Florida State Board of Education adopts Common Core over the protests of citizens
The Florida State Board of Education (FL SBOE) meeting on Common Core State Standards was held in Orlando on February 18th. Concerned citizens attended to speak and wave signs in protest. Nearly one hundred signed up to speak and implore the Board to reject Common Core in Florida.I must say, I was so proud to be among the dedicated and articulate speakers at the State Board of Education hearing clarifying why we are vehemently opposed to Common Core. …
VIDEO: Senator Ted Cruz upstaged by young Republican State Committeeman in Sarasota, FL
Christian Ziegler, the Republican Party of Sarasota
(RPOS) State Committeeman, fired up the crowd just before Senator Ted
Cruz (R-TX) took the stage to accept the RPOS 2014 “Statesman of the
Year” award. Christian told me that he was so honored and excited to
introduce Senator Cruz. Christian is a young conservative who holds the
right values and beliefs. He has worked hard to make the RPOS a must
stop for conservative political leaders like Senator Cruz. RPOS Chairman
Joe Gruters notes, “Sarasota is the new Iowa.” ...Please Support Our Partner
GMO Wars: Greens Exploit Widespread Science Ignorance
I frequently have to tell people that I am a science
writer, not a scientist. The only science course I took in college was
zoology and I passed it only because my paper on Procyon
Lotor—raccoons—demonstrated an ability to do some good research and
present it cogently.
In the decades since then I have had the opportunity to
write about many science-based topics and it became evident that a huge
portion of our society and worldwide is ignorant of how science
functions and the incredible advances for mankind that it has provided
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Minding the Campus: “Slut Walks” to Pass University of South Florida Freshman Composition
“Real learning takes place outside the classroom,” the
late communist history professor Howard Zinn famously said. Zinn
practiced what he preached and led his students at Spelman College and
Boston University on marches and protests.The 1960s saw plenty of teach-ins and marches by students and some radical professors. But even then it would have been hard to imagine how the staple of first-year coursework, Freshman Composition, would be used to turn students into activists, subverting the idea of “composition” itself and leaving some students free of any ability to write ...
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Facebook event calls for execution of Operation American Spring organizer
On Saturday,
a complaint was filed with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center
against Colorado resident Nathaniel C. Marshall over a Facebook event
calling for the execution of Col. Harry Riley, the retired officer
heading up Operation American Spring, a protest movement that seeks to
remove President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden from power, along
with congressional leaders of both parties, Col. Riley said in an
exclusive interview …
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