salamander shape[49] that favored election of a liberal politician originally meant a deceptive mechanical device for controlling a gambling machine, and then its meaning expanded to include all trickery to attract attention Merriam-Webster states it was first used in 1943[50] and the OED gives a date of 1965 for the exact term "globalism";[51] the term "globalization" was first used in the mid-1980s in a different, complimentary sense. Living by the rules of God; living in a way that is considered morally right. the highest standard; in currency, when money could be exchanged for a fixed amount of gold a pejorative term for a pre-arranged handout to a corporate executive when fired, as when the company is taken over by new ownership how genuine charity is the best approach a dim-witted thug, espec. one who intimidates on behalf of a union the tendency by Liberal educationalists and public schools to increase marks, irrespective of merit or actual achievement. easy money for little or no work, in contrast with the work ethic; notice how the Great Depression hit two years later a free enterprise term for a small, cheap restaurant - which in many places is just what the public wants; reflects Jesus' Biblical scientific foreknowledge about the digestive system the tendency in a free market for bad money (which loses its value) to drive out (be used more often in transactions) than good money (which retains its value), because people want to horde the good money while getting rid of the bad money; a similar effect can be seen when profanity drives out intelligent discussion a style of thought consisting of conformity to a manufactured consensus and self-deception; coined by William H. Whyte in 1952. an idea that can appear reasonable at first, but with just a little thought it is recognized to be absurd purity, authentic, official seal, distinguishing feature describes charity and government giveaways sensless banter among broadcasters in the lamestream media, as a substitute for real news; more generally, happy talk is unjustifiably feel-good rhetoric that implicitly denies the real existence of Hell. an insignificant violation of a duty or procedural rule; first used in Western Ins. Co. v. The Goody Friends, 29 F. Cas. 764 (S.D. Ohio 1861) (referring to a duty) still looking for the context of its first use; today it means an article, typically by a liberal, that misleadingly smears someone, typically a conservative the increase in achievement resulting merely from being observed; this was demonstrated by experiment at the Hawthorne Works of Western Electric in Cicero, Illinois someone who rejects traditional morality and does what he wants, often growing long hair and smoking marijuana rather than working hard; this term became increasingly pejorative over time an unjustified tantrum, typically female in nature, as in "feminists had a hissy fit when Lawrence Summers suggested (but criticized) the possibility that women have weaker scientific aptitude than men, and Summers ultimately resigned." to deceive the public into believing something that is false, often to pull people away from the Bible. an ostensible choice that disguises a lack of freedom, because each alternative is completely unacceptable. This term is invoked to criticize an illusory freedom of choice. This term has been used in 48 cases by Supreme Court Justices, more often by conservatives than by liberals. phony, in an obvious or corny way an approach to discipline that emphasizes and encourages trust, honesty and personal responsibility rather than constant supervision a wife and mother whose efforts are wisely spent running the household for the family the place where someone grew up and typically obtained some benefit used to promote the agenda in the book After the Ball, but then used to criticize the movement by Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent inLawrence v. Texas (2003) originally meant to deceive or "put on," and then its meaning shifted slightly to represent extravagant promotion of something as the liberal media often do President Theodore Roosevelt said in 1915, "There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American." a suggestion, typically scientific in nature, which must be tested and proven before asserted as truth From the Latin hystericus, from Greek hystera meaning "womb"[56] (an old notion that hysteria was caused by the womb). liberals seek to produce illiterate voters who lack independence, and many graduates of the public schools are illiterate today more than 150 years before the discovery in physics of the connection between attentiveness/observation and uncertainty/chaos, this conservative word cautioned against inattentiveness create a reward to encourage good work inequalities that result as side effects of an objectively just system a system of logic or mathematics that includes propositions that are impossible to prove or disprove; term coined as a result of Kurt Godel's work in 1931 imposing bad political or social change slowly values, rights and duties arise from the individual free from error, as in "biblical inerrancy" policies causing inflation of the monetary supply consent to surgery is meaningful only if informed, a requirement that should apply to abortion self-starting first step toward improvement to safeguard against future harm by developing immunity against it. Sample usage: "Conservapedia inoculates against liberal claptrap." what conservatism is about: gaining insights into the truth, and bettering individuals and society with them something valuable that cannot be seen or touched, such as goodwill "we [should] protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests as much a man's own, and as much the fruit of his honest industry, as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears." Davoll v. Brown, 7 F. Cas. 197 (Cir. Ct. Mass. 1845) (Woodbury, federal judge). coined in Darwin on Trial, a book by Philip Johnson, who is considered the father of the intelligent design movement and who co-founded the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in 1996[58] "governmental interference in economic affairs at home or in political affairs of another country"[59] coined by Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations and widely used today. discovered on Conservapedia, it is the unseen force of productivity that results from marriage (only between a man and woman). coined by Winston Churchill in a speech in Missouri just after World War II, to describe the communist's figurative wall against freedom coined[60] and later adopted and developed by Michael Behe to describe structure or system that could not possibly have evolved, because removing any part makes it nonfunctional, thereby showing that God must have created it whole into biology; if the Nobel Prize were not dominated by atheism, Behe could win one for this insight. A form of totalitarian Muslim fundamentalist rule, or extreme Islamism. a description of the pampered culture of liberal professors, and how far out of touch with the truth it is a personal signature, especially in a bold style that stands up for principles as John Hancock did with his signing the Declaration of Independence first coined in an article in Fortune magazine by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,[61] and repeatedly used in U.S. Supreme Court opinions since 1967,[62] yet as of 2009 Merriam-Webster dictionary still fails to recognize this widely used term. the bias of a judge in favor of a political correct identity group intended to rig outcome equality in favor of that group based on subjective bias rather than objective justice. "Assuming that this court has power to act, it does not necessarily follow that it should act. ... In a number of situations, and in a number of cases, it has been held that courts should voluntarily refrain from using or asserting power. Where the use or assertion of power might be destructive of a well defined purpose of law or of a declared public policy such voluntarily imposed judicial restraint may be commendable."[63] one who advocates that the courts should be supreme over the other branches of government for certain legal issues; first coined in a book by Phyllis Schlafly; first used by the judiciary by the Michigan Supreme Court in Paige v. City of Sterling Heights, 476 Mich. 495 (2006).[64] the deprivation of private property due to a court decision; this concept was introduced by conservative Justice Potter Stewart in 1967, and the term was used for the first time independently by the Michigan and Hawaii Supreme Courts in the same month (!) in December 1982, and then used often in law review articles and Circuit Court decisions in the 2000s, and then four Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the principle in a decision in 2010, with two others accepting the possibility. the corruption of the scientific method to advance other, often political, goals (such as Global Warming) the power of a jury to overrule the law and acquit an ostensibly guilty defendant; the power was established in the colonies in 1735 in the trial of John Peter Zenger, but this term was first used in state court by Pfeuffer v. Haas, 55 S.W.2d 111 (Tex. Civ. App. 1932) and in federal court by Skidmore v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 167 F.2d 54 (2nd Cir. 1948) one who spoils the pleasure of others. [66] Example-Vandals seek to disrupt conservative wikis, an education project. They are a killjoy to the learning process. from Judas's betrayal of Jesus with a kiss, Mark 14:44-4 A politician who seeks status and personal gain at the expense of the governed obsequious, unthinking obedience to someone or something, used especially in the context of dictatorships and liberal belief systems the study of the otherwise indecipherable behavior of the government of the communist Soviet Union. Refers to the Kremlin, the traditional seat of Russian government (Soviet or not). a term for the decadent, liberal culture of Hollywood-driven Los Angeles, originally capitalized as "La-La land."; Merriam-Webster is in denial about this etymology and claims a later origin of 1983. opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is minimally necessary one falling being in achievement, especially a public official whose power is limited because his term in office is set to expire without possibility of reelection. coined by Bernie Goldberg to describe the clueless Mainstream media that repeat superficial, discredited liberal claptrap In the political sense, an overwhelming election victory. A clear, democratic expression of popular will. an ability and willingness to lead, often by example a more descriptive term for the West Coast of the United States principles and doctrine of leftists "balanced", "having common sense and sound judgment" liberal bias that gradually creeps or distorts an entry, definition, explanation, description, or historical account. something, usually a commitment, that lasts a lifetime, as in "a lifelong commitment to Christ" a multi-millionaire who pretends to be compassionate about the poor, but supports liberal policies that increase burdens on working Americans use of a single political issue to determine if a candidate or nominee is acceptable common usage: "all politics is local" mindless conformity, often to liberal values a person who prefers to work, act, or live alone,[69] synonymous with self-sufficiency an undisciplined person or program that dangerously lacks forethought; used in mid-November 1976 to describe $11 billion in unspent appropriations by the Ford Administration: "'That money,' says Arnold Packer, a senior Senate Budget Committee economist who is helping Carter draw up his shadow budget, 'is like a loose cannon rolling around the deck' because a sudden reappearance of the funds could be inflationary." (BusinessWeek) the lowest in work ethic, morals, or knowledge among a group; typically used to criticize the liberal practice of dumbing down content a word never used favorably by feminists! the primary support, typically for something good William Safire wrote in the New York Times in 1983, "Misandry, from the Greek misandros for 'hating men,' is in the 1961 Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, and the Oxford Dictionary Supplement traces it to 1946. The word is pronounced as 'Ms. Andry,' but I wonder why we need the Greek word for it. What's wrong with good, old-fashioned man-hater?"[72] inefficient or useless activity that has the false appearance of being productive; a favorite endeavor of liberals instances where the free market does not provide a desirable result, as when information is withheld from an unsuspecting consumer Providential design over future events, which originated in the context of expanding the United States to the Pacific Ocean descriptive term used to criticize the legalizing of same-sex marriage in Canada. the view of life that physical matter is all that exists; as an "ism", the term criticizes such view the most interesting or fundamental part a special American honor for bravery on the battlefield first coined by Conservapedia, media bullying is aggressive bias by the media in the attempt to influence a politician or others, typically toward a liberal goal requires "social and cultural assimilation" for successful immigration[75] a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement the study of the economics of the individual person or business insistence on controlling details, typically by liberals to censor progress; Ronald Reagan was critical of this style by Democrat Presidents a pejorative term for how an atheistic government influences what people believe, especially through public education close-minded point-of-view, typically in adherence to a liberal falsehood and often to the exclusion of Christ popularized by President Ronald Reagan as part of SDI someone sent on a mission, typically a religious mission rule by a mob, as at Wikipedia this has the same date of origin as "productive", and that may not be a coincidence! working more than a full-time job in order to be as productive as possible; the work ethic at its best coined by Jerry Falwell to describe the movement of growing moral, Christian conservatives. can you believe the word did not exist before 1873?! a pejorative term for an arrogant person who holds a title or position considered to be important by others a person who searches out and publicly exposes deceit[76] if something can go wrong, then it will go wrong: this was a conservative insight by an engineer Edward Murphy placing a powerful engine in a classic two-door car for highly efficient performance; also celebrate masculine style against erosion by feminism originally a term in optometry, 1990's used to describe liberals' lack of foresight a term critical of the liberal practice of seeking to impress others by casually mentioning personal association with prominent people, despite its lack of relevance to the conversation "Under the New Economic Policy, [the new French Prime Minister Raymond] Barre has made it clear that industrial lame ducks can no longer count on the generosity of Nanny i.e. the state - for bailing out."[77] Note how two powerful new conservative terms led to a third here! mental attitude that tends that is skeptical about almost everything, except one's own views political or media expressions using circumlocution and euphemisms to disguise or distract from the truth; first coined by George Orwell in 1984 a difficult issue that the courts should not attempt to resolve, often because it is too political in nature action at a distance at the atomic level; even though proven, it is still opposed by those who believe in relativity and still not recognized by Merriam-Webster assertion of authority by a State against encroachment by the federal government, in defense of liberty From Latin obambulatus, to walk to or before, akin to wander. Word currently claimed to have been invented by Rush Limbaugh in 2011 and used in reference to Barack Obama, yet it is found in Oxford and Webster's dictionaries prior to 1991. deliberate interference with free speech or legislative progress, as when liberal legislators (the "fleebaggers") fled Wisconsin to try to block a reform the United States of America flag, Stars & Stripes Lee Wishing, director of communications for conservative Grove City College, in criticism of how the government administers student loans: "Unfortunately, with government programs, it's one size fits all."[80] The 2008 Republican platform states, "We reject a one-size-fits-all approach and support parental options, including home schooling, and local innovations such as schools or classes for boys only or for girls only and alternative and innovative school schedules."[81] a person or group that relies repeatedly on the same gimmick, as in "the media are a one-trick pony in their criticism of Rand Paul" a grassroots conservative response, led by mom-and-pop consumers and pharmacies, against government-approved pesticides and mandatory fluoridation taken from original intent, The belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it terminology or style that advances the power of big government but is hurtful or nonsensical[82] having an outward appearance that may not reflect the underlying truth; good potential use is Luke 3:23 in describing Jesus as the son of Joseph carry a concealed firearm, allowed by permit in nearly every state, yet liberal bias has made dictionaries slow to recognize this term how bureaucracies expand regardless of the productivity, and how inefficient work expands to fill the time available for its completion a negative term for the tactic of expressing a criticism while one exits, just as the ancient Parthians would shoot arrows while retreating in battle. This tactic is common among those who reject conservative truths, as seen when left-leaning editors leave Conservapedia. a company that obtains or buys up patents for the sole purpose of asserting infringement claims, and without any intention of actually manufacturing the invention; the term was first coined by Peter Detkin, in-house counsel to Intel a conditioned, automatic and unthinking response to a signal; it has been used twice by conservative Supreme Court Justices. "It is well established that this Court does not, or at least should not, respond in Pavlovian fashion to confessions of error by the Solicitor General." De Marco v. United States, 415 U.S. 449, 451 (1974) (Rehnquist, J., dissenting); "'Incorporation' has become so Pavlovian that my Brother BLACK barely mentions the Fourteenth Amendment in the course of an 11-page opinion dealing with the procedural rule the State of Florida has adopted for cases tried in Florida courts under Florida's criminal laws." Williams v. Fla., 399 U.S. 78, 144 (1970) (Stewart, J., dissenting and concurring). Coined by historian Charles A. Beard,[83] it has been used most recently by Ann Coulter Inherent rights guaranteed to all human beings from the beginning of their biological development, including the pre-born, partially born. Also, the state or fact of being a person. conservatives have long championed phonics to promote literacy, Bible-reading, and informed voters; liberals take the opposite position a common trick of the liberal media to push the reader to the political left on an issue, as in displaying a man without teeth as an opponent of a liberal bill or candidate. an unrealistic claim of value about a future materialistic benefit having a plastic quality that conforms to molding or pressure; in pejorative usage, someone who easily conforms to peer pressure or liberal falsehoods when virtue is rewarded and/or wrongdoing is punished in an indirect or unexpected way a pejorative term for local and typically Democratic power structures that prevent outsiders from winning elections; first used by George Washington Plunkitt to criticize the Tammany Hall machine for which he served This term originated among radicals at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to enforce radical orthodoxy, but immediately flipped in usage to become a term of mockery of radicals.[87] The term may have come from Chairman Mao in 1936. seeking political gain at the expense of truth or quality[88] used by Australian conservative Christopher Pine to describe the philosophy behind taking money from private schools and giving it to public ones. government as a source of handouts that redistribute money from hard-working people to those who avoid work the unexpected trauma and physical harm -- which can worsen over time -- that is experienced by a woman after having an abortion; coined by Dr. Kaye Cash in an editorial describing what she learned during a 365-mile walk in southeast Arkansas to speak with the public about abortion[89] someone who smokes marijuana and doesn't realize how it destroys people source of energy and strength - which is what the conservative movement is charging different prices for the exact same service or good; first coined by the British economist (and critic of John Maynard Keynes) Arthur Cecil Pigou in The Economics of Welfare. the setting of prices in interference of the free market; it is illegal for private companies to do this, but government itself sometimes does it to recognize that some goals and activities are more important than others, and then focus accordingly non-governmental businesses and jobs functioning in free enterprise to return a business or enterprise from state to private control; to de-nationalize. a pejorative description of the one-size-fits-all mentality, which disregards individual differences the gap of about 200 years between the creation of "productive" and "productivity" is astounding someone who spends more time causing unproductive conflicts rather than advancing knowledge, accomplishing legitimate goals, or helping anyone worthless claims written with the appearance of scientific rigor to gain an aura of credibility Used on April 10, 1969 by Republican Senators who withdrew from a tour and probe by Senator Ted Kennedy, criticizing him for his "publicity stunt" in preparation for his expected run for the presidency; the Chappaquiddick incident sunk his chances three months later. "Playing the race card" consists of relying on racial emotions or charges of racism in order to overcome the truth and logic in politics, legal proceedings, or otherwise; this term became familiar in the criticism of the defense and acquittal of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. the tendency for people lacking in faith and determination to revert to prior patterns of harmful behavior, such as repeat criminal offenders self-removal by a decision-maker (especially a judge) because of possible bias with respect to the pending issue excessive bureaucracy and procedural complexity which frustrate meaningful activity and progress combination of refute and repudiate, as coined by Sarah Palin the view that ethical truths are not absolute, but depend on the person or group that holds them HAMILTON Federalist No. 63 (1988) II. 193 Responsibility in order to be reasonable must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party. the use of quotas or affirmative action to use race or gender to discriminate against a better qualified person distortions of history to promote liberal bias the liberal practice of repeatedly transferring into and out of government in a way that impedes progress and access by others, like the same people going round-and-round in a real revolving door a right to pass through, other rights notwithstanding a more important term than "RINO", because what matters most is whether someone will stand up for a conservative position and candidate when the liberal media demand that everyone flock to the liberal side. the Riot Act was a law passed in England in 1715 to authorize officials to disperse riots (Originally used in 1993 then reintroduced in 2002.) A 'rogue state' displays no regard for international law. It attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and other military technology with which to threaten neighbouring countries and support terrorism. Rogue states often reject human values and brutalize their own people. unthinking repetition or endorsement of something, despite having the responsibility to make an independent decision, as in "Democrats rubber-stamp demands by the abortion industry." meaning "merely average, commonplace," the term is critical of a failure to strive for excellence a person or idea, typically liberal, that becomes immune from criticism because of its political usefulness rather than its truthfulness, as in the theories of evolution and relativity a deceptive scheme, which is what most liberal theories are. Interestingly, the origin of the term "scam" is unknown, but its timing near the beginning of the 1960s is telling. a term criticizing how people, particularly liberals, deflect accountability and blame from themselves to others; inspired by Leviticus 16:8. popularized by Milton Friedman in his book, Free to Choose a coordinated effort by a group of scientists to enforce a certain point of view upon others. attempts to educate, particularly through public school, without including faith or even acknowledgment of God Dean Kamen's trademark spelling of "segue" for use of Yankee Ingenuity to improve efficiency, to refer to a form of battery-powered transportation. often the tragic result of liberal falsehoods preservation of oneself from destruction or harm pregnancy => get married. Think of someone besides yourself for a change. trials, especially in communist countries, which have preordained outcomes but are used for propaganda purposes the practice of volunteers exercising their right of free speech to advise women against abortion as they walk on sidewalks toward abortion clinics; liberals have passed laws to restrict and censor this a benefit that is not obvious to see, particularly amid a disappointment underhanded or unscrupulous behavior term has been widely used for decades to expose the fallacy of "it doesn't hurt to try" something intended to disguise or draw attention away from an often embarrassing or unpleasant issue. [97] Widely used during the 1990s to describe Bill Clinton's political strategy. a pejorative term describing how a few political insiders sometimes pick a candidate or make a decision in a secret room (in the old days, filled with cigar smoke) a law-and-order term, "smoking gun" was first used as figurative term in a reported judicial decision in Rodgers v. United States Steel Corp., 1975 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12775 (W.D. Pa. Apr. 20, 1975), and many literal uses of the term in court decisions before that! staging for a typically liberal, unproductive rant having little substance a mother who devotes herself to her children's activities; this is a significant voting bloc or demographic group an increasingly pejorative term for liberal attempts to create a "nanny state" someone who advocates government control over the economy, and particularly state control of the means of production Language and rhetorical ploys equating equality of outcome with justice. personal reflection about one's own values and morality a variation on "tax-and-spend" (see below), "spend-and-tax" consists of spending the money first and then trying to justify raising taxes based on the deficit created by the spending someone ensuring that others interpret an event from a particular point of view. [99] precisely correct, as in a prediction or in overcoming imprecision in a challenging task; its origin is from the military like a squirrel; jumpy and unpredictable; as in liberals get squirrelly when confronted with facts. a candidate or issue that serves to increase the chances that another will win, as in "antifederalists attempted to win elections by using 'the stalking horse of amendments.'"[100] advocates for centralized government and government ownership a phrase used to describe it more than a decade after its completion a useful baseline for assessing and promoting conservative growth first-rate of its kind, especially a political speech; term inspired by the innovation for the watch to be wound by stem rather than by a key an imaginary argument or example set up for the purpose of easily knocking down, while distracting from valid arguments hurt by someone who reassured everyone he would do the right thing, but then switched at the last minute to do the opposite (refers especially to abortion betrayals)[101] the concept (opposed by liberals) that responsibilities performed by local or subordinate organizations should not be usurped by centralized government popularized by Abraham Lincoln to say that secession is a sugarcoated word for rebellion the economic theory that reducing taxes expands economic activity by encouraging greater earnings and investments; proven successful during the Reagan Administration in the 1980s one who is determined and prepared to stay alive, and even thrive, if liberals cause a breakdown of society proactive leadership for the greater good as in the takeover of government by the communist revolution in that year not yet recognized by Merriam-Webster, it is included in dictionary.com and it means the liberal policy of raising taxes and increasing government spending the word highlights who is really paying for things an amorphous group of ordinary citizens unified against a more expensive government can you believe this is not in the dictionary yet? Merriam-Webster omits it, but dictionary.com has it[102] this was during the French Revolution first coined in Britain to describe intelligence organizations that helped the military, think tanks became part of the rise of conservatism in the 1970s and 1980s; is Conservapedia the think tank of the future? an approach that has proven to be beneficial over time, like heterosexual marriage the highest quality, which requires respect for merit to recognize term which identifies the similarities of fascist and communist regimes and ideologies and urges resistance extends the concept of private property to the marks used by business "adherence to the doctrines or practices of a tradition...the beliefs of those opposed to modernism, liberalism, or radicalism"[103] allowing people who are affected by decisions to see how and why those decisions are really being made. still not recognized by the dictionary, this term criticizes extreme environmentalists, but they proudly use the term also to describe what they literally do insignificant detail, which can sometimes obscure what is important and distract people from the Bible; liberal Wikipedia is filled with trivial junk describes a type of liberal deceit: subversion from within popularized by President Ronald Reagan as the approach to use towards communist deceit an unpromising appearance but often with great unseen potential beyond the authority, especially of a government or corporate official the rights of the unborn child have been recognized in English law since the 1600s, but the specific term "unborn child" itself may have been first used by an attorney arguing before the New Jersey Supreme Court in Den v. Sparks, 1 N.J.L. 67 (Sup. Ct. 1791) a typically liberal person who fails to accomplish what he could having less than full-time or suitable employment A pejorative that describes worthless college courses and a declining educational system; see Worst College Majors. someone who accomplishes good without receiving recognition for it Sample usage: "There are not as many useful idiots on college campuses for the Obama reelection campaign in 2012 as there were in 2008, and it's doubtful he can fill a stadium rally unless the campaign pays students to attend." malicious destruction of someone else's property capitalism at its best: funding new and risky enterprises to create wealth for many a verb meaning to screen for flaws a power by one branch of government to restrain another branch, and thereby attain less government overall someone who freely offers to help no listing at Merriam-Webster; on February 2, 2009 (less than two weeks after inauguration), Obama dropped use of this term. [107] no longer productive, as in "the washed-up liberal professor has not contributed anything to his field in 30 years." a disparaging term for someone who collects excessive welfare payments through fraud, manipulation, or laziness. First used by Ronald Reagan during his 1976 Presidential campaign. a pro-energy term that describes someone who drills for oil in fields not known to have oil easily changing in opinion, usually due to peer pressure a perception more common in women that something or someone is to be avoided without yet understanding why. a physical measure[111] of effort used to increase energy a habit of working as a moral good coined by a Southern Baptist pastor to describe the work habits of himself and other ministers[112] a comprehensive way of looking at life and the world; sometimes used to criticize a liberal's irrational belief system Inhabitants of New England, United States. Dutch slang in 1698- Americanized 50 years later. 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A thousand new words are developed in English each year. Here is a growing list of conservative concepts, each of which is not yet defined by a single word or two.

