“Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government.” That would include, the documents say, that “the Constitution created a Republic, not a Democracy.”
The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.”
Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.
“The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at.”
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Republican School Board in North Carolina cancels integration policy.
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It's a miracle! Tea Party gets $7500 donation from a woman who died in 2007.
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Utah Freshman Republican Senator says that Child Labor Laws are unconstitutional.
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Jared Loughner is a liberal communist with full support of the democratic party.
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Iowa Prosecutors frame two black men for a murder they did not commit. They sue and State of Iowa says that there is no freestanding constitutional right not to be framed. The high court has taken a dim view of suing prosecutors, and in Thompson's case, the court's conservatives led by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. questioned whether the district attorney's office should be held responsible for the misdeeds of a few prosecutors.
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Conservatives on the Supreme Court say cops can kick your door down without a warrant if they think they smell pot.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked why the police could not simply roam the hallways of apartment buildings, sniffing; knock whenever they smell marijuana; then break in if they hear something suspicious.
Kentucky Assistant Attorney General Farley said, “That would be perfectly fine.”
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Palin's Heebie Jeebies -Pogroms, blood libel and conservative persecution.
7 comments:
As always (or 99.75% of the time), Rush gets it right. Hardly had the cordite cleared the air before the liberal media (i.e. the media) declared Jared Loughner merely a foot soldier of the greater army of the Palinistas. The media were joined in this dishonest, cynical effort by the great and small, from the proprietor of this blog, to the sheriff who was supposed to be investigating, not adjudicating, the case. Even the president nodded beneficently over a memorial-service-turned-political-rally, complete with T-shirts emblazoned with a slogan drawn from his political campaign. Lord & Taylor couldn't wrap a package more neatly.
If Loughner's criminal insanity has taught us one thing, it is that he is not alone.
BTL
Although not germane to this post (and the fault is mine, I think I pulled the post that you were responding to, my wife hating it) I must say that from a purely literary p.o.v., I dig the Lord and Taylor reference. Abraham and Strauss would have sounded too dated, Bloomies too trendy, and Bergdorf's too provincial.
Once upon a time Barney's sold merchandise that a normal person could afford but that ship sailed long ago.
In regards to this post of mine, isn't it funny that the things that worry me about our country, and I included a whole mess of them, register nary a blip on your meter, btl?
And I guess the inverse is true as well. But I can occasionally come over to the other side when you are right. You have never shown that inclination yet, because all liberals are stupid, or evil, or what have you.
No, the post is as I first saw it. You linked to a HuffPo post which had El Rushbo's comment. That's what I was responding to.
And I chose that because we still have some unfinished business: the tarring of the conservative movement with Jared Loughner. That was groundless, dishonest, and dirty. I may call liberals (which I was a voting one for almost three decades, remember) stupid and evil, but I always have a reason!
As for the rest, it was a bit of a mulligatawny, but to pick one item: So Tennessee wants to teach the founding narrative of this country--the sacrifice of the Founding Fathers' lives, fortunes, and sacred honor--before fragmenting the American Story into the history of slavery (a universal, not uniquely American, sin), encroachment (ditto), and other failings. The failings are real, and ought to be taught, but what's wrong with celebrating the bold and perilous enterprise that became America?
BTL
They didn't say celebrate the founding father's first, they said illegal to "obscure the contributions of the majority." If that doesn't scare you, you have truly shed any liberal past you may or may not have ever had.
I will not apologize for any of the points that I made, which I stand behind. I know who created the violent climate, they weren't the one's driving volvo's with coexist stickers. In the past campaign with the exception of Manchin, a dino if I ever saw one, all of the people who used violent imagery in their campaigns were republican conservatives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/15/guns-in-politics-giffords-palin_n_808016.html#s224589&title=Man_Takes_Assault
Of course, when one of your own, a Roeder or Rudolph goes over the edge, you quickly disavow him as not being a true conservative.
It is obvious that the country has a real mutual hatred thing going.
They didn't say celebrate the founding father's first, they said illegal to "obscure the contributions of the majority."
That wasn't in your post, though it may have been in the linked article. What was in your post was what I answered, and I think that answer holds up.
Thank you for at least standing by your comments re Loughner (and C. Matthews', and K. Olbermann's, etc. ad nauseam): they are as I characterized them, but they are evidently sincere.
The same goes for your characterization of Roeder and Rudolph as "conservatives". Wow. I suppose Donner and Blitzen are Tea Partiers too?
BTL
Methinks old bloodthirsty doth protest too much. Such a strong denial from such innocent, peace-loving righties.
My favorite is "the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another." Intrusion? Smallpox ridden blankets, extermination and the long march, I would say it's a little intrusive...
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