# I'd Like to Know Some Good Conservative Websites **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680 "2006-03-17T01:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/1 "2006-03-17T01:21:41Z")
I am a pacifist liberal/progressive by nature, and have a wide range of like-minded sites on the internet to read daily. I learn a great deal by those with opposing views on the SD, and appreciate the intelligence here. I’m going to do a personal experiment, and only read the webpages/blogs/commentators of Conservative sites for a week, and see how that affects my political viewpoint. I’m asking for intelligent, incisive commentary, not inflammatory monologue. I would appreciate Conservatives here directing me to the best of that thought, so I can understand it better. Also, please, no snarky comments about why I want to understand that: I want to better understand a different frame of mind intelligently, so I can discuss political matters with a greater depth. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/2 "2006-03-17T01:40:47Z")
If you can stand it for a whole week, go to the message boards at [subguns.com](http://subguns.com). About as far right as you can get. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/3 "2006-03-17T02:12:17Z")
> [@bonobo\_jones](#): > > If you can stand it for a whole week, go to the message boards at [subguns.com](http://subguns.com). About as far right as you can get. I don’t think that’s what he meant. I think he meant “Reputable” and not “batshit loony”, in which case he could go to [www.ar15.com](http://www.ar15.com)(where liberal=communist=athiest=homosexual=NAMBLA). ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/4 "2006-03-17T02:28:26Z")
[National Review Magazine](http://www.nationalreview.com/) Instapundit [RealClearPolitics](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/) (a daily link collection to essays by various big-name conservatives and mainstream Democrats) [Reason Magazine](http://www.reason.com/) (Libertarian) [The Weekly Standard](http://www.weeklystandard.com/) That’s a good start. ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/5 "2006-03-17T02:45:09Z")
I agree with everything Sam Stone said. My favorite single columnist is Thomas Sowell. If you find anything he says that you disagree with let us know. I’ve linked to his archive below: [Thomas Sowell](http://townhall.com/opinion/contributors/thomassowell/archive/2006/) You might want to glance at some of the other columnists at [townhall.com](http://townhall.com). I generally like Mike Adams. Also the links at [instapundit.com](http://instapundit.com) will take you to pretty much everything else. Which reminds me, my wife loves Ann Althouse’s blog. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/6 "2006-03-17T13:53:55Z")
National Review Online is quite good. So is [www.townhall.com](http://www.townhall.com). Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/7 "2006-03-18T00:34:11Z")
How about the Wall Street Journal’s [opinion journal](http://www.opinionjournal.com/) I’m not a conservative, but I read the Journal’s editorial page every day. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/8 "2006-03-18T01:15:33Z")
Power Line is a good one. I found them during the Memogate kerfluffle. IIRC, they were instrumental in debunking the CBS story. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/9 "2006-03-18T01:41:30Z")
I wouldn’t call myself a Conservative, but there’s RedState which has a style close to Daily Kos, and Samizdata, though the latter is U.K. oriented. Another one is The Other Side of Kim, Kim du Toit’s new blog. And good on you for looking at the other side. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-to-know-some-good-conservative-websites/348680/10 "2006-03-18T03:02:30Z")
Thanks much for the replies, greatly appreciate it. In thinking about how this country has been so sadly polarized and divided in view, and saddened by that, I feel that one constructive thing I _can_ try to do is to understand the opposing viewpoints with a greater depth, in order to have rational discussion. Ain’t that just like a librul mind? 😉