The Conservative Revolution

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

The Austin American-Statesman has the story here.

Lawmakers want to spend the $15 billion surplus. Please contact your state representative and senator and ask them to return the surplus to taxpayers. After all, WE earned it, not them.

Also, this session I will be supporting the repeal of the top ten percent law that grants high school students automatic admission to state universities. It has led to overcrowding in my alma mater, UT-Austin, and elsewhere. Please contact your state rep. and senator and ask them to support the repeal of this law.

[Click here for more info on the top ten percent rule.]

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Young Alumni Association is pleased to announce that ISI President T. Kenneth Crib will be speaking at our next event on January 18th at the DC ChopHouse.

More details to come soon.

It’s easy. Join the Intercollegiate Review now and you will get a free one year subscription to National Review.

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Here is the video from KVUE24 in Austin. And CNN.
Fox7 also covered the event.

Hats of to the UT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas!

The Young Conservatives of Texas are hosting an “ACLU Nativity Scene” at UT-Austin on Dec. 4th and 5th.

The Young Conservatives of Texas–University of Texas Chapter announced today that they will be displaying an “ACLU Nativity Scene” on the West Mall of the University of Texas campus on Monday and Tuesday, December 4th and 5th. The group’s intent is to raise awareness on the extremity of the ACLU, and bring to light its secular-progressive efforts to remove Christmas from the public sphere. The display, the first of its kind in the nation, will feature characters that are quite a bit different than the standard crèche.

“We’ve got Gary and Joseph instead of Mary and Joseph in order to symbolize ACLU support for homosexual marriage, and of course there isn’t a Jesus in the manger,” said Chairman Tony McDonald. “The three Wise Men are Lenin, Marx, and Stalin because the founders of the ACLU were strident supporters of Soviet style Communism. The whole scene is a tongue-in-cheek way of showing the many ways that the ACLU and the far left are out of touch with the values of mainstream America.”

The YCT event is being covered by World Net Daily, Hot Air, The Washington Times and even the Rush Limbaugh show.

This is one of the best articles I’ve read recently on campus conservatism.

It’s in The American Conservative.

You can view the ad over at www.nationalreview.com

I am the guy with the navy blue shirt in one of the pictures. It was at an ISI camping trip in Virginia.

The essay is here.

I really like the graphics they chose for the piece.