http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/indoctrination/ en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:01:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069540/posts Dogmatists committed to a dying paradigm will argue with falsehoods to convince the public of their claims... especially when they're targeting children. As we've covered here this week, Haeckel's faked embryo drawings are still used in science textbooks because, according to some Darwinists, "it is OK to use some inaccuracies temporarily if they help you reach the students." That's right. According to Darwinist biology professor Bora Zivkovic, who blogs as Coturnix at A Blog Around The Clock and is Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE, sometimes you have to lie to students in order to get them to accept evolution. Why?... The Discovery Institute/Evolution News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2069540/posts#comment Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:01:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068561/posts Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, are big fans of Hannah Montana – and maybe there’s a reason why. Teen star Miley Cyrus, known as Hannah Montana in the Disney Channel TV series television of the same name, is now crusading for global warming alarmism. But she admits she isn’t really sure what it means. Disney, conveniently owns ABC, a network that often hypes climate change alarmism. On the 15-year-old singer’s recently released album “Breakout,” she sings that she wants America to wake up and deal with global warming. The song, “Wake Up... businessandmedia.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068561/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:52:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067855/posts Have you ever had this happen: You are minding your own business, teaching your life science course, it's early in the term. A student, on the way out after class (never at the beginning of class, rarely during class) mentions something about "carbon dating." This usually happens around the time of year you are doing an overview of the main points of the course, but before you've gotten to the "evolution module"... The student is talking about C14 dating and how it "has problems." But you are a life science teacher and can't think of a single point in your... Greg Laden's Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067855/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:01:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067812/posts Katyn “deserved revenge”? Created: 25.08.2008 15:09 “Stalin was an efficient leader, not a murderer. The killing of Polish officers in Katyn was a well-deserved revenge,“ will be the new official historical theory taught in Russian schools. Before the opening of the new school year, the Russian Academy of Qualification Improvement and Professional Retraining of Education Employees has released guidelines for teachers regarding the history syllabus in schools. From now on, Russian pupils will be informed that some 22,000 Polish officers were indeed killed by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940, but the act was fully justified and “politically suitable”, reports... thenews.pl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067812/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:54:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065132/posts The Seattle Public school system may be finding itself in more hot water, following dustups over last fall’s “Myth Of Thanksgiving” incident, and last summer’s “Exploring White Privilege” conference. A reliable source has informed ORBUSMAX that at least one Obama supporter was caught openly selling Obama for President t-shirts, “on Seattle Public School premises during an official School District Training” for teachers, yesterday and today, at the Aki Kurose Middle school. The source says they overheard the Obama supporter being told by an attendee of the training on Monday that the table display was inappropriate and may be in violation... www.orbusmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065132/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:57:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065336/posts Canadian MP: Mahmoud Abbas Purveys Anti-Jewish Incitement ArutzSheva Israel ...He also met with PA officials and told them that "hate breeds hate." Saying that Hamas, with "their charter with its genocidal objective, anti-Semitic ... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127280 inn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065336/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065085/posts Islam is one of the most important issues of our time, but you wouldn't know it from reading a high school textbook. What students learn makes it almost impossible to understand Islam in history or the world today, much less what fuels Islam's challenge to peace and international security. A review of leading textbooks used in New York City and nationwide reveals they deliberately misrepresent Islamic history, jihad, Islamic law (sharia), global terrorism, and more. Thinking that jihad is "holy war" is wrong, students are told. Instead textbooks insist it is merely an effort to improve oneself and society. "Muslims... New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065085/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:03:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064378/posts Your must-read of the morning: Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin’s barbecue of a fawning documentary about Helen Thomas. Here’s a taste: Multiple choice quiz: Helen Thomas has been covering the White House for 48 years. Which of the following stories did she break? A. President Kennedy’s plans to invade the Bay of Pigs. B. President Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia. C. The Pentagon Papers. D. The Watergate scandal. E. None of the above, or anything else, either. The answer, of course, is E, though you might not guess it from the fawning HBO documentary Thank You, Mr. President: Helen... