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Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Obama to Support Another Islamist Cause
U.S.: Syria used chemical weapons
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57589252/u.s.-syria-used-chemical-weapons-crossing-red-line/
Ian Hunter, 13 June 2013, Holmfirth Picturedrome, Holmfirth, United Kingdom
Saturday Gigs/Life
All The Young Dudes/Goodnight Irene
Abdurahman Alamoudi, convicted and imprisoned for supporting terrorism, founds Boston/Cambridge mosque, FBI Mueller ignores
FBI states that they did not know the mosque was founded by a jailed terrorist. Mosques are not scrutinized but are appeased according to FBI procedures.
Obama's Snooping Excludes Islamists, Mosques, Boston Bombers
Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Valedictorian Rips Up Planned, Approved Speech, Prays
http://nihblueribbonpanel-bumc-neidl.od.nih.gov/Readers%20Guide.pdf
The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You, Michael Malone
Michael S. Malone describes how Obama is killing entrepreneurship in the U.S.
Gaza kids play 'kidnap Israeli soldier' in summer camp
Islamic Jihad invites thousands of children to pick up AK-47, fight summer ennui in activities ranging from shooting practice, fire jumping, and IDF outpost attack
NSA Constitution Allah Ackbar Tea Party bomb abortion patriot gun IRS Islam dog whistle Obama prayer tax surveillance
To: doesn’t_matter@you’ll_read_this_regardless_of_the_address.com
From: zombie@z0mbietime.com
Dear NSA,
Dear NSA,
Constitution Allah Ackbar Tea Party bomb abortion patriot gun IRS Islam dog whistle Obama prayer tax surveillance.
There. Now that I’ve gotten your attention, can we have a chat?
If you have any pull with the American Psychiatric Association, could you please recommend to them that the psychological state formerly known as “paranoia” should be no longer defined as a mental illness? Asylums all across the country are filled with people whose only neurosis is the vague feeling that they are being spied on or followed by unseen powerful enemies. But now we know that everyone is being spied on every time they pick up the phone, buy something, use the Internet, or walk around in public — so it turns out that these “paranoid” patients aren’t delusional after all. It seems rather unfair to lock us them up and classify us them as crazy if our vague feelings of being stalked by the government turned out to be true.
To make sure you get this message, may I also say 9/11 Eric Holder birth certificate Bill Ayers drone Orwell Anonymous leak.
And in conclusion, just in case your algorithm has gotten overloaded, I’d like to not mention my private, personal opinions about the Second Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Ninth Amendment (and you really don’t want to know what I think about the Sixteenth Amendment). For more information, please read the Fifth Amendment.
Thank you.
— zombie
PS — Tell the IRS that the best times for for my upcoming audit are Tuesdays and Thursdays, but unannounced visits from the EPA, FBI, OSHA or ATF would be more convenient on Monday afternoons or Wednesday mornings. And, needless to say, you can eavesdrop any ol’ time.
http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2013/06/12/dear-nsa/
OBAMA WAR CRIMINAL: MUSLIM LAWYERS SUBMIT 600-PAGE COMPLAINT
MUSLIM LAWYERS IN SOUTH AFRICA SUBMIT 600-PAGE COMPLAINT CALLING FOR WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION
Obama's Hacking Efforts Can't Crack Communist Military Systems
The NSA had been hacking computers in Hong Kong and on the mainland since 2009. None of the documents revealed any information about Chinese military systems.
'Homeland Security' Seeks Equipment For 'Riot Control Situations'...
As GSN reports, the items the DHS is looking to acquire include the following;
- 111 Centurion CPX2500 Soft Shell Riot Control System upper body and shoulder protection, which must “effectively protect the torso and shoulders from blunt force trauma.”- 123 Centurion TPX200 thigh/groin protection systems “designed for blunt trauma protection during riot control situations,” said the solicitation. The gear “protects the thigh area and has an adjustable and removable groin protector.”- 110 Hatch TS70 Centurion hard shell shin guards, which must provide “substantial protection from flying debris. Non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg.”- 189 MaxPro-Police riot helmets, which have a “high impact molded half shell helmet with integral visor and neck protector.”
