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Part of the Republican platform should be: Republicans are the ANTI-Slavery party! Republicans have been ANTI-Slavery since its founding! It should be posted on every billboard in America. It should be a major part of every political ad. It free money just waiting to be picked up.

Discard brick and mortar universities! 1) Free or nearly free education exists **NOW**! The missing ingredient is private systems of certified testing. Should it cost a quarter of a million to become a doctor or engineer? The more reasonable cost is a tenth of that. Most of the material needed to be mastered in the STEM fields is**ROTE** and changes little from year to year. It can be learned at home through the Internet and used textbooks. Yes, some fields require laboratory and clinical rotations. These need a brick and mortar setting....BUT... these experiences can be found or created outside...

Question: What would happen if all time zones were abolished and the entire world set their clocks to Greenwich Mean Time? I am pondering this because changing clock time, whether due to Daylight Savings Time or traveling to a new time zone, is an opportunity for mistakes and even deadly errors.

My three wishes for the Trump Administration: 1) That the the many unusual deaths and fatal accidents that have followed the Clintons and other high ranking Democrats be thoroughly investigated and prosecuted and that those guilty be convicted and fully punished. The victims and their families deserve justice. 2) That Obama's highly questionable natural born citizenship, and all the questionable documentation surrounding his identity be investigated, and all those involved by prosecuted, convicted, and fully punished. 3) That the Department of Education be completely shut down, the buildings razed, the foundation dug up, the stones pulverized, and the earth salted....

Proposal: Award any child ( regardless of age) an official high school diploma from his local high school if they score above a certain level on the SAT, ACT, or GED exams. Why? 1) If the purpose of compulsory education laws is to produce literate and numerate citizens then scoring above a certain level on the SAT, ACT, or GED is proof of that. 2) Fewer students in school will reduce the number of teachers needed. This means fewer salaries, pensions, and benefits that must be paid by the taxpayers. It may even mean closing down and selling some schools...

Conservative businesses you have enormous power to help change the culture by doing one simple thing: Forego requiring college degrees for any job that historically never required a degree. Use instead, SAT and ACT scores and internships to identify bright and eager workers. For those areas of work that do require technical training be bold! Hire people who have taken courses only in the technical areas needed or who have passed privately administered and certifiable qualifying exams. The longer our nation's youth remain in school the longer they are subjected to Marx-o-liberal indoctrination. Conservative businesses could easily help disrupt this...

Have other Freepers noticed a change in the taste of diet Mountain Dew? Yesterday, I bought some at my local 7-11 and noticed the change. It was so bad that I poured it out on the grass. I went to another 7-11 and bought a new diet Mountain Dew. This one was OK. This morning I opened a bottle that I bought at our local supermarket and again that same terrible bubblegum taste! Yuck! So?...Does anyone have news on whether or not the formula has changed? If it has, then I am done with Mountain Dew. It is now too...

It's true, folks. Patriot sister Sharron “Braveheart” Angle has taken on battling voter fraud, sounding the alarm that it is running rampant in America. What good is winning the hearts and minds of voters if we allow Democrats to steal elections? Sharron suffered the devastation of election corruption when she almost defeated Harry Reid in 2010. Illegals voted for Harry Reid. There is evidence that Reid possibly stole the election from Sharron Angle using dead voters, people in prison, and illegals.

(snip) So what did Obama hope to achieve with his 2,700-page poison pill of ObamaCare? Simple. Cast your mind back to that golden age one month ago, before you were forced to spend countless precious hours of your mortal life, trying to log onto a $500-million dysfunctional website. Twas then that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius summoned the media to proclaim the coming glories of ObamaCare. And, lo, the miracle of "health-care" reform arose through the shimmering mists, as she revealed its national hotline number: 1-800-F**K-YO. And that, dear readers, is the point of the whole shebang. 16...

This is an **excellent** video warning us about the dangerous indoctrination against guns that is occurring in our nation's government owned and run socialist-entitlement K-12 schools. That children are being taught to fear guns and to hate and fear gun owners is only one of many, many reasons why government K-12 schooling should be SHUT DOWN. In a very few years ( 5?, 10? 12?) these indoctrinated children will be voters. To NRA members: Yes, the NRA members may win skirmishes but it **will** lose the cultural war, the Second Amendment, and our nation's freedom if they continue to allow...

