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Here’s another bizarre school assignment to add to the pile, courtesy of Wisconsin-based talk show host Vicki McKenna. Students are asked to work in groups to choose seven people to save from a shipwreck. To help in their decision, they are given some rudimentary information about each passenger, such as race and religious views. Mr. Blake, for example, is a Mormon who “sympathizes with anti-black views,” while Mr. Newton is a “black power advocated” [sic] who is “suspected of homosexual activity.” You can see the educational value, especially when you take into account Father Frans, a priest who is “often...

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)One in three Americans can’t name a single branch of the U.S. government, according to a poll from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The survey, which was conducted from July 8 to 14, and published Sept. 17, found that only 36 percent of respondents could name all three branches of government, while an alarming 35 percent of survey respondents couldn’t name a single branch. The poll, which contains a margin of error of plus or minus 3.06 percent, surveyed 1,416 U.S. adults aged 18 and older. The report also found that only 27 percent of...

The more the presidential candidates talk, the less we seem to know about their views on Social Security. For example, does Mitt Romney really believe, “There are (sic) one of two ways you can make Social Security work forever:” Raise the retirement age or means test the program by “having slower growth in inflating the benefits of higher-income of (sic) Social Security recipients?” Does Rick Perry use the so-called Texas Model as a working model of how he as president would apply the county-operated public-employees’ model in Texas to workers in the whole United States? If so would he apply...

When you get your census form in a couple of weeks just fill out the number of people in your household. Also, go into your employer tommorrow and ask for a W-2 Blue Card and change your Federal exemptions to 20 with no other withholding. Increase your state to the maximum allowed as well unless you have no state income tax. They don't want to do what we ask, it's time to send a message.

United States Senate Art & History From the start, I've advocated the gun rights political questionnaire to be used as a force multiplier by local activists to pin down candidates in their states and areas. I've never intended to be the clearinghouse for all races--there just ain't enough of me. Rather, I've wanted to limit myself to focus on some key national races, notably the Senate contest in Nevada and trying to deny a spot on the ticket to a wretched anti-gun Republican in Illinois. That said, some of you have sent out questionnaires and forwarded the responses to me,...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MatchoMatic/fullpage?id=5542139 If you answer the questions, it tells you who you shold vote for.

CRISIS Magazine - e-Letter July 30, 2004 ********************************************** Dear Friend, I was afraid of this. You'll probably remember that a few weeks ago, I told you that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was working on its presidential questionnaire. If you recall, the form asks the two candidates where they stand on a number of issues important to Catholics. I had noted that the Left-leaning USCCB might try to bury the pro-life questions in with a bunch of irrelevant issues... thereby hiding Senator John Kerry's extreme pro-abortion voting record. They did something similar with the 2000 presidential questionnaire...

1. How would you boost the state’s economy? 2. What needs to be done to protect our area from the threat of terrorism? 3. Should same-sex couples be allowed to get married or form civil unions? 4. Do you have a plan to lower health care costs? 5. How does your position on taxes differ from your Republican opponents? 6. Where do you stand on the abortion issue? 7. Why should voters choose you in the primary? Fern's Response to Channel 14 questionnaire: News 14 Carolina Patrick's News 14 Carolina Dan Barrett's News 14 Carolina Vinroot's News 14 Carolina Cobey's...