Not Yet Recognized Terms Suggestions Comments terror is jurisdiction of the courts tradition opposer, familiopathic e.g., guns blamed for an increasing murder rate An effort to cooperate and promote an organization or a process to nullify campaigns that are targeted by boycott protests. causing harm by spreading falsehoods e.g., denying or concealing disease and infertility caused by promiscuity principles set in the Declaration Manipulating Man's laws by usurping God's laws. sanctity of life, conception to natural death pro-life stance, also can mean socialist entitlement programs when the going gets tough, run away from the problem College student debt is now larger than credit card debt in the US mind-locked, self-centered pride obscuring the truth the term exists; the dictionary does not yet include it Hell-denier? Antinfernal? (Should be "antihadessic" so as not to mix Hellenate and Latinate roots) liberal mainstream media assault on the GOP or conservative principles, deceitful attacks for opposing viewpoints from Greek/Latin root dolo- meaning guile, deceit, deception [6] pressitutes, Democrat Media Complex a combination of domestic enemy and media, describing the biased media coordination between Democrats the legacy media Liberal professors with no real-world job experience, typically hired by Democrat administrations to implement their ideas, like Cass Sunstein. describes TV programming, websites, social events that are not offensive Describes liberal politicians who avoid their sworn duties as a way to advance their political agenda. Hatred of one's country, refusal to recognize the good elements of it, or unreasonably critical of it From Greek misein, to hate, and Latin patria, nation or homeland natural objects visible in the sky recognized by over 1.3 million sites in a Google search and no substitute term is available, yet dictionaries refuse to recognize it a phonetic play on the rhetoric slogan of Hope and Change. Hope replaced by unemployment and Change represents obsessive tax burdens. fake townhall, kkk teaparty, Agent Provocateur a term to describe a deceitful method of placing an operative that appears to be part of a group in order to push an agenda or to make a competing agenda look ridiculous. Over 800,000 results on Google, not yet recognized by Merriam-Webster LGBT Stormtrooper, Gay-vangelist Guardians of gender identity ideology widely used in court decisions and political discourse for years, Merriam-Webster still does not recognize it is as a term. a government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing. mainstream media presents drama fluff stories as news, e.g. 20/20 - Datelin we the people democracy, Minarchism Citizens who base their voting decisions on small issues; contraception, skin color, govt. handouts, etc. instead of character, economic policy, foreign policy. liberal politicians and the liberal media's method of stroking anger to pursue an agenda. media's public campaign to demonize dissent against people or groups, such as Juan Williams. Democrats opposed to entitlement reform use fear to stop changes to Medicare Doing your job better with perks as a reward. The typical liberal union teacher avoids merit pay at all costs, self before students. "media idolatry"; "money idolatry"; "celebrity idolatry" idolatry conjures images of golden calves, and a modern version is needed ethics and virtues united for the common good of all ethically and spiritually challenged souls a frantic attempt to capitalize on calamity by casting their opponents as somehow responsible for an act of madness and evil the North pole shrinks as the South pole increases spiritualism and idealism have been its philosophical opposites, historically dualism has been suggested, but it is not the opposite of materialism; "spiritualism" is not a common term and is the "opposite" of materialism used in titles to professional journal articles as early as 1994 can you believe that isn't recognized by Merriam-Webster? proven wrong, a refusal to admit it religion in America almost exclusively a conservative institution, no religious left term in existence. too big to fail, bailout bankrupt, mismanagement subsidized Commonly used term describing liberal deceit to hide, defraud others about factual history. nations defying international law, only rogue is listed in Merriman-Websters The term has existed for decades, but Merriam-Webster has not recognized it yet. documentary films based on falsehoods and half-truths to be against something to further a cause and reject, stay silent, ignore or discount something similar. to constantly hurl degrading or false accusations against others an important term for over 200 years to describe adherence to the text of the Constitution, Merriam-Webster still does not recognize it. much the same as family values but incorporating all aspects society; family, religion, self-sufficiency, the truth, hard work. Only listed in Merriam-Websters to describe what Nilihism is against. meaning a high probability of serious injury or death to an individual or property. Emergency has been watered down, e.g. to be locked out of one's car. Unaffected by, or impervious to, the media cf. bulletproof. Once John became aware of the extent of liberal deceit, he set about mediaproofing his mind. comparable to brainwashing - Wikipedia's claims and procedures become more important than reality or logic.