The solicitation also includes a request for 116 pairs of tactical gloves and 128 forearm protectors. The contract includes four additional one year option periods. The equipment will be delivered to a Federal Protective Service facility in Alexandria, VA, within 45 days of the award.
HOT MIC CATCHES EGYPTIAN POLITICIAN DISCUSSING ‘WAR’ WITH ‘ENEMIES’ ISRAEL AND AMERICA
Egyptian Blooper: Politicians, Unaware They Are on Air
IRS Agents Trained on Military Assault Weapons
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) tweeted that he observed IRS agents training with AR-15s when he toured the Department of Homeland Security.
Common Core on PCN
The Corbett Administration has delayed submitting Common Core academic standards, which were initially scheduled to be implemented on July 1st. This comes at a time when critics fear the standards would impede upon local control, while proponents say the standards give value to a high school diploma and help to ensure that students are prepared to join the workforce. We’ll be joined by Peg Luksik, of Pennsylvanians Against Common Core, and David Patti, President and CEO of the PA Business Council.
David Patti of the PA Business Council (PBC) accepted $262,391 from the Gates Foundation to promote Common Core.
The discussion was aired live.
Dr. Luksik wrote a commentary on the politics behind Governor Corbett’s announced delay of implementation: “Playing Politics” - In May, the Corbett administration announced that they would delay submitting the Chapter 4 regulations implementing the latest version of Common Core…Many of those opposed to Common Core hailed that announcement as a victory. It was not. It was a political maneuver.
http://pcntv.com/blog/2013/06/10/june-10-common-core-academic-standards/
Obama's snooping -- this is America?
Nat Hentoff says his late immigrant parents would be shocked by today's headlines
Bush More Popular than Obama
In a Gallup tracking poll released Tuesday, former-President George W. Bush currently stands with a favorability rating of 49%, compared to 46% who see the 43rd president unfavorably.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
AQ Obtains surface-to-air missile capable of taking down a commercial airplane
There are thousands of pages of internal al-Qaida documents recovered by The Associated Press earlier this year in Timbuktu, Mali.
The document from al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in Arabic and English can be reviewed.
Ways to Thwart Being Spied On
Hide your IP address: a high level of security hides your computer’s IP address entirely. There are several services that do this including Hot Spot Shield, which is VPN (virtual private network) software, and the search engine StartPage.
TrustChip is placed into the micro SD slot of mobile devices and is “all-in-one key management, authentication and encryption,” according to the company’s website.
Silent Circle, and not Skype, has been independently verified to have end-to-end encryption of information without any back doors for wiretapping.
Cell phones are more difficult to protect but looking where the signal bar is and the letter/number designation showing connectivity, usually shows a few bars and 3G or 4G LTE. If it shows 2G or GPRS, that’s an initial sign you might be hacked.
OTR (for “off the record”) offers “end-to-end” encryption. The server only sees the encrypted version of your conversations, thwarting eavesdropping. To use OTR, both you and the person you’re chatting with need to use instant messaging software that supports it. For Apple users, a Mac OS X client called Adium, works with Google, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo’s chat networks, among others. Windows and Linux users can use Pidgin.
Alabama Gets Americans Accustomed to Roadblocks, Taking DNA Samples
Off-duty cops collect DNA samples at Alabama roadblocks
'Operation Troll The NSA'
The web site plan is to 'test' the system by sending a message full of terrorist buzz words to the agency Wednesday at 7 pm EST.
But words designed to catch the scanner's interest litter the script, including famous American landmarks such as 'Manhattan,' 'Golden Gate Bridge', 'Brooklyn Bridge',' Verrazano Narrows Bridge' and 'Financial District.'
It also included words associated with terrorists such as 'death to millions of Americans,' 'strike at any second' and 'oppressive regime.'
