Indoctrination  Displaces  Education
Part Two

Socialist, Marxist and Communist Indoctrination


School kids are being prepared for a socialist world government (under the United Nations), to which most public school teachers would not object.  The kids are being taught that one culture is just as good as another.  They are being taught that it isn't fair for the United States to be the world's only superpower.  They are being taught that the U.S. uses up "more than its share" of the world's natural resources.

Related topic:  President Obama has plans to use public schools as indoctrination centers.
and Radical Environmentalism in the American Education System.


Did School Promote Communism over Capitalism?  Jeff Travis owns a small business in Des Moines and he is absolutely furious at a classroom flier that his son received from his high school social studies teacher.  The flier, given to students at Roosevelt High School, features a cartoon and slogans that seem to promote communism over capitalism. ... The cartoon represented capitalism by featuring an overweight businessman smoking a cigar while his workers were shackled.  On the communism side, the cartoon showed happy workers earning loads of cash.

Black History Month: The Left's Favorite Time of the Year.  Alas, another Black History Month... or as the left likes to view it, their annual "Opportunity To Exploit Race Month."  It is the month in which liberals attempt to convince us that race relations in America have progressed very little since the days of police unleashing dogs on civil rights activists.  Rather than presenting a balanced, honest look at black history, leftist schoolteachers and the media say America is still racist and whites should feel eternally guilty.

What my seventh-grade daughter learned during her school's 'sustainability day':  A few weeks ago, my seventh-grade daughter's school put regular classes on hold for a "sustainability day."  One of the things they did during this reprieve from the rigors of math, history and English was watch a video titled "The Story of Stuff," starring Annie Leonard and lots of animated illustrations.  The video has been around since 2007.  It has had about 2 million YouTube and goodness knows how many voluntary and involuntary classroom viewers.

Columbia Teaches How to "Occupy" at $5001.09.  Recently, Columbia University in New York proposed offering a class in Occupy Wall Street. ... Given that the Occupy Wall Street class is a three credit hour class, it costs an undergrad $5001.09 to learn how to camp out in a park and beat a drum while articulating a far left manifesto.  I shouldn't forget to mention that the student ought to consider what a future employer might think when they see that class on a transcript.

California Teacher Uses Media Matters' Anti-Fox News Article in 'World History' Class.  Imagine watching Fox News one night and your high school child walks into the room and proceeds to tell you that "Fox News lies!"  That happened to Nick Benson, a Californian who had two students enrolled at Barstow High School in San Bernardino County.  "How do you know that," Benson said he asked the boy.  "My teacher told me," was his grandson's response. ... Sure enough.  His grandson's "World History" teacher, Jim Duarte, fed a steady dose of radical left wing propaganda to his students, disguised as classroom assignments.

Ethnic Studies Departments Rife With Radicals.  Last May, Arizona's state legislature passed a law outlawing divisive chauvinistic ethnic studies classes that promote grievance, separatism and the overthrow of the U.S. government.  Sounds obvious, but in Arizona, the ethnic-studies teaching had gotten so bad in Tucson's public schools that Che Guevara was openly displayed on the walls and schoolchildren were taught that Benjamin Franklin was a racist, according to the Los Angeles Times.  Now the Tucson school superintendent is planning to pull the plug on the indoctrination, class resentment and grievance politics.  All he's getting are protests, which garner sympathetic press coverage.  It's rubbish.

Teacher Takes Class To Occupy Denver Rally.  A teacher who took her students to see Occupy Denver said she brought her class to see what was happening.  "We came to observe," said teacher Celia Bard when questioned by a blogger in a video posted on YouTube.

The Editor says...
 Isn't that what television is for?  You don't have to be there in person to see what's happening.  Of course, if your real goal is to make the crowds bigger than they were, you have to take the whole class to the event.

Avoiding Leftist Indoctrination at American Colleges and Universities.  One of the greatest dilemmas facing American students today is the perennial threat of leftist indoctrination on college campuses.  In recent years, institutions of higher learning — which have historically been places for enlightened thought and dissenting opinions — have increasingly become breeding grounds for radical liberalism.  College courses, which are often taught by biased professors who espouse leftist ideology, fail to adequately challenge undergraduate students and often leave many of them woefully unprepared for the real world.

Fourth-graders become part of political protest in Capitol Rotunda.  It is common practice for elementary schools to take students on a tour of the Wisconsin State Capitol, but how would you feel if your child went on just such a field trip, and ended up being led, quite literally, into the middle of a political protest?  One superintendent refused to watch video of this very thing occurring, and his elementary school principal waited 22 days to tell parents what happened.

Pass out pamphlets or lose your programs, student athletes, coaches warned.  Student athletes in Tucson's second-largest school district were directed to pass out brochures in support of next week's bond election at the behest of the district's Governing Board president, the Star has learned.  And coaches were warned that should the bond measure fail, coaches who refused to participate would see their sports programs cut first.

Moral Abdication.  My high school sophomore son was grumbling as he read his world history textbook.  He pointed me to this paragraph about the encounter between European and Mesoamerican civilizations.  "The American Indian societies had many religious ideas and practices that shocked Christian observers, and aspects of their social and familial arrangements clashed with European sensibilities..." ... The authors clearly wish to avoid the unpleasant details of Indian practices in their rush to condemn European depredations.  A curious student would have to discover on his own that the Aztecs themselves claimed to have ritually sacrificed 80,400 people over the course of four days at the rededication of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487.

Teaching Your Child to be a Dictator's Lackey.  Imagine your child's school teaching him how wonderful dictatorships are by having him and his friends model their very own group of dictatorships as part of their education.  Like so many other Orwellian nightmares in the American educational system, this one is very real and takes place through the Model UN program.  The Model UN program teaches American students that global government is better than national government and that the corrupt kleptocracy on Turtle Bay is the ideal state of mankind.  Finally it trains them to put American presidents on trial for violating United Nations laws.

'Occupying' The Classrooms.  Little noticed in the protest army sitting in against Wall Street, the educational establishment is more involved than you might think.  From teachers disrupting school board meetings to classroom use of lesson plans about the "Occupy" protests to "teach-ins" that aim to educate the public about protest demands, we are witnessing a vast spread of economic illiteracy for political purposes.

The United States of Mexico?  American students now pledge allegiance to Mexico.  They sing its national anthem.  And it is sanctioned by the state of Texas.  Sound absurd?  It is.  Last month in a Spanish class at Achieve Early College High School in McAllen, Texas, students recited the Mexican pledge of allegiance and were instructed to memorize the Mexican anthem.  Moreover, they had to wear red, white and green — the colors of the Mexican flag — as they fulfilled their class assignment.  Public high schools no longer promote American patriotism, but they are doing a superb job of cultivating loyalty to Mexico.

Judging Mrs. White.  It is a truism to say that Marxist thought has done much to undermine the quality of today's college experience.  But few people realize just how deeply Marxist thought has penetrated education in America.  Its influence is not restricted to the realm of higher education.  Nor is it restricted to the realm of economics.  Marxism also affects our moral reasoning and it begins to do so in grammar school.

Texas students taught to recite Mexican pledge of allegiance.  In the name of educating students about a foreign culture, a teacher in McAllen, Tex., required students in her intermediate Spanish class to memorize and individually recite the Mexican national anthem and pledge of allegiance — but one student objected, catching the attention of the school district and The Blaze, which reported the story this morning [10/17/2011].

Conservative viewpoints are unwelcome.
 High school cancels 'partisan' Constitution Day speaker.  Conservatives in Georgia are outraged that a speaker's Constitution Day presentation was canceled at a local high school after complaints from Democrats.  The reason behind the complaints is that Mark Fritz, the man who volunteered to do the presentation to the students during the week of Sept. 17, is a member of the local tea party.  Pickens County High Principal Eddie McDonald eventually agreed to stop Fritz from speaking after being bombarded with emails and phone calls, he said.

Liberals Are a Thousand Times Smarter Than Conservatives — Just Ask Them!  [Scroll down]  America will never again be great until we return to the brilliant educational roots of our forebears.  And this cannot happen until we dedicate all schools to training in collection of data and refusal to traffic in fallacies and brain-washing.

Father upset over homework promoting polygamy, Islam.  A father's complaint that his daughter's homework promotes the Muslim faith could lead to a lesson change in Cobb County.  [WSB-TV]'s Tom Regan talked to the father who showed him where his daughter's homework which said there's nothing wrong with having multiple wives.

Parents: Don't Let Kids Drink the Kool-Aid.  Our children are swallowing in gulps, as they listen attentively to classroom lessons that denigrate capitalism, watch "family" shows that feature gender-bending characters, and listen to iPods that spew filthy words and perverted images.  Undiscriminating, they slurp down the cultural flavors.  But dire consequences lie just ahead for our children, unless we act now.

Rethink 'Blame America First' As The Way To Teach History.  It is well-known that most of the educational establishment tilts to the left of our political spectrum.  For example, in 2008, the American Federation of Teachers reported that 99% of its political donations went to Democrats.

Snuffing out children's innocence.  If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions?  It would be to corrupt innocent children.  I'd start by kicking God out of the public schools and excising from textbooks the truth about America's deeply Christian heritage.  I'd get rid of glaringly obvious ties between Christianity and the Founders' vision of unalienable rights and limited government.  Children would be indoctrinated to think of themselves as cosmic accidents of random mutation and survival of the fittest, not precious beings with eternal souls created in the image of God.

Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools.  K-12 schools in Tucson are defiantly teaching Mexican-American studies despite a law that was passed this year banning the classes.  The classes are not just about teaching Latino youth their history, the materials blatantly teach the students that the U.S. oppresses them and must be overthrown.

Mickey Mouse is the New Godzilla.  When Haiti gets discussed in our public schools, it's likely the Haitian people are depicted as victims of greedy capitalists who are trapped in poverty because U.S. corporations have turned Haiti into America's sweatshop, making the products that fill our superstores.  That's the premise behind "Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti," a 1996 documentary that was produced by the National Labor Committee and has infiltrated elementary social studies classrooms all across the country.

'The purpose of education' — and the failure to pursue it.  Everything that was taken for granted in schools 100 years ago is taken to the garbage dump today.  Ask yourself:  Do public schools still have the courage to promote the brilliant accomplishments of America and Christianity?  Or do they toss our traditions aside for the Golden Calves of multi-culturalism, relative truth, and the propaganda of social justice?  The answer, of course, is that as an institution — not necessarily as individuals — modern education has joined with Karl Marx, Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers in questioning the value of America's contribution to society and the worth of our founding principles.

Students Chant for Genderless Society.  Even though most protestors are "uncomplicated" people, don't be deceived; staging an effective rally is not a simple task.  First, a bully must be identified.  For progressives, a bully is anybody who disagrees with you politically, so there is no shortage of candidates.  However, as Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" explains, it's best to settle on one target to isolate and attack.  Next, protestors need to come up with a catchy slogan to shout at the designated bully.

Students Learn How to Bargain a Teacher's Contract.  In the late 1990s, the Los Angeles Unified School District partnered with United Teachers Los Angeles — funded by a federal grant — to produce a multi-part curriculum entitled, "Workplace Issues and Collective Bargaining in the Classroom." ... The purpose of the lessons is to get students to appreciate the need for collective bargaining, and experience first-hand how it works.  During the lessons, which can take up to a week of class time, students pose as either "labor" or "management" and bargain a teachers' contract.

The Radical Education Elite and Agenda 21.  Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the progressives laid the foundation for Agenda 21 in the 1960s when it became unlawful to pray in government schools.  In place of prayer, schools began sex education classes with the rationale that such a curriculum would prevent unwanted pregnancies.  Of course, the program was a failure and the progressives simply changed the objective of sex education programs to preventing sexually transmitted diseases.  Now sex education includes children being exposed to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender sex.  In addition, U.S. schools — while prohibiting even a hint of Christianity in classrooms -- have actually directed children to play-act the part of Muslims, complete with Islamic texts, Muslim costumes and holiday festivities.  "Sustainable Development in School Curriculum" is one of the 32 specific objectives of Agenda 21.

Destroying the system from within.  Since the universities that were exploding with radical ideologies in the 1960s were also the furnace in which future educators were forged — there was an inevitable long-term effect on what teachers taught their students about American traditions, values and beliefs.  The anti-American fervor on college campuses during the Vietnam era was the fuel that led teachers to give up their traditional role as the builders of culture and turned them instead into termites that ate away at the foundations of our society.

Social Justice Math.  In 2009, only 40 percent of fourth graders had math skills that rated as proficient or advanced, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.  Even worse, only 32 percent of eighth grade math students test at those levels.  Americans are continually reminded that "the Earth is flat," meaning our economy is so entwined with the global economy that U.S. workers are competing for jobs against workers in China, India and the rest of the world.  Despite these new realities, our public schools are promoting this silly "social justice" curriculum which substitutes the essentials for the fuzzy concepts of fairness and equality.

Sex, Lies and Government Schools.  It is no secret that government schools across the United States have become indoctrination centers for the spreading of a social gospel that is anathema to the values of the majority of American parents.  Public education is largely run by union bosses and liberal school boards protecting incompetent educrats who push an agenda that has nothing to do with teaching children how to think and everything to do with teaching them what to think.

The 'Great Delusion' of Deweyism helped turn America against itself.  [Scroll down]  American education had by [1953] became a tool for ridiculing American values, not for teaching them.  Is it any wonder, therefore, that those values have begun to erode? ... Education is about continuity; revolution is about disruption.  What we have had in the schools for the past 50 years is not education, but disruption.

OPS Buys 8,000 Diversity Manuals.  The Omaha Public Schools used more than $130,000 in federal stimulus dollars to buy each teacher, administrator and staff member a manual on how to become more culturally sensitive.  The book by Virginia education consultants could raise some eyebrows with its viewpoints.  The authors assert that American government and institutions create advantages that "channel wealth and power to white people," that color-blindness will not end racism and that educators should "take action for social justice."

What Would The Black Panthers Do?  The Black Panthers of the 1960s and 1970s and the New Black Panther Party today are known for employing violence, intimidation and radicalism to get their way.  The Black Panthers were founded in 1966 on Marxist principles, advocating socialism as a solution for the grievances of African-Americans.  Its "Honorary Prime Minister," Stokley Carmichael, said in a speech that year:  "This country is a nation of thieves.  It stole everything it has, beginning with black people."

The past is prologue; the future is bleak.  It was rightly said some years ago that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.  Too bad the same cannot be said about modern American education.  Unfortunately, the seeds of our own potential destruction as a nation and culture have been sown into the fertile ground of our high schools and universities for at least the last 100 years.  How can that be?  Don't we spend billions of dollars every year to train our young people to be prepared to enter society and take their part as the future leaders of the country?  Well, no — actually we spend billions of dollars every year to teach our young people to question the value of our society; to doubt the legitimacy of our history; and to mistrust our leaders, our traditions and our laws.

The Un-American American President.  For many of us, "being an American" was a normal part of our collective upbringing.  We learned it in school.  We said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning right alongside our teachers.  Even in liberal Southern California the day began with the Pledge often followed by singing "God Bless America" or "America the Beautiful."  Annual "Flag Ceremonies" were held with quotations from the Declaration of Independence and patriotic songs performed by the student body, in public, for parents and passersby to enjoy.  There were even songs that mentioned God.  Christmas was celebrated, in school.  It was understood that God was integral to the founding of America and that The Creator was the true source of our liberties.

Parents see political slant in 3rd-grade textbook.  Some Frederick County parents are upset over a third-grade textbook that they say promotes such ideas as government-sponsored child care and universal health care. ... "The entire slant of the book is youre getting used to the idea of government running your life," said Cindy Rose, a parent who requested that the book be removed from the countys curriculum.

Obama Wants Engineering Students and 'Diversity'.  President Obama wants America's universities to graduate 10,000 more engineers annually than they're now turning out.  He wants more college students to major in math and science.  But as universities embrace affirmative action and "diversity" programs supported by Obama and liberals, problems arise.  These programs at bottom are aimed at creating a liberal vision of "social justice" — yet they ultimately dumb down education as merit and excellence are sacrificed for liberal social engineering.