These new terms are difficult to classify:

Originally, a phrase unique to American English, later, loyalty to America and its principles emphasized by liberals when they are in the minority in power, but ignored by liberals when they are the majority in power compartmentalizing the Bible away from knowledge and education leads to ignorance and despair someone who delights in taking a position contrary to others "isms" are usually pejorative, though this acquired a positive meaning over time, and perhaps from the outset perhaps this should be on the conservative list? exploiting racial, ethnic, gender alliances for political gain refers to comments, often made by liberals, that are utterly devoid of substance used initially by liberals to complain about the lack of meaningful legislation performing multiple tasks all at once Newton may have used it earlier to deconstruct a product (or software) in order to understand how it works, often with the purpose of copying it the main character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol; the story is based on materialism and is often used as a substitute for the Biblical account, but charity is a conservative value describes the use of deceit, particularly in politics; probably a conservative term, but will await more etymology about it now used pejoratively, but probably not initially when it was a way for the public to participate liberals often invoke this too; Democrats were its biggest champions in the 1800s (in connection with slavery), and even today on issues like legalizing drugs and same-sex marriage a combination of a Greek root ("tele", which means "far off") and a Latin root ("commutare", which means "to exchange") a toady caves into peer pressure to seek acceptance by others: "the largest gathering of toadies is by college students herded into Obama campaign rallies" the realm of imagination that seems impossible but is difficult to disprove, and which challenges ordinary views of reality; also the terminator between night and day on a planetary body An elected position in each political party for the legislator responsible for gathering and confirming support for the party position on particular bills. This term is derived from "whipper-in," which in fox-hunting refers to the man who prevents hunting dogs from straying amid a chase.[119] a website (or website software) that facilitates contributions and corrections by the public those who work regular, 40-hour weeks in manual labor, such as factory jobs

These conservative terms are less significant:

bright and radiant, conquering darkness, precursor to the invention of the incandescent lamp (light bulb) A term originally used to describe fair, competitive free market conditions.[121] Liberal policies such as affirmative action and progressive taxation have been enacted in the name of leveling the playing field, but by favoring certain groups of people these policies do the opposite. one who opposes and even destroys technological advances timid and unassertive; easily persuaded or exploited; inspired by Caspar Milquetoast, the unassertive character in "The Timid Soul" cartoon strip by Harold T. Webster, which ran in the New York Herald Tribune on Sundays beginning in 1924. "an idle worthless person" - Merriam-Webster restrained in expression, presentation, or appearance an obnoxiously conceited and self-assertive person with pretensions to being superior to others. Etymology: Aleck, nickname for Alexander [122] refers to reforms curtailing welfare abuse and providing incentives to work rather than earn a government paycheck ? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8013859.stm? The King James Version of the Bible was published in 1611, by then William Shakespeare had written nearly all his plays.? From Pollard v. Shaaffer, 1 U.S. 210, 213 (1 Dall. 210) (Pa. S.Ct. 1787): "In the case before the court, if the lessee had covenanted for himself and his assigns, to deliver up the tenements in good order and repair, notwithstanding they should be destroyed by act of God or of an Enemy, then this action would certainly lie, because of the special express words; but when there are no such words, but only generally to repair &c. would it be reasonable to construe these words so as to extend to the cases put?"? See, e.g., Jesus's cure of the centurion's slave.? http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-philosophy/#ActDis? http://www.christianadvice.net/famous_christians.htm? 1911 is the date given by the "OED", which refers to the Oxford English Dictionary. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives a date of 1931.? Merriam-webster- Apple pie? estimate only; this originated sometime in the late 1880s.? http://www.help4teachers.com/ras.htm? A more precise date is welcome; "Austrian school" was coined a bit earlier, initially as a derisive term.? Baby boomer phrases.org.uk, retrieved August 30, 2012? Newsroom: Facts for Features - Special Edition - The Oldest Baby Boomers Turn 60!? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bedrock? http://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-greg-laurie-i-hate-the-word-homophobic-83209/? Or "Blame-America-First Crowd"? http://www.creators.com/opinion/michael-barone/the-blame-america-first-crowd.html? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=boondoggle&searchmode=none? First used by U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan II in United States v. Jorn, 400 U.S. 470, 486 (1971), where he rejected adopting a bright-line rule for that case.? according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Miram-webster gives the date of 1945 ? First use found by Conservapedia was in an article describing a controversy in communist Yugoslavia over their "career politicians," published in the New York Times and authored by Malcolm W. Browne, sect. 4, p. 3, col. 1.? The future author of the Massachusetts Constitution who also played a role in developing the Declaration of Independence.? In characteristically liberal style, the online Merriam-Webster spins the global warming example usage by saying the data showed he wasn't a Chicken Little.? http://www.worldwar2history.info/war/causes/Cold-War.html? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=conservative? The mathematical definition of a conservative field -- which arises in multivariable calculus -- is that a scalar potential exists for the function and, alternatively, it is irrotational.? First coined by Cambridge University Professor Alfred Marshall in his acclaimed text, Principles of Economics (1890).? http://www.scientus.org/Church-Science-History.html? Merriam-Webster officially lists its date of origin as 1919 and its source as unknown, but that is well after when Robinson says he developed it.? Free Enter. Fund v. Pub. Co. Accounting Oversight Bd., 130 S. Ct. 3138, 3163 (2010) (5-4 decision).? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801716.html? Confirmation of the first use is desired.? See Dr. Frank Luntz, Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear? Introduction to Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised (19th Ed. 2000), xxv.? Originally "duh!" science: "But couldn't we have been treated to just a soupcon of critical thinking, some irony even -- perhaps a glancing reference to the wisdom of public funding for 'duh!' science?" "L.A. TIMES WHO KNEW? DEPARTMENT", LA Weekly p. 12 (Jan. 14, 2000).? Phil Long, "Special Wing for Drunks Suggested at Future Jail," Miami Herald D1 (Nov. 24, 1982).? Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1994).? Merriam-Webster's Dictionary (2009).? Merriam-Webster (1994).? Online Etymological Dictionary? http://www.archive.org/stream/circular129johnuoft/circular129johnuoft_djvu.txt? The first endoscopic image of the unborn child was in 1967, by Mandelbaum. The date of origin of the term "embryoscopy" may have been later, but likely before the 1990s.? http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/5/2/3/4/p152345_index.html? 1845 is the date of origin for the figurative use. The literal use dates back to 1650s, meaning the front of a building.? First coined by The Economist, in "New England's governors; All change" (September 22, 1990), in reference to Lowell Weicker's "loss in 1988 to a Faux-conservative Democrat, Mr Joseph Lieberman."? The New York Times attributed the first use -- ironically -- to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.? http://www.benjaminfedwards.com/blog/?p=197? Religious Affiliation of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Adherents.com? http://www.allbusiness.com/information/publishing-industries/251259-1.html? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/globalism? http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50095613/50095613se2?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=globalism&first=1&max_to_show=10&hilite=50095613se2? See Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, 129 S. Ct. 1125 (2009); see also Child Evangelism Fellowship of N.J., Inc. v. Stafford Twp. Sch. Dist., 386 F.3d 514 (3rd Cir. 2004).? Good News Club v. Milford Cent. Sch., 533 U.S. 98 (2001)? this term has the entertaining history of originating with an English liveryman who required customers to "choose" the horse closest to the door.? the OED assigns a date of origin of 1850 to "homeschool".? Meriam Webster Dictionary? A few isolated references to this phrase, without its full current significance, can be found dating back to the mid-1800s? http://biologos.org/resources/johnson-phillip-e? Merriam-Webster (1994).? Alan Turing reportedly used the term for a completely different meaning that went nowhere. [1]? http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/278089? United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218 (1967).? Osage Tribe of Indians v. Ickes, 45 F. Supp. 179, 184-85 (D.D.C. 1942) (emphasis added).? A similar yet different concept, "judicial supremacy," was coined by conservative Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson as the title of his book, The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy: A Study of a Crisis in American Political Power (New York: Knopf, 1941).? http://rated.com/dir/Society/Issues/Environment/Opposing_Views/Junk_Science? Killjoy 1776 Mer-Web? First known use was in an article by Tom Zito, "Mr. Mike's Mania; Sick Humor, Very Well Indulged," Washington Post F1 (Nov. 8, 1979): "But now, it's off to La-La land, and his movie deal. 'The thing about Southern Californians,' he says, 'is this: They wake up and say, 'Gee, what a wonderful morning. I think I'll make a salad.' And that takes them the whole day. ..."? This date refers to its first usage as a noun, which is an estimate of its adoption as a concept.? Lone wolf, Merriam-Webster? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lunatic? This was during the epic struggle -- and defeat -- of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment.? Sunday, Oct. 30, 1983, Section 6, Page 12, Column 3.? [Coined as the title of a scholarly article by Francis M. Bator, "The Anatomy of Market Failure," The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1958) [2]? http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Media_bullying&oldid=430831 (Apr. 14, 2008)? Merriam-Webster dictionary (1994)? Merriam-Webster - Muckraker? Leo Ryan, "Economy Shored up: France's new surge of liberalism," The Globe and Mail (Canada) (Aug. 1, 1978)? Used by the state attorneys for West Virginia (including Philip Steptoe, founder of Steptoe & Johnson) in Pennsylvania v. West Virginia, 262 U.S. 553 (1923): "It is not the 'subject of judicial cognizance,' Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1, 15; Louisiana v. Texas, 176 U.S 1, 15; Missouri v. Illinois, 180 U.S. 208, 233, or 'susceptible of judicial solution.' Louisiana v. Texas, 176 U.S. 1, 18, 22; Missouri v. Illinois, 180 U.S. 208, 233, 234."? Was there an earlier conservative use? Frank Zappa's album cover in the 1970s does not count!? http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1996/dec96/er-dec96.html? http://platform.gop.com/2008Platform.pdf? http://www.ntu.org/main/press.php?PressID=604? Charles A. Beard is best known for interpreting the Constitution as being primarily motivated by economic interests.? Personhood Dictionary.com? This surprisingly recent origin appears to be derived from a British confidence game.? A letter to the editor by a reader of the liberal Chicago Tribune observed, "This is the third time in recent weeks that a weird or disfigured picture of Mr. Quayle has appeared in your Sunday paper."? For an early different usage of the word, see 1793 J. WILSON in U.S. Rep. (U.S. Supreme Court) 2 (1798) 462 Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our..language... ‘The United States’, instead of the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not politically correct.? The Merriam-Webster definition (1994 ed.) is incomplete and unclear: "to give a political tone or character to"? Editorial by Kaye Cash, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR), October 23, 1986.? Usage here refers to "promise", not "possibility".? Earlier usage in the 1900s may have occurred, but the term "stunt" was not coined until 1878.? This is the date of its widespread familiarity.? The first use of this term, now obscure, refers to a Marxist movement that preferred evolutionary rather than revolutionary change.? Its colloquial use, as in "read them the riot act," began in 1819.? http://www.archive.org/stream/burkesspeechonco00burkuoft/burkesspeechonco00burkuoft_djvu.txt? http://watergate.info/nixon/silent-majority-speech-1969.shtml? Smoke and Mirrors, Merriam-Webster? http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/02/morning-bell-the-obama-tax-and-spend-economy-is-here/? General Petraeus describes Axelrod by Bob Woodward? Centinel, 1788 (quoted in The Federalist party in Massachusetts to the year 1800, By Anson Ely Morse).? Columnist Kathleen Parker is credited with first coining this term.? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/term+limit? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traditionalist? Attributed originally to Lenin, but since used by others like Nobel Prize winner (Literature) Doris Lessing to describe how she was manipulated by the communists: “I was taken around and shown things as a ‘useful idiot’... that’s what my role was. I can’t understand why I was so gullible.” [3]? This word as a prior date of origin for its physical meaning.? http://www.slate.com/id/2199254/?from=rss? Obama administration drops 'war on terror' phrase Pew Forum, February 2, 2009? An archaic meaning of poor quality dates to 1690.? Notice how this predates the modern feminists, who would tend to consider this term politically incorrect.? http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/summer2001/lang_gap_moats.html? Work equals force times distance.? http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/02/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-on-language-wordplayers.html? cradle to grave- no entry found Merriam-Websters? LaBarbera: Apple's action stems from 'homo-facism', OneNewsNow, March 25, 2011? Limited government - Not found Merriam-Webster's? rewrite history not found, Merriam-Websters? The first use of this term was in the British magazine The Economist.? In its political usage.? http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/11/durbin_re-elected_number_two_s.html? The usage here -- in sense of complex governmental rules -- probably developed later.? http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/228650.html? Smart Aleck Merriam-Websters? [4]

