Heritage Meets the Guardians of Campus-Progressive Sensitivities

Douglas Ernst / September 20, 2010

Palm Beach State College activities director (and Michael Moore Facebook fan) Olivia Morris-Ford is on camera shutting down a Young Americans for Freedom booth during the school’s rush week earlier this month. The reason? The students were handing out Heritage research at a student event. Specifically, it looks like the school’s administrators were allergic to Heritage Fact Sheet #72, titled “The Obama Tax Hikes: Killing Job Creation.” Who would have thought that free speech could be so easily snuffed out on an American college campus?

One would think The Heritage Foundation and its research may get students shut down by College Campus Political Correctness Police more often, given Heritage’s reputation as being “the beast of all think tanks.” In addition to running one of the world’s premier internship programs, Heritage’s Young Leaders Program has been distributing Pocket Constitutions and Heritage research to student groups around the country. (more…)