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Hey Colorado Freepers! Announcing a Freep at the CU campus around the Michelle Malkin Speech on March 1st. This event is being organized by the CU republicans GOPCollegeRepublicansThanks so much for your interest in the upcoming event, “The War on Terror.” Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 1st at 7pm. This event is free, but you do need a ticket to attend. This event is being sponsored by the Cultural Events Board, the University of Colorado Student Union and the College Republicans. For your free tickets, visit the CU Connection in...

Every once in a while I start asking myself the same question, “What can be the motivation of someone like Senator Leahy, who was tossed off the Senate Intelligence Committee for leaking classified information, or of Senator Durbin, who compared Guantanamo to Hitler’s death camps and called our soldiers, Nazis?”. Is it really just politics that drives them – a desire to regain power at any cost – even at the expense of the security of our country or of the lives of our soldiers? They certainly are not stupid men; they are US Senators; they must understand the consequences...

Folks, Dinesh D'Souza wrote a very hard-hitting piece on the Catholic Educator's Resource Center, presenting a different take on the Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons, and comparing Muslim and Christian reactions before blasphemy. I liked these paragraphs:Evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics are frequently portrayed by secular liberals as fierce religious fanatics who are trying to impose their morality on others and perhaps even to turn America into a theocracy. But what is striking about conservative Christians is how passive and invertebrate so many of them are when their deepest beliefs are violated. The distinguishing quality of the Christian seems...

Dinesh D’Souza, one of my heroes, is usually credited with popularizing the term, “political correctness”. He explains in his book, “Letters To A Young Conservative”, that “political correctness is about pretending, about publicly insisting that something is true, when we know privately that it isn’t, about shutting down people who won’t conform to the prevailing orthodoxy”. I have to stretch this formal definition to cover two of my three examples below, but in all three areas liberals certainly like to shut people up who disagree with them. The politically correct positions on manmade global warming is that it is happening...

A prestigious Seattle prep school that touts Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen among its alumni, canceled an appearance by conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza after complaints from a group of teachers and some parents. D'Souza, a Hoover Institution fellow and former Reagan administration policy analyst, was scheduled to speak in March on U.S. foreign policy and Iraq at Lakeside School, but faculty members objected after reading some of his writings on race-related issues. A Lakeside staff member explained through an e-mail, according to Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert Jamieson Jr., "Even if an intention was simply to offer diverse viewpoints,...

Has Michael Savage ever talked about Cindy Sheehan? I am aware of what O'Reilly and Limbaugh think of her...

The key to understanding Lincoln's Philosophy of Statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. Most Americans — including most historians — regard Abraham Lincoln as the nation's greatest president. But in recent years powerful movements have gathered, both on the political right and the left, to condemn Lincoln as a flawed and even wicked man. For both camps, the debunking of Lincoln usually begins with an exposé of the "Lincoln myth," which is well described in William Lee Miller's 2002 book Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical...

July 02, 2004, 12:30 a.m. Land of the Free The Islamic critique cuts deep, but there is an answer. By Dinesh D'Souza Behind the physical attacks on the West and its allies is an intellectual attack — an assault not just on what America does but also on what America is. So far the U.S. government's military response — in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and elsewhere — has been reasonably effective against terrorism and its sponsors. But our intellectual response has been weak. This matters, because ultimately it is not enough to shut down the al Qaeda training camps. We must...

Behind the physical attacks on the West and its allies is an intellectual attack — an assault not just on what America does but also on what America is. So far the U.S. government's military response — in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and elsewhere — has been reasonably effective against terrorism and its sponsors. But our intellectual response has been weak. This matters, because ultimately it is not enough to shut down the al Qaeda training camps. We must also stop the "jihad factories," the mosques and educational institutions that are turning out tens of thousands of aspiring terrorists and suicide...

The idea that America and the West grew rich through oppression and exploitation is strongly held among many intellectuals and activists.  In the West, the exploitation thesis is invoked, by Jesse Jackson and others, to demand the payment of hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations for slavery and colonialism to African Americans and natives of the Third World.   Islamic extremists like Bin Laden insist that the Muslim world is poor because the West is rich, and they use Western oppression as their pretext for unleashing violence, in the form of terrorism, against American civilians. Did the West enrich itself...

