As linked to on Drudge, the tolerant and open-minded left has again moved to quash dissent. They shoved a pie in the face of Bill Kristol while he gave a university lecture, and then they mercilessly heckled Ann Coulter at Kansas University. Interesting that both acts of intolerance occurred on those bastions of freethinking and liberal mindedness: college campuses. The best quote has to come from the Coulter story:
Some of the protesters, such as Robert Richardson, said they were members of the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics.
"We're just not open-minded enough to like Ann Coulter," Richardson, 28, of Lawrence, said.
It’s easy to be open minded around a bunch of people who agree with you. That’s why it’s no mistake, given the news out today about the liberal monolith of “higher” education, that supposedly liberal and critically thinking college professors tend to be the most narrow minded and vicious people out there. At least this is my experience. As Prof. Blanchard once noted to me, the nice thing about being a conservative in academia is we are actually called on the think. The lefties might go through a whole career and never meet someone with a substantially different worldview. Thus they get lazy and intellectually atrophied. One of the things I have noticed in academia is the willingness of academics, say at a political science conference, to let loose with the most irresponsible and uncharitable view of conservatives in the calm assurance that everyone in the room agrees with them. They just assume that everyone is a leftist. And normally they’d be right. Conservative academics, on the other hand, are constantly having their entire world view challenged and are required to give their ideals constant analysis. We few; we happy few!
By the way, here’s a picture of Ann Coulter (who I can’t
stand by the way) drawn by some peace loving tolerant individuals in
Lawrence. I guess they are comparing
her to Charlie Chaplin. 
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