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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Rep. Peter King: “Ted Cruz has no business running?” Really?

Ted Cruz has no business running?  Really?  Republican Representative Peter King has said that Cruz is a “carnival barker with a big mouth who has no business running for President”!
Because he steadfastly defends our Constitution and freedom of religion, wants to secure our border and would like to see the IRS and Common Core ended, you think he has no business running?  I’m guessing that you never mentioned that one Barack Hussein Obama had no business running for President.
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz Speaks At The Heritage FoundationCruz is not a viable candidate because he, like Obama, has not been in Congress any longer than Obama was and he was never a Governor?  That is what is being said by some.  Let’s see who is more qualified.

A background check is in order.  Barack Obama has a past which is very sketchy.  There are no former girlfriends who have come forward.
There are almost no photos of his time in school except for those showing him as part of a choom gang, or sitting on a sofa with his friend from Pakistan while he was a college student.  There is no available college transcript, leading some to think that he either had terrible grades, or was a foreign student.
After college, he became a Saul Alinsky believer and a community organizer.  As such his job was to teach others how to protest against many things, organizing them for action against evil Capitalists.  This included protesting banks which were not giving mortgages to those who had no way to pay them back.
Obama came out of obscurity to become our President, based on his so-called soaring rhetoric and his call for “fundamental change”.  No one really asked what that change would entail.  We have learned that it includes spitting in the eye of the Constitution, more government, more income redistribution, more money to Americans with their hands out, and more control over all Americans.
Just who is Ted Cruz?  His former college professor, the famous Alan Dershowitz, has called him off-the-charts brilliant.  He had a stellar career as a litigator, and was the youngest Solicitor General in the United States.  He was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught Supreme Court litigation.
Obama was never the professor he claimed to be.  Cruz clerked for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.  He argued before the Supreme Court nine times.  He won an award for the “Best Brief Award by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), for U.S. Supreme Court briefs in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007”
He has served two years in the U.S. Senate, never backing down from the causes in which he believes.  The fact that he has not been able to convince his fellow Republicans to go along with him does not mean that he is wrong, or is not a leader.  A leader will take an opposing position just because it is the right thing to do.  It sometimes takes time to convince people to have the courage to join the fight.
Liberals and leftists will condemn Cruz for stating so boldly that our rights come not from government, but from God.  Chris Christie is saying the same thing.  Cruz has been condemned for announcing his candidacy in a place that does not include those who are non-believers.  He added that he thinks God is not done with us.  Thankfully he is not talking about the presumption that “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding”, as did Barack Obama.
The National Review, a more conservative journal, wrote about Cruz’s “tone” while speaking.  Now it is all about the “tone” and not the content?  It seems people on both sides will find something not to like about Ted Cruz.
The important thing, while we debate whether he is a “natural born” citizen, is that he brings a boldly stated conservative message to the debate.  While we have lamented that Republican candidates have in the past refused to make a strong argument in defense of their positions, we are watching Ted Cruz tell it like it is.  It is refreshing and exciting.
Quite apart from whether he is eligible or wins the nomination, he will make the campaign and debates much more informative.
Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2015/03/rep-peter-king-ted-cruz-has-no-business-running-really/

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Obama's scandal updates: Russia, IRS, Immigration, VA and more

Obama moves deadline for Iran nuke deal past midterm elections  [I wonder what else he will move til after the election?  He seems to know that his preferred agenda will result in fewer Democrats being elected this November.  He is truly shameless.]   http://www.redstate.com/2014/ 07/20/obama-moves-deadline- iran-nuke-deal-past-midterm- elections/

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Defiant Putin warns the West not to use MH17 tragedy for 'selfish political ends', as Ukraine accuses Russia of spiriting away shrapnel-hit bodies to avoid implicating rebels

In between fund-raising trips, the American President walked to the podium Monday and promised there would be consequences if the Russian president continued to make vicious mischief in the wake of a horrific mass murder that he almost surely aided and abetted.
He scolded the Russian-backed, Russian-trained and Russian-armed separatists, who have been busy “removing bodies from the crash site, oftentimes without the care that we would normally expect from a tragedy like this,” adding:  [Are you laughing out load as I am?  He calls this a tragedy, as if no one CAUSED it to happen, and then expects the thug terrorists who did this to actually use CARE in handling the aftermath!  You just can't make this stuff up!]
“This is the kind of behavior that has no place in the community of nations.” And he warned that, “If Russia continues to violate Ukraine’s sovereignty . . . the costs for Russia’s behavior will only continue to increase.”
The Russian president must have chuckled. Or rolled his eyes. The American President has made such pronouncements too many times before.  Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wages-weakness-article-1.1875079#ixzz38CVWX0fH
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Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings calls for end to 'public harassment' of IRS chief John Koskinen [via House testimony]  http://washingtonexaminer.com/elijah-cummings-calls-for-end-to-public-harassment-of-irs-chief-john-koskinen/article/2551097

