Cuba: Libertad! Libertad! Libertad!

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The American people have so much to be thankful for even today as we struggle with the manufactured economic collapses and assaults on our own freedom. We still retain much more freedom than most across the globe, and America appears as Heaven on Earth to those opponents of communism trying to stay alive in Cuba today.

Anti-Batista mural in Museo de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba

Americans should consider what might have been had not so many come to Her aid as the Colonists fought the War of Independence. So often, in their own arrogance, too many fail to understand “There but for the Grace of God go I” as they flippantly say, “Let the Cubans fight for their freedom like we did.” Like we did? As if we didn’t have some critical points where outside help saved the day. Continue reading →

Facing the Hardest Truth on Public Education

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John Dewey

April 3, 2013 ~ There are several major obstacles to overcome if there is to be any hope of saving civilization from the grip of the authoritarian pre-education camps we call “public schools.” The most stubborn obstacle of all, however, is perhaps the one embedded in our own hearts, namely the all too human instinct to comfort ourselves with the thought that the soul-deforming corruptions of public education began in earnest only after our own school days, and hence that we ourselves escaped the harm we so easily recognize in others.

This instinct forms the rationale for the many objections I get to my calls for the complete abolition of public schooling, from people who claim that if the schools just got back to the methods of the good old days, all would be well. In other words, these people are unwilling to see the problem as anything deeper than the superimposition of some bad textbooks or teaching methods on an essentially noble system, because to admit that the problem is more fundamental than this is to admit that one’s own education was harmful, which is to concede that one was indeed harmed — that you are less than you might have been. Continue reading →

Benson: Kindergarten’s Socialist Origins

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Horace Mann

November 25, 2011 ~ Most schools today, both public and private have kindergartens. They have become an accepted part of educational life in this country and others as well.

This was not always so. When I first attended public school, way back in the mid-1940s, there was no kindergarten where I went. Although some schools undoubtedly had them, all schools did not. They had not become totally entrenched, although their promoters had been working on that project with much zeal. Their efforts seem to have paid off. Kindergarten is now as much a part of school life as the seventh grade.

I have, in the past, written articles and even a couple booklets, dealing with the origins of public, or government, schools in this country. These “institutions of learning” have a history that is never quite openly discussed in all of its ramifications. We often see the names of founders and promoters of public education mentioned in articles or essays, but we are seldom told all that much about these people and what they really believed. Most educators don’t want us to go there. Continue reading →

Juntti: “Lobbyist”

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January 30, 2006 ~ I have a copy of the Tennessee Constitution and The Constitution of our Country. Nowhere – NOWHERE – do I see any mention of *Lobbyists*.

I did find this:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
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Has America Lost The Will To Fight For Liberty?

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The importance of republishing the following can not be emphasized enough! ~ Ed.

November 27, 2020 ~ Every evening roughly 5.3 million households sit down and turn on the television to watch the network news. Add to that another 8.6 million who get their news from the cable news services, (FOX, CNN and MSNBC), and you have a whopping 13.9 million people who are being brainwashed every night by the government controlled media. George Orwell must be rolling over in his grave, thinking his book 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual! Imagine what would happen if you could pull the plug on all 13.9 million of them; wake them up. Imagine what a powerful force they could become for liberty and limited government if only they’d stop letting others spoon feed their thoughts and beliefs to them via the Boob Tube. Continue reading →

The Series ~ Agenda Driven School Boards Ignore Parents

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NOTE: This complete series has been previously published on Metropolis Café, yet as of today with the completion of the author’s series, it is being published i full on this site. It is now a part of our transition to portions of that site back to where Village of the Damned began nearly 20 years ago. ~ Ed.

Part 1 ~ Agenda Driven School Boards Ignore Parents

I have for the last twenty years have been calling for the schools to be put back into the control of the states and the parents. We have seen the federal government take over control of the schools ever since Jimmy Carter established a full federal office for a Department of Education. Up until 1979, the Department of Education was hidden in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The only problem with that is there is no constitutional provision for the federal government to be in control of education. None! The Democrats lie about controlling education by stating that the federal government doesn’t set any curriculum and they are right about that however, Democrats do set the testing standards, and that sets the curriculum. Democrats think we are all as dumb as their base voters. Most of us can see through their lies. Continue reading →

Citizens, NOT the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas

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The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process.

Anti-abortion protesters stand near the gate of the Texas State Capitol after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill outlawing abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected in May in Austin, Texas.Credit…Sergio Flores/Getty Images

People across the country may soon be able to sue abortion clinics, doctors and anyone helping a woman get an abortion in Texas, under a new state law that contains a legal innovation with broad implications for the American court system.

The provision passed the State Legislature as part of a bill that bans abortion after a doctor detects a fetal heartbeat, usually at about six weeks of pregnancy. Many states have passed such bans, but the law in Texas is different… Continue reading →

Mandatory Governmental Death Sentence… by Injection!

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Astonishing Spike in Post-Vaccine Deaths Gets No Media Coverage as Over 2,000 Reported THIS WEEK Alone
It’s unclear if the data is just catching up or if there are just a whole lot more deaths occurring, but one thing is certain. These “vaccines” can be deadly and a lot more people are dying from them than all others in history combined…. (Continue to full article)

Moderna COVID Vax Ingredients Include “SM-102” – “not for human or veterinary use”
According to the manufacturer, Cayman Chemical Company in their filing with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), this chemical causes “Acute Toxicity “Fatal in contact with skin.”

