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A really amusing battle is going on at Southern Methodist University in Dallas where the Bush haters in the faculty are raging about losing their alleged academic independence from politics (oh, come on) if SMU hosts W’s presidential library–as if all presidential libraries are not partisan, at least until the great man dies. Poor Laura, it’s only because SMU is her alma mater that Bush wanted the library there to begin with. It would be much better served at Baylor University in Waco where Bush Derangement Syndrome is not so pronounced. But the library’s alleged partisanship that the SMU faculty purports to be concerned about really is baloney. The LBJ Library in Austin is hardly a hotbed of conservative analysis and Stanford University hasn’t been noticeably jeopardized by the presence of the conservative Hoover Institution. In any case, one would not expect, as one commenter here asserts, to see a bi-partisan exhibit at Clinton’s library dedicated to Monica Lewinsky, not as long as Old Bill is alive.