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71 Percent of Obama Voters Regret Voting for Obama
[I wish I knew just ONE of them.  Of course, none of my
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months off: Martha's Vineyard break will put Obama over 140 days on vacation  

When President Obama wraps up his 16-day summer break next month on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he will have taken all or part of 141 days of vacation, time split between summers on the island, winters in his native Hawaii and birthday weekends at his Chicago home.  http://washingtonexaminer.com/5-months-off-marthas-vineyard-break-will-put-obama-over-140-days-on-vacation/article/2551079
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NAACP Legal Defense Fund: Detroit Water Service Shutoffs Were Racially Motivated 

[Gee, I wonder if it could possibly have anything to do with the fact that they were not paying their bills.]   http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/07/21/naacp-detroit-water-service-shutoffs-are-racially-motivated/

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LUIS GUTIERREZ TO LA RAZA: GET AMNESTY TO 'PUNISH' AMERICANS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION  

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) believes Hispanics should get amnesty and citizenship to punish Americans who are against illegal immigration. 

After he told the La Raza conference in Los Angeles that President Barack Obama gave the Latino community a "down payment" with his temporary amnesty program that halted the deportations "of our people," Gutierrez urged Hispanics to seek retribution at the ballot box.

"We need to raise our voices, make ourselves citizens, sign up to vote and punish those who speak ill and criminalize children who come to our border," Gutierrez reportedly said in Spanish this weekend.  [I guess no longer must our elected Representatives actually follow our laws.]  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/21/Luis-Gutierrez-to-La-Raza-Get-Amnesty-to-Punish-Americans-Against-Illegal-Immigration
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TEXAS STATE SENATOR: 100,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG MEMBERS IN STATE

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What Emergency? CBO Says Just $25 Million of Obama’s $3.7 Billion Border Bill Would Be Spent This Summer

Sessions said some reports say Obama could create work permits for up to six million illegal residents, and said Congress should take a stand and refuse to allow any funding for this activity.  
Senate GOP staffers have noted in recent weeks that while the flood of just 60,000 children has led to billions in possible additional costs, the Senate-passed immigration bill would create millions of new green card opportunities for non-U.S. citizens — about 30 million over the next decade. Sessions noted that the Senate bill could allow almost every Central American family to enter the U.S. legally.
“President Obama’s illegal work permits add to the already-huge flow of lawful work permits issued by the federal government,” Sessions said.
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Monday, January 27, 2014

Pentagon didn't know Benghazi annex existed; George Bush vindicated; Abuse of Powers; shameful school programs

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 Bombshell: Pentagon 'didn't know' Benghazi annex existed

Raises major questions about what U.S. was doing in secretive facility

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/bombshell-pentagon-didnt-know-benghazi-annex-existed/#RGzV3goil8ZkuWOQ.99
---------------------[President George W. Bush vindicated!]The WikiLeaks de facto declassification of privileged material makes it case closed: Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction -- and intended to restart his program once the heat was off. [We did give him more than 3 months of warnings that we were about to go into Iraq, sufficient time to move the weapons to Syria.] http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2010/12  /09/the_wikileaks_vindication_of_george_w_bush
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Much has been reported about the chemical spill in West Virginia and the adverse impact upon the drinking water for local communities. However, could there be even greater – and purposeful — threats to drinking water here in America, which is going unreported and ignored?  [He goes on to list several unsettling and very suspicious events which have been dismissed without action.]
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2014/01/terror-threat-water-supply/#cZx7f84OITgUePLt.99
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Worse than Richard Nixon. An unprecedented abuse of powers. The most un-American president in the nation’s history.
Nat Hentoff does not think much of President Obama.
And now, the famous journalist says it is time to begin looking into impeachment.
Hentoff sees the biggest problem as Obama’s penchant to rule by executive order when he can’t convince Congress to do things his way.
“Apparently he doesn’t give one damn about the separation of powers,” Hentoff told WND. “Never before in our history has a president done these things.”
Recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court, Hentoff was a columnist and staff writer with The Village Voice for 51 years, from 1957 until 2008, when his columns began appearing in WND.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/liberal-icon-urges-obama-impeachment/#zD2tuHh3eefZs1Wb.99

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New York Common Core Website Sent Students to Sex Quiz Page

[Here is your warning: while it is important to know what is going on, this is very graphic, and being presented to children!]

