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When people consider President Donald J. Trump's remarks about America's war machine today and its responsibility for our foreign entanglements, it's worth evaluating these remarks in the context of the Farewell Address of our first President, George Washington.

https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-farewell-address-warnings

George Washington Warned Against Political Infighting in His Farewell Address As he stepped down from the presidency, Washington urged Americans to always place the interests of the nation over their political and regional affiliations.

This is an interesting read.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/china-s-overrated-technocrats?utm_source=pocket-newtab

China’s Overrated Technocrats Beijing is famous for putting engineers and scientists in charge. But that doesn’t make for better leaders.

First Communist China moved Han Chinese into Tibet to outpopulate the natives. Next it put the Uighurs in camps and send Han Chinese men to r**e Uighur women. Then it cracked down on freedom in Hong Kong. All the while it has oppressed Chinese Christians, and now it's even expecting them to replace crosses and images of Christ Himself with communist leaders' images?

When will the UN condemn this Chinese communist cult state?

https://www.theblaze.com/news/china-orders-christians-to-take-replace-crosses-and-images-of-jesus-christ-with-portraits-of-communist-leaders

We stand with Don't Bankrupt America in its quest to address America's longstanding budget deficits and ballooning debt. Americans (especially young Americans) from across the aisle must work together to confront this existential threat to our future.

"I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt."
- Ted Cruz, American politician & Senator of Texas

Senator Ted Cruz highlights the nonpartisan (and perhaps interplanetary 😆) nature of the issue at hand. We need to come together, not as partisans or ideologues, but rather as young, passionate Americans wanting a better future for our beloved nation.

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The anti-Semitic, black supremacist, "transnational" (read: dismissive of FBA/ADOS black identity) nature of the "Black Lives Matter" cartel needs to be remembered. Read this great piece from Daniel Horowitz:

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-black-lives-matter-agenda-racist-anti-semitic-politicians-embracing/

Horowitz: The Black Lives Matter agenda is racist and anti-Semitic. Why are politicians embracing it? Why is this suddenly OK?

The buffoons who want to tear down Fr. Serra's statues (and in many cases have) should be arrested when they commit these crimes. No one has the authority to tear down any statue unilaterally, and especially to tear down the statue of a human rights activist like Fr. Serra because he was unapologetic in his Catholicism is ridiculous. The counterprotesters were brave to stand against this lunacy.

https://cal-catholic.com/the-frenzy-of-venturas-anti-serra-mob-held-off-by-brave-defenders/?fbclid=IwAR1nM1E-lUoGrqRVjanLGARlEsW5Noj2dOX9dxvgZEOi1CeYmfueX41zaVc

Ventura's anti-Serra mob held off by brave defenders When the event organizers unfurled their “Father Genocide" banner, Serra supporters had already surrounded the statue’s pedestal. Thanks to the presence of a small band of Catholics, a “Tear Down Junipero Serra” event in front of Ventura City Hall on Saturday concluded with the bronze

This is conservative policy right here from Senator Rand Paul!

ICYMI: Dr. Rand Paul Introduces the Coronavirus Regulatory Repeal Act | Senator Rand Paul FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:June 11, 2020 Contact: [email protected], 202-224-4343WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced S. 3922, the Coronavirus Regulatory Repeal Act, to require Congress to justify restoring regulations that were either modified or waived in re...

The protests in the name of George Floyd and all the other black people killed by police, often in questionable circumstances, are destroying black communities. How does that advance the message that ?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/8/george-floyd-rioting-take-heavy-toll-black-lives-c/

Riots spurred by death of George Floyd take heavy toll on black lives, communities The rioting on the heels of Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody has come at a high price for the black community.

Here's evidence of Antifa.

Project Veritas INFILTRATES ANTIFA: “Practice things like an eye gouge...injure someone's eyes" BREAKING UPDATES: https://exposeantifa.com Website: http://projectveritas.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProjectVeritas Twitter: https://twitter.com...

All these white Antifa thugs need to quit being violent: they're doing the very black people they purport to care about a huge disservice and even sometimes destroying black-owned businesses.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/clarissajanlim/protesters-violence-george-floyd?fbclid=IwAR1OAzQFJFE8XHnaDofucos7Q6jLwW498zMRUc-fNF2BHXFiXT40NfL58lg

Black Protesters Who Want To Demonstrate Peacefully Are Calling Out White People Who Instigate Violence "When we aren't asking people to destroy things in our name and people do it anyway, we know that this is something that's going to blow back on us," one black activist told BuzzFeed News.