Hey! How’s it going? I’m all right.
My job is so shitty I wish I could overthrow my boss. It’s like this oppressive regimewhere only true believers in his management techniques will stay around. I workmarathon-length hours and he’s made all these changes that have made it the worst architecture firm to work at in Manhattan. Like he moved the office to the Financial District and fired my assistant. She was the only one who knew where theblueprints were! I need access to those blueprints to complete my job! F my life, right? And he keeps trying to start all these new initiatives to boost revenue, but seriously we just need to stick to what we do best. There’s only one true profitcenter. I seriously feel ready to go on strike at any second.
I just read this article about how these free radical particles can cause the downfallof good health and accelerate aging. These could actually cause death to millions of Americans. If these particles are flying around undetected everywhere, does that mean we’re all radicalized?
Have you seen the second season of Breaking Bad? I just finished it. I couldn’t believe that episode where they poison the guy with ricin! That was the bomb! I won’t say any more because I don’t want to reveal the earth-shattering events to come.
Oh! So I’ve been planning a big trip for the summer. I’m thinking of visiting all of the most famous suspension bridges in the United States. So probably like the Golden Gate Bridge, The Brooklyn Bridge, and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. I’m gonna bring my younger brother and I know he’ll want to go to bars, so I’m thinking of getting him a fake drivers license, but I hope that doesn’t blow up in my face.
Okay, I gotta run! I’m late for flight school. I missed the last class where we learn how to land, so I really can’t miss another one. Talk to you later!
Monday, June 10, 2013
The Purge, Attack on NRA, TEA Party
The director of the movie, James DeMonaco, makes an attack on the NRA, an organization filled with millions of law-abiding gun owners.
People who don’t break the law are somehow evil for exercising the Constitutional rights.
To be sure, DeMonaco did admit that the leadership of the scary 2022 United States was based on the NRA. Here’s what he said:
“I layered in these New Founding Fathers, this regime that we voted into power at some point, some kind of NRA-thing that took over the country…But I kind of left that to the audience. I think sometimes in my writing I try to spoon feed too much, it’s better to let the audience make their own decisions on things.”
The lead actor states that the problems of the world are largely caused by our affluence. I guess that being successful is a bad thing. Now there's a message for young people.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/07/is-this-new-horror-flick-an-obvious-attack-on-tea-party-nra/
IRS TREATMENT OF PRO-LIFE GROUP: ‘YOU CAN’T FORCE YOUR RELIGION ON SOMEBODY ELSE’
Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life legal group, released audio on Monday of a conversation between Ania Joseph, president of Pro-Life Revolution, and Sherry Wan, an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent.
Poem to be Recorded by the National Security Agency
The poem was written by a MARINE CORPS Officer (ANON).
The Battling Boys of Benghazi
We're the Battling Boys of Benghazi,
no fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell
defending the country we loved so well.
It wasn't our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the consulate and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate,
led them to safety and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
but we stood fast to bar the door.
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,
so we fought and we fought and we fought till we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam
but Barack Obama didn't give a damn
just two dead SEALs who carried the load
no thanks to us - we were just "bumps in the road."
Taxpayers Pay for Muslim Worship Space at San Fran Airport
Muslim cab drivers pray inside San Francisco International Airport garage. Airport has furnished them with a cleansing station to wash their hands and feet. Chronicle photo by Andrew Ross
Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan washes at cleansing station furnished by the airport.
Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship
Tiananmen Square online searches censored by Chinese authorities
Banned search terms include 'today', 'tomorrow' and date references in attempt to quell protest
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Friday, June 7, 2013
Justice Department Fights Constitution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Release the Bin Laden Documents
Only 17 carefully selected documents have been publicly released thus Congressional leaders have called for a more complete release. The documents present a far more complicated picture of al Qaeda than the one advanced by Obama. In the months after bin Laden’s death and throughout the 2012 presidential campaign.
