Bush Awards Medal of Freedom to Donna Shalala

According to a White House press release, President Bush has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a woman who did her best to stamp out freedom of speech while chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Donna Shalala. And she's still at it today at the University of Miami, where she serves as president.

Of all the educators in the country to choose from, including those who have suffered under the type of politically correct regimes that Shalala has built up and overseen, the choice of Donna Shalala to receive our nation's highest civilian award is beyond puzzling; it is obscene.

Watching that little tyrant stand on the same stage with Peter Pace and get our highest civilian award for protecting freedom is going to be video ipecac.

Andy McCarthy points out that these may be the last Medals of Freedom awarded by a Republican president for four or eight years. And one of them is being squandered on someone who will not even allow people to talk about ideas she disagrees with.

Chris Clukey
Contributing Editor