Activism
Posted at 1:32am on Jan. 20, 2008 Well, that was a kick in the teeth
By Neil Stevens
Boy, it was a rough night for us fans of Fred Thompson. So many of us had so many hopes wrapped up in him. He seemed a rare and special candidate; he was a conservative's conservative. Mix equal parts Ronald Reagan and Calvin Coolidge, and you get Fred Thompson, ready to swoop in and carry us all to victory in November.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the inauguration: the party was not there for us. We thought that everything would pull together since Thompson represented the ideals of two of the most admired Republicans of the 20th century, but he was not even close. Where we thought the party should be is decidedly not where it is.
And worse than that is that a dream many of us have had even before Fred Thompson was drafted for President, has failed. Republican Conservative mythology centers on the great conservative captivating the party with his ideas, taking the nomination, and leading the country with him. We talk about Goldwater, we talk about Reagan, and we sigh wistfully. But we now see that in at least three tries, we have only actually taken the Presidency once. Our plan just will not work.
So what do we do about it? We could quit. We could decide that caring about politics just is not worth this. But, I have to assume anyone who quit will not be reading this, so that option will not be discussed further. So we have to act, but what can we do?
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Posted at 2:25pm on Apr. 4, 2007 Where's Bill Cosby when you need him? (or, "A little Revolution with your University address?")
By Jeff Emanuel
Every year since 2001 at the University of Georgia, a "Mary Frances Early" lecture has been given in April in honor of Ms. Early, who was UGA's first African-American graduate.
This year's lecture, "sponsored by Graduate and Professional Scholars, a minority graduate and professional student organization at UGA," will feature an interesting, not-divisive-at-all speaker: Elaine Brown, former head of the Black Panther Party, current Green party member (and announced 2008 presidential candidate), and slightly radical activist.
Read on . . .
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Posted at 12:59am on Mar. 27, 2007 Ummmm....I told you so?
By Jeff Emanuel
The Georgia GuardDawg is reporting that two conservative students at Georgia Tech are suffering verbal abuse from their Liberal counterparts, and is lamenting the lack of action taken by the administration to protect them from such speech.
These two students, who are fire-breathing, in-your-face activists in their spare time, are also, of course, the same ones who, with the help of the ADF and David Horowitz, sued their school last year to get speech codes prohibiting insults and other such "verbal abuse" struck down.
Well, they were successful - and, thanks to their success, have no recourse against the "verbal abuse" they are still receiving, because, thanks again to their action, such "abuse" is no longer prohibited.
Oops.
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