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TEACHERS vs. TYRANTS: Sandy Hook Fallout Revealing Dark
Side of Many ‘‘Teachers” By Nick Taxia
There are many truths about being young and growing up one can only
realizes years later. Sometimes you want to kick yourself for not
having realized them sooner. The Sandy Hook atrocity and its
fallout have confirmed for me one of these truths I had suspected, even as a second
grader, although back then it was naturally just a small,
underdeveloped intuition unable to be articulated by a seven year old.
But now in the aftermath of Newtown this “small,
underdeveloped” intuition has become a firm and blaring
certainty: many of our public school teachers are really Nazis in
disguise. … Actually, scratch “Nazis,” for that denotes a specific
political/racial agenda. Instead, they fall simply more into
the category of “control freaks;” people feeling the need and having the
opportunity to exert their micron of power over those with even less power:
children. From banning the drawing of
pictures of guns, to suspending a child who brings a water pistol to
school, to threatening to expel some poor kid who made his hand into the
shape of a gun, many public school indoctrina … I’m sorry, “educators,” are
showing not only their true political colors, but more so their deep, underling
psychological troubles as well. It’s these psychological issues I’m
tackling here.
We all remember teachers who were kind, gentle, yet firm and commanded
respect. They left our schools each day prideful that they had
actually taught us something, like simple division, how to work in groups to
solve problems, or how to write a complete sentence. They went
home happy they had done their true jobs – teaching. But then there were “other
teachers.” My elementary school’s feared Mrs. Dubois comes to
mind, as she was what I see are a frighteningly growing number of teachers, not
so much interested in bestowing basic knowledge upon us as she was about
tyrannizing over helpless, impressionable kids. There were others
like her, but old Mrs. Dubois stands out the most. We weren’t bad kids
in 1980s’ Howard County, Maryland, yet Dubois treated us like criminals, with
her draconian rules, her face always a frown, never daring to utter a
compliment, her eyes dark and disdainful; beady windows into her
soul. She was feared and hated, and not just by us, but other
teachers as well. She was not interested in teaching. She was intoxicated with
power. Power over whom, the already and naturally powerless —
children? How pathetic!
Today the Mrs. Dubois of America have renewed, revamped excuses not to
teach — that comes secondary, if at all — but to tyrannize over children who
are just doing what children do: playing, play fighting, drawing pictures
involving guns, playing “war” during recess, poking fun at one another; simply
being kids. Teaching is hailed as a noble profession, and rightfully
so. Standing before a classroom of adolescents who don’t want to be
there and telling them information they’d rather not hear is an aggravating job. But when you suspend a
6th grader for drawing a picture of a gun or bringing in a water pistol,
or wearing a shirt supporting the U.S. Marines with rifles on it, it begs the
question: are these people we deliver our children to each week day really
there to “teach” or to act out their own subconscious, psychological fears and
torments; irrational fears of powerlessness; fears of leaving no legacy, fears
of not being remembered, fears of having accomplished nothing with their very
lives – nothing?
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Roofers union calls for Obamacare’s repeal by Sean
Higgins
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers is
reportedly the first union to officially call for repeal of the Affordable Care
Act, aka Obamacare. The health care law is prompting some serious buyer’s
remorse in Big Labor, which worked hard on behalf of the administration to pass
it. United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers International
President Kinsey M. Robinson issued the following statement today calling for a
repeal or complete reform of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act
(ACA):
“Our Union and its members have
supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his
terms in office. But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the
ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush
to achieve its passage, many of the Act’s provisions were not fully conceived,
resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise
that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep
it. These provisions jeopardize our multi-employer health plans, have the
potential to cause a loss of work for our members, create an unfair bidding
advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to
their workers, and in the worst case, may cause our members and their families
to lose the benefits they currently enjoy as participants in multi-employer
health plans. For decades, our multi-employer health and welfare plans have
provided the necessary medical coverage for our members and their families to
protect them in times of illness and medical needs. This collaboration between
labor and management has been a model of success that should be emulated rather
than ignored. I refuse to remain silent, or idly watch as the ACA destroys
those protections. I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the
Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most
important asset: our members and their families.”
