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Declaration of Independence
U. S. Constitution
Citizenship Terms in the U.S. Constitution
The American Form of Government
Kerchner v. Obama
Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen?
The Logical Analysis of a Natural Born Citizen
Little Things You Can Do...
Hope and Change Cartoons
The Obama Deception
Unemployment Map of the United States
KeyWiki
Archive: Is Obama constitutionally eligible?
Was Obama's father Malcolm X?
A Question of Eligibility
Kermit the Frog comments on Obama!
Obama's how-to videos
Even the Dems are calling Obama divisive
Explain this, Obamatons:
Burn this chart into your memory!
How to Buy Your Kids a House
Obama's many defining moments
Why the left uses the term "birthers"
Shirley Sherrod's racist husband...
Refudiate liberalism!
More from that religion of peace...
Hidden cameras on the Arizona border
The Breakup of the United States
Pictorial Essay of U.S. Citizenship
The Law of Nations or the Principle of Natural Law
I wonder...
BP WEB OF DECEIT: THE UGLY TRUTH
In the "actions have consequences" category...
Disturbing oil spill photos
The Ten Commandments According to Obama
Coming to a bedroom near you?
Obama's socialist takeover must be stopped
Why are banks withholding high-end repossessions?
Dems put politics ahead of saving children
North of the Border
I Do Not Like This Uncle Sam
Fear and Whining in Los Angeles
I sure as Hell would have bought them!
Tragedy in Haiti
If you set aside...
Obama and the Paycheck Fairness Act
Obama, the racist and sexist
Profit-Making Is Virtue, Not Vice
Does Obama Want Your Bling?
Quit comparing me...
Average Duration of Employment
A heartfelt argument against Kagan
Obama's criminal ties to Kenya
When World War III started...
Joe "not stimulating enough" Biden
Immigration Counters
The Natural Born Presidency
Don't trust either party to cut spending
Immigration, reconsidered
Notification of Violation
Obama Must Be Impeached
Ten Mental Mistakes of Obamatons
Documents supporting an Obama birth in Kenya
Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit
The Elite Turn Against Obama
Der VerschwörungsFrosch deckt auf: Obama
No mosque at Ground Zero
"I want one of them too"
Why hyperinflation is on the way...
Dumber than a rock...and likely to get reelected
Deficits Are A Symptom - The Problem Is Spending
The Gulf Oil Disaster: Real People - Real Places
The financial mess Obama helped create in Illinois
An intelligent Democrat comments on Obamacare
The wrong-headed Arizona challenge
Obama's Rules for Revolution
Three Million Imaginary Jobs
The Audacity Against Arizona
Life and Death in California
Outrageous Islamist lawsuit
The Islamization of America
Obama the Socialist Fascist Communist
When We Were Negroes
The Flight of the Money - Where Has It Gone?
Learn economics in two hours
NASA 2011
Megyn Kelly for Attorney General!
An illustrated, multiple choice test for Eric Holder
Revolution or Civil War: The choice is ours!
Bad Medicine: a 100-day Obamacare check-up
Two Bad Investments: Stocks, Bonds
What has America become?
Two Resumes
Tiger Woods, Obama and the redemption of America
The Depths of Economic Hell?
Defining unemployment
A chart of unemployment since 1995
Obama's new haircut
The Dumbest President...EVER!
KUHNER: Why Obama is a cultural Muslim
Oil Spill Timeline Video
Obama and redistribution
Give me your tired, your poor...
A True Moderate Muslim And Why Obama Sides Against Him
Block Kagan!
I Fought For You
10 UNDENIABLE OBAMA "BIRTHER" FACTS
When the music stopped...
Santa Claus and Frank Nitti
It's a good thing Obama has been on this since day one...
Obama's worst foreign-policy mistake
What Really Matters
How many of these can Hamas buy...
Oliver North Salute to Troops
The Manchurian Candidate: Deceiving America
America Rising
Illinois Election Outrage
Kate Smith introduces God Bless America
Kagan Must Be Blocked
Time for a little perspective on oil spills
Making the World More Dangerous
Meltdown!
One of these things is not like the other...
World Economic Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
Sign of the times...
Deepwater Horizon Incident Timeline
Still more... from the religion of peace
Kagan's Princeton Thesis Cited German Socialist Who Endorsed Nazis
Obama and Kagan would have let this woman be killed
(Even a Few) Words Matter
Whatever happened to Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star?
Why Obamanomics Has Failed
Remember in November...
And this jerk will be reelected in November...
The best place to be poor
Hurricane, and Obama, preparedness
Missouri can stop ObamaCare on August 3
The Ultimate Horror Movie
Elena Kagan, the Censor
The Democrat racist origins of gun control
The Other Bara(c)k?
Is Obama constitutionally eligible to serve?
Ineligibility could prove costly for Obama
BP, oil, the EPA, and Corexit
Write Your Own Caption
Breyer's Wrong-Headed Opinion
Schiff: U.S. Is in a Depression
Pensacola Beach Covered In Oil And Tar
Read this before the November election
The Debt Limit: Made Simple
Apathetic-USA.com
Obama: A Bill of Indictment
Do your job, Obama!
Obama nominee Kagan...
Louisiana Woman Tells It Like It Is!
All the President's (Hench)Men
Two Muslim mothers...
Body Language
The best stimulus? Spend less, borrow less
The Scariest Picture You'll Ever See
Planning to Fail
It Takes a Spillage
1963 Communist Goals
Teddy the Traitor
World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur
The General's Last Laugh
Yet another reason to reject Kagan
