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Conservative Review Senior Editor, Daniel Horowitz,

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If you are now entering, the Conservative Conscience.

And welcome back to the Conservative Conscience.

This is your host, Daniel Horowitz, in the house here.

After the July 4th, I would say weekend, but really a week celebration.

It's Wednesday, July 5th in the morning here.

And gosh, I don't want to get back to work just like everyone else.

I really enjoyed my time off.

I hope you guys enjoyed your vacation as well and had a meaningful Independence Day.

Thank you to everyone for all your comments and feedback on my July 4th manifesto.

It's kind of become an annual tradition here at Conservative Conscience at EdCR,

where I just put out kind of a 2000 word essay on the meaning of our entire foundation

as much as you can do in just one piece and how it ties into very specific issues

that are confronting us now.

And that's really why I'm so into July 4th and the Declaration is because

what we try to do here is actually not just talk about the abstract

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