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I apologize for taking so long to answer- too much schoolwork!

I appreciate your points. Locally-controlled public schools are, largely, paid for by local taxpayers. While I cannot rule out state-level oversight, it would seem to be necessary, as I do not believe that all local control would be productive (i.e. Atlanta). Some areas are just, simply, too corrupt. But local school districts, answerable to the voters, is a far better idea than ANY federal control- which is an abject failure.
I heard an interesting idea recently, but cannot remember who said it. His suggestion was to the Christian and religious communities, that they take a greater interest in the schooling of children. After all, they do a lot of missionary work and the establishing of free schools in foreign countries, so why not turn some of that inward, HERE, and actually compete with the public schools by offering free education?....I wish....

It isn’t hard to make the decision that one feels the public school system is an utter and complete failure. It’s intention, from the START and based on Dewey’s teachings, was the destruction of our system of government and to use our children to do it. Well, now it has come to fruition and most of us are scratching our heads and wondering “How did this happen?”

It’s not too late to change it, but the people must do it. If the government won’t abolish the Dept. of Ed and forbid federal interference, then it is incumbent on the states to exercise their 10th amendment rights and REFUSE any input from them, AND the damn money. State universities should be made to do away with degrees in “education” and all control of the schools should be local. Kick out all interference by the unions; make ALL elementary schools “neighborhood” schools; make the intelligent assumption that not ALL kids should go to college and re-vamp the technical and vocational schools. Re-introduce the basics and do away with “multi-cultural” garbage.

We know what needs to be done. Who has the courage to do it?

The GOP shares a lot of unfortunate traits with the demonRAT party. Establishment republicans want nothing so much as to maintain power and will flop around however they must to maintain it. They have as much respect for First Principles as the ‘RATs do.

I have every intention of changing my registration this year, and will do my utmost to see our two incumbent, establishment, republicans kicked out of office. But no one should make the mistake of imagining that I would EVER vote demonRAT, even with a loaded gun to my head.

I am a proud supporter of Tea Party principles and if the “main stream” GOP doesn’t like that, I invite them to go pound sand.

Good. Not good to have drug addicts in Congress...

Her massive grill and choice of trailer trash colors make her STILL look like the business end of an 18-wheeler.

We fled Massachusetts some time ago because we just couldn’t take the politics, the economy, or the weather anymore. THIS is the state that consistently elects the kennedys, the barney franks, and assorted OTHER dimwits, crooks and idiots. Tells you much about the people who choose to live there.

We settled in Georgia...never looked back.

I’m feeling your pain.

In spite of the damage done by this evil socialist, so many Americans still voted for him. I am losing my faith in the American people. My husband (and a few others) have said that the American people have become too stupid, too lazy and too greedy to want a president that would expect them to ACT like Americans. I can see that I must- finally- agree with him. Bill OReilly said that “the folks” want “stuff”. I have always felt that most Americans KNEW that gub’mint “stuff” came with a hefty price. I can no longer believe that they know this, at all.

The last 4 years are NOTHING compared to the damage he will do in the next 4. We will never come back.

No historical knowledge and lots of agenda...THIS is what your money is paying for if you are in school or you are paying for your child to be in school.

I hope that everyone who comes in here will take the few minutes required to read this entire article. It is well worth the time.

It tells WHAT is happening- I am only sorry it is not telling us WHY. And “why” comes right down to the public education system. Over a hundred years ago, John Dewey decided that you couldn’t make good socialists out of individuals, and so, began a pogrom against the education system that was embraced by other, wealthier and more well-placed, socialists. This agenda has been carried by universities and government agencies since. I cannot remember who said it, Marx or Lenin, but the belief that all that was needed was one generation of schoolchildren has been carried forward, now, into several generations. It has always been the purpose of the public school system to drive a wedge between children and their parents. Parents have values and beliefs that the system doesn’t like.

So now, as Dewey and his fellow-travelers desired, we have generations of children who are less educated than their peers in other countries, have no critical thinking skills and are fully indoctrinated. Those children who are not the children of the elite are prepped for dependency and a drone-like existence. Oh, and btw...Dewey was an unchallenged eugenicist, just like all well placed socialists of his time.

