A furor has erupted over a "residence life education program" at the University of Delaware. As Bryan Preston says, you can't make this stuff up. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) explains:

According to the program's materials, the goal of the residence life education program is for students in the university's residence halls to achieve certain "competencies" that the university has decreed its students must develop in order to achieve the overall educational goal of "citizenship." These competencies include: "Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society," "Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression," and "Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality." (Emphasis added)

If that's not Marxist re-education, I don't know what is. "Systemic oppression" (i.e., capitalism), revolution (that's the "dismantling" part) and anti-capitalism (that's the "consumer mentality" part) — the Soviets would be proud to know that their agenda is thriving in American universities, 18 years after the Berlin Wall came down.

The university plays dumb. Michelle Malkin says, "I smell CYA."

Does that acronym stand for Communist Youth Aliiance?

— Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times