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Texas Lesson Plan Instructs Students to Design Flags for a ‘New Socialist Nation’

Feb. 4, 2013 2:29pm Jason Howerton

Texas Lesson Plan Instructs 6th Graders to Design Flags for a Socialist Nation

(eagnews.org)

A curriculum system used across the state of Texas reportedly includes a lesson plan for 6th graders instructing students to create a flag for a “new socialist nation” using “symbolism to represent aspects of socialism/communism.”

The following was taken from the CSCOPE curriculum lesson plan: “Notice socialist/communist nations use symbolism on their flags representing various aspects of their economic system. Imagine a new socialist nation is creating a flag and you have been put in charge of creating a flag. Use symbolism to represent aspects of socialism/communism on your flag. What kind of symbolism/colors would you use?”

Upon discovering the controversial material, members of the Texas Senate Education Committee grilled the creators of the CSCOPE curriculum system in a hearing on Thursday.

Several witnesses testified before the committee and accused the program of promoting far-left, anti-Christian values while others called the program openly socialist, the Star-Telegram reports. Other critics said it is difficult for non-teachers to review the program.

“Discontent is rampant across the state,” said Peggy Venable, the Texas director of Americans for Prosperity.

Wade Lebay, director of state CSCOPE at the Region 13 Education Service Center in Austin, defended the program and its content.

“It’s built by teachers, designed by teachers and that’s what’s powerful about CSCOPE,” Lebay said.

In regards to the assignment asking students to create a flag for a new socialist nation, first-term Sen. Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) asked whether the assignment makes it appear that “we’re sympathizing with those types of countries.”

He went on to call the lesson plan “very egregious as a Texas and an American.”

Linda Villarreal, director of the Region 2 Education Service Center in Corpus Christi, further defended the assignment and accused lawmakers of singling out “just this one” assignment.

(cscope.us)

Sen. Donna Campbell (R-San Marcos) argued that CSCOPE also reinforces uniformity in Texas schools.

“Our teachers don’t need to be scripted,” Campbell said.

TheBlaze’s Mike Opelka previously reported that the same curriculum, CSCOPE, also includes a lesson plan that calls the Boston Tea Party an act of “terrorism.”

The following was included in the lesson plan for the Boston Tea Party:

News report: New Act of Terrorism

A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens.

“[T]his lesson comes from a non-profit group called CSCOPE. They are an offshoot of an educational program that traces its roots back to 1965 when the state established media centers / Education Service Centers (ESCs) throughout each of the state’s 20 school districts,” TheBlaze reported.

(H/T: EAGNews.org)

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Comments (299)

perry1980
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:59pm
Get this Garbage corriculum out of our Texas Schools !

If you are a parent, don’t wait, Go Now and Demand that they remove CScope
Go to your PTA meetings
Go to your school boards
Go to your legislature

If they can do this in Texas can you imagine what they are doing in other states

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- right-wing-waco
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:25pm
  If this does not scare you, you are sleeping too much. The commies have been busy “teaching” your children while you slept. The next generation of grade-school age kids will be bonafide communists. They won’t even know our history or what freedom is.
  
  Where is encinom? I thought by now he/she would be telling us how we need a more modern flag.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:27pm
  Better be looking at the IB (International Baccalaureate) program. It is spreading like wildfire and it is partnered with the U.N..
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:28pm
  “Our teachers don’t need to be scripted,” Campbell said
  
  They’re already well trained in college and by the NEA to promote communism, fascism and other assorted avenues of Marxist tyranny.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:37pm
  Cavallo, he’s lying. For the IB program internationalism, international socialism, must be taught in every academic subject. Teachers must take training, indoctrination, classes in order to teach. The curriculum is well scripted.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:14pm
  @perry1980
  
  Garbage curriculum? Are you referring to the creationism b.s. that Texas schools have been pushing alongside actual science?
  
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- goldmind
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:16pm
  The writing has been on the wall, long enough. According to this gent, we are a generation too late.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3nXvScRazg
  
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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:18pm
  Better yet, homeschool your kids…
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:36pm
  We are in the midst of a socialist / communist takeover of our once great nation………..we will soon fall exactly like the Soviet Union…….and for the same EXACT REASON……BIG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT…AND RAMPANT CORRUPTION !!!
  
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- tomcat11767
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:06pm
  Vance,
  Just to be clear here: you have no problem with this lesson plan? You have no problem with socialism/communism being pushed onto children?
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:49pm
  This kind of liberal crap has been coming out of Texas for quite a while now. I am not a bit surprised. You Texans are just as bad off as the rest of us when it comes to being infiltrated so quit holding yourselves up so high. Texas is quickly becoming the new California. It has been for some time and now you are seeing the results.
  
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- bennyfranklin
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:55pm
  go back to school and learn to spell.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:04pm
  I’ve come across CSCOPE before when I was digging into Islamic involvement in schools.
  
  The interesting thing is that they copyright the curriculum and lesson plans, and they are not under the control of the board of education.
  