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Supreme Court Hears Case Arguing Federal Gov’t Power to
Rule Citizens ‘From Cradle to Grave’
Wednesday, April 17, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case of
extraordinary impact on the Constitution and the power of the federal
government to control every aspect of citizens’ lives. Not surprisingly, it’s a
case you’ve never heard of. United States v. Kebodeaux is of such
immeasurable importance that if the Obama administration is victorious, it
will — perhaps irreversibly — accelerate the consolidation
of all power in Washington, D.C. As one commentator observed, should the
court decided in favor of the president, he will have “gained total power to
rule the lives of US citizens from cradle to grave.” How
is this usurpation accomplished? By way of the assumption by the federal
government of powers reserved to the states, specifically that spectrum of
authority over the individual known as “police power.” The Constitution
as drafted and ratified by the states granted
to the federal government a limited slate of powers (described by James Madison
as “few and defined”), leaving the residue in the hands of the states. Among
the powers not delegated by the states to the federal government in the
Constitution is the “general power of governing,” that is to say “police
power.” This direct influence over the life, liberty, and property of citizens
is reserved by the state governments. There are, admittedly, a couple of
exceptions. For example, Article I,
Section 8 of the Constitution places the military and obviously federal
property within the jurisdiction of the federal government. Also, the
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 expanded the scope of the federal government,
including the addition of a few “police powers” formerly restricted to the
states. An example of the practical execution of this power is the
array of state laws governing abortion, voting eligibility, marriage, etc. Notably, in recent years, the federal
government has legislated in each of these areas. Unfortunately, state legislatures have — perhaps
unwittingly — participated in the centralization in Washington of all
power. According to the facts of the creation of the Constitution and the
explicit text of the 10th Amendment, states may rightfully reject any federal
act that exceeds the narrow range of powers granted to it in the Constitution.
However,
the federal government has grown so powerful and the states proportionately
have become so weak that the federal government can now unconstitutionally
compel obedience to its many mandates by withholding billions in grant money and “matching funds” from
insubordinate states.
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Issa Tells CIA: Plan for Massive Benghazi Probe By: David Yonkman
Escalating his investigation of the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi last year, Rep. Darrell Issa warned CIA and other
government officials Wednesday to lawyer-up in preparation for a massive probe. The California Republican who chairs the
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent letters Wednesday
suggesting that some witnesses lawyer up before being called to testify, The
Hill reported. He also suggested that some witnesses should be prepared for
retaliation from their employer, depending on their responses. “Some witnesses may be required to retain
personal counsel to represent them before the committee and in the event the
agency subsequently retaliates against them for cooperating with the
committee’s investigation,” the California Republican who chairs the House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee said in separate letters to the CIA,
State Department, and Pentagon. Issa said some witnesses have already
been cooperating with the investigation into the attack that killed Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11, 2012, the Hill
reported. “During the course of the
investigation, numerous individuals have approached the committee with
information related to the attack,” he wrote in the letters. Issa asked the agencies to provide details on
how to grant outside attorneys the security clearances necessary for them to
adequately represent employees who discuss classified matters with
congressional investigators. Former
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra also told Newsmax Thursday
that whistleblowers may have access to classified information and may need a
lawyer to ensure that they comply with the rules, regulations, and legal
requirements to protect themselves. “There are multiple whistleblowers who want
to get the story out,” Hoekstra said. “All of these people are very concerned
that they do everything appropriately. These whistleblowers still feel that
there’s a gap between what’s in the public domain and what really happened,”
Hoekstra continued. “They’ve all been frustrated.”
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John Kerry On Benghazi: “We Got A Lot more Important
Things To Move On To” By: David Yonkman
Above, I wrote about how new whistleblowers were coming forward and
speaking to members of Congress about Benghazi and I pointed out the
procrastination of State Secretary John Kerry in his appointment of a liaison
in the Benghazi matter. Well, following those comments was even worse as he callously said, “we got a lot more
important things to move on to and get done.” The fiery comments between Kerry and
Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) went as follows:
REP. DANA
ROHRABACHER (R-CA): Mr.
Secretary, we think that there was a cover-up of some kind of wrongdoing that
led this administration to lie to the American people about the nature of the
attack immediately after the attack and for a week after that attack. We need
to have these questions answered. We need to talk to the people who are on the
scene. Can you give us a commitment now that for this administration you will
be coming up with the request, the honest request of this investigative
committee as to who was evacuated and how to talk to them so we can get a
straight answer and an understanding of what happened in Benghazi?
SECRETARY OF STATE
JOHN KERRY: Well, before I
became Secretary, Congressman, I believe I got the answers to who was evacuated
and had a pretty good sense of what happened there. But now that I am the
Secretary and I am responsible to you and the Congress, I can promise you that
if you’re not getting something that you have evidence of or you think you
ought to be getting, we’ll work with you. And I will appoint somebody to work
directly with you starting tomorrow, with you, Mr. Chairman, to have a review
of anything you don’t think you’ve gotten that you’re supposed to get. Let’s
get this done with, folks.