I have personally seen concerned parents intimidated by school officials; I have personally seen teachers put aside class time so that young girls can have “baby showers” for each other; I have personally witnessed children being taught that their parents’ values should not be theirs. The purpose of the public education system, beginning with the teaching programs in universities and colleges, is to make absolutely sure that YOUR child believes that dependency on government is a GOOD thing, that your child is properly sexualized (leading to that dependence), and that any propensity for your child to be proud of the American heritage, to be patriotic, or to be a critical thinker is smashed.

There are things we can do now to bring America back to its past glory, and we should do them. But ONE THING we MUST do is to take the current public education system apart, brick by brick.

* Abolish the Dept of Education and make sure, by amendment if necessary, that the federal government is forbidden to ever involve itself in education ever again.

* Return all control of education to the states

* Abolish all degrees in “education”. They are useless- I know, I HAVE one. All teachers should have degrees in their discipline. This is rarely the case. “Education programs” in colleges are the dumping areas for those who are at the bottom of the education ladder.

*Cut the funding for education “administrators”. Some districts have as much as a one-to-one ratio, teachers to administrators. Just how many “guidance counselors” does ANY district need?

* No changes to ANY curriculum that doesn’t have the full cooperation of the parents and the teachers.

* Make every state a right-to-work state. Boot the teachers unions. The damage they have done to education is inestimable.

This is just a start. According to the NCES website, American students, despite being the best funded in the WORLD, have now fallen to nos. 24 and 26 behind the Slovak Republic, and this is unacceptable. Our kids need to compete on a global scale and the public schools have seen to it that they canNOT.

THIS is the danger of not knowing history. This is the track ALL leftism takes, but there are so many that think it “couldn’t happen here” or that WE can MAKE socialism work in THIS country.

Make no mistake- the leaders on the left always- ALWAYS- knew what they were doing and just WHO would make the best “useful idiots”. And you can thank John Dewey and the Dept of Ed and the teachers’ unions for the rest of the damage.

This election HAS to be about more than just kicking an incompetent administration out of its can. It HAS to be a complete and total repudiation of leftism. We deny this at our utmost peril.

Just think how nutz they are going to be if Romney takes California...and I think he just might.

If we thought that Gore’s attempts to steal the election in 2000 were extreme and outrageous, we ain’t seen NUTHIN’ yet!

Oh good! Jobs he is actually qualified for!!!

I still have NO idea who this “actress” is, but I know I can never see her face again without seeing Crowder’s parody. I anticipate good laffs yet to come!

So few truly understand the danger that the left poses to this country, or the damage it has already done. Fewer still understand the shared DNA of the democrat party, unions, and organized crime. All have used each other to infest our (formerly) strong national institutions, and building their own along the way. They took over education, the media, and in some cases, the upper reaches of our military. They have destroyed everything they touched and imposed their will through “back door” means. This didn’t start in 1968- it started LONG before that and continues now. It will continue no matter who we elect in November.

It’s in the schools and colleges, it’s in the media, and it’s in the agencies formed to “protect” us. It’s anywhere where the culture is “softest”. We no longer comprehend the terms “treason” or “traitor”, and we have lost ALL our skills at enemy identification.

hmmm...I smell a shakedown...

Of the ten who showed up, how many were there to challenge her?

That the Obama campaign thinks that ANYONE cares about the shallow mental workings of this dumb slut simply shows how out of touch they truly are.

These women are ridiculous and don’t even have the class to know they are embarrassing themselves. From Code Pink to Planned Parenthood, they are becoming a national joke. They “speak” for us? I don’t think so.

What women- WITH brains- care about is the fact that it costs twice as much to fill their tanks so they can make it to work; they CARE that their groceries are, likewise, twice as expensive, with milk scheduled to go to 6 bucks a gallon; they CARE that their electric bill is three times what it was when Obama took office; they CARE that the current culture encourages their young daughters to become sexually active, even as THEY try to teach their girls to respect themselves; they care that their kids are numbers 24 and 26 in science and math skills behind the Slovak Republic, yet their taxes are climbing every year. She KNOWS she will never get a voucher, so her kids are going to have to stay in failed, abominable public “schools”. Between her and her husband, they make about 60k per year, but the smart woman knows that when Obama talks about “the rich”, he is REALLY talking about HER. She is dreading this years tax season and is just hoping she won’t have to end up paying MORE.

The smart woman KNOWS the “women’s movement” was NEVER about “women”.

