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Brainwashing, complete: Majority of teens say not recycling is more immoral than porn

When I decry the indoctrination occuring in the government schools I'm often chastised by my liberal friends for over-reacting. Well, it turns out that ideas do have consequences, and one such consequence is the elevation of Gaia worship over traditional morality.

Because "over-eating, energy consumption, and not recycling" are three issues the progressive left insists on emphasizing, over and over, brainwashing our children with apocalyptic visions of rising sea levels washing away a population of overweight sloths. Absent a sense of perspective, of course.

And naturally too, downplaying the detrimental effects of viewing porn is another deliberate decision. Porn desensitizes children to the spiratuality of sexual relations. Porn shows them that it's "normal" to engage in immoral activities. And the generation that came of age on "free love" is now teaching our kids that sexually, anything goes.

This is what comes of moral relativism, the belief that there are no absolutes, only shades of gray. It's a belief that "good" and "evil" are merely 2 sides of the same coin, and one is not inherently better than the other. Absolute morality, of the kind espoused by the likes of organized religion, has become verboten, replacing relativity with relativism.

Which is why our educators do not provide perspective when expounding on the perils of Climate Change, or racism, or homophobia, or Islamophobia, or in fact any of their radical pronouncements. When all ideas are "equal," nothing has value. Or rather, everything has the same value, and that value is defined by the person espousing it.

Alas, men need something or someone to worship. It's human nature. If God is taken out of the equation, then another deity, the State or the planet or the self, rushes in to fill the void. So we begat a generation of kids whose morality is skewed. A generation that will rearrange bathrooms across America to accommodate a single transgender individual and doesn't blink an eye at depictions of group sex on television. And of course a generation which delights in persecuting Christians and Jews who stand up in objection to the skewering of absolute truth.

In such an environment, how could recyclling not be more important than resisting temptation?

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Dictator Obama decrees all public school bathrooms and locker rooms must be coed

He's got a pen and a phone, and he's fundamentally transforming every corner of America. Your child's school is now in the crosshairs of his social justice warriors, and with it any expectations of privacy and decency.

Boys will shower with girls.

(Cue Yul Brynner voice… So let it be written. So let it be done!)

The Obama administration is sending out an edict today to every school district in the country, insisting they open bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers to all children, regardless of sex, or risk federal discrimination lawsuits and yanked federal funds. Schools must treat children as transgender and thus entitled to open facilities access as soon as parents say they are, not after a medical diagnosis or birth certificate change. Schools may, however, give all the other kids with healthy gender identities curtains to hide behind or license to use toilet stalls to change.

Because in topsy-turvy SJW world, no one should feel "unwelcome," except, you know, all the normal kids.

"No student should ever have to go through the experience of feeling unwelcome at school or on a college campus," [Education Secretary John B.] King said. "We must ensure that our young people know that whoever they are or wherever they come from, they have the opportunity to get a great education in an environment free from discrimination, harassment and violence."

The only "harassment" here is coming from the LGBT bullies. They've already shoved a redefinition of marriage down our throats, and this is the next front in their all-out war on morality, decency, and common sense. To accommodate their radical agenda the vast majority of us must be inconvenienced, and of course irritated into mindless acceptance of their distorted worldview.

So if every girl in your school now feels "unwelcome" in the locker room when there's a boy showering with her, that's not a Real Problem. Because, "tolerance!" And the onus is on parents to seek "additional privacy" for our daughters, instead of quite reasonably creating a gender-neutral facility for the allegedly transgender child.

Some parents are already fighting back.

But that's not "bullying," right SJWs? Because to them it's "education." It's "awareness." It's "empowerment."

Which of course is nonsense on stilts.

Our daughters have Rights. And their rights are just as inviolate as the newly-minted rights of the confused teenage boy pretending to be a girl.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he will stand up for our daughters' rights by filing a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the mandate.

God bless Texas. And North Carolina.

I can't wait to see Hillary Clinton try to defend this policy on the campaign trail. It's gonna make her awkward encounter with a West Virginia coal miner look like a walk in the park in comparison.

Republicans could have a field day with this in the general election. Except we've managed to put forth a candidate who agrees with the bathroom bullies.

Oops.

And down the rabbit hole we go.

