The Conservative Revolution

I just watched David Bossie’s new film, “Hillary The Movie.” It was a good reminder of the corrupt and power-hungry Clinton political machine. I highly recommend it to conservative opinion leaders who want to spread the word about the threat her presidency would pose to our national security, individual freedom and economic prosperity.

The film also has a cameo by my boss, FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey, which is cool. So get the dvd, watch it and pass it along to someone else.

Congrats to Citizens United and David Bossie for a key tool in the arsenal of truth against the Clinton propaganda machine.

For the second year in a row, The Young Conservatives of Texas at UT-Austin are displaying their “ACLU Solstice Barn” instead of a traditional nativity scene on campus. They are parodying the anti-Christian and far left stances of the ACLU, by replacing the three wise men with Stalin, Lenin and Marx, leaving out a baby Jesus and replacing Mary and Joseph with “Gary and Joseph.”

KVUE news has a short video report. You can also view YCT’s pictures here.

This article by two professors at Washington State University claims that conservatives are racists trying to “corporatize” college campuses. It mentions yours truly, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Collegiate Network as people responsible for the conservative revolution on college campuses.

Political theater has proven as important to advancing conservative ideologies as more serious venues like newspapers. In keeping with broader trends to disclaim racism under the cover of humor and satire, conservative student groups embrace the power of play to advance their agendas, which mix politics and pleasure in unexpected ways. Indeed, in describing the rationale of affirmative-action bake sales, one of their creators, Brendan Steinhauser, former executive director of the Young Conservatives of Texas at the University of Texas at Austin, remarked, “The idea was to parody the actual policies that some colleges had enacted, which gave points to members of certain ethnic groups while at the same time punishing those from other ethnic groups.”

The whole article is worth reading. It’s a pity they didn’t contact me for an explanation of our goals on college campuses. It is not about promoting one race over another, but rather, about moving toward a society where race is a non-issue. I really don’t think these two professors understand our opposition against political correctness and multiculturalism. I’d be more than happy to come to Washington State and discuss it with them at a forum or over coffee.

If they don’t believe that conservatives face hostility on college campuses, they should check out Indoctrinate U, a film that documents such situations quite well.

Former FreedomWorks intern Jessica Irwin has been dragged in front of Texas State administrators who received a letter from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) telling TSU not to allow an event called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” to take place at TSU.

Turns out that Jessica never planned the event and had no idea what the ADC or the TSU president were talking about. No matter. When she denied that she was planning to host Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at TSU, the administration didn’t believe her. They asked her to submit a written statement and to contact the David Horowitz Freedom Center to have her group’s name removed from the list of participants. When Jessica agreed to submit such a statement to the university newspaper, the editors failed to print it. The result? Continuous calls and emails from anonymous persons asking her why she was hosting such an “offensive” event and demands not to continue the planning.

Jessica has repeatedly contacted university officials and reporters at the newspaper, but has not been able to put an end to the constant questioning and intimidation tactics. The university, which was apparently frightened by the ADC’s letter, might just be looking for a scapegoat so they can appease the Saudi-funded ADC and avoid criticism of the university. TSU is making sure the community knows that it does not support the event, but is doing nothing to reassure the ADC or the campus community that Jessica is not planning the event in question.

Jessica told me that the tone and nature of the administration’s questions were accusatory and clearly intended to make sure she didn’t even think about holding such an event. Even if Jessica’s group decided to do such an event (which I personally support) the university should not infringe upon the right of campus groups to express their opinions on Islam or terrorism. Instead of bowing to a pressure group that has expressed sympathy for suicide bombers, TSU should stand up for the rights of its campus leaders. If you’d like to send an email to the president of TSU, Denise Trauth, here is her email address: president@txstate.edu Ask her why she is bullying a student group that hasn’t done anything wrong. And ask her what is wrong with showing films or hosting lectures that talk about the worldwide threat of Islamist terrorism.

I will be posting updates on this story as I get more information. In the mean time, you can find out more about Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week by visiting http://www.terrorismawareness.org/

Columbia University has invited Iranian thug Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on Monday. So, let’s get this straight, a holocaust-denying dictator responsible for the deaths of American troops in Iraq gets an invitation to speak at our universities, but anyone right of center is protested or deemed “too controversial” to speak. What a topsy-turvy world we live in.

The truth is that the Left on campus supports America’s enemies, whether they be communists like Hugo Chavez, or Islamists like Ahmadinejad. As long as you spout anti-American propaganda and hate President Bush as much as the Left does, you are in the club.

Along with the MoveOn.org ad calling General Petraeus a traitor, the Left has proven that Americans can question their patriotism and devotion to our way of life. I will not apologize ever again for calling the Left anti-American, since their devotion to Marxism and coddling of Islamist terrorists has become routine.

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.