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064378/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:16:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062471/posts Laura's E-Blast http://www.LauraIngraham.com July 9, 2008 MADRASSAS FOR AMERICANS: On today's show we were joined by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and producer Ericka Pertierra, who discussed the new documentary "Karachi Kids." The film tracks two brothers from Atlanta whose father, a Pakistani immigrant, shipped them off to a Pakistani madrassa and informed them their return was conditional upon memorizing the entire Koran. The boys, their father felt, had become too absorbed in American culture. In 2004, the filmmakers discovered that the boys were being held against their will at the Jamia Binoria Institute in Karachi, one of Pakistan's most radical... Laura's E-Blast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062471/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:26:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062300/posts Move over reading, writing and 'rithmetic, the three R's of education have gone green. These days, recycle, reduce and reuse is the new mantra in schools as educators, politicians and parents push for increased environmental education and ecological awareness in California classrooms. Indeed, students today can be seen planting school gardens, composting leftover school lunches, learning about global warming and studying coho salmon populations. Just two or three decades ago, environmental instruction in California typically consisted of a week away at Outdoor Education during fifth or sixth grade, which in Northern California included the chance to lick a banana slug... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062300/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:46:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059965/posts In 1937, Hitler ordered all German children into the government schools. He said: "The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of innoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own... All American Blogger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059965/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059247/posts This morning, I read the magazine What Is Enlightenment that Glenn picked up for me from a local health food store because the cover had a number of articles about men including "Constructing the New Man," "19 Powerful Women Tell the Truth about Men," and "A Scandalous Look at Scandinavia: Where women are women and men are too." Uh, okay, I thought, this can't be good, it's a magazine from a crunchy organic healthfood store with what I assumed would be a somewhat biased picture of the male gender complete with articles describing how men should be more like women.... Dr. Helen blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2059247/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:29:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2059101/posts go to http://pbskids.org/eekoworld/ then in the left side click on EckoCreature then click on "start" where indicated Click to state that your creature lives in the air then click on "all done" where indicated put the mouse pointer in the sky in the picture and click then move the mouse pointer around the picture to click on various icons that will cause various questions to be asked and then answered with a yes or no. Answer the questions and click "back to eeKoCreature after each one. At some point (sometimes after 12 other questions) an oil derrick icon will appear... PBS Kids http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2059101/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:05:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2058931/posts HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA: PART EIGHT–GAY DESIGNS ON KIDS In Part Six of this series (August 3), I made reference to the designs homosexuals have on America’s children. Aside from my comments on Paul Cameron, Ph.D., nothing evoked more disdain and ridicule from gays than suggesting they were after our kids, which was expected since nothing they are in process of doing–and accomplishing–is more repugnant and hence their defensiveness is understandable. They deny the allegation vociferously but facts are indeed facts. Obviously, homosexuals by definition can’t procreate and therefore their only source of new converts is through recruiting and what better... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2058931/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058607/posts Democrats send AB 2567 to Governor Schwarzenegger Sacramento, California – AUGUST 7 Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a leading California organization protecting parents' rights and children's innocence, condemns the passage of AB 2567, which will instruct all California public schools to "conduct suitable commemorative exercises" in support of the anti-religious, sexual-anarchy agenda of the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. On Thursday, August 7, the California Assembly passed AB 2567 on a 43 to 26 vote, Democrats for, Republicans silently against. Earlier this week, AB 2567 passed the California State Senate on a 22-13 vote, Democrats for, Republicans against.... CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (CCF) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058607/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:26:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058469/posts Only a year after banning all negative messages about homosexuality in public schools throughout the state, the California Legislature now is ordering school children to celebrate "gay" lifestyle choices. "If signed into law, AB 2567 will mean an official day commemorating homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in California government schools," said Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families. "This will harm children as young as kindergarten," he said. "Every May 22, AB 2567 will positively portray to children homosexual experimentation, homosexual 'marriages,' sex-change operations, and anything else that's 'in the closet.' Gov. Schwarzenegger should say no to this... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058469/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057461/posts Each day during the school year, a long line of cars sits idling outside Lake Oswego schools, potentially damaging the environment of the very children they're picking up. Three Lake Oswego teenagers decided the idling has to stop. It's an easy fix: shut off the car. The hard part is getting people to act. Jacob Shimkus, Emily Carlson and Sierra Sweigert call themselves the Green Teens, and their plan is to place "No Idle Zone" signs at every school. "The generation above us is leaving all of this to us, and it's up to us to decide what we're going... Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057461/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 16:24:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057394/posts Majority Democrats in the California Assembly have rejected two amendments that would have allowed schools to fire any employee discovered to be part of an extremist terror network and require users of school facilities to affirm they are not terrorists. A report from Karen England at the Capital Resource Institute said the amendments were submitted by assemblymen Martin Garrick and Chuck DeVore to a plan that also would allow members of the Communist Party to teach in public schools. "I am appalled that Democrat lawmakers will not agree to these commonsense amendments," said England, executive director of CRFI. "My son... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057394/posts#comment Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:25:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056042/posts Food workers at the Shelbyville, Tenn., plant for Tyson Foods, which boasts on its corporate website that it strives "to honor God," will have time off for Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday closing the month of Ramadan, instead of the American tradition Labor Day. Officials with the company told WND the labor union representing the 1,200 plant workers, including about 700 immigrants from Somalia who largely are Muslim, sought the holiday change in the new five-year contract, and the company agreed. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056042/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 03:59:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055844/posts "Most devout Muslims are creationists so when you go to schools, there are a large number of children of Islamic parents who trot out what they have been taught," Prof Dawkins said in a Sunday newspaper interview. "Teachers are bending over backwards to respect home prejudices that children have been brought up with. The Government could do more, but it doesn't want to because it is fanatical about multiculturalism and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come." Prof Dawkins, professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University, is author of books including the... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055844/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:40:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054901/posts PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has by far his greatest strength among voters with postgraduate education, while John McCain has his highest level of support among voters who have a college degree but no postgraduate education. Obama wins overwhelmingly among blacks across all educational levels. An analysis of the vote by education among whites (with blacks and Hispanics taken out of the equation), shows McCain does much better against Obama among whites in general than he does among nonwhites. The presumptive Republican nominee in fact "wins" in each educational group of whites except those with postgraduate education gallup http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054901/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:06:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054556/posts ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." "I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergarteners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama’s work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate. "'Barack... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054556/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:21:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053016/posts The nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, attracted 9,000 delegates to its annual convention in Washington, D.C. over the Fourth of July weekend. Delegates sported buttons with provocative slogans such as "Gay marriage causes Global Warming only because we are so hot!", "Hate is not a family value," "The 'Christian Right' is neither," and "Gay Rights are civil rights." The delegates passed dozens of hard-hitting resolutions that now become the NEA's official policy. The resolutions authorize NEA members and employees to lobby for those goals in the halls of Congress and state capitols. NEA resolutions cover the waterfront... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053016/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:36:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052976/posts A new website campaign designed by a British power company recruits children through games, badges and cartoons to enlist as "Climate Cops," actively keeping records on their parents and neighbors for violations of "energy crimes" against the planet. The "Climate Cops" website encourages children to investigate family and friends and "then build your 'Climate Crime Case File' and report back to your family to make sure they don't commit those crimes again (or else)!" The site also warns children that they "may need to keep a watchful eye" to prevent future violations. A link on the site for teachers to... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052976/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052081/posts Almost third of Muslim students on Britain's campuses believe killing in the name of religion can be justified, according to a controversial survey described as the most comprehensive of its kind. The poll, conducted for Islam on Campus, a new report from the Centre for Social Cohesion think-tank, also found that 40 percent of those interviewed supported the introduction of sharia law for British Muslims... The Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052081/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:43:59 GMT