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(Difference between revisions):::A conservative word is an expression of a conservative insight or value.  E.g., "accountability" is a conservative word because it expresses the value of individual responsibility and not blaming others as liberals often do (e.g., Obama blaming Bush years later).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:24, 30 June 2013 (EDT):::A conservative word is an expression of a conservative insight or value.  E.g., "accountability" is a conservative word because it expresses the value of individual responsibility and not blaming others as liberals often do (e.g., Obama blaming Bush years later).--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:24, 30 June 2013 (EDT)::::Is there some way to program a computer or otherwise write objective standards for a panel to judge (1) whether a string of characters constitutes a "word" and (2) whether such a string qualifies as "conservative"?  This would greatly enhance the project, as then a computer can comb through the entire dictionary to determine the prevalence of conservative words by century, rendering the random sampling problems (and they are big problems) moot.  [[User:GregG|GregG]] 22:52, 30 June 2013 (EDT)::::Is there some way to program a computer or otherwise write objective standards for a panel to judge (1) whether a string of characters constitutes a "word" and (2) whether such a string qualifies as "conservative"?  This would greatly enhance the project, as then a computer can comb through the entire dictionary to determine the prevalence of conservative words by century, rendering the random sampling problems (and they are big problems) moot.  [[User:GregG|GregG]] 22:52, 30 June 2013 (EDT):::::I think that would be nearly impossible to do - to write a computer program to recognize the political connotations of a word.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 23:53, 30 June 2013 (EDT)

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What about "ethnocentrism" (1905-1910) and "multiculturalism" (1960-1965)? --Benp 09:34, 16 January 2011 (EST)

Superb suggestions. Please add as you think best!--Andy Schlafly 09:37, 16 January 2011 (EST)

Even though liberal dictionaries added this word, Palin admitted it was an error on her part. If it stays then we must add Corpse men for lib terms.--Jpatt 13:01, 23 January 2011 (EST)

Not necessarily--no dictionaries made "corpse man" a word of the year. Moreover, the word seems to be getting some leverage and use on its own terms. Martyp 14:43, 23 January 2011 (EST) Perhaps time will tell. The term "Big Bang" was born of mockery also.--Andy Schlafly 15:15, 23 January 2011 (EST) Andy, could that explain the perceived scarcity of conservative words dating from the 21st century? Because I think the notion that a word can "mature" to be conservative is a fascinating and powerful insight. BradB 23:10, 4 February 2011 (EST)

I have doubts that charisma, despite its etymology, is a conservative term. It seems to elevate style over substance -- a definite liberal trait. Nowhere does the Bible refer to Jesus as having charisma.

I suspect the original meaning of charisma was for religious charisma.--Andy Schlafly 18:59, 4 February 2011 (EST)

I would suggest, (if we do indeed, keep it), to change the phrasing to something more on the order of: literally "a gift from God", charisma is the quality of a person imbued by God to leadership, often found in conservative public figures. This nixes the "magic" from the sentence since as wonderful as a gift from God is, it isn't "magic". DevonJ 20:20, 4 February 2011 (EST) Andy, that's a good point. I prefer to think of charisma as the style of substance, but that's definitely not the case for everyone (especially liberals). While the etymology is undoubtedly conservative, perhaps "difficult to classify" may be a better resting place for charisma. Devon, either way, definitely an improvement on your part, thanks. BradB 22:21, 4 February 2011 (EST)

Hi, I have added 4 new words: deference (1660), idealist (1701), god-fearing (1835) & Rogue state (1993). If everyone accepts these, they will fill out the doubling pattern for those centuries. Shall I change the numbers in the summary at the top of the page?

I have also added 'liberal creep' (2008). CharlieJ 01:08, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

All your additions look superb except "deference," which I'm not sure is conservative. Please do update the counts the top (I already did increment the 1800s count for "God-fearing").--Andy Schlafly 02:05, 14 March 2011 (EDT) I added 'deference' because CP has 'giving those in authority due respect' listed as a Conservative Value. I will tweak the definition a bit to emphasis the necessary legitimacy of the superior. Thanks for the positive feedback. CharlieJ 02:21, 14 March 2011 (EDT) But look at the remainder of the chat quote: "giving those in authority due respect, but not to the point of accepting orders or assertions that are contrary to logic or morality."--Andy Schlafly 02:34, 14 March 2011 (EDT) Let's continue this discussion later Monday morning. Thanks and Godspeed.--Andy Schlafly 02:40, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

Hi again. Firstly, let me tell you that I am an Aussie and my timezone is GMT+10. This makes me 12-15 hours ahead of you. Our conversations may be a bit disjointed because of this. Right now it is my bedtime, so I will post this comment & then go, leaving it for your consideration. (Editing has been switched off for a while, is that correct? I realise that you do this most nights. I didn't expect it to be on again tonight.)

To return to 'deference': to me the word embodies respect and consideration which I would regard as being conservative values, but not necessarily 'giving in'. However, I do not have the right American nuances to interpret this as you do and will not push this strongly and am happy to remove it from the list.

I have a couple of alternatives for consideration:

atheistic (1625-35) An adjective pertaining to or characteristic of atheists or atheism; containing, suggesting, or disseminating atheism.

secularize (1611) To make secular; to transfer from ecclesiastical to civil or lay use, possession, or control

To me, these are useful words for conservatives. They do not describe conservatives. My reading of the list suggests that useful words are acceptable eg alarmist. Anyway, goodnight for now, catch up with you tomorrow. CharlieJ 08:32, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

"atheistic" is good. Let's go with that. I didn't see why "patriarchy" was conservative, so I removed that.--Andy Schlafly 21:04, 18 March 2011 (EDT) No worries. I'll add 'atheistic'. CharlieJ 22:36, 18 March 2011 (EDT)

I'm not sure how conservative this word is. There's no reasoning given for its inclusion, apart from the fact that Bojangles Robinson supposedly created it (and even that is extremely weak evidence and I'm not sure what it adds. I'm going to remove it from the list if no one raises any opposition. DennyW66 22:37, 19 March 2011 (EDT)

"Copacetic" is the very satisfactory result of conservative values. It is associated with good and honest living. I do object to removal of this conservative term.--Andy Schlafly 00:32, 20 March 2011 (EDT)

Andy, I saw your addition "silent majority" and it made me immediately think of "Moral Majority". This page credits it to Jerry Falwell in 1979. Although in it's strictest sense it describes a movement it is still has greater symbolism. Thanks, MaxFletcher 20:30, 21 March 2011 (EDT)

Great suggestion. Please included it ... and increment the total near the beginning for the 1900s.--Andy Schlafly 21:04, 21 March 2011 (EDT) Done! MaxFletcher 21:22, 21 March 2011 (EDT)

Maybe it's just my public school education at work, but I fail to see how obambulate is conservative. Apart from its obvious similarities with "Obama", it simply means "to walk around". I know that Obama has been bumbling and whatnot, but it's an innocuous word that is being assigned a special significance due to coincidence. I'm not sure it belongs on this list. DennyW66 22:05, 27 March 2011 (EDT)

It is probably as a result of it being mentioned on Rush Limbaugh's show and the liberal reactions to it during the past week. Karajou 23:08, 27 March 2011 (EDT) What was the reaction? MaxFletcher 23:14, 27 March 2011 (EDT) Denny, your comment is a valid one, but the modern usage of the term "obambulate" is to criticize the directionless wandering characteristic of liberal leadership. None of the terms in the list should be viewed in a vacuum independent of their usage. Hey, my response used another candidate: "directionless". Trying to find its date of origin next ....--Andy Schlafly 23:35, 27 March 2011 (EDT)

Sorry if I get the etiquette wrong, first time commenting. I was just wondering if there was a source for Agitprop? I always understood it to be derived from Soviet Russian institutions, so would be quite keen to see the conservative routes of it. Everything I have tried so far has turned up the term as being derived from Russian e.g. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=agitprop&searchmode=none , and I would be surprised if the internal machinations of the USSR would come up with something conservative, so would be keen to find out the alternative you uncovered"JTlpdl 09:18, 28 March 2011 (EDT)"

Due to the success of this essay, it's really slow, so can I split it into pages by century of origin? This would allow the page to load faster and be easier to navigate. Any thoughts on the idea? BenDylan 20:09, 14 April 2011 (EDT)

I'd like to see it be broken up by century and automatically numbered. I'm not sure that breaking it up into many pages would facilitate more than inconvenience. BradB 23:55, 26 April 2011 (EDT)

I'm getting 25,48,100,201,17 as the counts. If so, this wouldn't be the first time I've seen them wrong. As I mentioned above, we should consider breaking the list up by century to help avoid counting errors. BradB 18:37, 27 April 2011 (EDT)

Could belittle be the word we are looking for to perfect the list? It was coined in 1785 by Thomas Jefferson himself, and is certainly a way to describe an action often done by liberals to protect their ideas. JoshuaL 19:34, 28 April 2011 (EDT)

Joshua, I'm inclined to agree, as Jefferson likely coined the term in response to critics trying to deceptively minimize issues he raised. BradB 02:07, 29 April 2011 (EDT) Not sure "belittle" is conservative. But how about "axiomatic"?--Andy Schlafly 02:20, 30 April 2011 (EDT)

If you're still looking for an 18th century word, 'nationalist' would fit well - it's a core conservative value, synonymous with 'patriot', the antithesis of 'internationalist', and one of the defining features of the 18th century. Jcw 16:17, 5 May 2011 (EDT)

How do we reconcile this with liberal creep? If language is becoming more conservative, why is opinion and perception becoming more liberal? Do liberals or conservatives dictate the terms of the national conversation? If someone could take a look at the two phenomena and find out what makes one move in one direction and the other in the opposite, it would make a great essay. KingHanksley 15:05, 8 May 2011 (EDT)

I've also brought this up for discussion here. Conservapedia's Law, the observation that conservative insights double over time, is clearly incomplete, perhaps even flawed. I agree that there could be a complex relationship between liberal creep and Conservapedia's Law and it is worth investigating. BradB 15:15, 8 May 2011 (EDT)

While I was drawing graphs, I wrote a quick script to generate a graph of the data in this page. This graph shows the growth in conservative terms year-by-year, rather than just per-century. The red line is the data from this page, the green line is a quadratic curve. Jcw 20:59, 18 June 2011 (EDT)

Wow, that's a spectacular graph! Can you give permission for me to include it in the entry page? The graph disproves the theory that there were bursts of new words during certain periods. I'll remove that from the entry.--Andy Schlafly 00:43, 19 June 2011 (EDT) Please do use the graph as you see fit. I can generate new graphs from the latest data with no trouble at all, so if you'd like it can be updated periodically. I'm currently trying to find a suitably analogous source of data for liberal words/ideas, which would allow comparative analysis. This kind of data is very interesting as it seems to avoid the short-term political cycles which characterize much of popular discourse, focusing on the really significant point of the growth of ideas. Jcw 08:59, 19 June 2011 (EDT) I posted the graph and your idea is marvelous. However, I don't think the graph is completely accurate: the curve for the actual data should intersect the predicted curve at each turning of the centuries.--Andy Schlafly 10:45, 19 June 2011 (EDT) Is the green curve really a fit for the data according to Aschlafly's theory? I mean, Jcw says the green line is a quadratic curve - at best it's a second approximation for the geometric curve... Personally, I find quite hard to judge the existance of bursts from a cdf. Perhaps Jcw could create a histogram - perhaps for decades? AugustO 11:30, 20 June 2011 (EDT) You both raise valid points, which hopefully will be answered soon. Andy and August both mention that the x^2 curve isn't a perfect fit - it certainly isn't, and I'm pretty sure a 2^x curve with appropriate constants will fit better; I'm planning to do that tonight. August mentions different ways of representing the data - I'll happily produce a histogram of the data if that'd be interesting, but the reason for plotting it as I have is to produce a curve that I can use for my more grandiose scheme, of which more later. My background is not so much in statistics - although I've done a fair bit of that - but in purer maths, so my thinking is mostly based around the relationships between smooth(-ish) functions. That may not be the best way to deal with these data qua data, but to extract patterns for further, more abstract work, it's ideal. Jcw 12:43, 20 June 2011 (EDT) Et voila, a better fit. This is an exponential curve fitted to the same data. Note that it fits much better in the region with the most words, but is a bit out for the earlier period where there are fewer words in the list. This is because we can more easily find suitable words from more recent periods, so naturally the pattern is most exact there. No doubt if we could go through a large, representative corpus and extract words uniformly, it would fit nicely all the way along. Jcw 16:25, 20 June 2011 (EDT) @Aschlafly: Could you recount the words? My count gave me 26-51-103-210-18 (Sum: 408) instead of 26-52-103-208-18 (Sum: 407). Perhaps a fourth column for the century (or even better, the decade) could be added? That would make it much easier to keep track of the numbers! @Jcw: I don't think that your better fit is the function which Aschlafly has in mind: it should be , where #words is the number of words created before 2000, i.e., 390. This function touches/intersects the empirical cdf at the turn of each century, a fact which betrays the biased method of looking for these words. AugustO 11:12, 21 June 2011 (EDT) August, so you've constructed a function which you claim 'betrays the biased method of looking for these words'? I'd be interested to see a more thorough explanation of that point. Another editor has attempted a similar argument above, but without success. Jcw 15:42, 21 June 2011 (EDT) August, I have an open mind about this. I don't see how we could so easily find conservative words that double by century if the underlying pattern were not there. But please explain if you think that is in error.--Andy Schlafly 22:27, 21 June 2011 (EDT)

I hope we can agree on the function Ftheo - it should be uncontroversial:

one layer exists from 1 - 2 - 4 - 8 words, i.e., 20, 21,22 and 23 the partial sums are 1 - 3 - 7 - 15, i.e., 21-1, 22-1, 23-1, and 24-1 so, with the turn of the n-th century, there should be 2n+1-1 words for K layers, the number is K * (2n+1-1). Each layer has 15 words, thus, if there are N feasible words, the number of layers is N/15 now adjust for years instead of centuries, and don't start with the first, but with the 17th, and you get the formula .

