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Originally Posted by ubertuber
....And the reason I don't see host's posts as having much traction in this thread is that character assassination of the source is besides the point. This stuff happens. Sometimes, things happen that are over the line. We can't really know what the deal is without more reporting - perhaps it would be helpful if the "real" media sources could shed some light. The university's flaccid response makes me extremely curious to know what their original thinking in implementing the program.
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uber...the "real media" parroted the phony "voter fraud" mantra of these thugs, for more than five years.
If you know of a better way for me to do what I did here to object to and to counter the "crap" in the thread OP, I'd like to read it, In the interim, consider:
c'mon....these are the same zealots who conned (hijacked ?) the DOJ into running a five year investigation/prosecution campaign against "voting fraud" by potential voters expected to vote in oppostion to republicans....a five year campaign against a 'threat" that did not even exist.
I'm certain there is a one percent chance that this is not what it appears to be:
T. Kenneth Cribb is on the "FIRE" board of advisors, and he's also vice president of CNP.
He also is president of Delaware based, "Intercollegiate Studies Institute".
How strong do you think the possibility is that FIRE's involvment here is a result of grassroots disatisfaction with U. of Delaware student residence "programs", when folks like Cribb already embraced this as their "life's work", and their Intercollegiate Studies Institute is in the neighborhood? Check out who funds Intercollegiate Studies Institute...the usual suspects.
<h3>uber, you constantly react to my posts as if I am "premature" in my "take". Is it really so necessary to handle thugs, like these...with "kid gloves"? Their intent is to blur the lines between snippets of fact that can be assembled into fairly reliable conclusions.</h3>
Since we all depend on third party reporting to shape our conclusions and our world view, isn't what these folks are on a mission to do.... discredit through propaganda "Ops" like this, part of a larger crime against society?
You have to ask yourself if you're making it easy for them to get away with it, or more difficult. CNP is a criminal org, IMO, and they've been a primary part of a process that had turned the contemporary GOp, into an org that displays many signs of being a criminal org., too.
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....T. Kenneth Cribb
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., is president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Cribb was Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs in the Reagan Administration, serving as President Reagan’s top advisor on domestic matters. Earlier in the administration he held the position of Counselor to the Attorney General. He also served as vice chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board from 1989 to 1992. Today he also is president of the Collegiate Network, an association of independent college newspapers; <h3>vice president of the Council for National Policy</h3>; and counselor to the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy. ....
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History
<h2>Intercollegiate Studies Institute is based in Delaware</h2> and was founded in 1953, according to its website, to "identify the best and the brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders the American ideal of ordered liberty."
.......In a speech to the Heritage Foundation [date unknown], the ISI President, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr, stated "We must...provide resources and guidance to an elite which can take up anew the task of enculturation. Through its journals, lectures, seminars, books and fellowships, this is what ISI has done successfully for 36 years. The coming of age of such elites has provided the current leadership of the conservative revival. But we should add a major new component to our strategy: the conservative movement is now mature enough to sustain a counteroffensive on that last Leftist redoubt, the college campus...We are now strong enough to establish a contemporary presence for conservatism on campus, and contest the Left on its own turf. We plan to do this by greatly expanding the ISI field effort, its network of campus-based programming." [3]
In a Speech in 1996 Cribb optimistically reviewed the impact of groups such as ISI, the Young America's Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, the [Claremont Institute] and the [Acton Institute]. "...An infrastructure now exists that was but a dream even three decades ago. Scholars, books, journals, seminars, reprints, tapes, fellowships, and similar resources are now available in abundance to provide intellectual substance for young minds. The plenitude is so great that the main problem is organizing what is available and bringing it to bear where needed," he said. [4]
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Funding
ISI is a 501 c(3) non-profit educational organization
The Capital Research Centre states ISI's 1998 revenue - the most recent IRS return it reports on - as $4.7 million and a staff of 35. CRC reports that Eli Lilly & Co Foundation contributed $5,000 in each of 1995 and 1996. [5]
Charity Navigator reports that for the year to Marc 2002 ISI's revenue was $6.1 million. [6].
At ISI's 50th anniversary celebration in late November 2003,Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., the Chairman of the ISI Board of Trustees and President of the Heritage Foundation enthusiastically reported on the dramatic growth in ISI's financial resources during Cribb's 14 year stint as President. "When he took the reigns as president in 1989, the Institute operated with an annual budget of about a million dollars. By 2001, the budget had grown to six million. During a downturn in the economy, a time when many other nonprofit organizations were slashing their budgets and their programs, ISI's budget has continued to grow, last year to eight million dollars, this year to a projected eleven million," Feulner said. [7]
"This budget growth has been accompanied
by even faster program growth, including the launch of a new publishing imprint, ISI Books, the acquisition of the Collegiate Network of independent student newspapers, and a massive growth in the Institute's traditional membership, lecture, conference, and fellowship programs," Feulner said.
Media Transparency lists ISI as having received $13.3 million since 1985 with the dominant recent funders being the [8]:
* Sarah Scaife Foundation
* Allegheny Foundation
* Castle Rock Foundation
* Earhart Foundation
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* JM Foundation
* John M. Olin Foundation
* Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation
* Philip M. McKenna Foundation
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Personnel
<h2> * T. Kenneth Cribb Jr is President of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute....</h2>
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