Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $28,748
35%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 35%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: smithonian

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • What Is the Status of the Smithsonian and How Can It Protect Free Speech Rights?

    01/06/2020 4:18:41 AM PST · by Kaslin · 28 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 6, 2020 | Julian Raven
    The Smithsonian Institution, has stood as an emblem of American knowledge and values since its establishment. Its vast spaces have been used to advance technological progress, social change and, in the realm of the arts, what is good and beautiful.  In 2015, my painting 'Unafraid and Unashamed' was submitted to the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery for inclusion in an exhibit on American political art.  The scoffing response from the museum’s director, Kim Sajet, was that it was “too big”, “too political”, “too pro-Trump” and finally "no good."The abrupt, arbitrary dismissal of an artist’s work may cause hurt feelings. However, the...
  • Smithsonian Determined to Celebrate Anti-Human Planned Parenthood Founder, Margaret Sanger

    10/20/2015 10:13:42 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 19 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 20, 2015 | Ryan Bomberger
    So-called “progressives” love moving forward with their reconstructed versions of history. The taxpayer-funded Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is supposed to be a place that reveres history, not revises it. That hasn’t stopped the institution from presenting to the public a false presentation of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. The bust, prominently and ironically displayed in the NPG’s “Struggle For Justice” exhibit, was provided by the late Cordelia Scaife May. She was a very wealthy population control activist who “supported conservation and Planned Parenthood among other causes” according to her obituary in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. May founded the...