Angry at presidential candidate Gary Bauer's stance against gay marriage, Salon.com sex columnist Dan Savage deliberately tried to sabotage the campaign from the inside. "My plan? Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary," he wrote in a Salon.com article that appeared yesterday. "I would go to Bauer's campaign office and cough on everything—phones and pens, staplers and staffers. I even hatched a plan to infect the candidate himself. I would keep the pen in my mouth until Bauer dropped by his offices to rally the troops. And when he did, I would approach him and ask for his autograph, handing him the pen from my flu-virus incubating mouth."

New York Post columnist Rod Dreher is outraged—and so is the Bauer campaign. "This is trash-can journalism at its worst," Iowa campaign director Loras Schulte told Dreher.

"These students come to school at night and mostly associate with other nontraditional students, and the programs don't communicate very effectively the distinctive religious mission of these schools to them," says the University of Akron's John Green, who worked on the study Mission, Formation & Diversity: Adult Education Programs at Church-Related Colleges.

"Go on campus during the day and there's a lot of effort to communicate the religious message of the school to the younger kids."

The president of Liberty University says the Justice Department keeps a secret database about religious and antiabortion leaders, and he wants to see it. The FBI and White House don't ...