Conservative Group Threatens to Sue University of Wisconsin

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When President Obama hired Clinton-era players, he didn’t just signal a failure to grasp the fundamental lesson of that administration: loss of trust. Take Barack Obama’s CIA director, “nice, quiet, civilized” Leon E. Panetta. Bill Clinton’s White House chief of staff. California State University – Monterey Bay’s patron saint. And, founder of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy. Leon Panetta, who flew back to Monterey at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal and announced to the CSU: “There has been a stalker in the White House. It was frightening.” Thanks to some rather adroit media manipulation, students heard only Panetta’s accusations, but learned nothing of Monica’s exculpatory blue dress from local KSBW TV News. Panetta controlled the school’s cable TV, from which even CNN disappeared. Fox News would never be an option. Panetta who, from his publicly-funded political institute opposed George W. Bush’s Homeland Security reorganization, and the detention of enemy combatants at Guantánamo Bay.
When Leon Panetta denounced the “Bush Doctrine” form his Panetta Institute, located squarely on the former US Army Fort Ord, where both his so-called “think tank CSU,” and his namesake institute are located, it was Memorial Day 2002. So, Panetta told the national television audience he was located in Salinas, Calif. instead. Conspicuously absent from the CSU bookstore, and its own well-stocked tax-funded oppression studies library: any textbook by a Caucasian author. (The text, Jihad vs. McWorld, by Clinton advisor Benjamin Barber, where tribalism and globalism collide, however was allowed. The Green Movement adage: Think globally, act locally, best sums up the book, says Barber.) Panetta even used KSBW News to deflect Gary Condit’s detractors during the Chandra Levy disappearance. Remember Fox News commentator Barbara Olson? Flight 77? Perhaps not coincidentally, Panetta’s CSU opened its doors on 23 August: Italian anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti Memorial Day. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis pardoned the Sicilians posthumously 23 August 1977, making the 23rd official. How the US Department of Education helped the Clintons “build a community,” and how the Western Association of Schools & Colleges conspired to accredit the “experiment,” thus granting these Alinskyites a license to steal my tuition money and your tax-dollars, is in itself a study in fraud that makes ACORN look clean.
To be continued ...

Peggy McGilligan of VA 4:59PM September 30, 2009

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Hzddozxy of NM 3:27AM July 14, 2009

CFACT has done fine work on the UW campus. GREAT speakers and a breathe of fresh ideas compared to the stale leftwing groupthink that has stained a once great "sifting and Winnowing" tradition at Madison. (WE invented it!)
It took young UW College Republican Prez Scott Southworth to sue the UW way back in the 90's to get ANY money for non Marxist or simply anything other than the far left's viewpoint being funded with student fees. It took years but thanks to a Federal judge with a functioning brain who recently retired....can you name him?-Not Shazam! but.....Shabazz to say, "Scott, you are right! The UW needs opposing viewpoints!"
The LiBS and BIDDY's never think that anyone else could be smarter, better informed or simply have a better idea than they have.
Cut funding for WISPIRG. It's rolling in dough. When the actual public turned out FEB/MARCH 09 in four communities to protest the stupidity of trains for our small community over buses or simply maintaining the highways we have now, 4 to 1 AGAINST trains- the Trainiacs called WISPIRG to send a VAN load of UW students to sing the praises of trains for Danes. It was funny. None of them knew what they were talking about and it was great entertainment for the audience. Laughin' at the Liberals is so easy in Madison!

Bill Richardson of WI 6:20PM July 02, 2009

Stephen Rosenberg's comments ought to be self-evident. There is no excuse for not supporting CFACT. It makes tremendous, logical sense. Perhaps that's the problem. Chancellor Martin's weak excuse ("I have no control over that") demonstrates an acute paucity of leadership.

Sandy R. of VA 2:20PM July 02, 2009

As one of the grandfather's of CFACT’s intern program (I worked to expand from under ten interns to hundreds), I can say that these issues never seem to go away. More baffling still is that apparently funding problems like this become more acute in direct relationship to the chapter's growing appeal. Why the school isn't big enough for more than one ideology is beyond me, especially when so many students are "seeing the light" and embracing CFACT’s message of environmentalism through sustainable, clean, and free market-friendly ways. This is apparently perceived as threatening the far left’s monopoly of thought in Madison, resulting in babyish actions that should have been left on the 2nd grade playground. I became accustomed to such antics as an elected representative on the student council. We have no quarrel with the left, and in fact share many of the same objectives.
For the record, I object to the line “[CFACT is] a group that argues against government involvement in environmental issues.” CFACT works to align all stakeholders so that we might save this planet, and that includes the government. No one else can authorize a nuclear power plant, for example.
Stephen Rosenberg
CFACT Intern Coordinator 2004-2005
University of Wisconsin 2005
Entrepreneurship Assistantship, UGA MBA 2010
Stephen-Rosenberg.com

Stephen of GA 10:10AM July 02, 2009