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Well now, there then, you're right -- as in "correct," not politically (I'm still convinced you're a closet leftie) -- there's almost nothing on the list
that I'm in much of a position to answer.
As a newly-minted Republican myself -- that's right, I've decided that the Grand Old Party could do with a little truth in advertising about itself, and have already announced my joining up to provide whatever assistance I can along those lines -- I'll take a stab at the one about my younger colleagues, however.
The Young Republics SHOULD feel resentful about not being funded -- as a "cultural group," no less -- by those typically much less affluent and emphatically more marginalized than themselves. After all, that's what makes them Republicans.
As to who underwrote my fee -- which,I'll have to admit, while hefty enough by any reasonable standard, didn't quite measure up to that by such really discrimated-against Republican types as Ann Coulter (of course, I've not yet figured out the secret of how she manages to deliver a glazed glare out both sides of her head at once while delivering lines about what a blessing it was for humanity that Chivington and friends exterminated all the barriers to civilization littering up the Colorado landscape a while back, so I guess I've got a way to go before I deserve to be on her pay scale, eh?).
As to who underwrote my tab, I've really got no idea, other that it had nothing to do with tuition. I was told simply that it was money dedicated to that purpose by an "anonymous private donor."
Scuttlebutt has it, however, that it was actually a fat cat Republican alumnus of DePaul who hoped to drum up an "issue" that stood to give his guys on campus could focus on and thus piggy-back a bit of visibility for themselves.
Combine that with there being a rightwing faculty member at DePaul in rather desperate need of being able to claim he'd actually published something -- you know, "scholarly production," and all that -- and the fact that The American
Thinker had been so remiss as to have not yet dedicated a piece to me...
Well, you see his point. A lot of birds with one check, doncha think?
Recording? Not my call. But, then, it was a genuine pleasure to see that younger folk still possess the rudimentary skills necessary to take notes rather than merely push a button.
I did a sort of informal evaluation while I was speaking and -- guess what? -- the blond kid who is was told heads up the YR was far and away the most proficient -- or at least the most frenetic -- of the lot.
That's about it.
WC
My back channels tell me, however, that i
(Note: It ends with that fragment.)
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