I disagree with your last point. Ward Churchill should no more have been invited to speak at EWU than David Duke. Sure, he's free to say what he likes, but there's no reason public universities should provide him a forum.

Waiting for lefties to lighten up? Don't hold your breath. Don't hold your breath waiting for righties like Timothy to lighten up either.

Your blog is very well put together. I like it.

Re. Churchill:
We must always keep in mind the private/public principle, as raised by "Timothy". A private college should have every right in the world to bar any speaker, even if students want him. Now, a public one is in tricky water. I feel that it should exercise intellectual and academic judgment (despite the fact that making judments in itself has been put out of fashion by postmodernist tricksters). It's a very old-fashion concept, but I believe that although it is "public" it still must have a person or a group of persons who reviews what the entire academic direction is. It should never hire a phony, a spiritually or psychologically disturbed person whose problems leak over into teaching, or a criminal type. But also it should never hire nor have speak someone who simply pushes emotionally charged "hot-buttons," makes no sense other than to appeal to bolshevik sorts of excitement ("yea, they killed 'em"; or "yea, let's go kill"), and does not engage his powers of deduction in effective realms of metaphysics, history, language, natural science, etc. The problem here is that this might call for axeing all these fancy-pants programs and departments: you know which they are. That might be a good thing. Think of our public elementary and high schools. We let them go on and on and on, and now we have a situation where they teach absolutely nothing that has any meaning. The universities who invite frauds, criminals, and bolsheviks to their campuses exhibit the public-school problem.

The more Wackos like Ward that we let on to campus, the better off we are! More crazy historical revisionists expressing their "lunatic garble" the more the Campus Conservative Revolution benefits!!!

As for protesting Ward at EWU, The College Republicans have just as much right to say Ward is a wack as he has to speak. More speech, not less, is what will benefit our campuses.