ROHRABACHER: Thanks.
KERRY: Let’s figure out what it is that’s missing, if it’s
legitimate or if it isn’t. I don’t think anybody lied to anybody. And
let’s find out exactly, together, what happened, because we need — we got a lot
more important things to move on to and get done. (House Foreign Affairs
Committee, April 17, 2013). I suppose
for some people having John Kerry as Secretary of State is comforting. I’m not
one of them.
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Biden Vows Obama Will Use Executive Orders
They can’t pass gun control via Congress so they’re going the dictator
route. This is not going to go over well. Vice President Biden told White House allies in the gun control fight
Thursday that President Obama will be announcing new executive actions on gun
violence in the days after the Senate voted down a gun violence bill. On
a conference call with “stakeholders,” Biden told gun control advocates that
the fight is not over and that eventual action on gun control will come. Press were not
invited to the conference call; a participant provided BuzzFeed with
access. “Look I know you’re going to
say that I’m just being an optimist and I’m trying to put a good face on this.
But you know I’ve been around here a long time and we’ve already done, because
of you, some really good things,” Biden said. “Number one, the president is
already lining up some additional executive actions he’s going to be taking
later this week.”
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Anthropologists Abuse Students on the Job By David Coppedge
A shocking percentage of male anthropologists sexually abuse their female
students, a new report says. Science Insider broke the story: “Survey
Finds Sexual Harassment in Anthropology.” Previously afraid to speak
up out of fear for their careers, women responded to an anonymous survey that
shows sexual abuse, up to and including rape, is rampant by their superiors:
Fieldwork is a rite of passage for anthropologists.
It gives the initiate firsthand knowledge of a culture, along with a feeling of
camaraderie with colleagues, often in remote and rugged locations. But for
women there is also a dark side—a risk of sexual harassment and rape,
according to a
survey of fieldwork experiences released today. Anthropologist Kathryn
Clancy, who authored the study, found a disturbingly high incidence of
physical sexual harassment among respondents: More than 20% of
female bioanthropologists who took part said that they had experienced ” physical
sexual harassment or unwanted sexual contact.”Most of these victims are
female, and most of the perpetrators were colleagues of superior
professional status, sometimes the victim’s own fieldwork mentor.
Clancy was stimulated to look into abuse when a traumatized colleague of
hers shared her story of having been raped by her mentor but was told to keep
quiet for the sake of her career. Clancy provided a place where students
could tell their “horror stories” anonymously. Wanting more rigorous
data, she launched an online
survey and was shocked: over 20% of 98 women, and 1 of 23 men, reported
sexual harassment and unwanted physical contact. The incidents primarily
involved fellow field workers, rarely members of the cultures being
studied.
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Church Defaced by Homosexuals Get’s Little News Coverage
by Gary DeMar
St. Jude Catholic Church of the City of Westlake Village was defaced on
Easter weekend. The following brief story appeared in the April 11, 2013 issue
of The Acorn, a community newspaper that serves Agoura Hills, Calabasas,
Oak Park, and Westlake Village in California:
“Vandals targeted the 32000 block of Lindero Canyon
Road sometime between Fri., March 29 and Sat., March 30, authorities said. “The
graffiti included a reference to homosexuality, several four-letter words and a
swastika, a source told The Acorn. One scrawl reportedly said, ‘God is
gay.’”
The story got no attention outside the small communities mentioned above. I happened to see the story because I was in
the Los Angeles area for a business meeting and happened to pick up the
community newspaper. If some homosexual group had been the target of anti-gay
graffiti, the story would have been carried by every news outlet. Hate crime
charges would have been leveled against the perpetrators. Sensitivity training
would have been demanded by homosexual groups across the country. Any
time someone makes a derogatory comment about homosexuality, the gaystapo goes
into action. The media comply with front-page stories to insure that the person
who said negative things about homosexuals never dares do it again. The
Huffington Post carries dozens of articles about politicians and Hollywood
types that come out in favor of homosexual marriage. They want to continue to
work in Hollywood. Their pro-homosexual stance is similar to what Rome demanded
of its citizens. As long as the people offered a pinch of incense to the Roman
gods, they were permitted to worship their own god or gods. Consider this story
about Polycarp
who lived between AD 70 and 155:
“The emperors of Rome had unleashed bitter attacks against the Christians
during this period, and members of the early church recorded many of the
persecutions and deaths. Polycarp was arrested on the charge of being a
Christian — a member of a politically dangerous cult whose rapid growth needed
to be stopped. Amidst an angry mob, the Roman proconsul took pity on such a
gentle old man and urged Polycarp to proclaim, ‘Caesar is Lord.” “If
only Polycarp would make this declaration and offer a small pinch of incense to
Caesar’s statue he would escape torture and death. To this Polycarp responded,
‘Eighty-six years I have served Christ, and He never did me any wrong. How can
I blaspheme my King who saved me?’ Steadfast in his stand for Christ, Polycarp
refused to compromise his beliefs, and thus, was burned alive at the stake.” People aren’t
burned at the stake in America; they are burned by the media for any opposition
to the gay agenda. At the same time, homosexuals are protected by
the media when they attack people who oppose same-sex sex and homosexual
marriage. Some of the attacks have led people to lose their jobs and even be
sued for not complying to homosexual demands.
