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BUILDING LEADERSHIP the Newsletter of the Leadership Institute Praesentia Tibi, Si Mihi Futura Volume XXVII | Number 2 | April/May 2013 BUILDING LEADERSHIP The Newsletter of the Leadership Institute Praesentia Tibi, Si Mihi Futura From campus to Congress ... from interns to activists ... The Leadership Institute is Training conservative students to win! LI grads are today’s activists and leaders. They rally their fellow students to fight the left, and they present the conservative message clearly. Here are just a few of the Leadership Institute’s trainings and programs to equip young conservatives: l LI’s CampusReform.org’s campus news website exposes and shuts down leftist bias and indoctrina- tion through national news coverage (see page 3). l LI’s Online Journalism Workshop teaches young journalists how to break the liberal media monopoly (see page 2). l The Leadership Institute’s Internship pays dividends for both students and donors. Students sharpen their skills and fight for conservative principles Leadership Institute-trained activists stood for constitutional rights and became the top news story across the country on June 26, 2008. The activists furthered the conservative message today and for the rest of their as the Supreme Court upheld Second Amendment rights in the D.C. v. Heller decision. lives (see page 6). l LI’s Career Services staff brings together skilled conservatives There are millions of young conserva- Leadership Institute training: and active organizations to fight tives in America. But not enough stand up l Teaches students how to fight the left (see page 7). for their principles. Not enough active in against liberal bias on campus. politics, government, and the media. And Supporters of the Leadership Institute l Trains students in the most not enough willing to challenge the left are responsible for the 119,000 (and effective and successful strategies publicly. growing) graduates who fight back in and tactics to win. Conservative students are vulnerable politics, government, and the media. LI l because they face liberal indoctrination Prepares students for the supporters equip these graduates to fight and leftist bias on college campuses. Some political battlefield during and the left today and for the rest of their lives. after their college years. conservative students get discouraged, By Mitchell Nozka disenchanted, or disengaged. Others A soldier doesn’t forget his training or become liberal, as the left intends. experience. A soldier is patriotic and stands The Leadership Institute (LI) changes up for his principles. The same goes for that – by giving conservative students Leadership Institute graduates. training, encouragement, and support to LI’s CampusReform.org makes fight back. Fighting the left for what’s right a national impact. (See page 3) LI finds conservative college students Since 1979, the Leadership Institute has Rand Paul credits LI grads and equips them with the tools necessary trained over 119,000 students, with more for election to U.S. Senate to fight liberals ... and win. than 13,500 in 2012 alone. LI staff is hard (See page 5) Leadership Institute graduates are like at work to train as many conservatives as trained soldiers. possible in 2013. THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE • STEVEN P.J. WOOD BUILDING • 1101 NORTH HIGHLAND STREET • ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22201 • WWW.LEADERSHIPINSTITUTE.ORG BUILDING LEADERSHIP APR / MAY 2013 LI’S ONLINE JOURNALISM WORKSHOP Teaching new journalists a new way to fight the left Smart, well-trained conservatives can Washington Media Institute, weaken the liberal monopoly over news also joined the training to reporting. The internet and modern tech- discuss foundations of success nology have made access to information in today’s media. cheaper, quicker, and fairer – and many David Martosko attended conservatives now use this to break into four LI workshops back in journalism. 2000 to figure out what type of This year, the Leadership Institute career he wanted to pursue. In taught a new Online Journalism Workshop the decade between attending LI training and his current to mobilize the next generation of role at The Daily Caller, David conservatives: principled activists armed successfully navigated the public with the skills to report the news, fight the relations world. But the most left, and win. surprising fact about David is that he has no academic A full class of students listens intently to LI faculty on the LI grad, a national news editor, journalism school training, nuts and bolts of online journalism. teaches LI students which he believes isn’t necessary to establish a journalism career online. than ever before,” says Morton Blackwell. David Martosko, LI faculty member and “CampusReform.org can publish a story the executive editor of The Daily Caller LI’s