Since it is Christmas, I only have about fifteen minutes to write this note. I probably don’t have time to run the spell-checker either. So forgive me if this reads a lot like liberal hate mail.
This morning I opened my inbox to find two letters — one from a detractor, the other from a supporter. I can’t really quote much from the former. It was just the usual liberal love mail. “I hate you.” “You are irrelevant.” “I make more money than you.” “So just #$%& #@! and die.” And a really good postscript followed: “I want to douse your children in gasoline and light them with one of your Cuban cigars.”
When I read that last line, I laughed so hard I almost dropped my .44 magnum. And since I don’t have children, I calmly lit another cigar as I opened another letter.
The second letter was more positive. It was from a friend in Charlotte. His daughter, Laura, a student at Auburn, was recently involved in a fight to have the “Holiday tree” re-named a “Christmas tree” in an effort to turn the tables on political correctness.
What he reported to me was good news. Auburn University has reversed itself and will return to the tradition of calling the Christmas tree what it is — a Christmas tree, not a Holiday tree — again next year.
It wasn’t just the result that surprised me; it was the reason behind it. According to Laura, the Auburn SGA received over 20,000 emails in support of the Christmas tree resolution after the SGA email address was hyper-linked in a single Town Hall column. It also helped that Sean Hannity read portions of the article on his nationally syndicated radio show while Neal Boortz — himself a Town Hall columnist and nationally syndicated radio host – posted the article on his webpage.
The response got me thinking about an article I wrote last year exposing a Texas professor who said we had already lost the war in Iraq — and was pleased at the alleged military defeat. After I hyperlinked his email address in a column, he complained to me that he got 271 mostly nasty emails that “filled up his box.”
So, what difference does a year make? It sounds to me like I gained about 19,729 letter-writing allies this year.
I just wanted to thank them all before I head to the in-laws for Christmas dinner. Man, I can hardly wait until this time next year. Much to the chagrin of my friends at Alabama, I might even spend Christmas at Auburn.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. Mike Adams graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. Mike Adams was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate's degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, Mike Adams moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master's in Psychology. In 1990, Mike Adams turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. Mike Adams also played for free beer.
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Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000.
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After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O'Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.
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Today Mike Adams enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. Mike Adams is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. Mike Adams published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus, was published in 2008.
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