Condi Rice Sticks it to some Stanford Students
Condi talks “torture” with typical idealistic, indoctrinated ivy league students…
Think What We Think…Or Else!
This is just too disturbing and it’s a horrible sign of what is going on at universities across the nation.
The irony is that by enforcing policies that create conformists, shape people’s beliefs, and attempt to change values, opinions, and ideologies are, in fact, oppressive by their very nature and hinder freedom. Conservatives have always championed individual rights but get labeled by liberals as dittoheads or conformists. This labeling is amusing since liberals tend to require strength in numbers for their agendas and force those opinions and issues on others through indoctrination and the media. Liberal’s policies struggle to hold up to scrutiny and hard facts. Group think is common amongst liberals and it’s incredibly obvious when you look at party divides. Right leaning people will tend to argue with one another because they champion individualism so much. They don’t all have the same opinions or ideas and it sometimes causes splits inside the overarching party as we have seen lately. This does not happen as often with Liberals who conform and champion the entire group and don’t rock the boat.
By creating agendas that label specific groups by race, religion, and sexuality – they are exacerbating racism and bigotry. I hope that one day people will wake up and realize that separating out groups and tagging people is, by its very nature, racist and prejudiced. To get past any divides that may still exist, we need to treat people as individuals, not groups.
Visit www.THEFIRE.org for more information on universities across the country and see where yours ranks.
The G.I.V.E Act Signed by Obama
Calling on Americans to volunteer, President Barack Obama signed a $5.7 billion national service bill Tuesday that triples the size of the AmeriCorps service program over the next eight years and expands ways for students to earn money for college.
“We need your service, right now, in this moment in history. … I’m asking you to stand up and play your part,” said Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago. “I’m asking you to help change history’s course.”
Joining Obama was Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who has been battling brain cancer. Kennedy championed the legislation with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and the bill was named in honor of the Massachusetts Democrat.
Kennedy told the audience that included former President Bill Clinton, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former first lady Rosalyn Carter that Obama’s efforts echoed that of his late brother, former President John F. Kennedy.
“Today, another young president has challenged another generation to give back to their nation,” Kennedy said, citing his brother’s advocacy of the Peace Corps.
The service law expands ways for students and seniors to earn money for college through their volunteer work. It aims to foster and fulfill people’s desire to make a difference, such as by mentoring children, cleaning up parks or buildings and weatherizing homes for the poor.
Bolstering voluntary public service programs has been a priority of Obama, who credits his work as a community organizer in his early 20s for giving him direction in life. The president cited his work in Chicago as an example of how one person can make a difference.
“All that’s required on your part is a willingness to make a difference,” Obama said. “That’s the beauty of it; everybody can do it.”
Anybody else see this as a means to an end? A goal to indoctrinate more youth for political gain? Follow the money – if you get money from the government you will vote that way – trust me.
I can think of several other occasions in history where this was passed, based on some philanthropic, feel-good premise, only to wind up being utilized for ideological purposes… that didn’t end well.
“The Worrisome Veteran”
Or Should more aptly be called The Worrisome Educator…
Penn State University’s “Department of Counseling and Psychological Services” has a video presentation that should leave any decent American shocked, saddened, and yes, even enraged. Credit David French of National Review Online for posting what might be the most definitive four minute expose on the tragedy of higher education in America. Indeed, Penn State’s shameful video production of “The Worrisome Veteran” can provide all Americans some priceless insights into the kind of surreal institutions liberals create when left unchecked.
“The Worrisome Veteran” is part of Penn State’s “Worrisome Student Behaviors” video series which is designed to provide faculty and students the ability to “minimize risk” when encountering problematic students on campus. Each video presents actors reenacting possible confrontations that may occur in various environments and suggests appropriate responses. The subtitle of the “Worrisome Veteran” presentation is: “I deserve a better grade or else . . .” In other words, to the progressive staff at Penn State, students who are veterans returning from the war in Iraq are simply potential criminals who’ve forgotten how to reason politely.
I will break this disturbing portrayal down into several sections:
1. PSU and other institutions for higher education are singling out veterans and young military white males, specifically, returning home from war to receive an education. The fact that veterans are being segregated is horrendous and discriminatory as should be clear to any clear-thinking human being.
