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  • Oklahoma lawmaker seeks to do away with AP history

    02/17/2015 3:46:09 PM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 17 replies
    kFOR.COM ^ | FEBRUARY 17, 2015 | DALLAS FRANKLIN
    Oklahoma lawmaker seeks to do away with AP history courses, says they emphasize ‘what is bad about America’ Lawmakers argue that AP courses are similar to Common Core and that they violate legislation since Common Core was repealed last year.
  • Lousy Commie Book to Become Lousy Commie Movie

    09/11/2008 2:28:58 PM PDT · by vadum · 4 replies · 216+ views
    Capital Research Center ^ | September 11, 2008 | Matthew Vadum
    kumrads die because they're told) kumrads die before they're old (kumrads aren't afraid to die kumrads don't and kumrads won't believe in life)and death knows whie (all good kumrads you can tell by their altruistic smell moscow pipes good kumrads dance) kumrads enjoy s.freud knows whoy the hope that you may mess your pance every kumrad is a bit of quite unmitigated hate (travelling in a futile groove god knows why) and so do i (because they are afraid to love -e.e. cummings * * * * *Marxist historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is being...
  • Howard Zinn Becomes History

    01/28/2010 10:36:43 AM PST · by mbarker12474 · 24 replies · 714+ views
    Yahoo / Reuters ^ | 28 Jan 2010 | Yahoo / Reuters
    Activist, historian Howard Zinn dies at 87 Reuters By Ros Krasny BOSTON (Reuters) – Historian and activist Howard Zinn, whose 1980 book "A People's History of the United States" was a rallying cry for the American left in a conservative era, has died aged 87. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100128/us_nm/us_zinn_1
  • Get Marxist Howard Zinn out of the Schools

    02/02/2009 3:28:06 PM PST · by Bob017 · 14 replies · 1,019+ views
    Dr Ian Jobling
    As was recently posted here, Howard Zinn's Marxist history book, 'A People’s History of the United States' is sometimes used in history classes. Try to figure out whether 'A People’s History' is being used in history classes in your school district or state—it will be used in upper-level classes, especially AP US history classes. There is a good chance that you will find it, since the book is quite popular in the education establishment. If the book is in use, send the model e-mail below or one of your own composition to your local school board, your state education department,...
  • Howard Zinn on Comedy Central

    01/06/2005 8:38:33 PM PST · by sinanju · 4 replies · 502+ views
    I just saw Howard Zinn plugging his new book "Voices of a People's History of the United States" with John Stewart on The Daily Show. Holy Cow! What a hate Amerikka lovefest. I know a little about Howard Zinn, Dave Horowitz has fingered him for being an old hardline lefty professor and that he writes regularly for The Nation, Mother Jones, The Progressive, and all the usual suspects, but it's one thing to read about such people and another thing to see and hear them. I am shocked that this hate-crazed Chomskyite's classic tract "A People's History of the United...
  • [Sowell] Economic deprogramming

    06/26/2004 8:40:38 AM PDT · by xsysmgr · 17 replies · 486+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | June 26, 2004 | Thomas Sowell
    <p>Parents worried because their children receive a steady diet of politically correct propaganda in schools and colleges often ask for suggestions of things they should get for their children to read, in hopes of deprogramming them.</p> <p>Summer is a good time to let young people know that what they have been told in class is not the only side of the story or the only way to look at the world.</p>