I often like to keep an open mind when reading and watching the news about the hubbub within the political world. I’ll switch back and forth from Fox News to CNN, glance through both the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as listen to Neal Boortz or Rush Limbaugh when I’m able. [...]

“Charisa is hoping you’re bracing yourselves for the fool you chose to take over the country.” “Jon- goodbye Bush, thanks for [defiling] America.” On Inauguration Tuesday, America filled its Facebook statuses with shameful, narrow-minded and even racist comments regarding the inauguration of Barack Obama and the retirement of President George W. Bush.
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WCU: In one of your reports to Congress, you talked about political Islam. What exactly is political Islam, and how do we confront it?

Beigi: That’s the million-dollar question. Political Islam is when some social thinkers think that in order to confront the West and in order to deny the West, they politicize their religion, only to achieve their own economic goals. And since religion is a touchy subject, they were able to reach the hearts and minds of some people who were willing to be violent in promoting those ideas. That’s how the Islamic regime came to power in Iran. The best way to confront political Islam – we first need to talk about the necessity of confronting it. It’s a real thing; it is threatening Western civilization; it is threatening humanity. They openly talk about how they want to wipe Israel off the map. They openly talk about destroying America. And they openly challenge the West. So these elements are threatening the world. How do you confront them? By showing to the people of the Middle East or the Islamic countries, that the ideas that these political leaders are promoting do not have a solid base in their religion and also show the political motivation to delegitimize them.

O n spring break, four staff members, Trent Hagerty, Tyler Gibson, Josh Bellis, and Brandon Stewart went to Washington D.C. to take part in an intensive three day conference.  The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) began in 1973 as a small group of conservatives. Since that time, the conference has grown into a major national [...]