  This is dangerous stuff.
  
  http://www.onenewsnow.com/education/2012/12/28/public-schools-promoting-islam
  
  http://www.txcscopereview.com/2013/cscopes-hidden-lessons/
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:06pm
  Home school!!
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:37pm
  Texas is just awful!
  
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- mattmo79
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:45pm
  Home School Your Kids!
  
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- db321
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:18pm
  When I first heard of C Scope on Glenn’s Radio Show. I text’d a friend of mine who is a Teacher. I asked her is she was teaching C Scope to your Kindergartners. Within a minute she text’d me back, yes and we hate it.
  
  She said the stuff they want us to teach is way over their heads. It’s all indoctrination, the Govt knows BEST and the Parents are old school and don’t always know what is best. Way to go Perry, that’s looking out for your State.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:31pm
  @Keaton
  Texas is beautiful It’s the commie carpetbaggers and first generation anchor babies with a bachelor’s degree in “educating” kids are the awful ones. They have to do it quietly, because otherwise, most common sense parents would be *issed off and requesting “sit down” parent-teacher conferences immediately.
  REAL TEXANS know the hammer and sickle as GODLESS,EVIL EMPIRE.
  Parents, please request a parent/teacher meeting at your kids schools and make sure they’re not teaching them to be Godless, socialist sheep.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:53pm
  Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
  1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
  2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
  3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 lbs. For tare?
  4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000.. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
  5. Find the cost of 6,720 lbs. of coal at $6.00 per ton.
  6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
  7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per metre?
  8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
  9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of which is 640 rods?
  10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:54pm
  .S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
  1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
  2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus
  3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
  4. Show the territorial growth of the United States
  5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas
  6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
  7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton , Bell , Lincoln , Penn, and Howe?
  8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:55pm
  Orthography (Time, one hour)
  [Do we even know what this is??]
  1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication
  2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
  3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals
  4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u.’ (HUH?)
  5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e.’ Name two exceptions under each rule.
  6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
  7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: bi, dis-mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup.
  8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
  9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
  10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:55pm
  Geography (Time, one hour)
  1 What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
  2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas ?
  3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
  4. Describe the mountains of North America
  5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco
  6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. Name all the republics of Europe and give the capital of each..
  8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
  9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
  10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.
  
  Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete.
  
  Gives the saying ‘he only had an 8th grade education’ a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?!
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 10:46pm
  Is this the same school that teaches that Earth is 6000 years old, that radiometric dating (based on the known half-lives of radioactive elements) is simply false? A liberal conspiracy? Do they teach that the millions of years required for continental drift is false because the continents actually moved in a short time during the Great Flood?
  
  Speaking of the Great Flood, is this the same school that teaches that the fossil record places dinosaurs and trilobites, for example, at an earlier era than humans is only because the flood washed them into the ocean first? What God really extra careful to make sure no modern mammal fossil was never, ever found alongside a dinosaur fossil?
  
  Is this the same school teaches that all the findings of astronomy and cosmology about the universe are wrong, and that God created a universe to look 10 billion years old to anyone with the intelligence to study it? Did God just play a big joke on the human race?
  
  Sorry folks. If the youth of today are taught the beliefs that haven’t been held by educated people for 400 years, including religious people and clergy, the rest of the world will leave us behind.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 11:41pm
  This is another example of why I have zero respect for commie teachers and their Marxist teacher’s union. All they do now is indoctrinate kids from kindergarten to post graduate college. These commie teachers are entrenched in all of academia and like termites, you can’t get rid of the infestation. This country is finished and it’s all part of a Marxist plot to takeover academia and brainwash kids.
  
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- phil1765
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:01am
  VanceUppercut
  Gonna be a rough day for you when you figure out the truth. But I don’t understand why if both creationism and your idiotic evolution theory are being taught side by side why do you have a problem?
  
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- galicant wiseword
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 4:37am
  Look how quickly the paid agitators try to turn your mind to something else. This story has nothing to do with intelligent design being taught as hypothesis along with the big bang hypothesis. Why are they so anxious to turn the discussion in that direction? I pulled my kids out of a school a few years ago after I had to help my daughter write a speech about how great it was that they were becoming an IB world school. Not knowing what an “IB world school” was I did some quick research and was outraged when I realized the communist, UN garbage that has invaded our country and is directed at our children. Note that “Vance” and “meteors” choose not to defend in any way the curriculum or communism but try to misdirect instead and both with the same tactics.
  
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- RobertHere
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 9:30am
  Just pull your kids out of the public schools-the BEST of them still serve Fedzilla and Fedzilla will not be denied.The insane, evil decision to start the Department of Education was the final nail in the coffin of local control.Some local schools hold out better than other but Fedzilla and her whores in the court will not be denied–the children in public schools WILL bow their knee to The Common Good of They Who Know Best. Be it Obama, Bush & Bush, Clinton or other–the State, Fedzilla, The Common Good is their god and they will serve that god and force the public schools to serve that god.
  
  Love your child, protect them from Fedzilla.
  
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- Dan_o
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 10:29am
  If you want to know why Texas is not as conservative as it could be, you only have to look at the population numbers. It is the second most populous state and has 3 of the top ten most populous cities. It is practically a miracle it is conservative to any degree.
  