The Socialist Phobia of Scarcity.  My new son-in-law is an enthusiastic member of ISO, the International Socialist Organization.  He is on the verge of a Master's in Political Science, with the goal of becoming a college professor.  With his philosophical bent, I think it's a slam-dunk.

What Would the Founders Teach?  There has been ample tongue-clucking about abysmal student scores on the civics and history portions of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), but the real scandal has gone unnoticed.  It is certainly a shame that two-thirds of fourth-graders and nearly three-quarters of eighth-graders don't know the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and that over half of America's high-school seniors score below the basic level on history.  What's worse, however, is that some of what students are expected to know about the principles of the American Founding is at odds with what the founders themselves believed.

The Audacity of Progressivism.  A real education is about teaching the pupil to think critically.  Routinely, education today is more about spending time in science classes listening to professors talk about the merits of joining the Peace Corps (yes, this happened to me), iconoclastic gender, race and political studies courses and cultural Marxist programming of the heirs apparent of the political, economic and cultural hierarchy of the country.  Of those who graduate from these institutions and matriculate to the political realm, the progressive ethic pervades.  And what is this ethic?  The elite must decide for the sheep.

Conservative Public School Teacher Calls Florida Exam 'Soviet-Style Propaganda'.  There are many conservative teachers sounding the alarm about the hijacking of their profession and the radicalization of school curriculums by left-wing union leaders.  Exhibit A:  Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis saying they're not teachers but "education workers."

'Labor Studies' Course Teaches How to Shut Down Non-Union Companies.  While University of Missouri -Kansas City Professor Judy Ancel has yet to explain her false and misleading defense of classroom statements suggesting violence is an acceptable tactic with an appropriate place in advancing the labor movement, new video reveals Ancel giving students insight into how to put non-union companies out of business.  The tactic Ancel recommends to students is based upon deception and designed to burden a non-union company with a costly labor action under false pretenses.

Your Teacher Said WHAT?!  This book begins with a story about how daughter Blake came home one day reporting that her teacher suggested that it would be good for the economy if people stopped buying and selling so much. ... I'm certain that a large number of parents have hit a brick wall of sorts when confronted by questions from their children about how the economy works.  This book totally solves the problem of how to explain free markets to elementary school children by using examples from the real world and things they encounter in everyday life.

Union Official Teaches College Course in Violent Union Tactics.  If you are wondering why some folks are starting to question whether a college education is worth the cost, the video below goes a long way towards explaining it.  Recently, the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) sponsored two college courses:  Introduction to Labor Studies and Labor Politics and Society, to be taught simultaneously through a video conference between to two campuses.

Academic Rot.  The average American, as parent, student and taxpayer, has little idea of the academic rot at so many of our colleges.  Save for a tiny handful of the nation's colleges, what distinguishes one college from another is the magnitude of that rot.

The Toxic Influence of Progressive Education Schools on K-12 Curricula.  [Scroll down]  By encouraging minorities to resist socioeconomic assimilation, progressive politicians maintain a nationwide nursery of government-dependent adults from which to draw lifelong votes... and income.  Progressive teachers steer students toward a strange-brew mindset of anti-assimilation, collectivism, diversity, and we-are-the-world-ness.  Stotsky points out that the "evidence-free" education school theory of "social justice" alleges that minority children learn best when encouraged to embrace grievances against middle class whites.  Social justice-indoctrinated teachers instill resentment in "non-dominant" (minority) children and guilt in "dominant" (white) children. ... More K-12 students than ever are now being manipulated through lesson plans warped into platforms for moralizing against capitalism, the white middle class, and America.

Cultural Marxism in Education: The Gathering Revolt.  For decades now, American schools corrupted by cultural Marxism have been eroding the moral fiber and judgment skills of schoolchildren.  Unless sensible parents and teachers put a stop to the indoctrination, today's free speech-crippling political correctness, tolerance of immorality, and lack of knowledge of our country's birth will continue to grow until America is no more.  To stop the indoctrination, parents and teachers must understand how cultural Marxism came to permeate school curricula.

The Left is Goin' After Our Kids.  More and more God, patriotism and everything we hold dear are under vicious attack by the left.  Most insidiously, the left is going after the hearts and minds of our children.  Fox News reported several schools are discouraging the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance while teaching our kids America is the greatest source of evil in the world.

Preschools Are Using a Marxist's Theories to Manufacture Collectivists.  The room buzzes with little voices.  Little children engage in "mature, dramatic play."  An adult helps the children "regulate" and "monitor each other's compliance" with "rules and assigned roles."  Each child knows his or her place.  Each child does the group's bidding, nothing else.  Orwell's 1984?  No, a scene played out in thousands of classrooms across America.  The drumbeat of collectivism begins in preschool.  And a long-dead Soviet psychologist helped define that drumbeat.

Public Education: Progressive Indoctrination Camps.  Dr. Jim Nelson Black, founder and senior analyst of Sentinel Research Associates, wrote "Freefall of the American University," which is an excellent book.  In it, he documents the clear biases pervading our public academic settings.  Among that lopsidedness is the intentional training of students to disdain America, freely experiment sexually, forcefully defend issues such as abortion and homosexuality, and become cultural advocates for political correctness, relativism, globalization, green agendas and tolerance for all.

Agenda 21 and the Death Knell of Liberty.  [Scroll down]  Why do you think the Democratic (and many Republican) political hacks on Capitol Hill are so dismissive of "we the people"?  They are essentially putting on a "dog and pony show" for public consumption, while the final pieces for America's defeat are slid into place.  To a great extent the Globalists own the mass media, the entertainment industry, and the Judicial, Executive, and Legislative branches of government.  Why should they worry?  Already, several generations have been indoctrinated, via our school systems, to value globalization and "social justice," over personal responsibility and free enterprise.  They have been repeatedly sold the idea that they should, "Think globally, act locally."

Wisconsin's teachers required to teach kids labor union and collective bargaining history.  Wisconsin's teachers are required to teach children about the history of the labor union movement and collective bargaining in the United States, per a law former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle signed in December 2009.  Wisconsin's Assembly Bill (AB) 172 requires the state's teachers to incorporate "the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process" into their lesson plans.

Young Communists Launch National 'Red School-Bus Tour'.  It's communism that's about 40 feet long and rolls along on four wheels.  And it could be coming to a town near you.  The Southern California Young Communist League (YCL), a branch of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), announced on its website that it's launching a "National Red School-Bus Tour."  The YCL calls each stop on the tour "weekend long schools" for "young activists."

Socialism Is Back.  [Scroll down]  The aim of public education is, and has always been, to make members of the public more standardized and thus better suited for incorporation into THE PLAN
.  It is unsurprising that socialists have taken up the cause with verve.  President Obama, speaking to an audience of schoolchildren, described in some detail how he expects the schools to produce students who will serve the needs of the state; unsurprisingly, he cast the situation in terms of his own agenda, emphasizing health care, racial discrimination, and job creation. ... The public provision of educational services is understood today, and has long been understood, as a component of national economic planning.  It would be difficult to find in the United States any profession so dedicated to socialism as that of educators, and difficult to find any argument for socialism as popular as the cause of public education.

Race, Propaganda, and Schoolkids:  A new exhibit opened this week at the Boston Museum of Science called "RACE — Are we so different?"  [Caps in original.]  The exhibit offers a fascinating window into the fun-house mirror world of race theorists, racial "scholars," and a good part of the anthropology profession.  Even a sympathetic reviewer in the Boston Globe admits that "there's a wearying didacticism to the show," and it's no surprise that the didactic lessons about race are all slanted toward the left.

Nancy Pelosi:  The Girl in the Plastic Bubble.  Everyone in America is exposed to the opinions of the left.  The journey of new Americans into the weird world of leftism takes root in children's television, which is filled with politically correct drivel, and progresses via films for younger audiences, which are lightly painted propaganda.  Public schools follow the same track.  Academia, almost invariably, is far to the left of the rest of America.  Television programming, documentaries, news networks — everything, really, is little more than a tool for reinforcing leftism in our lives.

Scientific Reaction To Velikovsky Symptomatic Of Climate Science Debacle.  A critical change in the adoption and infiltration of ideas came with extension of government-controlled education.  From kindergarten through university it became indoctrination not education.  Graduation is allowed once you've demonstrated a grasp of the current 'truths'.  Questioning those truths pose a threat to your assessment and even progress.

Universities encouraging students to receive welfare benefits.  Many American colleges and universities are steering their students toward a new source of "financial aid":  food stamps.  In Oregon, for instance, both Portland State and Pacific University encourage their students to apply for food stamps.  "Many students are surprised to learn that they may be eligible for Food Stamps," explains Portland State's website.

Education:  The Elephant in the Room.  The truth of the matter is this:  as long as America's children continue to be educated (and fed) by government employees, conservatives will make precious little headway in preventing America's steady march towards statism.  This holds true no matter how well conservatives organize or electioneer or broadcast their limited-government message.  It simply defies logic and historical evidence to believe that a populace raised and educated by government employees will choose to move away from government encroachment.

Conservatives Should Not Be Celebrating the Election Results.  [Scroll down]  Throughout America, leftist teachers dominate K-12 education, and they have no moral or ethical problem with indoctrinating your children.  They are doing it daily in their selection of books, movies, reading materials, lecture content, and so on.  When you take your kids to school today, realize that you are dropping them off at something akin to a Maoist reeducation camp, where they will be taught the glorious benefits of Marxism and Socialism whether you want them taught these things or not.

We Don't Need No (Leftist) Education.  One of [David] Horowitz's burning passions is restoring sanity to our schools.  For years, he's launched a a virtual one-man campaign to expose the extreme left-wing bias among university professors.  Horowitz figured out early on what the radicals were doing: earning their Ph.D.s, infiltrating the universities, and brainwashing students into radical ideology.  With tenure-for-life academic positions, the radicals then brought like-minded professors into the fold and shut out conservatives.  The militants wanted to start the indoctrination as early as possible.

I spent three years learning to be a Trot.  What are universities for anyway?  I went to one and spent the whole time being a Trotskyist troublemaker at the taxpayers' expense, completely neglecting my course.  I have learned a thousand times more during my 30-year remedial course in the University of Fleet Street, still under way.  I am still ashamed of the way I lived off the taxes of millions of people who would have loved three years free from the demands of work, to think and to learn, but never had the chance.

Academia's Hate-America Presses.  The extreme left-wing bias of American academia is well documented.  Thus, it is not at all surprising that our nation's university presses — nonprofit publishing houses that are ideological extensions of their parent institutions  — invariably serve as platforms for the dissemination of far-left dogma.  Each year, they produce hundreds of tracts extolling the virtues of pacifism, radical environmentalism, open borders, and socialism, while delivering an endless stream of literary assaults on capitalism, American culture, and Western civilization generally.

Our Schools, Dumb and Dumber.  As the nation's children return to elementary and secondary schools, it is increasingly essential that their parents and communities coast to coast realize how poorly served they are and how their learning environment is increasingly tainted by a socialist agenda.

School Makes Boy Take American Flag Off Bike.  13-year-old Cody Alicea rides with an American flag on the back of his bike.  He says he does this to be patriotic and to honor veterans, like his own grandfather, Robert.  He's had the flag on his bike for two months but Monday [11/8/2010], was told to take it down.

13 year old with flag on bicycle rides across patriot hearts forever.  Cody had been flying the flag on the back of his bicycle for almost two months to show support for veterans like his grandfather who served their country.  Citing complaints from other students, officials at Denair Middle School told Cody he would no longer be allowed to display the flag — just in time for Veteran's Day.

Update:
 California School Reverses Course on Bike Flag.  A California school has done a U-turn after it forced a student to remove an American flag attached to his bike, saying the Stars and Stripes could spur racial tensions on campus.

The Editor says...
 Since when is an American flag symbolic of racism?

National Education Association Selling its Saul.  The National Education Association (NEA), the U.S.'s largest labor union, is promoting communism to the millions of American public school teachers it represents.  Teachers who are influenced by their union's efforts are more likely to indoctrinate American children into communism.  For the past several months, the NEA website has recommended that its members read books by communist sympathizer Saul Alinsky.  And, for a time, the website listed October 1 as a day for teachers and students to celebrate the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China by Mao Zedong.

NEA Tells Community Organizers 'Read Saul Alinsky'.  President Barack Obama started his political career as a community organizer in Chicago.  Apparently, the National Education Association intends to train more community organizers to grab political power by recommending on its official website for them to read 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky.  Mr. Obama appears to have closely followed Mr. Alinsky's guidebook for seizing power.

Teacher's reason for controversial Cuba trip: I'm a communist.  A Manhattan high school history teacher, who resigned under fire after taking students on a spring-break "Club Red" field trip to Cuba three years ago, is a self-proclaimed Communist who tried justifying the jaunt by telling Education officials he needed to see Fidel Castro one more time before the dictator died.

Who is John Locke?  My wife and I attended a parents' night at our son's school.  As we entered his English classroom, I noticed that the walls of the classroom were covered with photos of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Lenin.  The eighth-grade students had been studying George Orwell's "Animal Farm."  On every wall was a hand-made poster featuring a photo of Karl Marx, some biographical information, along with some pithy bit of wisdom attributed to him.  As we left the room, I whispered to my son, "Tell your teacher that your father wants to know when she will teach the work of John Locke."  My son responded, "Who is John Locke?"

Five Rights the Left Doesn't Want You to Have.  The left loves to whine and complain about how evil Republicans are, but they sure don't want anyone to talk back.  On many issues, the left openly tries to prevent the right from speaking out.  You need not look beyond what's going on at our nation's colleges to see how the left operates.  Often times, college campuses are overrun with Marxist professors and uninformed students who will try to stop invited conservative speakers to even open their mouth and utter a single sentence, without being interrupted, shouted down, or, in some cases, have the entire meeting be taken over by "protests."

They needed a "study" to determine this?
 New Study Shows Law Schools Hiring Far More Liberal Professors Than Conservatives.  While previous studies have analyzed the gender and ethnic makeup of law school professor, this study breaks new ground in analyzing the political leanings of recently hired professors.  The study looks at factors such as work experience, publications, and even Facebook profiles for a sample of 149 professors hired in the past five years.

'ACORN Youth Union' Chapters Were Funded by Justice Department, Says GAO.  The U.S. Justice Department gave a group called the New York Agency for Community Affairs a grant of $135,130 in fiscal year 2005 to "provide youth leadership training to students at select New York City schools, form 'ACORN Youth Union' chapters, and coordinate student campaigns to address issues such as school funding, neighborhood safety, and school governance," according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week.

Seven Places Where politics Doesn't Belong.  [#5]  In the class room:  Unless the class is political science, politics doesn't belong in the class room.  In fact, it's absolutely appalling that so many teachers feel free to try to indoctrinate their kids.  Let's tell the kids that Bush is a terrible guy!  Let's show the kids Al Gore's new movie!  Let's sing a song about Barack Obama!  Hey, let's not.  Instead, how about educating the kids and leaving the politics elsewhere?

Chicago School Refuses to Host Rove, Welcomes Obama Appointee.  A private university in Chicago that refuses to host former senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, arguing that welcoming a "political" speaker ahead of the midterm elections could threaten its tax-exempt status, has added an Obama administration appointee to address the student body.  Loyola University Chicago is hosting Eboo Patel, an Obama appointee to the White House interfaith council, next month, calling into question the school's rationale for rejecting Rove's appearance.

No teacher left behind.  Results in the public school system are increasingly measured by standardized test results.  Many educators are faced with the unappealing prospect of actually doing the job that the tax-payers have hired them to do; teach their students. ... The social engineering experiment known as public education has been much more concerned with pushing their socialist agenda than in teaching little Barry and Micki how to read, write and do math.

Group sees Graduation Day bias for left.  The Obamaites are proving a much bigger hit than the Bushies ever were on the cap-and-gown circuit.  A survey by the conservative Young America's Foundation found that nine officials from the Obama administration have been invited to speak at commencement exercises at the nation's 100 top-ranked universities this spring alone — compared with 14 officials from the administration during President George W. Bush's eight years in office.