MacArthur Defeats Truman: The Real McChrystal Message
Obama... unscripted
That Rolling Stone article...
Can gold be valued in currency or is itself money?
Enemy at the Gates
CALL AND COMPLAIN NOW!
Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket
Alarming statistics...
Boycott Absolut Vodka
The Three Enablers
The fix was in...
101 Thoughts on America's Economy
Sympathy Deformed
A Dog in the Manger Presidency
It All Goes Back in the Box
Why we will have hyperinflation
Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
The more things change...
The False Choice
2010 Inflation Report
Somebody paid the price...
Pay no attention...
Salesmanship
Obama, what took you so long?
Yeah, like we really need this...
More wisdom from Governor Christie
Living in the Economic Past
Obama gives taxpayers funds to Hamas
Obama Jokes
Excuse me...
No energy in Obama energy speech
Busted: Governments, Pensions, Unions
The 2010 Idiot of the Year Award...
The Story of The Star Spangled Banner
Roe v. ObamaCare
Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque
Gulf Oil Rig Incident Timeline
We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Uncivilized Tactics at UC Irvine
North Korean defections unlikely at the World Cup
The Other National Debt
Andrea Bocelli... on abortion
We Con the World
22 million illegals and counting
MELTUP
Destroying the economy is a feature, not a bug
Taxpayer-funded global warming lies
Gun registration and confiscation under the Nazis
Talk about audacity!
It isn't the guns that they fear...
The Obama Disaster Machine
Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?
Helen Thomas' Exquisite 'Weimar Moment' Reflects Progressive America
How Not to Get Shot by a Soldier
Corexit is Killing the Gulf
Obama: "It's complicated!"
Nowhere to cut federal spending?
Mario Apuzzo on Obama's ineligibility
The Alien in the White House
Terrorist tactics...
Obama regrets the death of terrorists...
In God is Our Trust...
The Millionaire Cop Next Door
Never again
The greatest threat to America...
A book worth reading...
Join Team Obama in His Fight Against the Oil Spill
Obama Fails the Test of Office
Judge Andrew Napolitano interview
The case for default of the national debt
In God Is Our Trust...
Bilderberg 2010: Between the sword and the wall
Saddam's WNDs were shipped to Syria
Senior citizens...
The nation's best governor...
Ocean currents likely to carry oil along Atlantic coast
1979 Redux
Obama oil spill timeline
From liberty to fascism...
Jihad in humanitarian clothing
The cowardly news anchor...
God Bless a Re-Awakening of America
Election day reminder...
10 People to Blame for the Oil
Obama Administration Closes In On Control of Media
Fast and loose with the census
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Ima
How to plug the oil leak...
The deficits...
Flotillas and Falsehoods
A bleak scenario in the Gulf...
The old man...
When Masculine Virtues Go Out of Fashion
Courtroom comeback...
The Scope of the Problem
The world economy explained...
Gene Simmons' Military Salute
A Disaster with Many Fathers
When Professor Obama Meets Dirty Reality
A national disgrace...
Time to stop paying taxes?
A Torch With No Flame
Thoughts for Memorial Day
The Freedom Dome
Is the oil spill only a diversion?
National debt increases by president
Muslim beheading in Texas
Obama has not raised any taxes?
Sestak Memo Only Raises More Questions
Reunions...
Obama's Katrina
Can you make...
Restore Our Border Security Plan
Bye, Bye All You Socialist Creeps
Obama's Arizona Stance Borders Treason
Plug the damn hole!
Taxes... up, up, and away
Obama Must Confront World's Bullies
In defense of bigots...
Nashville flood... where was Obama?
Lt. Col. Allen West on Obama
Stop Islamization of America (SIOA)
They will just keep printing money...
Clearing the Smoke on Obama's Eligibility
Illegal immigrants
South Korea, North Korea, Israel and Iran
30 Islamist terror plots in the U.S. since 9/11
A suggestion for businesses...
Mayor Gordon, shut up!
That volcano in Iceland...
ObamaCare's marriage penalty
Suspend the Constitution?
Sell in May and run away ...fast
Come to the U.S.A.
Reading is really super swell!
Another stupid Obamaton...
Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Let's say I break into your house...
The high cost of cheap labor
The disatrous financial regulation bill
Why you should own gold
Could Palin win in 2012?
Some writings by Jonathan I. Katz
Why Terrorism Matters
How Mexcio treats illegal immigrants
Speak for yourself, Barry Soetoro from Indonesia...
Obama's Waterloo
Tell me again why I bothered with college?
THIS is FRIGHTENING!
The Keynesian Race to Bankruptcy
NIA Inflation Charts
No mosque at Ground Zero!
OBAMA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE THIS
They Walk Among Us...
Dante's Tenth Circle
Obama's ties to Goldman Sachs
If THIS doesn't frost your a** nothing will...
The face of terrorism in America today...
Obama's choice to head Medicare prefers England's system
The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment
Drill, baby, drill
Hispanic teacher calls for revolution
Paula Abdul for the Supreme Court!
Truer words were never written...
Obama wants your ATM records...
It's Greek to Us
700 illegals on one trail in one month in Arizona
Censorship of Islamic Terminology
Everything I ever needed to learn about Islam...
Floral print plus plaid?
The Greek Economic Crisis Made Simple
Gulf oil spill is a drop in the bucket
Arizona...
In Ohio, not Yemen
Obamacare's unintended (?) consequences
