Posted on February 12, 2010 by Mary Grabar
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 [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Cathy Young presents one of the most reasonable assessments of Ayn Rand as her birthday passes. Atlas Shrugs has some great passages, some great jabs at the left. But parts of it are very disturbing, and Cathy points them out. (Oh, and the sex scenes just parody themselves.) It seems that many of Ayn Rand’s [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Here in my report on the National Council for the Social Studies convention I reveal how social studies teachers openly discuss strategies for indoctrinating children while earning continuing education and graduate credit…thanks to you, the taxpayers. Pictured here (at the 2008 Democratic National Convention) is Obama’s sister, “peace educator” Maya-Ng, who had to postpone her [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2010 by Mary Grabar
It pays to be gay…on many American campuses, especially Syracuse University. Well, one way to solve my health insurance woes (when you don’t march lockstep to the left agenda and have to work part-time and buy your own health insurance)…just get a “partner”! Oh, wait, no special consideration for single, heterosexual, conservative females. I forgot.
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Posted on January 17, 2010 by Mary Grabar
Nearly 50 children’s books published so far. No, nothing about Chicago-style cronyism. Nothing to compare the corruption to the original founders’ vision or Constitutional principles. How many schools carry these books?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2009/12/a_bounty_of_obama_kid_lit.html
Posted on November 12, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Morehouse English professor Stephane Dunn, writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today, implores Morehouse men to pull up their pants and dress appropriately when they attend her class. I say ‘hurray’ to Morehouse for its new dress code and to Professor Dunn for speaking up.
Because she is a “sister,” Dunn is allowed to command her [...]
Posted on November 6, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Bill Ayers brags in this video (see below) in the student paper that he sits on several dissertation committees at Georgia Southern. He’s visited dozens of times.
Bill Ayers is questioned about being “disinvited” to give a speech last year. He blames the “barbarians” with the “pitchforks.” They objected to this unrepentant bomb-throwing co-founder of the terrorist group, [...]
Posted on November 2, 2009 by Mary Grabar
Dog bites man.
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 [...]
Posted on November 1, 2009 by Mary Grabar
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 [...]
Posted on October 30, 2009 by Mary Grabar
What does my colleague, professor of performance studies at New York University, conclude? Writing in the ever-so-prestigious journal for members of the Modern Language Association, Richard Schechner concludes, “I cannot settle in my own mind the question of whether 9/11 in itself is art or can be more fully understood under the rubric of [...]
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