I’m sorry that there are still people who do not know the history of the democrat party, unions and organized crime. They are embedded in each other and cannot be separated- their alliance is too old. I just do not understand the fact that there are still decent Americans who vote for dems in ANY election.

hmmm...let's see... convicted of perjury, lost his right to practice law, suborned perjury, IMPEACHED, dragged kicking and screaming to the economy by a republican congress for which he, now, takes happy credit, befouling of the Oval Office, international dirty joke, put his awful and incompetent wife in charge of universal health care.... It is my fondest hope that we can stop putting "people like him" in public office.

This was a STUPID question and the very premise is false. THIS woman and her DAUGHTER, sitting and watching the debate, groaned in unison when this dope stood up and asked the question. I would have been happier if Romney had taken the truth about this myth home to the little idiot instead of trying to pander to it.

Just wondering...does anyone know if this moron works for Crowley?

I can tell you when Romney won. When he kept trying, but couldn’t get, Obama to tell the truth about oil drilling on federal land, AND when he prodded Obama about Benghazi and the jerk lied through his teeth- AGAIN.
I loved it when Obama tried to look angry about the Benghazi question. He has lied, his administration lied, and then they ALL tried to cover it up.

2000 set the truly new, low standard for the left when it comes to the demonRAT’s attempts to steal an election. They will stop at nothing. Prepare for whole new ways to be outraged by bad behavior from them.

“Fog of war”? “Combat situations”? Funny, I thought the administration didn’t want to send more security in an effort to “normalize”. Isn’t THAT the new meme?

They sent more Marines in to protect the embassies in places like Barbados, but couldn’t see fit to outfit embassies in places like THE MIDDLE EAST on the anniversary of 9-11.

The biggest mistake, as I see it, is that these cheesy leftists think WE are as stupid as their VOTERS are, or that THEY are.

You bring up an interesting point. The Comintern never “went away”- like all evil, it just shifted, changed names and tactics, and dug in a little deeper. International leftists, like Trotsky, knew that socialism failed in countries like Russia and China, but blamed that failure on the fact that they were not developed “enough”. Western Europe and America were ALWAYS their most desired jewels.

One must give these evil people their due...they are patient.

Hillary is going to fall on the sword for Obama? She is the most self-centered and brazenly ambitious woman on the left.

What’s the punch line? And we ALL know there IS one...

He makes Clinton look like an altar boy, and I didn’t think that was possible.

LMAO! ONLY knuckleheads vote for demonRATs!

Sorry, but this article just beggared that reply...

Since she has brazenly broken a federal law, the JD should be after her.
...oh, wait.....

Crowley’s ego is as big as her considerable butt and she is as ideological as any “journalist” or talking head of the old, lame stream media. We know exactly what will happen here- she will twist the questions to suit her purpose; she will soft ball Obama as much as she can and interrupt Romney every time she can. This debate will be a joke, but best of all, in Crowley’s stunted mind, it will end up being about her.

Is not Horowitz one of the heroes of this generation?

What an excellent article! To call such people as Hobsbaum a “historian” is an insult to historians, such as you cannot imagine. He was an ideologue.

From Plato, to More, to Marx, to Rousseau, to Dewey, leftism has never worked and never WILL work, because of its determination to deny the nature of man. It can be no surprise to anyone that the stellar lights of academia have never existed outside the bubbles of their comfortable lives and the universities. If dropped into a city with nothing but their wits, it wouldn’t take long to see them as the crazy people they truly are, muttering and talking to themselves.

This is not to deny, however, the brand of bigoted leftist who truly believes that they are superior to the “masses” and entitled to rule over them. These STILL believe in the mission of Margaret Sanger, and always will.

The denial of those who embrace leftism, is the denial of those fellow travelers who are responsible for, at least, 120 million dead across the planet. It is tyranny, and nothing else. It IS that barbarism that so many “intellectuals” lay at the free market’s door.

Funny. I remember a similar attempt by Carter to look like a man...it didn’t go well then, I seriously doubt it will go well this time, either. That any MORE Americans might lose their lives for the sake of this man’s re-election makes my blood boil.

RRRR!oflmaOOOO!

The left couldn’t WAIT to bring down a president over some pilfered campaign notes, worked furiously to keep another from being forced out over perjury; tried for 8 years to bring down another who protected us from another terrorist attack for 8 years.

Yet here we have a president who has neglected to protect us from, at least, two attacks, whose appointees engage in very clear criminality, and has overseen one cover-up after another and what does the left have to say? (cricket).

