After a firestorm of criticism over caving in to the thugs attempting to prevent Ann Coulter from speaking at the premier campus of the University of California, the University’s chancellor, Robert Dirks, attempted a weasel maneuver, offering to reschedule the event during the university’s reading period, when many students leave campus, and refusing to specify the venue to be used. Coulter, who noted that she is busy on the suggested alternate date, and that changing the plan would cost a lot of money since airfares and hotel rooms for her entourage have already been committed for the original date, refused the offer and announced that she would speak as originally scheduled, on April 27. This puts the ball squarely in the court of the University of California, which has already cancelled two other scheduled events featuring conservative speakers, thereby establishing a track record of censorship of conservative speakers, while allowing “controversial”...(Read Full Post)