Young America's Foundation has been recording the commencement speakers at top schools for more than a decade. Unsurprisingly, the data supports much anecdotal evidence that suggests that colleges and universities promote left-wing ideas to the exclusion of conservative ideas. Carnegie Mellon hosting Al Gore, Cornell featuring Maya Angelou, Wake Forest honoring E.J. Dionne, and UC-San Diego spotlighting Robert Kennedy, Jr. are a few of many examples of schools fawning over liberal celebrities on graduation day. On the rare ocassion when conservatives get the call, campus denizens act as though administrators proposed to burn down the library. "Professors at the University of Georgia tried to get the school to rescind an invitation to Justice Clarence Thomas," YAF points out. "At Washington University in St. Louis leftist students and professors turned their backs when Phyllis Schlafly was awarded an honorary degree." We are in the midst of a war. Why only one military leader? A Republican administration is in the White House. Why so few GOP stalwarts amidst what seems like a Clinton administration reunion? Where are the conservative counterparts to Julian Bond, Laurence Tribe, and Carl Bernstein?

It used to be that our institutions of higher learning were indoctrination centers for liberal philosophy. Today that's evolved to harbor training for the radical left.

That article includes Stephen Colbert, as a liberal. That surely is debatable. He clearly does not use his fame to push the liberal agenda.

Sounds odd, but I'm not sure Colbert is even that political either way. He goofs on everybody and his shtick seems to be his irreverence. Read his book a couple of weeks ago and although I'm not intrigued by his on air stuff, his writings were hilarious.