@jcw: Another editor has attempted a similar argument above, but without success. I read the sections above, and I was convinced by the argument.

@Aschlafly: I don't see how we could so easily find conservative words that double by century if the underlying pattern were not there. The effects of the miscount (Talk:Essay:Best_New_Conservative_Words#PERFECTION: 20-40-80-160 BY CENTURY) have shown that you are able to match any pattern you were looking for.

AugustO 12:11, 22 June 2011 (EDT)

August's contrary theory aside, here's an interesting consequence of this trend: this graph shows the curve from above in green, an hypothetical linear growth of liberalism ([liberal creep], in blue) and the effect of the latter on the former (in red). Note how the red line - the net effect of liberal and conservative ideas - falls for a while, reaching a minimum in the twentieth century before shooting up. This is because the exponential growth of conservatism is slower at first that the linear growth of liberalism, but gets very much faster later on, easily overtaking the linear function and increasing to infinity. Obviously the liberalism line is hypothetical, but it's interesting nonetheless. Jcw 12:41, 24 June 2011 (EDT)

That's remarkably insightful. In other words, the combination of linear liberal creep and the geometric growth rate of Best New Conservative Words results in a liberal trend for a while (until the Great Depression), and then a rapidly increasing conservative trend thereafter.--Andy Schlafly 13:16, 24 June 2011 (EDT) Exactly. The precise shape of the final curve depends on the values assumed for the liberal creep line, but any reasonable values give a final curve with much the same shape. It agrees rather remarkably with the observed facts, especially as nothing in the calculations refers to historical events at all. Purely linguistic inputs produce an undeniably historical result, demonstrating the power of language very clearly. As ever, feel free to use the graph however you please. Jcw 13:48, 24 June 2011 (EDT) I am skeptical that the complexities of human society and political philosophies can be summed up simply as an exponential function minus a linear function. What evidence is there that this liberal creep is linear? How is that even quantified? Does this hypothesis make any specific predictions, in order to make it falsifiable and thus scientific? --MatthewQ 02:09, 25 June 2011 (EDT) Good questions. I'll consider them (as others probably will also) and reply after some thought.--Andy Schlafly 02:15, 25 June 2011 (EDT) Good questions indeed. The immediate answer is 'no': of course all the complexities of human society can't be summed up as simply as this. Quantifying complex abstract phenomena is a very rough business, most especially on a short timescale. The goal of my graphs isn't to present concrete mathematical laws, or anything like them, but just to illustrate a conceptual relationship using mathematics. To answer your specific questions: * 'how is that even quantified?': Crudely and by guesswork, like many first attempts in all sciences, especially those relating to human activity. The crude guess is justified by the answer to: * 'Does this hypothesis make any specific predictions...': In one way, the hypothesis is supported by the same kind of evidence as is used to defend evolution - the hypothesis I've produced now gives results which agree with events in the past. As we all agree, that's not the best kind of evidence, but in this case it's rather compelling. Secondly, it does make concrete predictions - indeed, it makes an inescapable prediction which can't be fudged or avoided - the 'conservatism' curve increases very rapidly to infinity, rather than going up and down or settling into a steady state. This suggests a discontinuity in the future, where the level of conservatism rises to something quite outside our experience. I'm not sure what that would look like, but I think we'd recognize it if we saw it. Jcw 20:49, 25 June 2011 (EDT) In furtherance of Jcw's remarks, it is perhaps easier to study the development of language and politics, which are closely related to each other, than it is to study and predict ... the weather. Nobody had a problem with Al Gore trying to predict the weather, so why object when a simpler task is undertaken?--Andy Schlafly 00:01, 26 June 2011 (EDT) @Jcw How specifically does your graph "agree with events in the past"? Also, the claim that "the level of conservatism rises to something quite outside our experience" is not a specific prediction. I'm not even sure what that means. Finally, in your graph what does the y-axis represent? Words? Aschlafly above links the exponential function to the growth of conservative terms. If so, why is liberal creep linear? Is there any empirical or theoretical reason to believe this? Looking at liberal terms by century it seems like liberal terms are also growing exponentially, even though the article claims they don't grow "geometrically" and are "heavily influenced by culture". In any case, it doesn't look linear. Wouldn't the diminishing intelligence of humans mean liberal terms would be growing quickly? @Aschlafly Weather and climate are distinct things. I don't think anyone believes Al Gore is a climate scientist qualified to make scientific predictions, only a spokesman. Many people do have a problem with him and the whole idea of climate change. Also, human beings are extremely complicated and it isn't obvious to me that accurately predicting and quantifying the political philosophy of a complex society is much simpler than either meteorology or climatology. Even if the development of politics and language are closely related (I'm not sure they are), why would studying them be necessarily be a simpler task than studying climates?--MatthewQ 01:39, 26 June 2011 (EDT)

(unindent)Matthew: now you're asking questions that have already been answered or are clear from the context. I note that your edits on this site are almost exclusively to talk pages; may we assume that you are here simply to argue rather than to contribute? Jcw 08:44, 26 June 2011 (EDT)

The interesting question is, what would an (effectively) infinite level of conservatism look like? I'm afraid I don't know enough about the US to answer that: over here 'conservatism' looks a great deal like US liberalism... Jcw 12:32, 26 June 2011 (EDT)

One characteristic of infinite conservatism might be when it is impossible to notice a difference in the level of service and attitude between government and a perfectly competitive industry.--Andy Schlafly 14:18, 26 June 2011 (EDT) In a perfectly conservative society, would there be any need for government as we now know it? I suppose there are limits to how conservative a society can be in a fallen world... Jcw 14:52, 26 June 2011 (EDT) Conservatives aren't libertarians or anarchists, so a limited government would exist ....--Andy Schlafly 16:48, 26 June 2011 (EDT) I'm sorry, I still don't understand what 'infinite conservatism' means. Perhaps an article detailing how conservatism can be quantified and what happens in the limit as it approaches infinity would help. --MatthewQ 21:32, 26 June 2011 (EDT) That's an interesting idea, Matthew. I think that in the US conservatism is closely correlated with Evangelical Christianity, which is not at all the case here in the UK, where our conservatives are more likely to belong to the Church of England - a decidedly liberal institution by US standards. Andy's suggestion above is concise, but if you think about it it's a very acute description of a hypothetical perfectly conservative government. I shudder to think what a perfectly liberal government would be like. Jcw 16:33, 27 June 2011 (EDT) Jcw, your description of US conservatism compared with the UK is interesting, and I've thought about it. While certainly there are more evangelicals here than there, not all are conservative. Moreover, the cause-and-effect is less than clear: does the conservative nature of America allow evangelicalism to develop more fully than in a liberal nation? If so, there still remains an underlying mystery of why America is more conservative than the UK.--Andy Schlafly 17:41, 28 June 2011 (EDT) Yes, a very interesting question. Our two nations have a great deal of shared history, but today are vastly different in fundamental ways. I think the Reformation is particularly important in this context - the UK experienced it directly, while the nascent US only experienced the aftereffects; the US was never a Catholic nation in the Mediaeval sense. Another - perhaps related - aspect is the persistence of monarchy in the UK compared to its outright rejection by the US. There's a lot to be said on this topic, so I'll begin an essay with some of my thoughts and see how it compares with a US view. Jcw 18:39, 28 June 2011 (EDT) Please do start an essay on this, hopefully here so that I can contribute to it too! Religious differences between the US and the UK are surely part of the explanation for the political differences, but I think there is more to it than that. Federalism, for example, prevents liberals from gaining control over the US, while that protection does not exist in the UK. I will say this: the UK media is much more free with respect to American politics than the American press is!--Andy Schlafly 19:13, 28 June 2011 (EDT)

@Jcw: What are the parameters of your interpolating function? And how did you calculate them? Could you also display:

And why not use these paramaters - they are the direct result of applying Aschlafly's rule of doubling-by-century...

AugustO 09:08, 28 June 2011 (EDT)

August, if you'd like to do those calculations, please feel free - the data isn't kept secret, it's right there on the page. If you'd like to see another presentation of it, go ahead. I'm very happy to explain things - and to justify my choices! - to well-meaning editors with genuine questions, but you seem to be on the wrong side of every argument around here, as if you're deliberately disagreeing for the sake of it. The amount of time and attention you're willing to give to criticizing other people's ideas is remarkable. Jcw 10:35, 28 June 2011 (EDT)

Well put, Jcw. Actually, the entries begin with the year 1612, after the publication of the KJV and the completion of nearly all of Shakespeare's works. So August's date in his exponent appears wrong, but your graph is correct in show an intersection with the x-axis over a decade after 1600.--Andy Schlafly 17:45, 28 June 2011 (EDT)

@Jcw: August, if you'd like to do those calculations, please feel free - the data isn't kept secret, it's right there on the page. I can't reproduce your calculations as there is not enough data: You say that it is a fit, but you don't explain how you fitted it:

How did you treat words like atheistic (1625-1635), deadweight loss (1930s) and design by committee (before 1958) Which kind of fit did you use? For me, Maximum-Likelihood would be an obvious choice. Which family of functions did you look at? Obviously a*2^x. Why not a*2^x+b? Did you use any weights? Which ones (or why not)?

All these choices result in different interpolating functions. So, which choices did you make and what was your result?

If you'd like to see another presentation of it, go ahead. I'm very happy to explain things - and to justify my choices! - to well-meaning editors with genuine questions Obviously I won't promise not to criticize your choices. Does this make me a not-well-meaning editor?

You seem to be on the wrong side of every argument around here I seem to be constantly on the other side than you are. Doesn't make my side always wrong!

@Aschlafly: Well put, Jcw. Do you condone the policy to share data only with those who you expect not to criticize it? When reading Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog and its talk page, I got quite another impression!

So August's date in his exponent appears wrong, but your graph is correct in show an intersection with the x-axis over a decade after 1600 Jcw's graph (the green line!) doesn't intersect the x-axis at ~1610. I doubt that it intersects the x-axis at all! The red line shows the empirical data, so of course it begins at 1612 with the first word found - though obambulate (1600) is the oldest word in the table, and seems to be always counted in the perfect counts. OTOH, the graph which I proposed intersects the x-axis at the turn of the 16th century, and crosses the empirical curve at the turn of each century (whether you shift the function by 1599 or 1600 is just a matter of taste...).

How about 'Americanadians'? I've observed many good Americans being influenced by the blatant propaganda of our socialist neighbors, and starting to espouse their flawed line of thought. What do others think? Let me know.

I suggest "claptrap." I'm surprised it's not on the list already. --AndyJ 00:20, 21 June 2011 (EDT)

Superb suggestion! I'll add it now.--Andy Schlafly 00:45, 21 June 2011 (EDT) It was already on the list. I added an 1800s term instead.--Andy Schlafly 01:10, 21 June 2011 (EDT)

Perhaps I simply fail to understand the context you provided, but is free speech really a "conservative word?" Terms like "political correctness" and "obamacare" are undeniably conservative (to the point where liberals won't use them), but free speech is at best non-partisan, and at worst (I am attempting to write from a conservative viewpoint- I may fail miserably at this) a term co-opted by liberals to justify their perversions and excesses. --CamilleT 01:20, 21 June 2011 (EDT)

You raise a valid point. But isn't it the conservatives who protect, for example, corporate and many other types of expenditures in elections as "free speech"?--Andy Schlafly 01:28, 21 June 2011 (EDT) Indeed, you are correct. But I think it's fair to say now that it is a word used by conservatives as well as liberals to represent their agendas. I do not know how this factors into this particular list--CamilleT 02:13, 21 June 2011 (EDT) I'll continue to think about your valid criticism. Maybe I can search Supreme Court opinions and see who is using the term "free speech" most. I don't think liberals are using it as much as conservatives are today.--Andy Schlafly 22:30, 21 June 2011 (EDT)

I added a column for the decades (rather than for the centuries). I hope this will help to keep the count of the words up-to-date.

