[Starve The Beast]

David Horowitz daily walks into the nastiest liberal lion's den in this country, the American Academy. That guy needs a Presidential Medal of Freedom more than anyone else I can think of.

[Tribune7]

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[ViLaLuz]

May the reformation begin!

[TXBubba]

"Faculty and instructors shall be hired, fired, promoted, and granted tenure on the basis of their competence and appropriate knowledge in their field of expertise and shall not be hired, fired, promoted, granted tenure, or denied promotion or tenure on the basis of their political, ideological, or religious beliefs."

Sounds good to me as long as it exempts religious institutions who I believe have a right to fire instructors who change their beliefs after being hired.

[randita]

I'd rather not have laws enacted on this issue. Far better to let the free market work. Provide a forum -- the internet is perfect for this -- where students or others with firsthand experience can point fingers and name names. Parents of students and alumnists ultimately hold all the cards. When the money stops flowing in, things will change in a hurry. U of CO is learning this lesson the hard way.

[purpleland]

"David Horowitz daily walks into the nastiest liberal lion's den in this country, the American Academy. That guy needs a Presidential Medal of Freedom more than anyone else I can think of."

David Horowitz is one of my few mortal heros, and one of America's truly brave-citizen heros.

[Always Right]

Academic Freedom is only for liberal professors who hate America. Students who think they are full of crap need to be jailed and/or expelled. We can't have our institutions of higher learning corrupted with positive ideas about America.

[cake_crumb]

"Over the past week or so several articles have been written decrying that the bill will limit free speech in the classroom and seriously hamper students' abilities to learn from a variety of viewpoints"

Translation : "different viewpoints than ours may be expressed and we'll lose our lock on hearts and minds!"

It's a sad commentary on how far into fascism the left has fallen that actual legislation must be introduced to allow freedom of speech in an area that was once considered the bastion of free speech even before there was a United States to guarantee free speech in writing.

It's ironic that the man fighting the left to allow freedom of speech was formerly one of their own. It's also a good thing for everyone and especially the far left. Who better than one of their own to point out and attempt to correct it?

[Triggerhippie]

(B) Students shall be graded solely on the basis of their reasoned answers and appropriate knowledge of the subjects and disciplines they study and shall not be discriminated against on the basis of their political, ideological, or religious beliefs. Faculty and instructors shall not use their courses or their positions for the purpose of political, ideological, religious, or antireligious indoctrination.

I guess this is the beginning of the end for "Religious Studies" programs.

I wish this had happened before I graduated AND in Florida too.

[bdeaner]

David Horowitz daily walks into the nastiest liberal lion's den in this country, the American Academy. That guy needs a Presidential Medal of Freedom more than anyone else I can think of.

Dude, Horowitz has it easy compared to some of us who actually have to WORK in these places. Try getting tenured while maintaining your political integrity as a conservative. You start to feel like a snow ball that just arrived in hell.

[PistolPaknMama]

That guy needs a Presidential Medal of Freedom more than anyone else I can think of.

I'll sign the petition if you start it. :-)