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House GOPers Exploit and Insult Thomas Jefferson
By David Corn - Politics DailyAre the House Republicans as paranoid as the most extreme Tea Partier? On Thursday, House Minority leader John Boehner (R-Land of No) and his crew released a campaign manifesto called A Pledge to America, which outlined what they would do, should they gain control of the House in the coming congressional elections. The preamble to this glossy, 45-page document -- which doles out the expected: tax cuts for the rich, downsizing government, repealing the health care bill -- purposefully echoes the Declaration of Independence, noting that "America is an idea . . . that each of us is endowed by ...
Debate: Thomas Jefferson Is Still Alive and Well
By not in system - AOL News(April 19) -- For the last month I have been reading scary headlines. "Texas Crusade Rewrites History Texts," shouts an editorial in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes to State Education Curriculum," screams The Huffington Post. The headlines are everywhere. Thomas Jefferson is to be eliminated from textbooks, I read, again and again. These reports of the Texas standards and their supposed impact have warped the public view. The fear mongering is out of control, and we will see more of it, I imagine, before Texas board ...
Debate: First Darwin, Then Jefferson - Who's Next?
By Richard Milner - AOL News(April 19) -- "First they came for Darwin and I did not speak out, then they came for Jefferson and I did not speak out, and then they came for me." When German cleric Martin Niemoller (1892-1984) wrote the prototype of that phrase, he chronicled the Nazis' progressive elimination of Jews, Communists and trade unionists, and of the danger of not speaking up before they eventually came for him. His insight echoes in our ears with the recent scandalous revision of history and science textbooks in Texas high schools. It is no accident that Thomas Jefferson was the first political leader to be ...
Texas Yanks Thomas Jefferson From Teaching Standard
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 12) -- Widely regarded as one of the most important of all the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Jefferson received a demotion of sorts Friday thanks to the Texas Board of Education. The board voted to enact new teaching standards for history and social studies that will alter which material gets included in school textbooks. It decided to drop Jefferson from a world history section devoted to great political thinkers. According to Texas Freedom Network, a group that opposes many of the changes put in place by the Board of Education, the original curriculum asked students ...
Michelle Obama's Slave Roots
By Sally Denton - Politics DailyThe much-ballyhooed front page New York Times story about the First Lady's slave roots played down the most fascinating aspect of the story: The "unknown white man" who fathered Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother. "Out of all Michelle's roots, it's Melvinia who is screaming to be found," a genealogist working with the Times said of the illiterate slave girl who was impregnated and gave birth to Mrs. Obama's mulatto great-great grandfather at the age of fifteen. ...
Who Was Our Greatest President?
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyHappy Presidents Day!C-SPAN, the network that brought you Lindsey Graham's Christian Bale impersonation and "nap time with Robert C. Byrd," has just surveyed 65 leading historians in hopes of ranking America's presidents from best to worst.Well the historians have weighed in (having previously done so in 2000) and the results may shock you...Benjamin Harrison has leapfrogged Martin Van Buren for the title of 30th best!While you're recovering from that bombshell, you might care to know that Abraham Lincoln came in first place, just as he did in the last survey. He was followed by George ...
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