The Naked Left.  [Scroll down slowly]  Colleges used to be places of learning, debate, and free thought -- long ago.  Academia is no longer like that.  The soft disciplines like political science, history, and philosophy have become pretentious tools in the hands of aging Marxists and their craven pals.  Politically correct speech, which sounds like it comes right out of Orwell's 1984, was the serious and severe creation of the once-respectable college administrations.

Ivy League Useful Idiocy.  Big Government would not exist were it not given sanction by the people.  Those who continue to support it have been duped in large part as a direct or indirect result of the ideological subversion of our academic institutions.  The leaders in all fields of our society were raised in the politically correct, militantly liberal academy, and so it is only natural that the influence of socialist ideas has infected every aspect of our culture.  In so doing, academia has produced leaders that undermine our society rather than helping it to flourish.

Deadly Triumvirate Destroying America.  [Scroll down]  It should also be noted that two other institutions are, in part, responsible for selling the American public the fraud that is Barack Obama.  There are the major universities and colleges that have become home to education as biased, dishonest, and fraudulent as that of the mainstream media.  These major universities are dedicated to indoctrination with a liberal and radical point of view rather than dedicated to education. ... These major colleges have become centers of radicalism, anti-Americanism, anti-military, anti-conservative, and anti-Israel forces. ... What's worse, this indoctrination is already underway even in grades K-12.

The War on Truth:  [Scroll down]  Modern education has also become largely divorced from the founding principles of learning:  Take truth and critically build upon it, and reservedly doubt when truth requires doubt.  Disciplines like history have been mutilated into freaks reflecting the bitterness of educational elites.  Soft sciences like sociology are simply police-state guardhouses.  We have not yet reached the point in Orwell's 1984 where two plus two equals five, but with no clear dividing line between objective truth and politically correct thinking, some of us may live to see that day.

Hard Indoctrination, Soft Indoctrination, and the Books that Change Us.  There are few problems as misrepresented or misunderstood as that of indoctrination in American schools. ... Looking back at my own education from the vantage point of four post-graduate years in the university of the Real World, I must re-ask myself:  Did I experience indoctrination as an undergraduate political science and English double-major at BSU?

Teachers Take Kids on a Protest Trip to Arizona.  Standing in front of a wall-to-wall mural featuring a who's who of revolutionaries, including Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and boldly displaying the motto Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!!! (Fatherland or Death, We Shall Overcome!!!), a group of teachers, students, parents and community activists in the Los Angeles Unified School District gathered last month for an unusual field trip — to Arizona, to protest that state's controversial immigration law.

'Fire Them All' At Central Falls High.  [Scroll down]  The long-term solution to the disasters of our "educational" system, which functions as little more than tax-supported propaganda-camp day-care centers, is to remove the government from its operations completely through the "transformation" of privatization.  Then, and only then, will you see the free interplay and accountability of free competition on a free market work its wonders, just as it does with shoes, refrigerators and a million other sectors of our economy.

How Bad Is the Indoctrination in our Colleges?  There are no open conservatives on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts and none that the conservative students who were hosting me could identify.  My student hosts were political science majors and the absence of conservative professors was a real problem for them given the extreme and abusive nature of many of their professors.  One professor gave an exam, for example, that consisted of a speech by President Reagan.  The exam question was:  Explain why Reagan is wrong.

Homeschooling vs. Howard Zinn.  [Scroll down]  While I may not be a history major, or a certified teacher, I can read these books, teach from them, and supplement the text with additional curriculum of my choosing.  If my child were in a public school, what would they be learning from?  One of the more popular texts is The People's History of the United States by the late Howard Zinn, a radical Marxist.

How to Pollute a Mind:  Lessons from John Dewey and Van Jones.  A new Ivy League "fellow" will soon have the opportunity to teach students his belief that white people are "steering poison into the people-of-color communities" and that America should give up its wealth to the American Indians.  This June, Princeton University will welcome to its hallowed halls former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist.  The story of how America started down a path leading to communist instructors in our classrooms begs to be told.

Is this what they mean by 'it's for the children'?  Students in San Francisco public schools are being organized by their unionized teachers to protest cuts in tax-supported education budgets, according to SFPublicPress.  "On Thursday [3/4/2010], San Francisco public school students as young as five will get a real-life learning experience about civic engagement — through protest.  Students from kindergarten through college plan to convene at Market and Powell streets in the late afternoon to protest cuts to public education during a coordinated political action called the Rally for California's Future."

Getting through to unions.  It's amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States.  On Monday [3/1/2010], President Obama endorsed the decision by Rhode Island's smallest, poorest city to fire the entire unionized faculty of its notoriously underperforming high school.

Public Sector Unions Tarnish the Golden State.  Last week, teachers in the San Francisco area planned to take their students out of school in order to attend a protest about proposed cuts in education spending.  According to a piece in the SF Public Press, children as young as five years old were slated to attend under the auspices of their schools, until the superintendent quashed the idea because of safety concerns.  Aside from the disturbing specter of children being used as political props by their teachers, the spectacle is ludicrous.

Dissing America:  Unlike "global warming," "patriotism cooling" is real and extremely dangerous.  In our schools, national pride is considered biased, ignorant, and rude.  How dare we think of America as exceptional?!  Our kids are no longer taught the incredible sacrifice our boys at Normandy made for freedom.  I recently read that educators are pushing a new curriculum which would eliminate much of America's early history.  The more ignorant our kids are of the value, the struggle, the uniqueness, and the price of freedom, the more passive they are when freedoms are systematically taken away.  And yet, our schools are teaching songs about Barack Hussein Obama, mmm...mmm...mmm.

What Does 'Racial Socialism' Sound Like to You?  The United States today has slipped toward race-based socialism:  That's the true name for an overwhelming bias for one race above others, in employment, promotion, and educational opportunities.  Our media are constantly stirring the witch's brew of racial grievances, constantly making black people feel aggrieved and white people feel accused.  Our schools drive that lesson home with young and innocent kids in a totally ruthless way.  Repeat that for twelve years of schooling and TV, and you have a brainwashed kid.

Daddy's not a dinosaur, Mama's not a moron.  Obama, Ayers and the unelected czars running America from the shadows knew that in order to make their plan work, they had to indoctrinate school children.  After a couple of generations passed through the public school system, they would be ready for Plan B.  Moms and Dads thought that their children were safe in class as they set out to work each day.  Little did they know that Daddy was being portrayed as a dinosaur and Mommy a moron by a system bent on indoctrinating rather than educating the young.

Conservatives, End the Apology Tour.  [Scroll down]  National Public Radio offers curriculum materials on nearly all subjects.  And so does the far-left magazine The Nation and the radical group PETA.  In the midst of this takeover, many conservatives have retreated to their homes, choosing to educate their own children with their own curricula.  But public education should be the concern of all who are worried about the country.  Public schools produce teachers who spread the gospel of social justice even in private and religious schools.  Public schools, which we all pay for, produce voters, workers, citizens, and prison inmates.

Great Myths of the Great Depression:  Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic hardships of the era.  In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President Lawrence W. Reed debunks the conventional view and traces the central role that poor government policy played in fostering this legendary catastrophe.

Not Ashamed to Love My Country.  Liberalism has contributed greatly to the decline of patriotism.  The hostile takeover of our schools by Liberalism has indoctrinated many of our kids to hate their country.  They are encouraged to sing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama, but not of God and country.

Bill Ayers and the real threat to education.  Imagine your child's teacher telling you his days in jail and violent protesting were formative to his teaching philosophy.  Most parents would have a serious discussion with the principal, at the minimum.  But the teacher who brags about such beginnings is now a "Distinguished Professor of Education."  Despite his specialty as "Professor of Curriculum and Instruction," he trains future teachers to dispense with curricula and discipline, as well as tests and grades.

Did someone mention Bill Ayers?

Conservatism and the University Curriculum.  One topic the undergraduates at ... the vast majority of [American] universities and colleges are unlikely to find covered is conservatism.  There is no legitimate intellectual justification for this omission. The exclusion of conservative ideas from the curriculum contravenes the requirements of a liberal education and an objective study of political science.

A Call to Arms for Parents Upset About Obama's Public School Address.  Public school parents cannot afford to be passive any longer.  You cannot simply delegate your child's education to others — some who are wholeheartedly committed to subverting the traditions and values you hold dear — and walk away.  You must be prepared to work as hard as homeschooling parents when the need arises.  You must make every effort to know what is going on in your children's schools — and now, obviously, coming down from the executive branch — and become a parent activist in what in some places is beginning to look like a resistance movement.

Stupidity, Schooling, and the Take-Over of America's Culture.  Half-a-century ago, a band of Leftist thugs violently took over the administration building at Columbia University and hijacked the American education system.  From that moment on, they used this system to indoctrinate — in fact brainwash — generation after generation into their cult of Leftism.  For the next five decades (pseudo)-intellectuals, hiding behind tenure and "Academic Freedom," have been spewing greater and greater nonsense designed for one purpose and one purpose only:  sabotaging and eventually destroying all of Western Civilization.

Indoctrination of our youth:  School teachers, at all grades, often use their classroom for environmental, anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda.  Some get their students to write letters to political figures condemning public policy the teacher doesn't like.

U.S. Universities:  Education or Indoctrination?  Nobody wants to think that he or she is paying for his or her children to be indoctrinated rather than educated.  Unfortunately, on campuses across the country, the line between indoctrination and education is being blurred and ignored on a daily basis.  Even more appallingly, students and faculty members are victims of enforced campus orthodoxy.

The Government Is Indoctrinating Our Children.  The government and its friends are indoctrinating our children all for control of their minds, your freedom of choice and our future.  It must stop, because history when taught properly has already shown us where it leads.

Viral Video 'The Story of Stuff' Is Full of Misleading Numbers.  The California-based filmmaker has an online hit with "The Story of Stuff," a 20-minute video that is being used in thousands of schools to explain America's dangerous obsession with material things — and one that some critics are calling a misleading diatribe against capitalism.  The Story of Stuff's kid-friendly illustrations and easy delivery have endeared it to environmentalists and educators alike.

Student Says Teacher Scolded Him for Viewing FOXNews.com.  A Michigan high school is investigating allegations that one of its teachers berated and belittled a student for taking part in what the teacher considered an unacceptable activity:  reading FOXNews.com.  A young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh's radio show Thursday and said he was yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the "wrong" news.

A Huge Serving of Academia Nuts.  There is nothing sacrosanct per se about the university which, like any human institution, can profane its founding principles and grow corrupt and oppressive.  The German universities of the 1930s, for example, despite their long tradition of rigorous scholarship, were by no means citadels of informed thought and genuine research, but outright propaganda factories, preparing students' minds for the absurd theories of National Socialism, the restriction of free expression, and the absorption of sundry false doctrines.

Obama Blames America.  Five decades of teaching in colleges and universities across the land, portraying the U.S. as a power mainly responsible for injustice and evil, whose military might was ever a danger to the world — a nation built on the fruits of greed, rapacity and racism — have had their effect.  The products of this education find nothing strange in a president quick to focus on the theme of American moral failure.

One-Party Classroom.  Indoctrination — as opposed to education — takes place when opinion is taught as scientific fact; when syllabuses provide no room for alternative views that might actually be correct; and when assigned readings contain no texts that challenge the instructor's point of view.  Indoctrination is the attempt to impose an orthodoxy on students, to tell them what to think instead of teaching them how to think.  Such instruction is alien to the core principles of the modern research university and the democracy that supports it.  It is also unprofessional under existing university standards.

No "Progressives" Left Behind.  In One-Party Classroom, [David] Horowitz and [Jacob] Laskin examine 150 courses at a dozen universities. ... "One particularly telling example is the book Teaching Science for Social Justice, which is forthright in its aim:  to replace science with political activism."  The exact quote from the textbook authors is:  "By illustrating how science brings about different kinds of change, we make the claim that all teaching and learning science is political."

Moral Education for the New Order.  The Rasmussen folks last week revealed a poll wherein American young people are just about evenly divided on whether they prefer capitalism to socialism.  Among our under-30 crowd, 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided.  Sucking at the teat of the state has never looked so good, apparently.  Well, this certainly helps explain Obamamania.

Return of the useful idiot.  Capitalism over socialism would seem to be about as settled as opinion gets, ranking somewhere up there with the earth being round, penicillin being better than bleeding, and that Shakespeare fellow being rather talented.  Primary culprits in the survey were those under the age of 30, who gave the nod to capitalism over socialism by only a 37 percent to 33 percent margin, with a clueless remaining 30 percent "unsure."  Several decades of politically correct leftist indoctrination in our high schools and colleges has apparently taken its toll.

Obama's Most Perilous Legal Pick:  Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms."  Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts.  The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.  Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers:  Harold Koh.  President Obama has nominated Koh — until last week the dean of Yale Law School — to be the State Department's legal adviser.

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 If the dean of the Yale Law School believes all that, imagine what the classes are like.

Critics Decry Obama Nominee for State Department Legal Adviser.  Former Clinton administration official Harold Koh, who has been dean of the Yale Law School since 2004, once wrote that the U.S. was part of an "axis of disobedience" with North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.  Koh also has long held that the U.S. should accept international law when deliberating cases at home.  Obama nominated Koh on March 23 to become the State Department's legal adviser — an appointment that, if confirmed by the Senate, will give Koh far-reaching influence over the extent to which international norms affect U.S. law.

Why Did UVa Cancel Classes Only This Time?  On Jan. 20, 2005, George Bush was sworn in as president of the United States.  On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama [was] sworn in as the 44th president of the United States.  The University of Virginia decided to suspend classes on only one of these important days.  Can you guess which one?

Jackson Public Schools board member to teachers who did not show inauguration: Go home.  Jackson Public Schools board member Sheila Patterson had a strong message Tuesday for some teachers who did not "feel it was important" to show the inauguration of President Barack Obama during class.  "They don't belong in this school district — not the type of district we have here," Patterson said at Tuesday's board meeting.

Why are our Kids so Brainwashed?  Sadly, it appears that the government schools these kids have been subjected to have failed to teach their charges about anything like the American system, federalism, even science seems neglected.  But they SURE taught their kiddies that government is there to spend, spend, spend, that government is to be treated like our collective parents, and that the war in Iraq is obviously an evil venture.  Obviously.  And, yes little kiddies, The One, your very own Obamessiah, is flying to the rescue like a super hero.

Another Barack in the Wall.  Usually, children's books do not scare me.  But I just read a children's book entitled "Barack" by Jonah Winter, with illustrations by AG Ford, published on September 30, 2008 by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers.  "Barack's" dust jacket states that it is for children ages 4-7.  This book scared me very much. ... To help protect your child from "Barack" I present some of the information missing from that book.  If your child's school has "Barack" make sure that this missing information accompanies it.

Teachers' liberal bias permeates Tucson High.  A true American loves this country and, despite like or dislike, shows respect for the current president.  But I have seen Young Republican Club meeting posters torn down by my peers.  I have heard the same jokes about Sarah Palin so many times that I could repeat each of them without stuttering.  I have listened to students laugh at Sen. John McCain as he gestured to his supporters to stop the "booing" — the "booing" against the presidential candidate that each one of those students supported.  Yet when President-elect Obama's speech was shown, the classroom was dead silent.

Obama in Leftland:  The permissible range of thought on such topics as protected minorities, protected species, protected psychosexual deviations, et al. is clearly spelled out from kindergarten onward.  Young teachers in the 1970s proudly acknowledged their political biases:  They were the New Left in action, on a long march through the institutions.  But many of today's young teachers — in consequence of the long march's brilliant success — don't even realize that they are left-wing ideologues.  As far as they know, their ideas are innocuous and mainstream — just like the New York Times!

Ayers' Agenda: First-Grade Guinea Pigs.  Our first-grader astonished her father at the end of the past school year as he dropped her off at her D.C. public school, Horace Mann Elementary, where he had attended school in the early 1960s.  She told him that her teacher announced her impending marriage — to another woman — to the class.  Following her revelation, this teacher encouraged questions from the children.  Our daughter also mentioned a book the teacher read aloud, "Uncle Bobby's Wedding," about two male "gay" guinea pigs, promoted by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Lobby for children.

