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Colleges
teaching students how to hate America By Walter Williams
Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let’s look at it.
“We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it.” That’s taught to University of Hawaii students by Professor Haunani-Kay Trask. Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University and the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Palestine monitor, explained the Boston bombings by saying, “The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world.” Professor Falk has also stated that President George W. Bush ordered the destruction of the twin towers.
University of Southern California professor Darry Sragow preaches hate to his students in his regulation of elections and political finance class, recently telling them that Republicans are stupid, racist losers and that they are angry old white people. A few years ago, Rod Swanson, a UCLA economics professor, told his class, “The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world.”
Penn State University professor Matt Jordan compared supporters of the voter ID laws to the Ku Klux Klan. Professor Sharon Sweet, an algebra teacher at Brevard Community College, told her students to sign a pledge that read, “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.” Fortunately, the college’s trustees fired her.
University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis tweeted, “I want (National Rifle Association executive vice president) Wayne La-Pierre’s head on a stick.” He asked, “Can (we) define NRA membership as dues contributing to a terrorist organization?” Here’s a sample of how Professor Loomis frequently expresses himself: “Motherf---ing f-heads f---ing f---.” Then there’s Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman, who explained our national problems by saying, “But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.” Professor Seidman worked for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. When he was sworn in as an officer of the court, I wonder what constitution he swore to uphold and defend.
Parents don’t have to wait for college admission for their youngsters to receive America-hating lessons. Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., was put on administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students. He has chosen to resign. An Advanced Placement world geography teacher at Lumberton High School in Texas encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing and instructed them to refer to the 9/11 hijackers as “freedom fighters.” They were also told to stop referring to the Holocaust as genocide. John Valastro, the superintendent of the Lumberton Independent School District, told Fox News that the teacher did absolutely nothing wrong. In McAllen, Texas, teachers tried to force a teenager to sing the Mexican national anthem and recite Mexico’s pledge of allegiance. The teen refused. She was thrown out of the class and given a failing grade for that day’s assignment.
Investor’s Business Daily ran a story that shows student indoctrination is official union policy: “A New Low From The California Federation Of Teachers: Urine Indoctrination” (12/5/12). The union’s website has a cartoon narrated by leftist Hollywood actor Ed Asner. In tones used when reading to children, Asner says: “(Rich people) love their money more than anything in the whole world....
Over time, rich people decided they weren’t rich enough, so they came up with ways to get richer.” The cartoon finishes its class warfare message by graphically depicting “the rich” urinating on the poor. These people running our education system are destroying the minds and values of our young people, and we allow them to do it.
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Shocker:
IRS Chief Lied During Testimony
In House testimony Friday, former Acting IRS
Commissioner Steven Miller explained that the IRS mistakes in handling
applications for non-profit status from tea party groups were due, in large
part, to a flood of applications following the Citizens United decision. Miller
said the targeting was a botched attempt to centralize the process to account
for the increased workload. There were fewer applications in 2010, when the IRS
began targeting conservative groups, than the year before, however. In 2009, before IRS began targeting tea
party organizations, 1,751 groups applied for 501 (c)4 status. That number dropped in 2010 to 1,735.
In fact, applications were down across all areas in the Tax Exempt division’s
jurisdiction. So, they had more staff available for processing. While the number of applications did
increase in 2011 and 2012, there was no increase in applications when the IRS began
isolating tea party groups.
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Obama
Administration Knew of IRS Probe During 2012 Campaign
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June
2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that
they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector
general said, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a
probe during the heat of the presidential campaign. J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax
administration, testifying alongside ousted IRS head Steven Miller on Friday,
said he had told the department's general counsel about his investigation on
June 4, 2012, and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin "shortly
thereafter." But, George cautioned, those discussions were "not to inform them of the results of
the audit. It was to inform them of the fact that we were conducting the
audit." After the hearing, inspector general spokeswoman Karen
Kraushaar said George "informed
Department of Treasury officials that we were looking into the IRS' handling of
applications for tax-exempt status, partly due to allegations raised by
conservative organizations." Kraushaar said the disclosure was
part of a routine briefing about the office's activities.
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Sebelius
Spends Your Taxes On Community Organizations
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen
Sebelius was criticized last week for soliciting private contributions to
Enroll America, a non-governmental organization run by former Obama campaign
operatives. The real monkey business
is what the secretary is doing with taxpayers’ money — pouring it into
community organizations. The pretext is
that community organizations will do a better job than government employees in
enrolling the uninsured in ObamaCare. But the likelihood is that these
community organizations will steer the uninsured into the Democratic Party. And
beware. The Senate immigration bill tries to repeat this unsavory use of
community organizations. It pays community organizations to educate immigrants
about American civics and the path to citizenship. Last week’s brouhaha came
about because Sebelius raised money for Enroll America after House Republicans
refused to approve more funding for ObamaCare enrollment efforts. So what is
Enroll America? Its board of directors is made up of insurers and hospital
organizations that will benefit from enrolling millions of people in ObamaCare.
