Poor, Persecuted Campus Conservatives
In Florida, and across the country, writes Joe Follick in the Lakeland Ledger, right-wingers are trying to pass a bill like the one approved by a House committee in Florida, to guarantee "free inquiry and free speech" in college classes. Passage should mean the end of intellectual persecution on campus like that endured by the Florida bill's sponsor, Ocala Republican Rep. Dennis Baxley:

Baxley recalled his first day in an anthropology class at Florida State University when the professor said, "Evolution is a fact. There's no missing link. I don't want to hear any talk about intelligent design and if you don't like that, there's the door.

via Reason's Daily Brickbats