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Detailing Barack Obama’s Numerous Deceits In Just His First Year

by SteveK @ Thursday, January 21st, 2010. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Economics, Education, Government, Healthcare, History, Legal, Media

President Obama’s ability for deception is quite stunning after reading an article simply titled The Lies of Obama. Readers should keep in mind that this list was compiled in just the first year of Obama’s presidency.
When politicians are caught out in lies, their supporters often resort to the old cliché: all politicians lie. But that [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 3

by SteveK @ Thursday, January 7th, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, Media, Middle East, Religion

In this last installment we get to the schools, and thus the heart of the matter as to why so many Americans are unfamiliar with the information provided in parts 1 and 2. The education system in this country is to blame for whitewashing Islam with political correctness in order to fit the overwhelmingly liberal [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 2

by SteveK @ Sunday, January 3rd, 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, History, Media, Religion

In part two, we delve further into why some Muslims become suicide bombers or ‘martyrs’. An article titled Jihad, Martyrdom, and the Torments of the Grave, by Raymond Ibrahim, explains some of the more obscure (in the West) but powerful motivations for Islamists. Original posted HERE.
Why do some Muslims become suicide bombers or “martyrs”? In [...]

Understanding Radical Islam – Part 1

by SteveK @ Thursday, December 31st, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, History, Religion

For too long have Western apologists, primarily in academia and the media, presented the American people with a sugarcoated version of Islam. One of their main arguments is that the religion has been hijacked, but this is actually false. They also claim that terrorists are poor people pushed into extremism, which is also false, as [...]

Why Some Types of Government Are Better Than Others

by SteveK @ Thursday, November 19th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

From a historical standpoint America appears to be headed in a very precarious direction. While there are extremes on both ends of the political spectrum, the more hazardous end of that spectrum is preferred by the current crop of politicians running Washington. Exercising more and more control over the lives of other people is just [...]

Sen. Burris and House Majority Leader Hoyer: Constitution Allows Insurance Mandate

by SteveK @ Thursday, November 5th, 2009. Tags: , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, Healthcare

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was asked by CNSNews.com to specify where the Constitution grants the federal government the authority to force citizens to purchase health insurance, and he replied: “Well, that’s under certainly the laws of the–protect the health, welfare of the country. That’s under the Constitution. We’re not even dealing with any constitutionality here.” [...]

How Blacks are Harmed by the Education System

by SteveK @ Tuesday, October 6th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Family, Government

So long as the black community is beholden to certain beliefs and politics, there is little hope for any improvement. Originally posted HERE.
Black Education - by Walter Williams
Detroit’s (predominantly black) public schools are the worst in the nation and it takes some doing to be worse than Washington, D.C. Only 3 percent of Detroit’s fourth-graders [...]

America’s Failing Education System: Grade Inflation and Politicization

by SteveK @ Monday, October 5th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government

A survey was conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) titled “Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions.” Highlights of the survey include the following:

Only 21% of respondents recognized the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for [...]

The Influence of Marxism on Barack Obama and America

by SteveK @ Tuesday, September 8th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

An article posted over at Pajamas Media called “A U.S. President, Raised on KGB Propaganda” shows how Marxism is a big part of Obama’s worldview, and indeed that of most liberal Democrats. Original article can be found here.
The important fact about modern-day anti-Americanism is that it spreads almost exclusively among impressionable cultural elites who are [...]

Parents Concerned Over Obama’s Speech to America’s Students

by SteveK @ Thursday, September 3rd, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government

Obama is planning to address the school children of our country on Sept. 8 in which many, undoubtedly, will be forced to watch. The speech is supposedly geared toward encouraging kids to stay in school and work hard, and that’s not unusual for a president to do. However, the Department of Education had suggested “classroom [...]

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