C-SPAN will broadcast my lecture on A Conservative History of the American Left on Tuesday, August 5 at 2:30 p.m. Tune in and watch live! The lecture is part of Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference, which is streaming live at the Foundation's website. Other speakers you may be interested in watching include the New York Times' David Brooks, George Mason University's Walter Williams, and National Review editor Rich Lowry--and that's just from tomorrow's schedule.

My DVR is set.

Dan, what about those of us who do not have a DVR and can't be at a TV at that time? Any other scheduled times it will air?

Hey Dan,

I just saw a presentation at a university(C-SPAN) about your new book. Seems as though you have been hanging out and taking pointers from Karl Rove. You distract Americans with propaganda against Democrats and are very effective. Your arguements are very persuasive. If I had an IQ as low as the folks you are addressing who support you, I could possibly accept your point of view. As it is, Karl and yourself are distractions from the "real" truth, whatever that might be(I certainly don't know). All I know is that many Americans will have to live with the mistakes of our current administration who have had the ball completely in their court for six and a half years. De-regulation of energy and home loans have dropped this country to it knees. Greed rules, rather than virtue. I'd work next to you plowing a field any time, and after 8 hours of keeping up with me, you would be very exhausted. I believe in hard work, but I also believe that the folks who perform it deserve to make a living wage. Corporations have a grip on the rules and laws that make a fair playing field for everyone. Our economy is very out of balance for the haves and have nots. I'm no commie, but the working folks need to have their rights restored.

Respectfully,

Tom Baldwin
Westport, MA, USA

Tom,

I guess we hear what we want to hear. I too just finished watching and listening to Mr. Flynn and I’m not sure what propaganda you speak of. Is there anything he said that wasn't based in fact? And could you be more specific on the Karl Rove points you allude to?

Insulting people’s IQ instead of coming back with a substantive topic and an ensuing arguable position would be what Dan was talking about with regard to how, when your positions are indefensible, leftists resort to name calling or negative comments to make some kind of point.

I would expect no less.

Before the Flynn segment, C-Span had a conference hosted by House Republicans who were still in the halls trying to do work for the people by suggesting that Madam Speaker stop her vacation and call the house back to session so that some kind of energy debate and solution could be voted on.

One guy in the gallery who was posing as a ‘reporter’ started with the Bush, Cheney, Rove, oil company profits, dirty deals thang and suggested that the Congressmen were in the oil company's pockets as a way to, I would assume, shut down any discussion. The more the Congressmen tried to calm him down and suggest a normal rational question and answer session, the louder the guy spoke and repeated his talking points.

This is how the left voices opposition. This is how the left takes a position and defends it. Or, like San Fran Nan, they run away. Such integrity.

Tom, get out much? Taken a stroll down a street in the outside world recently? Seems like you might live in a glass house. When the law is on your side you argue the law, when the facts are behind you drive home the facts, I guess when you have very little in your corner you argue like Tom. People who attack someone's IQ rather than there argument are usually the one's with the low IQ. After this, be sure to include the name of a vilified conservative like Karl Rove and you got the makings for a really strong bullet proof argument, right Tom? An argument that really has the boys down at the VFW scratching their head saying "wow Tom is so smart, what's he doing drinking Bud drafts with us on a Monday night?" Tom you're not a bright guy. You may be the smartest guy in your hometown, but that's probably stretching it. Even if you are the only one in your crew with a library card, that still doesn't make you intelligent enough to insult one's IQ. I mean what kind of elitist are you ?
Tom you live in a myopia where your ideology blurs the world that exists right in front of you. Or, maybe you just live in a place like Westport Massachusetts where the constituents views go weeks without being challenged, giving you a false sense of intelligence. The views in Westport are probably about as diverse as a the racial composition of a Bennigans just outside Minneapolis during March Madness.
One last thing. Tom, you mentioned something about you being a hard worker "I'd work next to you plowing a field any time, and after 8 hours of keeping up with me, you would be very exhausted." You kind of remind me of this guy Lenny from Of Mice and Men. But, you're more of a retard.

Dan,

I caught most of your talk before work, and it was very interesting as is the book. Particularly effective on the ideology of "new" that is so critical and definitive of the left.

It really is unintelligent a position as well. The left is perpetually appealling to the immature b/c they perpetually create power for themselves by claiming to be a new "birth of freedom" or w/e. It is a sound strategy but shallow and unserious. Unserious in all but consequences.

