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By Peter Anthony Tariche at 8:40PM

Feb 19, 2010

California YAF Chairman Ryan Sorba Attacks YAL at CPAC

During the students activist forum at CPAC, Students for Liberty's Alexander McCobin openly thanked CPAC for inviting GOProud, a statement which received mixed reactions from the audience and boos from another speaker on McCobin's panel, Ryan Sorba. Sorba, who helped co-found Young Conservatives of California and recently became the California YAF Chairman, used his own opportunity to speak to condemn CPAC for including GOProud. He went on to taunt those booing him, attack YAL, and announce that YAL's executive director, Jeff Frazee, was now his enemy.

The source of his anger at YAL and Frazee is unclear: The topic was brought up by Students for Liberty, not anyone associated with YAL. Moreover, Frazee was entirely uninvolved in the situation (neither booing, taking sides, nor at all involved in gay rights activism) until Sorba out of the blue mentioned him on stage.

A Roundup of Liberty-Related Stuff

Here's a collection of information (on the TSA, Iraq, Jon Stewart, Barry Goldwater, and Ron Paul) I've been accumulating over the last few days which you might find interesting:

An eight-year-old on the no-fly list? Well, technically no, but his name is -- he shares it with a suspicious person. As a result, Mikey Hicks of New Jersey has been getting "random" pat downs at the airport since he was two. Because clearly we couldn't involve common sense and let the kid get on a plane without a hassle (eye roll).
"Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?" Well, for a lot of reasons, apparently. Here's just a taste:

Q:Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A:Because they had weapons of mass destruction.
Q:But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A:That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.
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Q:Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A:To use them in a war, silly.
Q:I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A:Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons, so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.
Here's a new video from Jon Stewart on the continued failure of the economy and new Wall Street bonuses.

The GOP should acknowledge a domestic enemy, the State

"Ideally, the Republican Platform should acknowledge a domestic enemy, the State."

With those words in the Jan. 25, 1952 edition of The Commonweal made available from the Buckley archives at Hillsdale College, the young William F. Buckley, Jr. declared what he thought the GOP should stand for. That was over fifty-seven years ago. It's time that we remind the GOP of its individualist roots.

Let's consider the situation today. Back on June 3rd, fellow YAL member Robert Bentley shared Peter Schiff's advice that "Libertarians should infiltrate the GOP." This advice is especially relevant when Schiff makes the case to the Libertarian Party of Connecticut that "We haven't won anything in forty years, and we don't have another forty years to try."