Bill Ayers' Scary Plans for Public Schools:  Most of Ayers's socialist propaganda is financed with taxpayers' money at state universities and teachers colleges.  Some of the schools that have adopted Ayers-style pedagogy have received grants from ACORN or from Bill Gates's charitable foundation.  You might assume that Ayers's political ideas would put him on the outer fringe of the left-wing education establishment.  However, his peers recently elected him to serve as vice president for curriculum in the American Education Research Association, the largest organization of education school professors and researchers.

Don't Mess With Texas... Textbooks!  By now, you most likely know that Texas has become ground zero for the latest battles in the textbook wars.  While conservatives and progressives take their stands on the issue, I wonder:  What would America's Founders think about this feud?

Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks.  For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on our nation's public school students, expunging important facts and historic figures while loading the textbooks with liberal propaganda, distortions and cliches.  It's easy to get a quick lesson in the virulent leftwing bias by checking the index and noting how textbooks treat President Ronald Reagan and Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Obama Pushed on Our Kids in 8th Grade Textbook.  Over at RealDebateWisconsin Fred Dooley was contacted by the mother of a Racine Unified School District 8th grade student in Wisconsin public schools about an outrageous thing she found in her son's school textbook.  Apparently, in this textbook supposedly teaching about literature, one of the books being pushed as a perfect example of that subject is Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from my Father.  That's right, a book by a current political candidate for president is being pushed on our children as "literature."  It also seems probable from campaign donation records that a principle member of the publishing company is a large Obama donor.

Mom Angered to Find Obama Speech in Son's Middle-School English Text.  A Wisconsin mother is furious that her tax dollars helped buy a middle-school textbook that includes a passage from Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention — but has no mention of John McCain.

Virginia Teachers Union Sparks Outrage With 'Obama Blue Day'.  Virginia Republicans are in an uproar after the state teacher's union sent an e-mail to its members encouraging them to wear blue-colored shirts to school to show their support for Barack Obama.  State Republicans are calling it an undisguised attempt to influence students' political views.

Sacrificing the Children:  [Scroll down]  In the lesson plan for junior high schoolers, the adolescents are encouraged in their correspondence with Congress to cite [the Children's Defense Fund]'s specialty:  a litany of how many children suffer every day in America.  It calculates how many babies are born without health insurance, how many children suffer corporal punishment, how many babies are born into poverty, how many children are arrested, how many children are killed by guns, etc.  The implication is that Congress and the deities of Big Government can heal these tragic numbers with additional federal spending.

Some Wicked Friends of Public Schools.  The goal of the Nazis was to compel all children in Germany to only go to state schools in which there would be no religious instruction, no instructors except for Nazi-approved instructors, and no textbooks except those prepared by the Nazis. … The goal of the Nazis was not to make sure that German children learned to read and write — religious schools had done an excellent job in of teaching children those skills.  What the Nazis wanted was a chance to indoctrinate children and, importantly, to keep children completely separated from all moral and philosophical systems which competed with Nazism.

L'Eggo My Lego.  Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights.  This lesson is being taught by banning Legos.  A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle.  According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.  According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished.  The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership."

'You Squander Wealth That's Mine'.  The Go Project NYC is a nonprofit organization in Lower Manhattan that is dedicated to providing academic assistance and social services to low-income, underperforming elementary school children in the area.  When a teacher's aide expressed concern that a new summer program would include a political message, he was abruptly let go from the program.

Professor Who Spied For Cuba Gets Prison.  A public university professor who spent decades spying for a terrorist nation while collecting his state paycheck was sentenced to five years in prison for passing on illicit intelligence to an enemy nation.  The teacher often conducted his espionage for the Republic of Cuba, which has long appeared on the State Department's list of terrorist nations, during regular taxpayer-funded work hours.  His wife, a counselor at the same university, assisted him and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Conservatives push to counter liberal professors.  A 2005 study by American and Canadian professors indicated that 72 percent of those teaching at U.S. colleges and universities identified themselves as liberal.  Only 15 percent called themselves conservative.  Several students said professors' liberal views tend to spill out in classrooms in subtle and overt ways.  It can trigger lively debates but also intimidate some students.  Blake Rebling, 19, president of the UA College Republicans, said he typically doesn't challenge his liberal professors' opinions because they control his grades.  "I don't want to risk going to law school over that," the political science major said.

Conservatives in the Academy:  An Endangered Species.  Lyndon Johnson once observed that "If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."  Looking at the state of American universities today, perhaps we should extend President Johnson's logic:  If a thousand faculty members agree on everything, are any of them really thinking?  The question is not just rhetorical, because if recent surveys of the professoriate are to be believed, there is a virtual unanimity of general political outlook among the faculty.  This conformity of opinion has degraded intellectual discourse and impoverished intellectual debate on some of society's most pressing questions from immigration to abortion to the war in Iraq.

From the high school frontlines in the culture.  Across the nation, public school students are being indoctrinated in "health" classes and other venues to treat their families with skepticism and to regard traditional mores as "dysfunctional."  Liberals have achieved what the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci only dreamed about:  They have completed "the long march through the institutions" and now control the commanding heights of the culture.

As a Republican, I'm on the Fringe.  Are university faculties biased toward the left?  And is this diminishing universities' role in American public life?  Conservatives have been saying so since William F. Buckley Jr. wrote "God and Man at Yale" — in 1951.  But lately criticism is coming from others — making universities face some hard questions.

Explosive facts.  Each year about this time, some parents write in to ask for suggestions of things for their children to read during the summer, in order to counteract the steady diet of liberal-left indoctrination they have been getting in schools and colleges.

It's 1984 at the University of Delaware.  In a tersely worded statement issued on November 1st, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker brought an end to an Orwellian reeducation program run through the Office of Residence Life and affecting thousands of students living in residence halls at the University of Delaware.  Published accounts of the residence life education program and publicly available documents show it to be a systemic model of leftist and politically correct indoctrination, foisted on vulnerable students by a publicly-funded university.

Are academic elites communists?  While academic leftists, and I'd include their media allies, are not communists, they are anti-anti-communists.  In other words, they have contempt for right-wingers, conservatives or libertarians who are anti-communists.  Why?  Academic leftists, and their media allies, are in agreement with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth, income equality and other goals spelled out in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party."  Leftist elites love the ideas of communism so much that they are either blind to, or tolerant of, its many shortcomings.

Academedia Bias:  Too often we treat academic and media bias separately when their relationship is much more symbiotic.  After all, not only are media elites trained in academia but they frequently return to school to teach and "give something back" to the educational system that spawned them.

In Australia...
 Conservative students suffer from 'left bias'.  [Dr. Mark Lopez] said he had no doubt that students who presented conservative arguments or interpretations were at a disadvantage because teachers were more likely to be critical of their work if they felt the student's argument was "politically incorrect".  His concerns are likely to spark a culture wars debate not seen since 2006 when then education minister Julie Bishop criticised "left-wing ideologues in state governments", describing some subjects as "straight from Chairman Mao".

Indoctrination starts when teachers are the students.  Beware the words "social justice" and "dispositions" when used by schools of education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).  These apparently harmless terms lay the groundwork for politicizing the training of teachers and giving the ed schools an excuse to eliminate conservatives from their programs.  The news this week is that NCATE is backing down a bit from its use of "dispositions" and "social justice" while denying the political use of these words and calling its new policy a "clarification."

Don't think outside the college box.  Academia has become a solid bastion of the Left, as demonstrated by two articles in the latest issue of the scholarly journal Current Review.  One article presents a survey of academic social scientists that reports that 79.6 percent of 1,208 respondents said they voted mostly Democratic over the last 10 years, with 9.3 percent voting Republican.

A New Low for Higher Education.  A funny thing happened on the way to academic freedom.  Some liberal college people don't want it.  If you veer away from liberal orthodoxy, you are not welcomed at commencement.

YAF brings 'leftist' campus bias to light — again.  A campus watchdog group complains that very few conservative speakers were invited to deliver commencement addresses this year at American colleges and universities.  But that's nothing new, notes the group.

Majoring in … Hate?  "Hate studies," an academic program being developed on campuses nationwide is, we're told, an intellectual response to racism.  Raymond Reyes, director of diversity at Gonzaga University, is trying to establish an entire major in Hate Studies.

Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes.  State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday [6/1/2006] for a "beyond dumb" remark about a fellow Democrat putting "a bullet between the president's eyes."  Hevesi called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement.

Conservative speakers are unwelcome on commencement day.  Though resistant to conservative, Republican and even some moderate speakers, a few highly political campuses seem ready to accept even ax murderers as commencement speakers, provided that they speak from the left.  The late "Tookie" Williams gave two commencement speeches.  He is ineligible for more because he was executed last December for the slaughter of many innocents in two robberies.  Mumia Abu-Jamal has given many commencement speeches, including five in one year, on tape of course, since he sits on death row for the cold-blooded execution of a cop.

Jodie Foster unhinged:  I am so relieved to discover that movie star Jodie Foster thinks that America is in worse shape than it was four years ago and that the graduating class of the University of Pennsylvania needs to march out and do something about it, as in voting for Democrats.

Shedding the intellectual straitjacket:  Academic freedom has often become an opportunity for radical professors to proselytize students.  Now the discussion is turning to academic freedom for students:  the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints and present their own, without faculty intimidation.

Burned Out in Birmingham:  Liberal Education and America.  Once upon a time, liberal arts colleges acted in loco parentis, actually caring for and about their students in ways of which their parents could approve.  What's more, the whole notion of liberal education supported that undertaking, for it was understood to prepare students for a life befitting a free human being, a life of responsible self-government, which, it went without saying, was a life of virtuous self-restraint.

Restructuring Education For the Global Village:  Academic education has been replaced with indoctrination programs.  The process is designed to change the attitude, values and beliefs of the children — away from traditional American values of God and Country.  Away from the family; away from the American work ethic; away from competition.

The politics of disparity:  Class warriors incessantly complain of the expanding gap between "rich" and "poor," by which they mean the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.  In fact, all boats rise with the tide — the poor are getting richer, too.  Unfortunately, too many Americans believe the lie because of its constant repetition in the media and in our public schools.

Dangerous Professors.  Ward Churchill, Cornel West … we all know the names of some of the radical professors in academia today.  But in his new book The Professors:  The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, truth-teller David Horowitz paints a portrait of some of higher-ed's worst.

Defending Indoctrination:  When David Horowitz published his book The Professors in 2006, he instantly became the target of vitriolic attacks from tenured radicals and their apologists outside the academy.  Among the latter, the most determined was a group calling itself Free Exchange on Campus.  The name was a misnomer.  Comprising teachers unions, left-wing political action groups like the ACLU and the People for American Way, and funded by the Open Society Institute, the grant-making arm of financier George Soros, Free Exchange was created to to attack Horowitz's most recent book, The Professors, which called attention to activist professors whose political mission abrogated long-standing principles of academic scholarship and academic freedom and resulted in an ideological curriculum.

Panel says Churchill should be fired.  Ward Churchill, the professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," should be fired because of "repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules, a University of Colorado committee said today [6/13/2006].

Robinson:  CU probably will prevail if Churchill files lawsuit.  Churchill's attorney likens his client to Galileo.  More apt comparisons are to erstwhile journalist Jayson Blair or disgraced young novelist Kaavya Viswanathan … except for the fact that those two plagiarists owned up to what they did.  Not so Ward Churchill.

Indoctrination at the University of Colorado:  In the fields of sociology and anthropology, for example, the ratio of leftwing professors to conservatives was now approximately thirty-to-one.  These two fields themselves had been largely transformed into exercises in leftwing ideology and bore little resemblance to scholarly inquiry.  In these fields particularly, but in many others that still bore some resemblance to traditional academic pursuits there was a disturbing absence in university courses of assigned texts that did not validate or amplify with the professor's ideological point of view.

An anti-communist reading list:  Hardly a day goes by without parents asking me for advice on how to protect their children from the harmful secular and socialist influences they will encounter in college.  Today, I present a reading list, which should help any high school student understand the reality of socialism long before setting foot on a college campus.

Communism for kids:  Any parent with a child in a public school has likely discovered that our education system is little more than a vehicle through which liberals indoctrinate our children with socialist ideology.  If this sounds like a radical assertion, I assure you it is not.  In fact, examples abound indicating just how accurate it is.

Judicial supremacists back school district over parental control.  When former first lady and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. proclaimed that it takes a village to raise a child, many people didn't realize that she was enunciating liberal dogma that the government should raise and control children.  This concept fell on fertile soil when it reached activist judges eager to be anointed as elders of the child-raising village.

The outrages taxpayers and parents pay for:  Repeated surveys report that Democratic professors outnumber Republican professors by about 10 to 1, but that ratio doesn't begin to reveal the outrageous leftist culture to which college students are subjected.  Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate the United States.

Are Liberals The Worst Bigots of All?  At Seattle's Bellevue Community College, for example, an unnamed teacher changed the wording of a practice math quiz question to read:  "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second."

'Folk Marxism' is not exactly Peter, Paul and Mary.  Marxists ain't what they used to be.  Once upon a time they would climb on the nearest orange crate and yell, "Workers of the world unite!"  Now they don't even return calls.  I phoned the top Marxist at the University of Cincinnati to ask why he still believes in the most discredited political faith of the 20th century.  No response.  I wanted to ask why anyone still teaches and preaches Marxism 20 years after it was hauled away to the ash heap of history.

Essential Economics Instruction.  Too many kids, particularly those in college, simply share an unquestioning view, similar to the one espoused by Ralph Nader, believing that regulations and excessive government spending come at no real cost to them.  The presence of die-hard liberals in academia is another hindrance to eliciting the truth as to how the world really works.

The liberal art of public education:  What does a cool ten grand per student get you nowadays in a public school?  If you happen to have a kid at Poplar Tree Elementary School in Chantilly, Va., there's a good chance it will help to buy her a lesson in the virtues of communism.

The Left's last paradise.  One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences.  That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring.  Another study, of voter registrations records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley and Stanford.  Among younger professors, there were 183 Democrats, six Republicans.

That's Just Plain Snobbery.  Liberals control publishing and academia through ideological nepotism.  Then they cast those who are not published or tenured as not up to par in erudition.  I've heard it over and over as an adjunct.  A thesis on Paradise Lost and a dissertation on Walker Percy do not fit into such currently fashionable categories in English departments as "trauma studies," digital technology, video games, or explorations of the nine different genders put forth by "cutting-edge theorist" Judith Butler.

College Hires Leftist Terrorist Pardoned by Clinton.  Several faculty members at Hamilton College are protesting the school's decision to hire a visiting professor convicted of possessing explosives as a former leftist radical in the 1980s.

District sorry for homeschooler-terrorist link.  A school district that participated in a terrorist-attack response drill apologized for using a scenario in which children were threated by a fictitious radical group that believes everyone should be homeschooled.  The made-up group, called Wackos Against Schools and Education, was invented by the local government emergency services director.

Why Johnny's sociology professor is a Marxist.  Marxism is an emotional disorder, not a political philosophy.  Wealthy people sometimes accept Marxism, not because it has ever worked, but because they feel guilty about having more than other people.  But, more often, it is accepted by those with less who are angry, usually because they lack the talent and drive to succeed in a capitalist society.

Why liberals rule academia and media.  A chapter on journalism [in "The Secular Revolution," edited by University of North Carolina professor Christian Smith] shows how "key persons within journalism (especially publishers and editors, and also journalism professionalizers from the ranks of the universities and the active press) actively sought to minimize and ultimately to undermine traditional religion."

Liberals Dominate Spring Commencement Exercises.  A survey released today [6/17/2004] by Young America's Foundation indicates students across the nation overwhelmingly heard from liberal guest speakers during commencement ceremonies.

My Life With The Academic Left:  Unfortunately, since former 60s protesters have now become the associate and full professors of the University establishment, they perform as block captains for correct thinking.  They keep a sharp ear out for any grumbles or dissent.  Those whom Horowitz calls the "neo-communists" are pervasive within the university's structure.  Their brand of political philosophy is so all-encompassing that bringing up politics in class is a given.

