The Conservative Revolution

Send me an email at bsteinhauser @freedomworks.org if you’d like to buy a copy of my book, The Conservative Revolution: How to Win the Battle for College Campuses.

Or, just CLICK HERE.

The radio interview I did on Jim Brown’s show in New Orleans is available. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!

Tomorrow, July 2nd, I will be on the Jim Brown radio show in New Orleans on 99.5FM to talk about trends  in youth politics.

You can listen on the internet. Just visit the website and click “listen live.”

Everyone agrees that the Virginia Tech shooting was a tragedy. The debate about what could have been done to prevent the crime, or future crimes has already begun.

John Lott has the best write-up of opinions that I tend to agree with. Here is his blog.

This shooting was in a “gun-free zone.” Stricter gun laws would not likely have prevented this or any other major gun crime. If one of the professors or students had been armed, they might have had a fighting chance to prevent some of the bloodshed. We will never know.

Evan Maloney, a friend and an excellent film maker, has announced that his film is ready for distribution. His film will help educate people about the Left’s takeover of college campuses and their squashing of dissent. The film is called, “Indoctrinate U.”

Please help get the drum beat going for “Indoctrinate U” and help us win the battle for college campuses. http://www.Indoctrinate-U.com/

You can help by visiting his website, signing up to attend a screening and generally helping spread the word around the country through your own networks about the film.

This is one way we can all help educate people about the problem, and generate even more interest in the organizations and people who are trying to improve the campus climate for conservatives.

After last year’s remarks, calling Muslims “ragheads” and this year’s remark, calling John Edwards a “faggot” at CPAC, Ann Coulter has solidified her reputation as a bigoted, loud-mouthed shock pundit whom true conservatives should ostracize.

As I watched her on C-SPAN today I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. On national television Coulter went out of her way to use a word that has no use, other than to hurt, offend and degrade. It wasn’t funny, and it wasn’t cute. It was stupid. The sad part is that some self-professed conservatives clapped and laughed and cheered for her. Shame on them.

CPAC should not invite Coulter back to speak, and organizations should not promote her as a writer nor as a speaker. I used to recommend her to students as a resource, but I will no longer do so.

Segregation is so fifties… or so I thought

Even more disturbing were conversations I had at a bar in Adams Morgan later on. There were a handful of kids wearing George Wallace buttons who were extolling the virtues of segregation and saying blacks and Hispanics had lower intelligence quotients. Their racism clearly influenced their views on illegal immigration policy. By the way, these guys were the loudest supporters of Tom Tancredo for president.

How, in 2007, anyone could hold such views and proudly display the image of a man (George Wallace) who represents hatred, discrimination and white supremacy is beyond me.

I certainly do not want to be associated with such ideas. Their thinking is tribalist, collectivist and deterministic. It stems from the identity politics and conflict theory that Marx devised and his intellectual descendants promote. How anyone who holds such anti-freedom and anti-individualist ideas can call themselves conservatives is perplexing. The whole reason conservatives should oppose affirmative action and multiculturalism is because we base our judgments of people on their individual merits, and not on their artificial “ethnic group.”

This was the first CPAC I attended and it very well could be the last if Ms. Coulter, Mr. Tancredo and their minions continue to hold center stage.

James Fitzpatrick has a good article on this question over at Catholic Exchange. I tend to agree with his conclusion that although “popular” conservatives often ignore the intellectual foundation of the conservative movement, they do bring people into the movement. This happened to me, as I started listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, but then was introduced to ISI and started reading the founding books by Russell Kirk, Bill Buckley and others.

Here is the piece.

Here is the link to the video.

I posted our new FreedomWorks campus outreach program here.

We are doing most of our campus outreach by using Facebook, a networking site that is hugely popular with young people.

The link to my book is back online over at The Young Conservatives of Texas website. i am sorry that it was down for a while, but they were improving their website.

You can purchase a $10 signed copy of my book, The Conservative Revolution: How to Win the Battle for College Campuses by clicking here. The link will also remain on the blog in the “About” section.

This Thursday, ISI hosted T. Kenneth Crib at our monthly “Conservatism on Tap.” He spoke about the history of the conservative movement, and how we have fractured in many ways recently.

We had a great turnout. Over 120 people attended the event.

The next event should be even better, with Senator Sam Brownback, who is a Presidential hopeful, speaking about how we must revive the conservative spirit in this country.

If you want to attend, please email me at bsteinhauser @ freedomworks.org