YOUR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AT WORK

There is a history teacher in a government school in Nevada who is risking his job by teaching his classes about the American Revolution.  Yup.  You heard me right.  It's happening in Carson City, Nevada, and in schools across the country.  Joe Enge teaches 11th graders history in the Carson City government schools.  His custom is to begin with the birth of our Nation and to finish with Watergate.  Now the people who run his school want his course syllabus to change.  He has now been instructed to begin his history lessons with post-Civil War reconstruction.  He is not to teach anything about Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, George Washington, Dolly Madison, Paul Revere, The Revolutionary War or the debate leading up to the ratification of our Constitution.  The school principal excuses this absurd requirement by saying that other schools are doing the same thing.  Well, he's right.  According the the Fox News Channel report I saw last night, many schools around the country have dropped any requirement for American history completely!  Others, like the school in Carson City, are just focusing on our 20th Century history, completely ignoring what came before.

Could there be an ulterior motive here?  The post-Civil War history of this country is a history of growing federal government, the weakening of state governments, increased personal dependence on government, the end of the rule of law brought about by the emphasis on majority rule, and the deification of politicians.  Perhaps there is a reason government schools don't want to emphasize the self-reliance and love of freedom that dominated American culture before the Civil War.  No sense upsetting the government-owned apple cart, right?

Always remember the central lesson your children will be taught at all state educational institutions.  Government is good.  Government is great.  All rise up in praise of government.

THE HOSTAGES IN IRAQ

Islamic terrorists in Iraq have taken four Christian "peace" activists hostage and paraded them on the Jihad Channel (also known as Al-Jazeera.)  The kidnappers are accusing the activists of being...what else, you guessed it, spies.  Of course, anyone who is not a Muslim is a non-believer and should be either converted, subjugated or killed.  Looks like they're working on the subjugation part right now. Among the hostages are one American, two Canadians and a Brit.  If history is any guide,  things don't look too good for these folks.

The correct message here is that when something like this happens it's time to take note of the enemy we are fighting.  They will abduct people who are there to help civilians, parade them on TV and even behead them...all without any shame.  This is the face of Islamic terrorism, our enemy in the War On Terror.  These bloodthirsty animals have absolutely no problem justifying every bit of it in the name of Allah.

Look for a different spin from the mainstream media.   In the pages of the New York Times you are likely to learn that all of this is George Bush's fault.  Never mind that, as the agency these people worked for pointed out, they knew the risks of going to Iraq to work.  Never mind that it is the Islamic terrorists that kidnapped these innocent people.  No matter...if Saddam were still in power, this wouldn't be happening.  Besides, is Saddam were still in power these so-called "peace activists" would be pleased with the situation in Iraq.  Saddam good.  Bush bad. 

And notice how the media won't call the scumbags who did this "Islamic terrorists."  Muslims would never do such a thing, you know.

Oh .. .one more thing.  When you hear someone from the left talking about "peace," be sure to get some kind of definition of that word from them.  Remember, when the Soviet Union was at its strongest Communists would define "peace" as an absence of opposition to Communism.  Could these people be defining "peace" as an absence of opposition to the Islamic jihad?

THE BOOMING ECONOMY

One of the great mysteries of the Bush administration's second term (and there are many) is that the economy is booming....and neither the White House nor the media wants to talk about it.  Let's take a look at some of the good news, shall we:

1.) Gas prices are dropping like a rock.  From a high a few months ago to way over $3, it's now down to a national average of around $2.  The marketplace is working, though nobody seems to want to report that fact. 

2.) Sales of new homes set a record last month.  So much for the housing bubble bursting...doesn't seem to be happening.

3.) The stock market is up.  We could break through the 11,000 point by the end of the week.

4.) Consumer confidence is up.

With numbers like these, Bush's approval numbers should be through the roof.  But unfortunately, because there is a Republican occupying the Oval Office, the media is springing into action...spinning all the good news as bad.  After all there are still Katrina parasites being kicked out of their free hotel rooms.

The media thrives on bad news....so they have to find it even when there really isn't any.  President Bush should be giving speeches about the economy, not his phony immigration policy or yet another Iraq speech.

HILLARY'S LATEST EXPLOITS

*I know.  That wasn't nice.

AND SPEAKING OF 2008

My prediction.  In the early part of 2008 the hottest topic on talk radio will not be the presidential election.  The hot topic will be attempts by liberals to silence talk radio in order to clear the way for Hillary's march to the oval office.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Duct tape...is there anything it can't do? More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

Cindy Sheehan is upset at the wire services for running pictures of her sitting at her book signing in front of an empty desk with her head propped up.  Apparently there really were a couple people there.  Not even close to a FairTax book signing though.

Michelle Malkin notes that liberals are complaining about the angry right these days...but it is they themselves that are in need of anger management training.

The Federal Censorship Commission has decreed that the violence on cable TV and satellite must be cleaned up.  It used to be that the FCC only regulated the content on the broadcast networks, but government intrusion knows no bounds.

The TSA is going to start allowing scissors and sharp objects to be brought on airplanes....because they no longer pose a threat to airline security.  They say explosives do...but they say nothing about profiling those who would be bringing the explosives.

The nation's preeminent race pimp is making the rounds on Wall Street...and it's time to collect.  The Sloganmaster says the street has a long way to go in establishing parity for minorities.  Of course, the answer to the problem would be to throw a little money Jesse's way.

We always hear about dead-end jobs like flipping burgers and so on.  Dr. Walter E. Williams says it is wrong to put down those jobs because it is a destructive insult to honest work.

Looks like Ramsey Yousef Clark is feeling the heat at Saddam Hussein's trial.  It seems the life expectancy as an attorney for Saddam is not too good, and Clark wants more security.

The Cunningham bribe case is just the tip of the iceberg...Jack Kelly says investigators are looking at half a dozen other members of Congress, including Democrats, in the Abramoff scandal.

Anti-freedom busybodies are still running for office...and John Stossel tells us they want to come into your home and business and tell you what to do.  Excellent as always.

Thomas Sowell has some random thoughts to share....here's a good one:  the only reason Jimmy Carter is taken seriously is because millions of people are too young to remember what a disaster his administration was.

Is there a move at the United Nations to destroy the materials gathered in investigating the Oil For Food scandal?  No, couldn't be!  The UN is perfect!  Why, we should turn over control of the Internet to the UN, shouldn't we? And we should give the UN criminal courts jurisdiction over American citizens! 

When's the last time you read James Taranto's Best of the Web Today?  This should be a daily read for every one of you.

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