Questions on the “Are you a slut?” test include:

Students who wish to find out if they are a “loser” must answer these questions:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/11/New-York-State-Common-Core-Website-Sends-Students-To-Sex-Quiz-Site
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When closely examined, however, the initiatives are embedded with plans for major fundamental changes.  Well-known recent examples include the Common Core, the Affordable Care Act, and Agenda 21.
One such initiative with the hidden potential for sweeping transformation is the "internationalization" of higher education.  It is a diffuse movement advanced by numerous groups and individuals throughout academia, from independent centers to professional associations to college faculty and administrators.  Despite an innocent façade, its declared intention provides cover for a highly aggressive campaign of multiculturalism, "global citizenship," redistributive economics, and anti-Western attitudes.
One organization attempting to take the lead is the Association of International Education Administrators (AEIA).  http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/global_citizens_of_the_world_obey.htmlhttp://
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Schools across the country are rethinking “zero tolerance” discipline policies under which children have been suspended, even arrested, for minor offenses like cursing, getting into shoving matches and other garden-variety misbehavior that in years past would have been resolved with detention or meetings with a child’s parents.  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/zero-tolerance-reconsidered.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1&#comments
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The Stanford University study found that charter public schools had significantly more "economically disadvantaged" students than traditional public schools.
Dev Davis, research manager at CREDO at Stanford University, said they found that 70 percent of the charter students were economically disadvantaged, meaning they were eligible for free or reduced price meals. She said 55 percent of the traditional public school students were economically disadvantaged.
Also, the Stanford study found that black and Hispanic students did "significantly" better in reading and math when in charter schools than their peers in conventional public schools.  http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/19477
----------------Popular television and radio host Sean Hannity delivered a hard hitting response to Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s claim that if “extreme conservatives” are “right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay,” then “they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
Pledging to eventually vacate the state, Hannity delivered a pointed message on his radio show Monday, saying, “Gov. Cuomo, I’m going to leave and I’m taking all of my money with me — every single solitary penny.”
Hannity went on to remind the governor that there are numerous employees who work for his radio and television programs and that these individuals will be out of a job if he decides to move out of the state.       From The Blaze.com
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American influence in the Middle East will dwindle to Iran's benefit if the United States responds to the Arab Spring upheaval by pulling government aid, the Obama administration's top diplomat for the region told Congress Wednesday.
Instead, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman testified that lawmakers should approve the administration's request to create a $770 million incentive fund to support democratic and free-market reforms in the region. The fund would address the root causes of the upheaval, Feltman said, while “lack of these reforms will continue to undermine our interests across the board.”  Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/226527-state-department-urges-congress-to-continue-pouring-money-into-arab-countries#ixzz2r3er2Na3
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Mexican couple arrested crossing into the US in connection with Target credit card breach which affected 100million customers  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542977/Mexican-couple-arrested-crossing-U-S-connection-Target-cedit-car-breach-affected-100million-customers.html

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Why is the EPA altering state boundaries in Wyoming - and reversing over 100 years of established law?  Well, apparently the city of Riverton now falls under the jurisdiction of the Wind River Indian Reservation.  This, obviously, isn't sitting well with the governor's office - which is urging the EPA to reconsider its ruling and respect the rule of law.
Reacting to the decision to reduce the size of Wyoming by about a million acres, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead warned of the dangers to all Americans of this type of unilateral land redistribution by the EPA:
- See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/epa-decree-shrinks-size-wyoming-million-acres#sthash.E7xcWxe6.GV51MzPX.dpuf
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Despite the drumbeat of news stories claiming that every storm is evidence of global warming, demanding immediate action, global storm activity is at historic lows, and sea level rises are miniscule. And it's not like Boston has never experienced a nor'easter.
That $40 million for solar batteries (the price of 40,000 gasoline generators) smells like a payoff to the solar lobby.
As for the $10 million for seawall improvement, it might be money well spent -- an actual shovel-ready job
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/warmists_pivot_to_climate_adaptation.html#ixzz2r86863A6
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Like the man said, he’s got a pen and a phone and he’s not going to wait around for the legislature just because the law says he has to.

