http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/gramsci/ en-us Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:04:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279183/posts BURIEN, Wash. -- Controversy is surrounding a new sculpture at the Burien/Interim Arts Space. The bronzed piece is of a squatting, nude woman, and it leaves little to the imagination, according to concerned parents. "Just cover it up a little bit. Too much parts showing for the little kids," said parent Adam Sankey. Anybody can walk through the privately-owned art space at Fifth Avenue SW and SW 150th Street. And for some, that's an issue, especially with a new library right next door. "I don't want my kids around it," said parent Jole Sankey. "My 8 year old doesn't need... KOMONews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279183/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:04:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2273921/posts Responding to concerns that psychologists might be required to counsel homosexual couples about strengthening their relationship, Catholic leaders in Nebraska are asking for conscience protections for psychologists who refuse to treat or refer clients because of religious or moral convictions. Speaking during a licensing rules hearing before the Board of Mental Health Practice, Nebraska Catholic Conference executive director Jim Cunningham proposed a “convictions of conscience” rule for psychologists. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that he warned that Catholic Charities in Omaha and Catholic Social Services in Lincoln might have to stop hiring licensed counselors and psychologists if they are not... Catholic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2273921/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272420/posts A hardcore pornographic movie was accidentally screened at PS 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y., school officials said. Students from five classes at the school had assembled to watch "Camp Rock," a Disney Channel movie starring the Jonas Brothers, but after a teacher powered up the DVD player and walked away to get the Disney movie, a skin flick began to play, the New York Post reported Sunday. The students, some as young as 5-years-old, were exposed to 45-seconds of sex acts in the incident late last month, the newspaper said. "My son told his friend he saw a naked lady at... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272420/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:51:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269390/posts THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS IN A BULLFIGHT . . . And it's the bull. So far, Obama's picadors and toreadors have stabbed, slashed, and otherwise compromised the bull of American capitalism. Don't kid yourself: they're going for the kill. Most of the crowd is cheering, but a few are starting to figure out that when this bull is gone, there is no more meat, ever. Moreover, a few are actually starting to worry about what it will be like to be the next "bull" when this one is gone---because there will be another bull. The unbelievably idiotic and dangerous decision... Larry Schweikart's Patriot's History USA Blogspot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269390/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:26:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261975/posts Maria Guzman Hernandez Florida Epidemic: Teachers Sleeping with Students By Tim Padgett / Miami Saturday, May. 30, 2009 Maria Guzman Hernandez * Print * Reprints * Email * 858 digg it * Twitter * Linkedin * Buzz up! (84) * Facebook * MORE... o Add to my: + del.icio.us + Technorati + reddit + Google Bookmarks + Mixx + StumbleUpon o Blog this on: + TypePad + LiveJournal + Blogger + MySpace If you're the parent of a teen-aged boy in Florida, you probably muttered "not again" while reading your morning newspaper this week. There on the front page was... Time Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261975/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 07:54:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257215/posts EVERYONE knew. When the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse issued its report this week, after nine years of investigation, the Irish collectively threw up their hands in horror, asking that question we have heard so often, from so many parts of the world, throughout the past century: How could it happen? Surely the systematic cruelty visited upon hundreds of thousands of children incarcerated in state institutions in this country from 1914 to 2000, the period covered by the inquiry, but particularly from 1930 until 1990, would have been prevented if enough right-thinking people had been aware of what was... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257215/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 04:31:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252139/posts At 11 a.m. Monday, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute and its president, Ignatius Piazza, went into receivership. All financial transactions involving the firearms training facility -- from accepting payment for classes to paying staff and vendors -- must take place through a court-appointed administrator. The facility and all assets have been seized by the court, down to the hundreds of firearms included as part of new members' benefits. However, despite the ruling, this weekend at Front Sight everything was "business as usual," according to Operations Manager Rick Morello. He said he knew nothing about the legal proceedings. "We have a... Pahrump Valley Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2252139/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 11:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248257/posts Friday May 8, 2009 Pro-Abortion Organization Upset by LifeSiteNews' Coverage of Development and Peace Recognizes and supports CCODP's funding of pro-abortion movement By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman UNITED STATES, May 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An abortion advocacy group in the US has criticized LifeSiteNews for exposing the involvement of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (CCODP) with the funding of pro-abortion, homosexualist, and anti-Catholic groups in foreign countries. "RH Reality Check," a blog created by Ted Turner's United Nations Foundation for the purpose of