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Buster

js: "A movie that get it right"

I guess Harvard's okay if it spurs entrepreneurial innovations and special code. No remarks here about how Harvard and other schools are nests of Marxists that should be eliminated ASAP. http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker183.htmlA Movie That Gets It Right...

Views: 150 Replies: 28

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 6:02pm
by Buster

Buster

If property rights are violated

js believes it is legitimate to respond with violence and for the state to intervene with violence to secure property rights. Get out of my house or you go to jail. But if children are assaulted, if their fundamental human right to well-being, free from assault i...

Views: 102 Replies: 5

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 5:28pm
by js

Buster

John Taylor Gatto on the New Dumbness. Because new propaganda is so much better than the old.

And now for something different! Prologue Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance; now it is transformed from ignorance into permanent mathematical categories of relative stupidity like "gifted and talented," "mainstream," "special ed." Categor...

Views: 65 Replies: 0

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 4:43pm
by Buster

Buster

John Taylor Gatto Podcast

Gatto Podcast

Views: 89 Replies: 4

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 2:20pm
by Ron Harrison

Buster

John Taylor Gatto's Six-Lesson Schoolteacher

Six-Lesson Schoolteacher

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Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 11:14am
by Buster

Buster

What Qualifies as Demagoguery?

And how much of it is written on this forum? For instance, that an unborn zygote, embryo or fetus is redefined as a child. That abortion is murder. That anyone who favors any wealth redistribution whatsoever or any central planning whatsoever is a commie. No matt...

Views: 82 Replies: 0

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 10:47am
by Buster

Buster

The chatter here is filled with "thought-terminating cliches"

Robert Jay Lifton on Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism Funny to find so much of this here, on a forum that's supposedly for liberty. http://www.rickross.com/reference/brainwashing/brainwashing19.html

Views: 175 Replies: 33

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 6:18am
by Ron Harrison

Buster

Jonah Goldberg says: I’d like to ask a simple question: Why isn’t Julian Assange dead?

Goldberg's fatwa that never was

Views: 146 Replies: 12

Last Post: Nov 8, 2010 5:21am
by Ron Harrison

Buster

Childhood Origins of Tyranny, by Mitch Hall

Mitch Hall

Views: 134 Replies: 11

Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 4:58pm
by Buster

I'm a Denier

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Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 3:47pm
by js

Bobbi

Paul Harvey once said

If 'pro' is opposite of 'con' what is opposite of 'progress'? Cheers.

Views: 92 Replies: 1

Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 12:39pm
by Bobbi

Buster

Look at this, LewRockwell.com prints an essay by Lewis Lapham

Lapham And instead of calling him a commie, they say: Lewis H. Lapham is editor of Lapham's Quarterly. Formerly editor of Harper's Magazine, he is the author of numerous books, including Money and Class in America, Theater of War, Gag Rule, and, most recentl...

Views: 91 Replies: 9

Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 11:55am
by js

Buster

js's commentary modus operandi

If you disagree with her, you are a statist, collectivist, borg builder, Marxist, people pusher, state worshipper and government school lover. You are also given to insults, ad hominem attacks, while her ad hominem attacks are supposedly "truth." js does not recogn...

Views: 103 Replies: 11

Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 11:53am
by js

Why Faith is Not a Private Matter

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/bravo_to_brit_hume_why_faith_i.html

Views: 146 Replies: 10

Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 11:48am
by js

Buster

Let's look at all the good Zoe Weil is doing in humane education

Zoe Weil Above All, Be Kind And see how long it takes js to try to destroy this good on contact.

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Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 11:33am
by Buster

Buster

John Taylor Gatto on Commercial Alert's Board of Advisors

Commercial Alert According to js, this might mean JTG weaves his own clothes from a sheep somewhere on a patch of land. Ain't nothing wrong with "bidness" and being pro-market. The free market, after all, is neutral ground, free of morality, where free peopl...

Views: 58 Replies: 0

Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 9:18am
by Buster

Buster

AERO's Education Revolution Magazine online

AERO

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Last Post: Nov 7, 2010 9:08am
by Buster

Random Act of Culture

Views: 183 Replies: 14

Last Post: Nov 6, 2010 9:00pm
by Buster

Buster

Food Freedom

Food Freedom

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Last Post: Nov 6, 2010 4:36pm
by Buster

Bill

Hyperinflation

Hey All, I've been pondering this for some time and would like your input. If hyperinflation is about to occur, isn't now the perfect time to buy a house or farmland? Won't my mortgage debts be wiped out in the coming dollar meltdown? What is wrong with this...