AugustO 09:05, 28 June 2011 (EDT)

I'm not sure how that will help - surely the decade is already contained in the 'year' column? If you'd like a more accurate count, I suggest doing what I do - use a perl script to parse the wikitext and print out whatever information you want. To me the decade column looks annoyingly redundant, but perhaps I've missed something... Jcw 10:27, 28 June 2011 (EDT) I wanted to facilitate the count: as some of the dates are not purely numeric (1950s, before 1958, 1625-1635), it's hard to sort the table by the column date. If there is a purely numeric column, the table can be easily copied into a spreadsheet and recounted even by those who don't know anything about regular expressions. If you have a script, please use it to keep an eye on the count: I'm surprised that you didn't spot the miscount earlier on. I'll add the column for the decades again, this time at the last place. This should be more pleasing... AugustO 12:07, 29 June 2011 (EDT)

I don't know how to upload a picture, so here is an ascii-graphic for the distribution by decades:

1600: * 1610: **** 1620: ***** 1630: * 1640: ****** 1650: **** 1660: ** 1670: 1680: ** 1690: * 1700: * 1710: *** 1720: ***** 1730: **** 1740: **** 1750: ***** 1760: ****** 1770: ****** 1780: ******** 1790: ********* 1800: ******** 1810: ********* 1820: *************** 1830: *************** 1840: ********* 1850: ********** 1860: ********** 1870: ******* 1880: ************ 1890: ********** 1900: *********************** 1910: *********************** 1920: ********************** 1930: ******************* 1940: *************************** 1950: ************************** 1960: ************************* 1970: **************** 1980: ********************** 1990: ****** 2000: *************** 2010: ***

1820/1830,1900/1910, and 1940/1950 seem to be decades in which significantly more conservative terms were created than one would have expected... AugustO 12:15, 29 June 2011 (EDT)

Eurabia - what Europe will become if people don't stand up for themselves.

Islamofascism - repressive muslim shariah regimes/totalitarian islamism.

MeganH 01:01, 30 June 2011 (EDT)

Go ahead and add if you have some dates of origin, even if only approximate. I hadn't heard of the first one ("Eurabia") before.--Andy Schlafly 01:04, 30 June 2011 (EDT)

Was 'dumping diving' added because food is not going to waste, or am I misunderstanding why it's conservative? --MatthewQ 09:54, 15 July 2011 (EDT)

I'll take a stab at it. Conservative words can describe liberal actions. I am not saying dumpster divers are liberal, those poor folks maybe hungry. Dumpster Diving is not limited to food. It's also a method to get trade secrets from companies or dig up dirt against somebody. Most likely, Dumpster Diving is used for deceitful purposes for example gaining a social security number from discarded bills used for the creation of fraudulent IDs. --Jpatt 13:06, 15 July 2011 (EDT) Great points. This is a list of conservative terms, often insightful, about activities that may be conservative or liberal, harmful or helpful, or none of the above. Evidently this term was developed by small businessmen to describe an unhelpful activity outside their restaurants and other stores. Dumpster diving may sometimes be the equivalent of recycling or getting a hungry person some food, but in any event the term is a perfect description of the activity. And once there is a good term for something, then the activity can be understood and addressed better.--Andy Schlafly 15:39, 15 July 2011 (EDT) Good analysis. But is dumpster diving a conservative act? --GeorgeZ 15:53, 15 July 2011 (EDT) Read Andy's post. He specifically says that that does not matter. It was created by conservatives. Therefore it is a conservative word. NickP 16:12, 15 July 2011 (EDT) Right that it does not matter whether it is a conservative act. In the case of dumpster diving, whether it is ever conservative depends on what the purpose and effect are. It also doesn't matter if a conservative coined it; a liberal can sing a conservative song. The point is whether the insight is conservative. In this case, small businessmen (a conservative line of work) coined the term to criticize how homeless people were digging through their trash.--Andy Schlafly 16:19, 15 July 2011 (EDT) I see Andy. Thanks for explaining. NickP 16:22, 15 July 2011 (EDT) Indeed, one might suggest that liberals have indirectly contributed to the increase in conservative terms by constantly inventing new ways to avoid work and personal responsibility. Conservatives are then, naturally, obligated to develop terms for these behaviors. --Benp 17:18, 15 July 2011 (EDT)

It's fascinating how the new Conservative words and insights do seem to grow geometrically by century, but I'm curious as to why the 2000s seem to be pretty far behind. We're 11 years in, so you'd expect there to be roughly 40 new words so far, but we've got less than half that many. With the rise of the TEA Party, I'd expect to be much closer. --FergusE 15:06, 17 July 2011 (EDT)

Excellent point. Possible reasons could include that it is too soon to recognize new words in the most recent decade ... or maybe there has been a short-term decline in conservative intellectualism? At any rate, I've been meaning to add the term "Tea Party" itself with its etymology in the last decade!--Andy Schlafly 15:12, 17 July 2011 (EDT) I have to agree with you, Andy. Even though we're in 2011 now, it might be too early to be able to fully appreciate all the new conservative words created last decade. I think "Tea Party" might just be one of the most important words to add and I think the movement itself will produce a lot of new, conservative words in its own right! BobSherman 19:58, 20 July 2011 (EDT) Very perceptive, Andy. It takes time for the gatekeepers of knowledge to acknowledge the validity of new terms; therefore, while the public production of new conservative insights and terms may be quite rapid, the assimilation of those insights and terms into formal reference works is likely to be much slower. This is, I would suggest, exacerbated by reliance on archaic forms of knowledge dissemination such as print dictionaries.

An interesting side project might be to evaluate dictionaries (both online and print) to see how rapidly they accept and incorporate new conservative words versus new liberal words. In this way, it might be possible to determine which dictionaries are reliable and which are liberally biased. --Benp 12:19, 22 July 2011 (EDT)

I tried to archive the page - at least the parts which were from last year, but I totally botched it: my browser can't handle long pages, I have difficulties with the captchas & I created the wrong page for an archive Archive 3 instead of Talk:Essay:Best New Conservative Words/Archive 3 (Archive 3 should be moved there...)

So I give up... RonLar 11:58, 26 July 2011 (EDT)

I archived 2010... AugustO 14:44, 30 July 2011 (EDT) Thank you - I had problems with the captchas! RonLar 15:26, 30 July 2011 (EDT)

Here's two possibilities I found in Federal debt limit, "leveraged loss" and "debt spiral", but I'm not sure how to fit them in. Rob Smith 14:01, 30 July 2011 (EDT)

Constructionist (1835-45) Inalienable (1635-45) Hubris (1880-1885) Scientism (1875-1880)

--Benp 14:11, 30 July 2011 (EDT)

As a descriptor for the trickle-down theory of economics, it dates to 1950-1955. --Benp 21:43, 31 July 2011 (EDT)

I think "trickle-down" is pejorative, and thus more a liberal term than a conservative one.--Andy Schlafly 18:47, 1 August 2011 (EDT) If trickle-down is the pejorative would the standard, conservative, phrase be "supply-side"? MaxFletcher 18:53, 1 August 2011 (EDT) Yes, it would - and "supply side" is already on the list.--Andy Schlafly 18:56, 1 August 2011 (EDT) ah, excellent. my work here is done! MaxFletcher 19:00, 1 August 2011 (EDT)

"Civil body politic" is an interesting bit of history but does not seem to have caught on as widely used term, and hence would not seem to warrant inclusion in this list. Does anyone disagree?--Andy Schlafly 09:43, 8 August 2011 (EDT)

I'm not sure that a proper name given to an award is inherently conservative-- the Medal itself reflects conservative values of course, but would do so even if had been called, say, the Award of Bravery or the Citation of Courage. "Coolant," "transistor" and "greasy spoon" are all truly conservative both in terms of content and syntax. BrentH 19:50, 27 August 2011 (EDT)

Your point is valid. Perhaps it does not fit this particular list, but I'm reluctant to delete it. Isn't there something conservative about simply recognizing "honor", and calling the medal after the concept, rather than after, say, a liberal politician?--Andy Schlafly 20:15, 27 August 2011 (EDT)

Could you please explain how alcoholism is a conservative word ? Alcoholism is more of a liberal trait.--PhilipN 21:24, 17 November 2011 (EST)

"Alcoholism" is a criticism of excessive drinking, and thus is a conservative word. Words that end in "ism" are often pejoratives, as in "alarmism" and "collectivism" (which are also on the list).--Andy Schlafly 21:41, 17 November 2011 (EST) And do you feel the same way about the word "liberalism"?--JeanB 21:49, 17 November 2011 (EST) Word that end in -ism are not always pejorative, capitalism is good. And when the words socialism or communism were invented, they were meant to be good.--PhilipN 21:53, 17 November 2011 (EST)

1882, I wanted to add this to best new conservative words as it describes a liberal policy of government giveaways. But it also could be the conservative position of helping the poor through charity. Either way it is a conservative word but the proper way to describe alludes me. Op?--Jpatt 09:28, 25 November 2011 (EST)

That would a superb addition! It would also leave the list only two 20-century words shy of another perfect doubling by century.--Andy Schlafly 10:48, 25 November 2011 (EST)

I added the term "level playing field" for two main reasons: 1) It is an intuitive metaphor used in its first recorded use to describe how markets usually work best when they are fair for all participants and free of interference. 2) The term has since been used by liberals to describe policies such as affirmative action, progressive taxation, and government handouts, but it obvious to anyone who looks at these policies objectively that they actually distort the playing field.

I believe that is enough for the term to stand on its own merits, but it looks even more conservative if we compare it to other words on the list such as "motivation," "quantify," or "coolant."

Maybe I have overlooked something and the word does not belong on the list. Comments are welcome. --AaronT 21:03, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

As you point out, the term is often used by liberals, so that makes it a doubtful candidate for "best" new conservative words. The term seems to imply that government is needed to level the playing field. Level playing fields rarely occur in nature, for example. The term almost sounds like the famous "life's not fair" expression ... which is not conservative either. "Motivation" is a far more conservative term - one can find motivation whether the playing field islevel or not. "Quantify" is logic, which is an essential difference between conservative and liberal approaches. "Coolant" is an essential part of nuclear energy -- which liberals loathe.--Andy Schlafly 21:51, 8 May 2012 (EDT)

This entry is an abbreviation for ante meridiem, which originates from 1563 [1]. I'm not clear on whether the abbreviation is being claimed as a new conservative word or the phrase for which it stands. Additionally, it is unclear where the given date of origin in the article of 1762 comes from. GregG 23:43, 11 June 2012 (EDT)

The online etymology dictionary gives a date of 1762. Perhaps it's referring to common usage. While you're right that the "A" in A.M. is from a Latin word that is different from the "A" in A.D., the popularity of "A.D." could have led to the popularity of "A.M."--Andy Schlafly 00:37, 12 June 2012 (EDT) Just seen this catch my attention on the mainpage. I highly doubt that the two could be related in any conservative sense. Of course "AD" refers to "In the year of our lord". But back in the 18th century, Latin was still being routinely taught in schools (especially in Britain), bring us many other Latin abbreviations, such as eg, etc, ie, RIP (from 'requiescat in pace', and later backronymed into 'rest in peace'). I highly doubt the link between any apparent 'popularity' of AD spurred the formation of AM, and personally I'd remove it. HumanGeographer 15:57, 12 June 2012 (EDT) But what percentage of the overall British population learned Latin in school in the 1700s? Perhaps only 10%? Most Latin appreviations did not catch on with the general population the way that "A.M." did. The most plausible explanation is its proximity to "A.D."--Andy Schlafly 18:19, 12 June 2012 (EDT) Nonetheless etymological creation power lies not with those who use the language the most. One must remember that our records of language from the 1700s (both Britain and America) are not vernacular English of the working classes but written English of those who were educated. This was before widespread adoption of clocks and timepieces, which came later with the industrial revolution and the railways. Again, I highly disagree that likeness to AM would be a significant contributor. Those that would have used the world in our written records would have been educated in Latin, and would therefore be aware of the etymological roots of both AM and AD. Since the A stands for anno and ante respectively, there is no etymological proximity at all between the two. HumanGeographer 18:35, 12 June 2012 (EDT) But "A.D." did gain widespread currency with the masses, and then "A.M." became popular in a similar manner. Many other Latin abbreviations, like "Q.E.D.", did not follow in their footsteps.--Andy Schlafly 18:54, 12 June 2012 (EDT) You mean, the masses had a choice whether to use "A.M" or something else? It wasn't determined by the use of that convention by those few who created, say, railroad timetables or other documents? Incidentally, do we know what that date of "1762" refers to? Refering to some "online etymology dictionary" seems a bit like relying on hearsay. --FrederickT3 02:44, 13 June 2012 (EDT) I still maintain that Mr Schlafly is assuming correlation from causation. While of course nowadays we might view AD in a more conservative light since the introduction (especially amongst the humanities communities) of CE, then back in the case it certainly wasn't the case and due to the pervasiveness of the Christian terms I highly doubt that its religious connotations had any contributing factor over its use as a year marker. If it's another conservative word that's being looked for, I can have a think over the next few days for an alternative word that might not be as debatable. HumanGeographer 17:27, 13 June 2012 (EDT)

It really is amazing that the pattern of perfect doubling by century is so strong that almost every "layer" is complete before the next layer starts, even though words are added to the list pretty much randomly whenever a user thinks of one. --AndreaM 17:47, 12 June 2012 (EDT)

Great discoveries are rarely random. In this case, it would not be possible to discover such a perfect geometric fit unless the underlying pattern existed.--Andy Schlafly 18:12, 12 June 2012 (EDT) I don't actually believe in this theory, but I think it's interesting nonetheless to think about the etymologies of such words and why we might consider them conservative or not. Thus this essay has potential for insights, whether or not one believes in the underlying theory. HumanGeographer 17:33, 13 June 2012 (EDT)

As you can see, Andy Schlafly is actively trying to make it a perfect doubling by century. DavidCalman

It would be impossible to discover such a perfect doubling of conservative words by century unless it existed. If someone discovered oil, would anyone say, "well, that's no big deal, because you looked for it there!"--Andy Schlafly 23:00, 13 June 2012 (EDT)

I'm not sure where your date of 1991 is coming from. I know that the Kitzmiller trial uncovered a 1987 draft of Of Pandas and People that used intelligent design in the origins context:

Intelligent design means that various forms of life began abruptly through an intelligent agency, with their distinctive features already intact. Fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, wings, etc.