According to Congressional sources: among the revelations: bin Laden kept careful tabs on his affiliates and helped plan attacks from the compound in Abbottabad; the strong ties between al Qaeda central (AQC) and Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) were perhaps deeper than many analysts had imagined; senior Iranian officials cultivated the on-again, off-again relationship between AQC and the Iranian regime; al Qaeda central and the Taliban in Afghanistan were far closer than the administration, interested in jump-starting negotiations with the Taliban, let on.
According to Congressional sources: among the revelations: bin Laden kept careful tabs on his affiliates and helped plan attacks from the compound in Abbottabad; the strong ties between al Qaeda central (AQC) and Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-service Intelligence (ISI) were perhaps deeper than many analysts had imagined; senior Iranian officials cultivated the on-again, off-again relationship between AQC and the Iranian regime; al Qaeda central and the Taliban in Afghanistan were far closer than the administration, interested in jump-starting negotiations with the Taliban, let on.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Manning Case: First Amendment Free Speech on Trial
Bradley Manning's case may be an ominous precedent that will restrict freedom of speech and transform the internet into a impaired zone and unlike the unfettered space it is today.
Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 was subjected to an aborted trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the New York Times, said that the Manning prosecution was far tougher than anything that he had endured.
"This is part of Obama's overall policy of criminalising investigative reporting on national security," he said. "If the government has its way, it will become very hard in future to expose official corruption or disclose information in the public interest other than leaks made by the administration itself."
The access to the war logs is the critical component of the government's case in which allegedly Bin Laden himself instructed his followers to download.
Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 was subjected to an aborted trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the New York Times, said that the Manning prosecution was far tougher than anything that he had endured.
"This is part of Obama's overall policy of criminalising investigative reporting on national security," he said. "If the government has its way, it will become very hard in future to expose official corruption or disclose information in the public interest other than leaks made by the administration itself."
The access to the war logs is the critical component of the government's case in which allegedly Bin Laden himself instructed his followers to download.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Feds to Enforce Sharia Law
A local Tennessee politician posted a photo of a man aiming a shotgun at the camera with the caption "How to wink at a Muslim." As a result, the Feds suggest that anti-Muslim speech can be punished. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, was quoted by the Tullahoma News suggesting that some inflammatory material on Islam might run afoul of federal civil rights laws.
The government may, indeed, play a useful and entirely constitutional role in urging people not to engage in speech that amounts to religious discrimination. But it may not, under the First Amendment, prevent or punish speech even if it may be viewed as hostile to a religion. Judicial Watch for example noted that restricting free speech is unconstitutional.
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Muslim and leftist students bully campus Republicans after “Obsession” screening
Portland State University College Republicans show the film “Obsession”, which focuses radical Islam’s fascination with western civilization.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
NATIONAL STRATEGY SESSION TO STOP COMMON CORE
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/30/national-strategy-session-presents-everything-you-need-to-know-about-stopping-common-core/
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
U.S. the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas: Frack, Baby, Frack
U.S. Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Reporting, and Summary
"The sum of all fossil-fuel resources plus technically recoverable but undiscovered oil and natural gas in the United States and Canada nearly equals the sum of such resources found in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, and Qatar put together" (quoted on p. 187, Vali Nasr, The Dispensable Nation).
Condell on London Jihad Butchery: “We Want A Clear Categorical Rejection of the Islamic Doctrine of Armed Jihad”
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
If the last two decades of Islamic immigration have taught us anything in the West, it's that tolerance is like salt; it's necessary and beneficial, but too much of it will kill you. We're forced to learn this lesson, it seems, after every violent Islamic atrocity, and we learned it again last week when a serving British soldier was murdered in the street by two Islamic barbarians, one of whom claimed that they were forced to do this terrible thing by the Koran, which is then quoted as justification. I couldn't help noticing that this very important and relevant piece of information was carefully left out of all the news reports, as if it really didn't matter. Instead we were fed the usual blizzard of the usual platitudes from the usual suspects like the Muslim Council of Britain, but crucially we heard no rejection by any Muslim of the Islamic scripturally-mandated doctrine of violent armed jihad, which is the actual problem here. Islam endorses armed jihad. It is a religion of violence and terror. Allah says so, and everybody knows how "akbar" he is because we hear about it whenever some innocent person is murdered in the name of his religion. We should not be expected to ignore the violence and hatred in Islamic teachings simply to avoid offending moderate Muslims.
