Check out the primary coverage from IN on Election Journal. They have same great footage of grassroots primary action and more importantly coverage of primary voter fraud.

Facebook now allows you to use Republican Party as a political designation for your profile.  Show you colors today!

With the STORM network readying to launch, we are extremely excited to launch a new and powerful SMS recruitment system nationwide. Now signing up for your local CR chapter isn’t tied to a recruitment table or event, every CR across the country is empowered to sign up their friends and peers with nothing more then a smile and a cell phone.

If you have someone who wants to get signed up for College Republicans is as easy as texting CRNC Full Name Email (school email preferred)  and Zip to 30364

Chapters across the country have a great opportunity to find some new faces in new places (pardon the rhyme). Email this code out to your members and ask them to invite one student from a class they have to sign up using their cell phone.Then, on Feb 4th when Storm launches you’ll have a head start with some new, excited activists on campus.

Anyone who watched the campaign for National Chairman last year knows that an important voice throughout was the most famous (or infamous depending on your take) of CR blogs, Truth Caucus. While I’m not sure it was a compliment, he threw up one of my favorite photos of the National Officers.  And he’s right, the times are changing: being youthful, positive, and inspired is good for us and good for the party.  

In a shocking (although sadly not so) article in Sunday’s New York Times, two reporters, Deborah Sontag and Lizatte Alvarez, launched into typical talking points about bloodthirsty soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as maniacal killers.

Town by town across the country, headlines have been telling similar stories. Lakewood, Wash.: “Family Blames Iraq After Son Kills Wife.” Pierre, S.D.: “Soldier Charged With Murder Testifies About Postwar Stress.” Colorado Springs: “Iraq War Vets Suspected in Two Slayings, Crime Ring.”

Individually, these are stories of local crimes, gut-wrenching postscripts to the war for the military men, their victims and their communities. Taken together, they paint the patchwork picture of a quiet phenomenon, tracing a cross-country trail of death and heartbreak.

The NYT patched together 121 of these stories to paint the picture of rabid young men returning to America as crazed murderers - following the leftist portrait of American soldiers who are either psychopaths to begin with or are made so by the military.

The problem here is that 121 veteran-murderers, although sad, is a tremendously small amount as Ralph Peters explains in a counter-article in the NY Post:

Had the Times’ “journalists” and editors bothered to put those figures in context - which they carefully avoided doing - they would’ve found that the murder rate that leaves them so aghast means that our vets are five times less likely to commit a murder than their demographic peers.
The Times’ public editor, Clark Hoyt, should crunch the numbers. I’m even willing to spot the Times a few percentage points (either way). But the hard statistics from the Justice Department tell a far different tale from the Times’ anti-military propaganda.
A very conservative estimate of how many different service members have passed through Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait since 2003 is 350,000 (and no, that’s not double-counting those with repeated tours of duty).
Now consider the Justice Department’s numbers for murders committed by all Americans aged 18 to 34 - the key group for our men and women in uniform. To match the homicide rate of their peers, our troops would’ve had to come home and commit about 150 murders a year, for a total of 700 to 750 murders between 2003 and the end of 2007.
In other words, the Times unwittingly makes the case that military service reduces the likelihood of a young man or woman committing a murder by 80 percent.

I don’t know whether to assume the reporters are simply bad at their jobs because they are lazy and incompetent, or because they ignore basic journalistic standards and impose their leftist propaganda upon their audience, but either way they owe our veterans a very serious apology.

Please tell the NYT editors how you feel by here!

Remember that whole flip-flop matra?

Well, it’s taken on a new tone. “Get it right the first time!”

Poor John Edwards just gets nailed here…but then again, it’s sorta his own fault…

CRs have a new Facebook profile, become a fan here.

While I was stumbling around on my daily blogroll, I noticed that the GOP Blog has a new look…and along with it, so does the rest of their website. Of course, we all got a preview of this at the Board Meeting in Memphis…

The site is a much needed improvement over what hey had before. It will be very interesting to see how they use it in the coming months with tools like their SMS Mobile Updates.

If you have a regularly updated official CR Federation or Chapter blog, we’ll include your link on our site if you email it to csmith *at* crnc dot org (sorry, but I hate SPAM as much as the next guy).

“I know that Congress has low approval ratings. I wouldn’t approve of Congress, because we haven’t done anything.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D)

This video is hilarious and informative at the same time.

Rep. Eric Cantor’s (R) new media team has been very active. These are things that CRs could be making constantly to fill a major void in the GOP’s campaign apparatus. I really encourage CRs around the nation to go grab iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or some other video editing software, and start cutting some clever YouTube videos.