Changing Our History

Imagine teaching the history of WWII without mentioning Adolf Hitler, the Nazi atrocities or the Holocaust. Or teaching the Civil War without Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Delete the Founding Fathers and their role in the American Revolution.  But, do teach about the atomic bombs that we dropped and how that raised questions about our American values.

The College Board, the company which issues the SAT college entrance exams and other Advanced Placement exams, has created a new 'framework' for the AP U.S. History exam, which will radically change the way American history is taught.

According to Stanley Kurtz of NationalReview.com, "the traditional emphasis on America's founders and principles of constitutional government will soon be jettisoned in favor of a left-leaning emphasis on race, gender, class, ethnicity, etc."  While this may conflict with existing history standards in the states, questions and debate have been virtually suppressed in the way this exam has been publicly released. Sample questions have been made public, but largely this test is being kept under tight wraps, along with a warning to certified AP teachers that any discussion of the new test will subject them to losing their AP teaching privileges. Says Kurtz, "This is clearly an effort to silence public debate over these highly politicized and illegitimately nationalized standards. If the complete sample test was available, the political nature of the new test would become evident."

An example of this new version of history may be that "the Constitution can be studied as an example of the Colonists' belief in the superiority of their own culture." Continues Kurtz, "so while allowing some minor flexibility on details, the new AP U.S. History framework effectively forces teachers to train their students in a leftist, blame-America-first reading of history, while omitting traditional treatments of our founding principles." http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/382400/new-war-over-high-school-us-history-stanley-kurtz

Ken Mercer, of the Texas Board of Education, has been working to put a stop to this tranformative practice. According to Mercer, the hands of states and local school boards are tied, because if the students are required to take this test, then teachers have to teach for the test. Although, in theory, they have 'leeway' to add other information, the students will only be tested on the 98 page document given to teachers. Mercer believes that teaching outside the document would be doing a disservice to the students if they want the students to pass the test. http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/07/15/surprise-surprise-common-core-masterminds-behind-new-ap-u-s-history-curriculum/

The College Board President and CEO is David Coleman, one of the architects of Common Core, the controversial federal curriculum standards for K-12, currently being opposed by many teachers and parents.

In a live telecast on movie screens across the country last week, Glenn Beck brought together educators and activists in an attempt to stimulate grassroots opposition to Common Core. There will be another screening of the event this Tuesday, July 29th and is called "We Will Not Conform." Look for it at a theater near you. Also check out commoncorefails.com for ways in which you can help stop this federal takeover of education. The time to speak up is now, as these tests will be rolling out in the Fall.

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about our country's history is what our children must learn. We must push back on the progressive agenda to change the telling of our history. Is it too much to ask that our children be taught American history devoid of an ideological agenda?

The Transparent Agenda

President Obama promised us transparency when he was running for election in 2008. It is apparent that once again, he is living up to his promise.

Obama has been anti-Israel for a long time. Longer than he has been president. One needs only to look at his associations and appointments over the years and see that the quality they all have in common is their anti-Israel sentiment. Coupled with his public remarks about Israel returning to its '67 borders, about Israel showing restraint when they are being showered with rockets onto civilian neighborhoods, about Israel making more efforts at peace with an enemy which merely wants its destruction, one can easily see where he true heart lies.

So a rocket falls a mile away from Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Due to the Malaysian airplane that was downed over Ukraine recently, some U.S. airlines began suspending flights to Israel, as a precautionary measure. It wasn't too long before other European airlines suspended flights as well. When our own FAA issued a ban on ALL airline flights to Israel for 24 hours, it seemed questionable. Not surprisingly, this ban has now been extended for another 24 hours. According to former U.S. Dept. of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo, "it's very unusual for the FAA to prohibit U.S. carriers from flying to a particular airport. In the past, when the FAA has done it there have been diplomatic consequences."

Meanwhile, Israel has maintained that their airport, which has been under security threat for many years, is safe to travel through. Now Israel would be the last country to risk the lives of travelers wanting to come to its country. So, one would think  if they are feeling confident in their ability to protect people, that would be sufficient. Said Gloria Romm, director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel, "it is not a miracle and it is not a trick. We know how to defend Ben-Gurion, period," referring to the thousands of rockets that have been fired into the country while thousands more flights have landed and taken off at the airport.

This brings us back to the FAA, an agency working under the Executive Branch of the government. Sure, they can 'justify' the banning of flights to Israel to maintain the safety and security of its passengers. But let's remember who gets hurt by this ban. It hurts Israel. Only Israel. In fact, Hamas has declared this flight ban as a victory for them. And predictably, nothing has been done about Hamas firing the rocket towards the airport. On the contrary, they continue to get lots of financial aid from this administration, they get treated as an equal player in all this, despite the fact that they are an official terrorist group, and they get the sympathy of the left-wing media here and abroad. Our President is being very transparent now.