Views: 139 Replies: 4

Last Post: Nov 6, 2010 11:48am
by Bobbi

Buster

Adbusters for you!

https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/kickitover

Views: 90 Replies: 2

Last Post: Nov 6, 2010 11:25am
by Buster

Rand Paul is a racist

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2010/09/rand-paul-and-the-white-separa.html#ixzz10T5J6qp8

Views: 169 Replies: 13

Last Post: Nov 6, 2010 10:03am
by Buster

Why Ron and js misuse economic thinking

Okay, I know that unfortunately HAVE to buy SOME items like food and clothing. However, that doesn't prevent me from making SOME of these kids of items myself at the same time. In response to my statement regarding education where I said "That would be like saying th...

Views: 194 Replies: 18

Last Post: Nov 3, 2010 5:20pm
by Ron Harrison

Percy D.

One of the truly great speeches

I kid you not. Jon Stewart Rally to Restore Sanity ... or just read the transcript, below: "And now I thought we might have a moment, however brief, for some sincerity. If that's okay - I know that there are boundaries for a comedian / pundit / talker guy, a...

Views: 196 Replies: 7

Last Post: Nov 1, 2010 9:10am
by Amy

omegapp

The best job site!

SellingCrossing.com In this site you will come about many sales and sales management jobs, SellingCrossing.com is not the common job site that shows you SOME and the MOST popular jobs out there, it shows you almost 99.9% of jobs in sales that are in the market rig...

Views: 57 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 31, 2010 9:27pm
by omegapp

Mel's bff

Teabaggers -- No trick-or-treating tonight!

Don't violate your libertarian principles for the sake of a few hand-outs.

Views: 117 Replies: 3

Last Post: Oct 31, 2010 7:45pm
by js

Values voter

I stand by Mel

Stand with Mel

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Last Post: Oct 31, 2010 7:32pm
by js

The blacklisting of anti-semitic Mel while rapists and child molesters welcomed

This is hilarious! The comments are the best, especially the one referring to Alec Baldwins phone tirade to his dtr. http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/no-hangover-2-for-mel-gibson/ Cast & Crew Reject 'Hangover 2' For Mel By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday October 21, 2010...

Views: 287 Replies: 40

Last Post: Oct 31, 2010 11:52am
by Bobbi in AB

Smart knowledge vs dumb knowledge

http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/failure-us-educational-system3.html Entrepreneurship Can Save America by J.S. Kim ZeroHedge This is the third and final installment of my three part educational series called “The Astounding Failure of the US Educ...

Views: 140 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 31, 2010 10:11am
by psikeyhackr

Ron Harrison

Response to AB

AB, You wrote: I don't like the Pledge of Allegiance as it is socialist propaganda. I don't like institutional schooling as it is fascist propaganda. I don't like capitalism as it is extortion. I don't like communism as it is association. I don't like when people...

Views: 209 Replies: 18

Last Post: Oct 31, 2010 4:43am
by Ron Harrison

"Education: Free and Compulsory"

by Murray Rothbard. It can be read online or ordered from Mises.org http://mises.org/resources/2689.

Views: 93 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 29, 2010 6:53pm
by js

"Who Runs Hollywood?C'Mon"

Gotta love the last sentence of this Joel Stein column. http://articles.latimes.com/2008 /dec/19/opinion/oe-stein19

Views: 98 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 29, 2010 5:34pm
by js

A Movie That Get It Right?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker183.htmlA Movie That Gets It Right by Jeffrey A. Tucker Recently by Jeffrey A. Tucker: All Laws Have Teeth Who are the capitalist folk heroes of our time? The Social Network is a film that celebrates one of t...

Views: 120 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 29, 2010 5:28am
by js

Bobbi in AB

Every once in a while I visit.

Lori Borgmans website mainly for chuckle. She is a unique writer. Wrote the origanal article of the "Death of Common Sense" This week her piece on people who don't have curtains and people pearing into windows is IMHO is funny. www.loriborgman.com?indes.shtml...

Views: 108 Replies: 2

Last Post: Oct 28, 2010 10:36am
by Bobbi in AB

Morgan Freeman solves the "race problem"

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Last Post: Oct 28, 2010 9:39am
by js

Katie Couric on slumming in "Middle America"

(the comments at the site are a hoot. How out of touch is this commie elitist?) http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/26/katie-couric-its-great-to-be-traveling-america-among-the-great-unwashed/comment-page-1/#comments Katie Couric: It’s great to be traveling...