GregG 00:39, 16 June 2012 (EDT)

In a liberal society, true team work is impossible because nothing bets done without an overarching authority to control and monitor and meddle in activity. The ideas of equals respecting each other and working for the good of the country is a conservative value, and I think that teamwork should be made a Conservative Word. What do you think? JeffBron 15:15, 19 June 2012 (EDT)

In political usage, "teamwork" implies abandoning principles. It does not have a positive political connotation for conservatives.--Andy Schlafly 16:23, 30 August 2012 (EDT)

According to Merriam-Webster the first known use of this word is from 1854: [2]. Richman 15:49, 30 August 2012 (EDT)

And Doubting Thomas is at least from as early as 1848: [3]. These are just two words I checked. Which begs the question how accurate the other origin dates are. Richman 16:06, 30 August 2012 (EDT)

Merriam-Webster (10th Edition, hardbound) says that "anticompetitive" dates from only 1952. It also says that "Doubting Thomas" is from 1883. But I'll change the dates based on your citations. It's not surprising that there are some minor disputes about when the first use of a word occurred. But the disputes are not substantial enough to alter the overall trend of doubling by century. In fact, these changes may conform the data more closely to the geometric growth rate.--Andy Schlafly 16:19, 30 August 2012 (EDT) Superb remark! In the meantime, I have had a closer look at the list. Most of the terms don't seem inherently conservative to me. For instance, do you really think illiteracy is a conservative word of the highest quality just because "liberals seek to produce illiterate voters who lack independence, and many graduates of the public schools are illiterate today"? With explanations like that, any word can be labeled conservative or liberal. As to the geometric growth rate, have you considered that the total number of words in the English language shows a similar growth rate? Richman 11:40, 2 September 2012 (EDT)

Hi. I'm having some difficulty with this argument:

Conservative terms, expressing conservative insights, originate at a faster rate, and with much higher quality, than liberal terms. Conservative triumph over liberalism is thus inevitable.

If we're running this study from the start of the 17th century, then that's 400+ years in which conservatism has been growing steadily stronger due to outperforming liberalism in the generation of high quality terms and insights.

With that in mind, I can't find any good explanation why conservatism hasn't yet triumphed, unless we wish to argue that the world was an exceptionally liberal place prior to 1600.

Apologies if I've overlooked some other obvious implicit premise.

--JohanZ 18:16, 30 August 2012 (EDT)

Conservatism has triumphed on many, many issues. But just as food production has triumphed and far surpassed the demand for food consumption, some pockets of starvation still exist, and thus the triumph of conservatism does not mean that all pockets of liberalism have vanished.--Andy Schlafly 18:31, 30 August 2012 (EDT) Is it possible to quantify (roughly) where we started c.1600 and where we're at now, then, in terms of conservatism v. liberalism? Taking a 10 point scale of 1 (untrammelled liberalism) to 10 (complete triumph of conservatism), what approximate values would you ascribe to 1600 and 2012? I don't suggest adding them to the essay as such; more as a guide for setting the theory in its proper historical context. Thanks, --JohanZ 19:03, 30 August 2012 (EDT) Perhaps society's conservatism was only "2" in 1600, and today it is "7". Perhaps a logarithmic scale (as with earthquakes) would be better than a linear scale. In 1600, the wealthiest person lacked a standard of living that many poor Americans enjoy today. Moreover, today there is immense opportunity for upward mobility in America, which did not exist in 1600.--Andy Schlafly 20:36, 30 August 2012 (EDT)

I just have a question about the page that isn't clear to me- is this stating that these conservative words were created by conservatives on the origin date and then the meaning OR that these words were appropriated on those origin dates and the example of meaning is how it was adopted and used?

Could be either. It's the meaning and term that are conservative, not necessarily the person who uses it. Conservative words and insights are available to help everyone.--Andy Schlafly 18:34, 25 November 2012 (EST)

I'm surprised you didn't approve of this word Andy, as it's a conservative-leaning way of describing learning in that it places importance on literature and other forms of classical art. WilcoxD 21:34, 28 November 2012 (EST)

Conservative is not synonymous with traditional. Conservative is more forward-looking, although it respects concepts that are time-tested (a word recently added to the list).--Andy Schlafly 23:22, 28 November 2012 (EST)

Andy, I added this one when I discovered that it was a word created by conservatives. Seems like a good reason for it being on the list, however please let me know if you think otherwise. WilcoxD 23:24, 28 November 2012 (EST)

Not sure whether to add this one. I know there's been discussions about zero with respect to biblical scientific foreknowledge ... should it be included? WilcoxD 23:27, 28 November 2012 (EST) PS. Sorry for all the edits - just getting into this list ;)

I don't see why zero would be a particularly conservative word. This is not a list of any words.--Andy Schlafly 23:46, 28 November 2012 (EST)

Andy, could you please explain the characteristics which distinguish "addictive", "aerobics", "ambulance chaser", "axiomatic" and so on and so forth as less run-of-the-mill and of a higher standard than the word "pertinence"? In my opinion "pertinence" is a very good word, alluding to logic and insight - both of which appear as conservative values in the Conservatism template. Perhaps I can be a more constructive contributer if this is clear WilcoxD 23:41, 28 November 2012 (EST)

Again I'm unclear as to how one is more or less conservative than the other, and also why the youngest word takes precedence in the list over the older one. WilcoxD 20:55, 29 November 2012 (EST)

Andy, would it be safe to say that, in this entire list, there is only room for one more word and that word must be from the 1700s? I feel like I'm wasting my time making what I consider to be constructive contributions (which are arguably of higher quality than many, many other entries) to this "Best Conservative Words" project. WilcoxD 21:06, 29 November 2012 (EST)

How can there be "room" for a particular number of words from a particular time? There are as many "best conservative words" in circulation at a given time as were in circulation--the model has to fit the data; the data can't fit the model. MattyD 13:58, 30 November 2012 (EST) The words proposed for addition were "facilitator" and "Quaker", both of which are liberal concepts and certainly not conservative. Quakers did not even fight in the American Revolution, and tended to support abortion! Good additions from any of the centuries are welcome, but they need to fit the high quality standards of the list.--Andy Schlafly 14:30, 30 November 2012 (EST) Listener? Falsifiable? Fatherland? Pertinent? Oh well, at least words like "coolant" and "correlate" - which are clearly conservative - remain. WilcoxD 17:48, 2 December 2012 (EST) Don't forget "transistor." And "Philadelphia." MattyD 18:22, 2 December 2012 (EST) Philadelphia was founded on conservative principles -- as was the U.S. Constitution that was drafted there.--Andy Schlafly 19:17, 2 December 2012 (EST) I have to agree with MattyD that "Philadelphia" is a particularly poor choice for this list. Nevertheless, I updated the entry to reflect that the name originates from the 2nd century BC and cities in the Near East at the time of Jesus. GregG 20:29, 2 December 2012 (EST) EDIT By the way, if you want to keep up your "pattern" of doubling by century, you are going to need to find a total 2,097,152 "new conservative words" from the 20th century. Better get to work :P. GregG 20:34, 2 December 2012 (EST) That's witty about doubling from the 2nd century BC, but the reality is that the English city name "Philadelphia" is not nearly so old.--Andy Schlafly 21:17, 2 December 2012 (EST)

Seeing as Philadelphia was one of the principle slave ports of its time, and most of the slaves in the colony and state of Pennsylvania lived in or near the city, I guess your argument about its foundation on conservative principles is confirmed. MattyD 12:41, 5 December 2012 (EST)

The explanation for the word "Philadelphia"'s (dated on the main page to 1682) being conservative is

coined by William Penn and meaning "city of brotherly love," the concept captures the "best of the public" approach

I'm confused by the 1682 date because the ancient city of Philadelphia in Asia minor was established in the 2nd century BC and it was named for the Greek for "brotherly love." So it's clear that the name "Philadelphia" is over 2000 years old. Moreover, the explanation for why "brotherly love" is conservative (that it "captures the 'best of the public' approach") appears to apply equally to any city named Philadelphia. I simply don't know why 1688 is listed as the origin date for a word that has existed for much longer--perhaps you can clarify so that there aren't any further misunderstandings. Thanks, GregG 00:04, 3 December 2012 (EST)

Hmm... that's an interesting point you have there GregG. If Philidelphia is indeed a conservative word and it dates back to the second century BC... that means there should be over 4,194,304 conservative words by now. Obviously, the author of this article only intended to include words in the English language, in which case, Philly (along with other non-English entries) should be removed from he list. --DonnyC 21:11, 5 December 2012 (EST)

From gop.gov:

House Republicans believe that Welfare to Work empowers mothers and helps to strengthen families. In the years following the passage of Welfare to Work, poverty among all single mothers fell by 30 percent and employment and earnings among single mothers increased significantly.

Although I see that the term was used by Democrats, I've re-added the term to the list. The 1996 welfare reform was a major Republican victory, exemplified by the term. GregG 00:39, 29 January 2013 (EST)

1. Boomerang - the word was not used as a verb until the 1880s. I don't think that there is anything particularly conservative about the noun version of the word.

2. Cesspool - according to the OED this word is from the 1680s and in other examples on this page the Oxford etymology is chosen in preference over Merriam-Webster.

3. Quackery is a word often used by conservatives to describe unproven liberal nonsense in a similar way that claptrap is used to describe other liberal nonsense.

I'd also like clarification on how to know whether a stem word should be used in place of its root. For example, the entry "scapegoating" is based on the 1943 adjective version of the noun "scapegoat", which is from the 1500s - why?

Disputes at the margin are to be expected in a list like this. You've identified two questionable entries, but their inclusion is adequately explained in the comment section. Your third word, "quackery", is namecalling that conservatives rarely use. It is a smear word that has no place in this quality list.--Andy Schlafly 10:48, 31 January 2013 (EST) As to your second issue, when a word goes to a level higher than the root (as "scapegoating" does), then its new date and usage are more relevant.--Andy Schlafly 10:50, 31 January 2013 (EST) Mightn't some consider "claptrap" to be just as much a smear/namecalling word as quackery? Also, my only dispute with boomerang is its date. It was used as a verb in the 1880s and since the explanation is for the word indicates it's the action of boomeranging (as opposed to a crooked stick) I think that date should be used. WilcoxD 17:33, 31 January 2013 (EST)

I believe that once America and Europe start tasting the bitter fruits of - liberal economic policies (Eurocrisis and French economy will get worse, etc,), an overregulated private sector, big government, failing public schools with leftist ideology, a heavily aging population due to abortion (and other liberal ideology) and growing competition from an increasingly Christianized Eastern World and developing world - then they will sober up and become more conservative. In addition, strongly religious people are having more kids than secularists plus the liberal media is losing market share while conservative media is growing.

However, the two time election of Barack Obama, a ballooning U.S. federal deficit over the last 12 years, a liberal U.S. Supreme Court since the 1960s that continues to uphold Roe vs. Wade (and other liberal policies such as upholding ObamaCare) and a very liberal UK does not give me confidence that the Anglosphere has become more conservative over time in general - especially post 1960s. It has become more liberal.

In addition, words such as "galvanize" are not conservative. You are engaging in confirmation bias and trying to shoehorn words into your "Conservative Words hypothesis". I don't like the Anglosphere becoming more liberal since the 1960s and the failed policies will bear their bitter fruits in heapfuls on the horizon so things could reverse, but that doesn't give me a license to construct a false reality in the meantime. Plus, constructing a false reality is counterproductive. In order to effectively cure a problem, you have to recognize the full scope of the problem and not claim victory where there is no victory.

Bottom line: The Conservative Words hypothesis fails. Conservative 08:10, 31 January 2013 (EST)

I would agree that galvanize isn't a conservative word, it isn't a liberal word either it is a science/engineering word. It is word derived from the name of Luigi Galvani who found the galvanic series. Of which bought about the discovery of galvanization. However it can be political in certain situations and us from the conservative side of politics tend to work better together than those on the liberal side of politics (ie labor tearing itself apart and us in the liberal party counting down the days till our win on the 14th of september !) Dvergne 11:09, 31 January 2013 (EST) Though not strongly conservative, "galvanize" has usage with respect to the grassroots, as in "galvanize the grassroots." Also, liberals tend to be pessimistic about what man can achieve with God, denying progress, while "galvanize" suggests the progress advocated by conservatives.--Andy Schlafly 11:30, 31 January 2013 (EST) Andy, you have some good articles in terms of their content and titles such as Essay:The Invisible Hand of Marriage and Professor values, but also need to cut your losses for the clunkers like Essay:Best New Conservative Words. For example, to say that "galvanize" is not a strongly conservative word is quite an understatement since it is not conservative word at all. Conservative 14:55, 31 January 2013 (EST) I don't doubt that certain groups of society use words with different, even characteristic frequencies. Have a lawyer and a nurse retell Grimm's Snow White, and you can guess who told which version using only the word-count! That said, I'm surprised tby claim that certain words indicate a conservative leaning for more than 300 years! Languages are always changing, and preferences for words, too! I cannot talk about the English language with confidence - unfortunately I'm not getting all the subtleties - but here are two examples in German: using the abbreviation "BRD" for "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" during 1960-1990 was a clear indicator of a left-wing weltanschauung, but it became politically neutral over the last years. nowadays, the term "Nachhaltigkeit" (sustainability) isn't missing from any speech of any economist or politician, whether from the right or from the left. In the 1980s, it was used by environmentalists exclusively. So there may be conservative and liberal concepts, but the language describing them is always changing. Another problem: Over the last year, I saw examples of "perfect doublings" announced a couple of times. That seems to be rather improbable, statistically speaking, and indicates a manipulation of the data (confirmation bias) - as User:Conservative stated above. --AugustO 16:01, 31 January 2013 (EST) The fact that a perfect doubling has occurred many times with different layers tends to support, rather than undermine, the hypothesis that a perfect doubling is inherent in the language. Otherwise it would be very difficult for each layer to display a perfect doubling too! Many stumble on the issue of whether the selection of terms is perfectly random. The selection of terms need not be random to conclude that a doubling by century intrinsically exists. Think about why.--Andy Schlafly 16:51, 31 January 2013 (EST) Think about why. Because you have invented a new kind of statistics? Using your method, we could show that there are as many Germans as there are Americans, just by alternately listing Germans and Americans! That could go on for quite a while, without proving anything about the real ratio. (Browsing through the archives, I see I'm not the first to point this out: see here and here) --AugustO 16:57, 31 January 2013 (EST) May I expect an answer to my comment above? --AugustO 19:30, 2 February 2013 (EST)

I will provide my honest opinion.

