Some conversation strayed from the canon. Dormitory banter cheered on Ann Coulter, the best-selling provocateur. Arguing for private property, Mr. Devine, the lecturer, noted “there are bums all over here” downtown, and “they sit on public property, not private property.” He lamented the prosecution of Kenneth Lay, the late Enron executive convicted of fraud, by asking, “Do you think it’s possible for a rich person to get justice in the U.S. today?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s quite a parallel universe these guys live in, isn’t it? Reagan was a great president, Ken Lay was too wealthy to get a fair shake from our legal system, and homelessness is a problem, not because of chronic poverty, but because bums are on public property.<\/p>\n
The same article also included a brief look at the personal relationships between these future House GOP leaders.
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At a foundation event last year, Ms. Pajak met a fellow student who urged her to join him in reading “The Politics of Prudence.” Their long-distance romance now includes comparing notes about which of Kirk’s 10 conservative principles they find most compelling. (Ms. Pajak is partial to No. 1: “There exists an enduring moral order.”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, on occasion, I’ve been described as a little “bookish,” and it’s true, I enjoy reading about political philosophy as much as the next guy. But for a college-age couple to have a romance that includes notes on their favorite parts of “The Politics of Prudence” is just, well, a little odd, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Every time I read about young conservative activists getting together at some organized event, I get a little less optimistic about the future. The New York Times took a fascinating look today at college-age conservatives who go to month-long retreats and conferences some attendees affectionately call “conservative boot camp.” The piece featured a retreat run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}