STANLEY KURTZ has nice things to say about Calstuff:

Any college students out there in blogland? Here’s an idea. Two important scandals at Berkeley have just drawn national attention, at least in the conservative press--the male-sexuality course featuring live (possibly gay) sex and a party game with genital photographs, and the theft of a campus conservative paper (probably because of a story exposing reverse racism by a college Hispanic organization). I’ve written on both scandals here on The Corner, and thereby played some small roll in spreading the story, but it’s really Kevin Deenihan’s CalStuff blog that enabled the rest of us to spread the story. What if we had at least one good conservative blog at every college that now has a campus conservative newspaper? Right now, there are a tremendous number of PC outrages on campuses across the country that no one ever finds out about. It’s increasingly clear that one of the best things about the Internet is the end-run it allows us to make around the iron control of the liberal media. With conservative blogs on campuses across the country able to link quickly to national blogs and to campus newspapers alike, we could break through the barrier of politically correct campus censorship and rapidly expose any number of scandals. The general public would quickly start to act as a counterweight to the campus Left. Look at Berkeley. As a result of all the blogging, the campus conservative paper has collected thousands of dollars in contributions, reprinted its stolen press run, and spread knowledge of reverse racism on campus nationally. Let a hundred bloggers bloom!

Thanks Stanley! And I liked your article on Islamic veiling!

This probably as good a time as any to talk about the internal contradictions of running Calstuff. There's two. But they're long ones.

The first: not only am I not a Conservative, I'm a Democrat. And I think a lot of people criticizing any college campus misunderstand that, assuming the nationwide battle of Democrats and Republicans is repeated on campus. Not true! Pretty much every campus votes Democratic overwhelmingly, with a smattering of embattled Conservatives.

The real fault line is far to the left of the national center. It pits those with a basic faith in Capitalist Democracy and the American system against those opposing it. So my allies in the ASUC Senate and elsewhere are Liberal Democrats, hardcore Conservatives, and Moderates: all three believe in free speech, the integrity of the US, etc. My enemies believe that 'rights' are effective defenses of discrimination, that America systematically violates them, and that pretty much everything will have to go.

Not that my enemies make up a large part of the campus: I'd crudely estimate that they're between 10-20% of all students. But they're loud, angry, and adept at getting their way by Any Means Necessary. Their opposition is weakly organized. So that's why I have so much in common with the Berkeley Republicans: we both believe that theft is wrong, and our opponents don't.


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