New executive overreach: Obama may relax U.S. sanctions on Iran — without action from Congress http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/21/new-executive-overreach-obama-may-relax-u-s-sanctions-on-iran-without-action-from-congress/

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Friday, October 25, 2013

More programs in our public schools

Unions oppose bipartisan effort to keep criminals out of public schools

– Federal lawmakers want to prevent schools from employing convicted sex offenders, kidnappers, murderers, pornographers, spouse beaters and rapists.
Public schools would be barred from employing teachers and other workers convicted of sexual offenses against children or other violent crimes under a bill the House approved Tuesday. 
The bill has run into objections from major teachers' unions like the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. In letters to lawmakers, their criticisms included concerns that the measure might jeopardize workers' protections under union contracts.
In addition, the NEA wrote that criminal background checks "often have a huge, racially disparate impact" — a reference to critics' complaints that minorities make up a disproportionately high proportion of people convicted of crimes. http://www.newstribune.com/news/2013/oct/23/house-bill-makes-schools-check-sex-offenders/
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Attention, parents: Common Core opt-out form now available 

Courtesy of Truth in American Education, you can now exercise your parental rights to protect your children from the nationalized Common Core racket. Download, print, Facebook, tweet, and share the opt-out form. The revolt is growing. Make your voice and your choice heard.

As the American Principles Project, a conservative education think tank, reported last year, Common Core’s technological project is “merely one part of a much broader plan by the federal government to track individuals from birth through their participation in the workforce.” The 2009 porkulus package included a “State Fiscal Stabilization Fund” to bribe states into constructing “longitudinal data systems (LDS) to collect data on public-school students.”
These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data — health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wide variety of public agencies. And despite federal student-privacy protections guaranteed by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the Obama administration is paving the way for private entities to buy their way into the data boondoggle. Even more alarming, the U.S. Department of Education is encouraging a radical push from aggregate-level data-gathering to invasive individual student-level data collection. http://michellemalkin.com/2013/03/11/attention-parents-common-core-opt-out-form-now-available/
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Pat Jones, principal of Alliance High School in Alliance, Nebraska, took it upon himself to cancel the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in his school citing the partial government shutdown begun by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's refusal to consider a single GOP proposal to keep the government funded. Jones' decision, the Journal-Star reported Monday, angered students, causing at least one to stand and recite the Pledge anyway. http://www.examiner.com/article/high-school-principal-cancels-pledge-of-allegiance-cites-government-shutdown
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AND THEY WONDER WHY IT IS CALLED “OBAMACORE”???

Proponents of Common Core are outraged that opponents sometimes brand the education reform initiative as “Obamacore“. Really? Just because it is already being used a a propaganda tool to promote the President?
Recently, at least one Tennessee school had students complete an assignment as part of the CCSS (Common Core State Standards) approved lesson plans. The first part of the assignment was for students to read President Barack Obama’s 2009 Inauguration Address. Then they had to answer the “Big Question.” And what WAS the “Big Question”?? “How will President Obama make our country more secure. What role does he see our country playing in the world.”
Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/wonder-called-obamacore/#lkh7bcCQX7agjHeO.99
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Scotland shuts down childhood immunization program after Muslims complain
The vaccine contains pork gelatine, so non-Muslim children must do without it. When in Muslim countries, non-Muslims must adapt their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. When in non-Muslim countries, non-Muslims must adapt their behavior to Muslim sensibilities. "Flu vaccine scheme halted over fears of Muslim parents," by Gerry Braiden for The Herald, October 4 (thanks to Daniel Greenfield):  http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/scotland-shuts-down-childhood-immunization-program-after-muslims-complain.html
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Epping preschool rejects candy corn mom packed into daughter's lunch

"She said, 'My teacher told me I couldn't have any candy,'" Kelly said.

When she asked about the candy issue while dropping Sarah off at school the next day, Kelly said another teacher told her that the school's policy is no candy at school.
Kelly said she never saw such a policy when the school year started, and neither did her fiancé, Epping School Board Chairman David Mylott.

