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Soros Can't Counter Campus Conservatives
Human Events ^ | Aug 18, 2005 | Morton C. Blackwell

Posted on 08/19/2005 4:58:24 AM PDT by NickatNite2003

News media reports from meetings organized by billionaire George Soros say he and some rich allies are now funding groups intended to counter the efforts on college campuses of the Leadership Institute and other conservative educational organizations.

Although Soros and his allies hope through their spending to increase the effectiveness of the left on campus, I do not fear that activities they bankroll will significantly increase the left's campus influence. Nor can Soros stop the growth of campus conservative activities.

My Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program, for example, grew its number of active, independent, conservative campus groups from 216 in September 2004 to 437 groups in May 2005. And Institute graduates have created 32 new conservative student publications already in 2005.

The Institute will send 27 field staff out to visit all 50 states this fall, and I expect them to increase the number of active conservative student groups by at least 300.

George Soros and his wealthy friends cannot write checks big enough to increase significantly the resources the left already spends on American college campuses.

Not all college professors and administrators are leftists, but the great majority of the politically active ones are, as Dan Flynn's "Deep Blue Campuses" proved.

Take all the money which pays the salaries of leftist professors and administrators. Add the money spent on the leftist, official student newspapers. Add the college funds and the compulsory student fee money spent to bring off-campus leftists to speak during the school year and at graduation ceremonies.

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Hopefully, a valid conclusion. :-)
1 posted on 08/19/2005 4:58:26 AM PDT by NickatNite2003
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To: NickatNite2003; jb6; Tailgunner Joe

This is great news. Very few Americans are aware of the nightmare Soros can create, and even many of our conservatives are embracing some of his actions in other parts of the world.


2 posted on 08/19/2005 5:07:00 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
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To: NickatNite2003

Wait until guys discover that all the hot chicks are in conservative groups...


3 posted on 08/19/2005 5:07:39 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: NickatNite2003
From the article:   Students appreciate cleverness, but they react negatively to unfairness when it is skillfully called to their attention.

Indeed, most people do.   Helping UIL's (Useful Idiot Leftists) see how they've been indoctrinated and used is one of the first rehabilitive steps to commonsense.

4 posted on 08/19/2005 5:08:18 AM PDT by jigsaw (The Democratic Party has Irritable Howl Syndrome.)
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To: GarySpFc

This is great news. Very few Americans are aware of the nightmare Soros can create, and even many of our conservatives are embracing some of his actions in other parts of the world.
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Expound and enlighten, please. :)


5 posted on 08/19/2005 5:16:10 AM PDT by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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To: NickatNite2003
People who have been giving money to the Michael Moore-George Soros leftists have got to wondering if it is worth it any more. What success can they claim from all of their fund raisers and silly movies. The fact that there were more Bush04 bumper stickers than Kerry stickers on the STUDENTS vehicles at my sons college was amazing. Faculty lot was a different story though.
6 posted on 08/19/2005 5:24:39 AM PDT by BallyBill (Cheney/Rove in 08 ....drive the left to suicide.)
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To: 2banana
Wait until guys discover that all the hot chicks are in conservative groups...


Ya think!
7 posted on 08/19/2005 5:31:27 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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To: 2banana
Wait until guys discover that all the hot chicks are in conservative groups...

They aren't. They either liberal or (mostly) apolitical...vaguely aware that "some Bush dude" is in charge of things. Campus conservative groups, like most campus groups in general, appeal to young men with an activist bent. ;)

8 posted on 08/19/2005 5:36:36 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Feelings are not a tool of cognition, therefore they are not a criterion of morality." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: NickatNite2003

Ask this campus conservative, as we shocked the staid history profession last January with "A Patriot's History of the United States," which has now been adopted by a dozen profs at universities includine TCU, Penn State, Hillsdale, and others. PHUSA is now in its FOURTH printing since January, and we are in negotiations to make it into a History Channel-type show.


9 posted on 08/19/2005 5:39:53 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

Now that was CRUEL! It's too early in the morning to be subjected to those three. hehe


10 posted on 08/19/2005 5:50:54 AM PDT by libertylover (Liberal: A blatant liar who likes to spend other people's money.)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

11 posted on 08/19/2005 5:54:57 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: libertylover
"Now that was CRUEL! It's too early in the morning to be subjected to those three. hehe"

NOW this is scary! Bawahahahhahaha

12 posted on 08/19/2005 5:58:41 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Hurts to view those photos. Why is it those three look like men in drag? Oh yeah, never mind.
13 posted on 08/19/2005 6:05:29 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

Ya need to throw in a pic of Julianne Malveaux, just for good measure.


14 posted on 08/19/2005 6:08:09 AM PDT by tacticalogic (Say goodnight, Grace.)
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To: RoseofTexas

LOL! That should be a poster attachement for every dart board in conservative dorm rooms across. Hilarious


15 posted on 08/19/2005 6:12:44 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
................................................... Austin Powers, "That's a MAN baby!"
16 posted on 08/19/2005 6:18:30 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: 2banana

Conservative women are certainly better looking (and probably in better moods) than liberal women. They don't wear dike pants and boots or torn tshirts and men's jackets. Much more ladylike and attractive. IMHO, of course.


17 posted on 08/19/2005 6:46:55 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: RoseofTexas

Janine Turner is truly one of the most beautiful women I've seen on TV. She is a real beauty.


18 posted on 08/19/2005 6:48:51 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: RoseofTexas

OMIGOSH. What a difference. These women are really ugly, but that comes from the heart, and it is reflected in their faces. M


19 posted on 08/19/2005 6:49:49 AM PDT by Marysecretary (Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
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To: NickatNite2003; sman88

This is great news!


20 posted on 08/19/2005 6:59:24 AM PDT by jan in Colorado ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6)
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