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- texashuntre
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:48am
  http://governor.state.tx.us/contact/contact.aspx
  I just wrote our Governor asking for an immediate stop to all of these programs! We will not be the next California no matter how hard the liberal nuts push it. Write your congress and stop this stupidity NOW.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 12:42pm
  galicant, yes, I’m in favor of students learning about different forms of government in the world. And yes, sixth graders often draw pictures as part of an assignment.
  
  You can see here at this website that very few people understand different forms of government. One socialistic concept is the communal ownership of property, something you and I both know to be bad and we hope something that will never happen in this country. That would be the first step toward totalitarianism.
  
  Except wait, we do have communally owned property in this country! Like, uh, roads, highways, traffic signs, parks (both state and federal), libraries, schools, sewer lines and treatment plants and so on. We have lots of communally owned property. Then there is the fire department, police department, the army, the VA. That’s all socialism.
  
  Maybe you want the WalMart family to own the road in front of your house (and make you pay a toll), the library, the cops etc. But I don’t.
  
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- Rhindon
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:15pm
  @VanceUppercut
  Sir, Creationism is hardly BS. It is backed by scientific study. Furthermore, if you were to carefully study the Bible, you’d find a TON of REFERENCES to scientific facts that we didn’t even DISCOVER through modern science until hundreds…nay, THOUSANDS of years after the authors of the Bible actually wrote the pages. What’s more, it’s hardly unscientific to suggest that the order in which we see the universe and organisms and all is as it all is due to a supreme being. Again, there’s nothing unscientific about it. Would you argue that a remote control put itself together? Or is it clear that there is such craftsmanship in the wiring and an organization of information behind the design and function of the remote? If I stated that I believed the remote put itself together by “evolution”, you’d call me crazy! Even though neither of us has ever seen the person/people who put the remote together or designed its specs. So, why then, do you ridicule those who would believe in the One who designed such an elaborate universe? It’s hypocritical, sir, to speak against the VERY SAME IDEA – there is a creator – which supports the argument for how a remote came to be.
  
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- JeffersonsPen
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:24pm
  Hey Vanceuppercut………To you and all your athiest ………………….If you choose to burn en he77 please don’t share it with the rest of us! I understand that you are so much smarter than the Almighty, and you could easily explain the vast universe and all it’s wonders and have no time for fairey tales, blah, blah blah………….so just put a sock in it !
  
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- JeffersonsPen
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 1:33pm
  @sendthemeteors One question there hotrod ! ……………..If you don’t believe in God then who? please tell………….who would you like to send the meteors? …………you very choice of a handle on this forum betrays your deep, disregarded knowledge of a creator…………………dumba$@&*%
  
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- davidkachel
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:12pm
  You can do any good unless you also get rid of the leftist teachers. They are everywhere!
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 2:47pm
  JeffersonsPen, I can tell you are an intelligent and observant person. But who said I didn’t believe in God? Do you mean everybody who believes in God thinks the world is only 6000 years old?
  
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- Celticnanaof3
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 3:36pm
  I believe it is because parents AREN’T taking enough interest in what their children are being taught in school (don’t look through the text books being used in the schools, don’t attend any PTA meetings, don’t meet the teachers, don’t care who is put on their school boards, etc.) that subversive stuff like this is being taught in our schools. When there is no parental oversight in our schools, the enemies of our country will be able to instill their beliefs in our children.
  
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- glassaudioguy
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 6:43pm
  Meteors- you hadn’t begun trolling here the last time I posted this, so I’ll repeat it for you and all the other newcomers. The earth’s magnetic field is collapsing by 5% per century. Running the numbers backwards, how long is it before it’s so strong the surface of the planet’s temperature is too high to support life? I know the answer, but I’ll let you and your fellow trolls look it up. It’ll have more impact that way.
  
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- galicant wiseword
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 8:24am
  Meteors,
  Great! I’m glad to hear your response. It brings up a couple of important points. Are you in favor of schools teaching that a constitutional republic and a free market economy are historically superior to other forms of government/economies? Is it OK for public schools to teach that America is exceptional and that socialism/communism is a failed policy that has lead to the death of millions?
  
  In an ideal world where humans are always perfectly honest and good, communal property is a great thing. We are communal beings, designed that way. We are also tainted. There is laziness, greed, envy; people make foolish decisions. These things keep the utopia of socialism from becoming a reality. Despite the failures of others, with complete personal responsibility one can have total freedom. If I choose to take care of my water and sewage, pave my own roads, teach my children, create my own electricity and protect my property I can thrive without the government or any company. However since I don’t want to pave my roads the question becomes who do I want to pay to do it for me. If I choose to contract Mr. Walton and pay him a fee, and he does poorly, I can go to Mrs. Target instead. The price stays fair because Mr. Walton and Mrs. Target have to provide the same service at the same price to stay competitive. Apparently you would rather pay Mr. Senator who will do the job to whatever standard he decides and then demand your toll with a gun to your head.
  
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- Greg
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:04am
  Home school.
  
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- TheirMom
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:22pm
  Which is why my grandchildren go to a Christian school and my niece is home schooled. Smart parents who will have smart, well educated children.
  
