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SARTRE: The American “TC” Saga – Part 6 – SCHOOL

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C. S. Lewis

batr_thumbFor well over a century, the systemic dismantling of traditional education is an essential objective of transforming America into a despotic dependency.

Education is a process, not an indoctrination. Schools should be about tutoring in the methods of critical thinking. Sound techniques and competent teachers can assist learning development. However, it has been decades since public schools provided a positive function. Dysfunctional Public Education Is No Accident sums up the issue:

Ewart: We Are The Sum of What We Build!

“The sand slithers on the ground like a snake and drifts hither and fro on the incessant wind.  It shifts and moves like thick molasses and fills the cracks and crevices in its path, always descending until it can descend no more.   Should the unwise build their home on a hill of sand, their home will be in the valley by the coming dawn, or buried for eons in a tomb, encased in the unrelenting grip of the ever shifting sand.” Ron Ewart

ewart_blogLives, buildings and nations must be built on a solid foundation, or they are like a leaf on the ocean, subject to the mercy of the winds, the waves and the tides.  Lives come apart, buildings collapse and nations disintegrate should their foundation not be anchored to solid ground.

For human lives to work in relative harmony, they must have a foundation rooted in morality and at least one guiding principle that is described by: “….. do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”  A more colloquial definition would be: “….. your nose ends where my nose begins.” Some describe the relationship between persons in a more biblical sense and subscribe to the religious connotation of good and evil. 

SARTRE: The American “TC” Saga – Part 5 – ECONOMY

“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government” – Milton Friedman

batr_thumbEconomic commerce is the lifeblood of any society. In the simplest of terms, products and services are necessary for physical survival. The business history of the America saga developed under the direction of Alexander Hamilton. His view of commerce for America was to emulate the mercantile model of the British Empire.

The following summary explains the essential viewpoint and legacy of his economic influence:

Stuter: Beyond Coincidence

smarmy_obamaLet us examine what we already know about the eligibility of Also Known As (AKA) Obama.   We know that he claims to have been the child of Ann Dunham Obama and Barack Hussein Obama (Sr), a British subject at the time of AKA’s birth.  We only know what he claims as we have seen no proof.

We know that while AKA claims his birthplace as Hawaii, we don’t know that is really true because, while AKA admits that his birth certificate exists — that is, the one issued at or near the time of his birth — all that anyone has seen are pictures of a Certification of Live Birth (COLB) supposedly issued in 2007, printed on a form established in 2001 and printed with a laser printer.  We only know what he claims as no one, of authority, has actually seen, handled, or inspected what AKA contends is his COLB. 

Dowd: Devil of a Scandal

dowd_maureen_thumbThe Devil didn’t make me do it.

The facts did.

Father Gabriele Amorth, the chief exorcist for the Holy See, said in Rome that The Times’s coverage of Pope Benedict, which cast doubt on his rigor in dealing with pedophile priests, was “prompted by the Devil.”

“There is no doubt about it,” the 85-year-old priest said, according to the Catholic News Agency. “Because he is a marvelous pope and worthy successor to John Paul II, it is clear that the Devil wants to grab hold of him.”

Shifren: March to Socialism Bothering You? Ask Any Teacher!

village_thumb_new_1Dorsey High School is touted by many, with a certain amount of pride, as one of the larger African American campuses in the unwieldy Los Angeles Unified School District. “Dorsey Pride” is the mantra yelled out at all the football games, and the Dorsey “Dons” are regularly visited by college football scouts for the depth of its football program.

For those of us teachers that remained outside of this sportsman’s Valhalla (99% of us), our lot was one of damage control and toeing the line when it came to grading, testing, and dealing with irate coaches whose superheroes dipped below that fatal 2.0 grade point average.

Resurrection Day!

psanky_thumbToday I am honoring my Christian Faith by celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, while Congress adjourned to celebrate the resurrection of Marxism in the United States.

Congress sits in breach of it’s oath as it violates all of our founders precepts, including the sanctity of human life. Now that their brazen, power hungry appetite for greed has been exposed, they will soon find out that there will be no place for them to hide.

Are Those Shackles Comfortable?

ross_jeff_thumbA little over a year after being sworn into office, Barack Obama signed into law a health care reform bill which forges one more shackle which places us, the American people, one step further into bondage to them, the government.

While the democratic leadership giddily celebrated their victory, I was left asking myself what is next on their agenda? Is it another attempt at amnesty for over 20 million illegal aliens, or is it the passage of the Cap and Trade Act which would make it next to impossible for you to sell your home unless you retrofitted it to meet stringent energy conservation rules? Whatever it is that they set their sights on, it won’t be good for us, the people.

Baroud: The Lobby vs. America

israel_thumb_new_1As I listened to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address an animated crowed of supporters on March 22, I felt physically sick. The man has already displayed time and again a complete lack of moral sense or ethical framework in his words and actions. In his recent arguments, he once again twisted history, manipulated facts and fabricated his own selective, self-interested and highly questionable narrative. Netanyahu, a colonialist from a faraway land, also had the audacity to convince himself and a few others that he had legal, moral and historic rights over my land. While I am the son of a Palestinian family rooted in Palestine since time immemorial, Netanyahu is the son of an immigrant from Lithuania. While he giddily robs more Palestinian land in Jerusalem, I live in exile.