Dear Anderson Cooper:
Time to Plan for War
Fraud in the USA
Commie Obama
Illegals rally in Atlanta
The nation's best governor
Class versus Crass
Obama wants your 401(k)
Natural born versus native born
U.S. Google Maps with Arabic text?
President Ball Sucker
Sneak into a baseball game...
And they say Tea Partiers are dangerous?
Can someone explain this?
Never mind that hospital expansion...
Obama's good and bad words
"Smart Grid" Myths
Federal pay versus private sector pay
The Liberty Tree
Communists Sue Democrat Party!
Why I voted for Arizona SB 1070
The limp and the dead...
Bank Regulation for Dummies
Border Alert!!
Arizona can enforce its new law
Dear Mr. Obama
Dogs on welfare
Obama's day at NASA
Obama the renegade...
Get ready for lousy health care
The Mohammed Image Archive
Why liberals hate the Tea Party
Who's to Blame When a Black Man Rapes a Woman?
Afghanistan for Dummies
What's wrong with this picture?
Arizona's first big catch
The Obama student loan takeover
Duh!
Gaza garbage truck
Who uses phony Social Security numbers?
Remember November
The government can...
Tea Party Slogans Repository
A Question of Eligibility
Tick - Tick - Tick The Economy Bomb
Not Too Hip and Edgy for Censorship
Today, I Cried for America
America sucks, say the Obamas
Ganging Up on Grandma
Physicians and Hospitals That Love ObamaCare
Awesome!
Spreading your wealth
The carbon offset-offset program!
Student loans throw us further into debt
These are...
Bush deficits versus Obama deficits
The Obama budget cuts
Thank your military
A message from your president...
Golf Czar
The Tea Party in Boston knew how to right a ship
Tea Party racism... not
No we can't
We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of Western values
Earthquake over, corruption back in Haiti
Tea Parties a delayed Bush backlash
So Why Aren't Progressives Called Regressives?
Bibi's Secret Letter to Obama
Yes, a black conservative site
Red Skelton and the Pledge of Allegiance
The Goldman Sachs scam
Britain today... USA tomorrow?
The disaster called ObamaCare
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Stop Spending our Future
Honor
It's All Bush's Fault...
A drunken sailor responds...
America's Quiet Anger
What Do We Do If the Rich Start to Leave?
Feds Busy Rewriting the History of the Collapse
ObamaCare Explained...
Conservative women versus liberal women
Ending the Fed From the Bottom Up
Abortion clinic lies
10 reasons why Barack Obama is the most naïve president in US history
The Unfunded Obligations of Eurpoean Countries
I own gold and will never sell it
Jon Voight's Letter to the American People
Pointing out the obvious...
Davy Crockett's sockdolager tale...
Dear Fox News
The Reason They Hate Us
Let's Outlaw YOUR Business Next
The End of Trust
Hate the Feds and lose your kids
The Shadow of Ryazan
Obama's Kenyan Birth Certificate
Hyperinflation Special Report
All gave some... some gave all
Dems and the media at work...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Study hard...
Gold and Silver market manipulation
The Ivy League Hates Nullification
The Coming Dictatorship
The Perfect Constitutional Storm
Survivalism in the suburbs
A Roadmap for America's Future
16,500 reasons to vote for Republicans
Who pays the most income tax?
"I Will Follow Him"
Why I Love Obama!
Obama in Rude Denial
America's Quiet Anger
Capitalism, socialism, and fascism
The ObamaCare medicine cabinet
How To Prepare For Obamacare: Practice Self-Care
Census Numbers Uncensored
What the Democrats do not understand
Democracy Denied
ObamaCare Boards and Commissions
The Media's Myth of Right Wing Violence
The Tax Man
Obama's assault on American identity
I'll bet you didn't know this!
Hold on to your wallet
The Administration Attack on American Business
ObamaCare taxes on those earning less than $250,000
The radical left's war on America
Health Care Timeline
The Complete List of Obama Statement Expiration Dates
Obama birth certificate issue more urgent than ever
Budget crisis!
The most terrifying motion picture in history...
A relieved Jimmy Carter...
How to annoy a leftist...
ObamaCare avoidance tip...
A great Judge Napolitano interview
Obama's 2012 Commemorative Address
The Sneeze
ObamaCare: a win for special interests
A letter for your Congressman...
20 Ways ObamaCare Will Take Away Our Freedoms
Emergency Broadcast! New World Order Ahead!
The Democrats' Unfair Advantage
Health Care and Detroit: Killed By Government
High school arranges student's abortion
Effective dates for ObamaCare provisions
Caution: Obama has been emboldened
Even idiots can learn a lesson...
Suffer the little children...
Your new word for the day...
Where Were You When the Republic Died?
The Obama Retirement Trap
ObamaCare Myths and Facts
ObamaCare screws senior citizens
Doorstep of history...
The "special deals" in ObamaCare
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
ObamaCare's Devilish Principles
ObamaCare: Everything you need to know
Chelsea Clinton, fashionista
Ferris Geithner's Day Off
I've fallen and I can't get up...
Health Care Takeover By the Numbers
The memo that proves Obama is lying
Conservative versus Liberal
How to complete the census form
Health Care Bill Myths
ObamaCare explained...
Veterans Running for Congress
Red Dawn Over America
Up to age 26 my libertarian behind...
A one-page health care plan
Make sure you read the comments too
Some alarming numbers...
The Tenth Amendment Movement
A Sleeping Nation
Census Data Not So Confidential After All
The funding gimmicks in ObamaCare