It isn’t even about Obama...it IS about the agenda. If we fail to repudiate the entire left- ALL of it- this November, then we will get exactly what we deserve.

Biden entered public life FULLY owned by the dark side. I have watched this damaged human being for a very long time. I watched his attempts to destroy good men like Bork and Thomas- far better men than Biden will EVER be. Biden came into office after a college career built on the plagiarized work of others and it was a failing he was never made to answer for. The reason for THIS, is that Biden is NOT a “nice” man, a “great guy”- he is a very willing demonRAT attack junk-yard dog. ANY time the demons want to destroy decent qualified Americans, they let “uncle” Joe off his leash. The remarks I have heard this week, after Biden’s ridiculous, probably bourbon-soaked, performance, about being a “nice guy” have truly elevated the puke factor.

The only preparation the left needed to give Joe is his shouted commands “Sic ‘em Joe! Kill!”

And they will probably produce their evidence. And then what? Can we count on the charges being carried forward? I’ll bet it just goes away.

I wish you were right. I really do. This man has the temerity to run for re-election and it shows his complete lack of honor.
One president was driven from office over some stolen campaign notes and another impeached for committing perjury. Yet Obama engages in a cover up where 4 Americans were murdered and no one is calling for his resignation? Amazing.

gee. Well I hope his face is on the one she uses up her nose.

I remember the Quayle/Benson debate very well. It STILL makes me burn. Lloyd Benson was a nasty old man that makes Reid look like...well...a Mormon! The fact that he was up against such a decent, polite man as Dan Quayle must have had that old goat drooling. When he made his snarky, now famous, below the belt remark, I was SCRRRRReaming at the TV- “Neither are YOU Benson. JFK LEARNED you cannot tax and spend your way to a good economy. It is a lesson YOU have not learned.”

Anyway.
You KNOW that this is a moment Biden wants to re-create. He is a nasty, lying, goof who will use every attack he can think of against Ryan. But my impression is, Paul Ryan is NO Dan Quayle. I certainly am entertained by Gaff-tastic Joe.

Is there any privately-owned business left in Oakland?

Watergate was nothing more than the theft of some campaign notes. THIS, what you are suggesting, is far, far more than that. Let’s just establish some givens: the breadth of the stupidity of such a plan is not beyond this administration; That they would have to depend on the actions of a gaggle of 7th century retards and HOPE they got it right is, also, not beyond this bunch; that they would engage in such a wide-reaching cover-up, aided and abetted by a complicit press, is absolutely believable. Still and all, this is very hard to believe that even THEY could do such a thing.

I agree, more than you could ever know, that Obama and this administration is evil from east to west. But this is something I just cannot believe.

There is nothing like a national soapbox to show the world just what a moron you ARE. This is what happened- she opened her mouth and all that stupid fell out. It’s embarrassing for the voters in her district and they will dump her as they did that OTHER idiot, Grayson.

I never bought the excuse that he was “distracted”. What I saw was contempt; he resented being there. And yes, he considers Romney to be “beneath” him. This tin pot thought he was a “god” (note the little “g”)with his Greek columns and adoring crowds. His keepers are only stating the obvious.

Well, he will learn just how many of us “little people” have an even greater contempt for HIM in November.

Is ANYONE surprised that this is one more case of the Obama administration completely ignoring the rule of law? Have they, at any time, pretended to care about breaking the law, or what “we the people” think? Those who are going to vote for them will continue to vote for them because they are stupid. Therefore, it follows that we are ALL stupid. So goes the mindset of this entrenched leftist gaggle of Harvard “social science” grads.

For anyone who would ever consider voting for this bunch: they are right- you ARE stupid.

How many precious lives did we lose beating the Taliban into pulp? And now, what’s left is making “deals” with the Obama administration and Karzai? When did Americans get struck so stupid as to even CONSIDER re-electing this war criminal, Obama?

Isn’t that what he said? Once he was re-elected, he would have a “free hand”? I’m sure he meant that for more than Putin’s ear...

I LIKE it!!

Let’s not forget one important point: Zimmerman may have feared that this kid was going to take his gun away and use it on him. I carry, and under those circumstances, I’m shooting him all day.

awwwwww poor Bambi! You mean he WASN’T elected emperor?

Well ain’t that just a kick in the butt.

I can’t WAIT for the election.

We need a president that understands the Constitution AND the job. We don’t need an around-the-bend lunatic. Paul is a lunatic.