If the last two decades of Islamic immigration have taught us anything in the West, it's that tolerance is like salt; it's necessary and beneficial, but too much of it will kill you. We're forced to learn this lesson, it seems, after every violent Islamic atrocity, and we learned it again last week when a serving British soldier was murdered in the street by two Islamic barbarians, one of whom claimed that they were forced to do this terrible thing by the Koran, which is then quoted as justification. I couldn't help noticing that this very important and relevant piece of information was carefully left out of all the news reports, as if it really didn't matter. Instead we were fed the usual blizzard of the usual platitudes from the usual suspects like the Muslim Council of Britain, but crucially we heard no rejection by any Muslim of the Islamic scripturally-mandated doctrine of violent armed jihad, which is the actual problem here. Islam endorses armed jihad. It is a religion of violence and terror. Allah says so, and everybody knows how "akbar" he is because we hear about it whenever some innocent person is murdered in the name of his religion. We should not be expected to ignore the violence and hatred in Islamic teachings simply to avoid offending moderate Muslims.
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
If they were really that moderate, they would face up to what their religion teaches and disown it. Instead, they prefer to dissemble and equivocate, and say it's got nothing to do with Islam. But we can all read, and we know that's a lie, and that last week's murder was all about Islam from start to finish and from top to bottom. It was written right through it like a stick of seaside rock. I-S-L-A-M spells jihad. And by the way, please no more garbage about jihad being a journey. It's a journey, all right, into mental illness, and we're not going along for the ride. If the British police were as quick to arrest Islamic bigots as they are ordinary citizens who post offensive messages on Twitter, this disgusting murder would never have happened.
If they were really that moderate, they would face up to what their religion teaches and disown it. Instead, they prefer to dissemble and equivocate, and say it's got nothing to do with Islam. But we can all read, and we know that's a lie, and that last week's murder was all about Islam from start to finish and from top to bottom. It was written right through it like a stick of seaside rock. I-S-L-A-M spells jihad. And by the way, please no more garbage about jihad being a journey. It's a journey, all right, into mental illness, and we're not going along for the ride. If the British police were as quick to arrest Islamic bigots as they are ordinary citizens who post offensive messages on Twitter, this disgusting murder would never have happened.
One of these savages was known to police, and had already committed a prosecutable offence, but for reasons best known to themselves they chose to ignore him, until he committed this murder. Then we saw swift and decisive action as people were arrested for posting offensive (not libellous, offensive) messages on Twitter, and an 85 year-old woman was arrested and held in police custody for shouting outside a mosque. In a just and sane society, the officers who made those arrests would themselves be arrested and charged with wasting police time.
Meanwhile, media darling Andy Choudary is free to preach his message of hatred all day long while enjoying police protection as well as generous state benefits. He gets paid more for attacking and insulting our values than our soldiers get for defending them, and it's to our country's eternal shame that nobody is the least bit surprised. Of course it's not just soldiers now who need to watch their backs in Britain because these two savages also told us that nobody here is safe. We're all to blame, apparently, for their mental illness. We're all oppressors of Islam.
We're all invaders and crusaders and God knows what else, but perish the thought that all Muslims should be to blame for the violence endorsed by their religion and repeatedly carried out in its name. No, they're not even to blame for the hate-stirring bigots who preach in their mosques without a murmur of protest. That's got nothing to do with them. Instead, anyone who points out the violent nature of Islamic teachings is automatically accused of stirring up hatred, when, in fact, they're responding to hatred that has already been well and truly stirred up, incubated, nurtured and fed by Islamic bigots in mosques and universities, and by the government and police's mealy-mouthed multi-culti cowardice and dishonesty in dealing with them.
