Parent Review Committee for Common Core Sworn to Secrecy

     A parent review committee, created by the Utah legislature, to review the Common Core curricula are being asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement to stop them from discussing the materials they are to review.

     This prohibition is allegedly meant to prevent parents from telling other parents about specific test questions, but the “broader ban on public discussion undermines the whole point of having a committee.”

     As one state Senator noted: “Why wouldn’t you allow a process where (parents) could say, ‘This is the dumbest thing imaginable and this is why’?”

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British Parliament to Abolish Freedom of the Press

     The British Parliament, with support from all three major parties in Parliament, has decreed that “there will be a new system of press regulation backed by law.”

     The regulations would punish no-participating news sources by exposing them massive civil damages that the government approved press will be free from:

“The politicians proposed a statutory system that would compel newspapers to join. Publications that refuse will face “exemplary” damages in the event of libel. Both plans have been considered by ministers on the Privy Council. Mrs Miller told MPs that the industry proposal has been rejected as unacceptable to politicians.

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“The industry was not invited or represented.”

     This will be the first time the press has been so regulated since before the American Revolution!  Perhaps the British should also throw the rascals out in the next Parliamentary election… assuming that anyone is allowed to agree with them…

     A little mood music:

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Student Forced to Undergo “Diversity” Re-education Tells Off Indoctrinators

     A University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate student was forced to undergo mandatory “diversity training.”  After being forced to attend sessions where it was made clear that he was a sub-human oppressor and racist due to being a person of pallor.

     In response, the student bravely wrote a letter to the Graduate Director that plainly lays out the sheer and utter insanity of the re-education indoctrination sessions.

     The full letter is reproduced below:

Dear Graduate Director Prof. Kantrowitz,

Please forgive this sudden e-mail. I am writing to you today about the “diversity” training that new teaching assistants (TAs) are required to undergo. In keeping with the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, I am also blind-copying on this e-mail several journalistic outlets and state government officials, because the taxpayers who support this university deserve to know how their money is being spent.

As you are probably aware, all new TAs in the History Department are required to attend one orientation session, two TA training sessions, and two diversity sessions. Yesterday (Friday, September 20th), we new TAs attended the first of the diversity sessions. To be quite blunt, I was appalled. What we were given, under the rubric of “diversity,” was an avalanche of insinuations, outright accusations, and suffocating political indoctrination (or, as some of the worksheets revealingly put it, “re-education”) entirely unbecoming a university of our stature.

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Kindergarten of Eden

     Evan Sayet previously laid down the foundation for what he termed the “Unified Field Theory of Liberalism.”  In his new lecture, which is just as excellent as his previous one, he shows “how the Modern Liberal’s ideology has led the Mainstream Media to have gotten literally every major story of the past sixty years (the whole of the ‘Modern Liberal era’) not just ‘wrong’ but as wrong as wrong can be; their every ‘mischaracterization’ working to benefit the evil, failed and wrong and undermining the good, right and successful.”

     Hat Tip: Ace of Spades HQ.

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The Haruspices of the IPCC

     The climate models that predict doom and destruction are increasingly being proven not just wrong, but spectacularly wrong.  Many of the prophets of apocalyptic destruction are finding it necessary to dial back their prognostications of immanent annihilation. The Nation Academy of Sciences has even had to admit that:

“[G]enuine and important uncertainties remain (e.g., the response of clouds, ecosystems, and the polar regions) and need to be considered in developing scientifically based strategies for societal response to climate change.”

     Yet, groups like the IPCC are still reporting that they are “95% certain” that out-of-control climate catastrophe!  How can they have the confidence of a haruspex poking through rooster entrails?  They even admit that their models have “difficulties”:

“The main difficulties are sparse coverage in many observed variables, short time series for observed trends, lack of correlation between observed quantities and projected past or future trends, and systematic errors in the… the ambiguity of possible performance metrics and the difficulty of associating them with predictive skill”

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The Democrats Solution to the Government Shutdown: “Make Life Difficult”

     Rather than debate on the merits of the various Republican proposals to keep the government running, Searchlight’s Dim Bulb, Sen. Harry Reid, and Obama have decided to shut it all down, and then use the lapdog media to blame it all on the Republicans.

     However, it is not working as well as the planned and they are no swaying people like they though they would.  So what to do?  Why, double down of course, and make people feel the hurt.  They are not only closing Federal parks even when others offer to pay to keep them open, but even trying to shut down private museums and parks:

“The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II Memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies. The rangers are from the government, and they’re only here to help.

“‘It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation,’ an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. ‘We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.'”

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“Critical Theory”: Modern Crypto-Marxism

     Marxism is alive and well.  Not so much in the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact countries, or even in Communist China!  Where is Marxism thriving?  The same place it always has thrived: In Universities and in the teaching schools.  It has thrived to the point that it is rapidly supplanting the American civic heritage of liberty and virtue.

     In order to fight back against them, we must understand them.  They are no longer the stereotypical type who shout “workers of the world unite!!1!” at the top of their lungs.  The Marxism we face is Cultural Marxism, and their academic vanguard is Critical Theory.

     Cultural Marxism can be defined as “a branch of Marxism advocated by the Frankfurt School of philosophers such as Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse that focuses on cultural factors as agents for social change, as opposed to the traditional Marxist view that focused on economic factors.”

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News of the Week for October 6th, 2013

 

News of the Week for October 6th, 2013


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Euthanasia Comes To A Social Construct

     The rabid Left take it as an article of faith that “gender is a social construct,” unless, of course, it is contra-normative trans-genderness or trans-sexuality, in which case they are “born that way.”

     This insistence on destroying “cis-normative” values had led to the Progressive Left to deny that anyone who has ever questioned that they might be the wrong gender or sex could possibly be wrong. The possibility that a girl is really a girl and just confused, or that this case of transgender/transsexualism was itself a “social construct,” has become “H8″ that must be banished and condemned as absolute evil.

     Sadly, it is that attitude that lead to the suicide of a woman who mutilated herself to become the boy her mother always wanted and then sought to end her life when she realized the monster that she had become:

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Bill Whittle on Winning the Culture

     Bill Whittle spoke at the AFP Foundation’s “Defending the American Dream Summit” about the need to win the culture and the cultural narrative.

     If people are invested in the Progressives’ narrative, then we will never win in politics because people don’t root for the ones they already associate with evil.

     Hat Tip: Moonbattery.

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