NEA Votes on Flood of NBIs:  NEA delegates considered 109 New Business Items (NBIs) during the union's annual convention July 2-5.  For example, among the NBIs that passed, NBI 8 directs the NEA to "review the research on the environmental impact of chalk dust on children, teachers and support personnel in the classroom," noting that "breathing chalk dust may be associated with respiratory illnesses."

More about The Teachers' Unions


 Academy Under Siege:  Does the mindset of the New World Order run the universities?  Interviews with college students, a University professor, and others reveal a shocking number of incidents of classroom indoctrination. (Videotape, $15.00)

New Poll shows the Existence of Political Bias on Ivy League Faculties:  David Horowitz, President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture today [1/9/2002] released a poll taken on the beliefs and attitudes of Ivy League professors.  Horowitz stated, "For all the Ivy League's talk of diversity, it is painfully evident from this survey that there is no real diversity when it comes to the political attitudes and social values of Ivy League professors.  Not only is there an alarming uniformity among liberal arts professors at our elite universities, but this uniformity bears the clear stamp of the Democratic Party and the political left."

"World Anthem" Strikes Discord:  The dust is still settling in Fort Collins, Colorado, where Poudre High School's senior class council decided to play the World Anthem rather than the national anthem at its May 24 graduation.

Book:
 The Professors:  Bestselling author David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students.

Book review:
 Lefty Profs Exposed.  [David] Horowitz's 101 profiles remain mostly free of editorializing.  Instead, the author lets the professors do the talking, and they proceed to condemn themselves with their own words, actions, and dubious scholarship.


"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

—  Theodore Roosevelt      




Darwinism and humanism



School teachers and school books aren't always right.
 Science for Stupid Idiots.  Did you grow up reading about the brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur ever?  It was the symbol of Sinclair Oil.  If you are over 40 you probably knew all about the brontosaurus from science books at the time.  But it never existed.  It was a screw-up due to a fossil mix-up (head and body didn't really match).  But scientists thought it was real — for decades.  It took about 90 years for the real story to come out and to be accepted.

Against The Grain: 'There are strong indications of intelligent design'.  Current scientific philosophy is to rule out completely the possibility that a creator was involved.  But there is no scientific justification for making such a sweeping assumption.  Science should always be open-minded.  Newton, Kelvin, Faraday and Pascal had no problem with a creator and with design.  There is no reason why a modern scientist cannot take the same position as these eminent scientists.

Our Colleges and Universities Produce Educated Fools.  [Scroll down]  Modern Darwinian evolution holds that all life came about by pure accident, when some kind of one-celled amoeba accidentally came about, from some kind of primeval soup that somehow accidentally came about when all of the many necessary ingredients for life somehow accidentally happened to get together.  They of course have no evidence to support such a fantasy, and it is mere theory, but it is taught as fact, and people such as [Richard] Cohen apparently accept it as fact.  It leaves no room for intelligent design in nature, as supported by many scientists.  The atheists and evolutionists, which in a number of cases are one and the same, fight strenuously to keep the teaching of the facts about intelligent design in nature out of all science classes in our schools.  They go to court to stop it.  Because recognizing the evidence of intelligent design in nature is the death knell of modern Darwinian evolution as taught in the science classes in our schools today.

Bill banning intelligent design draws national notice.  Religious conservatives around the country are up in arms over a Wisconsin bill that would ban the teaching of intelligent design as science in the state's public schools.

 Editorial Comment:   The State of Wisconsin is effectively outlawing Christianity, and establishing humanism as its state religion, by prohibiting the discussion of Biblical creation in public schools.

Thoughts on public education:  Eleven parents have sued the [Dover, Pennsylvania] school board and the school district, claiming that Intelligent Design is not science but religion and hence constitutionally off-limits in public schools.  The consensus seems to be that this case will wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.  Yet accounts of this issue are missing the real problem.  The crisis today is not defining religion or science but education itself.

Ben Stein's 'Expelled':  A Little Background.  Darwin's attempt to explain the origins of all the magnificent species in the living world in terms of the struggle for survival (easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science, in my opinion) is rapidly losing support in the scientific community, as the true dimensions of the complexity of life are revealed by scientific research, especially at the microscopic level.  The majority still give lip-service to Darwinism, but only because all the alternative natural explanations which have been proposed are even more far-fetched.

Ben Stein Provokes the Liberal Wrath.  Stein's critics fail to effectively refute anything in "Expelled"; they just use epithets to ridicule it and hope they can make it go away.  However, it won't go away; even Scientific American, which labeled the movie "shameful," concedes that it cannot be ignored.  The movie is about how scientists who dare to criticize Darwinism or discuss the contrary theory called intelligent design are expelled, fired, denied tenure, blacklisted, and bitterly denounced.  Academic freedom doesn't extend to this issue.

The War on Common Sense:  A Darwinian worldview now dominates the classroom.  When was the last time the word "teleology" was used in a university classroom in a non-pejorative sense?  Teleology, the study of the evidence of order or design in nature, was once a staple in classic Western education.

New front opens on evolution wars.  A battle over science education could soon spill into the courts in Louisiana, where looming legislation would allow teachers to bring up scientific criticisms of evolution, global warming and other hot-button topics.  The state House approved the bill Wednesday [6/11/2008] on a 94-3 vote.  Because the Senate already approved a near-identical measure, supporters expect the upper chamber to pass this bill also.

Keeping the lid on — and the science out.  The evolutionary story now universally taught to students fails to account for the origin of the basic information that forms the very blueprint of life.  Yet even though most of the scientific establishment rejects the notion of an intelligent designer, [Stephen C.] Meyer says nobody has come up with a better explanation.

Academia's Assault on Intelligent Design.  What is the state of academic freedom when well qualified candidates are rejected simply because they see God's fingerprints on the cosmos?  Isn't the Academy supposed to be a venue for diverse views?  Aren't universities supposed to foster an atmosphere that allows for robust discussion and freedom of thought?

Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound:  Proof of a conscious Creator is readily available.  The simplest proof (yet one that no atheist has ever been able to counter effectively) is that a universe of this size and magnitude does not somehow build itself, just as a set of encyclopedias doesn't write itself or form randomly from the spill of a massive inkblot.  The atheist, on the other hand, needs to build a plausible case for this irrational scenario.

School Board Abandons Evolution Textbook Stickers.  Four years after a Georgia school board placed stickers on its high school science books stating that evolution is "a theory, not a fact," the district agreed on Tuesday [12/19/2006] to abandon the ensuing legal battle with liberal groups.

Unintelligent designs.  Culture, including the culture of education, now opposes what it once promoted or at least tolerated.  The secular left, which resists censorship in all its forms when it comes to sex, library books and assigned materials that teach the "evils" of capitalism and "evil America," is happy to censor any belief that can be tagged "religious."

District in evolution debate to pay $1 million in legal fees.  The Dover Area School District, whose board members lost a battle to have intelligent design taught in the classroom last December, must pay $1 million in attorney's fees.

Education Leader Decries Court-Sanctioned Censorship of Intelligent Design.  A Christian educators group is expressing dismay over a recent court ruling its members feel censors Pennsylvania public school science teachers.  Last week a federal judge ruled that "intelligent design" theory cannot be mentioned in biology classes in the Dover Area School District of Pennsylvania.

[So much for a diversity of ideas, free speech, and letting students make up their own minds.]

Conformity enforcers:  At the elite "top tier" schools (the most highly rated Ph.D.-granting institutions), 87 percent are liberal.  Conservative faculty members are mostly relegated to "lower tier" institutions.  Fifty-one percent of faculty members say they rarely or never attend religious services, while 31 percent do.  Sixty-seven percent believe homosexuality is acceptable.  And a whopping 84 percent support legal abortion.

The Latest Problems with the "Man Evolved From Apes" Thesis.  There's been a virtual Inquisition by Darwinian fundamentalists against anyone who dares challenge The Book — Darwin's infamous 1859 "Origin of the Species."  No longer about following the bread crumbs of inquiry in pursuit of truth, Big Science is now all about enforcing doctrinaire dogmatism.

Control of the Future Through Control of the Schools.  Humanists know that the future of our country rests with our children.  Therefore, in order to control the future of our country, they must control the minds of our children.  And the easiest way to control our children is to control the schools.  Radical left-wing writers … incessantly rail against parental "interference" in schools, because, as they openly acknowledge, "The Left can't survive politically without a public school system to spread leftist attitudes."

Darwinism – Discredited by Real Scientists.  Sir Ernest Chain, co-holder of the 1945 Nobel Prize for developing penicillin, stated bluntly:  "To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts.  These classical evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without a murmur of protest."

Darwinists top the censorship food chain.  The most censored speech in the United States today is not flag-burning, pornography or the press.  The worst censors are those who prohibit classroom criticism of the theory of evolution.  Chinese scholar observed, "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government.  In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."

Designing an intelligent debate:  A Christian friend of mine insists that Darwinism is now taught as "doctrine" rather than theory, that "scientists get hysterical in a hurry if you question any part of the theory, like Christian theologians protecting the doctrine of the Virgin Birth."  Intolerance and intransigence, he says, are now the province of the Darwinians, who regard insult as legitimate argument.

Thomas Paine Criticizes the Current Public School Science Curriculum:  In a speech he delivered in Paris on January 16, 1797, Thomas Paine harshly criticized what the French were then teaching in their science classes — especially the philosophy they were using.  Interestingly, that same science philosophy of which Thomas Paine was so critical is identical to that used in our public schools today.

Almost a Thousand Major Scientists Dissent from Darwin!  A major storm of protest against the myth of evolution has been building for many years, as proved by almost a thousand major scientists, all with doctorates who have signed on to the following statement as of 2010:  "We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life.  Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged."

See also Religious Studies Exit the Schools

Conflicting news reports about the same story:

The subject of media bias is extensively covered on another nearby page, but this is a rather surprising example of an incident being reported as a victory for evolutionists by some news outlets (in viewpoint 1), and as a victory for creationists in others (in viewpoint 2).

Viewpoint 1:

Texas scraps school anti-evolution requirements.  The Texas Board of Education has scrapped a 20-year-old requirement that public school students discuss the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution, the Associated Press and other news outlets report.  But the board, in what some in the media viewed as a compromise, did vote to encourage students to scrutinize "all sides" of scientific theories, the Houston Chronicle reports.)

Evolution 'weaknesses' won't be taught in Texas schools.  A last-ditch effort by social conservatives to require that Texas teachers cover the "weaknesses" in the theory of evolution in science classes was rejected by the State Board of Education Thursday in a split vote.  Board members deadlocked 7-7 on a motion to restore a long-time curriculum rule that "strengths and weaknesses" of all scientific theories — notably Charles Darwin's theory of evolution — be taught in science classes and covered in textbooks for those subjects.

Evolution moves to head of class in Texas schools.  The State Board of Education gave a nearly final nod to new science curriculum standards Thursday [3/26/2009] that would change a long-standing Texas tradition over how schoolchildren learn about evolution.  The tentative vote — a final one is expected today — will mean that teachers and students no longer will be expected to discuss the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution and the theory about the origin of life developed by Charles Darwin 150 years ago.

Conservatives lose another battle over evolution.  Social conservatives lost another skirmish over evolution Friday when the State Board of Education stripped two provisions from proposed science standards that would have raised questions about key principles of the theory of evolution.

Viewpoint 2:

Victory!  Science Wins Over Censorship in Texas!  After a fierce battle on how science will be taught in Texas, the State Board of Education voted today to include wording that guarantees children will have the chance to learn and examine all sides of scientific theories.  It looked like we had lost yesterday when the board voted to strike out the requirement that students learn about the "strengths and weaknesses" of all scientific theories, including evolution.  However, we believe today's final vote, which includes the words "critique" and "examining all sides of scientific evidence," came as a result from your persistent prayers, calls and emails.  We believe this language is just as strong.

Science education issue finally settled in Texas.  The Texas State Board of Education has decided overwhelmingly to keep the teaching of scientific strengths and weaknesses, but under a different name.  By a vote of 13-to-2, the Board decided to replace strengths and weakness with the language "examining all sides of science."

State Board of Education approves new science curriculum.  Much of the debate over the new curriculum has centered on whether the keep the term "strengths and weaknesses."  The approved curriculum replaces that controversial term with "analyze, evaluate and critique."

Conservatives get evolution win.  A day after failing to uphold a 20-year-old requirement that Texas public high school students evaluate the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories, including evolution, the State Board of Education on Friday morning [3/27/2009] ratified new standards requiring biology students to "analyze, evaluate and critique" scientific theories.

State Board of Education approves new science curriculum.  Texas' school children will continue to be given instructional options for questioning the relationship between man and his natural origin.  Last minute amendments helped the The State Board of education approve a new science curriculum Friday.

Setting the Record Straight on Science:  Correcting Some Misleading Media Reports.  The media coverage of Friday's victory for critical discussion of Science and rejection of Censorship has been all over the map, and I don't just mean the fact that this story was covered by media outlets all over the country.  I mean that if you read more than one report, you might think that Texas Freedom Network and their band of thought police strict Evolutionists from California (Eugenie Scott) and other places got what they wanted.  Absolutely not.

Rules that are applied only to conservatives


More and more schools and universities have "speech codes" and other rules which are only applied to conservatives.  Here are a few examples.


Hate Crime at Williams?  Think about it:  A student expresses his opinion about something.  The administration doesn't like his opinion.  Ergo, the administration turns him over to the FBI for interrogation.  That was the way they did things in Stalin's Russia, but many of us thought a different tradition regarding freedom of expression prevailed in American colleges.

Christian Club Sues School Over Media Restriction.  An Oklahoma school district is facing a lawsuit for allegedly forbidding organizers of a Christian club from promoting events on campus. ... [Matt] Sharp, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund, said the school district told the club it could no longer publicize its events — including discouraging organizers from spreading the word in the community and local media.

The Greek Tragedy of Campus Censorship.  Advocates of "speech codes" on campus suffer from an excess of hubris if they believe that stopping "hate speech" leads to an elimination of hate.

Feds crack down on campus flirting and sex jokes.  When I was growing up it was widely believed that colleges and universities were the part of our society with the widest scope for free expression and free speech. ... Today we live in an America with enormous cultural variety in which very few things are considered universally verboten.  But on campus it's different. ... What the seemingly misnamed Office of Civil Rights is doing here is demanding the setting up of kangaroo courts and the dispensing of what I would call marsupial justice against students who are disfavored by campus denizens because of their gender or race or political attitude.

Intellectual Disgrace at Ohio University.  How completely has indoctrination and propaganda replaced rational discussion and intelligent debate in America's universities?  We were reminded of just how bad things have gotten several weeks ago at Ohio University, when we were invited to screen and discuss our documentary on the Ground Zero mosque controversy, The Ground Zero Mosque: Second Wave of the 911 Attacks.  While universities today idolize "diversity," they actively discourage the one kind of diversity that matters most:  genuine diversity of opinion.  We saw instead the effects of the stifling intellectual straitjacket that universities force upon students on all too many campuses.

At Some Colleges, Students Must Keep Their Pro-Life Opinions to Themselves.  Two egregious examples of anti-abortion literature being censored because school authorities disagree with the message.

Political Payback — Oregon Style.  Confused visitors will be forgiven for thinking Oregon State University is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Congressman Pete DeFazio and the "progressive-socialist" wing of the Democratic Party.  Or for likening what's going on there to political retribution as practiced in Third World thugocracies.

Thought Gestapo in Action at Rollins College.  Jamie Pizzi, a freshman at Rollins College in Florida, penned an op-ed for the college's student newspaper The Sandspur on March 17 in which she discussed aspects of the continuing national debate over illegal immigration. ... Like many Americans, Ms. Pizzi believes that children born to people who entered the nation illegally and/or who continue to live here illegally should not be granted the same rights and privileges that legal immigrants obtain only after negotiating a mountain of paperwork and waiting for a very long time.

