Imagine having the chance to attend one of the best colleges in the world. I’m talking about a place where you could soak up the wise musings of some of the brightest minds around. GPAs don’t matter: All that’s required is an inquisitive mind. Forget scheduling conflicts -- these educators are ready when you’re ready. And it won’t cost you a thing.

Sounds too good to be true, but it exists. I’m talking about Townhall.com.

Seriously, where else can you find so many conservative minds gathered? From Brent Bozell to Walter Williams, it’s an all-star lineup that gives you more than the conservative point of view on a host of issues -- it gives you the solid reasoning behind it.

Take the recent riots in France. If you listened to the usual array of talking heads on television and radio, you may have concluded that they were caused mainly by unemployment among Muslim youth who face discrimination. But top-notch economist Thomas Sowell, who appears regularly on Townhall, took another look:

Let us go back a few generations in the United States. We need not speculate about racial discrimination because it was openly spelled out in laws in the Southern states, where most blacks lived, and was not unknown in the North.

Yet in the late 1940s, the unemployment rate among young black men was not only far lower than it is today but was not very different from unemployment rates among young whites the same ages. Every census from 1890 through 1930 showed labor force participation rates for blacks to be as high as, or higher than, labor force participation rates among whites.

Sowell goes on to spell out what really lay behind the riots, but I pulled out this nugget as an example of the kind of level-headed, fact-based analysis you get daily on Townhall.

What’s impressive, too, is the spectrum of issues you’ll find dissected on Townhall. Interested in the latest from the world of academia? David Horowitz and Mike Adams (among others) give you the lowdown on political correctness on campus and other debate-squashing tactics from lefties who say they love diversity. Want to hear from insiders with their fingers on the political pulse? There’s Cal Thomas, Ed Feulner and George Will. Like some humor with your commentary? Try Ann Coulter and Jonah Goldberg. Continued...