This President is why America today is run by warmongers and traitors!

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147. There's a lot more of interest on Cribb

He and Ed Feulner at the Heritage Foundation both retired recently, but they've been pals forever and are on the same old-line, hard-right page. For example, an old ISI organization list from the 90's included William H. Regnery -- he's the white supremacist member of the Regnery family

There's also this (quoted at http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/066998.php): "Ken Cribb, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, once told me this story: A South Carolinian of many generations, he had just decided to attend Washington & Lee, and his grandmother remonstrated, 'Why would you want to go to a Yankee school?' 'But Grandma,' Ken pleaded, 'Virginia seceded!' His grandmother stared at him for a moment and then replied, 'Mighty damn late.'”

I find in my notes that at one point Sidney Bluimenthal was claiming that ISI was at the heart of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. That may be overstated, but they're certainly near the top of a tight nexus of groups that includes the Heritage Foundation, Young America's Foundation, Citizen's United, and the Capital Research Center (whose Matthew Vadum did more than anyone else to destroy ACORN and taught Glenn Beck everything he knows.) The last I checked, ISI was the second-largest recipient of grants from conservative foundations, after the Heritage Foundation.

Here's an article on ISI's campus activities from 1997 that still provides good background: http://influx.uoregon.edu/1997/cons/

And the Internet Archive cache of another, from 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/20110526185409/http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/old/issues/1996/mar/madison.html

And something on the Collegiate Network from 2004: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/thomism/conversations/topics/930

And just to cap it off, there's something about Scalia and ISI that appeared at Newsmax in 2003:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060618214337/http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/10/24/145151.shtml

Oct. 24, 2003

WASHINGTON – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says though “it would be foolish” to say that the “one-sided nature of institutions of learning” is the product of “some left-wing academic conspiracy,” “it would also be unrealistic to think [such a conspiracy] does not exist.”

Speaking Thursday to about 800 guests at the 50th anniversary dinner of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the respected jurist faulted many academic “experts” on constitutional law for ignorance and for attitudes he considers uninformed and arrogant. What’s more, he despairs that many in academia and the judiciary, including some of his colleagues on the high court, are following such wrongheaded legal interpretations. ...

Scalia, who as a college student once received a fellowship from ISI, said the organization’s educational approach had been marked “by a special concern for an historical understanding of our constitutional traditions, conveying to students the contemporary elements of what [the late scholar and author] Russell Kirk called ‘the roots of American order.’"