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Compulsory attendance

2008-04-04T00:25:37Z

EddieBurke: categorize

Compulsory attendance is a type of [[law]] in many countries requiring [[children]] of a certain age to attend [[public school]], at least until a specified age. In some countries, notably the [[United States]], [[home schooling]] is a legal and viable alternative to compulsory public education.

[[category:education]]

Compulsory attendance

2008-04-04T00:23:44Z

EddieBurke: New page: Compulsory attendance is a type of law in many countries requiring children of a certain age to attend public school, at least until a specified age. In some countries, notably...

Sport

2008-04-04T00:19:18Z

EddieBurke: for real this time

[[Image:Ship....jpg|right|thumb|A sailboat]]
[[Image:Delacroix_Frightened_Horse.jpg|left|140px|thumb|A horse, involved in many sports]]
A '''sport''' is a game or [[exercise]] that is played to keep humans fit or even just for entertainment. Some examples of some sports are: [[baseball]], [[horse racing]], [[motor racing]], [[go-karting]], [[mini golf]], [[canoeing]], [[rowing]], [[white water rafting]], [[skydiving]], [[rock climbing]], [[rugby]], [[football]], [[soccer]], [[hockey]], [[basketball]], [[golf]], and [[swimming]]. They often help to train self-discipline.

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== See also ==

*[[Skateboarding]]
*[[Balls]]
*[[Physical Culture]]

[[Category:Health promotion]]

[[category:sports]]

Sport

2008-04-04T00:18:53Z

EddieBurke: captions

[[Image:Ship....jpg|right|A sailboat]]
[[Image:Delacroix_Frightened_Horse.jpg|left|140px|A horse, involved in many sports]]
A '''sport''' is a game or [[exercise]] that is played to keep humans fit or even just for entertainment. Some examples of some sports are: [[baseball]], [[horse racing]], [[motor racing]], [[go-karting]], [[mini golf]], [[canoeing]], [[rowing]], [[white water rafting]], [[skydiving]], [[rock climbing]], [[rugby]], [[football]], [[soccer]], [[hockey]], [[basketball]], [[golf]], and [[swimming]]. They often help to train self-discipline.

<br>
== See also ==

*[[Skateboarding]]
*[[Balls]]
*[[Physical Culture]]

[[Category:Health promotion]]

[[category:sports]]

University of California, Los Angeles

2008-04-04T00:14:31Z

EddieBurke: reference, university box

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|name=University of California - Los Angeles
|text=gold
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|type=Public
|city=Los Angeles, California
|sports=baseball, basketball, cross country, diving, football, gymnastics, rowing, soccer, swimming, softball, track and field, volleyball, water polo, tennis
|colors=True Blue and Gold
|mascot=Bruins
|website=http://www.ucla.edu/
}}

The '''University of California, Los Angeles''' ('''UCLA''') is a public university located in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]. Established as a branch of the California State University in 1919, it is the second-oldest general-purpose campus in the [[University of California]] system and has the largest enrollment of any university in California.<ref>http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d06/tables/dt06_219.asp?referrer|National Center for Education Satistics</ref>

UCLA consists of the ''College of Letters and Science'' (primary undergraduate college), as well as four others - ''Arts and Architecture'', ''Herb Alpert School of Music'', ''Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences'', ''Nursing'', and ''Theater, Film, and Television'', seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students annually, and rising.<ref>Enrollment data:[http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/students/fall/iars.thirdweek.campus.2003-04.pdf Fall 2001–03] [http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/students/fall/iars.thirdweek.campus.2004-05.pdf Fall 2002–04][http://www.aim.ucla.edu/data/students/fall/iars.thirdweek.campus.2005-06.pdf Fall 2003–05].''University of California System CSS Third Week Enrollment File.''</ref>

UCLA has more applicants than any other university in the United States.<ref>http://www.today.ucla.edu/2000/000208ucla.html UCLA No.1 in Applications-DeCardenas, Diana; UCLA Today</ref><ref> http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/exclusives/african-american-admissions-up/ More Minorities in First Holistic Admission Class UCLA Magazine</ref><ref>Lauren Bartlett - UCLA Remains the Country’s Most Popular University with More Than 50,000 High School Seniors Applying for Fall http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp? 7664 UCLA News</ref> Out of 50,732 applicants for Fall 2007, 11,860 (23.38%) were admitted. Students come to UCLA from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries, though according to statistics from 2001-2005, an average 92.6% of the entire student body originated from within California.

