Young America's Foundation Student Conference

Sorry for the recent silence but I've been busy attending the YAF College Students Conference which, unfortunately, came with a massive amount of Christian-based social conservatism and no bloody internet access. Now many of the speakers at the conference were brilliant - particular standouts being Daniel Hannan MEP, Newt Gingrich, Robert Spencer, South Carolina Senator Jim Demint, Congressman Mike Pence, and the trinity of conservative hotties Anne Coulter, Monica Crowley, and Kate Obenshain - but many of the speakers left one with the feeling that one had been cheated, as if the delivery guy not only brought the wrong pizza one ordered but on top of that also forgot to bring the Pepsi. I ordered pepperoni and onions not pepperoni and peppers damn it! And how am I supposed to wash all this down?!

In this case the Pepsi was intellectual substance and the wrong pizza was an unnecessary amount of bible-bashing. Let's talk about the Pepsi first. Tell me, what the hell's the point of one going to a conference just to hear people make statements that one already agrees with? The conference was severely lacking in useful discussion of policy, politico-philosophy, and political strategy. I felt as if I were a sounding board for these speakers. I'm pretty sure my fellow conference attendees and I are well fucking aware how much the Führer Obama, Comrade Pelosi, and Herr Clinton are going to fuck up America - that's why we all went to the bloody conference in the first place. 

Now let's move on the the pizza. Don't get me wrong, despite my personal views on Christianity I have a tremendous amount of respect for people who are religious and I understand the importance of God and Christianity in the American conservative movement. That being said, when one has a speaker effectively claiming that one cannot be moral without having Judeo-Christian values, or a speaker claiming our American rights and liberties are God-given (absurd - we have them because America was founded by Englishmen), or a speaker using outdated pseudo-historical interpretations of Anglo-American history bordering on myth to support his worldview, it all becomes a little hard to swallow. 

All that being said it was a bloody great time. Though next time I think I'll wear my Fuck Jesus t-shirt.