~~~~~~
Yet Another Democrat Tries To Assassinate An American
President by
I laughed out loud when I learned that the man who sent poisoned
letters to President Obama is a Democrat. And then I thought, “Well doesn’t
that figure?” The would-be assassin, whose fame I will not contribute to by writing
his name, sent letters laced with ricin to Obama and to Republican Senator
Roger Wicker. Inhaling the toxin is deadly, and all it takes to kill a human is
an amount 1/288 the size of an aspirin. A
picture of the man, a white guy whom I will henceforth refer to as John,
surfaced on the Internet (where pictures are want to surface). It comes from
his Facebook page and shows John kneeling down beside the back bumper of a car,
which has a sticker on it that reads, “Christian and a Democrat.” John is
giving the sticker a thumbs-up. However, his Facebook page lists his political
views as “Independent.” So the fact that he gave a pro-Democrat bumper sticker
a thumbs-up and also tried killing a Democratic president likely means he is
one of those people who feel that Obama is too moderate, that the Democratic
Party is not suitably liberal, and therefore has registered as an Independent. Even I initially thought that whoever did it
was either a Republican or some backwoods, tinfoil-hat-wearing
pseudo-Libertarian. Now that it’s come out he is a
Democrat/Independent, it’s no surprise; virtually every assassin or would-be
assassin of American presidents, both Republican and Democrat, have been
leftists (to the extent that their political views are known). Successful
assassins (whose politics we know):
- John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, shot and killed President Lincoln
- Charles Guiteau, a member of the communist Oneida Community, shot and killed President Garfield
- Leon Czolgosz, a leftist anarchist (similar to the useful idiots in the Occupy movement) shot and killed President McKinley
- Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist, shot and killed President Kennedy.
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Violence and Mayhem Have Long Been Tools of the Left
by Gary DeMar
I don’t know who was involved in the Boston Marathon Massacre. Some on the Left need it to be a person
associated with “white privilege” so as not to slow down immigration reform
that the Democrats desperately want in order to swell their voting ranks.
Liberals also want it to be somebody aligned with a conservative ideology. For Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark
Potok, it’s not a real terrorist attack unless the target is aimed at “black
people or Jewish people or gay people or Muslims” and white people who hold a
conservative ideology are involved. Whoever
it turns out to be, the history of terrorism and bombings is a decidedly
leftist enterprise.
Mao Tse Tung’s said that “power grows out of a barrel of
a gun.” Leaders of student
movements in the 1960s spouted violent
rhetoric and acted on it to further their anti-establishment causes.
Carl Oglesby, president of the ultra-leftist
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), said, “Revolutions do not take place
in velvet boxes. . . . Nuns will be raped and bureaucrats will be
disemboweled.”.
A keynote speech at a 1962 SDS convention praised the freedom riders, not
for furthering civil rights but for their “radicalizing” potential, their
“clear-cut demonstration for the sterility of legalism.” The speaker continued:
“It’s not by . . . ‘learning the rules
of the legislative game’ that we will succeed in creating the kind of militant
alliances that our struggle requires. We shall succeed through force — through
the exertion of such pressure as will force our reluctant allies to accommodate
to us, in their own interest.”
