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YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ANY MORE BECAUSE HISTORY IS NO LONGER TAUGHT AS A REQUIRED SUBJECT IN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.       Theodore " Dutch " J. Van Kirk was the navigator on the  "Enola Gay" when it dropped the bomb at Hiroshima , Japan, and is the last surviving member of the crew. This really happened.   Dutch was asked to speak at a grammar school this past week.The young teacher introduced him by saying the speaker was a veteran of World War Eleven (as in WWII). Dutch stood up and walked out of the school without saying a word. End of story..     GOD HELP US Guy

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Hundreds of NC teachers are flunking math exams. Almost 2,400 North Carolina elementary school teachers have failed the math portion of their licensing exams, which puts their careers in jeopardy, since the state hired Pearson publishing company to give the exam in 2013, according to a report presented to the state Board of Education Wednesday. Failure rates have spiked as schools around the state struggle to find teachers for the youngest children. Education officials are now echoing what frustrated teachers have been saying: The problem may lie with the exams rather than the educators. Teachers in Florida and Indiana have also seen mass failures when their states adopted Pearson testing, according to news reports from those states. Concern about the validity of the Pearson licensing exams is so pervasive that it was discussed at this year’s National Education Association conference, said North Carolina Association of Educators President Mark Jewell. FULL What?  Only Math?  Only North Carolina? BONUS

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Hofstra Students Toe the Line Stickers reading “Decolonize” and the text “Black Lives Matter” alongside a clenched fist were placed on the statue on April 19, leaving residue on the statue. The left doesn’t want to debate issues. They want to get their way and will do almost anything to get it. Campus Reform reports: Jefferson statue vandalized at Hofstra University A Thomas Jefferson statue at Hofstra University has been repeatedly vandalized in the wake of dueling student demonstrations over whether it should be removed from campus. On April 2, students protested for and against the removal of the statue outside the Hofstra student center. Some students held the American flag in front of the statue and protested against the erasure of history, while others carried signs reading “SLAVER” and demanded the founding father’s removal. Images obtained by Campus Reform show that the Jefferson statue has since been vandalized multiple times. Stickers reading “Decolonize” and the text “Black Lives Matter” alongside a clenched fist were placed on the statue on April 19, leaving residue on the statue. Additionally, on April 20, the statue was marred with white spray-paint, and a paper bearing the words “Black Lives Matter” was taped to the statue’s forehead. But we are not Nazis."

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Camille Paglia: Public Schools Creating Students Who ‘Know Nothing’ My New Mind Squeeze What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history of any kind. No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out. They have no sense whatever of destruction, of the great civilizations that rose and fell, and so on, and how arrogant people get when they’re in a comfortable civilization, etc. So they now are being taught to look around them to see defects in America – which is the freest country in the history of the world – and to feel that somehow America is the source of all evil in the universe, and it’s because they’ve never been exposed to the actual evil of the history of humanity. They know nothing! [FULL] Ms. Paglia has always made sense to me, or at least is able to make me consider her side of things .. when I don't agree with them.  Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess. The feminist line is, strippers and topless dancers are degraded, subordinated, and enslaved; they are victims, turned into objects by the display of their anatomy. But women are far from being victims — women rule; they are in total control … the feminist analysis of prostitution says that men are using money as power over women. I'd say, yes, that's all that men have. Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist. Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. An erection is a thought and the orgasm an act of the imagination. The male has to will his sexual authority before the woman who is a shadow of his mother and of all women. Failure and humiliation constantly wait in the wings. No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop. There are times I'd like to lock her in a room with Robert Spitzer Judaism, Christianity’s parent sect, is the most powerful of protests against nature. The Old Testament asserts that a father god made nature and that the differentiation into objects and gender was after the fact of his maleness. Judeo-Christianity, like Greek worship of the Olympian gods, is a sky-cult. It is an advanced stage in the history of religion, which everywhere began as earth-cult, veneration of fruitful nature. And .. oh.  Nevermind I plan to vote for Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary because he is a rational, centered personality who speaks the language of idealism and national unity. Obama has served longer as an elected official than Hillary. He has had experience as a grass-roots activist, and he is also a highly educated lawyer who will be a quick learner in office. His international parentage and childhood, as well as his knowledge of both Christianity and Islam, would make him the right leader at the right time. And his wife Michelle is a powerhouse. The Obamas represent the future, not the past. [But, then Camille Paglia on Why She's Not Voting for President Obama ...