UCLA is ranked 25th among "America's Best Colleges 2008: National Universities" by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'', tied for third with the [[University of Michigan]] for "Best public universities in the United States", and placed 13th in the world in 2007 in ranking done by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.<ref>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm</ref>

In 2006, the university completed ''Campaign UCLA'', which collected over $3.05 billion, the most successful fund raising campaign in the history of higher education.<ref>http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp 6819 UCLA Raises More Than $3 Billion - Research Universities|Hampton, Phil 2006, UCLA News</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category: United States Universities]]

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2008-04-04T00:00:59Z

EddieBurke: spelling

{{University
|name=University of Wisconsin-Madison
|image=
|text=rgb(222,178,29)
|background=rgb(151,15,1)
|type=Public
|city=Madison, Wisconsin
|sports=
|colors=red, gold
|mascot=Bucky Badger
|website=http://www.wisc.edu/
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[[image:Bascomhall.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bascom Hill, historic center of the university, with Bascom Hall at top; on a commemorative postcard reproduced from an 1879 lithograph]]
The '''University of Wisconsin-Madison''' is widely considered to be one of the most [[liberal]] public research universities in the nation.<ref>Bill O'Reilly, for example, stated in an interview with a Wisconsin state representative that "This University of Wisconsin at Madison [is] one of the most liberal colleges in the country's history, not just in the country." The state representative did not dispute that about his own state's school.[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166979,00.html]</ref>

Lavishly funded, it has an enrollment of over forty thousand students and a budget of over two billion dollars. It is located in the state capital, [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on a sprawling lakeside campus.<ref>Academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities, and among the ten best public universities by [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php U. S. News and World Report]</ref>

Campus ethnic diversity at UW-Madison is among the lowest in the Big Ten<ref>In the Big Ten schools, the U. S. News' [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc_campdiv_brief.php Campus Ethnic Diversity Index] ranges from 0.47 (Northwestern) down to 0.17 (Iowa), with UW-Madison third from the bottom at 0.22</ref>, with the student composition comprising only 3% Hispanics, 2.7% African Americans and 0.6% Native Americans. A ten-year plan to increase diversity, begun in 1998,<ref>[http://www.uwsa.edu/oadd/plan/ Plan 2008: Educational Quality Through Racial and Ethnic Diversity</ref> was judged in 2006 to have failed.<ref name=plan>[http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/campus-diversity-efforts-failing,-plan-2008-panelists-say.html Campus diversity efforts failing, Plan 2008 panelists say], Daily Cardinal, May 1, 2006</ref> The university caps out-of-state enrollment at 25% and draws most of its students from mostly-white Wisconsin and Minnesota, but the university's chancellor said that the cause of the problem was that minority students graduate at rates far lower than other students and claimed that “[t]hose differences are not attributable to ability or preparation or background or anything other than the difficulty of being a student of color on our campus."<ref name=plan/> But UW-Madison's history is not any better: in 1940, [[Milton Friedman]] left his teaching job there "[a]fter an ugly display of ... anti-Semitism."<ref>David Warsh, ''Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations'' p. 133 (2007)</ref>

[[Image:250px-BuckyBadgerGraphic.gif|left|thumb|150px|Bucky Badger, athletic mascot of the University of Wisconsin]]
The University of Wisconsin is a member of the [[Big Ten]] athletic conference, and its teams are named the Badgers.<ref>A reference to Wisconsin's nickname, the ''Badger State.'' The nickname, in turn, comes from the nickname for Cornish miners who worked Wisconsin's lead mines in the early 1800s.</ref>

[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.<ref>[http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn/700-799/nb701.htm Biography of Aldo Leopold] - He
became professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin in 1933 where he worked until his death. This book was written during that time.</ref>

The University of Wisconsin was a pioneer in the patenting and commercial licensing of university research. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was founded in 1925 to license professor Harry Steenbock's process for fortifying milk with vitamin D.<ref>[http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=26 Our History], WARF website</ref> Another important WARF patent involved the blood anti-coagulating agent, dicumarol. The substance was discovered at the university in the 1933 by Karl Paul Link, after Ed Carlson—a farmer from Deer Park who was confident that the university would be interested in his problem—arrived unannounced on Link's doorstep bearing a milk can of blood from a dead calf and a hundred pounds of spoiled sweet clover. The drug was used first as a rat poison under the name Warfarin, then in human medicine under the name ''Dicoumadin.'' In 1999 it was the eleventh-most-prescribed drug in the United States.<ref>[http://www.uwalumni.com/home/coolstuff/askabe/askabe_people/askabe_people.aspx Ask Abe Archives - People], UW website</ref><ref>[http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/alliance/plaques/1.php?id=9 Controlling Blood Clotting], photograph of historical plaque.</ref><ref>[http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4548&page=176 Biographical Memoirs of Karl Paul Link], uncorrected OCR at National Academy of Sciences: pp. 183-4, "Farmer Carlson's multiple evidence was a dead heifer, a milk can containing blood completely destitute of clotting capacity, and about 100 pounds of spoiled sweet clover.</ref>

