Category: Education
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Transgender Bathroom Issue
Following, the first widely publicized account of (what looks like) a pedophile using the transgender issue to enter a bathroom at Jason’s Deli to attack a young girl, I posted the article with the caption: According to you and your Dear Leader Obama, I should be arrested for denying this man’s civil right to go into…
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Foundation For Applied Conservative Leadership Training – 11/21/15
From Ike Skelton… Hello all, I’m writing you today to invite you to a particularly exciting conservative leadership training course I am hosting on Nov. 21st, 2015, at Mariners Pier 31 in Camdenton, Missouri. Like you, I have been involved in the liberty/Tea Party/conservative/grassroots WHATEVER you want to call it, movement, for several years. Probably…
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To Representatives of the House Committee on Elementary and Secondary Education Re HB 578
By Mary Byrne As a member of the Social Studies 6-12 Academic Standards Work Group constituted by HB 1490, I’d like to applaud Representative Swan’s recognition of the need for ensuring students in Missouri understand their history and responsibility as American citizens in our republican form of government; and offer a recommendation to achieve a…
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Keep The Republic (This Saturday)
It’s an admonishment you’ve heard dozens of times. Dr. Benjamin Franklin left the Constitutional Convention on September 17th, 1787 and was met by a woman who asked, “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Dr. Franklin replied, “A republic, madam – if you can keep it.” Do you feel like we’re…
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8 Buck Mike… …and The House Appropriations Committee for Education
One thing that seems to be lost in the kerfuffle over Missouri Representative Mike Lair’s amendment to purchase $8.00 of tin-foil for the “Common Core paranoia” is that “The Kansas City Star reported that the House Appropriations committee approved an amendment for $8 for tin foil in next year’s Education Budget.” [Emphasis added] Maybe I’m…
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Common Core Is Great!! …Right?!?
More good links: 1. Think Like a Nazi….Argue why jews are evil–4th grade common core assignment, Albany, NY: http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/48049380443/common-core-writing-assignment-think-like-a 2. Suffolk County Education Forum Video: 3. Attend School Board Meetings: http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/campbell/entry/55546 4. Common Core: “If You Like Your Curriculum, You Can Keep Your Curriculum”: http://www.cato.org/blog/common-core-you-curriculum-you-can-keep-it 5. Dr. Gary Thompson Testifies to…
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DESE Common Core Answers
Can you believe that only 8 days after the DESE Common Core… divide and conquer campaign listening session information forum …talking points dispensation session, we have all the answers we could ever want ready to go on the DESE web site?!? Would you believe they answered half the questions? Would you believe none? Here’s a…
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Battle For Brooklyn
The Show-Me Institute and nextSTL present a free advance screening of the Battle for Brooklyn, a documentary about the abuse of eminent domain to make way for luxury housing and a stadium. The screening will be held: Monday, April 23 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. The Luminary Center for the Arts 4900 Reber Place, Saint…
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Missouri FY 2013 Budget Summary
Thanks to Donna Lichtenegger for forwarding summary information on Governor Nixon’s proposed 2013 budget below: Economists are generally predicting a slow but steady recovery for the U.S. economy which is still struggling with unemployment at 8.5%. There is a positive sign with the four-week moving average of weekly initial unemployment claims falling and stabilizing below…
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