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My fellow Freepers: I need your help! As many of you already know, I ran for Congress in New York’s 12th CD in 2004. As part of the experience, I became one of the principal subjects of a documentary being filmed on the Republican National Convention being held in the city that year. As a result, I had a camera follow me around during my campaigning in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, to the convention at Madison Square Garden, to various meetings and events of our NY Young Republican Club, to my uncle’s house in Staten Island, and even to my...

Sorry, no pictures. I just returned from California State University at Monterey Bay where the University is hosting Ward Churchill this evening. The Young Republicans on campus held a very nice candlelight vigil, attended by about 50-60 people. Three young ladies read the names of every 9/11 victim to remember them as people, not as the "Little Eichmans" that the left, and Mr Churchill have labled them. It was a very nice event. That is, as nice as it could be against the backdrop of about 150 of the great unwashed, chanting anti-Bush slogans throughout the reading of each name....

Throughout 2003 and into 2004, a surge of protests roiled American campuses. You probably think the kids were agitating against war in Iraq, right? Well, no. Students at the University of California-Los Angeles, Michigan and many other schools were sponsoring bake sales to protest ... affirmative action. For white students and faculty, a cookie cost (depending on the school) $1; blacks and Latinos could buy one for a lot less. The principle, the protesters observed, was the same one governing university admission practices: treating people differently based on race. The protests shocked the mainstream media, but to close observers of...

AFTER the Constitution Ball and the Commander in Chief Ball, after all the official black-tie parties wound down around midnight on Inauguration Day, members of a young Republican crowd scarcely old enough to remember the Reagan years were still looking for excitement. Naturally, they headed to a basement bar in Georgetown that has become an unofficial clubhouse for the Jenna and Barbara Bush generation. At that bar, Smith Point, these refugees in cummerbunds and gowns shimmied to a D.J. playing the Beastie Boys and slurped vodka shots poured down an ice-sculpture luge. And they entertained rumors that the twins themselves...

I CALLED UP Brian Anderson yesterday to ask him a few questions about his forthcoming book, South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias.Anderson is a senior editor at City Journal. He's typical of an increasingly influential type of journalist, the full-time, on-staff, journal journalist who, paid by a think tank like the Manhattan Institute or the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has the time and space to work on policy articles for months at a time before having to pull the trigger on a finished piece. The result is a densely fortified style of reporting and argumentation that...

Hello Folks, AirBorne senior here, I have planned my vacation time to be off that week before the election. I am planning to go down to NYC--with various posters and signs to get some " coverage" from some certain ' areas" of the media. Any other person not afraid to walk around and have their face shown on TV, or willing to spend a day or two in Manhatten please PM me here. I know it is HARD for most Conservatives to be able to afford the time to try to " campaign " during the day, considering that MOST...

Sunday at noon Wolicy Ponk, Wardaddy and I dropped in on the Nashville Coalition for Peace and Justice as they waged a demonstration just south of downtown Nashville. These activists busy themselves with a variety of projects for our mutual benefit. Some of those projects include: returning voting rights to convicted felons, overturning Tennessee’s death penalty, opposing the marriage amendment, preventing law enforcement from using racial profiling (“He looked a like a man”), and promoting everyone’s favorite street performers, The Women in Black. They also wish to involve the U.S. (under UN supervision) in Africa’s ethnic cleansing problems. Last week...

We are growing faster than most people expected. We are gaining recognition by the most vital and cheapest tool, word of mouth. We just got our website up and we are ready to go after those liberals at the local, state and federal level. Our first target of course, is John Kerry. However, we are going after Beth Troutman, in the 8th District, running against Republican Robin Hayes. Ms. Troutman is using her past accolades of beauty queen contestant and assistant to the director of the "West Wing". And she is being backed by the likes of Martin Sheen and...

Kevin Moloney for The New York Times Austin Bramwell, 26, of Denver, one of five new trustees of National Review, is a leader in a group no longer characterized by uniform views. In 1954, when he was 28, William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review to bear the standard of a fledgling conservative movement defined by three commitments: to fight Communism, to diminish the federal government and to uphold traditionalism in social affairs. That formulation held the movement together for five decades, as Ronald Reagan brought conservatives to power, George H. W. Bush declared victory in the cold war...

   Dear FReeper,Thought you'd be interested to know that the Republican National Convention and MTV are inviting adults between the ages of 18 and 24 from across the country to enter "Stand Up and Holla!," an essay contest in which the winner may appear during one of the prime-time evening sessions at the 2004 Republican National Convention.   To apply for "Stand Up and Holla!" eligible young adults must submit an essay no longer than 300 words to the Republican National Convention website at www.2004nycgop.org answering this question:  Why is the President's call to community service important and how...