University to Change Policy Defining Religious Discrimination as Oppression by Christians.  The University of California at Davis has backed away from a policy that defined religious discrimination as Christians oppressing non-Christians after more than two dozen Christian students filed a formal complaint.  The definition was listed in a document called, "The Principles of Community."  It defined "Religious/Spiritual Discrimination" as "The loss of power and privilege to those who do not practice the dominant culture's religion.  In the United States, this is institutionalized oppressions toward those who are not Christian."

Update:
 UC Davis removes Web wording that upset Christians.  The University of California at Davis has eliminated from its website a definition of religious discrimination that offended more than two dozen Christian students.

How About Some 'Civility' Toward College Conservatives?  After the tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, President Obama said Americans must respect each other's views and we should begin "talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."  It's ironic that Obama, the leader of the American Left, has called for civility when it is his followers on college campuses that have eagerly denounced, shouted-down, and even assaulted those who dare express different viewpoints from their own.

Wounded Iraq vet jeered at Columbia.  Columbia University students heckled a war hero during a town-hall meeting on whether ROTC should be allowed back on campus.  "Racist!" some students yelled at Anthony Maschek, a Columbia freshman and former Army staff sergeant awarded the Purple Heart after being shot 11 times in a firefight in northern Iraq in February 2008.  Others hissed and booed the veteran.

Welcome to Personal Responsibility 101.  For years, public universities have argued that their speech codes did not violate clearly established law regarding students' First Amendment rights.  But for the past generation, we have seen one legal decision after another striking down these codes.  Having seen registered letters informing them of the decisions, administrators will no longer be able to argue that "a reasonable person in their position" would not have known the law.

Speech Police in Austin.  In Austin, the blue dot in the midst of a red sea, the University of Texas is home to the storied Longhorns, serious research, an increasingly insane tuition bill for a "public" university that was created to be free of charge, and  — like just about every other university in America — attempts to impose speech codes on conservatives.

Censoring Caucasian College Clubs.  West Chester University, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is presently embroiled in a debate over flyers advertising the establishment of a "White Student Union."  According to school officials, the flyers were part of an effort to "organize students who are against racism."  While that may be true, the dither over a potential student union raises questions and concerns far deeper then the formation of a campus club.

Censoring Caucasian College Clubs.  West Chester University, based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is presently embroiled in a debate over flyers advertising the establishment of a "White Student Union."  According to school officials, the flyers were part of an effort to "organize students who are against racism."  While that may be true, the dither over a potential student union raises questions and concerns far deeper than the formation of a campus club.

How a conservative organization got kicked off of a college campus.  A student at Palm Beach State University tells The Examiner she was prevented from recruiting members for a fledgling conservative club during a campus rush event for registered clubs.  Christina Beattie, who was trying to establish a campus chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, says that when she learned that the school required the names of five students in order to register a club, she sought out a venue to recruit other students.

Republican students cry foul over denial of speaker.  A group of student Republicans accused Carroll College administrators of clamping down on free speech after college officials barred a controversial speaker from holding a town hall meeting on campus tonight.  University of Montana law professor and conservative activist Rob Natelson was scheduled to speak on constitutional issues, "including the constitutionality of the recent federal health care takeover," on campus this evening, according to a news release.

When Free Speech Died:  Of the many intellectual perversions currently taking root on college campuses, perhaps none is more contradictory to what should be one of higher education's core values than the suppression of free speech.  With alarming regularity, speakers are shouted down, booed, jeered, and barrage with vitriol, all at the hands of groups who give lip service the notion of academic free speech, and who demand it when their speech is at issue, but have no interest in listening to, or letting others listen to, ideas that contradict their own world view.

PC sickness claims another victim.  Until last week, [Allen] Zaruba was an adjunct professor of art at Towson University in Baltimore County.  Officials at the state university fired Zaruba for making what some news stories called a "racial remark" in class.  So successful have the PC hellhounds been at keeping rational discourse at bay that some of those news stories couldn't even tell readers or viewers what the "racial remark" was.  That's how intimidated television news directors and newspaper editors are.

Criticizing Islam?  Sorry, You're Cancelled.  The free exchange of ideas is something that is increasingly denied to conservative voices.  Robert Spencer was set to speak at the American Library Association convention last summer but was canceled at the last minute after pressure from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).  Michael Savage was set to participate by means of a video link in a debate next Thursday at Britain's Cambridge Union, but last Wednesday the debate was canceled.

'You don't have the right to speak'.  A student senate leader at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has told pro-life display supporters they have no right to express their opinion on the volatile issue of abortion.  "It's not your responsibility," Roderick King, a sophomore at the school and member of its student senate, shouted at activists who had assembled a display of white crosses in the campus lawn — with university permission.

Lawrence teacher says he was fired because of his politics.  A Lawrence high school teacher believes his teaching contract was not renewed because of his conservative political views.  Tim Latham, a social studies and government teacher at Lawrence High School, said a John McCain/Sarah Palin bumper sticker on his truck may have been the first indication of his political views noticed by administration.

Students Defend Embroiled Teacher.  A Lawrence, Kan., High School student is defending her former teacher.  Alexus Mattingly said Monday [6/15/2009] it's unfair that Tim Latham did not have his contract renewed this spring. Latham, who has 20 years of experience as a teacher, has said that his release has less to do with his teaching abilities and more to do with his conservative politics.

Ahmadinejad Can Speak on a US Campus, But Netanyahu Cannot.  Imagine it's 1940, and picture Adolf Hitler speaking at a US university, receiving a polite reception, while Winston Churchill is barred from speaking because his safety cannot be guaranteed.  It's unthinkable, yet the very same pro-fascist dynamic is a reality in 21st Century America.

Conservative Speakers Widely Shunned at Graduation Ceremonies.  Education watchdogs say it's nothing strange for conservatives to be shunned from the academy, and that the one-sided invitations have become a permanent fixture of the ivory tower.  "The colleges have been transformed," said David Horowitz, whose organization, Students for Academic Freedom, tracks ideological bias on campus.  "They're now these partisan institutions.  They're not going to change."

Campus Leftists Don't Believe in Free Speech.  I arrived in Austin, Texas, one evening recently to give a speech about academic freedom at the university there.  Entering the hall where I was to give my speech, I was greeted — if that's the word — by a raucous protest organized by a professor and self-styled Bolshevik, Dana Cloud.  Forty protesters hoisted placards high in the air and robotically chanted "Down With Horowitz," "Racist Go Home," and "No More Witch-hunts."  Fortunately, a spokesperson for the administration was present to threaten the disrupters with arrest if they continued on this course.

Wanted:  A culture of self-defense.  There's no polite way or time to say it:  American colleges and universities have become coddle industries.  Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions — while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case:  Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Enough Already.  Many have weighed in on Eric Holder's "cowards" slur.  He obviously hasn't paid much attention to college campuses, where the obsession with race permeates departments, curricula, hiring, faculty profile, student events, funding, etc.  Bumper-sticker identification and hair-trigger readiness to accuse someone of racism to further a particular ideological or even personal agenda are now 30 years old and institutionalized in higher education.

A broad front for free speech.  In recent years it seems to me American liberals and conservatives do not want to be in agreement.  They want to be at war with each other.  This is particularly true of liberals.  On the First Amendment they find qualifiers to part company from libertarian conservatives.  We see it in the liberals' support of speech codes at universities.  There all advocates of free speech allowed communists to teach and to stir up revolution even during the Cold War.  Now free expression is policed by speech codes, lest someone offend touchy ethnics or religious people, preferably non-Western religious people.

Campus Leftists and Their Dirty Tricks:  Leftist administrators at DePaul University are threatening to cancel a speech by Chris Simcox if the conservatives on campus don't come up with $2,500 to pay for 20 private security officers.  Simcox, an advocate for protecting America's borders from unlawful entry, presides over the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Student suspended for publishing conservative website.  Back in the USSR, they sent dissidents to psychiatric confinement; in ultra-blue Marin County, they suspend them from school and send them for "psychological evaluation."

Horowitz Speech on Radical Islam Has Repercussions at Northwestern.  Less than a week after defaming David Horowitz by claiming that he spreads "blatant lies about Islam" and criticizing the College Republicans for "bringing such an offensive and divisive speaker" to campus, the Muslim-cultural Students Association (McSA) at Northwestern has announced plans to bring infamous Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers to campus.

Catholic school censors pro-life speaker.  Administrators at Mercy High School, a Catholic school located in Farmington Hills, Mich., abruptly canceled the upcoming appearance of best-selling author Dan Flynn, alleging the content of his speech was "inappropriate."  The lecture, scheduled for February 12 and sponsored by Young America's Foundation, was an after school event and attendance was voluntary.  Flynn's topic, entitled "Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood," exposes the real foundations of the abortion-rights movement — the historical fact that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was an anti-Catholic bigot who advocated concentration camps and forced sterilization.

Conservatives need not apply.  Since the National Women's Studies Association Conference is hosting a panel on how to deal with conservative young women on college campuses, such as the Network of enlightened Women (NeW), you would think that they would have invited a conservative young woman from NeW.  One would think this indeed.  But time and again, we must remember that the feminists aren't always rational.

Maryland's diversity police trample basic freedoms.  For evidence of multicultural suppression in action, Maryland legislators need look no further than Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where administrators first looked the other way in 2006 when hundreds of copies of the Carrolton Record, a conservative student newspaper, were stolen from the library, and then joined in the theft by banning distribution of the paper elsewhere on campus.  The situation is equally depressing at the University of Maryland, College Park, where advocates of non-approved viewpoints are corralled into so-called "free speech zones." Apparently the College Park commissars haven?t heard that the First Amendment makes the entire country a free speech zone.

Report Finds Rampant Censorship at American Colleges and Universities.  A report released today [12/6/2006] by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reveals that burdensome restrictions on speech are commonplace at America's colleges and universities.  The report, entitled "Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006:  The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses," surveyed more than 330 schools and found that an overwhelming majority of them explicitly prohibit speech that, outside the borders of campus, is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Victory for Free Speech:  Clemson University Abandons 'Free Speech Zone' Policy.  Clemson University has vowed to review its "free speech zone" policy and, until a new policy is instituted, has opened its entire campus to free speech.  Clemson has also cleared the Clemson Conservatives student organization of its charges for violating the "free speech zone" policy.

Remember "Ebonics?"  At Cornell, a student newspaper published an imaginary course description rendered in Ebonics, part of which reads, "Da white man be evil an he tryin to keep da brotherman down."  You can guess what happened next.  Two hundred copies of the paper were burned, the administration denounced the newspaper's writers for "race-baiting and stereotyping," while some indignant students even called for a "speech code."

Can I Just Have My Bag of Chips?  Exactly how "tolerance" devolved into coddling those who choose to take offense for the slightest of reasons is a question for another day (although decades of experience demonstrates that on-campus tolerance is more frequently understood as the right of "victims" to air grievances than of heterogeneous speakers to be heard).  Another question is how and why we've allowed identity politics to constrict public spaces.

College Gives Credit for Obama Campaign Volunteers, None for McCain.  An idea popular in Europe, the "gap year" is a year taken off from studies between high school and the first year of college.  That year is supposedly spent traveling or doing volunteer work.  To regulate this, the college gives credit to the students for approved "gap year" activities, one of which is volunteering for the Barack Obama presidential campaign.  No mention of allowing the same benefit for a volunteer to John McCain's campaign is made, naturally.

Speech Code of the Month:  University of Maine — Presque Isle.  The University of Maine — Presque Isle's (UMPI's) Residence Hall Guide contains a harassment policy that states:  "Even if the harassment is unintentional (e.g., an off-hand comment or joke) it still occurs and will not be tolerated."  As a public university, UMPI cannot prohibit speech that is protected by the First Amendment.

Leftist Brown Shirts Shut Down Horowitz Speech at Emory.  On Wednesday evening [10/24/2007], the Emory University Chapter of the College Republicans hosted acclaimed author and activist David Horowitz for a lecture on radical Islam as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.  From the beginning of Horowitz's speech, rowdy protesters continually interrupted him and less than half an hour into the event, the crowd became so disruptive that police were called in and Horowitz had to be escorted off stage.

Campus' Christian group left hanging.  Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Superior have a thorny question this fall.  Is the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's requirement that its student officers support Christian doctrines common sense or discrimination?  At stake is the fellowship's status as a student organization, its eligibility for student funds and the possibility of a lawsuit.

[Notice that it is suddenly a problem even though the organization has been on this campus for 40 years.]

Georgetown bars ministries from campus.  Georgetown University has banned outside Protestant ministries from holding on-campus events and using the school's name, prompting group leaders to question whether the prestigious Catholic school is restricting religious choice.

The Fascists Among Us:  You don't have to be famous to feel the left's wrath.  On more than one occasion conservative student newspapers have been burned, and even one of my editors related a story to me about being shouted down by colleagues during a previous career in academia.  Lest you think this is unusual, errant blips on the radar screen, know that this is standard practice on university campuses today.

Besieged with P.C. from the Left and Right.  Donald Downs, who teaches political science and law, and is also author of a new book, Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, concludes:  "The last thing American campuses need is censorship from the right piling onto the preexisting censorship from the left.  Universities will not regain the public trust that they have squandered until they stand up and defend the principles of free speech and academic freedom for everyone, regardless of their politics."

Shhh!  Free speech crackdown on campus.  In a Latin American politics class, professor Donald Hindley, 74, who's taught at Brandeis for nearly 50 years, used a word he's used many times — "wetback" — to explain the nastiness aimed at Mexican immigrants who entered the United States over the Rio Grande.  The student(s) complained.  Anonymously.  The administration launched an investigation into his "discriminatory" remarks, never telling Hindley what those remarks were.  In one statement provost Mary Kraus praised the "courage" of the anonymous student(s) "to speak up against discrimination."  She also said three students suffered "significant emotional trauma" as a result of hearing the remarks.

The Editor wonders...
 One word is enough to inflict trauma?

'Hate-speak' at school draws scrutiny.  A Tucson High Magnet School student will tell state lawmakers next week that she was forced by school officials to listen to a pro-immigrant speech.  Senior Mon-yee Fung, 17, voluntarily attended an assembly where co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta spoke, but could not leave after Huerta began saying "Republicans hate Latinos."  "I wanted to listen to what they had to say, but all they had to say was hate speak," said Fung, head of the school's Teenage Republicans Club.

Speech codes and intolerant universities.  Penn State has an incredibly Orwellian policy banning "acts of intolerance" — one of which Surra himself would have committed had he made his "waste of time" comment on campus.  The good representative's alma mater defines such acts (which, it says, "will not be tolerated") as "an attitude, feeling or belief in furtherance of which an individual acts to intimidate, threaten or show contempt for other individuals or groups based on characteristics such as political belief."

Conservative Books Equate to 'Sexual Harassment'.  A "sexual harassment" investigation is ongoing at an Ohio college after the school's librarian suggested that students read a few books from a conservative perspective.  According to the Alliance Defense Fund … a librarian at Ohio State University at Mansfield has been slapped with a "sexual harassment" charge after he suggested that freshmen read four best-selling conservative books.

Student under fire for yelling:  'Remember Chappaquiddick!'  A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday [2/23/2006].

Squelching speech at UNC.  Want to know how fast a modern American university can go from championing open debate to squelching it?  Just ask Jillian Bandes.  The University of North Carolina junior wrote a column supporting racial profiling for her campus paper, the Daily Tar Heel.  That was Tuesday.  By Wednesday afternoon, she was fired.

CSU students not ready to make nice — and they don't have to.  The 417,000 students at California State University's 28 campuses are expected to be civil to one another, the university says in its policy manual.  It sounds innocuous — but a federal magistrate says it's an unconstitutional restriction on speech when the policy is used to investigate or discipline students, such as the College Republicans whose members stomped on two flags bearing the name of Allah during an anti-terrorism rally at San Francisco State last year.

Carleton students bar anti-abortion groups.  Carleton University's student council has voted to deny funding to campus anti-abortion groups.  A carefully worded policy amendment, passed on Tuesday [12/5/2006] night during a council meeting, also bars student groups with anti-choice mandates from council-managed spaces.

Le Moyne Sued After Expelling Grad Student Who Expressed Conservative Views:  Last fall, [2004] former graduate student Scott McConnell was dismissed from Le Moyne College in Syracuse for writing a paper opposing multicultural education and advocating corporal punishment in elementary schools.

