The 37th National Conservative Student Conference was held at George Washington University in July of 2015. The approximate 200 students there heard from speakers such as Newt Gingrich, Senator Mike Lee, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Dinesh D'Souza, and Senator Tom Cotton. Each keynote speech represented a specific topic related to them, related to the students, and related to either current policies, or tomorrow's policies as a result of our negligence.

1. Conservative Student Leaders Groomed for Tomorrow
The National Conservative Student Conference is in its 37th year of uniting
college students with their individual freedoms. Each year students meet to hear from
policy leaders, activists, and many others who choose a platform of education,
economics, and conservatism surrounding traditional values, to reach out to this select
group of college students. Their goal - inspiration.
Inspiration at this weeklong conference was led by noted speakers such as Newt
Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, Dinesh D’Souza, Senator Mike Lee, and several
others. The student audience were reminded conservative beliefs were under
suppression, and these beliefs were being confined everywhere from the administration
to the campus newspaper. The speakers reminded the students, they too, have a voice.
They do not have to just be a reaction, but can be proactive in their freedom of speech
as well.
Senator Tom Cotton was also a speaker, and his focus on Obama’s nuclear
agreement with Iran. This was an excellent opportunity to demonstrate activism in
foreign policy, and Senator Cotton saw this as so stating, “America was founded on
principles that transcend time and space. We do not share interests and values [with the
Iranians]…and any deal not detrimental to the United States interests must be
detrimental to Iranian interests,” he went on to explain. Iran is a mortal and unrepentant
enemy. [Under President Obama’s proposed deal,] Iran pockets all the economic,
political, and military advantages [of removing sanctions], and walks away with
impunity.” (Lucchese, 2015)
Other speaker also spoke to the approximately 200 students, who were present,
attentive, energized, and on their feet at times as speakers made their way to and from
the stage. Senator Cotton’s speech on Iran and foreign policy, and how everyone
should start being a part of the intellectual society, some of those should be more vocal
about what needs to be, and not to be done, and others, should be active parts of
tomorrow’s “bigger picture.” Speaker Newt Gingrich told the audience “their generation
has the opportunity to be the greatest American generation since the Founding

2. Fathers.” (Kellogg, 2015) D’Souza and Levin both spoke on Rhetoric, Journalism and
as Authors working under the constraints of freedom of speech.
Senator Mike Lee was also present, and standing firm on his representation of
the rights of Christian Universities, who are now under attack over the recent Supreme
Court ruling. Lee has joined with Travis Weber of the Family Research Council, in their
initiative to bring awareness of Religious Liberty under the Constitution. Weber recently,
stated: “Over the past year, the Obama Administration has made clear it will use any
possible method—whether contracting, grants, school funding, and now tax exempt
status—to establish and enforce its view of morality on the private religious sphere by
redefining marriage. If the court redefines marriage by mandating it as a constitutional
right, the impact will be significant. Religious organizations must be left free to
determine their own beliefs, which cannot be coopted by the State. The Government
Non-Discrimination Act would prevent the federal government from discriminating
against people because of their belief in natural marriage. We urge Congress to act to
pass this vital legislation.” (Chao, 2015) This coming after the Internal Revenue Service
has made it certain, Christian Universities will face loss of their tax-exempt status, if
they do not support same sex marriages.
In the wake of these and other keynote speakers, reaching out and asking others
to be recognized, even as students, to be public representation for the conservatives of
the future. Emily Jashinski was present at the conference, and she was asked for what
she had gathered, and what the feeling was in the room post conference. Jashinski
responded, “So to hear speakers say things like that, especially to young Americans, is
really energizing. It makes you want to go out and start pushing back against the bias
that you encounter in this world, whether it’s in the media or in the college classroom.”
(Kellogg, 2015) From all evidence presented, inspiration was what these speakers
hoped to bring to the students at the National Conservative Conference this year. From
the reaction of the students during, after, and from Jashinski’s comments, it appears,
inspiration was indeed, delivered in a most embraced fashion.

3. Our Two Cents:
Inspiration comes in a variety of messages, the most easily conveyed of all is
one I, myself read repeated on of all places, Twitter on Sunday. Marsha Wright uses a
twenty-four hour period to spread positivity. Message after message, and post and
picture, one phrase, verse, scripture, or perhaps, a subtle reminder appeared, “Train
your mind to see the good in everything.” Have you ever wondered, “Is God speaking to
me?” If I see something too many times, like this message, repeatedly falling on my
page, is it most certainly, a message, or just a non-essential post.
If posing a question such as this, turn to the word of God; in 1 John, Chapter 4,
Verse 1 “Dear friends, stop believing every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to see whether
they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” Test
the spirits… We do this by learning; we become committed to learning anything and
everything we can about the truth. Within each of us is a moral compass, and we use it
to move us from one decision to the next; the next being truly like our Father. HE loves,
without judgment. HE loves, without condemnation. HE loves, without any expectation
of love in return. HE is love. HE is light. HE is everything HE wants us to be.
In presenting the question, we again turn to the word of God; in Luke, Chapter 6,
Verses 32-36 “If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even
sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what
thanks do you deserve? Even sinners do that. If you lend to those from whom you
expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to
sinners to get back what they lend. Instead, love your enemies, do good to them, and
lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will
be children of the Most High, because he is kind even to ungrateful and evil people. Be
merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Most of all, is in the listening. If you are prepared spiritually, to hear? God will
speak, and you will hear, you will see, you will feel. God will get your attention. Many
messages have been given to us lately. Words of man, words of a President, still a
man; words of Congress; just men and women; words of judges; just men and women;

4. words of liberal and conservative people; still just people. Listen for the message you
need to hear. Listen for your inspiration.
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