The COVID-19 shutdown will cost Americans millions of years of life The national lockdown is responsible for at least 700,000 lost years of life every month, or about 1.5 million so far — already far surpassing the COVID-19 total

The "War on Poverty" was an abject failure. It chased low-income Americans out of the labor force, both depriving them of the rewards of work and shielding them from the responsibilities, all while retarding America's overall economic growth by putting a lid on labor force growth.

Let's end the War on Poverty!

https://fee.org/articles/poverty-in-the-us-was-plummeting-until-lyndon-johnson-declared-war-on-it/?fbclid=IwAR1UVZvTpYlaPmc1SXrMcx45R63lg8JPUH4Lb2Ktl27ixWkLhG-rZWlMN0Y

Data Show That Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It | Daniel J. Mitchell The poverty rate was consistently declining for twenty years—until 1966, when President Johnson decided to intervene.

EXCERPT: "Historically, thriving cultures make it clear to each new generation that their commitments to others are important and necessary not only for their own happiness but for others’ happiness. Young people used to be explicitly taught that we all owe certain duties God and to our fellow man, and that not fulfilling these obligations is both selfish and dangerous. The heavy investments others such as parents and teachers and caretakers have made in their lives should be paid forward, rather than simply consumed.

The continued withdrawal from commitments to God and others portends ill, not just for the young people who have not been properly taught, but also for the culturally impoverished society they will one day inherit without the capacity or the moral sense to steward it well."

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/05/poll-young-americans-care-more-about-money-than-making-a-family/

Poll: Young Americans Care More About Money Than Making A Family Significantly more Americans ages 13 to 22 say it's important to buy a home and make 'a lot of money' than to marry, have children, and commit to a faith.

Former Rep. Richard Boucher (D-VA-9) makes a solid point about television access for rural communities. In rural areas, television plays an outsize role in disseminating information, and during this crisis, information is critical. However, Congress did not renew a legal provision that allows satellite TV providers (like DirecTV) to bring out-of-market TV signals to areas where they otherwise can't reach. Renewing this provision would be a pro-liberty, cost-free way to help rural Americans receive televised updates about the coronavirus and related regulations. Though from an unlikely source, this seems like a conservative solution to a problem caused by big-government regulation.

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/05/01/congress-punished-rural-tv-viewers-and-we-will-pay-the-price-during-the-pandemic/

Congress punished rural TV viewers, and we will pay the price during the pandemic - Roll Call Opinion — Thousands of rural Americans could soon lose access to network TV, leaving their households blind, right when we need to see what is going on.

The last three elections of WHO Directors have been progressively more influenced by the Chinese Communist Party. In 2006, President Bush was weakened a few days after a horrible midterm rebuke; in 2011, President Obama was similarly chastened and distracted. By 2017, newly-elected President Trump wasn't ready to pay attention to that, as he was still settling into office. However, none of them can be entirely absolved of responsibility, as the WHO, which is now in the pocket of the CCP, has clearly failed in its response to the coronavirus and has aided China's misinformation campaign about it. More broadly, successive administrations' (Clinton, Bush, Obama, and even early Trump) allowance of China to enter the WTO, to select the heads of various UN affiliates, and to take global leadership roles, on the assumption that wealth and influence would moderate China's adversarial nationalism has failed miserably. We hope that the United States, in addition to a temporary defunding of the WHO, takes greater steps to reassert its interests and the interests of its allies, in the future.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-bush-obama-ceded-world-health-organization-china-increasing-risk-pandemics-like-coronavirus-1497667?fbclid=IwAR3HAGwmijEKYHW8fVHC7NksbalzPoZ82eewz9MOAP_bXo2IotWgj6e3fAI

How Bush and Obama ceded the World Health Organization to China, increasing the risk of pandemics like coronavirus Trump is halting U.S. funding of WHO after previous administrations' "benign neglect" policy allowed Beijing to mislead the organization, with deadly consequences.

From Williamson Evers:

"By Richard A. Epstein EXCERPT [I]t’s worth taking a closer look at the unsound ideas of progressive constitutionalism that have long been part of [Vice President Joe Biden's] legal thinking. Biden’s current political stances are far to the left of his positions as Barack Obama’s running mate in the 2008 Presidential election. But even in 1991, as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Biden took issue with the basic values of classical liberalism as they apply to constitutional law. During the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, he thrust a copy of my book "Takings" in front of Thomas, claiming that it was an unprincipled and radical manifesto.
In those years, Biden used his perch on the Senate Judiciary Committee as a bully pulpit to attack conservative nominees. ... [W]hen Thomas appeared before the judiciary committee, Biden asked him if he accepted any of the principles in "Takings," which argued for extensive protections for private property. Thomas responded that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution—“nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation”—did protect private property."