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
We can do something about universities, maybe, but only Muslims can affect what happens in mosques because nobody else goes in there. If a mosque is allowing people to preach hatred and violence on its premises, then everyone who attends that mosque and who doesn't protest about it is culpable.
I know very well that if I attended a meeting and somebody was advocating death to anyone from the platform I would have plenty to say about it, and I wouldn't care how sacred the space was. We keep hearing about an anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of this atrocity, as if Muslims are somehow the real victims. They're not. What we need is a Muslim backlash, and we need it now. You may be a moderate peaceful Muslim, but there's nothing moderate or peaceful about your religion, and you know it.
The bigots who preach in your mosques, who take sustenance from your religion are hiding behind you. And your silence is helping them to do it. If your mosque is letting anyone preach hatred and violence on its premises you have a duty to call the police, and the police have a duty to take off their politically correct tinted glasses, to go into that mosque (without removing their shoes) and arrest that person. Anything less than this and you're on the wrong side. And make no mistake, this is the moment to take sides and to show that you are taking sides.
[Pat Condell] Source: LYBIO.net
Loyalty to the ummah is no longer an option because these two murdering scumbags are part of the ummah, along with all the other murdering scumbags that your religion produces by the thousand. And it is your religion that produces these people. They have not perverted it. They are following to the letter the Islamic doctrine of violent armed jihad. All you people who claim to speak for all Muslims, you self-appointed "community leaders" with your bland empty platitudes and crocodile tears, you Muslim politicians and Muslim journalists in the liberal media who deal in evasion and excuses, this murder is on your shoulders unless you personally and publicly reject the Islamic doctrine of armed jihad. No equivocation. No ifs, buts or maybes. We don't want to hear that this has nothing to do with Islam because that's a brazen insult to our intelligence. We want a clear categorical public rejection of the Islamic doctrine of armed jihad. Anything less than this and we will know once and for all that you are complicit, and that you are, and always have been, on the wrong side.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
China Hacking and Stealing: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China
The 2013 “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” provides detailed allegations about a problem of rising concern to the U.S. government and American businesses.
- The Washington Post obtained a classified list of U.S. weapons systems that have been compromised by Chinese hackers.
- Compromised systems included some ballistic missile defense systems and combat ships and aircraft, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
- The list was part of a report by the Defense Science Board to the Pentagon to improve cybersecurity.
- Independent security experts called the systems included in the list of those compromised “staggering.”
TEA PARTY DESERVES IT!
Conservative pundit Caleb Bonham traveled to Colorado University in Boulder and asked several people to sign a “thank you” card to thank the IRS for unfairly targeting conservative groups. The giant poster board read: “Thank You IRS! Tea Party Deserves It!”
Common Core Evaluated by Christina Michas
Christina Michas, an activist, alludes to a new Web site concerned for America’s children and future, natcure.org.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Islamists Threaten to Blow Up Plane
On May 24th, two British nationals of Pakistani descent were held on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5-27-2013 ~ 'Common Core' Nationalizes & Dumbs Down P.S. Curriculum
'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum
In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called "conservative" Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the "No Child Left Behind" act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law from teachers, administrators, and, most importantly, students and parents. Most of the complaints concerned No Child Left Behind's testing requirements, which encouraged educators to "teach to the test."
Sadly, but not surprisingly, instead of improving education by repealing No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates, the Obama administration is increasing national control over schools via the "Common Core" initiative. Common Core is a new curriculum developed by a panel of so-called education experts. The administration is trying to turn Common Core into a national curriculum by offering states increased federal education funding if they impose Common Core's curriculum on their public schools. This is yet another example of the government using money stolen from the people to bribe states into obeying federal dictates.
Critics of Common Core say it "dumbs down" education by replacing traditional English literature with "informational texts". So students will read such inspiring materials as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the EPA's "Recommended Levels of Insulation," and "Invasive Plant Inventory" by California's Invasive Plant Council. It is doubtful that reading federal reports will teach students the habits of critical thinking and skepticism of government that the Founders considered essential to maintaining a free republic.
