So we now find ourselves with a federal government and an administration which actively single out institutions such as the Catholic Church to ensnare them (and don’t get me wrong, the Church was quite willingly ensnared – thank you) with the trappings of materialism as a way of micromanaging the teachings of faith – pressing …
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Jan
25
Letting the money follow the child
As the debate over school choice continues to play itself out in the United States, more and more states are opting to allow parents decide where their children will be educated. Check out this video featuring Lisa Snell from Reason.TV as she explains the reasons for the new and growing trend toward charter schools and vouchers:
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Jan
24
Wisconsin schools – all rainbows and sunshine
The story from Fox News by Todd Starnes goes something like this. A 15 year old young man from Wisconsin by the name of Brandon Wegner was approached by the adult advisor of his school newspaper to write an op-ed about whether or not gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. He decided to write in …
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Jan
23
Gingrich dishes on Obama
Let me just jump in to this post midthought if you don’t mind. Like today should be different from any other day… breaking news. Jeb Bush has called on all the Republican candidates to maintain a positive tone during this election cycle. (She pauses as if in deep consideration of these words of wisdom and reason, noting that Lord …
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Jan
20
Best of TCH – The erosion of parental rights
Since we’ve been on the subject recently…the piece was first posted on August 27th of 2010: When I was in second grade, our teacher announced that as a class we were going to create a book called VIP (Very Important People). In this book there would be a separate page for each student which would …
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Jan
19
Live free or diet
Parental rights or the lack thereof, this is the most under-emphasized battle of the twenty-first century. It dawns on me as I begin to contemplate this issue, are there really any concrete constitutional protections regarding a citizen’s right to have and to keep his children to the best of his ability? I mean –are there …
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Jan
17
Better living through scouting
I dare say; feminism is certainly the most fickle of muses. Why is it that the promises of equal opportunity always seem to give way to shrill, fist thumping debates over infanticide, morning after pills and angry diatribes about injustice and glass ceilings? Is that really the sum total of what it means to be equal? …
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Jan
16
Voting early and often
Here is the latest video from Project Veritas. That’s James O’Keefe’s site. I could do a long introduction to explain what this video is all about, but it frankly speaks for itself…
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Jan
12
Part three – textbooks uncovered. The challenge.
If true and sustainable change begins in the classroom through curriculum choices and textbook selection and I believe that it does, then it behooves conservatives to a) understand the liberal bias that is being taught to our children b) familiarize ourselves with the tools and the language being used by the Left to distort traditional …
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Jan
10
Part two – textbooks uncovered. Virginia styled.
For a moment, let’s not talk of timelines or names or places in history. Let’s think about mindsets instead. Did you ever wonder? How did a nation like Germany come to a point where it could justify killing 6 million Jews? What does it take to become a country that does that kind of thing? Certainly, …
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