http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/education-bloggers/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:23:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418634/posts ...All of that human and financial capital expended for CCongress 2009 - two weeks at a hotel, live video feeds, etc. - focused on a handful of issues like gun control; income tax; and the federal reserve system which, when distilled, amount to little more than a reassertion of states' rights over federal authority. And Robert Schulz, Founder and Chairman of the "We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education," who conceived and spearheaded the drive for a CCongress 2009, has been actively pursuing strategies to publicize these issues for more than 15 (fifteen) years. With this one exception. The mission... jbjd http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418634/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:23:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418624/posts Two of our brethren were minding their own business, just publishing an internal-only TSA security directive, when all of a sudden Men with Badges & Subpoenas show up at their homes. The nerve, eh? Let's get the juicy part out of the way first. Here's the full text of super-secret directive: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Transportation Security Administration Aviation Security Directive Subject: Security Directive Number: SD 1544-09-06 Date: December 25, 2009 EXPIRATION: 0200Z on December 30, 2009 This Security Directive (SD) must be implemented immediately. The measures contained in this SD are in addition to all other SDs currently... Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418624/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:59:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418585/posts Scott Brown, a former Cosmo Centerfold contest winner and conservative Republican from Massachusetts, is gaining momentum in the US Senate race to replace liberal Senator Ted Kennedy. Scott Brown won Cosmo’s “America’s Sexiest Man” contest and appeared in the June 1982 issue. Legal Insurrection has the latest: There is Scott Brown the Senate candidate in Massachusetts, and there is Scott Brown, the musician in New Zealand. They each have Twitter accounts, but the Scott Brown from Down Under laid claim to @ScottBrown first, and the Senate candidate had to resort to @ScottBrownMA. As the Boston Globe reports, in the past... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418585/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418386/posts Texas Tech University's firing of head football coach Mike Leach has launched what I predict will be a heated public relations battle involving YouTube videos and aggressive personal injury lawyers. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418386/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:59:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418323/posts AmericaÂ’s Least Wanted 2009 Malcolm A. Kline, December 31, 2009 In the summary spirit of the season, Accuracy in Academia offers 10 reasons for ending tenure: 1) To not put the presidentÂ’s favorite professor at the top of this roster would be a gross injustice. “At a press conference on August 20, AmericaÂ’s Survival, Inc. unveiled the results of several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made regarding the curriculum and activities of University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers,” AIA staff writer Bethany Stotts wrote on August 25, 2009. “Ayers has visited Germany, the Netherlands, and Venezuela to... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418323/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:37:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418102/posts The question continues to be asked: Would “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings have expected the explicit content in the GLSEN Fistgate fisting workshop? The DOE employees who led that GLSEN-Boston workshop in 2000 worked for Jeff Perrotti and Kim Westheimer, the program directors and coordinators for the “Safe Schools” program in the Massachusetts DOE since its inception in 1993. Perrotti and Westheimer published a book in 2001, When the Drama Club Is Not Enough; Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. They tell about the early days of the program. In 1993, shortly after Kevin Jennings’... massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418102/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:57:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417653/posts Alumni Gifts Empowering Left? Malcolm A. Kline, December 30, 2009 Jane Shaw over at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is having second thoughts about her annual alumni gift to her alma mater. “One point in WellesleyÂ’s favor, by the way: its president hasnÂ’t signed the ‘PresidentsÂ’ Climate Change Agreement,Â’ an expensive will-oÂ’-the-wisp effort to ‘take a standÂ’ on global warming,” she writes. “And English majors are still required to study Shakespeare.” “Are those good enough reasons for me to support Wellesley with my money?” she asks herself. “Probably not.” Jay Schalin, also of the Pope Center,... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417653/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417646/posts Brown Discovers Hangovers Malcolm A. Kline, December 30, 2009 Here’s a research project the Ivy League has just tackled that people outside the Ivies have been onto for generations. “Researchers with the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies gave subjects alcohol on an empty stomach, let them sleep and then checked their ability to think in the morning,” The Washington Post Express reported on Tuesday December 29, 2009. “Although the subjects though they’d be fine behind the wheel of a car, the researchers found they should probably wait a few more hours.” I wonder if they had a... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417646/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:21:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416344/posts Here’s proof that Kevin Jennings was certainly aware that his organization, GLSEN, recommended porn books for teens. He had recommended them himself in his 1994 high school reader "Becoming Visible" (published by porn publisher Alyson Books). On p. 278 in his Questions/Activities section for Chapter 17, he wrote: 15. Other resources for reading are Bennett Singer’s "Growing Up Gay", Ann Heron’s "One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth", Aaron Frick’s "Reflections of a Rock Lobster: A Story of Growing Up Gay", and Paul Monette’s "Becoming a Man". Films include Robert King’s "The Disco Years",and "Oranges Are Not... massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416344/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:02:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416231/posts Cassting Out Liberty Bethany Stotts, December 28, 2009 At a recent CATO book discussion, one of the think-tank’s scholars condemned Harvard Professor Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s “regulatory czar,” for coauthoring what is an argument against individual rights. “Consequently, according to Cass Sunstein, there are no rights whatsoever, which I think actually is the logical outcome of his entire legal theory, is the elimination of rights,” said Tom G. Palmer at the December CATO event. In the book he referenced, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, Sunstein and New York University Professor Stephen Holmes argue that all rights... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416231/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:21:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416008/posts In the week after the Fistgate audiotapes were made public and the first articles on the incident had appeared in Massachusetts News, a defense of the fisting workshop appeared on a website called “Bridges Across the Divide.” The author, Cindy Beal, claims to have spoken directly with Margot Abels (consistently misspelled “Ables”), the DOE employee who led the teen “gay sex” workshop..... ....the instructors led the kids to “resources” at the conference, and “peer support groups for gay youth.” That would be Boston GLASS, Youth Pride and BAGLY. See our recent report on the X-rated materials those groups handed out... massresistance.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416008/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:01:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415932/posts Until recent decades, American public policy consistantly prohibited dual citizenship. Since 1795, Congress has required that all candidates for naturalization formally renounce allegiance to their native land and any other foreign power. That requirement remains part of national law and is an integral element of the citizenship oath. The rationale for these policies is that citizenship requires undivided loyalty to one country. ConstitutionallySpeaking http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415932/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415863/posts Although–or, perhaps, because–liberalism has dominated public education since the 1960s, test results and competency in general continue to decline, much to the stated chagrin of officials in the school system and local, state, and federal governments. Barack Obama has made reforming the education system in America one of his highest priorities. “[Education reform] will require a willingness to break free from the same debates that Washington has been engaged in for decades – Democrat versus Republican; vouchers versus the status quo; more money versus more accountability,” Obama has said. “And most of all, it will take a president who is... The Constitutional Alamo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415863/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415677/posts Category: Political -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pity the poor Black Congressional Caucus (CBC), its members must be so frustrated over not being able to blame a White Republican President for the mess being reported out of Haiti. A just released Pan American Development Foundation’s report brings news that “at least 225,000 children in Haiti’s have been sold into slavery as unpaid household servants.” This number was “far more than previously thought.” Question: If this is more than “previously thought,” why haven’t these very concerned Pan American Development Foundation liberals raised this issue and done something about it already? Answer: Their job is to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415677/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:03:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414854/posts Obamacare, as critics have dubbed the president's plan to socialize health care, will be flooded with lawsuits if it ever becomes law, according to an organization that works to protect rights and liberties of Americans. In an alert issued this week, Liberty Counsel, run by President Mathew Staver, promised his organization "is prepared to challenge the constitutionality of the bill since Congress has no authority to require every person to obtain insurance coverage and has no authority to fine employers who do not provide the coverage standards that are required in the bill." "In addition," he warned, "the bill still... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414854/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414580/posts Beware of the Sleeping Giant– Sarah Palin warned the big government democrat-socialists: Tomorrow’s Health care Takeover vote Will cause the sleeping giant to awaken and take action. “Average” Americans will take action as light shines on big government growth and corruption. The democrats have bribed enough senators and will vote tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM EST to take over health care. May December 24, 2009 be the beginning of the end of big government socialism in America. We Will Never Forget. Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414580/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:20:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414100/posts I listened to Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday. He sounded tired and barely able to rally the troops against the Democrats’ government health care takeover. He told Sean’s guest host at the end of an obligatory-sounding critique of Harry Reid that, and I quote, “We’re going to fight ‘em all the way to the finish line.” That’s what he said: “We’re going to fight ‘em all the way to the finish line.” Before the cloture vote on sneaky Sunday, Sen. John McCain had sounded the same message with more energy, invoking John Paul Jones... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414100/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:25:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413952/posts While many of us are putting in every spare moment that we have trying to fight back against Islam taking over America, we have the Smitha Middle School of Marietta Georgia, actually promoting Islam to the students there. Here are some of the slides that are being shown. This is just outrageous. Logan's Warning http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413952/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413876/posts Flashback to a different era here is an educational video from 1950. My how things have changed! Imagine young people discussing different kinds of Love and things like how they get along with one another taking place today. Today most are only taught about Birth Control and STD's. No thought is given to long term consequences. I thought it was interesting and I hope you enjoy it. blueloriblogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413876/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:55:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413536/posts First it was social promotions. When our children had difficulty passing, we went to a pass/fail system that no longer honored achievement but simply sent the student on to the next grade in order to NOT stigmatize the child. Less emphasis was placed on factual and historical learning and placed on project achievements and social awareness sensitivity. 2 + 2 could = 5 if we tried hard. And we get dumber. Next we went to No Child Left Behind. In order to increase the minimal education level of American students, we began to “test Teach”. That is, the teachers and... mynotepad.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413536/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:46:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413511/posts Seven suspected juvenile degenerates have been arrested -- and four more teenagers may be charged -- for allegedly participating in a gang beating of an eighth grade honors student in Englewood, NJ that may leave the victim blind as reported by WCBS: Police said as many as 11 students beat up the eighth-grader leaving him severely injured, and he may even lose his sight. * * * The incident near a school soccer field was so violent that 13-year-old David Muneton needed reconstructive surgery to his face to correct several broken bones. * * * Police have arrested seven students... Friends of Ours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413511/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413362/posts "Survey finds state is the least happy place in America, with hurricane-ravaged Louisiana coming in as happiest.""Now New Yorkers have something real to complain about. A study of statistical information about the 50 US states (or in this case 51 — the survey includes Washington DC) has concluded that New York is the least happy place in America.""Top of the list comes Louisiana, which is in itself an eye-catching finding given that it was only recently ravaged by hurricane Katrina." Read the whole story at the UKGuardian Libertas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413362/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:16:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413335/posts Al Gore must be working as a consultant at Build-A-Bear Workshop®. Evident in the company's three "Build-A-Bearville®" videos below is an unhealthy dose of the junk science-laden, polar-bears-are-dying propaganda on which the former vice president has made hundreds of millions of dollars since leaving public office. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413335/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413147/posts My fellow Americans you all are overlooking the obvious or refuse to accept the premise that we are not dealing with Americans. I read that it is unconstitutional; it flies in the face of the rule of law; a legal body cannot bind its equal. I agree whole heartily with all of these arguments, but again I repeat, you are denying the obvious. Until you accept the obvious, who we are really dealing with and after accepting that realization you’ll understand what needs to be done next and it has nothing to do with waiting for elections next November. These... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413147/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:37:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412791/posts Plagiarism isn’t always a black and white issue … but could it be a brown one? It turns out that the Wall Street Journal piece in question, “Homeward Bound” by Mona Sarika, was largely plagiarized from an article we had written for Little India magazine in June 2009.When we joined the fray, we were prepared to talk ethics and responsibility. But we weren’t prepared for one especially provocative notion that arose: Was there something about Sarika’s Indian-ness that made her more prone to plagiarize? It seemed like an absurd question not even worth dignifying with a response … until the... The Root - Professor H.L. (You a racis'!) Gates' web magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412791/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:04:44 GMT