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- donwann
  Posted on February 9, 2013 at 11:14pm
  This is just one of the reasons my daughter goes to a private Christian academy. The parents actually have a say in the curriculum. The learning environment does not have all the distractions you find in public schools, and the students are more well behaved and self disciplined. Respect is not an unknown word. Furthermore, a paddle is still used when necessary.
  
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- hope2ce
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 7:32pm
  This has been coming. We are a wealthy nation, yet they make us believe we haven’t any money for books. Without good education for our children, our nation is sure to crumble. I never understood their method for teaching math. I did very well in school, but I also remember having textbooks and 20 or more math problems per day. Today my sons come home with math worksheets with a total of 5 problems. Talk about setting them up for failure. The real reason government took our student’s books is to keep us parents in the dark, as they mold and manipulate our children.
  
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:57pm
I guess this is why Texas didn’t make the top 10 conservative states list.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:05pm
  Exactly. Why Beck thinks Texas is a haven of liberty is beyond me, except that he emigrated to it from NYC.
  
  In my school we had a 12th grade class that all seniors were required to take. It was called Problems of Democracy and the entire point of the class lay in the final “exam” where you had to figure out how to kill, I said that right, kill a democratically elected dictator. I kid you not. Public school even, rural Ohio.
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:11pm
  @Dismayed.
  The reason this has happened here in Texas,is two fold,liberal californicators that moved here,and out of state college students, who live here for 6-9 months and can vote in all of our elections. Both reasons need to be rectified……..
  
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- bumfuzeled
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Texas does set the educational curriculum for the rest of the nation. If you don’t think we are conservative enough, I invite you to join us, for a brief visit but then you have to leave and go home.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:18pm
  Thanks Bumfuz, I’ll go to Wyoming and see the real old west, with real liberty and real cowboys who still actually work the plains. Plus, you can open carry there as they have Constitutional carry. Unlike Texas, where you have to hide your sidearm when not on your own property or not hunting. :)
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:58pm
  at least Beck is close, all Oklahoma state elected offices are, if not conservative, at least republican
  
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- rochrealtor
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:50pm
  What year was that Ghost?
  
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- rochrealtor
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:58pm
  We have the same problem in NY…we accept everyone that wants welfare, only 28% liberal base and we can’t get a conservative elected. P.S. all text books come from Texas!
  
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IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:54pm
Do and be whats right and that isn’t Communism/socialism. Columbus did us a favor in 1492 and Obama has not done us any favors by dividing the Country and refuses to work for the Republic that we call America. Be aware of what the students are being fed and if it is bad throw it up and get your kids out of there.

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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:58pm
  “Columbus did us a favor in 1492 ”
  
  Enslaving a population and pre-empting genocide?
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:06pm
  Yawn, Vox. Very yawn.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:08pm
  The injuns were just blac block, holding hands and swapping spit. No raiding, no killing, no slave action at all until the Pox of pox populi arrived. Dirty pox. Filthy pox.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:12pm
  As has been done by and to every other people on this planet. The indians themselves enslaved each other.
  
  Uh oh, non-PC history popping up, better close the ears and chant “la la la la la” real loud skippy.
  
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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:44pm
  Smiles everyone, we can turn this into a vital learning experience!
  
  Commies like their symbolism after all, so let’s show them what communism is really about. A bunch of starving people getting what’s left of their meager substance taken from them by a bunch of government fat cat’s for the sake of “fairness.” A few mass graves full of people who have dared to disagree with the “will of the people.” Or, failing that, why don’t we just have a bunch of empty unfulfilled promises of better healthcare, education, and prosperity with all the victims left broken and bereft in the streets, while their governments create departments to monitor twitter.
  
  Anything can be a learning experience, and this is a very simple way to demonstrate to your kids just how terrible these systems really have been for their people.
  
  Plus, “education system created by teachers,” are any of us really surprised by this? Educators seem to be a never ending font of frutopian dreaming. What are we going to discover next, that Bloomberg is a control freak?
  
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- strawberry411a
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:40pm
  Vox: 1492. Been there. Done it> Been labeled by it. How should I label you?
  
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- henryKnox
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:35pm
  If they are looking for a symbol of Socialism/Communism I believe the best would be a picture of a mass grave. Also, @Vox.. Columbus didn’t enslave populations or commit genicide. Some may like to paint history that way but it is just a perverted view. Contagious diseases are bound to make their way around the world at some point, we can’t avoid contact with fellow human beings forever.
  
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- mattmo79
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:54pm
  Not only did Indians enslave each other, they constantly made war, tortured captured braves using methods like skinning them alive, cooking them alive, burying them in ant mounds, tying them to trees and letting wolves and bears eat them alive, raped women . . . and it goes on and on. No sense letting the truth get in the way of the progressive socialist lies!!
  
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chucksue351
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:52pm
how about a picture of uncle sam with a frown and his pockets pulled out to signify that he is broke, huh

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:45pm
  Include caricatures of the European nations in the same state and you very well might be onto something.
  
