[little jeremiah]

Your comments are right on. The only reason leftists and amoralists have achieved the influence and prominence they have is because conservatives - especially those with religous values - have been wimps. We've let them encroach. And if we don't stop their onslaught, the future is very dark indeed.

The instruction of "turn the other cheek" is for personal insult, not when barbarians are tearing down the walls.

[Wallace T.]

You are exactly right. There has been some progress made on the media front and to a degree in the public policy arena. The mainline Protestant churches are becoming increasingly irrelevant, and the mainstream news media are heading in the same direction. The difference is that the mainline Protestants started declining in power about 1955, and the mainstream media about 1995. Liberal and radical professors at many state universities, especially those on the lower end of the prestige scale, are regarded as wackos by many, if not most, of the students, at least those from working and middle class backgrounds.

However, where are our Harvards, Yales, MITs, Stanfords, Dukes, etc.? Even in colleges run by the Catholic Church and evangelical denominations, liberals are very well represented and often even dominate. (Think Georgetown, the oldest and arguably the most prestigious Catholic university in America, or Baylor, the flagship of Southern Baptist universities. Both are in the hands of liberals.)

Money is the mother's milk of academia. In the prestigious private universities, much of the funding comes from the upper classes and philanthropies. Despite leftist ranting about corporate America being reactionary, the fact is that most great fortunes in this country are in the hands of people that are liberal or at most moderate. It is far easier to think of billionaire liberals, even outside the sphere of entertainment, like Bill Gates, George Soros, or Warren Buffett, than of conservative ones. Forty years ago, there were numerous very wealthy conservatives, such as H.L. Hunt, Henry Salvatori, and J. Howard Pew, who helped fund conservative political organizations, universities, and churches. Furthermore, the large tax-free foundations are predominantly liberal and have been so for decades, such as the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Fund. Several foundations whose founders were conservative, such as those established by J. Howard Pew and Ray Kroc, have recently gone over to the "dark side" after the founders died and liberal relatives or administrators took over.

Until we can develop the funding sources, the "good guys" cannot create or develop institutions with the influence and prestige of the Ivy League and other elite institutions.

Go into business, young conservative man, go into business.