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February 2011

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In this Issue:

3 Newt Gingrich vs. Howard Dean Debate

4 Freshman Service Event

5 Herman Cain & Andrew Breitbart KickoffCPAC for CRS

6 CPAC - 2011

7 Sarah Kovar: Part Two - Eugenics and Abortion

8 Jared Johnson on the 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Inaugural Address

Senator Richard Burr speaks at Tortilla Coast

Jake Wolf and Josh Altman introduce Gingrich and Dean

February 2011

DEBATE: Newt Gingrich vs. Howard Dean

Howard Dean Newt GingrichModerator Derek Malone-France

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Community Service Event Habitat for Humanity

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February 2011

Andrew Breitbart and Herman Cain Kickoff CPAC for

College Republicans

Cynthia Meyer, Kaitlyn Martin, Herman Cain, Will Thompson, Sinead Casey, Erin Mew, Eva Hansen, Kevin Doré, Chris Wassman

Breitbart talks to CRs

about liberal media

biases, the Pigford

scandal, and “the whisper

people.”

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CPAC 2011

Governor Rick Perry (TX) Ann Coulter

Congressman Ron Paul (TX) Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart

S E Q U O I A C L U B

Conservative Perspective

Part Two - Eugenics and AbortionSarah Kovar, Class of 2014

Planned Parenthood, on one hand, could be argued as socially progressive because of the power it initially gave women to decide when and how many children they wanted. However, their tainted history has not gone away and what has inevitably happened is that there has become a link between Planned Parenthood and their targeting African American communities. There is a troubling connection between the numbers of Planned Parenthood clinics in the minority community. In 1975 minorities were 50% more likely to obtain an abortion. As the number of Planned Parenthood clinics have grown and their concentration in African American and minority communities has skyrocketed, so have those statistics. 79% of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority neighborhoods. This coincides with the amount of abortions in the African Americans community, 1 abortion for every 1.3 live births. Abortions in the African American community occur 3 times that of the white population and twice as many as all other races combined. If Planned Parenthood’s goal is to truly “insure access to all,” there should be the same access to clinics in all areas of society.

Another inconvenient truth is Planned Parenthood’s current donation policy. Lila Rose, a student at UCLA and editor of a pro-life magazine, The Advocate, had her journalists go undercover to see if Planned Parenthood clinics would accept specific donations to target African American children. “No Planned Parenthood employee (or director of development, in one case) declined the tainted money… In the

first day of calling seven clinics, not a single Planned Parenthood representative expressed outrage or concern at the racism behind donations specifically ‘to reduce the number of blacks.’ In fact, some even went as far as agreeing with the anti-black agenda.” The director of development, Autumn Kersey, in Idaho picked up the phone:

Idaho donor: The abortion—I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the purpose?

PP Rep: Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was earmarked for that purpose.

Idaho donor: the less black kids out there the better.

PP Rep: Understandable, understandable.

Today Americans are subsidizing these efforts to target the African American community. Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood receives $317 million from the government. There needs to be an overhaul to the thought process that goes into their vision. They need to highlight adoption as a viable option. The current issue is that adoption is heavily based on race. Society needs to become more educated on the beauty of adoption. One of the fastest ways to truly get society out of a racial stigma is the mixed racial family where they people can truly see that we are a human race, not races based on skin tones. Because so many families are longing to adopt a child, if these couples become enlightened to the joys of mixed

racial families, it will be readily received.

Additionally, Planned Parenthood needs to realize that their glorification of abortion is only hurting minority communities by not allowing them to thrive in a good home. They are merely doing away with a life because they do not value the potential that this one child could have on this world. They say that they

are helping both society and the child from never being born. Rather than aborting the child, they should realize the good that could come out of a strong loving family. This will benefit society by giving couples who long for a child that very gift. It will also cause a precedent to be set that these children are worthy, that they are wanted by society. If these impoverished communities knew that they had another option, that their child could have a better life than they had, it would begin to launch the community out of the poverty mindset. It would also cause society to see the value of these lives because they are now in loving homes. The poverty communities would then realize that they are valued by society and that they are not seen as “unfit”. Their lives, and their children’s lives, are not less important than any other life. They have just as much potential inside of them; they just need to see it.

Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16

Let us stop this generation from continuing to be robbed of their destiny.

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Your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in

your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16

Conservative Perspective 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s First Inauguration Jared Johnson, Class of 2013

By now many readers will suspect that this writer for the CR Monthly has a keen interest in the Civil War. For the record, this is certainly true.

As a student of the War for over seven years and a re-enactor for six, I have come to appreciate what I have learned and am thankful that there are many out there who want to learn more about the greatest war in America’s history.

To go along with this theme of the Civil War, Friday is March 4th. For many, this is the start of the weekend and a chance to relax with friends. For others it is a homework weekend. For me, however, it is the start of the greatest Presidency this nation has ever seen.

This Friday March 4th is the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s First Inauguration. This represents what it means to be a Republican. With Lincoln taking the oath of office, he became the first Republican President in the U.S. He led the way in creating and implementing Republican ideological stances on issues that still exist to this day. Most importantly, he was the main person who held the Union together and eventually freed more than four million peoples held in bondage.

So, as March 4th comes around, let us take a minute to remember what Lincoln and his administration did for the United States. In honor of this event, there is a reenactment of Lincoln’s swearing in at the Capitol

Visitor Center beginning at 10:00 AM, followed by a march up Pennsylvania Avenue and then a dinner at the Willard Hotel this Saturday, March 5th.

I hope that the readers will take at least some time this weekend to reflect on what Abraham Lincoln did for the nation, not only as a Republican, but also as the greatest President this country has ever had.

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