If this essay is meant to be a personal project in learning new vocabulary, etymology, and use of language, then it's certainly worthwhile. However, if the intent of this essay was to draw statistical conclusions, the methodology is so egregiously flawed that there is really nothing one can take away from the data in the essay.

Several methodology problems are the following:

There is no objective definition as to what constitutes a word, or a conservative word, for that matter. For some reason, abbreviations, proper names, and multiple-word terms appear on the list. Very similar terms are alternative counted as conservative or not (contrast "welfare queen" and "welfare to work", for example). The fact that there are several arguments on this very page as to whether or not words are conservative indicate that the notion of a "conservative word" is not well-defined. The arbiter of whether or not a term is conservative appears to a strong interest in ensuring that the data collected fit into a predetermined "doubling" pattern. (In fact, it seems to me that this approach to the subject demonstrates a lack of open-mindedness that the empirical data may suggest a different conclusion than the one anticipated.) It's not even single blind, much less double blind. There is no consistency as to the date assigned to a term. It appears to be the date a term became conservative. There is no objective calculation of the date assigned to a term (like, for example, consulting the OED for the oldest extant print reference to a word). No comparison is made to the growth in the number of English terms since 1600 nor the growth of liberal terms over time. The words are not randomly sampled. They appear to be inserted in order to fit a predetermined pattern. A better method to solve the problem would be to randomly select words from the dictionary.

In all, if you want to keep this as a side project just for the educational value, be my guest. However, if you want to draw mathematical or statistical conclusions from this essay, I would advise you not to, as it only serves to make us conservatives at Conservapedia appear sophomoric in mathematics, statistics, and logic. Thanks, GregG 20:22, 1 February 2013 (EST)

Good points. Let's revisit this at the end of the 21st century when we have another data point. RSchlafly 19:54, 2 February 2013 (EST) Why so modest? Lets wait for the year 2700: then we'll see more than one conservative word each day! --AugustO 20:02, 2 February 2013 (EST)

In the case before the court, if the lessee had covenanted for himself and his assigns, to deliver up the tenements in good order and repair, notwithstanding they should be destroyed by act of God or of an Enemy, then this action would certainly lie, because of the special express words; but when there are no such words, but only generally to repair &c. would it be reasonable to construe these words so as to extend to the cases put?

Pollard v. Shaaffer, 1 U.S. 210, 213 (1 Dall. 210) (1787). GregG 01:15, 9 February 2013 (EST)

Superb research! I'll update the entry (you can also). I also learned something: the U.S. Reports include Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions before the US Supreme Court was created.--Andy Schlafly 09:09, 9 February 2013 (EST)

Just thought I should let you know that Mardi Gras is on this site as an example of a Conservative word and also a secularized word. If I use it am I a conservative or a liberal-homosexual-atheist-evolutionist-leftist attempting to remove the Christian origins of our language? (Ic 15:23, 14 February 2013 (EST))

I have read the essay and skimmed through the huge archives of this talk page, but I didn't find any reference to a reliable, objective, independent definition of "best new conservative word". By the way, this is interesting reliable information on the increase of the total number of words in the English language. Onestone 02:34, 15 February 2013 (EST)

The vast majority of so-called "Conservative" words shown here are just words without any sort of difference between a Conservative use and a Liberal use (e.g. activism, addictive, aerobics, accuracy, alarmism, alcoholism, etc.). And somehow the statistics at the top of the page claim that the usage of "Conservative" words are growing at an exponential rate compared to "Liberal" words! It is clear that this is just a blatant example of fact-twisting employed in order to further Conservative propaganda. RaymondZ 17:23, 4 March 2013 (EST)

I think some conflate a conservative word/idea/concept with whether the person using the word is a conservative or a liberal. A similar objection was raised to Greatest Conservative Songs, when people insisted that a particular song was sung by a liberal group, and therefore could not be conservative.

A liberal can wish someone "Merry Christmas," and is welcome to use other conservative terms. But such use would not detract from the conservative nature of the terms.--Andy Schlafly 17:56, 4 March 2013 (EST)

Antidisestablishmentarianism: 18th Century, Against the separation of church and state. Tory: 17th Century. Protestant: 16th Century. Dreadnaught: 20th Century. A large all big gun battleship. Aircraft-Carrier: 20th Century. Machine-gun: 19th Century. I will try to thing of more later--Patmac 19:57, 6 May 2013 (EDT)

Could someone please check the numbers of words per century? My count is somewhat differing from the official one:

I'd rather like to see someone checking these numbers, it's so easy to make an error. --AugustO 04:46, 10 May 2013 (EDT)

Excellent work! There were some recent additions that are not high quality enough to remain, and not worthy of inclusion in the count. I'll revert them now.--Andy Schlafly 08:59, 10 May 2013 (EDT) Thank you for your praise! But I'd like to see someone double-checking the numbers! You removed coolant, a term you had introduced into the list on Aug 7, 2010. This implies that every one of the nine perfect geometric fits since August 2010 was false - and it highlights the problematic approach of your statistics, which I already mentioned above in #Conservative Words hypothesis is errant. I see that you haven't answered to my comments in that section... --AugustO 11:00, 10 May 2013 (EDT) Not "false", but lacking in a perfect understanding - which is what all knowledge is.--Andy Schlafly 11:17, 10 May 2013 (EDT) I share a critical view of the "Best New Conservative Words" with many on these talk-pages. Before you erased "coolant" from the list, I had the following working definition: A conservative word is a term which Andrew Schlafly likes. Now, I have refined this to: A conservative word is a term which Andrew Schlafly likes today. Please excuse this flippant approach, but I've yet to see an objective definition of the term "conservative word", something which would allow even me to decide whether a certain word (perhaps even a German one) is conservative or not. --AugustO 12:21, 10 May 2013 (EDT) It's an atheistic quality to think that stubbornness in a position is an admirable trait, as in someone who rejects God as a college student and then clings for decades to that mistaken belief without genuinely reconsidering it.--Andy Schlafly 13:47, 10 May 2013 (EDT) Objections to "coolant" were made, and upon reflection the objections had validity. I don't see why anyone would criticize someone for making an improvement.--Andy Schlafly 13:47, 10 May 2013 (EDT) It's always good to rethink one's position, but generally a change should be induced by new information. The last time someone criticized "coolant" (this was a year ago), you answered: "Motivation" is a far more conservative term - one can find motivation whether the playing field islevel or not. "Quantify" is logic, which is an essential difference between conservative and liberal approaches. "Coolant" is an essential part of nuclear energy -- which liberals loathe. What has changed your opinion? Why is "coolant" not longer conservative, but "motivation" or "quantify" are? Why is "transistor" a conservative word, but not "diode". Is an "ordered pair" more conservative than a "vector"? "Decrypt" more conservative than "encrypt" or "decode"? "Countability" is conservative, but what about "computability"? "Conservative field" is conservative, because it is in its name, duh? You have given no systematic approach for the detection of conservative words, it is all very fuzzy (but that's no problem, because "fuzzy math" is a conservative word, other than "chaos theory"). It is very difficult to take this seemingly random list of words serious, and the statistics behind it are even shadier (see e.g., #Conservative Words hypothesis is errant. Could you please come up with a working definition for the term "conservative word"? --AugustO 15:20, 11 May 2013 (EDT) Actually the first mention of clouds having silver linings is in "Comus", a Masque by John Milton, first performed in 1632. A young lady, lost and alone in a forest with night approaching is encouraged by the phenomenon: Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? I did not err; there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night And cast a gleam over this tufted grove.

Dickens played on the allusion in "Bleak House" in 1852 and the 1871 reference was, I assume, by Samuel Smiles. AlanE 03:47, 27 June 2013 (EDT)

That's fascinating. Perhaps Dickens (1852) should be created for first popularizing the figurative meaning?--Andy Schlafly 09:30, 27 June 2013 (EDT) Morning all...Dickens wrote: "I turn my silver lining outward like Milton's cloud." I believe though that by the mid 19th century the phrase "Every cloud has a silver lining" had become recognised as a proverb.

And while we're sorta on Milton, try pandemonium and trip the light fantastic. AlanE 17:05, 27 June 2013 (EDT)

I'm struggling to see why it is so crucial that a perfect doubling is achieved. It doesn't prove anything, and looking down the page some words don't seem very conservative at all. Jacob Anderson 19:07, 29 June 2013 (EDT)

The ease of finding conservative words in a doubling pattern does prove something, just as easy discovery of gold in a stream would prove how valuable that stream is, and cause a gold rush. Surely no one denies the significance of correlations and probabilities.--Andy Schlafly 23:15, 29 June 2013 (EDT) I'm assuming that Mr. Schlafly is compiling the list for his own edification (which is certainly a noble and worthwhile endeavor) and is not trying to use it as statistical evidence (because it has zero statistical value for all the reasons I've mentioned previously). GregG 23:20, 29 June 2013 (EDT) The ease of finding new conservative words in a pattern that doubles by century is significant, just as easily finding some gold nuggets in a stream would be highly significant.--Andy Schlafly 23:42, 29 June 2013 (EDT) As a mathematician, I can tell you that because of the problems with your methodology that I have already pointed out, there is zero statistical significance for what you have done. To make a helpful analogy, your methodology would be equivalent to someone who wants to show that the number of instances of the letter "E" in the Bible (KJV) doubles with each book and thus picks out one occurrence of the letter "E" in Genesis, two in Exodus, four in Leviticus, eight in Numbers, etc. If your methodology were correct, then Revelation should have an e-normous number of "E"'s (pun intended). As a second example, if your methodology is correct, why not trim examples from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to increase the rate of growth to tripling by century, quadrupling by century, or even more. The absurdity of these examples points out the fundamental flaw with your methodology: the words selected are not a random sample but appear to be selected in a calculated manner to fit your predetermined doubling pattern. GregG 00:01, 30 June 2013 (EDT) Even if your methodology was correct, I fail to see how significant the "perfect doubling" is, or if it is even significant at all. Furthermore, how do you even define a word as being conservative. There are words like "competitive" and "veracity" to name a few, and while they are... words, I see no possibility of them having especially conservative roots.

I agree with you on many issues Mr. Schlafly, but I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one, Jacob Anderson 08:07, 30 June 2013 (EDT)

The doubling pattern was not the initial expectation. Rather, the existence of that pattern quickly emerged and has been repeatedly confirmed, layer after layer, over 30 times. The specific objections above are like arguing that a DNA match is meaningless if an investigator was looking for the match. Also, no one rebutted the analogy of the significance of easily finding gold nuggets in a stream. As to the objection that the words are not conservative, I don't see how that can seriously doubted. And, indeed, one Conservapedia visitor ran an analysis of political speeches and confirmed that conservatives use these words more than liberals do.--Andy Schlafly 10:40, 30 June 2013 (EDT) I think your critics might give you more credit if you provided a meaningful definition of what constitutes a conservative word. JZ 15:37, 30 June 2013 (EDT) A conservative word is an expression of a conservative insight or value. E.g., "accountability" is a conservative word because it expresses the value of individual responsibility and not blaming others as liberals often do (e.g., Obama blaming Bush years later).--Andy Schlafly 17:24, 30 June 2013 (EDT) Is there some way to program a computer or otherwise write objective standards for a panel to judge (1) whether a string of characters constitutes a "word" and (2) whether such a string qualifies as "conservative"? This would greatly enhance the project, as then a computer can comb through the entire dictionary to determine the prevalence of conservative words by century, rendering the random sampling problems (and they are big problems) moot. GregG 22:52, 30 June 2013 (EDT) I think that would be nearly impossible to do - to write a computer program to recognize the political connotations of a word.--Andy Schlafly 23:53, 30 June 2013 (EDT)

Andy, would you please explain why "vandal" is not a Conservative word? Also, what difference is there that qualifies "vandalism" in its place? WilcoxD 19:56, 30 June 2013 (EDT)

"Vandal" is a pejorative name for an individual. Conservative words are about ideas and practices, not some bad apples.--Andy Schlafly 19:58, 30 June 2013 (EDT) No worries. In that case we should change "idealist" to "idealism" and correct the date. Incidentally, the date listed was for philosophical idealism, ie. the believe that reality is made up of nothing more than ideas. Idealism in the sense of representing things in their "ideal" form came much later. WilcoxD 21:55, 30 June 2013 (EDT)

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