Views: 119 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 28, 2010 4:44am
by js

Lessons For The Young Economist

http://mises.org/store/Lessons- for-the-Young-Economist-P10422. aspxutm_source=StoreEmail&utm_ medium=email&utm_term=Featured Product&utm_campaign=Weekly_Emails

Views: 116 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 28, 2010 4:31am
by js

Karen

Red Ribbon Week

I picked up the little girl I babysit for from Kindergarten yesterday, and she had this Red Ribbon in her hand. She appeared to have no idea what it was for. I found the accompanying pledge on the floor of my car. It reads: Say PEACE OUT to drugs! Red Rib...

Views: 201 Replies: 3

Last Post: Oct 27, 2010 1:19pm
by js

Percy D.

js -- one more on the religion stuff

Sorry I can't cut and paste at the moment, so I had to continue the week-old thread, 3 pages back using the threaded view.

Views: 184 Replies: 5

Last Post: Oct 26, 2010 5:31am
by js

The best job site!

EducationCrossing.com In this site you will come about many teacher and education jobs, EducationCrossing.com is not the common job site that shows you SOME and the MOST popular jobs out there, it shows you almost 99.9% of teacher and education jobs that are in th...

Views: 99 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 25, 2010 8:09pm
by Bobbi in AB

Great website on outside cooking

For years I have envied those motorized hog roasters made of oil drums but don't entertain enough to justify the expense. This lady has a great method of roasting a pig over a cinderblock pit charcoal fire. This would be a great way to feed a party. Just go to the au...

Views: 159 Replies: 10

Last Post: Oct 25, 2010 7:10pm
by Bobbi in AB

Phillis

Steve Hargadon interviews John Taylor Gatto

Hargadon About the Gatto Interview

Views: 184 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 25, 2010 1:52pm
by oteta

maryjoe

Statistics Homework help,Chemistry Homework help,Math Homework help,Statistics Tutor

ONLINETUTORSITE.COM provides online tutoring and homework help in the following subjects: Algebra, Pre-Algebra, Calculus,Statistics,Trigonometry, College level Math, Precalculus, Geometry, AP Mathematics, Probability, College Statistics, College Calculus,IB Math,Chem...

Views: 69 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 25, 2010 8:54am
by maryjoe

The perfect soulmate, found on Slippery Slope

http://www.reuters.com/article /idUSTRE69L3H720101022?feedType=RSS&feedName= oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=22&sp=true

Views: 224 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 25, 2010 6:23am
by js

Researcher: Children of homosexual couples more likely to be homosexual

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/researcher -children-of-same-sex-couples-more-likely-to-be -homosexual/ “But Schumm, a professor of family studies at Kansas State University, said he rigorously tried to disprove his own theory. Ultimately, he reache...

Views: 197 Replies: 12

Last Post: Oct 24, 2010 8:02pm
by Bobbi in AB

Fernando Color de Mellow

Juan Gattistas HELP!

I'm involved in a flamewar on another site in which I've been called out on Gatto's citation of the Ted Kennedy literacy study, where Kennedy found that before compulsory education literacy was 98% and after it never got above 91%. The study is not cited or indexed...

Views: 169 Replies: 5

Last Post: Oct 24, 2010 2:22pm
by Ron Harrison

Those pesky patriarchal cults

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137251 Rabbinical Council of America: No Female Rabbis, by Any Name by Gil Ronen . The Rabbinical Council of America, considered the main umbrella group for centrist Orthodox rabbis and one of the largest rabb...

Views: 276 Replies: 38

Last Post: Oct 24, 2010 12:57am
by Percy D.

Hell's Bible (New York Slimes) attacks the Church whenever it can

http://blog.archny.org/?p=860

Views: 177 Replies: 8

Last Post: Oct 23, 2010 7:06am
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

js's arguments by labels

Written by a commie for commies: Yawn This person has NO problem with "libertarians" who think taxes are "necessary", blah, blah....in other words people who CALL themselves libertarians but who are really not anything of the sort. This article is yet another...

Views: 189 Replies: 21

Last Post: Oct 21, 2010 3:16pm
by js

Bobbi in AB

I SNOOPY DANCED last night when i saw the last miner brought to the surface

Precision Drilling happened to be a thousand klicks away,They packed~up & came to the rescue or those poor miners would be stuck down there until December. We Cunucks aren't so bad afterall Good night Gatto fans. Bobbi aka Oma

Views: 129 Replies: 5

Last Post: Oct 20, 2010 7:59pm
by Bobbi in AB