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Ron Paul: The State Is Not God

Ron Paul on collectivism’s collapse, Common Core and more  In this exclusive interview with Infowars, former congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul breaks down how politicians use public education, particularly with Common Core, to create a dumbed down population unaware of their rights and how parents can counter it with a homeschooling curriculum based […] Continue reading →

Students Brutalized by School Police for Free Speech

Richard  via CopBlock.org’s Date of Interaction: March 2014Police Employees Involved: SWC School Police  It was some time in March when I was in a private independent study room inside the math lab of Southwestern College, in National City. Math gets very tedious so I often dick around, relieving stress drawing dumb shit on the whiteboard. […] Continue reading →

Education: What is Literacy in the 21st Century?

By Bruce Deitrick Price A new development in education is deciding what “literacy” should be in the 21st century. With a swirl of technological breakthroughs all around us, elite educators are gaga at the plethora of excuses for pooh-poohing subjects routinely taught in the dark age known as the 20th century.   The National Council […] Continue reading →

Pat Buchanan: A Legendary Failure of Liberalism

 When Brown v. Board of Education, the 9-0 Warren Court ruling came down 60 years ago, desegregating America’s public schools, this writer was a sophomore at Gonzaga in Washington, D.C. In the shadow of the Capitol, Gonzaga was deep inside the city. And hitchhiking to school every day, one could see the “for sale” signs […] Continue reading →

Walter E. Williams: Coming End to Racial Preferences

Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court 6-2 ruling in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action et al. upheld Michigan’s constitutional amendment that bans racial preferences in admission to its public universities. Justice Sonia Sotomayor lashed out at her colleagues in a bitter dissent, calling them “out of touch with reality.” She went on to make […] Continue reading →

Bank of America Lost $2.7 Billion in a Maze of Accounting

 Last month, Citigroup failed the Fed’s stress test because, even though it would meet minimum capital requirements in a severely adverse scenario, the Fed wasn’t comfortable with Citi’s capital planning process. Meanwhile, Bank of America passed the stress test and was authorized to increase its capital return by about $6.5 billion, because the Fed concluded […] Continue reading →

You Won’t Believe The Method That Common Core Is Using To Teach Our Kids Subtraction

Michael SnyderThe Truth The dumbing down of America is accelerating.  A massive federal takeover of education known as “Common Core” is attempting to impose nationwide academic standards on public schools throughout the entire country.  Thanks to the backing of billionaire Bill Gates, endless promotion by the U.S. Department of Education, and financial bribes to state […] Continue reading →

This Common Core math problem asks kids to write the ‘friendly’ answer, instead of the correct one!

A second grader’s answers to a Common Core-aligned math worksheet were marked as incorrect because they weren’t “friendly” enough… even though they were the right answers. A screenshot of the worksheet was posted to Twitter. The teacher wrote that even though the questions — addition and subtraction problems — were solved correctly, the student used the wrong […] Continue reading →

Common Core: The education standards program

 John Stossel  My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they’d most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the education standards program Common Core. Most Americans don’t even know what that is. But they should. It’s the government’s plan to try to bring […] Continue reading →