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The post went up quietly on Facebook’s internal message board last week. Titled “We Have a Problem With Political Diversity,” it quickly took off inside the social network. “We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in the post, which was obtained by The New York Times. “We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology.” Since the post went up, more than 100 Facebook employees have joined Mr. Amerige...

On a day largely devoted to remembering Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, would it really have been too much for Morning Joe to have had on at least one conservative guest to discuss her legacy? Apparently, yes. Morning Joe's lineup of political guests today leaned 100% left: Jon Meacham, Al Hunt, Cokie Roberts, Mike Allen, Sen. Tim Kaine, former Obama aides Robert Gibbs and Melody Barnes, Tony Blair, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mayor Michael Nutter, Eugene Robinson, Maureen Orth and Joe Klein. Joe Scarborough sometimes like to boast in such circumstances that his presence more than counterbalances the liberal avalanche....

Supporters of education have always sought to prevent the systematic imposition of views on students, said U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee at the first national Academic Freedom conference last week. The conference was held by David Horowitz’ Students for Academic Freedom on April 6 and 7 at the Washington Court Hotel in D.C. Delivering the keynote speech during breakfast, Alexander spoke on issues of political one-sidedness that he believes dominates American campuses. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was incensed by political one-sidedness of the right years ago, but now the problem is on the left said Alexander....

Conservative students who unleashed the protest against UNC-Chapel Hill's reading program will sit down today with Chancellor James Moeser, but they won't be debating "Nickel and Dimed." The students, who earlier this year formed a group called the Committee for a Better Carolina, have a broader agenda. They say conservative students are uncomfortable and intimidated on a campus that is overwhelmingly liberal, and they want the university to commit to big changes. First, they will ask Moeser to include political affiliation and ideology in the university's official nondiscrimination policy. They also want the university to devote more money to bring...

Bart James, a Republican political director, was warned how unfriendly Democrat-rich Broward County is to the GOP. But he never believed it until this week, when thousands of dollars worth of Gov. Jeb Bush's campaign signs were vandalized. Then James was threatened by an anonymous caller. "There is a lot of stuff I've seen down here that I've never seen in politics before," said James, who has worked on Republican campaigns in Arkansas and other Florida communities. "It's new to me, but then again, this is Broward County."