Danger At The Border

There is no denying that there's a disaster going on at our southern border. A man-made disaster, made by years of unsecure borders, but more recently by a simple directive in 2012 from Obama to DHS, called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which essentially postponed deportation for "potentially millions of young illegal immigrants." By circumventing laws on the books, he has created even more immigration problems.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/02/wrong-side-constitution-obama-likely-to-delay-deportations-say-experts/

Not only was this flooding of illegal immigrants anticipated by the government several months back,  there was nothing done to stop it. The tens of thousands of illegals coming primarily from Honduras, Guatamala, and El Salvador, are coming due to expectations that they will not be turned away. Many of these people are children, travelling without their parents, and being escorted by dangerous drug cartels. These chidren are transported through 1800 miles of difficult roads in Mexico and are being physically and sexually abused along the way.  They are riding the tops of trains, they are riding in overcrowded trucks and buses, and they are crossing the Rio Grande River where, tragically, several children have washed ashore.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062514-706233-texas-border-immigration-wave-orchestrated-by-administration.htm?ven=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/16/they-keep-coming-the-rehearsed-answers-illegal-immigrants-are-using-at-the-border-to-gain-entry-into-the-u-s/

Once they enter our country, they are being warehoused in crowded facilities, where diseases that many of them came with, are spreading. To make matters worse, the administration is currently relocating tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to states such as Massachusetts, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, while other states are being considered. When it was revealed that the illegals, after being flown and bussed to other locations and are then abandoned, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona wanted answers from DHS and called on the President to end this practice. Recently, more than 1,000 illegal immigrant children were 'dumped' in her state, without prior warning. She calls this practice by the administration "deplorable." http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/06/09/AZ-Gov-Jan-Brewer-Disturbed-and-Outraged-Feds-Have-No-Plans-To-Stop-Illegal-Immigrant-Dump

In some cases, the citizens are taking matters into their own hands.  The residents in Murietta, CA have taken up protests over plane loads of illegals being shipped to their town, and to date, they have successfully pushed back. Recently, though,  the feds were threatening to bring riot gear to the small town and use this gear to push back the crowds who have been holding back buses from coming in. The threat, however, will not deter the protestors, who vow to stand their ground. Murrieta resident, John Henry, told Breitbart News, "the administration thinks that if it floods our streets, in small town America, they can force immigration reform." http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/07/10/Busload-of-Illegal-Aliens-a-No-Show-in-Murrieta-Skeptical-Protesters-Stand-Ground

Naturally, our porous borders are porous to anybody. Evidence of Korans, prayer rugs and other telltale items are turning up on the border, which indicate that the illegals are not just from Central America. This, of course, poses serious security risks, at a time when the Islamists are more emboldened than ever to cause harm to this country. And because the border patrol agents are so preoccupied now with the tremendous influx of illegals coming in, there are large swaths of land that are virtually unmanned; just the circumstances needed for terrorists wanting to get in unnoticed.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/14/urdu-dictionary-found-on-texas-ranch-near-border-we-just-dont-know-whos-here-already/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/14/night-time-on-border-endless-wave-illegal-immigrants-floods-rio-grande-valley

During Obama's recent trip to Texas to attend fundraisers, his refusal to go to the border to see about this catastrophe didn't appear to make sense to a lot of people. His seeming not to care, is, frankly, because he really doesn't care. It's all about the means to an end. He uses the strategy he finds so effective - the Cloward-Piven strategy - overwhelm the system, flood the government bureaucracy with impossible demands beyond their capacity to handle them, which in turn, forces the system to break down. In this case, it will allow Obama the opportunity to 'fix' the immigration system by ushering in his own comprehensive program. Scandalous.

When in the Course of human Events...

Action of Second Continental Congress,

July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodation of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyrants only.

He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People.

He has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising the Conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the Tenure of their Offices, and the Amount and Payment of their Salaries.

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution, and unacknowledged by our Laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pre-tended Offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an arbitrary Government and enlarging its Boundaries, so as to render it at once an Example and fit Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our Seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and destroyed the Lives of our People.

He is, at this Time, transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the Works of Death, Desolation, and Tyranny already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous Ages, and totally unworthy of the Head of a civilized Nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the Executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People.

Nor have we been wanting in Attentions to our British Brethren. We have warned them from Time to Time of Attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and Settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and Magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common Kindred to disavow these Usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our Connections and Correspondence. They too have been deaf to the Voice of Justice and of Consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the Necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of Mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace, Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.