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Michelle Obama will now fine schools that don't follow her lunch rules

And here you thought the First Lady had no constitutional powers.

Welcome to the Evita Peron phase of the Obama dictatorship, wherein Michelle Obama gets to punish schools and teachers who flout her lunch laws.

I won't hold my breath waiting for her to fine Sidwell Friends though, because I assure you, her little princesses don't eat the crap she forces our kids to eat.

Nah, she goes after the powerless, first.

A West Virginia preschool teacher was threatened with fines for violating the rules by rewarding her students with candy for good behavior in June 2015. The teacher ultimately did not have to pay, but the school had to develop a "corrective action plan" with training on the policies.

She says "corrective action plan," I say Indoctrination. ThoughtCrime will not be tolerated!

How about we impose a "corrective action plan" on the Obamas, starting with a crash course in federalism and the constitution?

Does anyone seriously believe this is what our Founders had in mind when they sought to establish a federal government of limited powers? Instead we now have a bloated, wasteful, inefficient and malevolent government whose first instinct is to reach for the stick to make you to eat that carrot.

Liberalism: ideas so good they have to be mandatory.

Obey, peasant!

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NJ Education Commissioner overrides NJSIAA's anti-Catholic sports segregation scheme

Earlier this month New Jersey's governing body for high school sports voted to segregate all the Catholic schools into their own state-wide conference, preventing them from competing with any public school teams. According to the NJSIAA the policy was needed to promote "fairness," because a handful of the Catholic schools are too good at football or wrestling.

Yesterday, Education Commissioner David Hespe disagreed.

In other words, the new policy was blatantly discriminatory, and designed to disadvantage student athletes attending Catholic high schools. Ergo, it cannot stand.

This is a tremendous victory for common sense and actual fairness.

The vast majority of Catholic high schools do not field elite sport teams. These schools have amicably competed with their local public counterparts for decades, and a policy which sequesters them into seeking out only other Catholic opponents would wreak havoc with students' lives, sending them potentially dozens of miles from home to venues far and wide in order to participate in sports programs.

The public schools are peeved because they're restricted to accepting students from a defined geographic area, ie the local town or school district. Catholic schools don't enforce arbitrary restrictions, so the "competitive balance" factor is trotted out to blame them for enrolling students from what could be a larger talent pool.

It's a problem that universal school choice would solve in the first 15 minutes of its implementation. But school choice would take power away from the urban teachers unions, and in New Jersey nothing can ever be done if the unions aren't on board. So, school choice is a non-starter.

The result is that the public schools will keep dreaming up schemes to make attending Catholic school less attractive, on the assumption that the students will then "come home." How that is good for the students is, sadly, unclear.

Thankfully we have in David Hespe an educator who is unwilling to countenance discrimination. I applaud him for reversing this blatant attempt at creating a Catholic athletic ghetto, and I pray that our state's student athletes will continue to freely compete in a spirit of fair play.

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If only she meant it: Hillary Clinton has an amazing plan to close every public school in America

Yesterday Hillary Clinton told supporters in Iowa she'll close all the "below average" public schools.

The math nerd in me immediately recognized her logical fallacy, recursion!

"Eventually we'll be left with one, very good school, where students will learn the ways this is similar to and different from Zeno's paradox. But this school, too, will have to be closed, because it will comprise the average on its own, and no school that isn't doing better than average can stay open."

Hey, nobody ever said Democrats were good at math.

But, boy oh boy, wouldn't it be great if Hillary actually followed through? No more public schools! No more unionized public school teachers! No more funneling of millions of dollars in union dues into Democratic Party coffers! Not to mention, real school choice! What's not to like?

Maybe President Cruz can consult with her after he abolishes the Department of Education. Bipartisanship at its finest!

A guy can dream, right?

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NJ high school sports leadership kicked out all the Catholic schools, read this epic response

This past Monday the governing board of New Jersey high school athletics met and voted to consign all Catholic high schools into their own segregated conference, effectively preventing them from competing with any public school in football and wrestling.

Because, fairness, or something.

"Narrowly" in this case is an almost 2-1 majority. What do these blockheads consider to be a blowout? (The vote to split wrestling was 216-121.)

And why would the NJSIAA do this? Because some of the Catholic schools are "too good."

