Category Archives: Education

The Presumption of American Racism

Posted on February 26, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Is a simple display of patriotism and chanting “U.S.A.” actually vile and evil hate speech?      For the administration at Camarillo High School, it was presumed to be pure and utter racism.  Four boys at a basketball game lead a chant … Continue reading →

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Look for the Union Diaper

Posted on February 14, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The indoctrination of the young is not limited to K-12 schools with Federal standards, nor to institutions of higher “education.”  Now toddlers can be indoctrinated using a radical ABC board book entitles “A is for Activist.”      The author is very … Continue reading →

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Progressives’ Final Solution

Posted on February 7, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The use of racial divisiveness has long been a hallmark of the Progressive Left.  The stoking of racial hatred and ignorance at universities by peddling “critical race theory” or other such grievance studies and attempts to push “multiculturalism” has grown … Continue reading →

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All Your Children Are Belong To Us

Posted on February 6, 2013 by The Political Hat

     Defenders of the status quo in educations can oft paint truly horrific scenes of children being harmed, brainwashed, or left behind due to “evil” “Reich-wing” conservatives; typically the proffered villains are the evil “corporations” since that is what corporations do, … Continue reading →

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Pillars of Society

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Guest Poster

     Guest post by “Cato,” originally from the comments at the Ace of Spades HQ.      What the Leftist does not understand is that the core of their philosophy, the noble savage of Rousseau, is absolutely wrong. Civilization is not the default … Continue reading →

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The Progressive War on Nevada

Posted on January 27, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The hyper-leftist organization, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), hosted a preemptive rebuttal to Gov. Sandoval’s State of the State address, and delivered by former state Senator Sheila Leslie.  In her address, she espoused the usual unthinking canned ideas … Continue reading →

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A Case in Point: The Failure of Higher Education

Posted on January 24, 2013 by The Political Hat

     The University of Nevada, Las Vegas has often played second fiddle to its elder sibling in the Nevada System of Higher Education, the University of Nevada, Reno. Though UNLV has so far successfully avoided having a psycho killer named after … Continue reading →

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“You don’t have to know it; you just have to know how to look it up”

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Guest Poster

A guest post from Julie Krauss over at Individual Sovereignty      Back in the late 60’s or early 70’s (when else!), there was a wonderful new theory of education that had been developed and was being taught to high-school (talk about … Continue reading →

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Innocents Betrayed ~ The History of Gun Control

Posted on January 15, 2013 by The Political Hat

     An informative history of gun control and its dark results…      ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ      Hat Tip: The Jawa Report.

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The Perpetuation of Racial Inequality in Schools

Posted on January 11, 2013 by The Political Hat

     As has been mentioned before, one of the core problems with Affirmative Action is that it does not actually address the cause of unequal outcomes when it comes to race.      The dark side of this is that it assumes that … Continue reading →

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