Like Obamacare, Common Core (now dubbed "ObamaCore" by some) has sparked a backlash in the states, leading some to propose legislation forbidding state participation in the scheme. I hope these efforts lead to states not just opting out of Common Core, but out of No Child Left Behind and all other federal education programs as well.
Parents can also effectively "opt out" of programs like Common Core by seeking alternatives to government education. It is no coincidence that, as federal control over education increases, the quality of public education has declined and more parents have chosen to homeschool.
To support these parents, I have established my own homeschool curriculum. Unlike Common Core, we do not dumb down any of our offerings. Instead, the goal is to provide students with a rigorous education in history, math, English, foreign languages, and other core subjects necessary to a well-rounded education. Unlike the top-down model of nationalized education, the homeschool curriculum is deigned to encourage maximum input from parents and students. While the curriculum will reflect my belief, and interest, in Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of the struggle against state power, the curriculum is being carefully designed to not show bias toward any one religion. I hope all parents of any faith—or no religious belief at all—will feel comfortable using the curriculum.
I believe it is important for those of us concerned with education and liberty to fight our battles locally. We must oppose further encroachment on the autonomy of local public schools and work to roll-back existing interference, while encouraging and supporting the growth of homeschooling and other alternative education movements. The key to restoring quality education is to replace the bureaucratic control of education with a free-market in education. Parents should have the freedom to select the type of education that best suits their child's unique needs.
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In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called "conservative" Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the "No Child Left Behind" act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law from teachers, administrators, and, most importantly, students and parents. Most of the complaints concerned No Child Left Behind's testing requirements, which encouraged educators to "teach to the test."
Sadly, but not surprisingly, instead of improving education by repealing No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates, the Obama administration is increasing national control over schools via the "Common Core" initiative. Common Core is a new curriculum developed by a panel of so-called education experts. The administration is trying to turn Common Core into a national curriculum by offering states increased federal education funding if they impose Common Core's curriculum on their public schools. This is yet another example of the government using money stolen from the people to bribe states into obeying federal dictates.
Critics of Common Core say it "dumbs down" education by replacing traditional English literature with "informational texts". So students will read such inspiring materials as studies by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the EPA's "Recommended Levels of Insulation," and "Invasive Plant Inventory" by California's Invasive Plant Council. It is doubtful that reading federal reports will teach students the habits of critical thinking and skepticism of government that the Founders considered essential to maintaining a free republic.
Like Obamacare, Common Core (now dubbed "ObamaCore" by some) has sparked a backlash in the states, leading some to propose legislation forbidding state participation in the scheme. I hope these efforts lead to states not just opting out of Common Core, but out of No Child Left Behind and all other federal education programs as well.
Parents can also effectively "opt out" of programs like Common Core by seeking alternatives to government education. It is no coincidence that, as federal control over education increases, the quality of public education has declined and more parents have chosen to homeschool.
To support these parents, I have established my own homeschool curriculum. Unlike Common Core, we do not dumb down any of our offerings. Instead, the goal is to provide students with a rigorous education in history, math, English, foreign languages, and other core subjects necessary to a well-rounded education. Unlike the top-down model of nationalized education, the homeschool curriculum is deigned to encourage maximum input from parents and students. While the curriculum will reflect my belief, and interest, in Austrian economics, libertarian political theory, and the history of the struggle against state power, the curriculum is being carefully designed to not show bias toward any one religion. I hope all parents of any faith—or no religious belief at all—will feel comfortable using the curriculum.
I believe it is important for those of us concerned with education and liberty to fight our battles locally. We must oppose further encroachment on the autonomy of local public schools and work to roll-back existing interference, while encouraging and supporting the growth of homeschooling and other alternative education movements. The key to restoring quality education is to replace the bureaucratic control of education with a free-market in education. Parents should have the freedom to select the type of education that best suits their child's unique needs.
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