2. The female professor talks about feeling uneasy and uncomfortable with the veteran and why would that be? It would seem like she is making the assumption that all military vets are aggressors and women-beaters on the brink of snapping at any moment. This may be something portrayed in Hollywood or by the media who may harp on one individual to classify the entire group as such, but this happens to all people and more so for the average non-military type.
3. The video uses the argument of the ex-officer having and using bad grammar as a reason to give a low grade. What struck me was that they make an assumption that men and women in uniform are uneducated hill-billy’s another misconception that was echoed by the likes of the traitor, himself, John Kerry, when he said that only uneducated men and women join the military.
4. Why is the professor only telling him what he is doing wrong and making it very vague? She should be giving him specifics should she not? I would expect that a professor or any teacher would sit down with me during office hours to take the time and point out to me what areas of my english need improvement – do I have too many run-on sentences? Am I incorrectly using prepositions? Is my punctuation off? One would think that an English Professor would be able to do this more so than, let’s say a Math Professor!
5. The mere fact that this video has to bring up the fact that the student is feeling singled out and discriminated against due to the professor’s views on the war and political leanings, tell me more about the educators at this university than anything else. They are basically saying that these views are held by a vast majority of the faculty at PSU and this could be a reason why students get upset. Why would any English Professor espouse their views in such a class? It’s not like this is a foreign diplomacy class or some type of political science class.
6. Why does the teacher feel that it is acceptable to diagnose the student by telling him he needs counseling or help? This is something the student must come to grips with if he or she in fact asks for help or discloses they are having issues. The assumption made by the teacher is incredibly condescending and yet again discriminatory. Many men and women coming home from war have been getting diagnosed with PTSD lately, but that does not mean that the majority of these cases are military folks. In fact most PTSD cases are those who are not associated with the military at all since PTSD is incredibly common and can occur due to any type of traumatic experience! PTSD also does not mean that someone will snap… another common misconception.
6. PSU is a PUBLIC school and has land grants this means that the PEOPLE own this land and there shouldn’t be political bias allowed in such institutions. If the faculty would like to discuss their views and opinions behind closed doors among one another or at happy hour then so be it, but inside the classroom and in front of children that are not their own should be banned.
7. Could there be any coincidence with the latest DHS report and this university creating this video? DHS did tell us that veterans returning home are more susceptible to right-wing extremism!
This is becoming insane!
School Choice Ignored by Obama Administration After Statistics Prove Program Success
The Wall Street Journal has new statistics on school choice. The Democrats and the Obama Administration have gone out of their way to get rid of school choice in the February stimulus. They were made privy of this information and still decided to ignore the findings because you can’t control that which you do not teach.
President Obama’s stimulus is sending some $100 billion to the nation’s school districts. What will he demand in return? The state budget passed by the New York legislature last week freezes funding for charters but increases it by more that $400 million for other public schools. Perhaps a visit to a charter school in Harlem would help Mr. Obama honor his reform pledge. “I’m looking at the data here in front of me,” Mr. Duncan told the New York Post. “Graduation rates are up. Test scores are up. Teacher salaries are up. Social promotion was eliminated. Dramatically increasing parental choice. That’s real progress.”
Mr. Duncan’s help in New York is in stark contrast to his department’s decision to sit on a performance review of the D.C. voucher program while Congress debated its future in March. The latest annual evaluation was finally released Friday, and it shows measurable academic gains. The Opportunity Scholarship Program provides $7,500 vouchers to 1,700 low-income families in D.C. to send their children to private schools. Ninety-nine percent of the children are black or Hispanic, and there are more than four applicants for each scholarship.
The 2008 report demonstrated progress among certain subgroups of children but not everyone. This year’s report shows statistically significant academic gains for the entire voucher-receiving population. Children attending private schools with the aid of the scholarships are reading nearly a half-grade ahead of their peers who did not receive vouchers. Voucher recipients are doing no better in math but they’re doing no worse. Which means that no voucher participant is in worse academic shape than before, and many students are much better off.
