Conservatism's Greatest Failure

This is an excellent article in the New Majority by Allen Guelzo on the issue of Conservatism and the Academy.

The academic Left is correct when it pooh-poohs the idea that it conducts a massive ideological de-programming; but then again, it does not need to. It has merely to nudge the standard deviation of the politics of the future ruling class a few clicks to the left for conservatism to seem abnormal. Conservatives made the disastrous mistake of assuming that if they abandoned those tedious and expensive plans to lay siege to the university, they would be free to move on to the larger and more easily-annexed plains of government and finance. They were wrong. Governments change, finances crash, but the faculty is forever.

And the "Stimulus" is full of these

Little provisions that inhibit your liberty and advance the atheist/secular agenda, that is. David French from NRO's Phi Beta Cons, and FIRE:

So the economyloses 598,000 jobs in January, the worst performance since 1974, and part of the solution—at least according to Congress—is to limit the access of student religious clubs to campus buildings. The Higher Education Modernization, Renovation, and Repair section of the bloated stimulus bill states that none of the billions appropriated to refurbish university facilities may be allocated for any building that is "(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or school department of divinity; or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission."

Does this mean that if stimulus funds are used to repair old wiring in a building, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship or Campus Crusade for Christ groups can no longer meet there after hours? Under the literal reading of the bill, it looks like it—though that very building could still be used by College Republicans, College Democrats, PETA, the Sierra Club, libertarians, chess clubs, various ethnic organizations, and virtually anyone else . . . so long as they are not engaging in "sectarian instruction or religious worship."

"Or a school department of divinity."  You take the government's money, and the government gets to ban God.  This is the left's War on Religion. This is insanity, and unenforceable.  Expect a lawsuit if it is ever enforced.  Expect FIRE to be a part of that law suit [I wrote that before I even finished the post.  DF says "UNCONSTITUTIONAL".]