Monday's landmark decision is the result of years of trouble brewing between the state's public and non-public schools. To date, some public schools have been forced to play non-public schools during the regular season, despite having drastically different pools from which they draw students. Public schools have defined, geographic boarders, while non-public schools can accept students from anywhere.

And that's the fault of the Catholic schools how? The fixed geographic borders are a direct result of the teachers union stranglehold on public education. If New Jersey implemented school choice this problem would simply disappear. But school choice takes money and power away from the NJEA, which of course can never be allowed to happen, so the only "solution" is to eliminate the competition.

Smells like anti-Catholic bigotry to me.

Catholic powerhouses like Don Bosco and Seton Hall Prep attract students because their academic and athletic programs are significantly better than those run by the unionistas. And in the union mindset, if you're successful you must be punished.

But the fight isn't over. And at least one Catholic school athletic director has come out swinging. Bishop Ahr's Michael Wolfthal sent an epic email to the "friends" who stabbed him in the back.

I wanna shake this guy's hand.

Bishop Ahr is no "powerhouse." Their Greater Middlesex Conference football record stands at 20 wins and 30 losses over the past 5 seasons. There are plenty of other small Catholic schools in the same boat.

But too bad, says the NJSIAA. The Catholic kids have to be consigned to a sports ghetto, prohibited from mixing with the public school kids. Which sounds an awful lot like what Donald Trump wants to do with Muslims, except that's "discrimination" and somehow this is "fairness."

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Public middle school science project: Rat out your parents' energy usage for Gaia

Whoever said religion isn't allowed in the public schools hasn't been paying attention to the Cult of Climate Change. Because at Caldwell's Grover Cleveland Middle School, indoctrination into that cult is in full swing.

A reader forwarded me the following email from his sixth-grader's teachers, describing the requirements for a "science" project.

Onward Gaia Youth, wear your brown green shirts with pride!

Riddle me this Batman. If the teachers aren't privy to the info being supplied, how are they going to grade the project? Everybody gets an "A"? I wouldn't put it past them, but still…

So let's assume that there will be some correlation between a family's "carbon footprint" and the class roster. Will there then be the usual ecotwit tut-tutting about "carbon pigs?" Chastisement of the biggest "polluters?" Extra credit for promising to force dad into trading in his Hummer for a Prius?

I'm going with "D", "all of the above."

So let's turn the tables, shall we?

What's the "carbon footprint" of the Caldwell - West Caldwell public school system? They've got 4 elementary schools, a three story middle school, a sprawling high school that includes an auditorium to rival Lincoln Center and they're in the process of tearing out the natural grass football field to replace it with artificial turf.

Hmm. Real grass absorbs CO₂ doesn't it? And artificial turf is made from evil hydrocarbons! Plus it reflects heat, raising the ambient temperature of the area and directly contributing to Global Warming! How's that gonna help save Mother Gaia?

Hey, intellectual consistency has never been a hallmark of the folks preaching to us about "climate change." Just look at how much CO₂ Barry and his acolytes burned jetting off to their climate gabfest in Paris. (Yes, it's more than all the families of the kids in the local sixth grade, combined.)

The school district also has a sizable fleet of trucks and buses that I see constantly flittering about town all day long. Not to mention the cars used by the teachers, administrators, and support staff to get to and from the schools each day. Which, by the way, don't seem to include too many Priuses or car pools, if my quick perusal of the parking lots while going to vote is any indication.

All the CO₂ from that stuff adds up pretty fast, doesn't it?

But sure, let's shame some parents into cutting their carbon footprint. Because the real goal is indoctrinating good little automatons; and definitely not teachng anyone any "science."

"Science" involves critical thinking. "Science" involves determining the relative impact of any potential CO₂ reduction. Of course, sixth graders haven't been introduced to imaginary numbers yet, so calculating the relative impact is probably beyond the parameters of the exercise, but still, you get my point.

This project is nothing more than propaganda for feel-good environmentalism, with undertones of eco-fascism at the ready should anyone question the official Climate Change dogma. You will be shamed into apologizing for your carbon footprint! And you'll like it.

I'll throw in one last parting shot — what's the carbon footprint of 203,634 NJEA unionistas converging on Atlantic City for four days each November to whinge about how much they hate Chris Christie?