The Great Reneger
Mark Levin's Great Reagan Forum Speech
The fix is in... no budget reconciliation for ObamaCare
Obamacare worth the price to Democrats
Krauthammer for President 2012!
Who says health insurers earn excessive profits?
Why government is the problem
Penance for Obama voters...
Reconciliation... it won't be pretty
Full speed ahead...
The worst is yet to come...
The truth about the Bush tax cuts
Declaration of Tea Party Independence
The impact of ObamaCare...
Obama Caught Lip-Syncing Speech
Dear Mr. Carter:
How They Killed Kennedy
The Great Enemy of the Truth
The official Sasha and Malia reading list
Why Obama illegally fired an Inspector General
159 Big Spending, Big Government Features of Obamacare
Great news for Olbermann, Matthews, and Cooper!
There's A Communist Living in the White House!
Security or political correctness?
Bernanke on a Bailout of the Treasury
Judge Andrew Napolitano on health care legislation
U.S. health care inflation less than Canada and England
Governor Christie sets a leadership example for Obama
I'm Sure Glad The Recession Ended
Death of a Democrat entrepreneur
The Top 20 PACs
Bill Gates is evil... and an idiot
If Our Colleges And Universities Do Not Breed Men Who Riot
The Four Boxes
Newspeak
Obama Birth Certificate Destroyed in Hawaii Tsunami!
Obama Fatigue
Hyperinflation and its Consequences for America
Illegal Immigration by the Numbers
What to say to global-warming fearmongers
Will somebody please...
And what about bananas?
The Left's Deep, Dark Secret
Master of the Insulting Gesture
Obama gives Ryan the finger at 5:25
Why Obama's job numbers are phony
Woman of the Year
Progressive Islam... be warned
Narrowbacks, Wetbacks, and Payback
MSNBC Hyprocites
Obama's Secret Blueprint
Wall Street's Bailout Hustle
Boondoggle
Dossier2
Obama's Big Sellout
After America, there is no place to go...
Civil disobedience and the census
How to lose the war in Afghanistan
Buy more blankets...
The worst politicians money can buy...
A sign of the times...
GOP Valentines's Day Cards
Defend Michael Behenna
Clinton's stents and ObamaCare
President Me! The Musical
Economic Warnings From an Elderly 3rd Grader
Memory aids...
Bush defict bad, Obama deficit good?
The Code of the West versus the Code of the Left
The Decadent Democrats
L'Éducation
If at first you don't secede...
Charlie Wilson and Ronald Reagan's War
The Coming Obama Retirement Trap
Stimulus Jobs Going to China
Palin's Notes vs. Obama's TelePrompTer
Dancing With the Politicians!
Did Open Border Policies Set Off Mortgage Meltdown?
Obama Shrine
Global Disastrification!
Another Look at Obama's Origins
Who Told Fox to Shut Up?
Fallacies Behind Abortion on Demand
Obama: Imaginary Friend of Democrats
How to Blame Bush: Lie
Air America is off the air
Government Snow Plow
Obama talks too much
Why Obama beat McCain
We're Screwed!
Obama's $2.2 trillion in tax increases
Obama's spending cuts and freezes
Obama is nuts...
Airplane laptop fun! (No, don't try it on a plane.)
Unemployed? It's part of Obama's plan
A new era of irresponsibility
Media Malpractice at March for Life
The real story from Haiti...
Obama the vindictive
Really... the guy is nuts
The Obama trash can...
Egypt's move backward
The hottest hoax in the world
Trying terrorists: some facts
The Islam Tax
More Mr. Nice Guy
More Washington
Obama's Nazi Doctors
"Don't demonize me, teabaggers!"
High school brainwashing, Obama style
Make Mine Freedom (1948)
Hello There, Mr. President
This should get your blood boiling...
You're on your own, airline passengers
...and the Leftists aren't pleased either
This little piggy...
That's what we do... we're Americans
Obama clearance sale
$10 says it was Shepard Smith at Fox
Leftist thuggery in action...
Keep your hand on your wallet...
Why the Dems want "Immigration Reform"
America's Impending Master Class Dictatorship
Milton Friedman, the prophet
The more things change...
Does Obama really need...
Head injury, brain surgery, or bad haircut?
Mirror, mirror, on the wall...
Mirror, Part II...
England today, U.S. tomorrow?
Freeze that Waste and Fraud (01/26/2009)
D.C. Double-Dippers
Why O'Reilly and Beck ridicule "birthers"
Stimulus Sign
Teddy's Wake
You can't make this stuff up...
Will doctors dump their Medicare patients on March 1?
The Real Conspiracy...
State of Disunion
Harry Reid Carries MasterLard
Obama, the Tax Man!
The Supreme Court Ruled Correctly
Why California is Broke
How pathetic!
The Bronze Rat
Obama did this! (01/23/2009)
Republican Women versus Democrat Women...
Coincidence?
Obama's First Year
California Dreamin'
Bush advisor mops the floor with Christiane Amanpour
Obama and the 7 Dorks
Hitler learns that Coakley lost to Brown...
Obama vs. Tiger
Senator Brown's daughter sings the National Anthem
Obama's Job to be Outsourced to India
Coakley and the Curling Iron Case
A Brown Victory Would Signal Second American Revolution
Haiti's on Hold while Hussein is Heckled
Democrats hoisted with their own petard (01/18/2009)
Who loses when the dollar collapses?
ObamaCare's Marriage Penalty
Top 10 Union Corruption Stories of 2009
Global Waming - The Other Side
More proof Obama is an idiot (01/15/2010)
How to keep your airline luggage safe
Higher taxes, higher insurance premiums...
Massachusetts Miracle
Cocaine in the White House?
Ghana newspaper calls Obama Kenyan-born
Connecting the dots... in Hawaii
An offer you should refuse...
Anti-War Protestors
Impeach Obama simply on the basis of fraud!
A Speech Full of Promises to Break
Guide to Offensive Statements by Public Officials