Student Expelled for His Conservative Views Wins Suit, Returns Determined:  An army veteran and graduate student at Le Moyne College in upstate New York who was expelled from his degree program because of his conservative philosophy of education is back in the classroom and speaking out.

False promises of academic freedom.  If you want to get a real glimpse of the thought-tyranny of the academic Left, you should look at the case of Scott McConnell, who was recently expelled from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., because his personal beliefs didn't fit within the school's indoctrination grid.

DePaul Investigates Mock Bake Sale for Possible 'Harassment'.  A DePaul University bake sale, mocking affirmative action, has exposed the student who organized the sale to an investigation on the grounds that he discriminated against and harassed other students.

Providence speech patrol:  Against the ethos of Roger Williams, Rhode Island College tries to silence a student.

Coulter Skelter:  Unsuccessful and belligerent.  Those are the two words that can be used to describe an attempt by radical leftists to disrupt a speech by Ann Coulter at the University of Texas in Austin [May, 2005].

Polly gaffes:  As the Polly awards have aptly demonstrated for the last eight years, most colleges grant unchecked rein to liberal ideas — no matter how offensive.  Conservative speech, on the other hand, engenders outrage and disciplinary action.

Forget Free Speech, Liberals Don't Tolerate Campus Conservatives.  America's colleges and universities are anything but free speech zones.  Contrary to their mantra of universal tolerance, Stalinist professors and administrators see intellectual diversity as a disease.  Unpopular viewpoints, like a belief in absolute truth or the Republican Party, are actively discouraged.

America's One-Sided Campus Media:  For the past sixteen months I have been a weekly opinion columnist for UCLA's newspaper, the Daily Bruin, and have seen exactly how media bias works. … From the high and mighty editor to the yeoman reporter, the newsroom is the liberals' private party.  The conservatives in the newsroom are not welcome — and it's made certain they understand that.

Free Speech — For Some.  Liberal bias on campus manifests itself in many ways, but what's probably the most dangerous is that students can spend years in school without hearing from a conservative.

Professor on trial for allowing free speech!.  "[Rhode Island College] is actually trying a professor for following the First Amendment," said David French, president of FIRE, which wrote to the college on behalf of Church.  "If professor Church had punished this person for making 'offensive' comments, she would have violated that person's right to free speech.  Professor Church is on trial for the offense of obeying the law."

Conservative Students are the Real Revolutionaries.  If you wanted to prove that American universities are places where free speech and open discussion prevail, you probably wouldn't visit the University of Texas at Austin.

PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas:  Some of UNLV's professors are so unethical and irrational that they are willing to personally go after you and attempt to destroy your reputation whenever they see you have disagreed with them.

Targeting campus speech codes:  Hallelujah! Someone in authority is finally fighting back against political correctness.  The Bush Administration has warned campus thought-control bullies that it is monitoring their imperious tactics.

Free Speech Curbs Attacked at Another University:  Most of the nation's college students have already abandoned their campuses for the summer, but the battle for student free speech continues — highlighted by the recent lawsuit against Texas Tech University for restricting its campus "free speech area" to a small gazebo.

On Campus, Politics Determine Who Is Subject To Punishment.  In today's world of academia, universities dole out their own unique form of justice.  Sadly, this new approach to crime and punishment is often unfair, almost always biased and completely unaccountable.  It makes no difference whether you are the victim or the accused; it doesn't even matter whether you're guilty or innocent, because most current university officials enforce the rules on campus based solely on their own personal prejudices.

Left-Wing Campus Thought Police Harass Dissenters:  Arizona State University's "political correctness" enforcers may be on the verge of wrecking the life of a conservative student who bucks their orthodoxy.  It is further evidence that academia's enemies of free speech have dropped all pretense at fairness.

Politically Correct Death Threats at Georgia Tech.  [Ruth] Malhotra can't help believing that a university that claims to be more committed to "civility" than any other school in the country and routinely initiates proceedings against students who commit such offenses as smoking in the dorms would certainly have immediately sprung heroically into action if she had been a black, Hispanic, lesbian, or almost any other woman receiving such messages. But she is a conservative activist and almost by definition a thorn in Georgia Tech's side.

Campus Leftists Attack Ad on Black Reparations:  An ad criticizing reparations for descendants of slaves is creating an uproar at colleges across the country.  The controversy illustrates the anti-choice intolerance of left-wing activists and the speed of most student "journalists" to censor politically incorrect thought.

Conservatism is an Endangered Species on America's Campuses:  A pro-family leader says America's colleges and universities are becoming increasingly hostile to conservative students.  Bob Knight is director of the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America.  "Campuses have become a hotbed of radicalism, and it's of the type that is very disturbing because it's not merely liberal, not merely left-wing -- it's totalitarian," Knight says.  "It says 'we will enforce certain beliefs, and anyone who doesn't agree with us will be shoved off campus.'"

A Dozen Affronts Against Free Speech:  If censorship of conservative ideas is a frequent occurrence at Berkeley, how commonplace is it at other universities around the country?

Conservatives Equal Racists at MLA:  "We've never had free speech in this country," professed Patricia L. Keeton of Ramapo College.  This 'so why start now' characterized the tone of the "When Hate Groups Target Campus Newspapers" panel at the Modern Language Association's (MLA) annual convention in New Orleans.

College GOP slammed for "hate flyers":  Poster advertising pro-America rally features photo of bin Laden.

Florida students sent home over for shirts on Islam.  A lawyer for a north Florida school district says a handful of students have been sent home from Alachua County schools this week for wearing shirts that read "Islam is of the Devil."

Butler University Deems Chief Justice Roberts Too Controversial for Commencement Address.  When John Roberts' niece graduates in May from Butler University this May, the Supreme Court chief justice may attend as a relative — but he has been deemed too controversial to take the stage as commencement speaker.

Gun control indoctrination

Schools are erasing firearms from American history, instead of making the distinction between lawful and unlawful use of guns.  School kids are being taught that all gun ownership is bad, but then the kids get mixed signals when they see that all cops carry guns.  Many people have suggested that schools would be much better off teaching "Gun Ed" than "Sex Ed".


Why can't students say 'guns' in school?  My own hunch is that the sheer number of Americans who own guns (the low estimate is something over 40 million) will keep their Second Amendment rights off the endangered-species list for the foreseeable future.  Their First Amendment rights, however, may be another matter. ... A student who speaks up about the right to own or carry a gun stands a good chance of getting suspended or even arrested.

Gun-Toting High School Senior Plans to Appeal Ban on His Picture.  A federal judge has barred a New Hampshire high school senior from posing with a shotgun in his yearbook photo.

School board bans "gun" from spelling tests:  Action taken after 1st-grader's parents complain to officials.

College Admins:  If You Favor Second Amendment Rights, You Must Be Crazy.  A Minnesota college student was suspended and ordered to undergo "mental health evaluation" for his response to campuswide e-mails from school officials concerning the Virginia Tech massacre.

Teachers, Guns, and Zero-Tolerance Tyranny:  Teachers are the forgotten casualties of the education establishment's absolutist war on guns.

Mountaineer May Carry His Black Powder Rifle:  "What nearly happened at [the University of] Wisconsin," [Alan] Gottlieb said in a press release, "is symptomatic of a broader anti-gun hysteria that runs rampant throughout liberal academia."

Have Gun, Won't Travel.  The Gun-Free School Zones Act … made it a federal crime punishable by five years in prison to possess a gun within 1,000 feet of a school. … According to an analysis by gun control scholar Alan Korwin, the gun-free zones created by the statute cover so much of Phoenix and Cleveland that they are impossible for people traveling in those cities to avoid. The upshot, he says, is that "virtually all public travel with firearms is now a violation of law."

Arizona bill would let guns onto campuses.  Two Mesa lawmakers are drawing up legislation to give teachers — and some students — a chance to carry firearms on campus.  The proposals by Sen. Karen Johnson and Rep. Russell Pearce would allow anyone who has obtained a state permit to carry a concealed firearm to bring it onto public-school campuses, something now a crime under state law.  It also would overrule similar policies at community colleges and state universities.

Why You Should Own a Gun:  The murders on the Virginia Tech campus, the worst such rampage in our history, might have been mitigated if just one member of the faculty or a student had the means to return fire.

Gun control isn't the answer.  So far, not many prominent Americans have tried to use the college rampage as an argument for gun control.  One reason is that we are in the midst of a presidential race in which leading Democratic candidates are aware that endorsing gun control can cost them votes.

Unarmed And Dangerous.  Five years ago, armed college students subdued a gunman embarking on a college killing spree.  Last year, Virginia Tech applauded the fact that its students couldn't do the same. … One wonders if Cho Seung-Hui would have even walked on campus with a gun if he knew his victims were able to defend themselves.

Guns, Politics and the Law:  Over the past decade and a half, evidence of another sort has been accumulating.  Violent-crime rates peaked in 1991, according to the Justice Department, and have fallen steeply since.  Over the same period, gun-control laws in many states have been relaxed.  Correlation does not equal causation, but it does make it difficult to argue that greater legal access to guns drives up levels of violent crime.

Professor Takes Heat for Calling Cops on Student Who Discussed Guns in Class.  A professor in Connecticut reported one of her students to the police after he gave a class presentation on why students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on campus.  Now, free speech activists say the professor's actions are what really need to be investigated.

Sorry, But We Deserve Our Schools.  Public schools aren't the failures they're castigated for being; they are misunderstood successes.  True, they don't teach very much English, math, or history but that's a secondary job.  Young kids are regularly suspended for drawing pictures of guns, wearing T-shirts with guns on them, possessing empty ammo casings, or anything else suggestive of an armed citizenry.  That's primary, and the public schools are good at it.  The students maybe can't multiply or read, but they all know guns are bad, just as they know how to do sex and sell green theory to their parents.  They are turning out well-trained future voters favoring the current leftish pieties who will obediently support Progressive government and who will not ask too many questions.

More about Gun Control Issues
More anti-gun bias in schools is demonstrated on the Zero Tolerance page.

Anti-American and anti-war indoctrination

There was a time when the schools quite naturally taught kids to have pride in America, because it is the best place in the world to live, a world leader, a superpower, and the primary force standing between freedom and communism.  Today, many teachers are pessimistic, defeatist socialists and radical anti-war leftists, and the kids are being taught to blame the United States for many of the world's problems.

Also please note the section about Pro-Islam indoctrination at Yale University.


Sasha and Malia Obama's school:  Whose side are they on?
 Sidwell Friends School Opts For Japanese Food On Pearl Harbor Day.  What are President Obama's kids eating at school on Pearl Harbor day? Japanese food, of course!  Sidwell Friends School's website shows the menu for Wednesday December 7th, 2011, the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, as an Asian food day.

Law professor resigns in disgust over colleague's email.  U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Robert Roughsedge, a Hampton resident, has resigned his position teaching law at Suffolk University in Boston, after a fellow professor, Michael Avery, sent out an email to university colleagues attacking the school's efforts to collect and ship care packages to U.S. soldiers serving on foreign soil.  "I was disgusted, but not surprised," Roughsedge said in an email to the New Hampshire Union Leader from Afganistan.  "Professor Avery is a radical."

Professor Angry Over Packages for Troops, Calls them "Shameful".  A Suffolk University law professor has issued a blistering e-mail calling plans to collect care packages for U.S. troops "shameful."  Professor Michael Avery also questioned the intent of an American flag hanging in the law school's atrium.  "I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings," Avery wrote in an e-mail to his colleagues.  "The United States may well be the most war prone country in the history of civilization."

Judge OKs American Flag Ban on Cinco de Mayo.  Welcome to America, where wearing patriotic clothing can get you sent home from school.  Seriously.  Remember the case of the California boys who wore American flag apparel on Cinco de Mayo?  They were sent home from school for disrespecting Hispanic children on "their day."  Sounds like a violation of their First Amendment rights, doesn't it?  Apparently not, according to a federal judge.

Judge: School could order removal of flag clothes.  A federal judge says a Northern California high school official did not violate a group of students' right to freedom of speech when he ordered them to remove clothing with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo.

The American Flag Is "Offensive" in Schools Now.  Increasingly, it seems that the American flag is joining toy guns and dodgeball on the banned-from-school list.  And the latest story on this front involves The Butterfield Elementary in Orange, Massachusetts, where a teacher told an 11-year-old boy that he may not hang his depiction of Old Glory because it might "offend" another student.

Public School District Violates La Raza Studies Ban.  A public school district in Arizona is violating a new state law by continuing a radical La Raza studies program banned under the legislation because it segregates students by race, teaches disdain for American sovereignty and ignites racial hostility.  Last year Arizona's legislature passed a measure (HB 2281) banning taxpayer-funded schools from offering classes that are designed for students of a particular race and promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group (in this case whites).  However, the Tucson Unified School District, with a largely Hispanic population, has yet to comply with the law which took effect in January.

'The war people are trying to take money from our school'.  This is a video of a six year old boy explaining what was told to him by his teacher.  After being asked the same questions several times, his answers remain consistent. ... Following a school wide PA announcement of a "special visitor," the boy's teacher sat the children down in a circle, and explained to them that "the war people are trying to take money from the school".  That a professional educator would use a kindergarten classroom to express emotionally driven political views is repugnant.  What's worse, is the complete lack of facts, logic, and reason in such statements.

Progressive Rot vs. the ROTC.  In the midst of the chaos unfolding in the Middle East and and the American Midwest, some stories slip through the cracks.  But a sordid little episode which took place at Columbia University last Saturday can't be one of them.  Iraqi war veteran and Purple Heart winner Anthony Maschek, who survived two broken legs and eleven bullet wounds during a fire fight in Kirkuk, a man who spent two years recovering from his wounds at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, was subjected to utter contempt by a group of students during a town hall meeting at that university.

At Public School, Anti-Americanism Hides in Plain Sight.  [Scroll down]  What happens when you tell young people over and over again that the most important fact of American history is the internment of Japanese during World War Two?  In a single year, I watched as fourth graders were assigned four different readings on that topic while spending ten minutes on George Washington and zero on Abraham Lincoln.  Their sole reading on September 11 was a story on how Kenyans reacted to the event — with no identification of who had carried out the attack.

Schools Erase America From U.S. History.  Among the goals listed for the Mexican-American Studies are "social justice" and "Latino Critical Race Pedagogy."  Pictures of the classroom showed the walls decorated with "heroes," such as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.  Tucson also offers courses especially for African-American and Native American students.  These classes obviously divide the student population by race, a practice we thought was not supposed to be tolerated anymore.

School Officials in Mass. Town Won't Let Students Recite Pledge of Allegiance.  When Sean Harrington entered his freshman year at Arlington High School, he noticed something peculiar:  There were no American flags in the classrooms, and no one recited the Pledge of Allegiance.  So Harrington enlisted the aid of his fellow students, and now, three years later, they have succeeded in getting flags installed in the classrooms.  But the pledge still will not be recited.

Another Public School Travesty in Massachusetts.  Just when you think a state where a school board voted to give condoms to elementary school kids (unbeknownst to their parents) had scraped the bottom of the ideological barrel, Massachusetts has stooped even further:  the town of Arlington school committee has rejected a request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance.  The reason given?  According to the arlintonpatch.com, educators there "are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it."

Los Angeles Students to Be Taught That Arizona Immigration Law Is Un-American.  The Los Angeles Unified School District school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that Arizona's new immigration law is un-American.

Mexican Revolutionaries in America.  One of Bill Ayers' courses at the University of Illinois includes Pedagogy of the Oppressed as required reading.  Author Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Marxist, declared:  "This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed:  to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well."  It turns out that the Freire book is required reading in "Raza Studies" or Mexican-American courses in the high schools in Tucson, Arizona, where students have been protesting Arizona's new immigration law.

Did someone mention Bill Ayers?

Los Angeles high school teacher calls for Mexican revolution in United States.  Ron Gochez is a high school social studies teacher at the Santee Education Complex in Los Angeles.  In his spare time he calls for a Mexican revolution from the steps on the UCLA campus, of which he has determined to be stolen, occupied Mexican land.

