Yeah, but if they pass that bill, watch all the formerly illegal immigrants flock to the GOP banner!

I thought there would be big changes in the way we did things in this country. For the most part, I was completely wrong. Everyone's jumping on Bob Woodward for saying that the BM bombing was "no big deal," but I'm afraid he's probably right.

In the mid-70s I attended a small liberal-arts institution - a very good school - and was probably the only Republican there. Even then, forty years ago, it was quite difficult to have any sort of "diversity of opinion" where Marxism was considered the standard of political thought. And yes, there was plenty of propaganda. I cannot imagine it has gotten any better.

And Klingenstein is a private individual, an alumnus and a wealthy contributor to the school's endowment. What's your point? The point we're making here is, "A doesn't equal B." You can't teach lies and half-truths and expect there not to be consequences. The first consequence you see her, is the loss of Mr. Klingenstein's annual contribution. Of course, calling him a racist in a public assembly might have been a bit over the top as well.

My father was always a rock-ribbed conservative, decrying programs like Social Security, etc., as legalized theft. Then he reached retirement age. Suddenly, Medicare was "the best idea the government ever came up with." Sigh.

FWIW, I read the same sorts of books when I was a kid - remember "Project Blue Book"? That sort of thing is fascinating to youngsters. Not sure it's as big a deal as you may think.

I would have to ask how many attend Bowdoin by dint of Federal grants and student loans. While it is a "private" college, I doubt there's nearly so much "private" money flowing into its coffers as you might think. The "grade inflation" that has hit even the more prestigious colleges like this one, is caused almost wholly by the surge in available education funding either directly or indirectly from the Federal government. It is what is creating the "bubble" in academic cost, why colleges are awash in cash, and why they can afford to have multiple instances of "diversity administrators" on each campus.

Have to agree. I think we've probably gone too far down a very bad road to simply turn around. Things will get much worse before they get better - if at all. I think what we're headed toward is a sort of return to barbarism, since in the name of "diversity" we've enshrined a sort of factionalism that hasn't been seen in truly PROGRESSIVE western history. I can foresee living in a dictatorship, where those who actually subscribe to principles of freedom must bizarrely live in a harsh police-state just to protect themselves from the thugs who think themselves entitled to their money with the government as the muscle behind its collection.

Do YOU have one?

"It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another …" "[faction] is a spirit not to be encouraged … And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." -- G. Washington, "Farewell Address," 1796