It's one thing to call Howard Zinn a grandstanding, leftist fanatic. It's quite another to use the office of head of state to circumvent the First Amendment.
Enter "Stilt" Daniels, Purdue President and former Indiana Governor who sought to use his elevated stature as Governor to cut the 6' 4" Zinn down to size. That he would stoop so low was nothing short of tiny, little smallness. "Who does he think he is? Governor of Indiana?", remarked an upset alumnus.
Daniels' self-aggrandizement is not to be overlooked. Small abuses of power, left unchecked, lead to big abuses of power like those of former Presidents Bush and Clinton: gutting Social Security to ramp up a war machine in order to launch a world-wide campaign of murder and destruction on an unprecedented scale, and extra-marital affairs. I shudder to think of the devastating consequences another extra-marital affair would have on perceptions of America.
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