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Tuesday, July 24. 2012

We made the top 100

Dr. Merc pointed out to me that Maggie's Farm made the list of the top 100 Centrist-to-Conservative websites.


But we didn't build that ourselves. Other people did that - our readers did that, but I know they read us for our recipes.


Are we a Conservative website? I think of us as more Small Government-Libertarian in our political ethos. "That government is best which governs least -  that government is best which governs not at all." (That's a Thoreau quote, variously also attributed to Tom Paine and Tom Jefferson.) We're freedom-from-government-power-and-control people. Like this:


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 09:19 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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How about a poll? Put me down for more Small Government-Libertarian.
#1 BillH on 2012-07-24 10:30 (Reply)
Egads. Labels, labels, labels. SG-L sounds good to me.
#2 jma on 2012-07-24 10:34 (Reply)
On top of that, we beat out Breitbart! Hah!

Okay, it was breitbart.tv, not breitbart.com, but still.

As for your question, Bird Dog, I think it would be closer to the truth to say this is simply a list of non-lefty sites. I'm sure many of them, like Maggie's, occasionally espouse values that are more Libertarian in nature than Conservative, if not flat-out Liberal policy, like the time Barrie advocated imposing affirmative action in the night club business. I'm still reeling from that one.

I'd say that Maggie's, as an entity, should certainly be proud to make the top 100 of such a list. As they say, anybody who's anybody is there, so I'd say we're in some fairly exalted company.
#3 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2012-07-24 11:33 (Reply)
Good on ya, guys. I just wish Don Surber was still blogging. Dang, I miss him.
#4 Sam L. on 2012-07-24 19:55 (Reply)
Me too.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2012-07-24 20:40 (Reply)
Sadly New Hampshire's motto is empty. So many liberal loons flooded the state from Massachusetts, and still act like wing nuts, that it is a shell of its former self. As many restrictions in that state as most others. Just because some still say the words doesn't make them true.
#5 Joe Luke on 2012-07-25 20:24 (Reply)

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