Second, corporate America and wealthy individuals contribute a lot of money to political campaigns through various channels. Politicians understand this, and few are apt to "bite the hand that feeds them." As such, neither political party wants to do anything that would cut off funding, particularly with a presidential election in just two short years.

There was clearly a message from the voters that said, "If you're in political office, it ought to be about public service.''

[Ken was silent on why a national political party, one which calls itself the party of values, would need such a message from voters in order to understand the point]

Defense officials, on top of them Rumsfeld, failed and so did the American ambassador. Changing Rumsfeld should have happened a year ago because their work in Iraq did not achieve any results.

But almost every university has policies prohibiting such harassment [of students who say unpopular things] along with independent appeals procedures to protect students and the integrity of the academic environment. [David] Horowitz's restrictions [in his proposed Academic Bill of Rights ], in contrast, would invite outside monitoring of the classroom, creating hostility between students and professors, and politicizing the environment.The students who agree with me want our elected leaders to focus on addressing our real concerns: student loans, skyrocketing tuition and the post-graduation job market.