Republic, I like the sound of the word...
I'm gonna tell you something, Flaca...
Connecting the Dots
Democrats on an Escalator
What Obama Thinks of Average Americans
Horowitz and Cadell
Keep America Safe: 100 Hours
Who's Your Daddy?
Obama's Next Three Years
Obama's Failed Freshman Year
Strangers On My Flight
Warning to All America
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2009
Why Detroit Sucks
The Third Jihad
An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
No Left Turns
My dog is a Democrat
Sarah Palin, Man of the Year
Proof that liberals are NUTS!
Three Terrible Choices (12/31/2009)
Secession: The Hope for Humanity
Bungling Ben Bernanke
Another reason to fear ObamaCare
Obama will not rest...
Shame on Obama for doing nothing...
Obama and the Iranian Protesters (12/28/2009)
New Airline Rules
Obama's Real Report Card
We don't need no stinkin' Constitutional authority! (12/27/2009)
What Liberals Do Not Understand
Obama Gaffe List
Muslim Ghost Town
50 Years of Democrat Rule
Recession Over, Depression Beginning
Global Warming Thoughts
The President Without a Country
Top 25 Features of ObamaCare
Obama: Unhinged in Copenhagen
White Guilt in 3D
Yet another job-killing tax...
Fascism, defined...
Away with the Manger
The Greatest Man in the World
We Must Take the Threat Seriously
Nazi Eurabia, and America's Fate
The Public Option: Explained in 41 Seconds
Merry Christmas, from Harry Reid
Terrorist Test Runs?
Wikipedia and the Global Warming Scam
Why no one watches MSNBC...
Beggar in Chief (12/20/2009)
A Republic, not a Democracy
We the People
A new low for the left (Warning: foul language)
America Under Obama
Climategate: History's Message
The Need for Shame (12/19/2009)
One Nation Under God
Never Forget
A great Newt Gingrich speech
How to Stop Obama
The first 8 of the last 9 years... (12/18/2009)
America needs more men and women like this
ObamaCare will Kill People
Global Warming Linked to Postal Rates!
The Manufactured Health Care Crisis
Isolate and Crush the Secular Socialist Left
ObamaCare meets Global Warming (12/17/2009)
Consumers Lose Under ObamaCare
100 Reasons Why Climate Change is Natural
A Sarah Palin Primer (12/15/2009)
The History of Republican Evil
Climate Scientologists Exposed
A Suggested Survival List
The Globalony Warming Apostles' Creed (12/15/2009)
The Reagan Obama Debate
The Death of the Dollar
Alien Tree Hugger
One child per family... (12/14/2009)
Capitalist Pigs and Global Warming
The Death of the Dollar
Twas the Night Before a Non-Denominational Winter Holiday
Hide the Decline
United Nations Gun Ban Plan
Obama Ensures a Long Depression
Nowhere to Hide
Why California is in trouble...
Social Security Will Go Bust in 2010
Not hiring...
ObamaCare is Bad Medicine
The Worst American President poster
Another reason Obama has to go...
A TOTALLY JUSTIFIED Angry Letter
Obama's Safe Schools Czar Promotes Pornography
Walking around blindly...
General Patton on tthe War on Terror
Alinsky Does Afghanistan
Nice work if you can get it...
Everything old is new again (12/03/2009)
A military mother's take on the president's speech
Obama Mirrors LBJ's Vietnam Exit Speech
Party Crashers
Row, row, row your ship of state (12/02/2009)
Obama's triangulation
Why I Own Gold (11/28/2009)
The Geography of a Recession
Global Cooling May Be Coming
The Day Al Gore Stood Still
Digits and Revolution
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Does Spaghetti Cause Wind? (11/25/2009)
Climategate Hide the Decline
Read this... and buy gold
A business offer you can't refuse...
A German's view of Islam (11/24/2009)
Sarah Palin's Breast Panel (11/21/2009)
People said it didn't matter...
Secession From Obama's America
A Case for Secession
Trial and Terror
Psalm 2009
Obama Is Not Eligible
A man beneath contempt... (11/13/2009)
Almost beyond belief...
Amnesty by any other name... (11/14/2009)
Thank you, President Bush and Mrs. Bush
Jihad AND Treason
Devil's Dictionary of Healthcare Reform
Advice for Weak-Kneed GOP Senators
The Employee Meeting (11/10/2009)
This lunacy has got to end... (11/09/2009)
The New Obama-Pelosi Stealth Tax
The Health Care Bill in 90 Seconds
Health Care in Cuba
The 2012 Race
Circus Tents and Side Shows (11/06/2009)
The Worst Bill Ever
PelosiCare Reading Guide
The Pelosi Bill
Obama, the Proud Muslim
Gold and Freedom
(Olympia) Snowe Job (10/30/2009)
Dear Mr. O'Reilly:
Reagan's Rendezvous with Destiny
Birds, Pigs, and Vaccines... Oh, My! (10/27/2009)
The Government Can
The Shrinking Middle Class
Health Insurers NOT So Profitable
Why Health Insurance?
Explain this, Hussein!
Baucus Bill Bull (10/24/2009 update)
The Baucus Health Care Bill Decoded
Internet Censorship
We noticed...
But, oh, the humidity!
Just Texas
Where's the Inflation? (10/18/2009)
ObamaCare the Musical!
Obama Addresses and Multiple SSNs
Obama Meets with General McChrystal
Doogie Howser for ObamaCare
Job Loss Map, by Date
How Crazy Are Those Birthers?
Doctors "Going Galt"
Socialism, Fascism, and Obama (October 12, 2009)
A hoax? Or even more evidence?
ACORN Employment Application
Obama and Madame Defarge (October 10, 2009)
Don Rickles Roasts Congress
Kool-Aid in Kokomo
The Secret Scrapbook of Barry Soetoro
Letter to the Nobel Prize Committee (10/09/2009)
Nobel Peace Prize Jokes
Ignored Advice
The Energy Non-Crisis
Top 10 Reasons Why Chicago Lost the Olympics
Letter to Mark Kirk (October 5, 2009)
Obama's Olympics (10/02/2009)
Implications of House Bill 3200 (09/14/2009)
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L’Éducation