online journalism success today, thousands will read it by tomorrow, news website, trains young journalists in and a leftist campus administrator this new workshop. From story construc- in fighting the left might be making a public apology to tion and headline writing, to using inexpen- The Leadership Institute’s campus news conservatives within a week.” sive video technology to expose liberals, LI’s website, CampusReform.org, proves the Last year, CampusReform.org stories Online Journalism Workshop teaches the power of online journalism. The site rallied conservatives to shut down a racist nuts and bolts of journalism. attracted more than two million unique indoctrination campaign at the University Forty-two people attended the inaugural visitors in 2012. Many other news sites of Minnesota. And at Louisiana State Online Journalism Workshop. David republished stories first reported on University, administrators apologized to taught the majority of the training, joined CampusReform.org. students after they manipulated a photo of by Daily Caller reporters Alex Pappas and “The speed and reach of online Christian students to erase Christian crosses. Taylor Bigler, and investigative reporter journalism today means we can shut (See page 3 for CampusReform.org’s success and best-selling author, Richard Miniter. down much liberal indoctrination and in fighting liberal abuses). Amos Gelb, founder and director of the expose leftist abuses on campuses more By Rachel Phillips Larry Get Your Gun • Gun rights leader Larry Pratt visits LI interns CampusReform.org covers gun issues LI’s CampusReform.org campus news website published several gun-related stories that reached a national audience. The website covered stories about legislators and campus administra- tors restricting gun rights of college students. Female students are especially vulnerable. They live on campuses with rampant sex- ual immorality encouraged by administrators who tell them to use “rape whistles,” instead of firearms, to stop a sexual predator. Government calls good citizens “evil” Does the government exist to protect citizens? Or to impose Pratt believes the government’s duty is to punish wrongdoers rule through unchallenged force? Larry Pratt, executive director and protect law-abiding citizens. Rather, the government calls of Gun Owners of America, poses these types of questions to good, law-abiding gun owners “evil,” instead of cracking down President Obama, the American people, and the Leadership Institute’s interns. on illegal activity. According to Pratt, the current government Throughout their internship, Leadership Institute interns works to take away the rights of citizens, and Vice President meet leading conservative figures such as National Right to Biden went so far as to advise people to do something illegal – Work’s Mark Mix, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, fire warning shots with a shotgun in populated areas. Reps. Michele Bachmann and Jim Jordan, and Senator Rand Paul. Leadership Institute interns meet, learn, and discuss first- Larry Pratt visited LI interns at LI’s Sacher Intern House and hand with leaders like Larry Pratt who are active in the public discussed the current gun rights issue. Pratt and other gun rights policy process. These leaders encourage young conservatives proponents strive to preserve and defend the Second Amend- to preserve and promote the conservative ideals of America’s ment rights of law-abiding gun owners. During the dinner, Pratt founding documents. educated LI interns about the history of the Second Amendment. By Jean Morrow 2 3 APR / MAY 2013 BUILDING LEADERSHIP IT’S ANYTHING BUT DRUDGERY LI’s CampusReform.org coverage exposing liberal bias on campus makes national news on the Drudge Report and elsewhere News travels fast Already in 2013, the Leadership Institute’s CampusReform.org campus news “CampusReform.org is an effective website published nine stories which were picked up by the Drudge Report website weapon in the arsenal against leftist (DrudgeReport.com). Stories published on the Drudge Report reach a wider audience, abuses on campus.” and open up new opportunities for conservative victories on college campuses – MORTON BLACKWELL nationwide. The Drudge Report is a conservative news aggregator – a website that promotes breaking stories on other news websites. Conservatives frequently turn to Drudge for important news, especially stories liberal-dominated media do not cover. The Drudge Report is famous for breaking the Bill Clinton – Monica Lewinsky scandal. Reaching national news shuts down liberals on campus The Drudge Report is like a booster rocket that sends stories to the next level. Called the “Drudge Effect,” millions view these stories and turn up the heat against liberals. One such story featured on LI’s CampusReform.org was of a racist, taxpayer-funded
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