My little college town is getting almost as bad, looks like. Ours is the only house I've seen with a Bush sign (in the windows - didn't want to risk having one stolen from the yard). I told Mr. M this morning we are an island of sanity in a sea of liberals. Is it a rule that colleges and universities can hire only leftists?
Yes, it's an unwritten rule. There are very few conservative faculty left at major research universities. They are usually in medicine and maybe one or two at the business schools, but not many there. Conservatives are thought of as cretins in academia regardless of the area of study.