 

By Frederick William Dame

 

Frederick William Dame has an international education (United States of America, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain) with eight degrees (undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate) in history, English, political science-international relations, political theory, adult education, philology, and cultural relations. Mr. Dame has educated at graduate and undergraduate levels for the United States Army, the University of Maryland, the University of Kaiserslautern, the Fachhochschule Trier, and the Technische Akademie Kaiserslautern. In addition, Mr. Dame has been a regular speaker for the Department of Defense Public Schools, Europe, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and the Goethe Institut. He has written and translated books and essays on a variety of topics in the fields of  architecture, culture, history, literature, music, philology, poetry, and politics, among other subjects. Mr. Dame has a number of hobbies. Presently, he devotes much of his leisure time to the alpine horn.

 

L’Éducation

 

            Detailed, academic research on the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, particularly that of Stephen Ellenburg, Rousseau's Political Philosophy; Roger D. Masters The Political Philosophy of Rousseau; and James Miller, Rousseau  Dreamer of Democracy, has shown that no pedagogical philosophy can be completely understood without investigating and learning from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writings. [1]  Indeed, without education civilization does not exist.  Education is the medium for the transmission of civilization’s culture; its knowledge, skills, and character.  Education is the instrument that turns the animal stage into the human stage.  Only through education do human beings differ from animals.  Education formulates the connection between the citizen and the nation-state.

            The philosophy of the nation-state, regardless of the system, whether it runs the spectrum of despotism to democratic republicanism, always seeks to consolidate and imbed itself within the individual so that an allegiance to the fatherland or the motherland, as well as a desire for the maintenance of the governmental system will emerge.[2]  The theory of education expounded by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the role that education plays in this consolidating connection between citizen and nation-state are manifest.  Indeed, education as revolution is a method of educating adults into the realization of new, corporate, moral, civil systems as the American Revolution and its aftermath attests proves.  Politics and education are intricately linked to each another in a symbiosis that will guarantee the ever continuance of the corporate civil form.  Education surely has intimacy to the relationship of matters concerning morality, social power, and economic conditions.  The Marxist interpretation claims that education is a means to an end – the indoctrination of revolution to overthrow any society that is not communist.  The Nazi-Fascist interpretation is of the same color:  to breed a selected people for the ultimate and complete destruction of all cultures that are not Nazi-Fascist.  Both views miss the point.  Education is a cause in itself.  At one and the same time on two different levels that are always in contact with each other, education is apart from and yet satisfies the needs of the populace.  This is why education is necessary:  it facilitates the sociological process whereby citizens become political beings.  The achievement of the status of a political human being is exactly the content-goal that Jean-Jacques Rousseau has in mind when he uses the word education.  This content-goal far exceeds the boundaries that the general concept of education has developed into in our present times.  Education is far more than what is meant by its suggestive and popularly accepted element of "going to school."  

             

The Process of the Executing Educator

 

            The participants in the process of education are those who educate and those who are educated.  Both parties have to understand that the core foundation of education is set with the aforementioned characteristics in mind and the unmistaken intention it has in the Latin word éducare, meaning to lead out, to bring up, which in turn comes from the Indo-European deuk-, to lead.[3]  In other words, the root of the process and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau tell us that when we receive an education we are led out of a previous situation and brought up to a higher level.  Moreover, the higher level is not only one of mentality, but a higher level socially and politically.  Education is an ever-continuing process that leads forth from one level to another, higher and better level.  Explicitly, éducation is the process of bringing up and coming forth of leaders in society.  The word education is political from the very beginning of its word root deuk- as some of the offspring and subsequent developed family words like doge, ducal, ducat, duchess, duchy, duke, attest.

            Education was originally and primarily associated with elites who led society.  At no place in his writings does Jean-Jacques use any other word to convey what he means by éducation.[4]   The word remains the same throughout his complete works and throughout his life.  Rousseau definitely does not mean the words enseigner or apprendre.  In English, both mean to teach.  They cannot in any degree of stretching their meaning attain the intent behind élever to elevate in the sense of éducationTo teach is of an exceedingly lesser stature.  To teach means to impart knowledge or skill; to give instruction to; to provide knowledge of; to instruct in; to cause to learn by example or experience.  All of these meanings derive from the Latin dicere meaning to say, to tell, to proclaim, the ultimate origin of which is the Indo-European word root stem deik- , meaning to show, to pronounce solemnly.[5]

            Rousseau's goal in éducation is what we can term a real education, an éducation véritable, an éducation naturelle, an éducation authentique.  This means that Èmile is to learn how to go forth in life and live according to the moral dictates of his own moral conscience.  In no way whatsoever does Rousseau intend that Émile receive a leçon, a teaching.  Rousseau’s intent is simple.  As he is pervasively concerned with the original state of matters, Jean-Jacques Rousseau means that an original éducation is as much élever in the political and sociological sense as it is in the intellectual regard.  It is a criminalization of Rousseau’s originality that modern English speaking peoples, particularly speakers of American English, use the words to educate and to teach to mean each other without really understanding them or wanting to understand them.  They do not have the same meaning.