Every once in a while I take refuge in the following words of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged. Today, I testified in front of the Maryland Assembly and was appalled at what other people were saying. Collectivism is rampant in America today. If it were up to me, every high school would have a few copies of Atlas Shrugged. Here is a truncated version of John Galt’s speech on freedom and individuality. You can also listen to the audio of the entire speech here.

For twelve years you’ve been asking “Who is John Galt?” This is John Galt speaking. I’m the man who’s taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. You’ve heard it said that this is an age of moral crisis and that Man’s sins are destroying the world. But your chief virtue has been sacrifice, and you’ve demanded more sacrifices at every disaster. You’ve sacrificed justice to mercy and happiness to duty. So why should you be afraid of the world around you? Your world is only the product of your sacrifices. While you were dragging the men who made your happiness possible to your sacrificial altars, I beat you to it. I reached them first and told them about the game you were playing and where it would take them. I explained the consequences of your ‘brother-love’ morality, which they had been too innocently generous to understand. You won’t find them now, when you need them more than ever. We’re on strike against your creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. If you want to know how I made them quit, I told them exactly what I’m telling you tonight. I taught them the morality of Reason — that it was right to pursue one’s own happiness as one’s principal goal in life. I don’t consider the pleasure of others my goal in life, nor do I consider my pleasure the goal of anyone else’s life. I am a trader. I earn what I get in trade for what I produce. I ask for nothing more or nothing less than what I earn. That is justice. I don’t force anyone to trade with me; I only trade for mutual benefit. Force is the great evil that has no place in a rational world. One may never force another human to act against his/her judgment. If you deny a man’s right to Reason, you must also deny your right to your own judgment. Yet you have allowed your world to be run by means of force, by men who claim that fear and joy are equal incentives, but that fear and force are more practical. You’ve allowed such men to occupy positions of power in your world by preaching that all men are evil from the moment they’re born. When men believe this, they see nothing wrong in acting in any way they please. The name of this absurdity is ‘original sin’. That’s impossible. That which is outside the possibility of choice is also outside the province of morality. To call sin that which is outside man’s choice is a mockery of justice. To say that men are born with a free will but with a tendency toward evil is ridiculous. If the tendency is one of choice, it doesn’t come at birth. If it is not a tendency of choice, then man’s will is not free. And then there’s your ‘brother-love’ morality. Why is it moral to serve others, but not yourself? If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but not by you? Why is it immoral to produce something of value and keep it for yourself, when it is moral for others who haven’t earned it to accept it? If it’s virtuous to give, isn’t it then selfish to take? Your acceptance of the code of selflessness has made you fear the man who has a dollar less than you because it makes you feel that that dollar is rightfully his. You hate the man with a dollar more than you because the dollar he’s keeping is rightfully yours. Your code has made it impossible to know when to give and when to grab. You know that you can’t give away everything and starve yourself. You’ve forced yourselves to live with undeserved, irrational guilt. Is it ever proper to help another man? No, if he demands it as his right or as a duty that you owe him. Yes, if it’s your own free choice based on your judgment of the value of that person and his struggle. This country wasn’t built by men who sought handouts. In its brilliant youth, this country showed the rest of the world what greatness was possible to Man and what happiness is possible on Earth. Then it began apologizing for its greatness and began giving away its wealth, feeling guilty for having produced more than ikts neighbors. Twelve years ago, I saw what was wrong with the world and where the battle for Life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality and that my acceptance of that morality was its only power. I was the first of the men who refused to give up the pursuit of his own happiness in order to serve others. To those of you who retain some remnant of dignity and the will to live your lives for yourselves, you have the chance to make the same choice. Examine your values and understand that you must choose one side or the other. Any compromise between good and evil only hurts the good and helps the evil. If you’ve understood what I’ve said, stop supporting your destroyers. Don’t accept their philosophy. Your destroyers hold you by means of your endurance, your generosity, your innocence, and your love. Don’t exhaust yourself to help build the kind of world that you see around you now. In the name of the best within you, don’t sacrifice the world to those who will take away your happiness for it. The world will change when you are ready to pronounce this oath: I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine.

The YCT at my alma mater, UT-Austin, is bringing back a new and improved “professor watch list” this year. The idea was originally the brainchild of YCT-UT chairman Austin Kinghorn, and I chronicled this project in my book The Conservative Revolution.

Here is an excerpt of the letter that the current YCT Director of Academic Freedom sent to The Daily Texan, the school newspaper.

Too many professors on this campus use the classroom as a tool of indoctrination. Students pay tuition to be educated, not indoctrinated. They have the right to demand impartial classroom environments, where they may openly engage in debates that deliberate all viewpoints of controversial issues.

Students should feel free to respectfully challenge professors and other students without fear of chastisement. All professors should strive for intellectual honesty in their classrooms by presenting objective, unprejudiced information and allowing students to choose a position on their own terms.

Education should always be the main goal of instructors. University classrooms are not the place for activists to convert and recruit people for an ideological cause.