So it is by now an obvious thing that universities have a liberal tilt. Anyone who denies this, is not worth talking to. Do I complain about this? No. A great woman hath said, “Don’t whine, and don’t complain."

   I do comment on the level of acceptance that conservative speakers have on university campuses. Liberal speakers are invited all the time, and upon arrival are bombarded by the best available accommodations, exaltations and pomp. I have not personally heard of any liberal speakers being mistreated on any campus. Now, there might be an occasion where this has occurred, but it is no doubt an exception.

   On the other hand, there are several accounts of conservative speakers being deprived the right to freedom of speech by liberals at the university. The left wingers say they are champions of freedom of speech, but rant and rave, chant and taunt at conservative speakers who grace the presence of an ideologically monopolized liberal campus. Many times have right wing speakers been forced off stage and had their right to speak stolen from them.

   Let’s look at the Ann Coulter situation first. While speaking at the University of Arizona, Phillip Edgar Smith and William Zachary Wolff decided it was appropriate to take away her freedom of speech. Coulter was behind her podium speaking with the lights blazing in her eyes, when these two guys charged her with two custard cream pies and launched them at her from less than 5 feet.

   Not surprisingly, both pies missed - Democrats aren’t really known for their athleticism. Every year our Congress has a baseball game with the Democrats playing the Republicans, and I don’t know if a Democratic win has ever been recorded. Seriously, how do you miss someone from less than 5 feet? You can watch the video online.

   Another time in Texas she was kind enough to participate in a question-and-answer session even though they usually end up being personal attack sessions. She was talking about the sanctity of marriage when a student, Ajai Raj, asked her a question about sodomy. Now, Coulter had not brought up homosexuality at all, nor did she address the morality of sodomy in any fashion.

   He simply stood up and asked, "Well, you were saying you respect the sanctity of marriage. Well, what about a man who goes home every night and 'F's his wife in the 'A'?" This is just the kind of discussion we need to occur at the college level. It is a great example of how some liberals respond to rational cognitive thought.

   I remember speaking to a liberal about taxation of the rich. When I said I do believe in it, they said they believe in tax breaks for the poor. After informing them the poor don’t pay taxes, but are paid by the government, they said, “Yeah, but the rich don’t need all that money.”

   Things like this are not rare, and it benefits conservatives when we understand their rationale, if it is just to call it that. I would encourage any conservative to read Coulter’s book "How to Talk to a Liberal: If You Must."

   Star Parker is a black conservative speaker who is often invited to give her speech “From Entitlement to Empowerment.”  She is an ex-recipient of welfare and a single mother who wants to encourage people to empower themselves. After arriving at Penn-State, she was immediately silenced by aggressive liberal demonstrators. She actually feared for her life at one point.

   David Horowitz was similarly attacked at Butler University when a liberal group had someone shove a chocolate cream pie in his face before the speech really even got started. After the incident a few members from the group screamed racial slurs at a black conservative professor at the university.

   At Bucknell University, the Dean of Students office withdrew funding for a Conservatives Club speech by Thor Halvorssen, executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).

   At Western Michigan University, conservative Pat Buchanan was assaulted with salad dressing. A student charged the stage and dumped a cup of ranch dressing on him as he spoke. Many students there attested that professors had encouraged the students to tear down fliers and posters.

   According to "Concerned Women for America" (January 2003), at Calvin College, editor of The Chimes Christian Bell apologized for trying to prevent a speaker from the American Family Association from talking on campus. After learning that the speaker had been invited to a class, Bell wrote to him, “I'll talk to the necessary administrators and see what I can do to ensure that the college doesn't allow you onto campus." Bell never contacted any administrators and later apologized.

   Instances like these are numerous. The “champions” of individual rights don’t seem to care to allow conservatives the very rights they fight for. It also says something about the logic and reason behind many liberals on university campuses. Instead of engaging in healthy debate and discussion, they are driven to personal attacks, physical assault and verbal irrationality.

   I personally think it is because they don’t really have a come back for the reasoning behind conservative thinking. We seem to want to participate in the expression of opposing ideas for the purpose of informing and persuasion. When liberal speakers come to our campuses, we listen and then continue to ask tough questions like Thomas Carpenter and Nathan Nall, and like I did when Seymour Hersh came to this campus and dogged President Bush and other conservatives for over an hour.

   It seems liberal arguments are becoming less and less solid. Understanding this, they throw fits and temper tantrums instead of coming back with valid remarks. It’s actually amusing to see those who claim intellectual supremacy to stoop so low as to throw things at people who they disagree with. Yeah, this is very intellectual. Kudos to the left.

   This brings me to my final point. For the past two years the Rockefeller Lecture speakers have been far left individuals. This is not something I am against. I love to ask them questions and watch them beat around a bush about it. So, I am not complaining about the speakers. I am actually proud that the people behind the invitations are able to bring in such high quality and much desired speakers to our campus. We are better for it.

   I do want to encourage them, however, to consider inviting a conservative speaker sometime soon to balance out the process. Hopefully though, Mahmoud would not be first on their list. He seems to be the only right winger (albeit violently radical) that the liberals would tolerate.

   There are many who I can name that would benefit us with their thoughts and angles. It would be a breath of fresh air to hear someone on this campus talk about something I believe in and agree with. I know many would feel the same way. Remember that we live in a pretty conservative geographical location. Someone from the NRA would be spectacular. Maybe a writer from Human Events, or any of the aforementioned persons.

   I only hope the liberals on this campus would show respect and not start a food fight in the Fine Arts Center.