University Officials: America-Themed Parties Are ‘Harmful’ And Offensive

Student government leaders at Loyola University Maryland faced a barrage of pressure from the university administration to change the theme of a senior class party described as “very alienating, divisive and harmful” and against the university’s “core values,” according to emails provided to The Daily Caller. The theme? America...

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Common Core: Bad for Kids

[Adapted from an article in the Oregon Federation of Republican Women's April-May 2013 edition of Republication]: Holly Swanson, outstanding author, activist and member of the Josephine County Republican Women warns, "The Education for Sustainability movement is drastically altering the curriculum in our schools, changing the role of public education and imposing a political agenda on our innocent children. The aim of this indoctrination program is to train America’s children to be against our form of government, free enterprise system, religious beliefs and much more." Holly urges Republicans to become active in attending school board meetings, writing their government representatives, researching, becoming informed and learning from their children and grandchildren what they are studying.

WASHINGTON – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is leading an effort to ask leading Senate appropriators to restore state-level decision making about academic content in public schools in response to the way federal incentives have interfered and put a heavy hand on states to adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Grassley said the Common Core program was initially billed as a voluntary effort, and that current federal law makes clear that the U.S. Department of Education may not be involved in setting specific content standards or determining the content of state assessments. “The reality is that the U.S. Department of Education has made adoption of standards matching those in Common Core a requirement for getting waivers and funds,” Grassley said. “This violates the structure of our education system, where academic content decisions are made at the state level giving parents a direct line of accountability to those making the decisions. The federal government should not be allowed to coerce state education decision makers.”

In a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds education, Senators Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee, Tom Coburn, James Inhofe, Deb Fischer, Rand Paul, Pat Roberts, Jeff Sessions, and Ted Cruz urged appropriators to set clear restrictions on the U.S. Department of Education from setting academic content standards either directly or indirectly when they put together legislation to fund the U.S. Department of Education for the next fiscal year.

Get involved. If there was ever an issues for Republicans to get behind, it is re-empowering control of the education system to the states, local school boards and parents.

  Holly Swanson is the author of Training for Treason: The Harmful Agenda Behind Education for Sustainability and Set up & Sold Out: Find Out What Green Really Means. She is at the forefront of the fight to protect America's children from the indoctrination of a dangerous ideology that will steal their freedom and change America forever. Read More......

Oregon Tea Party Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oregon Tea Party Reacts To Visions Of Hatred,Violence And Racism From Leftist Counter Protesters, April 18, 2011, PORTLAND, OR- In response to angry, violent and anti-American rhetoric by leftist extremists on Friday, Oregon Tea Party leadership asks all responsible political and civic leaders to join in condemning both the messages and their manner of expression. ∴ Oregon Tea Party members were particularly dismayed by the videos of actual counter protesters that have made national news, including the following links found at www.youtube.com: [viewer discretion advised]

Socialsts/Communists Give Middle Finger and Hurl F-Bomb At Singing of National Anthem

Left Taunts, Harasses and Hurls Racial Insults at African American Man Attending TEA Party

"I Wipe My *** With the American Flag": The New Civility of the Left on Display

"Take Your Constitution and Shove It Up Your ***!"

“Silence is consent,” said John Kuzmanich, Oregon Tea Party PAC Chairman. “I can’t believe these videos have made it all over huge national websites like www.breitbart.tv, www.theblaze.com and www.redstate.com, but the local media are completely silent. This is nothing short of journalistic malpractice by The Oregonian and local television news.”

Jeff Reynolds, Chairman of the Multnomah County Republican Party, observed, “I found it very odd that the only interviews I did were KBOO and KEX. KATU had a news truck there, but it left before the event even began. KGW has a studio right there in the square, but they never showed up to report.”

Oregon Tea Party calls on Portland Mayor Sam Adams and Governor John Kitzhaber, and the Senate and House leadership of both parties, to join us in condemning and repudiating these messages. We also call on the local media to break their silence on the topic and condemn these messages on their editorial pages. Additionally, we call on the Chairs of the State Democrat and Republican Parties to issue public statements condemning such hate speech.

For information, contact:
John Kuzmanich, Chairman
chairman@OregonTeaParty.com
503-482-8444
www.oregonteaparty.com

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In God We Trust

Do you believe that our national motto should be "in God we Trust"? Lets WRITE IT ON THE BACK OF OUR ENVELOPES or on the front. WE THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. We'll put it on bills, payments and personal mail. We're going to get a stamp made just for this purpose.∴ You may have heard in the news that a couple of Post Offices in Texas have been forced to take down small posters that say ''IN GOD WE TRUST,' opponents say the law is being violated. We heard proposed on a radio show, that we should all write ' IN GOD WE TRUST' on the back of all our mail. After all, that's our National Motto, and on all the money we use to buy stamps. ∴ We think it's a wonderful idea. And we hope you'll send this on to all your friends and encourage them to do it, too! --Charles & Jean Read More......