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BlasberryStrat
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:48pm
1) “6th graders” have zero clue about politics and what socialism can do to a Nation. Maybe this lesson should be assigned. But as a tax payer of public schooling, I demand that the children first be made to study and watch a DETAILED film on Pol Pot, and what he did to his people. Then let the children decide what “flag” they want.

2) This proves that our current Oby Admin. has studied Nazi history. Ever hear of “Hitler’s Youth”…..

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- wzanesdad
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:11pm
  agreed….however, I think the administration should study pol pot also, as he killed all the elites, the professors, government officials and anyone that had more than a grade school education. He also killed anyone that wore glasses because it made them look smart.
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:01pm
  check out this World History curriculum…skip down to the 10th page…in a section that is supposedly dedicated to the impact Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religions have had on the world….
  
  you would think that the Muslim faith is the greatest thing to happen in the world…I mean they ushered in a “golden age” in Spain and Europe that lasted until those EVIL Christians used the Inquisition and Reconquista movement to expel the Muslims and Jews….
  
  I call “BULL S”
  
  http://www.cscope.us/docs/vad/12_WH_TEKS%20Clarification_Sample.pdf
  
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spirited
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:46pm
“It’s built by teachers, designed by teachers and that’s what’s powerful about CSCOPE,” Lebay said.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> POWERFUL ~~>What an interesting word choice.

And….., Who (exactly) are the teachers?

>Background checks for teachers should be a requirement (period).

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Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:45pm
I wonder if one of them just handed in the ‘obamalogo’ they would be accused of cheating?

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scootervanneuter
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:44pm
Start the revolution already – let’s get this over with

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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:46pm
  We already did. I’m happy to report that victory is close at hand.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:08pm
  Vox, I’m glad you think so. It makes me smile knowing how utterly unaware you are of what is about to happen. Truly it does.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:10pm
  Pox, you learning to wipe and change your shorts is far from a revolution. Stacked like chord wood is a phrase you should perhaps look up.
  
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- Clownzilla
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:11pm
  @Vox
  
  Blah, blah, blah revolution! Blah, blah, blah common good! Blah, Blah, Blah blood of the worker! Blah, Blah, Blah utopia!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:14pm
  @00100111
  
  Their arrogance and ignorance will be looked back upon as their undoing. I, like you, find it utterly amusing how blind they are.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:15pm
  “Vox, I’m glad you think so. It makes me smile knowing how utterly unaware you are of what is about to happen. Truly it does.”
  
  You’re right, with the election of President Romney, you sure showed us! The Tea Party is such a frighteningly powerful political force! I mean, look at how they managed to balance the budget and repeal Obamacare!
  
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- Clownzilla
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Vox is one of those Commies that will be surprised that he is thrown in prison with the “dirty Capitalists” because he was told that he was one of the chosen citizens. Hey Vox, you are not a Communist. You are a Communist lap-dog that will be thrown in the cold when the “revolution” is finished.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:27pm
  Vox_Populi is definitely a misnomer in your case. In fact the term is highly suspect, and anyone who uses it is most often a demagogue. The Founders envisioned a nation with shifting majorities based on competing interests, thus avoiding the tyranny of a permanent majority. Since you’ve chosen to display a black clenched fist, I can only conclude that you are a black racist who sees black people as belonging to a monolitic group made up of people who are in lockstep with leftist victim rhetoric. Anyone with black skin who can think for himself or herself is therefore declared not black and excommunicated from the race, hence terms like Uncle Tom, Oreo etc. The irony is that you are still on the white man’s plantation; you’ve grown up listening to white liberals and they’ve got you conditioned. It’s a shame, but at this point you are nothing more than a trained parrot.
  
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- TheIggies
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:16pm
  Tell me, oh wise 01000, what revolution do you think is coming? You think that the majority of people are going to pick up arms and fight the government when a new episode of Survivor or American Idol is on?
  
  Yeah. Good luck with that. Neither political party can even get more than half the population to even vote. Are you really moronic enough to think that there is going to be some huge rebellion by the majority of people who don’t care about politics as long as they can watch TV and have sex with whomever they want?
  
  Again…good luck with that.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:24pm
  @PROGRESSIVESLAYER
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:11pm
  communism is a death cult and won’t be allowed to take root here
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  Agreed but the bad news is it already has.
  
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- DAYWATCHER
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:58pm
  So, Vox… This guy would be your hero? He just got life without parole….If your luck you will get his sentence… If not you will end up like all the other useless idiots… DEAD…you POS.
  
  Just saying…
  
  Read this article
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/04/convicted-killer-says-he-shot-3-white-women-because-of-ideas-learned-at-university-i-was-trying-to-prove-a-point-that-europeans-had-colonized-the-world/
  
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- wmcritter
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:03pm
  We must organize first. We need to create a well regulated army that will be strong enough and coordinated enough to defeat our military and LEOs. Because as much as we might hope that our military and LEOs will fight for “we the people” and for liberty, they will not. One day you will wake up and find that our military is going door to door collecting guns. And when you ask them “how can you do that?”, they will say “just following orders”. That is why we must create an army now, before they make their move. The soldiers we all celebrate today will be marching in our streets and killing us tomorrow because they are “just following orders”. A lot of good people in Germany committed heinous crimes against humanity because they were “just following orders”. It’s human nature to just obey and go along with the crowd.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:43pm
Public schools are a mortal enemy of this once great republic,they’ve been allowed to indoctrinate thousands into the sick twisted ideologies of communism and socialism. Parents if you love your kids get them as far away from those progressive psychopaths as you can as quickly as you can. They continue the brainwashing in college,look what happened to Barry he came out a full fledged Marxist POS,do you want your kid to end up like that?

