Reflections

Tuesday night, I met with four students from UCSD, all are involved with several conservative student groups, including the College Republicans and the conservative student newspaper that is on the Collegiate Network – The California Review. It’s a good paper, but I advised the students they need to get more campus focused, in other words, […]

Well, my welcome to San Diego, was… you could say… a bit “delayed.” As my plane was landing on Monday night, and descending to land on the (short) runway at San Diego airport, we got within 500 feet of the runway… and then… instead of continuing to land, we accelerated back up! A few minutes […]

On Monday, I visited my final campus in Seattle and the PNW. I began my trip in the PNW at a Catholic institution (the University of Portland), and ended it with another Catholic school, Seattle University. I met with an English Professor here who has been involved with ISI for a long time. Great guy, […]

Ok, so if anyone actually reads this… you might have noticed a little lag in my blogs the past few days… the truth is, you can call it either laziness or tiredness… I’m approaching the end of my 13-day trip to the Left Coast. It’s been enjoyable and honestly I’m not as tired as I […]

Friday afternoon I visited the Discovery Institute in Seattle, a really great and intriguing organization, where my friend Charles Ganske works. Discovery is involved with many projects, but is known most strongly for their scholarly contributions to the new field of intelligent design. Ganske showed me around the organization’s headquarters. ISI works somewhat closely with […]

On Friday, I met with three professors at the University of Washington. In such a liberal environment, they are holding the fort and doing so in an almost “underground” fashion, as they mentioned the few conservative professors try to figure out who each other are and then form some sort of tight underground bond. It’s […]

So I made it to the farthest state from Florida in the mainland of the United States. I keep telling the students I meet how far I have come to travel to meet them. It’s true. From Philly I must be about 2,500 miles and from South Florida, definitely over 3,000 if not 4,000. That […]

What a day… I woke up at 7am this morning ready to conquer the Oregon Trail. I started the day off in Salem, Oregon (where I woke up) and visited Corban College (formerly known as Western Baptist College). I literally did a “pop in” visit to campus, and met one of the Career/Academic Advisors on […]

It was quite a day… I visited with people at 3 different schools today, all within an hour’s drive of each other. My day began with a visit to Reed College, rated by the Princeton Review as one of the “best educational programs” in the country, yet with “the least religious” student body. My work […]

Yea seriously, it’s uber-liberal out here. I didn’t notice it as much until I walked onto the campus of Portland State. The campus just blends right from the city into the university. It’s a very nice urban campus. The city also is a good-sized city (let’s say a big city) with a small-town feel. I’d […]