promoting abortion "rights," has published an article by a contributor who recognizes that, indeed,... LifeSiteNews.com -- Your Life, Family and Culture Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248257/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 00:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236578/posts A campus Christian group that receives funding from the student activity fee is coming under scrutiny after a student was asked by advisors to step down from its leadership team when he told them that he had openly accepted his homosexuality. This incident is also raising questions about the effectiveness of campus mechanisms for addressing instances of discrimination. Chris Donohoe ’09, who joined the Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship when he was a freshman, said he had been openly struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his faith in Chi Alpha before he was asked to step down from the leadership team... © 2009 The Cornell Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236578/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:00:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233072/posts S. Steven Powell wrote in his 1987 book, Covert Cadre, that the revolutionary activity advocated by Marxist Antonio Gramsci involved the need to “infiltrate autonomous institutions—schools, media, churches, public-interest groups—so as radically to transform the culture, which determines the environment in which political and economic policies are played out.” Or, as Carl Boggs, author of Gramsci’s Marxism wrote, “the role of revolutionary theory is to create the foundation of a new socialist order precisely through the negation and transcendence of bourgeois society.” This “transcendence of bourgeois society,” Boggs explains, was the basis for Gramsci’s first priority—“the multi-dimensional transformation of civil... Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233072/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:57:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231963/posts Field trip? Teacher resigns after strip club visit She acknowledges taking female students to male show, said parents OK'd HAMILTON, Ohio - A school spokesman said a 47-year-old southwest Ohio teacher resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. The teacher, who resigned Thursday, told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February, said Bill Solazzo, Butler Tech school district's spokesman. The teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them... AP Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231963/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:10:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2231202/posts It's Not About Homosexuality--Not Really by Paul R. Hinlicky — April 14, 2009 It is not only, or perhaps even primarily, about homosexuality. My whimsical lament “I Think I Want a Divorce” got quite an echo in “this church”; apparently, the bone-deep disenchantment articulated in the piece has been building up among theologically serious Christians in the ELCA for many reasons for a long time. Slowly we are waking up to reality. The truth is that Luther is being overshadowed by Zwingli, so to say; plainly put, homosexuality is being used as a wedge issue by the religious Left. This... Lutheran Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2231202/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2231162/posts The Episcopal Church filed suit Tuesday to regain control of Fort Worth-area church buildings and other property held by a breakaway contingent led by Bishop Jack Iker. "We're stewards of property that has been given for generations to the Episcopal Church. We can't just let people walk off with it," said Kathleen Wells, chancellor for the reorganized Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. The suit was filed in Tarrant County district court and names Iker as a defendant, among others. -snip- Dallas Morning News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2231162/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:47:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227529/posts The distemper of lies, misdirection and tawdry thinking abroad in the world today has now acquired bubonic proportions. This is mainly a a liberal-left phenomenon intent upon a campaign of cultural domination that began with the rainbow revolution of the so-called Woodstock generation and which has finally percolated into every nook and cranny of our daily existence. In its takeover of our cultural life, the generation of the 60s has adhered loyally to the course of action set down for it by two neo-Marxist philosophers, the Italian New Left prophet Antonio Gramsci and the German emigré Herbert Marcuse, whose doctrines... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227529/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:32:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224146/posts A recent directive from the New York State Department of Health is one of the latest examples of the deterioration of America's culture. Sent to the offices of the 900-plus cities and towns in the Empire State, it contained a newly created "Certificate of Live Birth" along with a single-page explanation of why it had been sent. The official document noted that a New York State court had ruled that same-sex "marriages" performed in "other jurisdictions" (such as in neighboring Massachusetts) "must be recognized." Therefore, stated the directive, "any married woman that gives birth in your district will have her... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224146/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:11:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216727/posts MOBILE — Former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas has been arrested and faces a 57-count indictment on charges including sodomy, kidnapping, extortion and violating Alabama’s ethics law.