The Republican Party has a new attitude that is taking form in the addition of the new Young Republicans Club. Young minds that have been brainwashed by Hollywood, TV, music and politicians have to be rescued, and shown the Road to Hope within the Republican Party. I am currently in the process of forming a board so that we can strategically target people, between the ages of 18-40, and enlighten them that the GOP is not the party that the American Left portrays it, such as snobs and bigots, but an affiliation that is open to people of all races...

I am heavily involved in politics and feel it my duty to help elect government officials. I am only 24 years old, but I have been heavily influenced by parents and have decided to help people my age understand that the Republican party is the right way to go. That is why I am helping to add a new chapter to the GOP...

What I learned at San Francisco State University (SFSU) After everything that happened today I decided to take a minute and reflect back on the things I've learned about liberals while at SFSU. I'll never forget these things. Every day they remind me why I'm a REPUBLICAN. -They walk out of school because of how bad they want to go to school -They don't understand that you can't go to school when you're dead -They think if they whine loud enough people will start to agree with them -They hate the cops and military, but want more government in their...

Advocate staff photo by Arthur D. Lauck LSU students Celeste Matte of Abbeville and Lenny Moss of Baton Rouge, both at right, prepare for a statistics exam while waiting for extra tickets, along with a long line of other students, for their May 21 commencement ceremony. President George Bush is scheduled to deliver the commencement address, which boosted demand for tickets * * <> * * LSU student Tiffany Popps of Melville was in line at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday to snag an extra ticket to hear President Bush's commencement speech next month. Bush's decision to speak at the spring...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- John Kerry, Young Republican? Or has the Democratic candidate for president been the victim of a prank noticed nearly 40 years later? Among the many activities listed under Kerry's photo in the Yale University yearbook of 1966 is membership in Yale Young Republicans. Both the Kerry campaign and the club's president at the time think the listing is a mistake, if not a prank.

John Kerry (news - web sites), Young Republican? Among the many activities listed under Kerry's photo in the Yale University yearbook of 1966 is membership in Yale Young Republicans. Both the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign and the club's president at the time think the listing is a mistake, if not a prank. "My bet is it's a joke, because John was very careful about what he did and didn't do," says Renny Scott, the president of the Yale Republicans that year. "Everything was with a mind to the future." Kerry's college roommate, Dan Barbiero, also doubts the yearbook's accuracy. "I...

Young, free, and singularly right The youth wing of George Bush's own party is unhappy at the president's complacency ... and his 'lurch to the left', writes Matthew Wells Monday February 16, 2004 The president of the New York Young Republicans, Paul Rodriguez, addresses a rally. Photograph: Matthew Wells  The New York Young Republican Club was in angry mood. The guest speaker was an expert on the still-hated Clintons, and he'd come to warn them that Hillary and Bill are still ruthlessly plotting the senator's assault on the White House. But aside from the obvious indignation levelled at the Democratic...

Vincent Gallo, actor, director and conservative, sounded like he’d just won something."I want to thank you guys for inviting me here today. It’s a big honor," he told the crowd of pearl- and pinstripe-wearing Young Republicans who had gathered to hear him speak at their monthly meeting on Jan. 15. With his shaggy hair, blue jeans, military-cut overcoat and stubbled face, Mr. Gallo looked about as natural in the ballroom of the Women’s National Republican Club on West 51st Street as a Beat poet at a 1950’s cocktail party in Cleveland.And yet he gushed: "In my whole life, no one’s...

Campus Newspeak at UNC-WilmingtonBy Mike AdamsTownhall.com | December 18, 2003 In a recent Washington Times commentary (December 7, 2003), I used language suggesting that the tactics of campus diversity proponents sometimes resemble tactics the Nazis used during World War II. A recent letter to the editor by UNC-Wilmington professor Dick Veit (rhymes with "spite") lends credence to the analogy.The UNCW College Republicans (CRs) have recently been involved in a highly publicized conflict with the university administration. The controversy began when the CRs tried to limit their membership to Republicans. The university wanted to force them to admit Democrats. When the...

College students are usually expected to be sophomoric in political outlook, only discovering conservative values once they're finally forced to pick up their own bar tabs. "Anyone who isn't a socialist at age 20," Churchill is erroneously said to have said, "doesn't have a heart." College is a time of protest and experimentation that temporarily places students to the left of their working peers and parents. However, a recently released survey conducted by Harvard University's Institute of Politics (IOP), casts some doubt on this picture. The IOP interviewed 1,202 undergraduates in the first part of October, (with margin of error...