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The "First"! ( and beginning of many more anticipated ) " Pro-Active Conservative Meeting(s) " for NEW YORK , Westchester County Conservatives that was held this last Saturday Night of the 31st , was considered by all by hand vote at the end of the event, to be a Big Success ! and " worth the effort" of travel and their valuable Saturday Night & Personal, Precious Time. THANK YOU ALL for that vote of confidence. While the final attendance numbers were : -----48 plus the 4 original chair-people- ------OUT of that 48 I personally was seriously impressed at the...

Activist Claims School Censored Protest Against Homosexual Event By Mary Rettig April 12, 2005 (AgapePress) - Members of a high school conservative group in California are saying their First Amendment rights were violated when they tried to protest an upcoming pro-homosexual "Day of Silence" event. Tim Bueler, a senior at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, is the founder and president of the High School Conservative Clubs of America. Last week the Rancho Cotate High School Conservative Club participated in a demonstration called the "Day of Truth." The conservative protest was designed to counter a pro-homosexual observance known as...

Recently, a group of Hudson High School students and parents have charged that some teachers at HHHS, specifically in the Social Studies department, are teaching with a liberal bias and stifling the conservative students' opinions. In addition, these students have criticized the administration for violating their commitment to allow students their First Amendment rights. This issue began with the creation of a Conservative Club at Hudson High School. The co-presidents of the new club, Chris Bowler and James Mellilo, hung posters around the school associating themselves with the High School Conservative Clubs of America (HSCCA), and included the Web site,...

SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Bueler started the Conservative Club (search) to balance what he calls the liberal bias in his public school, but when some schoolmates found his views offensive and threatened to beat him up, the 17-year-old claims the principal and teachers turned the other way. Bueler started the club at Rancho Cotati High School (search), about an hour north of San Francisco, to draw support for the war in Iraq, among other issues. About 50 teenagers now attend club meetings. But a recent issue of the club newsletter, Conservative Agenda, has riled some students -- and teachers --...

Liberals are beside themselves that students at Rancho Cotate High School have started a Conservative Club. The newly formed and much maligned Conservative Club at Rancho Cotate High School (Rohnert Park, CA) is facing a barrage of criticism. It should come as no surprise that many liberals, who claim to be the majority in this part of California, are simply beside themselves that such a club could exist in their own backyard. Suffice it to say, this is an area of the country where liberals have held a stranglehold on local, state, and national politics. Take for example, this model...