Teacher Deems American Flag 'Offensive'.  The battle over the American flag has reached a middle school art class in California's Santa Rita School District where a student was told not to draw Old Glory because it was "offensive," while another student was praised for drawing a picture of President Obama.  Tracy Hathaway, of Salinas, CA, told FOX News Radio her 13-year-old daughter was ordered to stop drawing the American flag and start another project at Gavilan View Middle School.

Displaying Old Glory:  An "Incendiary" Act?  Some stories in the news are just too zany to be taken seriously.  Like for instance, the wretched tale of five students in Morgan Hill that were sent home for wearing T-shirts with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo Day.

Offended by the Offended.  Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this year when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, an offense one official called "incendiary."  Other students could wear or wave the Mexican flag and any number of other potentially offensive messages, but wearing the American flag in America is just too "incendiary."  To their credit, the Morgan Hill Unified School District did not concur with the suspensions, but the "offended" still got their way.

Two People Who Deserve to be Fired.  There are two people who should be out of work for their poor decisions lately.  One, the school official at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, California who sent home two students who wore t-shirts with American flags.  Apparently, showing your American patriotism is not welcome in America during celebrations of Cinco de Mayo.  The Vice Principal thought the t-shirts were "incendiary."

California Principal Apologizes for Forbidding U.S. Flag Shirts on Mexican Holiday.  A California high school principal has apologized for telling five students they couldn't wear U.S. flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo, the local superintendent said Friday [5/7/2010].  Tensions at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill had risen in the wake of the decision to forbid the shirts, as the students who wore the shirts defended their right to show their patriotism Ñ even on a Mexican holiday Ñ while a large group of Hispanic students staged a walkout Thursday in protest.

Is America Conquered when the American Flag is 'Offensive'?  Californians were recently confronted with a sobering reality.  Students at a large high school in the Morgan Hill district were told by school administrators that American flag tee shirts and other patriotic paraphernalia were not allowed, citing Cinco de Mayo as justification  Few students at the school probably realize that America provided help to Mexico in expelling the French, whose defeat at the Battle of Puebla is comemorated on May 5th.

High School Where Flag Flap Occurred Hides Racist Secret.  How is wearing the American flag, in America, disrespectful to another culture?  How is it disrespectful to your shared culture?  These protesting scholars could not give a logical explanation (there isn't one), but tried to use the bizarre argument that wearing the U.S. flag to school on Cinco de Mayo was the equivalent of wearing the Mexican flag on the Fourth of July.  The display of ignorance by these students shows that Live Oak High School administrators are not just guilty of First Amendment rights violations, but are utterly inept educators as well.

Wow!  Another teacher has a problem with a kid and an American flag.  Our flag is a symbol of the principles on which America was founded; upon looking at it, one may reflexively recall the phrase "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"; it is a symbol of freedom, individual rights, self-sufficiency, capitalism and prosperity.  Obama wants to dismantle and remake America.  His sycophants, including this Gavilan Middle School teacher, know it.

Defining Dumbness Down.  As with its successful conquest of mainline Protestantism, the left has taken over the educational establishment via the long march through the institutions.  Admitted Pentagon bomber and alleged Obama ghostwriter Bill Ayers is well regarded by many in academe, as is radical leftist Professor Angela Davis, among many others.  These are not marginalized, fringe characters.  They represent the academic mainstream.  They run the joint.  The barbarians are not merely inside the gates; they control them….

Obama's Academia Nuts:  How exactly do former terrorists get to teach at America's universities?  Unfortunately, Obama's friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are just a few of the inmates running those asylums.

Is Education Next?  From now on, the feds know best.  And since money's involved, you'd better listen.  Of course, preconditions may be good for many schools.  But they open the door to federal micromanagement.  Let's see:  How long will it take before political indoctrination of students becomes a precondition for receiving government funds?  Maybe not as long as you think.

The Ed Schools' Latest — and Worst — Humbug.  Bill Ayers has the academic freedom to say and write anything he wants about America and its schools.  But academic freedom protects neither him nor the teachers he trains when they bring their leftist version of social justice into the schools.  Legislators should ask their state education boards to write a new set of guidelines that discourage teaching for social justice and social justice schools and that forbid teachers from indoctrinating students with their own politics, whether left or right.  This ought to be the teacher's Hippocratic Oath:  to do no harm.

War Heroes Turned Away from Public School.  These men and women represent the best in self-discipline, honor, and personal responsibility, not to mention the virtue of self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.  Yet, at the last minute the principal of the high school caved to political pressure from parents and outsiders who don't support the war, and cancelled the appearance.

Update:  School officials manufacture an ex post facto cover story.
 Forest Lake district canceled veterans' visit over 'student safety'.  Concern for "student safety" was a primary reason that the Forest Lake School District canceled a visit by touring military veterans to its high school, Superintendent Lynn Steenblock said Thursday [3/27/2008] in a prepared statement.  However, police said such concerns weren't relayed to them.  "At no time was student safety mentioned to the chief of police or to our assigned liaison officer at the high school," police Sgt. Greg Weiss said.

Field Trip To Hell.  A Manhattan high school's openly illegal class trip to Cuba showed more than just brazen disregard for the U.S. ban on tourism to Cuba.  It amounted to aiding and abetting a malevolent regime.  That needs scrutiny.

Unrepentant 60s bomber now teaches our teachers.  William Ayers, the unrepentant former SDS Weather Underground bomber of the 1960s, was recently elected by the American Education Research Association (AERA) as vice president and head of its division of curriculum studies.  Apparently, AERA members have no qualms about selecting Ayers, a man who to this day remains dedicated to destroying America, to lead one of their organization's most important divisions.  Perhaps they think Ayers is merely a "professor of English," as Democratic presidential contender and Ayers friend Sen. Barack Obama would have us believe.  Or maybe AERA members don't know Ayers simply transferred his revolutionary fervor from the streets to the classroom where he indoctrinates our nation's teachers.

Cold War on Campus:  The latest survey on academic bias has sent academics into their usual state of denial despite evidence of same that frequently stares them right in the face.  "Taken together, 40 percent of the Americans in the survey said professors often use their classrooms as political platforms," Robin Wilson of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on April 4th of a Gallup poll.

The War on Common Sense:  With Darwin as king of the classroom and conscience but a mute passerby, the Left hurls endless invectives at the United States, denouncing both its greatness and that of its Founders, and almost nobody says a word.  Some want to say something but they are too embarrassed, while others do not even know they are allowed to speak.

Second Annual 'America's Most Dangerous College Courses'.  It's been two years since I've begun investigating insipid, scary and yes, downright dangerous college courses — sometimes funded by tax dollars — and unfortunately, little has changed.  Arrogant professors, protected by tenure and faint-hearted administrators, use their classrooms to spread their twisted views of America and its allies.

Portland's Anti-War Professor.  Hello world, meet Portland State University (PSU) professor Amanda Byron.  She doesn't like violence in any form and believes war is wrong.  In fact, she hates it so much that she dedicates her life to the study of "conflict resolution." … Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?  Well, if it doesn't, your common sense must be in full gear, as the peaches and cream notion of "conflict resolution" has no practical, real-world application on issues that actually matter.

Antiwar speakers on campus are lecturers, not students, this time.  Dan Lowenstein passionately opposes the war in Iraq and recently helped stage an antiwar teach-in at UC San Francisco.  "We must listen to our conscience and speak out," he told the hundreds of people who had gathered.  Lowenstein is no student organizer; he's a noted professor and vice chairman of the department of neurology at UCSF.

Abusive liberal professors.  Some universities have long been considered bastions of liberalism, but associate professor Paul Grosswiler at the University of Maine, Orono, may have taken that reputation to new heights.  We learned a few weeks ago that, according to sophomore Rebekah McDade, Mr. Grosswiler offered extra credit to students in his history of mass communications class if they burned the American Flag or the Constitution, or if they got themselves arrested while defending free speech.

Pacifists versus peace:  One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality.  They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts.  "Peace" movements are among those who take advantage of this widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities.  Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called "peace" movements — that is, whether such movements actually produce peace or war.

College Credit for Protesting?  Program proponents claim it will enhance the students' academic experience.  Program opponents, however, recognize the program for what it is — an attempt by liberals to control both the thoughts of students through the political bias of so many professors and the actions of students through rewarding them with credit for participation in specific community activities.

Columbia Hosts a Thug.  Having been summarily denied his wish for an officially sanctioned visit to Ground Zero, Iranian despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is headed for Columbia University — where he's set to be welcomed with open arms.  That Columbia would want to offer a platform to such a bloody handed villain — one who, to this day, presides over a country that's directly abetting the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq — says much about the state of Ivy League education.

Columbia University dean:  We'd invite Adolf Hitler to speak.  A Columbia University dean said yesterday [9/22/2007] the Ivy League school would gladly welcome mass murderer Adolf Hitler to speak on campus.  "If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him," John Coatsworth, dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, told Fox News yesterday.  Coatsworth spoke two days before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to give a lecture on campus.

Anti-America Americans:  It is easy to hate the American people and government.  All that's needed is to take seriously the opinions about their criminal conduct written by some U.S. university professors.  They are the best source of anti-Americanism known.

An Ill-Bred Professor, And A Bad Situation.  The first thing I noticed was that the Chairman's office door was adorned with a large Anti-Iraq War poster.  I have made a personal campaign against such political statements on professorial offices.  Students go to theste offices for counseling.  Such partisan statements create a wall between the professor and the student who it is his or her professional responsibility to help.

Public school teachers gone wild:  Last month, the unhinged government school teacher of the month award went to Jay Bennish — a left-wing, anti-war screecher/teacher who used his high school world geography class in the Denver area as a Bush-bashing bully pulpit.  This month, the leading nominee is one Steve White.

Anti-antis up the ante.  Today, there are terrorists, anti-terrorists and anti-anti-terrorists.  It would be unfair to call the anti-antis pro-terrorist.  But it is those fighting terrorists — those waging war against Militant Islamist ideologies — that anti-antis criticize most harshly.  Anti-antis are clearly dominant on America's campuses.

Spoiled brat politics:  Part II.  The idea that what I want overrides what you want has increasingly become part of our thinking, our policies and even our laws.  There is literally a federal case before the Supreme Court over the fact many colleges and universities refuse to allow military recruiters on campus.  Why?  Because, as the academics will tell you, they oppose the military, either in general or because they think the military discriminate against homosexuals or whatever other reasons they have.

The hypocrisy of Harvard and others.  The hypocrisy of the nation's most powerful colleges and universities was shown this week in the U.S. Supreme Court.  The colleges want to shield their law students from military recruiters while still receiving federal money, including Pentagon research grants.  Harvard alone has more than $400 million in defense contracts.

America the greedy and cruel.  The school movie.  What a glorious thing it was to a student eager to avoid real work.  The lights were dimmed, and nothing was expected from us except to gaze at a screen.  (Later, we understood that lazy teachers liked movies for the same reason.)  But at least the films we saw conveyed good information, unlike so much of the leftist drivel that is marketed to our kids today.

The cult of non-achievement.  Rather than accept any professional responsibility for the worsening conditions in many inner-city schools and the failure of low-income minority students to thrive, many researchers and educators have displaced their frustration and anger onto anything associated with the American mainstream:  its political and economic institutions, its values, its literature, its very language.

Arab Student Pushed to see Therapist by Professor After Submitting Pro-American Essay.  Foothill College Political-Science Professor Joseph Woolcock tried to intimidate student Ahmad Al-Qloushi into seeing a therapist because of a Pro-American essay he wrote in Woolcock's class.  The thesis of Al-Qloushi's essay is that the US constitution was a very progressive document, which has contributed to freedom beyond America's borders.

Denver Schools Clarify Policy After Outcry Over Mexican Flag.  Criticism over a Mexican flag hung in a classroom has led school officials to create a policy that says the display of foreign banners must be temporary and related to what is being taught in class.

Father irked by son's anti-Bush lesson.  A Fitzgerald High School parent said he plans to complain to the school board about what he says was one-sided political material introduced in class by his son's American studies teacher.  Marc Trail said the teacher, Gregory Queen, distributed to his students copies of a Web site page that contained political satire aimed against President George W. Bush.

Ousted American Professor Declares Support for Hezbollah in Lebanon.  An ousted American political science professor who believes some Jews have exploited the legacy of the Holocaust recently expressed his support for the terrorist organization Hezbollah.  Norman Finkelstein, who resigned from DePaul University last fall amid criticism of his opinions on the Holocaust, told Lebanese television that his view of Hezbollah is "rarely heard" in the United States.

ACLJ Letter to the National Education Association:  The purpose of this letter is to formally object to your recommendations to parents and teachers regarding the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of one year ago included on your "Remember September 11th" website.  In particular, we take issue with your advice for parents and teachers:  "Do not suggest any group is responsible."  The problem with this advice is that there is a group responsible, and we know who that group is - an organization of radical Islamic terrorists called al-Qaeda. By advising teachers not to suggest that any group is responsible, you both shortchange our children's education and risk undermining our nation's effort to eradicate terrorists and prevent further terrorist attacks.

Citrus College Suspends Instructor Accused of Giving Credit for Antiwar Letters.  Citrus College has put a part-time instructor on administrative leave after students said she had offered them extra credit for writing and sending letters to President Bush that opposed going to war with Iraq. Officials of the community college, near Los Angeles, said a dean had met with students in the class, who said they "were clear in their understanding that they would only receive credit if they wrote 'protest' letters."

Artificial stupidity:  A recent news story about a teacher who assigned her students to write anti-war letters may have seemed like just an isolated episode, but teachers using students for their own little ego trips is by no means uncommon.  Perhaps the worst recent example was a teacher who unleashed her venom on the children of military personnel who had gone off to fight in Iraq.

Terrorist Professors in the United States:  That three accused terrorists passed without suspicion as genuine Middle East studies scholars points to the crisis in this academic discipline.  This academic field is already criticized for providing refuge to what might be called intellectual terrorists – scholars known for their dishonesty.  Now we learn it apparently has been harboring the real thing.

Anti-War Group Urging Youth to Be "Militant" Like Malcolm X.  The anti-war effort has the blessing of some public schools.  "Our whole board of education wholeheartedly supports the anti-war effort," said Eric Mar, vice president of the San Francisco Board of Education.

American Academics Who Hate America:  Visit an American university and you'll often enter a topsy-turvy world in which professors consider the United States (not Iraq) the problem and oil (not nukes) the issue.

Phony Victims of Freedom in Academia:  One of the most shameless frauds in academia today is the claim that a new "McCarthyism" is threatening academic freedom.  According to this new cry of victimhood, conservative groups are "drawing up enemy lists" of professors who are opposed to the current war against terrorism.

2001 "Campus Follies" Highlights Liberal Bias in Higher Education:  The nation's largest conservative outreach organization to America's college youth says there is a "complete disconnect between the American people ... and what the university infrastructure, particularly professors and administrators believed following the September 11th attacks."

P.C. College Condemns War on Terror:  A liberal - and we do mean liberal - arts college in Massachusetts has won the dubious distinction of being the first to officially condemn America's war against terrorism.

In Loco Parentis.  Social justice is just more aged hippie jargon; it has no real meaning other than to disrupt the current social order. ... David Horowitz defines social justice as shorthand for opposition to the American traditions of individual justice and free markets.  So pervasive is the Ayers social justice model that teachers will weave radical ideology into even core subjects, for example, using an Iraq body count to teach math.

Academic Cheerleaders for Terrorists.  At root, professors who pay court to terrorists are indulging in a radical, degenerate, and socially debilitating form of moral discourse.  They are purveyors of postmodernism, a view according to which the "grand narratives" of former times — narratives which privilege truth over falsehood, goodness over evil, freedom over tyranny, and normality over deviance — are deconstructed in favor of a conception according to which radical departures from traditional norms of civilization are valued for their own sake.

Van Jones Goes Back To School.  The former green jobs czar in the Obama administration and self-avowed communist has landed a job at an Ivy League school, where he'll be teaching your children why America is racist, capitalism is bad, and redistribution of wealth is good.

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