In that same OSHA filing, the manufacturer declares SM-102 “Causes damage to the central nervous system, the kidneys, the liver and the respiratory system through prolonged or repeated exposure.”… (Continue to full article)

The Many Ways in Which COVID Vaccines May Harm Your Health
Pieces and parts of the virus are actually worse than the whole virus, that is precisely what we have with the COVID vaccines. In last week’s interview with Seneff, she explained how the manufacturing process leaves fragmented genetically modified RNA in the vaccine. They are not filtered out and assumed to be harmless, but this is not the case. This is being completely missed as one reason why this vaccine is so dangerous… (Continue to full article)

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Playboy Interview, 1964: Ayn Rand

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Originally published by Kettle Moraine Publications on July 7, 2009.

PLAYBOY: Miss Rand, your novels and essays, especially your controversial best seller, Atlas Shrugged, present a carefully engineered, internally consistent world view. They are, in effect, the expression of an all-encompassing philosophical system. What do you seek to accomplish with this new philosophy?

RAND: I seek to provide men — or those who care to think — with an integrated, consistent and rational view of life.

PLAYBOY: What are the basic premises of Objectivism? Where does it begin?

RAND: It begins with the axiom that existence exists, which means that an objective reality exists independent of any perceiver or of the perceiver’s emotions, feelings, wishes, hopes or fears. Objectivism holds that reason is man’s only means of perceiving reality and his only guide to action. By reason, I mean the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses.
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School Curriculum In California Wants Prayers To False Deities Of Human Sacrifice And Cannibalism

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… Calls For “Counter-Genocide” Against White Christians!

I wish I didn’t have to harp on this as often as I do, but I’ll continue to do so because my hope is that it leads to change on some small scale.

It’s essentially become my motto: if you have children in public school…pull them out before it’s too late.
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Leftmedia Circles the CRT Wagons

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The Washington Post and New York Times offer deceptive and deflecting attempts to shore up CRT’s bankrupt ideology.

Bee Ess

The nation’s two leading Leftmedia papers of record, The Washington Post and The New York Times, have finally, after months of relative silence, decided that the recent beating Critical Race Theory has been receiving from concerned parents and conservative media like ours warranted a defense. In that vein, the Post and Times published articles that are intended to both deceive and downplay the imminent threat posed by CRT. Continue reading →

Why Not Cancel Them?

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Politics, religion these are things you don’t discuss
If friendship’s a priority, discretion is a must,
There’s a new priority that’s lighting up our screens,
Destroy this racist nation, the ends justify the means,
The communistic vision means utopia is near,
But first you cancel half of what you see and what you hear,
For those of us refuseniks who will not bend with this trend,
Why not turn the tables on them, Why Not Cancel Them?
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The Threat of National Heritage Areas and How to Stop Them

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What follows includes both Parts 1 & 2 of this noted author’s ongoing fight against the Establishment. ~ Ed.

Part 1: Why Are National Heritage Areas a Threat?

Proposals for new National Heritage Areas (NHA) are raising their ugly, land-grabbing heads again in Congress and they must be stopped. Here’s why.

National Heritage Areas are one of the most despicable stealth land grabs in the nation. Americans love our history. We love preserving significant places that played an important role in the making of our unique nation. So, when we hear of a new plan in our area presented offering a chance to preserve some of our local heritage we are interested and even supportive.

But, in this day of massive government control over so much of our land, our economy, and our basic ability to live free lives, we must be cautious and look at the details of plans, no matter how innocent or well meaning they may seem. Continue reading →

‘YES’ on School Choice – But It Requires Parental Involvement

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There is a connection between bad schools and lack of parental involvement.

Question my sanity, but I’m considering running in this election to recall California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Here’s a big reason why.

No one doubts that bad K-12 public school teachers exist. There is a phenomenon known as the “turkey trot,” in which bad teachers wind up in the worst schools. Why?

There is a connection between bad schools and lack of parental involvement. When you have strong parental involvement, parents pressure their schools to remove such teachers. Because of strong, protective teachers unions, these teachers are rarely fired, merely shuffled from school to school, until they land in one where few parents complain. (Continue to full story…)

“Scarface” Startles Anew on the Criterion Channel

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It’s time to watch Howard Hawks’s gangster masterpiece again.

The prime beneficiaries of Prohibition were gangsters, and the prime beneficiaries of gangsters were the Hollywood filmmakers who, in the late nineteen-twenties and early thirties, turned them into some of the most enticingly lurid characters ever seen in movies. The real-life gangster Al Capone was refashioned in the 1932 drama “Scarface,” directed by Howard Hawks and starring Paul Muni – a celebrated stage actor with little film experience – as a gangster so appallingly, flashily fascinating that the movie was accused of making the criminal life look too appealing. Hawks’s “Scarface” was “The Wolf of Wall Street” of its day, and, like Martin Scorsese’s extravagant, exuberant 2013 drama about financial grifters, the film’s allure and enticements are a crucial part of its substance. (“Scarface,” long available to stream on a variety of platforms, is newly available to stream on the Criterion Channel, in a clear and vivid transfer.) Continue reading →