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This essay is dedicated in appreciation to
Southern Baptist pastors have been spiraling downward into the abyss of fiction and fraud for generations, pushing the iniquitous sword attacking civil rights, women, people of color, and the customary whipping boy for ignorant people: the LGBTQIA+ community. From Billy Graham and G...
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This essay is dedicated to my dearest friend
A Texas school district pre-emptively pulled more than 400 books from its libraries for review following an inquiry from a Republican state lawmaker. North East Independent School District in San Antonio said it determined its libraries contained 414 books on a list of roughly 800 targeted by neo-Nazi state Rep. Matt Krause (Republican) allegedly “representing” House District 93 in Tarrant County (Fort Worth, Texas).
Matt Krause (R-Tarrant County) in state legislature (2017)
An opportunist, Krause (born August 19, 1980) dropped out of the race for his district to run for District Attorney, claiming to be a faithful white christian evangelical fighter for christian values and eager to deny women the right to determine the desti...
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Texas is the home to a majority of Southern Baptist cult followers, homegrown terrorists, and an uptick in pedophilia in Baptist schools and churches.1 The Baptist extremists, leagued with militant misogynists and harping homophobes, have now rifled in on the First Amendment and guarantee of freedom of religion scorching its universality in purification purity of demanding that the god of their cult is the only god and that all people, including atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers, etc. must see a craven sign that they acknowledge what is not universally true:2
State Sen...
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A “preacher” armed with a semiautomatic rifle showed up at Beto O’Rourke’s townhall in Hemphill, Texas, to challenge O’Rourke’s position on … abortion, calling it murder.
A self-proclaimed “minister of the gospel” (at present not identified by name or address) showed up at Beto O’Rourke’s town hall in Hemphill, in East Texas, on Saturday, July 30, asking questions about abortion and if Jesus was the gubernatorial candidate’s “lord and savior.” The man did all this while carrying an assault-style rifle over his shoulder just months after a gunman used a similar rifle to kill students and teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde.
The man, who claimed to be a preacher, is seen in multiple videos posted to Twitter over the weekend...
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I. Introduction
II. Antethesis
VII. The Challenge of Language
VIII. Analysis of Findings of the Research Project
IX. What solutions exist to solve Perú’s educational decline?
X. Bibliography
XI. End Notes
Patriotism has its place—as an expression of loyalty. It is not a hood to cover reality as if it were some medieval monk scurrying about to find heretics and apostates. Patriotism, especially to a partisan party or religion, is both plutocratic as well as destructive of the educational process. While I have written at length about bad education in the USA (where 7000 high school students drop out of education every day)1 and in other nations, when I noted...
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Parents, students fight against Florida’s hate legislation
Rick DeSantis, Florida Governor
Governor Rick DeathSantis, the fuehrer or the gaggle of Republicanazis in the Florida legislature, signed into law one of the most hateful bills…matching those that slithered out of The Third Reich and blessed by Adolf Hitler. The Florida sludge has become known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law targeting transsexuals/transgenders as well as all LGBTQIA people and their parents and families.
While the Don’t Say Gay bill’s proponents have implied that talking about LGBTQ people is what the law means when it says sexual orientation and gender identity, nothing in the law’s text actually limits it to just discussions of LGBTQ people. So, some teachers are allegedly taking it to its logical conclusion.
“T...
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In the summer of 1637, an armed force of English Puritans led an attack on the fortified Pequot village of Mystic in Connecticut, resulting in the deaths of around 500 Native American men, women, and children, though some estimate the numbers were higher.1 A pre-dawn attack on Mystic Fort that left 500 adults and children of the Pequot tribe dead, the Pequot Massacre (or the “Mystic Massacre”)2 was the first defeat of the Pequot people by the English in the Pequot War, a three-year war instigated by the Puritans to seize the tribe’s traditional land.3
Captain Masons attack on the Pequots fortified village 1637 (hand-colored-woodcut-MYPJ5H)
The Pequot War is described in the new young reader’s version of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States...
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Ivermectin warning yet people still take it and most die.
The concept of freedom of choice and expression is not absolute. No person has the right to broadcast misinformation about matters of health, social stability, and the right to express oneself in a democracy. Various physicians have been justifiably censored and removed from jobs that require public trust. This is especially true in the field of virology1 and the current coronavirus pandemic. Prescriptions for ivermectin have jumped to more than 88,000 per week, some pharmacists are reporting shortages and people are overdosing on forms of the drug meant for horses.2 Prescriptions for ivermectin have seen a sharp rise in recent weeks, jumping to more than 88,000 per week3 in mid-August from a prepandemic baseline average of 3,600 pe...
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Library of Alexandria artist rendition
This essay is dedicated to my well-read and erudite friend Woody Besse in Cedar Hill, Texas who puts up with my decidedly anti-Republican essays exposing the duplicity and double-talk given to education and learning, First Amendment rights and guarantees, and the equality of all people regardless of sex, gender, gender-identification, race, age, status, etc.
Burning books and other items containing knowledge is as old as time. Julius Cesar burned the Library of Alexander, that was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library1 was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts, and all documents in it...
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The practice of immunization dates back hundreds of years.
Immunization record of First Lieutenant Herman J. Grabenstein, Jr...
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