Euripides 8-28-12

As part of my current teaching gig, I get the opportunity to review high school textbooks that are currently in use across the US. Most of the books used today can be categorized as follows: 1) useful but seriously flawed; 2) useless and seriously flawed; 3) useless and seriously propagandistic.



English texts almost universally fall into the seriously propagandistic category. Those who put together English textbooks are among the worst offenders to the cause…

2016: Obama's America, the conservative documentary that surged to No 2. at the box office Monday with its challenge to the president's worldview, will expand from the 1,091 theaters it played in over the weekend to about 1,800 theaters on Friday, Yahoo! News reports. The film, based on Dinesh D'Souza's book The Roots of Obama's Rage, has now grossed $10.5 million to become the No. 6 political documentary of all time…

A very public marital melodrama is now playing in San Francisco. It shows the idiocy of domestic violence laws and the extremism of the feminists whose ideology paints men as innate batterers and women as victims of the patriarchy.

The target of their current campaign is the elected Sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi. After six months of demeaning publicity and headlines like…

Posted: Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:19 pm | Updated: 5:32 pm, Tue Aug 21, 2012.

School board elections in Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe…

Marines hope to march west

         

Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado gave a speech in 2004 titled I have a plan to destroy America. In order to give you some of his ideas, it’s necessary to paraphrase his speech to give you the substance of his words.

His first observation was derived from the works of Arnold Toynbee, historian.Toynbee hypothesized that all great civilizations rise and fall because they commit suicide. The United  States is no exception. Considering the political climate in the…

To: Valued Reader

 Fr: Lee Bellinger, Publisher

 Re: New Trend: Well-Paying Professional Careers, No College Debt...

 America's next bubble, poised to burst and splatter across the country, is student loan debt - today close to $1 trillion.

Even worse, the government's long campaign to steer so many kids into getting college credentials has resulted in massive degree inflation... to the point that such degrees have become…

 Official “Agenda 21” Cities of Arizona:

Chandler

Flagstaff

Goodyear

Peoria

Phoenix

Tempe

Tucson

Source:

I.C.L.E.I. (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) Global

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Mesa unveils 67-mile bike path network

Posted: Thursday, July 5, 2012 7:12 am | Updated: 11:32 pm, Sat Jul 7, 2012.…

Posted: Saturday, August 4, 2012 7:00 am | Updated: 11:50 pm, Fri Aug 3, 2012.

School districts want East Valley voters to…

EMAIL FROM KEN BENNETT

-----Original Message-----

From: Ken Bennett [mailto:EMAIL RECIPIENT OMMITTED]

Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:27 AM

Subject: The Real Story on the Sales Tax Initiative

I read with interest an editorial appearing in the Arizona Daily Star

on July 10 titled "Bennett wrong to reject petitions for 1-cent tax,"

and feel that I must respond since it seems the facts are being so

twisted from what really happened.

To begin, I share…