Oklahoma Bill Would Require Students To Study Sermons,Ten Commandments, Reagan Speeches
Fair and balancedThe bill, authored by Oklahoma Rep. Dan Fisher, designates a total of 58 documents that “shall form the base level of academic content for all United States History courses offered in the schools in the state.” Many of the texts are uncontroversial and undoubtedly covered by the Advanced Placement U.S. History course, such as the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and Gettysburg address. But the bill also has an ideological and religious bent. In addition to 3 speeches by Reagan, the curriculum as includes a speech by George W. Bush but nothing from any Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson.
Fisher’s bill was approved by the Education committee on an 11-4 vote.[su_center_ad]
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Pilotshark February 18th, 2015 at 11:50 am
Oklahoma is definitely not OK!
Guy Lauten February 18th, 2015 at 12:02 pm
“Let me see… Oh. You’re from Oklahoma. And you went to a public school there? Yes, well, at this time we aren’t accepting any applications from people who went to Oklahoma public schools, but we’ll keep yours on file in case things change. Thanks for applying.” – Any non-OK college admissions agent
FatRat February 18th, 2015 at 12:51 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M
Reagan Campaigns for Truman in 1948
“This is Ronald Reagan speaking to you from Hollywood. You know me as a motion picture actor but tonight I’m just a citizen pretty concerned about the national election next month and more than a little impatient with those promises the Republicans made before they got control of Congress a couple years ago.
I remember listening to the radio on election night in 1946. Joseph Martin, the Republican Speaker of the House, said very solemnly, and I quote,
“We Republicans intend to work for a real increase in income for everybody by encouraging more production and lower prices without impairing wages or working conditions”, unquote.
Remember that promise: a real increase in income for everybody. But what actually happened?
The profits of corporations have doubled, while workers’ wages have increased by only one-quarter. In other words, profits have gone up four times as much as wages, and the small increase workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices, which have also bored into their savings.
For example, here is an Associate Press Dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a craftsman in Union Springs, New York. It seems that Mr. Carpenter retired some years ago thinking he had enough money saved up that he could live out his last years without having to worry. But he didn’t figure on this Republican inflation, which ate up all of his savings, and so he’s gone back to work. The reason this is news, is Mr. Carpenter is 91 years old.
Now, take as a contrast the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which reported a net profit of $210 million after taxes for the first half of 1948; an increase of 70% in one year. In other words, high prices have not been caused by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits.
The Republican promises sounded pretty good in 1946, but what has happened since then, since the 80th Congress took over?
Prices have climbed to the highest level in history, although the death of the OPA was supposed to bring prices down through “the natural process of free competition”.
Labor has been handcuffed with the vicious Taft-Hartley law.
Social Security benefits have been snatched away from almost a million workers by the Gearhart bill.
Fair employment practices, which had worked so well during war time, have been abandoned.
Veterans’ pleas for low cost homes have been ignored, and many people are still living in made-over chicken coops and garages.
Tax-reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher-income brackets alone.
The average worker saved only $1.73 a week.
In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program.
This was the payoff of the Republicans’ promises.
And this is why we must have new faces in the Congress of the United States: Democratic faces…….
(Please add that speech, to the curriculum. I’d be OK with that!)
Dwendt44 February 18th, 2015 at 1:00 pm
You can bet the farm they aren’t going to mention that Reagan signed the biggest tax increase in history, among 11 other tax increases.
Mike February 18th, 2015 at 4:12 pm
Didn’t he give amnesty to a bunch of foreigners…???
fancypants February 18th, 2015 at 5:20 pm
Ronnie left instructions on what to do with amnesty but the gop blew it off along with employment regulations,housing,medical
Tim Coolio February 18th, 2015 at 5:39 pm
REAGAN STARTED A UNNECESSARY WAR IN GRENADA, HE SOLD
ARMS TO IRAN TO FINANCE AN ILLEGAL WAR IN NICARAGUA, HE
WASTED BILLIONS ON A USELESS DEFENSE SYSTEM CALLED
STAR WARS! -TOO BAD THAT AIRPORT IN WASHINGTON ISN’T NAMED
AFTER A BETTER PERSON LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING OR WILLIAM
JEFFERSON CLINTON, THE BEST PRESIDENT SINCE FDR! ALSO ADD
HE HAD THE HOSTAGES HELD LONGER SO HE COULD STEAL THE
1980 ELECTION.
fancypants February 18th, 2015 at 5:51 pm
oh that’s sooooo yesterday
Ronnie conveniently forgot all that while playing cowboy in California
fancypants February 18th, 2015 at 2:54 pm
Ronnie would know how to handle Ferguson mo.
http://youtu.be/Bpg0UfpuUAs
FatRat February 18th, 2015 at 3:00 pm
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/05/19/back.time/cover.jpg
I think Ron might’ve been bitten by an infected Bonzo. Could explain much.
fancypants February 18th, 2015 at 3:04 pm
Fix bayonets and lets deal with those punks in the park !
William February 18th, 2015 at 1:10 pm
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http://youtu.be/HsHXJr8tqP0
jasperjava February 18th, 2015 at 2:01 pm
The interesting thing about studying Reagan’s speeches is discovering that he was not nearly an extreme right-wing ideological fanatic the way modern-day Republicans are. So there may be value in that.
Mike February 18th, 2015 at 4:08 pm
TBaggers would call him a liberal today…only because of ignorance is he their hero.
Bunya February 18th, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Looks like all the godless heathens and gays better pack up.
Christofascism is coming to Oklahoma!
CHOCOL8MILK February 18th, 2015 at 9:41 pm
The GOP is planning ahead, they will need expert idiots in the future to vote for them…
booker25 February 18th, 2015 at 2:30 pm
God none of my family lives in this state, but if I did, I would sue to have this content removed from the school.
Mike February 18th, 2015 at 4:06 pm
Clear violation of MCCOLLUM v. BOARD OF EDUCATION DIST. 71, you’ll just be wasting money on court suits. The Reagan thing is in bad taste but probably legal.
whatthe46 February 18th, 2015 at 7:56 pm
i would still be clawing at my eyes.
Mike February 18th, 2015 at 8:08 pm
At least it’s American History.
Tim Coolio February 18th, 2015 at 5:38 pm
Before Reagan we were the world’s biggest
creditor nation, after Reagan we were the
worlds biggest debtor nation,
before Reagan we were the world’s largest
exporter of manufactured goods, after
Reagan we were the world’s largest importer
of manufactured goods, before Reagan we were
the biggest importer of raw materials, after
Reagan we were the biggest exporter of raw
materials-a designation usually given to
undeveloped countries.
allison1050 February 18th, 2015 at 9:36 pm
Scary isn’t it? Even more frightening are the idiots that voted for it…oops I meant him.
CHOCOL8MILK February 18th, 2015 at 9:38 pm
Got to brain wash them while they are young and in school!
allison1050 February 18th, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Maybe having grown up with the internet they’ll have a different view on this nonsense.
rg9rts February 19th, 2015 at 8:29 am
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allison1050 February 19th, 2015 at 8:59 am
That’s it!
rg9rts February 19th, 2015 at 8:28 am
Sounds a bit like Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany…in the interest of being fair and balanced