 

The Recipient of Education

 

            For Rousseau, those who received an education were, first of all, children; secondly adolescents; thirdly, adults.  The lackadaisical misuse of the word student has undergone the same, false development process.  This word has no function any more in its relationship to the real meaning because its purpose – particularly as Americans use it – has metamorphosed into becoming one of raising expectations that cannot meet the qualifications assigned to it by its original definition.  The development is sophomoric and occurs extremely often in the pseudo-intellectual jargon of modern society:  without knowing what the substance evokes, words are used in such a way that a non-organic intent comes to the fore and the result is that nothing more than commonplace, illogical attitudes and conceptions result.  In the United States of America, particularly in urban areas and heavily populated areas like California, any person at any age whatever who goes to an institution using the nomenclature school to learn something is a student.  It is not uncommon for little children, still babies or just out of the baby age, between two and four years old to be called play group students.  When they are finished with their play-group student days, they go through a graduation ceremony and enter kindergarten as kindergarten students; then they become grade school students; then they advance on to the level of junior high school students; then they attain the status of being high school students; then the ultimata ratio is that they undertake a further stem on the pedagogical false road of rising expectations to become a student at college, which in the United States of America is often interchanged at will with university and vice-versa. Students, students everywhere, and no one stops to think.  Students, students throughout the length and breadth of the land, and no one really knows that the original meaning and the modern use do not really sync.[6]  This is part of the problem with the American educational system.  The participants are not named what they are.  The result is a misjudgment of values and false impression of status.  They are falsely led to believe in a revolution of rising expectations.  Why not call child playgroup participants toddlers (?) because that is what they do!  Why not refer to those children attending a kindergarten as pre-schoolers (?), because that is where they are!  Why not name those who are in grade school grade schoolers (?) or at most pupils (?) because as the Latin says, they are pupus (boy) and pupa (girl)![7]  Why not term those who attend the next level, junior high schoolers, or junior high school pupils (?) because that is where they are and what they are!  Finally, why not designate those youth who go to a high school as being high schoolers, or at best, __th graders or pre-students (?) because that is what they really are!  The only exception can be those who are child geniuses and do not attend these schools anyway.  The author did not become a student until attending university.  The author did not go to college!  Student, of course, has its base in Latin studēre meaning to be diligent, to press forwardStudēre has its likely origin in the Indo-European word roots *steud- and *teud-, which means to hit.[8]   The latter word root produced the Latin tundere, to hit, from whence we have the words contusion and obtuse, among others.  The subsurface meaning behind study is that there is a concerted application of extreme effort, or one is concerned with an undertaking intensively.  Beginning in the fifteenth century student, and to study were used only with respect to the undertaking of an advanced degree.  In the sixteenth century, they became terms that were used in connection to the university only.  Being concerned with a particular matter, and not connected with a university, like to study a role in a drama, came into use in the eighteenth century.  Historically, and in all dictionaries, the word student is used and should be used only in conjunction with university, college, or special schools of learning such as The London School of Economics and Diplomacy, The Chicago School of Law, The Bartlett School of Architecture, etc.  The use of student as a collective nomenclature to refer to all of those concerned with going to a school or college, or university is an American pedagogical invention of the twentieth century.

             

What We Can Learn

 

            What can we learn from this groundwork exercise?  Placing the nomenclatures together, a relationship develops that surely supports Rousseau’s concern with origins and an educational philosophy.  The similitude is as follows:  éducation, élève, and étudiant is to education, elevating, and student as leçon, apprendre, and écolier is to teaching, learning, and pupil.  Does this belittle the latter part of the comparison?  Surely not!  The intent is to emphasize the very logical difference.

            It is in the Rousseauian, socio-intellectual-political sense that éducation became the catalyst that integrated the Colonial populace into the new, corporate society of American democratic, republican federalism, for it showed with diligent pursuit that through universal education – in the long run even for minorities  –  the complete society can raise the level of the political awareness for their own and future generations.

 

 Rousseau’s Plan

 

            In Émile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents a plan for developing the individual according to philosophical precepts focused on experience and sensations.  There is practically no regard paid to pedagogical training according to the whims of society.  The pedagogical argumentation is that if individuals are educated in accordance with man's innate, moral nature, the outcome will be a change in the worth of modern civilization because the human being’s original nature is good.  It is the influence of society that has corrupted that righteous nature.  The development of natural human goodness and the returning of humans to their natural state is the expedient to the reforming of society.  To this end, Émile offers a plan of education that emphasizes direct contact with the physical world and sets aside education that may be obtained from books alone.

            The pedagogical philosopher places much emphasis on discovery in the child's education.  Concurrently, he acknowledges that the child must develop a well-regulated freedom in order to lead a self-sufficient existence as an adult so that the new citizen can better enter the social state.  The freedom is not anarchy, but a morally and equitably controlled freedom that will enable the child to come to the recognition that the greatest freedom is self-respect and respect for the morality and justness of the laws in the new society that he will experience as an adult in the corporate.  Truly this is a social idealism because the real object of the "... étude est celle de la condition humaine."[9]  The reason of the heart, mind, and soul is the essence of passion that preserves and guards the human condition.  "Nos passions sont les principaux instrumens de nôtre conservation, ... ."[10] 

            A renovation of the social order is extremely necessary because under existing conditions (in Rousseau’s age), "... un homme abandonné dès (sic) naissance à lui-même parmi les autres seroit le plus défiguré de tours."[11]  That the process of education plays an exceedingly important role in the renovation of society is intuitively obvious.  "Nous naissons foibles, nous avons besoin de forces; nous naissons dépourvus de tout, nous avons besoin d'assistance; nous naissons stupides, nous avons besoin de judgement.  Tout ce que nous n'avons pas à nôtre naissance cet dont nous avons besoin étant grands nous est donné par l'éducation.  Cette éducation nous vient de la nature, ou des hommes, ou des choses."[12] 

            The education system that cements a country's moral and just, social structure cannot have a complete understanding without including Rousseau's philosophy.  The learning process traces some principles, shows some influence, and records transformations of his ideas.  That way of thinking is not only applicable to the development of the child, but to the continued growth of the adult citizen, as well.  For all who participate in the process of education it is important to realize that when placed in complementary positions, both education and politics form an active, corporate framework of specific importance.  In that framework is the essence of the relationship between the nature of education and the nature of politics.  Without the interactions of education and politics with each other, it would be impossible for human beings to become political and it would be impossible for politics to become humane; to possess the necessary degrees of humanity if political undertakings are to succeed for the betterment of moral, just, human beings, and their moral and just society.

