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<p>The former head of the Des Moines teachers union is under fire for a list of unflattering comments about Republicans that he passed out to students in his government class.</p> <p>Republicans hate AIDS victims, embrace pollution for the sake of profit, and believe women can't be trusted to make decisions about their body, according to information distributed by teacher Paul Mann at Central Academy in Des Moines. "Rules for Being a Good Republican" went out to more than 20 students. Mann's action has angered at least one parent and drawn fire from people of all political stripes.</p>

At a fund raiser in Connecticut, Hillary Clinton, carpet-bagger senator from New York and re-writer of history, railed against the economic performance of the Bush Administration despite the fact that her husband's administration handed it all of the problems that it is dealing with now along with many more that have been thrust upon it. While unemployed people from her own party were being escorted out of the venue as they protested to get their jobs back in a state that is influenced heavily by her Democratic Party, she tried to blame the struggling economy on the Bush Administration rather...

Liberty Bell = Liberty Denied?Date Thursday, February 13 @ 19:07:44 A Ring of Un-Truth? A new center housing and surrounding one of the most enduring symbols of American liberty will dedicate more than half of its exhibit space to slavery and race relations in America following complaints from African-American activists, reports the Philadelphia Enquirer. The plans for Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia were modified last year when activists heard that no mention was going to be made of the slaves owned by George Washington when he lived and worked there. In breathlessly laudatory tones normally reserved for opinion...

“From the time it was passed in 1870 until 1965, no president, no Congress, and no Supreme Court did anything serious to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment …” -- Howard Zinn “I’m gonna sing this verse, I ain’t gonna sing no more / Please get together, Break-up this old Jim Crow.” -- Lead Belly, “Jim Crow Blues”Certain myths remain popular in spite of reality. Americans, for example, rely on a few admired figures and television images to help them understand the impetus behind the civil rights movement, even though the bus boycotts, voting drives and the March on Washington were just...

Norristown native poses provocative questions about Gen. Robert E. Lee in newest book. Some might say Albert M. Gambone has "overcompensated" for failing his history course at Norristown High School back in 1957. But back then, he claims, no one ever told him about the important role Norristown played in the Civil War. The author of four books on the Civil War who maintains a personal library of approximately 3,000 volumes on the subject, Gambone has virtually become a Civil War expert. However, Gambone counters that he is "convinced there is no such thing as an 'expert' on the war...

Gen. Washington courageously attempting to rallyfleeing militia at Kip's Bay, Manhattan MOUNT VERNON, Va. — Say goodbye to the stern and remote George Washington, the boring one who wore a powdered wig, had wooden teeth and always told the truth. Embrace instead the action hero of the 18th century, a swashbuckling warrior who survived wild adventures, led brilliant military campaigns, directed spy rings and fell in love with his best friend's wife. That is the new message from the people who run Mount Vernon, the estate where Washington spent much of his life and where more than one million people...

The current discussion over state and municipal budgets and taxes clearly separates reactionaries from progressives. Reactionaries, those who would turn the social/political clock back to the supposed Good Old Days when government did not interfere with a man's God-given right to pile up the riches, usually start their argument with money. How can we reduce taxes? -- they ask. Let's cap spending and taxes, they shout. To them, the buck is the main thing. Progressives (once termed liberals) start with the needs of our society. What kind of education program should we have? What personnel levels do our police and...