No the only answer here is to abolish public school indoctrination centers and the NEA,they’re bad for America.

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- wzanesdad
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:56pm
  from your lips to Gods ears….
  
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- CatB
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 9:07pm
  Home school .. if you can .. or private school .. check them out (especially Christian schools) .. many have scholarship and aid programs .. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE RICH to do what is right for your child. I did.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:43pm
Too late … We already have that flag …

http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr263/acreator24/USSO13.jpg

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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:43pm
Indoctrination of the youths.

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vox_populi
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:43pm
“a lesson plan that calls the Boston Tea Party an act of ‘terrorism.’”

That is literally how the British would have spun it, though.

A bunch of people dressing up in disguises to hide their identities, and then destroying large amounts of private property to protest the government’s corporatist policies? You’re either describing the Boston Tea Party or the Black Bloc.

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- JacquesChirac
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:57pm
  You gotta be kiddin’ me?
  
  The British set our public school lesson plans??
  
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- FidesEtRatio
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:08pm
  Destroying property is not terrorism. For one thing, it lacks the element of terror. For another, it did not involve intentionally harming innocent civilians.
  
  If you want the “British perspective”, then I think the word “vandalism” would be the appropriate term.
  
  But to call the Boston Tea Party terrorism not only libels the patriots who took part in the action, but it also dishonors the victims of actual terrorism. Real terrorism is not protestors throwing tea into the bay. Rather, it is a sinister act of violence – often murder – intentionally inflicted upon innocent civilians with the goal of causing fear.
  
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- DZ-015
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:57pm
  Blox Populi: I see from your avatar that you have already done the assignment,
  
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- TheIggies
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:19pm
  So, according to you, Weather Underground never committed any acts of terror, because none of their explosions killed anyone, right?
  
  Geniuses at work, once again.
  
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- tomcat11767
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:14pm
  Actually, you just described most of the OWS crowd, and you don’t even realize it, you mf fool!!!
  
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- FidesEtRatio
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 8:20pm
  @TheIggies
  
  It is a sad thing that, when presented with reasonable argument that you cannot refute, you resort to the tactic of creating falsehoods.
  
  Since it is clear that you require only the most plain response – one which does not ask for even the most basic use of logic – I will give you a definition that even you can understand.
  
  Terrorism has the following characteristics:
  
  1) The use of violence or the threat of violence against civilian populations
  2) It is for the purpose of advancing a political or social cause.
  3) Just because a terror attack does not kill or harm anyone does disqualify it from being terrorism. If the intent of the attack is to gravely harm or kill civilians, then it is terrorism. If the attack has reckless disregard for human life, then it is also terrorism.
  4) A campaign of threatened violence, such as cross burnings, is also a form of terrorism.
  
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- galicant wiseword
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 10:15am
  The weather underground bombings did result in the death of a police officer, (a few WU members due to incompetence). Additionally they engaged in other activities like armed robbery in which several people were murdered.
  
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azitdad
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:42pm
Well, let’s see…

Democrats want Socialism quickly.
The GOP wants Socialism slowly.
The US Department of Education takes its marching orders directly from UNESCO, which wants Socilaism for the US, or better yet have the US removed from sight.
Socialists are in control of nearly every aspect of movies and television.
Our Universities seldom of ever present Conservatives positively.

I’m pretending to be outraged by these Socialist teachers, but I know they are everywhere.

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busterpuddles
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:42pm
Is it to anyone’s surprise that it came out of Austin? Houston’s mayor said recently that Texas will soon become a purple state and eventually turn blue. With biblical values and morals on a steep decline today, along with the massive influx of citizens from blue states, It brings a tear to my eye when I’m forced to agree with him.

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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:50pm
  “Texas will soon become a purple state and eventually turn blue”
  
  Well, Red – but a better kind of Red, if you know what I mean, comrade.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:09pm
  Derp?
  
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- starman70
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:58pm
  @VOX POPULI:
  
  If enough Californians flee to Texas, it won’t take long.
  
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- zhaan
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 11:25am
  @STARMAN70 – No, many of us Californians who came to Texas left California to get AWAY from the mindless worship of Obama. And some of us used to be Democrats. My friend and I moved to Texas in the past few years – we used to be Democrats in Southern California – we woke up, and my friend is a staunch Republican and I’m a Libertarian now. And even though I’m in Austin it’s definitely not California by any stretch of the imagination. Seems like there are more Ron Paul types here than anything.
  
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CABERNETQHS
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:41pm
Apparently all teachers curriculum needs to be monitored. Depicting the original tea party or today’s version as anti-American needs to stop. Sympathizing with socialists is treasonous to a true patriot. We cannot give up our public education systems to these double agents. They are brainwashing the masses.

