COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Restore the Republic
July 15, 2009 at 03:46 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedA great site for keeping active in the Ron Paul movement. It has a lot of good information and utilities to keep in touch with people.Organization under: -
Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 06:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edward L. Bernays, Propoganda (1928) p. 47, 48.If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, the elite could control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it…just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline.
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H. L. Mencken
July 08, 2009 at 04:00 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
The American Murcury Magazine (April, 1924).The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
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Thomas Jefferson
July 08, 2009 at 05:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Thomas Jefferson, John P. Foley, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London) p. 277, 278.Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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General Education Board
July 14, 2009 at 07:24 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
General Education Board, Occasional Papers, No. 1 (General Education Board, New York, 1913) p. 6.In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm.
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The New York Times
July 14, 2009 at 07:31 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edited by Edward J. Wheeler, Current Opinion, Vol. LXII January - June (The Current Literature Publishing Company, New York, 1917) p. 195.Unblushing materialism finds its crowning triumph in the theory of the modern school. In the whole plan there is not a spiritual thought, not an idea that rises above the need of finding money for the pocket and food for the belly…It is a matter of instant inquiry, for very sober consideration, whether the General Education Board, indeed, may not with the immense funds at its disposal be able to shape to its will practically all the institutions in which the youth of the country are trained.
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Lew Rockwell.com
July 15, 2009 at 03:44 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedGreat daily articles in a wide variety of topics from the free market/limited government perspective. Bookmark and visit often.Organization under: -
Young Americans for Liberty
July 15, 2009 at 03:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedThe continuation of students for Ron Paul. Y.A.L. is forming chapters in universities all over the U.S. Fun and frequent blog posts with a forum.Organization under: -
True American History
September 17, 2009 at 09:37 pm by Dwayne FritzPost under:I either want to find or help start a group of citizens or a non-profit organization to promote True Foundational American History in our public school system. Since our federal government won't leave our schools to our states, lets take them back ourselves by teaching our children about the truth of America's founders. To require the reading and teaching of Historic documents from the Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution, The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist Papers, etc. even to the point of studying Marcus Tullius Cicero's writings on Natural Law that inspired our Founders. This won't be to teach Politics but to teach the principles of our History. If there are groups out there like that, could you refer me to them or lets start something. I live in PA we could start here or anywhere.
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Some News Flashes
September 20, 2009 at 04:11 am by Darrin MoirPost under:Sure enough, the bailouts created "too Gigantuous to fail" institutions in the financial world, giving them an unfair and monopolistic leg over their competitors. At the same time another 30% of banks failed recently without any intervention. Consumer choice is depleting and we are truly getting a rigid oligopoly financial system. Do you think Federal reserve members didn't see this coming? Do you think that maybe they would want to see their buddies wielding the upper hand.It is striking proof that free market economics do not cause monopolies. Favoritism and government intervention make these things happen. The government's only job is making sure that what it has now effectively created, doesn't happen. That said and done, the media is finally using buzzwords that Fiscal conservatives used to argue against the bailouts. It creates moral hazard... now they tell us.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082704193_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009082800437
Scientists want the government to tax all sweet products in a coercive approach to making us eat healthier. Congress wants to pass a health bill that requires by law to purchase a service from a private company. (Ps. car insurance is not the same as health insurance. Driving on the road with a vehicle is specific activity that is a possible danger to other individuals. Health insrance requires you to cover yourself from any risks for simply existing.) The only way that this becomes okay in a society is the power paradigm shifts from bottom up to top down and the citizens become assets of the state rather than the power holders.http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Financial-Industry/Fructose-in-the-firing-line
On Saturday, September 12th, over 450,000 people marched on Washington, and no major news media covered it, except conservative talk radio and conservative bloggers. Otherwise it was media blocked.
States are already feeling the strings attached to those stimulus dollars. In Education, there are a few states that won't allow their teachers to be evaluated or fired based on test scores, especially federally mandated test scores. Yet, the Obama has effectively attached a clause to billions of dollars in stimulus money for the "race to the top" program of his that requires them to step down their defensive stance of protecting their teachers from federal mandates requiring evaluations of this type. Without bowing down federal laws that require teachers to be evaluated based on standardized test results, these states become ineligible for funds. Naturally, they are scrambling to back down on their word, give up their state sovereignty, and hand more power over to the federal government in the name of a few dollars. Oh, but it's for the children, right? Yeah the same children who are going to be paying this stimulus spending for years to come.
http://www.teachermagazine.org/tm/articles/2009/09/09/298498usschoolsjudgingteachers_ap.html?tkn=MXVF2zT%252FS%252F2IUWWaHYv8zzxKLgbyrhFxYgfg
