Political debate sweeps campus

The Herald-Sun ^ | Feb 12, 2004 | Hunter Lewis

[Schatze]

Munger recalled a recent meeting in which he heard a fellow department chairman say it was Duke's job to confront conservative students with their hypocrisies and that they didn't need to say much to liberal students because they already understood the world.

Of course, liberals are never hypocritical, right? These people continually amaze me with their elitism.

[sauropod]

Brandon is a picknose liberal professor that abuses the trust Duke parents put in the university to give their kid a good education.

[Unam Sanctam]

Thank God for David Horowitz. Without his courage and pluck, I'm not sure that anyone would have dared take on these campus tyrants.

[Kenton]

"We try to hire the best, smartest people available. If, as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire. Mill's analysis may go some way towards explaining the power of the Republican Party in our society and the relative scarcity of Republicans in academia."

Of course, the saying that

"Those who can, DO
Those who can't, TEACH"

might be applicable here.

70 Democrats to 1 Republican, huh?

I guess that Republican is as much of a "token" as, well, like the time they let one Jewish doctor into the local country club.

Snotty, condescending liberals like this make me sick.

[MegaSilver]

In a Thursday statement, Brandon said he received "venomous, hate-filled e-mails" in response to his comments,

Which WEREN'T venomous and hate-filled??

[swampfox98]

I love these conservative Freshmen all over America. What I love about them is that they are not afraid to speak out when they see injustice in the system. I hope they carry that enthusiasm into the political arena and shake up the old boys in politics.

[bboop]

Does his quoting of JSMill not say it all about the libs? They think they are smarter than the whole rest of the country. Don't you think we ought to SHOW THEM who is smarter? Gooood grief, I cannot believe this idiot.

[Tempest]

Sad, sad, sad.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thank you for posting this. Otherwise I would have had to look it up, to get the quotes for my next column, "Marion, Madame Librarian." (It's another attack on the hypocrisy of the left, suffice to say.) LOL.

Congressman Billybob

Click here, then click the blue CFR button, to join the anti-CFR effort (or visit the "Hugh & Series, Critical & Pulled by JimRob" thread). Don't delay. Do it now.

[Helms]

This is so much la de da from Duke

Soros comes to Duke this week to speak to his nihilistic, postmodern, deconstructionist audience at Duke.

[Schatze]

They think they are smarter than the whole rest of the country.

Make that the rest of the universe. And they truly believe it. Funny thing is, most of the libs I know are incapable of critical thinking -- all they can do is regurgitate the party line.

[Schatze]

Thank you for posting this

You're welcome. I heard it discussed on talk radio and couldn't rest until I located the article and posted it here.

[Schatze]

Snotty, condescending liberals like this make me sick.

Snotty and condescending is the MO of most liberals; I know only a handful who are open-minded and reasonable.

[AJReferee]

Nobody seems to consider what Conservatives were like in 19th century England. Liberals probably on the issues were closer the today's Conservatives and would be horrified by the modern Liberals.

AJ

[onedoug]

And Stephen Miller at Duke. He spent a lot of time on Larry Elder's radio show detailing the liberal saturation at Santa Monica High School before he graduated.

[sauropod]

Time to fight back. These picknoses have e-mail addresses.

time to make some noise.

[Tax-chick]

chairman of the political science department, said he was impressed by Duke's intellectual diversity, which he called "relatively healthy" compared to other universities.

Right ... the Duke poli-sci department includes Marxists, Trotskyites, Maoists, Sandinistas, and a token New Dealer for "diversity."

[Trajan88]

In 1985, I took a poli sci class at NTSU (yes, it is STILL NTSU to me - I am "grandfathered") durring my summer break from Texas A&M University.

The prof., on the first day, went into a liberal diatribe slamming Dick Armey calling him a "nut" (Armey was an NTSU economics professor prior to his stint in congress).

I sat there in class just shaking my head - I would have said something, but I didn't want to get off track in my plan to graduate + I did not yet know if the exams were essay or closed-ended questions (didn't want to receive a poor grade due to my political affiliation).

Closed-minded, bleeding heart libs... useless.

I concur with another poster... I like the style of young conservatives these days... Give the libs hell.

Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88

p.s. Bush in 2004!

[swampfox98]

I like the style of young conservatives these day.

I think they are our only hope. I have voted for Republicans until my tongue hangs out. I don't see too much conservative ideas in the Republican party now. Hope I live to see these kids take action and kick butt.

[AJReferee]

John Stuart Mill called Conservative 'stupid.' Now, whom was he talking about? US? Twenty First Century Conservatives? No way! He was talking about Late Nineteenth Century Conservatives.

I don't know for sure what the 19th Century conservative positions on specific issues, but is there any justification to use the Mill ad homonym against us?

AJ