  

The American Colonial System of Education

 

            Our now-a-day conception and existence of public schools was not present in Colonial America.  Education occurred in the home, the church, voluntary associations, library companies, circulating libraries, philosophical societies, apprenticeships, private study, by private tutors, and if the community felt it necessary, small schoolhouses were built in which three to four classes were schooled in one room and taught by the same teacher at different grade levels.  The educative goal was simply to teach the youth the three Rs:  reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic.  A fourth R that accompanied them inside and outside of school was religion.

Beginning with the early Puritan Colonists in Massachusetts, the vehicle of education was the church.  The Sunday sermon was the main literary form of education for the congregation.  It was in the Sunday services that the churchgoer could be educated in Biblical teachings, the history of classical literature, and the history of the church.  The pastor always gave immediate feedback on questions of importance.  It was a mixture of voluntary participation and a strong commitment that learning from God’s word was mandatory.  If one did not partake of the weekly Bible classes and Sunday School, where reading and writing were also taught, one would surely got to purgatory, for according to Romans 13:2, "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power (of God) resisteth the ordinance of God:  and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."  Particularly the children were the target group to be taught the right way because they were the gift from God.  They had to be taught how to live correctly and the proper foundation of the society was the protection of life and property.  This was the interpretation that was given to Romans 13:3, "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."  Thus for the early Pilgrim Colonials the Bible was the educational and cultural influence that established the social and political foundations of the early communities.  Education was not a matter for civil governments.

            Children learned in the home from their parents, first from the mother who taught the children reading from the Bible and then from the father as he taught his offspring how to till the soil and earn a living.  Auxiliary books were Pilgrim’s Progress (1678-1684) by John Bunyan (1628-1688), The New England Primer (1688-1690) by Benjamin Harris (flourished 1673-1716) and Divine Songs (1715) by Isaac Watts (1674-1748).  From such books, the youth learned about busy bees, fowl, productive cattle, strong, loyal horses, and the responsibility of humans to Nature and vice-versa in the cultivation of the soil and the harvest that Nature provided for the upright worker were ever continuing learning processes.  For the non-agricultural professions the youth learned that "Honesty is the best policy."[13]  There were no educational experiments that were conceived by so-called education specialists and funded by quasi-government programs.

            If a family was wealthy, enough they would engage a private tutor to educate the sons and daughters in Latin, Greek, mathematics, accounting, and bookkeeping, arts of science like surveying, and even cultural activities such as music and dancing.  In the middle of the eighteenth century in Quaker Philadelphia, evening schools taught women, blacks, poor people (who did not have to pay attendance fees) proper English and vocations.  Another religious group in Pennsylvania, the Mennonites, maintained their own schools.  They still do.[14]  Rich families in the Southern Colonies engaged private tutors to teach their children at an early age.  Upon having reached a certain qualitative education in the classical languages, literature, the sciences, and cultural activities, many times the young adults were sent to England for a finishing-off education.  The offspring who could not afford such a continuing education could choose from nine Colonial colleges that were not funded by any civil government.  Harvard University, for example, was established by a grant from the General Court of Massachusetts.  John Harvard donated up to eight hundred pounds and his private library of approximately four hundred books to the institution.  Financial support came mainly from donations.  Essentially the same development occurred in New Jersey with Princeton University and Queens College, now Rutgers University.  No financial assistance was received from a civil government.[15]  Future Americans who could not financially or on their free time afford to get an education always had the opportunity to use libraries (They normally had excellent books on science, the classics of ancient Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.), buy books, which were relatively inexpensive, or join certain conversation groups hosted by a family or personage from the local community.  Philosophical societies like Benjamin Franklin’s Junto, established in Philadelphia in 1727, or The Literary Republic of George Rineholt (no dates) founded in Philadelphia in 1764 were also available.  Education in Colonial and later industrial America was never considered to be the responsibility of the local, civil governments or the national government.  By the beginning of the Civil War in 1860, the statistics on schools in the United States of America show that there were approximately 6000 private institutions of learning as compared with 300 public schools.  This statistic is somewhat underscored by an investigation conducted by Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817) in 1800.  His findings were that only four out of a thousand Americans were illiterate.[16]  The American citizen belonged to a populace that was exceedingly literate.

Although the education of the populace in the American Colonies cannot be considered a system of learning with the initiative residing with individual communities and supported by them and the larger political bodies, the Colonial governments, there is definitely a relationship between education and the daily activities of politics.  This relationship is quite similar in its argumentative elements to the rendition in the section on philosophy and political character identity in the respective section.

 

The Distinctive Connection Between Education and Politics

 

            What is the meaning of the word education?  A general description is that education is "The field of study ... concerned with teaching and learning."  Dictionary definitions say that it is "The act or process of imparting knowledge or skill."  Alternatively, we read that education is "The obtaining of knowledge through a process of schooling."  as well as "The knowledge or skill obtained or developed by a learning process."[17