No, wait, don't tell me. It might make Mother Gaia cry.

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Orange, NJ Board of Education fires cop-killer-loving teacher Marylin Zuniga

Sanity prevailed last night. Marylin Zuniga, the teacher who forced her third grade class to write "get well" letters to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal, is now unemployed.

That should be the end of this sordid affair. Except Zuniga plans to sue.

Yeah, he really said that.

No, nobody believed him.

Marylin Zuniga is, and ought to be, radioactive.

But this is Essex County. And in Essex County, it's like Bizarro World, only weirder.

The freaking president of our county Freeholder Board is siding with a cop-killer? Did I read that right? Because that's what it looks like. Marylin Zuniga worships a cop-killer. And the, ahem, Honorable Britnee Timberlake stands hand-in-hand with Marylin Zuniga.

That's messed up.

Where did the Democrats dig up this clown? The Activists R Us rent-a-whackjob division? She was only elected to her first term last year and already she's president of the board. That's gotta be some kind of record, even for us, where "the fix" is always in.

Anybody got the guts to ask Joe D what he thinks about his newest henchwoman's antics? Because I can't believe she landed where she is without his blessing. So I gotta wonder if he's secretly on the #FreeMumia bandwagon too.

I'm appalled. And all of you knee-jerk Democrats who voted for Britnee Timberlake are the ones who ought to be ashamed of yourselves. You really picked a winner. Thanks. Thanks a whole lot.

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Keeping our kids poor and stupid: Only 18% of 8th-graders are proficient in US history

Those who don't know history are doomed to be brainwashed into believing in Obamaunism.

So the teachers unions, as wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Democrat Party, are doing their level best then. They're ensuring we're breeding a nation of ignoramuses, ripe for brainwashing into Progressive dogma. And the brainwashing is in full swing.

Without the context of our uniquely American experience, kids might get the idea that Rights are granted by Government. And that which government grants, government can take away. For our own good, of course.

Absent a solid basis in the principles of Federalism, kids might get the idea that everything ultimately belongs to the government, and it is government which benevolently deigns to let us use our property, so long as we use it in accordance with the diktats of government.

Unless they understand how America was founded, kids might get the idea that our nation is not unique, and not deserving of their efforts to sustain and improve it.

In short, historical illiteracy serves to impede critical thinking skills, and enables the presentation of ideals antithetical to those upon which this great nation was founded. Out with self-sufficiency, in with the welfare state. Discount the pursuit of happiness and equality of opportunity, instead ensure that everybody gets a trophy. Deprecate the contributions of Old White Guys while sensationalizing the marginal achievements of fringe minority groups, as if America would not exist without the latter, and manages to scrape on by despite the impediments created by the former.

Children who aren't versed in how our nation was founded won't grow up into adults willing to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution our Founding Fathers fought and died to establish. And that's exactly what the Obamunists want. When you don't believe in Something, you'll fall for Anything.

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Marylin Zuniga: I made my students worship Mumia because white kids were mean to me in high school

Cop-killer loving teacher Marylin Zuniga tried to defend herself last night in front of the Orange, NJ Board of Education.

And since she had nothing to stand on, she played the Race Card.

Translation: I had every opportunity to get ahead, but I decided to become a Marxist because white people didn't bow down to my multicultural sensitivities.

Remember when immigrants assimilated? Yeah, me neither.

So, our Ms. Zuniga felt "disconnected," eh? But not in the way that Daniel Faulkner is disconnected from his life. Her disconnect is more metaphorical. And harder to endure, of course. Because, racism.

The poor dear, she had to settle for a second-rate education, too.

Oh, wait, no she didn't.

After graduating with honors from Montclair State University, Zuniga decided to pursue her master's degree at Columbia University before entering the \classroom. "I felt that my future students deserved the best and the only way they would receive that is if I was fully equipped as an educator," she said.

Darn those racist white people! How'd that lowly Peruvian sneak into one of their most esteemed graduate programs? Columbia already graduated that Obama fellow, you'd think that would've satisfied the quota gods. But no, they took in a "disconnected" young lady, laid the world at her feet, and were rewarded for their trouble in the only way a Marxist knows. Anger.

