What "straw man argument"? All of the things I described are things I have actually seen and heard, how is that a straw man? To rick: I have been in Barnes & Noble as much as and probably more then most of the population. If you think they are trying to censor conservative authors then you obviously haven't been to the current affairs section! The attempts to crack down on your hero Rush and those of his ilk are based on the fact that they SPREAD LIES! I used to listen to christian talk radio and watch christian television and if regular talk radio is anything like that then there is plenty to correct! How about that phony breast cancer/abortion link you people tried to pass off? Even your buddy Rush a while back stated that the people hiring illegals were all liberal democrats. He of course offered no proof of this. Free speech and libel are two different things. That's just the stuff I can think of off the top of my head, I bet I could go listen to it right now and come up with plenty more (if I could bring myself to stomach it)!

The incidents of campus activity you described haven't been my experience, where I live there are a larger portion of conservative students then liberal. I local college tried to grant gay partners of employees the opportunity to buy into benefits and all the conservatives in the area got all their panties in a bunch! The one (yes, count it, one) incident of liberal bias in one of the area colleges was dealt with cleanly and that professor was let go. But since we're on the subject, how about my political science teacher who openly condemned the hippy movement of the sixties and used her classroom as a bully pulpit against it? Liberal bias indeed!

You, however, have yet to address my concerns. If you do not like something, like TV shows, like a movie, like a certain book or a dixie chicks song (that actually happened here after the Iraqi invasion) will you try and take it away from everyone else? Where I live, that has been exactly what has happened. Fortunatly, where I live is still not as bad as some of the places further south, but I have no doubt all it would take is another republican win to change that. I take issue with the conservative movement because they are run by religious extremists trying to take my freedoms away. I have no doubt in my mind that if you got control of the whole country that you would do that everywhere. Just look at the Massachussettes gay marraige ruling, or the Oregon assisted suicide law, or California's legalizing medical marijuana, you people believe in "states rights" until a state does something you don't like, then you have to pass a constitutional amendment banning it! All of which were incidents that were none of anyone else's business. This is the kind of future we can look forward to under the cons! So don't try and tell me you people are "persecuted"!

The media actually treated the release of this thing like it was a news item! First "Playstation 3" and now this! Meanwhile Dick Cheney just declared himself the fourth branch of government and removed his GOVERNMENT residents (as in "it belongs to the people") from Google maps. Are we sure the terrorists aren't winning?

The phony breast cancer/abortion link is all the proof I need that these people don't know the meaning of the word "morality"! Creating a phony medical condition to prevent abortion isn't any more moral then the abortion itself! "It's okay to lie because we're saving babies!" These people are authoritarians to the core! TIME magazine even did an article (I forget the actual date) earlier this year where they talked about the new "pregnanacy crisis centers" and how an abortion group and an anti-abortion group would sit down and talk to one another about their differences. The one issue they couldn't get past was the false information that these so-called pro-life groups were putting out there. The anti-abortionists summed up their feelings by saying that yes, lying is wrong but if it's done in the defense of saving babies it's okay. For me, this would be a deal breaker (incidently, the anti-abortion group has come under fire from some of their own for even sitting down with these people in the first place)!

If they are going to lecture everyone else about morality, they might wnat to start practicing what they preach!

Since when have these idiots ever acknowledged a carbon footprint even exists? If they are going to complain about that, then it means they know that carbon emissions are a real problem, and if they know that, then they don't have an excuse to oppose environmental legislation. But good luck getting the media to point out that hypocracy!

The only reason the concert in Washington was a "partisan event" was because people like Inhofe and the rest of his party made it one by refusing to acknowledge environmental problems exist in the first place (again, something they can't do if they are going admit there is a carbon footprint). Fortunatly, they are rapidly becoming the minority.