"If I put food in her lunch, she should be able to eat it. If I want to give my daughter a treat because she did a good job, she should be allowed to have it," Kelly said. http://www.unionleader.com/article/20131017/NEWS04/131019353
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All the employees of school districts on a witch hunt to expel and otherwise permanently punish young boys for shooting toy guns or forming their fists into the shape of a gun need to read Back to Normal.
The purpose of psychologist Enrico Gnaulati’s 2013 book is to argue how ordinary childhood behavior is often misdiagnosed as ADD, ADHD, depression and autism — frequently with life-long, disturbing consequences. But along the way he raises the taboo question of whether we “label boys as mentally unstable, behaviorally unmanageable, academically underachieving, in need of special-education services, or displaying behavior warranting school suspension just because their behavior deviates noticeably from that of the average girl?”
He adds, “In a sense, girl behavior has become the standard by which we judge all kids.”
Boys who play in the way noted above are not on a path to mass murder, contrary to what zero tolerance school policies suggest. http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/18/boyhood-is-not-a-mental-illnes

Sign in High School Promotes Population Control, Tells Teens Two Kids Maximum http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/18/sign-in-high-school-promotes-population-control-tells-teens-two-kids-maximum/
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Teacher Sues MEA To Escape Union

Union demanded bank account information and threatened teacher's credit  

Chanski didn't give much thought to opting out of the MEA until this past spring when a union representative came into her classroom to get her credit card or bank account money to ensure that she paid her dues electronically.
"At that time, I did not feel comfortable giving either of those numbers," Chanski said. "That is very private information that I did not want on a piece of paper."

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/19278

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Watch it happen. 2014 will surely be the year that New York City schools close for Muslim holidays. Both mayoral candidates, radical progressive Bill de Blasio, and Republican candidate, Joe Lhota, support the idea. In a most bitter irony, the city that witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11 will be largest school district to close for Islamic holidays. CAIR/Hamas will see that it happens, as will the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee. But it appears they’ve already won.  [Looks as if they think being "nice" will prevent further attacks.......]  http://gopthedailydose.com/2013/10/18/2014-year-nyc-schools-close-muslim-holidays/

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Muskegon, MI: Fourth graders learn to own their ‘white privilege’ – thanks to Common Core-aligned lesson
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Sixth-grade children in a history class in the Bryant School District in Arkansas (whose website brags that the district "has embraced" Common Core standards) were assigned a project to update the U.S. Bill of Rights because it is "outdated." They were instructed to "prioritize, revise, omit two and add two amendments."
The written assignment is full of lies, such as "the government of the United States is currently revisiting the Bill of Rights"; that "They (presumably the government) have determined that it is outdated and may not remain in its current form any longer;" and that our Constitution can be changed by a "National Revised Bill of Rights Task Force (NRBR)" (to which students could be appointed).
Students were presented with the "lifeboat situation": too many people are in the sinking lifeboat and the students were ordered to choose whose lives are not worth saving and should be thrown overboard so the lifeboat won't sink. Variations of the lifeboat situation have been widely used in public schools for many years. http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2013/10/22/checking-your-kids-school-assignments-n1729032/page/full
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Zaner-Bloser, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, is distributing a lesson plan aimed at teaching second-graders about “equality” by highlighting labor issues, according to Education Action Group Foundation, a non-partisan organization that looks to promote education reform.
As part of the plan, students spend a week reading “Harvesting Hope,” a book about Chavez written by children’s author Kathleen Krull, and then discuss what the lesson plan calls “scales of fairness,” which compare the living conditions of farm workers to that of land owners.
“Why are we teaching organized labor lessons to young children?” asked Kyle Olson, the publisher of the group’s website. “Isn’t there a simpler way to teach about fairness, like saying it’s not fair if Johnny works all day and gets one piece of candy while Jimmy plays video games all day and gets the same piece of candy?”  “Our focus is on distinctive programs that inspire all students to become engaged, literate participants in the global society.”
http://patriotsbillboard.org/socialism-being-taught-to-2nd-graders/#more-17624
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Just how your children are being indoctrinated while at school