[[image:Birgejuday.jpg|right|thumb|E. A. Birge and Chancey Juday, UW limnology pioneers, operating a plankton trap]]
The first [[limnology]] studies in North America were made in the early 1900s by E. A. Birge and Chancey Juday at the University of Wisconsin.<ref>[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/UW/subcollections/LimnHistAbout.shtml The History of Limnology], University of Wisconsin website</ref>

Alexander Meiklejohn's Experimental College, inaugurated in 1927, was a short-lived but very influential educational experiment at the University of Wisconsin. It was one of a number of attempts to present the liberal arts as a unified whole, with emphasis on the direct reading of original sources. It can be broadly considered as part of the "Great Books" movement, which lives on in its purest state today at St. John's College in Annapolis, and in an attenuated form at WIsconsin as the Integrated Liberal Studies program.<ref>[http://www.wisc.edu/ils/Meiklejohn.html Meiklejohn's Experimental College], University of Wisconsin ILS website</ref>

The university's radio station, WHA, was an important pioneer in broadcast radio, and claims to be<ref>The rival claimant is Pittsburgh's KDKA. Randall Davidson, WHA announcer and author of a book on 9XM/WHA, was said in 2007 to be "pretty convinced that, if you're talking about a station broadcasting by radio, for the public, on some sort of regular schedule, Pittsburgh's KDKA wins the prize by going on the air on Nov. 2, 1920. The official record says 9XM didn't start its regular weather forecasts until about two months later." [http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2007/02/28/0702280463.php Madison Capital Times, Feb. 28, 2007]: "History On The Air"</ref> "the oldest station in the nation"<ref>[http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Images/WER0607.html "The Oldest Station in the Nation"], photograph of historical marker</ref><ref>[The Wisconsin Idea—In Broadcasting]. At the plaque dedication ceremony "When Mr. [C. M.] Jansky, Jr. was asked about the facts in the WHA 'oldest station' claim, he remarked, 'Not only do I think this is correct in respect to WHA; but since it is well recognized that regular broadcasting started in the United States, WHA may also be credited with being the oldest broadcasting station in the world.'</ref> The physics department began experimental transmissions in 1900, received experimental license 9XM in 1915, began voice transmissions in 1920, and received its current call letters, WHA, in 1922.

[[image:Siftingwinnowing.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Plaque on Bascom Hall commemorating 1894 Regents statement: "We believe that the great state University of Wisconsin shall ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found."]]
During the late 1960s, students at the University of Wisconsin became radicalized by the Vietnam war, and the university was a center of campus unrest. One protest focussed on the presence of Dow Chemical Company job recruiters—Dow being singled out as a manufacturer of napalm, a weapon thought to be particularly cruel. Others centered on the military-funded Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC) which performed a mixture of published and secret research; the university stressed AMRC's theoretical studies, while campus radicals pointed to evidence that some of its work had direct military applications. In 1970, Karleton Armstrong and three other students constructed what would now be called a "car bomb," filling a stolen van with a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (a home-made explosive familiar to farmers). They exploded it outside the Sterling Hall building which housed the AMRC.<ref>[http://www.madison.com/library/LEE/sterlinghall.html Sterling Hall Bombing], Madison library website</ref> The explosion killed a graduate student. The ensuing shock and revulsion, and the winding down of the Vietnam war, led to the decline and fall the period of Wisconsin campus radicalism.<ref>[http://www2.jsonline.com:80/news/state/aug00/sterling20081900a.asp 30 years ago, bomb shattered UW campus], Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online, Aug 19, 2000: "The statement made by the Sterling Hall bombing was one that many anti-war activists opposed. They feared the attack discredited the peace movement and gave credence to people who viewed war protesters as dangerous.... Activists posted fliers and held meetings, but could no longer rally support.... Across the country, anti-war demonstrations declined dramatically. 'I've never seen anything change so quickly,' said Michael Zaleski, the prosecutor who eventually brought criminal charges against Karl Armstrong. 'Before the bombing, there used to be 10,000 to 15,000 kids rioting in this city every week. Everything stopped. I remember there being just one event after that, with a couple of hundred people - and half of them were FBI agents and undercover cops.' Activist professors at UW-Madison silenced themselves. Students who asked them to lecture were refused."</ref>

It is the birthplace of the the [[Critical legal studies]]<ref>http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Critical_legal_theory</ref> movement.

