Posts tagged 'Education'

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 [...]

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 [...]

Klavan on Culture – Brief Lesson on Importance of Liberty

by SteveK @ Wednesday, August 19th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

A lesson that most students seem to be missing these days with the socialist indoctrination they receive in schools. He also makes an interesting comparison between Obama and the fictional tyrant from the movie 300. Both offer the seductive, easy way out, for the price of your freedom and liberty.

Obama Health Care May Be Modeled After Public School System

by SteveK @ Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Education, Government, Healthcare

Our government education system may be the model for Obama’s health care plan. Geoffrey P. Hunt at American Thinker gives us a glimpse of what to expect on the road to institutionalized mediocrity. Although a substandard education may harm your chances at success in life, substandard medical care may cost you your life.
Much of the [...]

Former KGB Agent Explains Demoralization of America

by SteveK @ Tuesday, May 5th, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education, Government, History

This video is a nice follow-up to The University Campus: Bias and Prejudice in Higher Education. Very frightening and prophetic in many ways. Yuri Bezmenov is a former KGB agent and an expert on ideological subversion. He explains the de-moralization of American society, and how generation after generation was brainwashed by the education system.
He explains [...]

The University Campus: Bias and Prejudice in Higher Education

by SteveK @ Friday, May 1st, 2009. Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Filed under Culture, Education

Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”
As anyone who has been to college or a university knows, leftwing ideas and perspectives dominate every part of the campus. Higher education used to be about open debate, critical thinking, and honest [...]

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