UPDATE: CSULA Professor Calls YAF ‘White Supremacists,’ Invites Them to Physically Fight Him
Just yesterday we brought you the story out of CSULA about students claiming CSULA YAF’s decision to bring Ben Shapiro to campus is a threat to their “mental health” and constitutes racism. But the story just took a turn for the worse. Now, a professor at CSULA has called the YAF chapter “white supremacists.” Robert […]
CSULA Leftists Complain Ben Shapiro Lecture Will Damage Their Mental Health
Campus leftists aren’t too happy about Ben Shapiro’s upcoming lecture at California State University Los Angeles. The event, part of the Young America’s Foundation Fred R. Allen Lecture Series, takes place on February 25th at 2 pm in the Student Union on CSULA’s campus. Shapiro’s presentation, entitled “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” will discuss “trigger […]
Student Loan Debt at Record High; Professors Demand More Money
Yesterday, on the campus of California State University Los Angeles, protesters staged a demonstration outside an “open forum” with Chancellor Timothy White. What occurred, however, wasn’t much of an open forum at all. Check out the embedded video below, taken by CSULA Young Americans for Freedom Chapter Chair Mark Kahanding. Protesters, organized by the California […]
Youth Misery Index hits record high, spikes 32% during Obama presidency
The Youth Misery Index (YMI), a figure calculated annually by Young America’s Foundation, spiked to a record high of 109.9 this year, up from 106.5 last January, and 83.5 in 2009 when President Obama took office. The Index is calculated by adding youth unemployment, student loan debt, and national debt (per capita) numbers. On Wednesday, […]
Allen West visited a campus for MLK Day. What happened after he spoke will shock you.
As part of Young America’s Foundation’s Wendy P. McCaw Freedom Lecture Series, Lt. Col. Allen West visited Grand Valley State University in Michigan on Monday to deliver a lecture in commemoration of his personal hero, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event was hosted by the school’s Young Americans for freedom chapter. Students on […]
YAF and Ben Shapiro Team Up to Invade ‘Safe Spaces’ on Nationwide Campus Tour
Young America’s Foundation and Ben Shapiro Team Up to Invade ‘Safe Spaces’ on Nationwide Campus Tour Shapiro is set to headline a YAF-sponsored lecture tour of schools across the country in 2016 Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and conservative powerhouse Ben Shapiro are excited to announce Shapiro’s 2016 tour of America’s embattled college campuses through […]
EXCLUSIVE Guest Column: Sen. Mike Lee Tackles Progressive Cliches About School Prayer
The Separation of Church and State is a Myth By Senator Mike Lee After the final seconds ticked off the clock in Bremerton High School’s homecoming loss to the Centralia Tigers, assistant football coach Joe Kennedy walked to the 50-yard line and knelt in prayer. He was soon joined by almost 50 players […]
UMass Students Petition Their School for TRUE Diversity
Amidst nationwide leftist protests for “diversity” and “inclusion,” students at the notoriously liberal University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have banded together to petition their school for a different kind of diversity. The University Union at UMass is currently circulating a petition outlining the critical importance of intellectual diversity, explaining details of the school’s failure […]
No, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, We’re Not ‘Complacent.’ We’re Pro-Life.
In an interview published yesterday, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz told New York Magazine that she’s disappointed in millennial women’s “complacency” on “abortion rights.” Young women aren’t complacent. They’re pro-life. Share this graphic to tell Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz you’re not complacent. At Young America’s Foundation we see this first-hand every day. Our young activists […]
GW YAF Smeared as ‘Fascists’ for Hosting Immigration Event
After the YAF chapter at George Washington University (GW) hung fliers across campus to advertise a lecture they were hosting by conservative commentator Bay Buchanan, leftists took to Facebook to smear the group as “fascists.” The fliers, which simply read “Build the Wall,” were posted to the popular Facebook page “Overheard at GW” where […]
Conservatives On The Rise: Superstar Activist Lauren McCue Joins The YAF Team
Lauren McCue is the program officer for YAF chapter services at Young America’s Foundation. Lauren is originally from Fairfax, Virginia and is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where she received a B.A. in political science with a concentration in legal studies. Lauren first came in contact with Young America’s Foundation the summer before her […]
The Solution to Over-Population is Population Control
#49 – “The Solution to Over-Population is Population Control” By Walter E. Williams According to an American Dream article, “Al Gore, Agenda 21 and Population Control,” there are too many of us and it has a negative impact on the earth. Here’s what the United Nations Population Fund said in its annual State of the World Population Report for […]
A Tribute to the Iron Lady
by Donal Blaney In June 2004, less than a year after I had set up the Young Britons’ Foundation, I remember hearing that sad news that Ronald Reagan had died. World leaders and ordinary Americans alike wept and eulogized a truly transformative President whose latter years had been ravaged by the cruelty of Alzheimer’s Disease […]
Media Alert: Washington Times Covers Miss America 2011 at High School Conference
The Washington Times By Claire Courchane, National Journalism Center Intern The reigning Miss America, who at 17 was the youngest to win the coveted crown since 1937, has a unique career goal for a pageant winner, an honor even higher than Miss America – president of the United States. Unlike the stereotypical pageant queens who […]
C-SPAN and Others Cover 50th Anniversary of Sharon Statement
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Sharon Statement, which officially launched Young Americans for Freedom and the young conservative movement nationwide. Read more in today’s Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, and American Spectator. Read commentary on the anniversary from Wayne Thorburn here. Young America’s Foundation and The Fund for American Studies are co-sponsoring […]
Five Weeks Later and the Ink is Still Flowing!
This week begins Week 6 of the National Journalism Center’s Summer 2010 program, and interns have published nearly 200 articles in the first five weeks! The 38 interns have been furiously reporting at their specific placements, from Human Events and The Washington Times, to Radio America and WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. Pieces have […]
Featured Speaker: Chris Horner
Chris Horner is a popular campus speaker you can host on campus through Young America’s Foundation. In the last few weeks, he spoke at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Amherst College. Horner is a best-selling author of books on “global warming” and environmental policy: Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud […]
Liberal ‘Climate Change’ Fear Mongering Nothing But Hot Air
If “our planet has a fever” as Al Gore and his band of merry leftist “scientists” continue to claim, it’s probably because the collective pants of climate alarmists are on fire. Not only are their official findings (read: mostly conflated estimations) insignificant, their sobering predictions of global armageddon are flatly wrong. Don’t believe me? If […]
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Perhaps best known as U.S. Attorney General during President Ronald Reagan’s second term, Edwin Meese III was a conservative icon, a tireless defender of the rule of law, and an ally and dear friend to Young America’s Foundation for decades. Meese’s service to President Reagan stretched from the California Governor’s mansion in 1966 to the […]
Free Speech Warriors: An Interview w/ Senator Ted Cruz & Michael Knowles
This week, I had the pleasure of being joined by two great freedom fighters, Senator Ted Cruz and Michael Knowles. We talked about the Chinese Communist Party’s recent sanctions of Senator Cruz, Bari Weiss’ scorching resignation letter, what can be done to put an end to lawless mobs, and why their podcast—Verdict—is a must-listen. Enjoy […]