Dear Concerned Citizen, What stands out about the Islamic militant’s critique of America is its refreshing clarity. Painful though it is to admit, they aren’t entirely wrong. They charge that America is a society obsessed with material gain, and who will deny this? They condemn the West as an atheistic civilization, and while they may be wrong about the extent of religious belief and practice, they are right that in the West religion has little sway over the public arena, and the West seems to have generated more unbelief than any other civilization in world history. They are disgusted by...

Reagan vs. the Intellectuals Dinesh D'Souza Thursday, June 10, 2004 Although there is a tide of sympathy for Reagan on the occasion of his death, the magnitude of his achievements continues to be debated. Indeed many historians and scholars refuse to credit Reagan’s policies as a decisive factor in assuring America’s victory in the cold war. Rather, they insist that Soviet Communism suffered from chronic economic problems and predictably collapsed, as Strobe Talbott, a former journalist at Time and later a senior official in the Clinton State Department, put it, “not because of anything the outside world has done or...

Dinesh D'Souza, author of "Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader," discussed Reagan's life and presidency. D'Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous books including "What's So Great About America," "The End of Racism," and "The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence." D'Souza was senior domestic policy analyst at the White House during the Reagan administration from 1987 to 1988. The transcript follows. Editor's Note: Washingtonpost.com moderators retain editorial control over Live Online discussions and choose the most...

RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. – Ronald Reagan's death has a special significance for those of us who were the children of the "Reagan revolution." In early 1987, I joined the Reagan White House as a senior domestic policy analyst. I was part of a generation of young conservatives drawn to Washington in the 1980s, inspired by Mr. Reagan and the idea of America that he espoused. What we found new about Reagan was his bold and optimistic challenge to collectivism. Collectivism was the great idea of the 20th century, and opposition to it was the unifying element of Reagan's thought....

A child of the 'Reagan revolution' grateful for inheritanceAmerica's military, economic, and moral strength is the legacy of a great president.By Dinesh D'souzaRANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. - Ronald Reagan's death has a special significance for those of us who were the children of the "Reagan revolution." In early 1987, I joined the Reagan White House as a senior domestic policy analyst. I was part of a generation of young conservatives drawn to Washington in the 1980s, inspired by Mr. Reagan and the idea of America that he espoused.What we found new about Reagan was his bold and optimistic challenge to...

AMERICA'S economic boom from the early 1980s to the beginning of this century is in large part a legacy of the end of the Cold War, which confirmed the triumph of capitalism over socialism. Yet many historians and pundits have refused to credit Ronald Reagan's policies for helping to bring about the Cold War victory. Rather, they insist that Soviet communism suffered from chronic economic problems and predictably lapsed, as Time magazine's Strobe Talbott put it, "not because of anything the outside world has done or not done . . . but because of defects and inadequacies at its core"....

<p>"We have always had atheists among us," the philosopher Edmund Burke wrote in his "Reflections on the Revolution in France," "but now they have grown turbulent and seditious." It seems that in our own day some prominent atheists are agitating for greater political and social influence. In this connection, leading atheist thinkers have been writing articles declaring that they should no longer be called "atheists." Rather, they want to be called "brights."</p>

Folks, if you want to hear an unapologetic defense of America's greatness, this is your lucky day. On September 29, 2003, Dinesh D'Souza, author of What's So Great About America, will be delivering his lecture "Islam vs. the West: Is America to Blame for Terrorism?" at the University of San Diego, University Center in Forum A. The time is 12-1. The public, especially students, is welcome, though seating is limited and on a first come, first serve basis. The event is being sponsored by the Republican Law Student Association with the assistance of the Young America's Foundation.

Behind the physical attacks on the West and its allies is an intellectual attack an assault not just on what America does but also on what America is. Behind the physical attacks on the West and its allies is an intellectual attack an assault not just on what America does but also on what America is. So far the Bush administration's military response in Afghanistan, in Iraq and elsewhere has been reasonably effective against al-Qaida and its sponsors. But our intellectual response has been weak. This matters, because ultimately it is not enough to shut down the terrorist camps. We...

Thomas Jefferson - whose greatest work, the Declaration of Independence, was celebrated for the 227th time Friday - observed in 1774: "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." That was one of those rare church-state moments that rings as true as the Liberty Bell before it cracked. And yet we witness people in the world - and, I fear, increasingly in our country - who believe and act as if God not only gave us life but also required us to be in bondage. There is something that has always bothered me about "religion,"...