Tom Hayden, an SDS organizer and strategist, former
member of the California General Assembly, and one-time husband of Jane Fonda,
intoned the following in 1967: “Perhaps the only forms
of action appropriate to the angry people are violent. Perhaps a small
minority, by setting ablaze New York and Washington, could damage this country
forever in the court of world opinion. Urban guerrillas are the only realistic
alternative at this time to electoral politics or mass armed resistance.” Anti-war activists
planted a fertilizer and fuel oil bomb at Sterling Hall, home of the University
of Wisconsin’s Physics Department and the Army Math Research Center. On the cover of Revolution for the
Hell of It, Abbie Hoffman, the late Yippie (Youth International Party)
spokesman of the 1960s, is pictured with a rifle in his hand leaping for joy. In Steal This Book he gave instructions on how to build stink
bombs, smoke bombs, Sterno bombs, aerosol bombs, pipe bombs, and Molotov
Cocktails. Hoffman’s updated version of the Molotov Cocktail consisted of a
glass bottle filled with a mixture of gasoline and Styrofoam, turning the
slushy blend into a poor man’s version of napalm. The flaming gasoline-soaked
Styrofoam was designed to stick to policemen when it exploded. Helpful drawings
on how to make the incendiary devices were included. In Woodstock Nation, Hoffman
updated his revolutionary tactics. Next
to the publisher’s name on the title page, there is an illustration of a man
using dynamite to blow up a house. This same illustration appears in Hoffman’s Steal This Book. The theme of both
books is how to blow up the system, literally.
So
when liberals want to blame the right, let’s remind our leftist friends that they
are the ones that created the context and methods of violence to further their
causes.
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Racism TAUGHT by Liberals Author: Kevin Jackson
In case you have wondered how America got so racist against
Conservatives, I have your answer. I have told whites that many Liberal blacks
hate white people, and wish them ill will or worse. The “tolerant” Left doesn’t
like discussing their racism, because their racism IS the racism they try to
deflect onto Republicans and Conservatives. Racism against Conservatives of all colors is part of the Leftist
system. It is taught in schools, and it is encouraged in communities, and in
families. We have information that Karon Wright was a Grand Prairie ISD
school counselor. She is the person from whom your kids would get their “life
lessons.” Don’t expect the NAACP to speak out against this behavior, and there
will be no media hoopla or White House Beer Fest. No, the Left will want to
sweep this under the rug.
We are told that Wright got fired, but find out for yourself.
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People Pay Big Money to be told They’re Evolved Pond Scum
by Gary DeMar Filed
under
The lecture was titled “The Origin of the Universe.”
People stood in a quarter-mile-long line for hours and paid big money to be
told that they are nothing but a conglomeration of atoms. One hopeful attendee
was willing to shell out $1000 for a ticket.
The people who got in to hear the
wheelchair-bound man were told that they are alone in the cosmos. They share
space with other biological units who are also accidents of electricity and
chemicals. The man in the
wheelchair is Dr. Stephen Hawking who has been trying to sell his scientific theories and atheistic faith to a willing
public. Anything he says is pure speculation. In fact, how does he know that his evolved brain knows anything?
There is nothing to test it against. How can he trust his evolved mind to give
him accurate information, especially since he is not only confined to a
wheelchair, but he, like everybody else, is confined to this insignificant
planet, what Carl Sagan described a “pale blue dot” in the vastness of the
cosmos? Consider these comments from C.S. Lewis:
“If minds are wholly dependent on
brains, and brains on bio-chemistry, and bio-chemistry (in the long run) on the
meaningless flux of atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds
should have any significance than the sound of the wind in the trees. Christian
theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religions. .
. . The scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even
science itself.”
What I can’t understand is why people salivate about
being told that they are an accident of nothingness.
The theory of evolution is posited as an established scientific fact even
though there is no empirical evidence to demonstrate how inanimate matter came
into existence and evolved into highly complex living organisms. There is no empirical evidence demonstrating
where organized information came from to give structure and development to
evolved matter. Finally, there is no empirical evidence showing the millions,
possibly billions, of gradual evolutionary steps that were necessary to go from
an inanimate glob of atoms to fully evolved humans. Evolutionists
wax eloquently about “nature’s design capabilities,” as if nature has a mind.
Nature isn’t a person, a being. When “Our whole universe was in a
hot dense state,” as the opening line to the theme song for “The Big Bang
Theory” TV show states, where was life, thought, mind, logic, rationality,
morality? What was directing the organization of atoms into “autotrophs” and
“Neanderthals” and everything else? The
first question is not “is the human race just a chemical scum on a
moderate-sized planet?,” as Stephen Hawking asked. The primary question is,
Where and how did the “chemical scum” come into existence in the first place
and organize itself into complex life forms? Hawking may be a smart man, but he
doesn’t know a thing about the cosmos. He’s a false prophet, a Pied Piper
leading people down the path to intellectual, cultural, and moral suicide.
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"Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his
country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that
he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be
able to set a due value on the means of preserving it." --James Madison, Federalist No. 41., 1788
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