Then she brought her politics into the classroom, the better to indoctrinate her charges into the cult of victimhood. She got caught. And her only regret is that she blabbed about it.

OK Comrade!

She's not sorry she brainwashed a room full of eight-year-olds.

She's sorry she got carried away with enthusiasm for her success.

Her "apology" isn't really to the parents and the taxpayers. It's to her fellow travelers, for outing their insidious agenda. She regrets not keeping the whole sordid affair under her hat, at least until she achieved tenure, when of course she'd be free to assign The Communist Manifesto for summer reading.

And get this, she wants a second chance.

"Given my record, I do not believe this one episode justifies my termination. However, if the board has decided to terminate me, then I am prepared to submit my resignation to avoid the consequences to my career that would follow from termination."

Oh, I'd say it's a little too late for avoiding consequences. Not unless Google vanishes from the face of the earth.

As for it being "one episode," well then, I guess the results of her "hands up, don't shoot" assignment have already been fed into a shredder. Which is a pity, because I'd really like to have read the radical slogans she undoubtedly fed to her students.

Marylin Zuniga is but a cog in academia's leftward march. She's hardly unique. But we need to make an example of her. Show the bastards that we're not going to take it any more. Prevent her from poisoning any more young minds. Fire her. Today.

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Some punishment: Cop-killer-loving teacher Marylin Zuniga suspended, with pay

Her union protects her right to be an America-hating idiot. Marylin Zuniga, the Orange, NJ teacher who forced her third-graders to write "get well" letters to convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, has been suspended, with pay.

Yeah, uh huh, they're doing the Sgt. Schultz Shuffle — I knew nuh-think! — while trying to cover their butts. Didn't anyone in the district follow her Twitter feed?

Senator Cory Booker was one of her followers. I guess that says a lot right there, doesn't it?

And I say "was" because, she's so dedicated to her revolutionary cause that she's taken down her Twitter page. Way to stand up for your principles, comrade.

This isn't her first foray into radical indoctrination either, which also ought to be a clue for the nitwits who hired her:

But hey, they "vehemently deny" any knowledge of her assignments. Or her methods. Or where her "revolution begins."

Which sounds like the school's principal is either incompetently not monitoring her staff, or she saw nothing to complain about. Until, of course, sane people noticed what was going on in the third grade.

Sadly, my money's on incompetence. The school rates a 2 (out of 10). And Marylin Zuniga isn't doing much to fix that.

Let's hope she's fired. Soon. And that she never sets foot in another classroom to brainwash unsuspecting young minds. Our children deserve better. And Mumia Abu-Jamal deserves to rot in hell for all eternity.

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Your tax dollars at work: Orange, NJ students write "get well" letters to convicted cop killer

Remember when children were taught to respect police officers?

Yeah, me neither.

Because now, they're taught to honor cop-killers.

Of course it's a tenured public school unionista behind this atrocity.

She won't be fired. Or reprimanded. Only teachers who speak out to defend traditional values get fired.

The public school system is a hotbed of radical leftist indoctrination.

You'd have to be an idiot, or a dedicated anti-American communist sympathizer, to belive that Wesley Cook (this "Mumia" character's real name) didn't shoot Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in cold blood.

Their "hero" shot a cop in the back. And then, execution-style, between the eyes. That's who this teacher wants to "get well." A cop-killing piece of trash who should have been fried in an electric chair and left to rot in an unmarked grave.

Putting your child in her classroom is parental malpractice.

Way to go Orange, NJ. We see where your priorities lie. Every day that Marylin Zuniga retains her job tells us all we need to know. You're a town that's on the same page as the execrable Al Sharpton: "What do we want? … Dead cops!" Thanks for showing your true colors.

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Lardass Michelle Obama is demanding to weigh your toddlers in daycare

Who the hell died and put Moochelle in charge of our kid's snack time?

Well, as the saying goes, she's Large And In Charge. And if your kid is too fat, she wants to know.

Privacy? Yeah, you don't have that.

Choices? You don't have those either.

But, nagging? For sure. Because your kid will eat what Moochelle tells her to eat. And nothing else.

I don't remember seeing this sociopathic control freak on my election ballot. How about you? The fact that she is monitoring our children, and then creating regulations governing what we feed them? Well, that's how I spell FASCISM.

