I just returned from the University of Minnesota and my speech to CFACT. We had a great audience for the event; what we lacked in numbers was more than balanced by enthusiasm. CFACT is one of the few conservative student groups on the U of M campus. They're busy building themselves into a strong voice, and it's great to see students speaking out for their beliefs and their politics in an environment that has much more sympathy for the opposite end of the political spectrum.

Martin Andrade, a MOB member, also belongs to CFACT and live-blogged the speech (using my laptop!). I'm sure he's much too kind, but it gives me some great feedback for the next time out. Martin also has a pretty danged cool setup for audioblogging, which he did with an after-speech interview with me. He uses his cell phone to call into a voice-mail system, which records the call and automatically posts the MP3 file to his blog. Hmmm ... gotta get me one of those. The interview took place at the Big 10 pub just off the campus, where we coincidentally ran into Larry Colson of the Bush 2004 campaign in Minnesota. We had a great debate about state and local politics for an hour, and seeing Larry again was a blast.

Anyway, thanks to everyone involved, and big thanks to King, Mitch, and Chad for promoting the speech the last two days.

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