---------- snip The indictments accuse the former judge of sexually abusing inmates from Mobile Metro Jail. The indictments say Thomas paddled the inmates and in at least one case forced a young man to perform oral sex on him. SUN HERALD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216727/posts#comment Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:37:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211921/posts School Board laments crisis By JOHN L. GUERRA Citizen Staff When former Adult Education and Career Coordinator Monique Acevedo resigned March 3 after allegations surfaced that she bought a $300 pair of sunglasses and an airline ticket using her school district credit card, no one knew how wide-reaching the investigation into allegations of financial abuse would go. Her resignation, announced by her husband, Schools Superintendent Randy Acevedo, launched two weeks' of daily revelations that have shaken the community's confidence in the school district and angered teachers and principals who've been asked to do without certain supplies because of a tightening... Key West Citizen & Bait Wrapper http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211921/posts#comment Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:06:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211224/posts When it comes to evil prophecies (i.e. Obama elected president, AND today's news that the spineless president of my Christian alma mater has indeed secured Barack the Butcher to speak at Our Lady's university), no true prophet likes to be right. However, if even a fraction of my following June 11th, 2008, counter attack comes to pass, I know the Gipper (not to mention Ronald Reagan!) will be happy ... and my prayers will have been answered. Fighting Irish Thomas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211224/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:49:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208324/posts In retrospect, we may discover that 1883 was a most significant year. We're familiar with 1848 giving us The Communist Manifesto and 1859 giving us The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, but 1883 gave us three portentous happenings. These seemingly unrelated happenings turned history toward socialism. 1. Karl Marx died on March 14, 1883, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in London, England. The assumption that Communism died with him was logical since only six people attended his funeral. But the truth is that it had... Worldview Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208324/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:08:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2207760/posts Many cradle Catholics I know look at the moral conflicts tearing apart the mainline denominations with sadness, but as a convert from one of them (the Episcopal Church, the most notoriously divided one of them all), I think this is not quite the right response.We will feel sad at the sight of beloved Christian friends suffering as their churches divide, but we might be heartened to see that because these conflicts express flaws in the original design, they will encourage some to greater friendship, if not full reconciliation, with the Catholic Church.The sadness we feel will be like the sadness... NCR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2207760/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:36:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206759/posts <p>McALESTER, Okla. — A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.</p> <p>Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton.</p> Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206759/posts#comment Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:13:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202101/posts I return periodically to the topic of how the right wing in America is murdering the English language, one word at a time. For instance, if you listen to them, you will find out that the words "appeasement" or "appeaser" are applied anytime a politician advocates any solution to an international disagreement other than a full military assault on the country with whom we have a disagreement. See an earlier article of mine on this here http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_061013_appeasement___republ.htm The latest lexical victims are "Socialism" and "Communism". The Republican and Conservative right in America now liberally apply these words to anyone who... opednews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2202101/posts#comment Sun, 8 Mar 2009 22:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199965/posts Preaching God's word with an eye on national politics Pepperell vicar leads liberal think tank By Rich Barlow Globe Correspondent / March 5, 2009 One day about six years ago, the Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale was testifying before Congress on behalf of abortion rights, basking among politicians who were interested to hear her views and happy to shake her hand. The next day, the Episcopal priest was back for a meeting at St. David's, her tiny Pepperell church, where a 2-year-old scaled her chair to perch on her head. The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199965/posts#comment Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:00:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194484/posts To determine what made Obama's campaign a success, we must look deeper to identify the basic psychological qualities that underlie these strategies. I perceive them to be: a finely developed skill in strategy, worthy of a great general [4], a tremendous audacity, enabling him to succeed in risky or controversial tactics that his opponents would not dare to attempt [5], a stage magician's skill in misdirection, compelling the public to perceive only what he wishes them to see and ignore what he wishes them to overlook, a penchant for evasion and concealment---the very opposite of his much-vaunted desire for "transparency"---often... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194484/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192942/posts HAMILTON — Police here arrested five women early this morning, Feb. 24, at a local nightclub, and issued a summons on a former candidate for Butler County commission. The Hamilton Police Department's vice unit conducted an undercover operation late last night at V's Nightclub, 1483 Millville Ave., after receiving tips the business was planning to offer erotic dancers to patrons, according to a department news release. Posing as customers, detectives said they saw dancers wearing little or no clothing, offering erotic dances for $5 and touching patrons inappropriately, according to the release. Detectives also said they observed Eryka Huckins, a... MiddleTown Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192942/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:14:08 GMT