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Daily Round-up: Youth Rising, Gaddafi Dead, Pentagon too big to fail

Jack Hunter says the demise of old America is tragic, its cultural core diminished by progressive ideologies. Still, he says, there lies hope in the future for conservatives, but not with the establishment. Hope for a revived conservatism lies with the youth. Many if not most in the rising new generation on the right are […]

Jack Hunter says the demise of old America is tragic, its cultural core diminished by progressive ideologies. Still, he says, there lies hope in the future for conservatives, but not with the establishment. Hope for a revived conservatism lies with the youth.

Many if not most in the rising new generation on the right are eager for the old America of high taxes, massive debt, unsustainable entitlements, and endless wars to go away as quickly as possible. They are libertarians. They are constitutionalists. They are conservatives. They are activists. They are anxious. Many are angry at what their parents and grandparents have done to this country, an unconservative sentiment, perhaps, but not necessarily an incorrect one.

Is chaos coming to a close in Libya? After eight months of civil war it’s being reported that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed on Thursday near the town of Sirte by Anti-Gaddafi fighters. With the Gaddafi regime now eliminated, the National Transitional Council effectively controls the Libyan state. What happens next? Infighting has already shown as an emergent problem between rebel forces, and Rod Dreher says its unlikely the new regime will be any less of a tyranny than the last one, but that Gaddafi got what was coming to him.

Tom Englehardt says the National Security complex is as out-of-control as the megabanks. We were told the banks had to be bailed out because they’re “too big to fail,” and letting them do so would catalyze economic chaos. Much like the banks, Englehardt says, interventionists insist we must endlessly fund an overblown security apparatus that is also protected from the consequences of failure.

It’s no secret among conservatives that the employment situation is far worse than the mainstream media reports have been letting on. But now a disconcerting number is coming out: U.S. News & World Report claims that the number of unemployed, or underemployed persons involuntarily working part-time has hit 26 million Americans.

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