Joe Biden’s Constitutionalism His progressive values blind him to the importance of property rights.

We applaud our friends at the California Review for discussing the legitimacy of Chinese government and taking the side of the Republic of China. This issue deserves lively discussion, especially after the People's Republic of China's demonstration of extreme irresponsibility regarding the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan late last year. Taken in the context of China's manifest human rights abuses over the past seventy years and its unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, and aggressive territorial expansionism over the past twenty years, the Chinese government's response to the coronavirus is unacceptable, and it's high time that the regime be held accountable for its crimes. While removing official recognition of the PRC would be an extreme step, it may be time to recognize Taiwan and Taiwan alone.

https://calrev.org/2020/04/14/opinion-us-must-take-steps-to-recognize-taiwan/?v=7516fd43adaa

[Opinion] US Must Take Steps to Recognize Taiwan - The California Review It is difficult to imagine a nation more inimical to American values than the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The recent mishandling of the Wuhan coronavirus is only the latest in a sinister legacy reaching back seven decades, and it is now time to take steps that will allow us to recognize the ...

Hoover Lunch in 1 hour - hope to see you there!

Reminder that our second Hoover Lunch of the quarter is tomorrow! Hoover Fellow, Dr. Scott Atlas, will be speaking on healthcare and "What to Expect Next with Obamacare." See below for RSVP instructions. We hope to see you there!

We will be having our second Hoover Lunch of the quarter this Thursday (May 8th) from 12:10-1pm with Hoover Fellow Scott Atlas. Dr. Atlas will be speaking about "What to expect next" with Obamacare. Drop by for some pizza and the opportunity to hear a great speaker and ask questions. Please RSVP below if you plan to stop by - we hope to see you there!

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SCS is excited to announce that we are bringing back Hoover Lunches! The first Hoover Lunch will be next week on Wednesday April 2nd at 12pm with Hoover Fellow David Davenport. He will be speaking about the topic of his latest publication: Modern American Conservatism - Then and Now. Drop by for some pizza and the opportunity to hear a great speaker and ask questions. Please RSVP below if you plan to stop by - we hope to see you there!

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Calling All Conservative Freshmen!

The SCS officers would like to treat you to dinner! Join us for our winter Frosh Dinner on Tuesday (March 4th) 6:30-8pm. This is a fun opportunity to get to know the SCS officers and meet some other conservative freshmen on campus, while enjoying some good food!

Please RSVP below by Monday. Any conservative friends are welcome - just have them RSVP too!

We hope to see you there!

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Check out this fun event on Wednesday - Wine & Cheese with Conservatives!
https://www.facebook.com/events/255890121249401/

SCS will be joining the Society for International Affairs at Stanford (SIAS) to co-host an ice cream social and mixer on Wednesday from 7:30-8:30pm. It will be in Muwekma (across from Storey on the Row.) Several other student groups will be there including Stanford in Government, Stanford Democrats, and the Alexander Hamilton Society. Come mingle and enjoy some ice cream! If you plan to stop by, please RSVP to [email protected] by Tuesday. We hope to see you there!

Our fall kick off event is tonight at 5:30pm in Old Union 200 - hope to see you there!

Please RSVP on the Facebook event for our fall kick off event this Wednesday 5:30-7pm - we'd love for you to join us!

Our spring BBQ starts at 5pm today at Xanadu! We hope you can stop by!

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/nov/8/picket-companies-plan-massive-layoffs-obamacare-be/

PICKET: Companies plan massive layoffs as Obamacare becomes reality - Washington Times Freedom Works has put together a list of companies that will be laying of employees as a result of President Barack Obama's health care law.

Ladies and Gentlemen, get out and watch the last presidential debate tonight at 6pm PDT!! This time it will actually be focusing on foreign policy, contrary to what I said about the last debate. Should be a very interesting debate indeed. Believe in America!

Fellow Conservatives! Though we are not having an official event to watch the second presidential debate tonight, I encourage you all to watch Romney defeat Obama once again! Tonight's topic: foreign policy

Come out tonight to watch the VP debate! 6pm history corner. Pizza will be served. U S A