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- PoppyField
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:18pm
  Monitored by whom?
  
  The government?
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 8:19am
  @POPPY
  
  Definitely not the government. How about Heritage or another privately funded organization. Parents and Grandparents need to have a legitimate place in the schools with regard to what’s being taught. It’s been handed over to the government and getting it back is going to take a back bone.
  
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ltbdb
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:40pm
And people still continue to sent their children to government schools.

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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:42pm
  All children should be home schooled and learn more gooder English.
  
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demsrtraitors
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:40pm
Texas had better abolish this and ban it. The traitorous white democrats will only encourage this to grow and spread like the HIV virus in a body.

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- TheIggies
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:21pm
  Teaching communism and/or socialism is not illegal. Practicing communism or socialism at the political level isn’t illegal either.
  
  That first amendment sure is a beach, eh?
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:43pm
  Teaching communism and/or socialism is not illegal.
  
  It is, immoral,,,, and leads to misery and death every time
  
  Communism always creates an entrenched elite, guts the middle class and impoverishes the masses…
  
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- demsrtraitors
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:35pm
  @TheIggies it should be and the punishment should be the death penalty for supporting it.
  
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- tomcat11767
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:18pm
  Teach the truth about Communism. That it has lead to more than 50 million deaths in the last century and that millions and millions more have suffered because of it. Communism will never work because it denies the reality of human nature.
  
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liberty4
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:39pm
That should be an interesting assignment. Honest students can draw pictures of theft, mass murder, and violations of life, liberty, and property. They might also draw pictures of mass starvation and poverty. All common socialist ideals and results.

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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:46pm
  North Koreans Reportedly Turn to Cannibalism Due to ‘Hidden Famine’
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/north-koreans-reportedly-turn-cannibalism-due-hidden-famine-122128957.html
  
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oldguy49
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:38pm
what in the heck is going on in texas schools…….

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- Exidor
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Our idiots in Austin.
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:38pm
Critical thinkers do not choose socialism, socialism must be imposed through brainwashing and indocrination

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- smokie
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:53pm
  Exactly. I was one of those miserable, maligned teenagers until I heard 2112. I heard those lyrics and realized there were other people out there like me, who didn’t feel like giving all their hard earned work away. My world began to make sense.
  A lot of adolescent depression could be that they simply feel worthless in a socialist idea of “Brave New World.”
  
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- tomcat11767
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:21pm
  Smokie,
  That’s why Rush is the best rock band ever!!!
  
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mcsledge
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:36pm
If you are a socialist, you are anti-Christian. The very concept of socialism puts the State as one’s protector and provider, not God. Anyone who promotes socialism and claims to be a Christian has absolutely no understanding of Christ’s Gospel, is a hypocrit and godless.

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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:45pm
  “The very concept of socialism puts the State as one’s protector and provider”
  
  Except for the entire libertarian wing of socialism.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
  
  “Anyone who promotes socialism and claims to be a Christian has absolutely no understanding of Christ’s Gospel, is a hypocrit and godless.”
  
  Does that include the guy who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:11pm
  Libertarian socialism is a misnomer, and Noam Chomsky is a moron. Sorry, buddy. You’ve been duped. It must suck to be you.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:16pm
  There is no such thing as “libertarian socialism”. That’s something invented by the socialists in order to entrap people who may not see hurting others as fun, initially. I haven’t known a “libertarian socialist” that did not reject socialism over time, or who didn’t go full bore lefty violent socialist like the rest of you neanderthals.
  
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- UnreconstructedLibertarian
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:31pm
  Yes, Vox – occasionally you are useful.
  
  Please educate folks on the orgins of the Pledge of Alegiance.
  
  Most folk don’t realize they have already been brainwashed – the pledge is an excellent example. How about you show the good folk the original salute to the flag as pushed by Bellamy.
  
  This is one subject you’ll never see Barton/Beck touch. They can’t admit of their own socialistic brainwashing. The “Pledge” is a socialist mantra, written by socialists, to condition future socialists. “…and justice for all”.
  
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- tomcat11767
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:27pm
  Unreconstructed,
  I’ll answer you since I know that Vox won’t. That original salute was the same one the Nazis used. The Progressives were aligned with the Fascists and the Nazis, and only distanced themselves once the horrors of the Holocaust came to light. H. G Wells, Charles Darwin, Margaret Sanger, and many more were dirtbag Progressives.
  
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- Mr.LongMayItWave
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 6:35pm
  VOX: “Anyone who promotes socialism and claims to be a Christian has absolutely no understanding of Christ’s Gospel, is a hypocrit and godless.”
  
  “Does that include the guy who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?”
  ” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy ”
  
  VOX – YES. YES IT DOES.
  
  As already noted on this chain, Bellamy, who wrote the “Pledge of Allegiance” was a DEVOTED SOCIALIST.
  