Reasonable political discourse is impossible under such parameters the "progressives" and future-oriented demand. Politics must be the art governed by prudence and prudence doesn't even exist if uninformed deeply by the past.

So here comes the working american voicing his opinion, freedom of speech you know, and you people answer like retard.
I listened to the speech and I will tell you what i think...it was poison, non american, non ideological related to the democrats.
He is connecting, nazi,left extremist of 40 years ago with today? The Jim Johnson koolaid with poison story followed by'do not drink the left koolaid' was a reference to Obama.Poison again and it will backfire.
If this is politics in America today, I am not proud, it demonizes the opponent.
Ok, I like to know why the Bush family was doing business with the nazi before the war and maybe after also. Want to know why our president and his family are friends with BIN laden family. Not appropriate. I want to know why Bush is acting like a fascist and fooling with the constitution.
Want to know why 9-11 happened on your watch.
Why do we bail out banks and other companies? that is socialism not capitalism.why do we give subsidy to private corporations, again socialism.
Why do we give money to Israel and weapons also?
Why do we pay Pakistan, why do we pay sunnis so they will not shoot at us?
You call this leading a country?
Where? to hell and back?
You watch Mr. Flynn. Jefferson said we need a revolution to keep democracy alive about evey 100 years..I think it is time.

Tom, somewhere there's a beginner's book on Economics. Some democrat ought to look into finding what that stuff is about.

Higher worldwide demand for oil + restricted demand => higher oil. You can't just blur your eyes and say: Bush presidency + ?? => problems, thus Bush presidency => problems.

Every heard of propter hoc fallacy? That's the dems strategy right now. If there were massive oil spills or rig fires, that could be de-regulation. But record profits at the highest prices ever for a barrel of oil, when you're the producer, is not.

You make widgets, each widget you make under the current market costs you 50 cents. You expect to sell these at 75 cents. The worldwide widget market sees and incredible upswing in demand with the entry of India and China. Your sunk cost is still 50 cents, but your yield could be 50, 75, $1 or more instead of the 25 cents you used to operate on.

It's not deregulation. It's lack of supply, through restrictions on drilling and refining + near doubling of worldwide demand.

Tom, you're a commie. If you can make Dan into the devil himself, i.e. Karl Rove. Who are you to ask that we play nice, commie?

Gee, Lee

Were you a conservative, you'd know what it is like being called a NAZI--about five minutes ago. The left is always bringing the word "NAZI" to the table; they play the nazi-card the way people vote in Chicago: early and often.

Heaven forbid somebody should create a different narrative that presents a different picture.

"So here comes the working american voicing his opinion, freedom of speech you know".

Since when has freedom of speech entailed that people say, "You are right! I AM Karl Rove! I AM spreading poison! I AM !! I shouldn't be interested in what I wrote a book about!! I'm a dupe of the power elite!"

Can't a blue-collar guy just log onto a website and make generalizations about other people's IQ anymore?!?! I mean WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?! Can't a guy insinuate that a speech is all a ploy, and not take any flack over it?!?! Can't we all just get along?!!

That you guys don't see anything wrong with that is an example of how insulated the liberal is by mass media which never challenges your assumption.

Bruce, that’s an excellent point regarding the left’s constant appeal to the young and/or the immature as they can only package their tired old philosophies and techniques as ‘new’ to people who are unaware of historical content.

This is why Flynn was stressing to this young crowd to learn history and remember what history has to teach them about future events.

And when leftists hit me with the ‘Big Oil Bush’ schick and try to blame the President for our current crisis, I first hit them with some simple economic principles (supply and demand), then dance around the fact that obstructionist Democrats in league with the Eco lobbies for the last 30 years or so have essentially shut down our domestic energy industry. When I get the non responsive blank stare and a regurgitation of the same talking points, I ask them why, if Bush is such a money and power hungry greedy oil man, would he not have done everything in his power as President a long time ago to suck as much black gold/profit out of our domestic resources? Humana, Humana, Humana.

They’re not real bright.

The lib position. Substitute Liberal for Hitchhiker...

Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?

Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the excercise video.

Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.

Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.

Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?

Ted: I would go for the 7.

Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.

Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?

Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".

Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]

Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.

Ted: That - good point.

Hitchhiker: 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.

Ted: Why?

Hitchhiker: 'Cause you're f#%kin' fired!