It is one of only 15 U.S. Universities found to require a course in Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English.<ref>http://www.goacta.org/press/Press%20Releases/4-19-07PR.htm</ref>

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Talk:University of California, Berkeley

2008-02-22T00:08:21Z

EddieBurke: New page: ==Upload Rights== I'm not sure where to ask for this, so I'll do it here - I'd like to make pages for all the UC's, and that includes uploading their school seals for use in the university...

==Upload Rights==
I'm not sure where to ask for this, so I'll do it here - I'd like to make pages for all the UC's, and that includes uploading their school seals for use in the university template and probably campus pictures (Royce Hall, UCSD's Geisel library, etc.) Is there any way for me to be granted upload rights for this purpose? You can take it away once I'm done if you want. Or if someone with upload rights would do it for me, that would be good too. [[User:EddieBurke|EddieBurke]] 19:08, 21 February 2008 (EST)

University of California, Berkeley

2008-02-22T00:05:32Z

EddieBurke: template, spelling

{{University
|name=University of California - Berkeley
|text=gold
|background=navy;
|type=Public
|city=Berkeley, California
|sports=baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, curling, field hockey, gold, gymnastics, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, swimming, softball, track and field, volleyball, water polo, tennis
|colors=Yale Blue and Golden Yellow
|mascot=Golden Bears
|website=http://www.berkeley.edu/
}}

[[Image:Berkeley.jpg|right]]
The '''University of California at Berkeley''' was founded in 1868 and is located in [[Berkeley]], [[California]]. UC Berkeley is a campus of the [[University of California]] system.
== History ==

The roots of the University of California go back to the gold rush days of 1849, when the drafters of the State Constitution, a group of vigorous and farsighted people, required the legislature to "encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral and agricultural improvement" of the people of California. These early planners dreamed of a university which eventually, "if properly organized and conducted, would contribute even more than California's gold to the glory and happiness of advancing generations."

In the 1930s research on campus burgeoned in nuclear physics, chemistry, and biology, leading to the development of the first cyclotron by Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human polio virus, and the discovery of a string of elements heavier than uranium. Twenty members of the Berkeley faculty have been awarded Nobel Prizes for these and subsequent discoveries, as well as in literature and economics, for liberal arts kept pace with physical sciences. In 1966 Berkeley was recognized by the American Council on Education as "the best balanced distinguished university in the country." [http://www.berkeley.edu/about/history/]
While it may have been balanced in its courses, today Berkeley is best known for its professors' well known leftist biases.
== Colleges ==

UC Berkeley's fourteen colleges.

*College of Letters & Science
*[http://haas.berkeley.edu/ Haas School of Business]
*College of Chemistry
*Graduate School of Education
*[http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/ College of Engineering]
*College of Environmental Design
*School of Information
*Graduate School of Journalism
*[http://www.law.berkeley.edu/ Law School (Boalt Hall)]
*College of Natural Resources
*School of Optometry
*School of Public Health
*[http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~gspp/ The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy]
*School of Social Welfare

== External Links ==

*[http://www.berkeley.edu/ Official Website]

{{Nb_US_universities}}

King snake

2007-12-13T05:19:44Z

EddieBurke: New page: The king snake is a species of snake found in North America, specifically the eastern United States. They subsist on a diet of rodents, birds, and other snakes. Specifi...

The king snake is a species of [[snake]] found in [[North America]], specifically the eastern [[United States]]. They subsist on a diet of [[rodents]], [[birds,]] and other snakes. Specifically, king snakes are immune to [[rattlesnake]] and [[copperhead]] [[venom]], which allows them to feed on these species. King snakes are considered beneficial animals due to their pest controlling diet.<ref>http://www.everwonder.com/david/snakes/kingsnake.html</ref>

==References==
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[[category:Snakes]]

The Simpsons

2007-12-13T05:12:58Z

EddieBurke:

'''The Simpsons''' is a satirical animated comedy series created by "Life in Hell" cartoonist [[Matt Groening]]. The Simpsons started on the [[The Tracey Ullman]] show in 1987. In December 1989 the show debuted on the [[Fox Network]]. The show was also made into a feature length movie which was released on 27 July 2007.