But its management is 100% political.
Its president is Anne Filipic, formerly deputy director of the Office of Public
Engagement in the White House, where she networked with community organizers.
Before that, she had a top job at the Democratic National Committee, and before
that she managed Obama’s victorious 2008 Iowa Caucus bid. To design a media campaign, Enroll America
hired Lake Research, which also manages messaging for Acorn, MoveOn.org, LaRaza
and 39 members of Congress, all Democrats.
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Explaining
the Connection Between Obama’s Health Care Law and the IRS
Even before news organizations confirmed that Sarah
Hall Ingram, who headed the tax-exempt division of the IRS, would lead agency’s
implementation of the ACA, Republicans wasted no time trying to link the
scandal to the law. As the investigation into the IRS’ targeting of
conservative groups begins, here’s an explainer to answer the role that the
tax-collecting agency plays in the health care law’s implementation.
Q:
What role will the IRS play in implementing the Affordable Care Act?
A: The short answer is: a substantial
one. In his ruling on the constitutionality of Obama’s health care law,
Chief Justice John Roberts that Congress can regulate health care under its
ability to tax. That set up the agency to take a lead in implementing the law,
along with the Health and Human Services Department. (The Labor Department will
also play a role.) There are 47
tax provisions – including the small business health care credit and the
medical device tax – that will go into effect. The agency will have to
administer those provisions and collect taxes where they’re due. The
agency will also have to determine whether people qualify for a health
insurance premium tax credit as part of the minimum coverage requirement. Americans will also have to report their
insurance status on their taxes each year, and the agency will have to review
that and collect a $95 penalty on those not carrying insurance.
Businesses will be required to provide health care to their employees or face a
penalty if they do not. The agency
will set these rules and collect the penalties when businesses aren’t in
compliance. NOT CONGRESS!
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Can
the Boy Scouts Be Good Without God?
Tom Krattenmaker says that atheists can be good
without God. His article in USA Today (“Good Boy Scouts Don’t
Need God,” May 13, 2013) attempts to
make the case that atheists are good people. They don’t believe in God
and yet they perform good deeds. No
they don’t and they don’t do bad deeds either.
If there is no God,
there are no morals for anyone. There is neither
good nor evil. Whatever a person does cannot be evaluated in moral terms.
Evolution knows nothing about morality. Let
me be clear. I am not saying that atheists are immoral people. Most atheists do
not murder, steal, and rape. But if they did, given the nature of the atheistic
worldview, if they were truly consistent with their materialistic operating
assumptions, there wouldn’t be anything morally wrong with killing people for
whatever reason, or raping to advance the species, or stealing to grow the
evolutionary model. The atheist borrows morality from the
theistic worldview. He does the same with logic, love, and laughter. Atheists
admit as much, even though they are not consistent with their operating
assumptions. Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1886–1961) wrote:
“I am
very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is
deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a
magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry
that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us
a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical
delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.
Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in
these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined
to take them seriously.”
A materialist can measure the temperature of a
corpse, determine the approximate time of death, and how the evolved entity’s
life was extinguished, but there is nothing inherent in the atheist’s worldview
that can say that there is any moral difference if the bullet to the meat bag
was murder, self-defense, or suicide. Death
is death, and there’s nothing beyond the cold corpse. The after death future of
the world’s greatest philanthropist is no different from that of the world’s
greatest genocidal maniac. The
atheist has to go outside his matter-only worldview to find any moral light. An atheist cannot find moral certainty in
the atoms of matter-only worldview. Atheist William Provine, historian
of science and of evolutionary biology and population genetics, has concluded that “modern science directly
implies that there are no inherent moral or ethical laws.” In a debate
with Intelligent Design (ID) advocate Phillip E. Johnson, Provine admitted that
there are “no ultimate foundations for ethics.”
Christian philosopher Norman L. Geisler states:
“How
would you know that the Holocaust is ultimately wrong unless you knew what was
ultimately right? If you don’t have an absolute standard for right, you can’t
say that [the Holocaust] is absolutely wrong. That’s just your opinion, and
somebody else’s opinion could be, the Holocaust was the best thing in the
history of mankind.
This is why an
atheist must act in a clandestine way as an “interloper on God’s territory.
Everything he uses to construct his system has been stolen from God’s
‘construction site.’ The unbeliever is like the little girl who must climb on
her father’s lap to slap his face. . . . [T]he unbeliever must use the world as
it has been created by God to try to throw God off Hs throne.”
Atoms, electricity,
gravity, DNA, mud, sand, or whatever cannot supply the basis for even the
category called morality. If the Boy Scouts give up
God, there is no basis for goodness or badness. Atheism is like setting one’s
sails “for the island of nihilism. This is the darkest continent of the
darkened mind — the ultimate paradise of the fool.”
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