Archive for the Politics Category

Using children as political pawns

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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A rational assessment of Ayn Rand

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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What do social studies teachers talk about? My latest report

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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Tebow pro-life commercial? Give the feminists equal time.

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Mary Grabar

I have an idea for the feminists who can’t stand having a pro-life message from the Tebows during the Super Bowl: Buy some time for yourselves.  Produce a commercial with one of your own people.  She can be filmed with her six cats and provide testimony like, “Thirty years ago I made my choice to [...]

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The Color Purple? The State of the Dis-Union

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Mary Grabar

Michelle wore purple which went along with Barack Obama’s lip service to “bipartisanship.”  Well, now that the Democrats lost “Ted Kennedy’s seat” and two governorships, they want “bipartisanship.”
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 [...]

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Obama Kiddie Propaganda

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

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Bill Ayers, BACK at Georgia Southern–for academic reasons

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, [...]

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Did you miss it? Cornel West says we are still racist

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 [...]

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Our tax dollars supporting a “literary queer festival”?

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 [...]

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“9/11 as Avant-Garde Art?”

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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