Just why am I posting these stories for you to read?  I am trying to convince you that you need to take an active role in learning just what your children are being taught.  You need to stand up for what is right, to demonstrate to your children that you are willing to take a stand against progressive education.
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classroom of 14 and 15-year-old Illinois high school students were assigned the task of deciding the fate of ten fictional characters in an exercise that critics called a lesson in death panels.
The assignment was part of a sociology unit for freshmen and sophomore students at St. Joseph-Ogden High School and was first reported by writer Lenny Jarratt.
The lesson involves 10 people who are in desperate need of kidney dialysis.But there’s a problem. The local hospital only has enough machines to support six patients. “That means four people are not going to live,” the assignment states. “You must decide from the information below which six will survive.” [Preparing our children for serving on Death Panels, perhaps?  This ought to make them feel oh, so safe.]
“The first thing I thought was they were desensitizing kids to death panels,” he told me. “They are preparing them for it.”
Principal Brian Brooks told me that assessment is way off base. “The assignment has nothing to do with a ‘Death Panel,’” he said.  He said the purpose of the lesson was to teach students about social values and how people in our society unfortunately create biases based off of professions, race and gender.
 http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/10/death-panels-101-students-decide-who-lives-who-dies
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Parents were upset after Carrick High School approved a plan to have a Trayvon Martin theme day during the school’s homecoming.
The homecoming committee, and school voted and approved the theme which is part of school spirit week.
Parents were upset that kids were being encouraged to wear hoodies to school during the Wednesday theme.  http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/10/07/parents-upset-after-trayvon-martin-day-planned-during-local-homecoming-week/
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Take a look at these third grade Common Core worksheets [Correction: Common Core-aligned worksheets].*
The first story for third graders takes a twisted social work approach to learning.
The first worksheet is the tale of Peter and Patty. It’s a terrible piece of literature (I’m using the word ‘literature’ very loosely). It’s about a father who abandons his children in the woods but wishes them well; some woman in the woods takes them in, feeds them fruits and vegetables (she must have been listening to Michelle Obama); and they all live happily ever after. Seriously???The next story is about a cheating husband and father, and, again, it’s for third grade.  http://www.independentsentinel.com/common-core-reaches-a-new-low-check-this-out/
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Utah parents charged with vetting Common Core tests being sworn to secrecy
Leave it to government bureaucrats to think that government transparency efforts should somehow be shrouded in secrecy when vetting Common Core testing.
That’s exactly what’s happening in Utah, where state education officials are asking members of a parent review committee tasked with scrutinizing the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests “to sign a nondisclosure agreement that could muzzle them from discussing the test questions with other parents,” reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/utah-parents-charged-vetting-common-core-tests-sworn-secrecy/#qrjCMHUlEDCJveZ1.99
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s it an extreme case of helicopter parenting or a smart move to keep kids safe?
That's what parents are asking after hearing about a Long Island middle school's decision to ban most balls during recess and also require supervision of tag, even cartwheels, due to safety concerns. http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/09/living/parents-middle-school-bans-balls-recess/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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Los Angeles school district wants teachers to wear pro-gay badges.  Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/11/los-angeles-school-district-wants-teachers-to-wear-pro-gay-badges/#ixzz2hVWpOATw
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The text of the note (don’t we all love these little school notes?) reads:
Dear Parents,
I have received word from Federal Programs Preschool pertaining to lunches from home. Parents are to be informed that students can only bring lunches from home if there is a medical condition meriting a specific diet, along with a physicians note to that regard.
I am sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions concerning this matter, please contact [name redacted], the Health Coordinator for Federal Programs Preschool at [number redacted].
Linda says she was “hurt,” “confused,” and “dumbfounded” by the school’s insistence the nanny-staters feed her child instead of her.  This is what happens with big government – it goes from best-pal to bully in a heartbeat.  http://www.ijreview.com/2013/10/86357-read-federal-programs-note-telling-parents-need-doctors-note-make-kids-lunch/
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You have to give school officials in Los Angeles credit for a good idea [I for one am not certain this was a good idea]: put iPads in the hands of over 650,000 students to give them the most advanced learning tools available in an effort to boost their interest in academics.
But the $1 billion plan is taking some heat after students in the nation's second-largest school district cracked the tablets’ security settings to forgo reading, writing and ‘rithmetic and instead post on Facebook and play games during class time. http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/los-angeles-students-ipads-classroom-play-video-games-173850244.html
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The Wausau, Wis. School District says it’s okay to jingle bells and don gay apparel but lay off the Baby Jesus stuff – and that has parents and students ready to deck somebody’s halls.
The community became enraged after the elementary schools canceled their upcoming Christmas concerts and the school district issued guidelines that curtailed the number of sacred holiday songs the high school choir could perform.
Phil Buch, the director of the Wausau West High School choir programs since 1981, told the Wausau Daily Herald that he was given three choices after meeting with school officials about the upcoming yuletide season.
He was told the choirs could perform one sacred song for every five secular songs performed; eliminate all Christmas music or postpone December concerts. http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/08/starnes-wisconsin-school-cracks-down-religious-christmas-music?cmpid=NL_foxnation
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Sixth-grade children in many Texas public schools are being tasked with designing flags for a new socialist nation as part of the state's curriculum, EAG News reported Monday.
"Notice socialist/communist nations use symbolism on their flags representing various aspects of their economic system. Imagine a new socialist nation is creating a flag and you have been put in charge of creating a flag," says a lesson plan being used as part of CSCOPE, the curriculum being used by over 70 percent of Texas school districts.  http://www.examiner.com/article/texas-6th-graders-assigned-to-design-flag-for-new-socialist-nation
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If You Learned Your Kid Was in a School Play Containing Bestiality and Incest, How Would You React?
[The students were forced to read the play out loud, including the parts out loud.] 
That’s the news many parents received when it came to light that drama teacher Andrew Cupo of Cactus Shadows High School in Scottsdale, Ariz., introduced students in an advanced acting class to an absurdist play called “The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?” by Edward Albee.
In the Tony Award-winning play — which students performed in class rather than in public — a middle-aged man with a wife and teenage son admits he’s in love with a goat named Sylvia with whom he’s had sex, the Arizona Republic reports, adding that the play also explores themes of tolerance, morality, and revenge [including incest].
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/11/if-you-learned-your-kid-was-in-a-school-play-containing-bestiality-and-incest-how-would-you-react/
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MORE PORNO RECOMMENDED BY COMMON CORE — THE BLUEST EYE