If she wants to micromanage her own kids' meals? Not my concern.

And if people want to voluntarily submit to her tyranny? Well, there's apparently no law against stupidity.

But I'll be damned if I let an unelected busybody dictate what my daughter is allowed to eat.

Michelle Obama needs to go back to tending her White House vegetable garden.

Oh, excuse me, Michelle Obama needs to go back to asking Juan and Miguel and Esmerelda to tend her White House vegetable garden. And it might be nice if she forced her own little princesses to eat the crap she's foisting on our kids.

Fat chance of that. Do as Her Majesty says, not as she does. And of course she gets to eat cake.

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When a 7-year-old complains to Michelle Obama about his crappy school lunch, she puts him in his place

This kid's got balls. He doesn't like Michelle Obama's new school lunches. And even though he's only 7 years old, he decided to tell her just how he feels.

Whole wheat tacos taste like cardboard. Whole wheat pizza is an abomination.

Her Imperial Majesty's response? Eat what I tell you to eat, peasant!

Notice how she didn't take him up on the lunch offer. She's not gonna eat that shit. Her kids don't eat that shit either. They eat gourmet lunches, because the Obama's are better than you Trip.

Trip's mom, Katie, said he "was so proud and excited that [Obama] took the time to write him back" and "now he knows the reasons for the change." Whether he understands the reasons or not, Trip still wants his old tacos and pizza back.

It doesn't matter what you want Trip.

It only matters that you do what's good for the collective.

So be a good little automaton and do as they say.

And while you're at it, you'd better knock off that whole thinking for yourself stuff too young man.

Your name is now on a list. You'll be watched. No more agitating for what you think is right. The government will tell you what's "right." They're smarter than you. More important too. Do as you're told and there won't be any trouble.

You don't want to get in trouble, do you Trip? Do you want your mom and dad to have to explain to a man from the government why you won't eat your vegetables? The man from the government won't be happy about that Trip. He might decide to take you away from such bad parents, seeing as how they didn't teach you to believe in everything your president and his queen say. Then the government will raise you right, Trip. Teach you respect for your betters.

Or else.

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Bullying for Tolerance: CA high school humiliates kids who question homosexual dogma

At Acalanes High School in Lafayette, California homosexuality is now compulsory, and dissent will not be tolerated. Because, Tolerance!

That's funny, when a someone ridicules or humiliates a kid who says he's LGBT, that's bullying. But the Rainbow Warriors are "peer educators," immune from criticism, or accountability.

Sounds a lot like peer pressure to me. In my day it was all the cool kids are smoking dope, so why aren't you? Now it's all the cool kids are taking it up the ass, and if you don't, you're a hater.

There is no bully quite as viscious as a homofascist preaching "tolerance." And I've got the fan mail to prove it.

But of course. Christian values are antithetical to the homosexual agenda. And we all know which way our secular intellectual overseers view the issue; only homosexuals can tell us what we're allowed to think, Christians need to get with the program.

So when your kid shows up for her next English class, don't be shocked if she's asked point blank, "Are you now, or have you ever been a homophobe?"

Next week they'll ask if her parents voted Republican.

Remember the Golden Rule? Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you?

Yeah, the homosexuals never got the memo. Maybe because it came from that Jesus guy, and we all know how much He hated people who weren't exactly like Himself. Oh, wait…

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It's good to be king: Obama's proposed tax on 529 college savings plans exempts Obama

It figures. Barack Obama's communist proposal to tax your kid's college savings account has an exemption — for Malia and Sasha Obama.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Unless your father is the king!

Rich guys like Obama, who can front-load their kids' 529 plans, won't be subjected to his new tax. But ordinary schmoes like you and me who save a little every week? Yeah, we get hosed.

Oh, but it's for the Common Good dontcha know. And according to the looney lefties at the Star-Ledger it's Obama's version of the G.I. Bill:

This is the president's G.I. Bill, minus the army -- an astute and far-reaching initiative that illuminates a path into the middle class for millions, just as the last G.I. Bill did for their grandfathers. This 21st Century investment in human infrastructure shows the same confidence in the potential of our workforce.

Good grief.

