Liberal Supermajority....NOOOO!

One thing Americans must recognize this year is that voting for Barack Obama definitely means voting for "change." As the article from the Wall Street Journal describes voting for Obama will likely create a liberal super majority. I know you just cringed, but bare with me on this. Barack Obama in recent months has began to move toward the center on many of his policies, including taxes (in regards to promising not to raise them on the middle class). But, do not be fooled, if you look at his extremely short record in the Senate he is the most liberal one of the bunch. Which goes to show you that when elected to the Presidency he will sign every super communist bill that comes out of the Pelosi/Reid Congress. Especially given the idea that Democrats will most likely have a super majority in Congress with the ability to block any Republican filibuster.

So in hind sight read the article and vote for McCain.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

Keep Communism in Asia!

A very grateful...

THANK YOU!

The College Republicans at UC Irvine wish to thank everyone who came to see Ann Coulter last Thursday, and all those who helped make this fantastically successful event a reality.

We would especially like to thank:

• The Staff of the Dean of Students Office and Scheduling & Conference Services, for helping us arrange the logistics for this event and exhibiting the utmost professionalism
  
• Young America's Foundation, for helping conservative students at UC Irvine and on campuses around the country
• Bob & LaDorna Eichenberg, whose very generous support made it possible to bring such an outstanding and engaging speaker

A "thank you" to those who asked questions during our event. Whether from the Left, Right, or Other, we had a great discussion that was informative for all.

If you are interested in supporting the College Republicans at UC Irvine, a student group of dedicated and hardworking republicans, you can contact us at crucirvine@gmail.com, or P.O. Box 6203, Irvine, CA 92612.

Ann Coulter @ UCI, May 22, 7pm

Whether you love her or hate her, it'll be a night to remember!


WHEN:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Doors Open 6:30 pm
Event Begins at 7 pm

WHERE:
Pacific Ballroom CD
Student Center University of California, Irvine
For more information on parking, locating the Student Center, and how to get to UC Irvine, please see the expanded directions below.

ADMISSION:
FREE to students and the public - all are welcome!

Seating is first come, first serve. Please arrive as early as possible (doors open at 6:30) to get the best seat and ensure our program begins on schedule.

Limited reserve seating is available for all donors who have pledged $20 or more. Donors, if you would like a reserved seat, please email crucirvine@gmail.com with your name, address, email, and phone number as soon as possible to confirm your spot.

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Expanded Directions:

- The Student Center is Building 113 in E8 on the Main Campus Core map, available in pdf here: http://today.uci.edu/pdf/UCI_08_map_campus_core.pdf

- For driving directions, please click here: http://uci.edu/freewaydirections.shtml

- Parking is available in the Student Center Parking Structure directly across from the Student Center at the corner of Campus Drive and West Peltason Drive. To enter, turn onto West Peltason Drive, turn left onto Pereira Drive (the first left), and turn left again into the parking structure at the kiosk.

--To locate the Pacific Ballroom, cross Pereira Dr. and enter the doors under the large "Student Center" sign. Walk straight into the building, remaining on the entry level and following the signs to the Pacific Ballroom lobby.

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Sociology 144 students will receive 5 extra credit points for a one-page write up!

Update

Updates

• Meetings in SST 228 - Please note our meeting room is now permanently changed. From now on, we will meeting in Social Science Tower (SST) 238.
  
• Debate with the Young Dems - Thursday, 6-8pm, SSL 248. Debate with the Young Dems is tomorrow! Come see the College Republicans take on the Young Dems in a great debate about the economy, Iraq, anddomestic issues - with Professor Schonfeld moderating! This'll be an event not to be missed.
  

Interesting Election Video on Youtube - Very Ironic Indeed

In this ad by the Republican National Committee, the pledges by Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to immediately start withdrawing troops from Iraq are contrasted with the warnings of General David Petraeus that doing so would be very dangerous and could even lead to disaster. The ad says the Democrats show a "complete disregard for the facts, for our troops and for our General."

A Good Time to be Alive

Via Carpe Diem: Harvard economist Andrei Shleifer has released a paper titled "The Age of Milton Friedman" which outlines the incredible improvements in the human condition as more and more nations have embraced the free-market system.

The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5,400 in 1980 to $8,500 in 2005 (see chart above). Schooling and life expectancy grew rapidly, while infant mortality and poverty fell just as fast. With the conspicuous exceptions of China and the Middle East, the world has made significant strides in democratization. Compared to 1980, many more countries in the world are democratic today.