  Very poor research on your part to bring up a Devotee of Marx and Engels when trying “prove” a point.
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:36pm
no surprise… the Fundamental Transformation is well under way…

Outrage as high school recites Pledge in Arabic saying ‘One Nation Under Allah’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270944/Rocky-Mountain-High-School-Outrage-high-school-recites-Pledge-Arabic-saying-One-Nation-Under-Allah.html

Fury is brewing at Rocky Mountain High School, in Colorado, after a multicultural student group were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic – replacing ‘one nation under God’ with ‘one nation under Allah’.

Following Monday’s pledge, Principal Tom Lopez has been inundated with complaints from outraged parents concerned that saying the Pledge in any language other than English is unpatriotic.

Standing by his controversial decision, Principal Lopez has said that despite the irate telephone calls and emails, he is not in any way or form trying to push an Islamic agenda at the Fort Collins school.

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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:53pm
  “replacing ‘one nation under God’ with ‘one nation under Allah’.”
  
  Well they wouldn’t have said “one nation under” either, because it would have been in Arabic. I suppose you think Spaniards worship the pagan god of Dios, too?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:20pm
  The Latin based language Spanish’s word “dios” comes from the Latin word “Deus” which signifies the word “God”, not one god in particular.
  
  Have you ever bothered to even crack a book before going silly, vox?
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:38pm
  “The Latin based language Spanish’s word “dios” comes from the Latin word “Deus” which signifies the word “God”, not one god in particular.”
  
  …yes, GHOSTOFJEFFERSON, that was my point. Thanks for playing!
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:51pm
  Outrage as high school recites Pledge in Arabic saying ‘One Nation Under Allah’
  
  not that hard to understand
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:08pm
  But “Dios” wasn’t “a pagan god”, rather, it’s a derivative of the Latin word “deus” which only meant to indicate the noun “god”, without context of pagan, Christian or space alien.
  
  Oh my, you really don’t understand languages do you? A word for “god” does not mean “a specific god”, and even “God” doesn’t mean one “God”, it signifies one deity, who is named Yahweh. The word “god” is neither pagan nor Christian, it is rather an artifact of Germanic languages defining a noun, just as “deus” is the same for the Latin language and its derivatives, so there is no “the pagan god Dios”, you simpleton.
  
  Please, try to keep up, and keep in mind, we all have a scroll bar that we can use to look at the words you’ve already said.
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 5:32pm
  “But ‘Dios’ wasn’t ‘a pagan god’, rather, it’s a derivative…”
  
  I can appreciate that sarcasm doesn’t always translate well over the Internet, so I’ll go ahead and let this one slide.
  
  of the Latin word “deus” which only meant to indicate the noun “god”, without context of pagan, Christian or space alien.
  
  “A word for ‘god’ does not mean ‘a specific god’, and even ‘God’ doesn’t mean one ‘God’”
  
  Yes, I know. Again, this is literally my point. So when Blazers kneejerk because some kids recited the Pledge in multiple languages, including Arabic, and therefore necessarily referred to ‘Allah’, this did not indicate some conspiratorial attempt to convert children into Muslims, it’s literally just how you say ‘God’ in Arabic. To reiterate, AGAIN, this was my point.
  
  “there is no ‘the pagan god Dios’”
  
  Sarcasm, GhostofJefferson. Sarcasm.
  
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- katzkiner
  Posted on February 5, 2013 at 6:31pm
  Show me a country where socialism has produced anything but hunger, poverty and death by the millions. Socialism is long on preaching and promises, never delivers a better world. Just death and suffering. You must ignore the communist track record for the thrill of viewing yourself as an “enlightened intellectual”. You are standing on the wreckage and carnage of millions of poor souls killed in the name of your Marxist faith. The rest of the world looks on in horror as you try to sell your idiotic theories to Americans, they have been there, done that already. It did not work. Marx was an idiot, so are you.
  
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MCON29
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:35pm
What a surprise. The school district is located in Austin.

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welovetheUSA
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:34pm
Fire these traitors……..its in the oath that teachers shall not influence children in communist ways.

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- TheIggies
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 4:24pm
  …what Oath are you talking about? I took no such oath when I started teaching three years ago.
  
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ccrabill
Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:34pm
Where the hell are the parents!? Where is the outrage!!! Where are the pitchforks and torches?! Run these communists out of this country!

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- wzanesdad
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:52pm
  homeschool……or end the DOE.
  
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- spirited
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:52pm
  “Discontent is rampant across the state,” said Peggy Venable, the Texas director of Americans for Prosperity” -The Blaze article
  
  :^>FYI: Written just to the left of ~> SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER ! (in red )
  
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- kodai1.2
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:57pm
  The parents uesd to. send the kids to learn . since the 70′s that has changed. Schools now are now a babysitting service
  
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- vox_populi
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:01pm
  “Where is the outrage!!”
  
  Over what? Socialism? We’ve got most of the country on our side already. Do consider joining us, comrade, it will be much easier for you that way.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:08pm
  Never happen pox. Get your abacus out again.
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 4, 2013 at 3:20pm
  VOX_POPULI
  
  Socialism is just a tool for enslavement, people like you don’t realize that the elites encourage revolutions to take more control.. through the state. the elites control the state not idealists and useful idiots.
  
  You are being played.. look around see the mark,,
  
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