It’s understandable that student newspapers at public universities are left-leaning. The advisors of the papers are usually left-leaning and they often have a left-leaning administration leaning on them. So their coverage of issues like abortion and homosexuality is often skewed. But private religious universities once provided a safe haven for those who wished to express views not approved by the immoral minority. It’s tough to comprehend the extent to which they have fallen prey to political correctness in recent years.

The Observer, the student newspaper at the University of Notre Dame, has shown that our nation’s Catholic universities no longer provide an escape from the politically correct orthodoxy running rampant on our nation’s public campuses. And the paper has shown a remarkable contempt for intellectual honesty – not to mention the Ninth Commandment.

The Observer declined to print a column that defends Church teachings on homosexual activity, which was written by Charles Rice - a Notre Dame Professor of Law. Rice has written a regular column with the Observer for nearly two decades.

In graduate school, I had the largest private office at the University of California, Riverside -- and probably in the entire system of campuses. It had eight desks and room for bookcases, plus room for three more desks. No full professor had anything like it. I had it for two years. Yet I had no position in the university during this time. This was a fluke. The room got lost in the system.

A little more than a year after President Barack Obama took office following a tech-savvy, history-making campaign, conservatives are plowing energy into and using to the hilt new media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

It's one important way, activists interviewed at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference say, to reach out and connect with young voters -- who voted overwhelmingly for Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

Obama's campaign was known for its aggressive use of the Internet, and for sending updates by text message and email. Obama voters, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, outpaced supporters of Republican rival John McCain in using the Internet for customizing political content, sharing campaign news and donating money.

Now conservatives are planning to pick up the pace.

"You need to have a vibrant new media outreach," said Jason Mattera, spokesman for Young America's Foundation, which describes its mission as ensuring that more Americans understand and are inspired by individual freedom, strong national defense, free enterprise and traditional values.