We’ve seen remarkable declines in infant mortality in all regions, with the worldwide population-weighted average dropping from 64.5 to 37.5 per thousand births. The World Bank reports that between 1980 and 2000, the share of the world’s population living on less than $1 a day fell from 34.8 percent to 19 percent. It forecasts that the number of people living on less than $1 a day will continue to fall sharply despite population growth, and account for 10 percent of the world’s population by 2015. Billions of people in Asia have been lifted out of poverty thanks to economic growth; Sub-Saharan Africa, with little or no economic growth, is where the really poor are concentrated.

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The last quarter century also saw wide acceptance of free market policies in both rich and poor countries: from private ownership, to free trade, to responsible budgets, to lower taxes. Three important events mark the beginning of this period. In 1979, Deng Xiao Ping started market reforms in China, which over the quarter century lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. In the same year, Margaret Thatcher was elected Prime Minister in Britain, and initiated her radical reforms and a long period of growth. A year later, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, and also embraced free market policies. All three of these leaders professed inspiration from the work of Milton Friedman. It is natural, then, to refer to the last quarter century as the Age of Milton Friedman.

Steel wins at CRP, new committeeman

Shawn Steel, former California Republican Party chairman, lawyer, and fervent supporter of the College Republicans defeated incumbent Tim Morgan at this past weekend's California Republican Party convention for the office of National Committeeman to the RNC. With his energetic and assertive style, Steel will fight for California in 2008, and we thank him for his great support over the years.

Congratulations to Linda Ackerman, wife of California State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, for being voted California's new National Committeewoman. Once again, Orange County is driving the way forward in the Republican party.

Think green, Vote Republican

The Media and the Left may say that Republicans aren't for the environment, but reality proves otherwise.

The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, signed an Act of Congress in 1864 that set aside California's Yosemite Valley for public use, which later became Yosemite National Park. Theodore Roosevelt, another Republican president, was a noted conservationist who set aside millions of acres for public use, as well as created the US Forest Service. Ronald Reagan also believes in caring for the environment, and was never happier than at his humble ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains.

More recently President George W. Bush created the world's largest marine conservation area in the world around Hawaii. President Bush's ranch in Texas, it should be noted, is a sustainable operation with a smaller footprint than Al Gore's massive mansion that consumes more energy per month than the average US home does in a year.

Today, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a well respected figure in the Republican Party and the conservative movement, is aggressively making the case for "green conservatism." As he correctly points out, not only are there conservative solutions to today's environmental problems, but they are the best solutions.

While Democrats continue to put down the US for not joining the Kyoto protocol, few other signatories actually reduced their emissions anyway. Furthermore, all this has been going on while China has been increasing its emissions at a rapid pace, adding roughly the equivalent of another United Kingdom's worth of emissions per year. Al Gore's alarmist film made it seem like doom and gloom was just around the corner, but the authoritative study by the UN said otherwise. And what was going on while all the eco-pundits and covert socialists were slinging accusations and crying wolf? Real innovators were coming up with solutions to real problems, creating better methods of harnessing wind power, more efficient solar panels, and more.

Blogs like EcoGeek.org show us how technology and development are making a cleaner, more efficient world a very real reality. Companies like Nanosolar, based in California, have developed better methods of making solar panels that are cheaper and faster to produce - all because of science and private industry. One need only look to a Republican's opposition to big government and needless bureaucracy to know that we're for efficiency, and that's a very good thing. In all, our ingenious system of free enterprise, not the heavy hand of bureaucracy, will put our environmental concerns to rest.

Finally, we should remember that, like most things in life, there are costs and benefits to global warming, environmentalism, and the like. As a Russian professor at UCI noted, "there are many in Moscow who wouldn't mind global warming." It may be a little humorous, but is also insightful. Warmer temperatures could also allow more crops to be grown and harvested, reducing global famine and humanitarian crises. For that matter, the increase in temperatures is still debatable, and therefore so is any policy tied to it. The reality is that there are bigger problems in the world, both environmental and otherwise, which are far more important that whether or not the mercury will be a tick higher in a hundred years.

For more information on global warming, environmentalism, and a practical, sensible approach
to environmentalism, check out the work of Bjørn Lomborg, who's two books "The Skeptical Environmentalist" and "Cool It" take a sober, realistic look at the challenges ahead.

Remember, when you "think green," think Republican.