Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Are You Smarter Than A 1954 8th Grader?
From BlackInformant.com
Need a way to measure just how far our public school system has fallen? Compare these questions from a 1954 civics class to the questions a current 8th grader brings home. It’s called the dumbing down of America, folks. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
A Great Talk on the Great Depression
From FFF
by Jacob G. Hornberger
If there was ever an area in which public-school indoctrination has been effective, it’s with respect to the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. It is impossible for any student to escape public school without having his mind molded to accept the officially approved version of events: The Great Depression ...Read more.
Does the American Empire Deserve to Die?
From Strike The Root
I’m halfway through a reflective book written by an old curmudgeon. Part patriot, part historian, all gadfly, Gore Vidal wrote Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia in 2004, just before the upcoming national elections. Almost a time capsule coupled with dire prophecy, the book is a ...Read more.
Public-School Indoctrination
From The Future of Freedom Foundation
Yesterday, I blogged about the indoctrination that is an inherent part of any government school system, whether in Cuba, the U.S., England, North Korea, or any other country. Government officials have a vested interest in ensuring a citizenry that accepts the official version of things and a citizenry that is ...Read more.
How Free Americans Became Pigs at a Trough
From WND.com
I frequently receive e-mails from readers professing admiration for our (ahem) “simple” life. (For those unfamiliar with our lifestyle, we have a homestead farm, a home business, and we homeschool our kids.) What many people don’t understand is the sheer hard work the “simple” life entails. Difficult? Undoubtedly. Worth it? Unquestionably.
We live this way ...Read more.
America’s Slow-Motion Fascist Coup
Wow! Just finished the longest Lew Rockwell Show episode yet: America’s Slow-Motion Fascist Coup. It didn’t take me the whole 50 minutes to figure out why Lew decided to use this whole conversation rather than cut it down to the usual 15 minutes or so.
This is an extraordinary exchange (not really an interview in the ...Read more.
American Idiots
From FinancialSense.com
According to the CDC, 66% of adults over the age of 20 are overweight or obese. That is approximately 140 million adults. Somewhere between 15 and 20 million Americans can be classified as alcoholics. As many as 50% of those on welfare are alcoholics. There are 225 million people over 18 years old and ...Read more.
Is Barack Obama like the Nazis or Adolf Hitler?
From The Humble Libertarian
Is Barack Obama like the Nazis or Adolf Hitler? Does even asking the question make you a right-wing nut or a partisan hack? Is it distasteful to mention Hitler or the Nazis to make a point? Let’s take a sober look at the answers to these questions below:
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The Great Escape From Responsibility
By Thomas Sowell
Many of the issues of our times are hard to understand without understanding the vision of the world that they are part of. Whether the particular issue is education, economics or medical care, the preferred explanation tends to be an external explanation – that is, something outside the control of the individuals directly ...Read more.
Would Eric Holder Have Prosecuted the Nazis?
Let’s assume that a U.S. president authorizes the CIA to rape the family members of suspected terrorists as a way to get them to talk. He also authorizes his subordinates to place the suspected terrorists on a rack that stretches them apart until they confess and disclose all details of their suspected terrorism,…
