Does anyone doubt that most teachers are dumb?  With apologies to my friends who are high school teachers, I have to say that as far as the majority goes, I have not met a more lemming-like group of people.  I spent a couple days with them at the National Council for the Social Studies and observed them being instructed by a Democrat senator on how to be indoctrinators.

Read it here at Pajamas Media

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/using-children-to-lobby-for-d-c-statehood/

Here’s Cathy’s article http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/09/a_rand_revival_100227.html

They were singing a different tune a year ago, when Republicans practically begged to be included in negotiations for the stimulus bill, which was posted on the Internet only for speed readers at midnight—breaking one of a long list of campaign promises.

Obama’s rationale? “I won”

The “We won” line was recited by Nancy Pelosi and then by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and I can’t even remember who all else.

How stupid does Obama think the American people are?

What does he have up his sleeve as he lies and lies?  He kept referring to the “crisis” and presented himself as averting another Great Depression.  This is not a man to be chastened by failures.  This is a man on a power trip who will do anything to maintain that power.  The rhetoric and lies are not working that well any more.  He’s trying, though, while at the same time giving jihadists all kinds of opportunities to attack.  When the lies won’t work, he’ll have a crisis big enough to declare martial law.  If the State of Union speech demonstrated anything, it was that Obama cares about one thing: power.

Cornel West at MLK commemorative service

Cornel West is no scholar; he is a racial hate-monger. 

This is a travesty.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/worshippers-urged-not-to-277561.html

Because she is a “sister,” Dunn is allowed to command her students to “’pull those pants up, Mr. So-and-So,’” without being hauled before the P.C. panel and subjected to an inquisition.  I doubt I would be called back to teach as an adjunct should one of my students complain about such a command.  I would be charged with not only bad “customer service,” but racial insensitivity.  (Of course, I would also like to be able to tell all students to yank out their piercings, sit up straight, etc.)

So I was expecting that this professor, who envisions herself before a classroom of conservatively dressed gentlemen scholars, would be teaching the Great Works.  I would expect her scholarship to focus perhaps on the author that W.E.B. Du Bois was so enchanted by—William Shakespeare.  I thought she would be upholding the canon that is so rapidly being eliminated and replaced by popular culture.  (My colleague Mark Bauerlein in Minding the Campus reports on the disappearance of positions for those who specialize in great authors like Shakespeare–or John Milton, as I did for my master’s thesis.)

So, what would the well-dressed Morehouse man read in “Sister” Professor Dunn’s class?  Well, if her book is any indication, it would be on the theme of “Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Films.”  Professors tend to write on the subjects they teach.  Does anybody see a disconnect?

Cornel West speaks on race at Emory.  Ho hum.  “George W. Bush is a racist.”  Yawn.  “We’ve come a long ways (witness my speaking fees), but we’ve got a long ways to go (otherwise no one would have reason to book me as a speaker).”  (Just doing a little deconstruction for the folks out there.)

 No wonder the kids find school boring—and why I find most of my tenured colleagues to be so tedious.  I wonder when Cornel West last went to a local Republican meeting, Baptist church service, or a  Cajun Dance—or patrolled with police officers.  Maybe if he left his ivory tower he’d see that the real world does not live up to his theories of racism and oppression.

Yes, coming to the Decatur Library through the Georgia Center for the Book (a federal program).

I have no problem with Outwrite Book Store hosting a “Queer Literary Festival.”  But imagine another group, like the heterosexual writers of America, trying to book a room at the library that DeKalb County taxpayers’ support.  How fast can you say ACLU, LAMBDA, etc., lawsuit?

Many homosexual writers have contributed to our rich heritage of letters, but their sexual orientation was only incidental.  The writing was primary.

But this event seems to be focused less on writing and literature than on using writing to promote a gay agenda.

Read about the line-up here: http://www.atlqueerlitfest.blogspot.com/

When Flannery O’Connor’s correspondent and friend Betty Hester “came out” to her, O’Connor wrote back that that fact did not in any way diminish their friendship or her estimation of her.  O’Connor, of course, was a devout Catholic who attended mass every day.

But, sadly, the entire “Queer Literary” event marks the general degradation of literature and its relegation to a tool for groups with grievances.

This is another way the Georgia Center for the Book and the DeKalb Public Library is diminishing books and literature, and bringing us closer to being an illiterate society.

 Read “The Speech,” people.  Look at the facts and examples Reagan used in 1964.  Our situation is worse today.  (A couple of my students mentioned that the speech is relevant now.)  Look at the comparisons Reagan made between the plight of the average American regulated and taxed to death to the ideals of our founders.  And then don’t be afraid to use the word “socialism.”  And don’t listen to the Rockefeller Republicans like Kathleen Parker and David Brooks.  Remember, they did not win in 1980.