''The Simpsons'' is the longest running animated television series in the [[United States]] and is viewed all over the world.

==Family==
The show revolves around the fictional Simpsons family.

Homer Simpson is the overweight, balding father of the family. Homer "works" as a safety inspector in the local nuclear power plant - where he usually sleeps, which gets him into trouble with his boss, Mr. Burns. Home enjoys a diet mostly centered around donuts and "Duff" beer. Homer is by choice quite lazy but does get pushed into occasionally performing heroic acts for his family.

Marge Simpson is the mother of the family. Instantly recognizable thanks to her unfeasibly large blue beehive hairdo, Marge provides the foundation for the family. Her relationship with Homer is portrayed as a loving one but frequently exasperating due mostly to Homer's buffoonery. Marge is in many respects the prototypical suburban American mother, as she stays at home takes care of the family while Homer works. On a few occasions Marge has gotten a job which was met with horrible results.

Bart, the son, is a troublemaker and self-proclaimed underachiever. Bart has a mixed relationship with his father. While sometimes harboring a very close relationship with his father, Bart's opinion of Homer is all over the radar, ranging from very affectionate love to deep frustration.

Lisa is the older daughter. Lisa is mostly concerned with being a good student and protecting the environment. Lisa also plays the saxophone.

Maggie is a baby who does not talk.

==References==
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[[category:television shows]]

Talk:Alberto R. Gonzales

2007-12-13T05:04:43Z

EddieBurke:

wow, really nothing else here? lol, anybody been watching the news AT ALL?

I cleaned up the introduction to make it sound less like a high school yearbook article. --[[User:RWest]] 12:21 26 July 2007

Just a friendly warning: Any more attempts at racial smears/slanders will result in blocking. [[User:DanH|DanH]] 18:47, 25 August 2007 (EDT)

It makes no sense at all to call a person "intellectually rigorous". Well, it makes some sense, but it's certainly not within the usual usage of the phrase.

Also, there are plenty of scandals more serious than the firing of the attorneys in which Gonzalez has been involved. Some mention of the NSA domestic surveillance scandal and allegations of perjury would be nice.

As for the attorney incident, though I'm sure there are people who think the actions taken were illegal, the event can be scandalous without being illegal. It is reasonable to object to the overpoliticization of government offices, and to deny that purely political firings are bad. It is, however, pretty childish to complain about the "liberal media", as if the desire of the public for its administrators not to fire public officials without explanation was totally manufactured by some monolithic liberal media monopoly.

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Is it really objective to use the phrase "...the liberally-biased media..."? -- [[User:Fez]]

:I don't believe this site's purpose is to be 'objective' where it compromises the truth of the matter. On another note, can we update this page with the end of his term and create a page for the new AG, Mukasey? [[User:EddieBurke|EddieBurke]] 00:04, 13 December 2007 (EST)

Viper

2007-12-13T04:51:19Z

EddieBurke:

Vipers are a species of [[snake]] found primarily in moist environments, such as [[rainforests]] and [[caves]]. Their bite is [[venom|venomous]], which they use to catch small animals, such as [[lizards]] and [[birds]], that constitute their diet. Viper venom can be fatal to humans if treatment is not sought. Like many snakes, vipers have special organs that allow them to sense [[infrared]].<ref>http://www.amersol.edu.pe/ms/7th/7block/jungle_research/new_cards/11d/report11d.html</ref>

==References==
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[[category:Snakes]]

Viper

2007-12-13T04:50:12Z

EddieBurke: New page: Vipers are a species of snake found primarily in moist environments, such as rainforests and caves. Their bite is venomous, which they use to catch small animals, suc...

User:EddieBurke

2007-12-13T04:33:37Z

EddieBurke: oops, new to this

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Hi, I'm new to Conservapedia but I'm glad to be a part of this up-and-coming resource (I've some of the media coverage you've gotten recently.) Edmund Burke is my favorite Enlightenment thinker, one who is largely glossed over in most courses on the Enlightenment by professors who would rather ignore the conservative viewpoint. Maybe I'll write more on him later...

User:EddieBurke

2007-12-13T04:33:13Z

EddieBurke: A little something

{{Userboxtop|Eddie Burke}}
{{User Christian}}
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{{User ronny}}
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Hi, I'm new to Conservapedia but I'm glad to be a part of this up-and-coming resource (I've some of the media coverage you've gotten recently.) Edmund Burke is my favorite Enlightenment thinker, one who is largely glossed over in most courses on the Enlightenment by professors who would rather ignore the conservative viewpoint. Maybe I'll write more on him later...