The claim in yesterday's Collegian editorial that there are no "conservative figures" set to speak at University Park this semester serves as a perfect example of how wildly the American political spectrum has been shifted in just the last four years. To think that Robert Novak, one of the foremost conservative voices in American media for several decades, could actually be considered a "liberal speaker" should be a warning of how seriously the current administration has affected our perception of what the words "conservative" and "liberal" mean. Just because Robert Novak, a traditional conservative, and Howard Dean, a moderate in my best assessment, can both disagree with George Jr.'s policies of a government for, of and by the Power Elite, it doesn't make them liberal. It makes them right.