The G.I. Bill was earned through service, and sacrifice. This is just another liberal give-away to buy votes for Democrats. Besides, Obama already has a quasi-free college plan, he'll forgive some of your loans for each year you spend in the Hitler Youth ObamaCorps.

That's already his "G.I. Bill."

So, why the big push for "free" community college?

Because it plays into his long-term strategy to tax all wealth. The money you have sitting in the bank is burning a hole in his pocket. Like all Marxists, he believes he knows how to spend your money better than you do.

Fortunately his whole tax fantasy is DOA in the new Republican Congress. But it's instructive to see just how deviously mendacious he really is. When he says "tax the rich," he makes sure to insulate himself and his cronies from the damage his policies inevitably cause. Know your place, peasant!

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In Paterson, NJ only 19 students are ready for college, but 66 employees earn more than $125,000 per year

There are 28,139 students enrolled in the Paterson, NJ public schools.

A grand total of 19 of them are considered ready for college.

In Paterson, New Jersey only 19 kids who took the SAT's are considered college ready. This means that they scored at least a 1500 out of 2400 on the standardized test, and this number is truly shocking considering how large the school district is.

Shocking? I'll give you shocking.

There are 66 school district employees earning more than $125,000 per year.

The educrats take care of their own. The kids? Not so much.

By the way, Paterson is one of New Jersey's sainted Abbott districts, so state taxpayers are on the hook for more than 90% of their school budget, to "equalize" per-pupil spending. Or something. This year they're getting $456,463,506 of our hard-earned tax dollars.

I'll spell that out for you. Four Hundred and Fifty Six million dollars. So 19 kids can pass the SAT.

Superintendent Donnie Evans (annual salary, $215,000) has an answer for that.

The Paterson school district said that they no longer use SAT scores to gauge students' success.

You can't make this stuff up.

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Richard Stockton State College wants to add an Atlantic City casino to their campus

Their students already enjoy the five-star amenities of Galloway Township's Seaview Resort. Now the ivory tower geniuses at Richard Stockton State College believe a shuttered Atlantic City casino is just the thing to round out their Leisure Studies department.

So, after a long day on the links at Seaview, students can head to AC for some gambling, and maybe a show. All for the low, low price of $12,568 dollars per year.

Homework? Nah, they don't got no time for homework! Party on dudes!

Stockton is a state school, subsidized by our tax dollars. Meanwhile, our roads are crumbing and people are going hungry. But, yeah, let's buy a casino and really bring the Animal House experience to life!

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Burn down a school? Retire and collect your full pension!

Annals of public employee unionistas — Edison, NJ Edition.

In the Real World, if you burn down your place of employment, you're fired.

But the public employee unions don't operate in a sane universe; they only care about their own, children be damned.

Because, the union will say, Mr. Higgins will be "punished." With a slap on the wrist.

Higgins is due in court Sept. 5. He could be fined $500 and receive 30 days in Middlesex County jail if he is convicted.

He's 48 years old, and now retired. For $500 bucks, and maybe 30 days in jail, he'll live large on the taxpayer's dime for the next 40 some odd years. Meanwhile the good people of Edison will have to build a new school on top of paying for pyro-man's cushy retirement.

Your tax dollars at work.

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Chris Christie nixes Common Core teacher testing requirements, keeps commie curriculum

All weekend the rumors swirled. Chris Christie was going to issue an Executive Order regarding Common Core, but no one knew what parts he was going to negate.

Well, now we know. In a sop to the teachers unions, Christie nixed the impact of standardized tests on teacher evaulations. So they'll be teaching communism, but they won't be graded on how many good like Marxists they churn out.

Let's ignore for the moment how Conmon Core is yet another Obamunism Mandate. Because that alone makes it suspect. Anything that comes from the same folks who brought us Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN reading list can't be good for America's children.

Chris Christie wants to be president. The teachers unions would very much like to stop that from happening. So why give them a win? What bizarre political calculus begat a relaxation of testing standards without a commensurate change in the curriculum behind the idiotic standardized tests?

This was Christie's chance to differentiate himself from Obama, and by extension, Hillary Clinton. They're the Big Government authoritarians. They push this one-size-fits-all top-down bureaucratic banality. In what universe is keeping Conmon Core intact even remotely congruent with Conservative principles?

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