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This year's midterm campaign season still has over three months to run but I think it has already left a legacy in the form of a video that will rank in the annals of politics as not only the worst of all time but also as the funniest although the latter honor is entirely unintentional. It was produced by Campus Progress which claims to be "nonpartisan" although it obviously wants young people who voted in 2008 for Obama to return to the polls this year to vote to keep the Big Government philosophy in power by voting for Democrats. The...

Youth for Western Civilization dropped by the left-wing “Campus Progress” conference... The conference was headlined by big name speakers like Samantha Powers, John Podesta, Van Jones, and others flown in with all expenses paid for the weekend. At least George Soros isn’t lacking for money in the Obama Recession... All our favorite leftist archetypes were in attendance: The advocates for the re-distribution of wealth -- You know the type. The angry scowlers of the Al Sharpton strain who demand affirmative action and blame white people for black and Hispanic economic disparities, directing a constant barrage of eye-daggers at anyone who...

Remedial Rules for Radicals Malcolm A. Kline, March 8, 2010 Campus Progress is bent out of shape over the mere prospect of federal and state budget cuts in higher education programs. “Today students are taking bold action to highlight the crisis in college affordability and access,” Pedro de la Torre III, Campus Progress’s Advocacy Senior Associate, stated on March 4, 2010. “We can no longer afford to ignore our shortcomings in these areas: the average student debt for graduates has reached more than $23,000, and at least 37 states are slashing higher education budgets which will lead to increasing tuition...

No Accuracy for Rosa Bethany Stotts, October 30, 2009 Earlier this week Accuracy in Academia called out Campus Progress associate editor and blogger Erin Rosa for attempting to characterize the contributors to CampusReform, a social network site designed by the Leadership Institute, as conservative bullies. Several hours later Rosa responded to our critique, writing that “Recent reporting by Campus Progress on a new conservative social networking website has apparently stuck in the craw of another right-leaning group dedicated to exposing ‘political bias’ in education.” “In fact, Accuracy In Academia—a sister organization to Accuracy In Media, a longstanding nonprofit that specializes...

Campus Progress vs. Campus Reform Bethany Stotts, October 27, 2009 In a recent Campus Progress article “Smashing ‘Left-Wing Scum’ on Campus,” author Erin Rosa attempts to characterize the Leadership Institute as conservative bullies on campus. The problem is that she doesn’t have much of a case in the first place. Rosa derives the title of her article from a profile posting by Texas A&M graduate Toni Listi that he is “active on CampusReform to ‘smash left-wing scum.’” “I don’t know about that comment,” Rosa quotes Bryan Bernys, CampusReform National Director. “I don’t know where that is on the site or...

The Man Behind the Curtain and his Drones. ...."In a November 2008 in and interview with Spiegel, Soros made some comments that accurately outlined precisely the course that President Obama's administration would eventually pursue in 2009: "I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets -- because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost...

Campus Progress Mob Rules by: Alana Goodman, August 12, 2009 It appears that the writers at the Center for American Progress (CAP) can dish it out but they can’t take it. Lee Fang, one of the trenchant investigative reporters over at CAP’s Think Progress website uncovered what he claimed was a “leaked memo” written by a “Lobbyist-funded Republican operative” that detailed a diabolical strategy for disrupting town hall meetings. Fang’s July 31st article was eagerly picked up by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), ABC News, the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC and CBS, who railed against...

Listen to ACORN’s Voice by: Mytheos Holt, August 11, 2009 On August 4, Campus Progress, the youth arm of the Center for American Progress (CAP), released a document to its subscribers entitled “A Guide to In-District Lobbying,” which is designed to give young voters tips on how to fight for particular public policy issues. And while the Center’s bloggers recently denounced town hall criticism of the Obama health care plan as being “coordinated by public relations firms and lobbyists who have a stake in opposing President Obama’s reforms,” its “Guide” includes instructions which were developed with the help of...

Campus Progress News Management by: Deidre Almstead, August 10, 2009 My time spent at the Campus Progress National Conference was anything but a welcoming forum to discuss different ideologies. However, in her recent column Emily Rutherford of Campus Progress makes it seem like I was welcome with open and tolerant arms to the Campus Progress National Conference. Unfortunately Emily had to waste her time traveling to the Young America’s Foundation conference before she was kicked out for live-blogging, while Campus Progress tells you not to even bother coming. In her article Rutherford describes the Campus Progress conference as having “welcomed...

Progressive Carnevale by: Mytheos Holt, July 17, 2009 On July 8, 2009, the Center for American Progress (CAP) hosted their annual “Campus Progress National Conference” at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Headlining with such speakers as Obama Administration Green Job Czar Van Jones, Daily Show Correspondent John Oliver, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Former President Bill Clinton and featuring panels on subjects such as “Am I Hip Hop” and “Keeping the Faith: Moving Religious Communities From Tolerance to Advocacy on LGBT Issues,” the progressive gathering gave young activists the chance to bond with their elders. And...

Our Progressive Generation? by: Bethany Stotts, May 13, 2008 Are young American voters becoming increasingly progressive? That’s what Campus Progress, a liberal activist group, is arguing in their newest study, “The Progressive Generation.” The reports’ authors, David Madland and Amanda Logan, base their analyses on the General Social Survey (GSS), the National Election Study (NES) and Pew Research Center data. Defining the “Millennial Generation” as Americans age 18-29, they conclude that this group: - believes the government should ensure them good jobs and fair wages (45%); - believes that the government should provide more services (61%); - is less likely...

When Roger Custer of Young America’s Foundation took to the stage and opened the 2006 Conservative Student Conference, the first thing he explained was why the gathering was necessary. “It’s a shame you have to be here,” he told the 300-odd students in attendance, but liberals’ campus stranglehold leaves YAF with no choice. The left, he continued, “has never been for open debate or discussion.” Instead, it shuts out conservative speakers and, when necessary, engages in name-calling and physical harassment. But confront liberals with arguments and ideas, Custer claimed, “and you’ll win every time.” The speech was, at root, a...