THE NATIONAL RIFE ASSOCIATION **WILLL** LOSE! They will lose within one generation. Why? THE NRA WILL LOSE BECAUSE THE NATION'S SOCIALIST-ENTITLEMENT K-12 SCHOOLS ARE BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN THE NRA! THE NRA FOOLISHLY FOCUSES ON SKIRMISHES, WHILE PROGRESSIVE/MARXISTS ARE WINNING THE WAR IN THE SCHOOLS. The enemies of the Constitution are feasting on the souls that will be our nation's future voters, and the NRA and its members should not be surprised when the moral foundation upholding the Constitution completely collapses. The NRA will lose because our nation's children are being aggressively taught to fear and hate guns ( and...

Jonah Mowry: 'Whats goin on..'( School Bullying) This is a pitiful video. This child is in genuine pain due to the bullying he has suffered since first grade. He dreads starting eighth grade. So?...: Some comments and questions: --- When children are confined and herded together in same age groups with insufficient adult supervision, we should expect bullying. Bullying not an exception given the social situation the children must endure.. ( In many ways, the social pathology seen in institutional schools resembles prison pathology.) ---It is more important for modestly talented white collar workers in the government schools to keep...

Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America Indoctrination Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America Indoctrination This video is 2 minutes 43 seconds. The title is self-explanatory. Our nation's children are not attending religiously neutral schools. They are forced to attend (and taxpayers are under police threat to fund) government owned and run ATHEIST schools. Government owned and run, socialist-entitlement, single-payer K-12 schools have never been, and are not now, religiously, politically, or culturally neutral. Please remember that it is ***impossible** to live in a philosophic state of religious neutrality. All humans must choose between either...

The Common Core Standards are an educational reform movement initiated by the National Governors Assocation and intended to standardize the educational curricula of the states around a "coomon core" of knowledge required to function in modern society. Put that way, the initiative sounds fine, but as if often the case with educaitonal reforms, Common Core proponents have relied on bafflement and obfuscation to shut down inquiry by the paying public into the very political process of putting the initiative into action -- a process monetarily supported by private education corporations. Common Core tests (those used in Oklahoma were developed by...

Throughout the country, lawmakers have discussed expanding educational options for students by establishing charter schools or allowing public dollars to go to private schools. Yet bills that legislators proposed often failed to gain much traction; in part, because opponents of school choice often hail the traditional system where children are zoned for a local public school based on their address. Some view this method of delivering public education as the model because democratically elected officials control the schools on a local level. Though democratically controlled local school districts meet the needs of many students, they simply cannot satisfy the needs...

The Children of Caesar Dr. Voddie Baucham explains that if parents turn their children over to Ceasar don't be surprised that they come home as Romans. Some facts in the video: ---A government indoctrinated child in the godless government schools will spend 14,000 hours of "seat time" in these schools. ---70% of children from evangelical homes will not be active in their faith after their freshman year in college. Please conservatives! Remove your children from the godless government schools. Yes, we may win short term political goals but we will lose in the long run if we continue to allow...

Youtube video: 7:05 This video is well worth the time. John Taylor Gatto-The Purpose of Schooling So?....With the government schools becoming increasingly more prison-like,( and with children literally be arrested for behavior that was once seen as a learning opportunity and handled within the school), do John Gatto's comments ring true? I think they do. If children attend the government's godless prison-like schools and are treated like state prisoners within the prison-like compounds, they risk learning to be comfortable with being state prisoners. The continuation of government schooling has, and will have, evil consequences for the child and for the...

Truant school kids get surprise trip to jail /( School:Training to be prisoners of the state)This video is 2:37 minutes long. Questions: Adult prison? Really? Wow! Imagine the lessons taught there! Why are communities demanding that 18 year old young men ( whose only crime was to be born) attend prison-like school where they are treated in many ways like a state prisoner? Why should a community do to this to a 17 year old or to any child of any age? These children have committed no crime but the state treats them like prisoners in their prison-like state schools....

This video was made before the Sandy Hook killings. I expect that the prison-like conditions will grow worse.Prison vs School: The Tour Question: What do children learn when they attend prison-like indoctrination centers similar to those seen in this video? When children are in many ways treated like prisoners, and know that armed police and courts stand ready at all times to enforce the incarceration, what are they learning? Answer: They risk learning to be comfortable prisoners of the state, comfortable with state compulsion, and they risk learning to be comfortable with the continuous threat of armed police and court...

If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail. It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all. . (snip) For years, reasonable and serious people have known that the educational establishment is at the root of the undoing of modernity and its natural political fruit, individual liberty. And for years, excepting a tiny, brave minority of parents and educators, most citizens have assumed that the problems of the education system, however grave, are to be resolved through legislative reforms, bureaucratic changes, or school board...