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Food: The Elephant in the Living Room of Freedom. |
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Written by Alan Scholl
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:12 |
 I ran across news accounts that Bill Gates (of the Microsoft empire), David Rockefeller (bank and oil baron), the United Nations, in cooperation with Northrup-King (the seed giant), and Archer/Daniels/Midland, or ADM, the corporate farming/chemical/seed giant were funding a “saving heirloom seeds” program for “posterity.” The seeds were collected at considerable expense, and were stored in an enormous concrete vault drilled out of the rock and ice in Antarctica. Something that would survive nuclear war, a meteor impact event, global warming, global ice age (take your pick) or almost any other event. Just in case of disaster, they tell us. I think we’re supposed to believe they’d stand outside the blast doors and hand out seed to the poor starving survivors at no charge or something.
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Why the Government Should Get Out of Education |
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Written by Sam Blumenfeld
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 17:03 |
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 Most Americans want less government, smaller government and lower taxes. The only way to accomplish this is by abolishing federal departments and bureaucracies. As far back as the Reagan administration, Republicans promised to abolish the Department of Education. They couldn’t do it then because they lacked a majority in Congress. But whatever happened to the plan to abolish the Department of Education when Republicans became the majority? Not only did they forget their promise, but in September 1996 they passed the single largest increase in federal education funding: $3.5 billion. Who were the Republicans trying to impress? The National Education Association?
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Is Public Education Necessary? |
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Written by Sam Blumenfeld
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 20:06 |
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 We would not have to ask the above question if public education had not become the great, costly, and tragic failure that it is. It has failed the children, but in reality it has not failed the progressives. They were the ones who engineered the dumbing-down process which parents and taxpayers continue to pay for. But it is the children who suffer in terms of becoming intellectually disabled, semi-literate, disoriented, frustrated, and terribly unhappy. But what is even a bit disheartening is that many liberals still believe that government schooling has been a noble experiment.
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Benjamin Rush on Religion in Schools |
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Written by Benjamin Rush
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 23:03 |
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 Dr. Rush was an outspoken Christian, statesman, and pioneering medical doctor. He was a prolific author, publishing the first American chemistry textbook. In 1797, President John Adams appointed Rush as Treasurer of the U.S. Mint until 1813. He also founded America's first Bible society. At the time of his death in 1813, he was heralded as one of the three most notable figures of America, the other two being George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
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Education Proper in a Republic |
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Written by Benjamin Rush
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 22:43 |
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 Writen by Dr. Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia, 1786
The business of education has acquired a new complexion by the independence of our country. The form of government we have assumed has created a new class of duties to every American. It becomes us, therefore, to examine our former habits upon this subject, and in laying the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government.
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“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”