Right Wing Revving Up for Assault on "Left Wing" Faculty

I happened to catch a C-SPAN hour with YAF (used to be Young Americans for Freedom, but now apparently transmogrified into Young Americas Foundation: http://www.yaf.org/ which looks to be relaunching a smear campaign of a very ugly sort against faculty who have the temerity to challenge its political stances. They encourage student activism with rewards of all expenses paid vacations out there somewhere with all the goodies laid on: http://club100.yaf.org/ They are apparently well funded and ready to roll against any faculty member who gets out of line. Needless to say such is more than reminiscent of the McCarthy era. It looks to be an effort to carry the big lie straight into the heart of the classroom to threaten those short of tenure, say, with all sorts of retribution if the design argument is not properly lined up with evolution:

Bush Remarks Roil Debate Over Teaching of Evolution
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
President Bush on Monday appeared to endorse the push by
many conservatives to give intelligent design equal
treatment with the theory of evolution in public schools.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/politics/03bush.html?th&emc=th

Hopefully this group list will lie dormant in the future, but I fear not from what I was hearing yesterday from this YAF student conference. Be braced.
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