[Macey has heavily edited the following excerpts from “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, but they are still very graphic.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.

Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#YgJJtXkXJthgxAtD.99
Obviously the reason behind some parents calls for removing the book are the graphic depictions of incest, rape and pedophilia. And not just that, the book actually lets the reader see the depictions from the perpetrators point of view.
 Please read the rest of Macey’s article posted at: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#S3dtEVSPiLE4Royv.99 ]
Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” is among Common Core’s exemplar texts for 11th graders.
I was recently afforded the opportunity to discuss the book with Dr. Jill Manning, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been involved in social policy and research and has testified for legislators on these issues. Dr. Manning is also a former Social Science Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. She knows what she’s talking about and she also happens to be a concerned mother.
Obviously the reason behind some parents calls for removing the book are the graphic depictions of incest, rape and pedophilia. And not just that, the book actually lets the reader see the depictions from the perpetrators point of view.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.


Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#7FSQwS4ErpcZezH3.99

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Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” is among Common Core’s exemplar texts for 11th graders.
I was recently afforded the opportunity to discuss the book with Dr. Jill Manning, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been involved in social policy and research and has testified for legislators on these issues. Dr. Manning is also a former Social Science Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. She knows what she’s talking about and she also happens to be a concerned mother.
Obviously the reason behind some parents calls for removing the book are the graphic depictions of incest, rape and pedophilia. And not just that, the book actually lets the reader see the depictions from the perpetrators point of view.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.


Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#7FSQwS4ErpcZezH3.99
Adams 12 5 Star School District is the 5th largest school district in Colorado and has transitioned to the new Common Core standards. The book, Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel, “The Bluest Eye,” is among Common Core’s exemplar texts for 11th graders.
I was recently afforded the opportunity to discuss the book with Dr. Jill Manning, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She has been involved in social policy and research and has testified for legislators on these issues. Dr. Manning is also a former Social Science Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. She knows what she’s talking about and she also happens to be a concerned mother.
Obviously the reason behind some parents calls for removing the book are the graphic depictions of incest, rape and pedophilia. And not just that, the book actually lets the reader see the depictions from the perpetrators point of view.
In fact, the author of the book, Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as though they are a “co-conspirator” with the rapist. She took pains to make sure she never portrayed the actions as wrong in order to show how everyone has their own problems. She even goes as far as to describe the pedophilia, rape and incest “friendly,” “innocent,” and “tender.” It’s no wonder that this book is in the top 10 list of most contested books in the country.


Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/warning-graphic-common-core-approved-child-pornography/#7FSQwS4ErpcZezH3.99