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The teaching part of teaching history with YouTube

16 04 2008

As I write this, I’ve been told that an article I wrote called “Teaching History With YouTube (and Other Primary Source Video Sites on the Internet)” will be in the May issue of AHA Perspectives. If you’re reading this before then, I wrote my first draft of this essay on this blog here. That will have to do for now. If you’re reading this because of that published article welcome. What I want to do in this post is lay out some points I couldn’t put in the article due to space.

I’m not sure why, but when I wrote the article I expected it to be in their teaching section rather than technology. However, looking at the final product, classifying it in the technology section makes sense. I spend the vast amount of my allocated space on YouTube mechanics and content and almost no time on how to use the content.

Here are just a few thoughts on how to use it:

1) I find that students have a ten minute attention span for video. Anything longer and they zone out even if the material is really compelling. That’s a big advantage over sites like the Prelinger Archives which have whole short films….

On the Trail of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

• Friday, January 01, 2010 4:05:05 PM · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 209+ views

  Time ^ | Thursday, December 31, 2009 | Jean Friedman-Rudovsky

  The red canyons and parched planes surrounding the new Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid Memorial Museum might make you think you’re in the Old West. But the electrical wiring and a searing altitude headache tell you this is not California circa 1900, but high-up the mountains in present day Bolivia. Here in the tiny town of San Vicente (population 800), the world’s most famous outlaws are supposed to have been gunned down 101 years ago, days after robbing the payroll of a Bolivian mine. Offing the bandits would seem to have been sufficient revenge but area residents still think the…

Limbaugh having news conference at Hawaii hospital

• Friday, January 01, 2010 4:18:41 PM · by DJ MacWoW · 47 replies · 1,485+ views

  Seattle P I ^ | January 1, 2010 | AP

  Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh plans to hold a press conference at the Hawaii hospital where he was admitted after experiencing chest pains. Limbaugh will be speaking at The Queen’s Medical Center at 1 p.m. PST. Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital Wednesday from the Hawaii resort where he’s vacationing. A statement Thursday from Queen’s said he was resting comfortably in “good spirits.”

MASSIVE ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL WILL OCCUR IN 2010

• Friday, January 01, 2010 4:30:03 PM · by Tamar Rush

  The Last Crusade ^ | Jan. 01, 2010 | Dr. Paul L. Williams

  The time has come, America Beware!

  THE ENEMY HAS LANDED MASSIVE ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL WILL OCCUR IN 2010by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. New Year’s Day 2010.The planned bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 252 was averted by a stroke of luck and the courage of a Dutchman. But the lesson provided by Umar Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day has been lost to Obama Administration. Yes, we now have increased security at our international airports – - a measure that has resulted in passengers waiting in line over four hours to board an airplane. Yes, we have…

Biblical scholar’s date for rapture: May 21, 2011

Biblical scholar’s date for rapture: May 21, 2011 (Here We Go Again)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 1, 2010 | Justin Berton

Posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 3:01:39 PM by bogusname

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012. “That date has not one stitch of biblical authority,” Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. “It’s like a fairy tale.”

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie “2012″ have put the apocalypse in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he’d found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

Our Leaderless Nation

• Friday, January 01, 2010 3:32:22 PM · by SpaceBar

  WeirdRepublic ^ | December 12, 2009 | Thomas Clough

  Narcissists dread the stigma of failure. Our self-admiring president is so fearful of ever being blameworthy that he reflexively shrinks from consequential decision making. Barack Obama’s aversion to making difficult decisions has left America effectively leaderless. Mr. Obama’s decision-making malfunction was no big secret before his election. Back in 2006, Mr. Obama himself had warned us in the opening pages of The Audacity of Hope that “I am new enough to the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to…

Pollyanna MSM Quick to Defend Obama and Napolitano

• Friday, January 01, 2010 3:14:39 PM · by Michael van der Galien · 2 replies · 89+ views

  David Horowitz’s NewsRealblog ^

  Although I should’ve expected it, I’m afraid I have to admit that the mainstream media’s passionate defense of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano took me by surprise. I especially expected better from New York Times columnist David Brooks – as much of a centrist as they come – and Washington Post columnist David S. Broder. The former wrote yesterday: There have been outraged calls for Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security to resign, as if changing the leader of the bureaucracy would fix the flaws inherent in the bureaucracy. There have been demands for systemic reform —…

How Obama and Ron Paul demoralize America ~ Alan Keyes

• How Obama and Ron Paul demoralize America

  Friday, January 01, 2010 1:33:44 PM · by big black dog · 23 replies · 324+ views

  WND ^ | Alan Keyes

  Since he is a wholehearted advocate of the leftist critique of American liberty, Obama’s conscious validation of the moral position of its enemies comes as no surprise. What surprises some is the fact that a famously staunch conservative like Ron Paul blames U.S. for violence. In a recent TV appearance, we find him “blaming terrorism on the U.S. presence around the globe. ‘They’re terrorists because we’re occupiers,’ Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, said on the Larry King show.” Of the motive for the recent terror attack, he said, “We bombed Yemen two weeks ago. … He (the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab)…

Obama signs away your legal protections ( 0s JIHAD ON AMERICA?)

• Friday, January 01, 2010 1:34:55 PM · by Tigen · 14 replies · 448+ views

  WND ^ | December 31, 2009 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

  With the signing of an under-publicized amendment to Executive Order 12425, Barack Obama has fundamentally altered your constitutional rights. His actions are undermining your rights to protect personal privacy from a foreign internationalist police agency named Interpol. A one-paragraph executive order may seem inconsequential to many, but this action has far-reaching implications and threatens the sovereignty of America. Obama’s secretive executive order amended an order issued by President Reagan in 1983. Reagan’s order recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it privileges and immunities commonly extended to foreign diplomats. Reagan opened the door to allow Interpol to operate in…

Remember, any mockery of Obama will be dealt with harshly

• Friday, January 01, 2010 1:42:27 PM · by American Dream 246 · 25 replies · 841+ views

  Patriot Room ^ | 01/01/10 | Bill Dupray

  A Colorado worker is apparently in trouble for circulating this vision of the future. The worker, a 73 year-old woman, forwarded it to 4 co-workers. The guy who sent it to her in the first place had added the comment that “It appears that he has found his niche.” The worker faces reprimand or suspension for this stunning act of mockery of The Dear Leader. As everyone knows, Change means Change, and we can no longer allow Americans, especially older female government workers, to undermine Lord and Master Obama in such crude and unfunny ways. What if everybody suddenly decided…

Danish Newspaper: ‘Obama Greater Than Jesus’!

• Friday, January 01, 2010 1:46:41 PM · by iloveamerica1980 · 10 replies · 178+ views

  Dittos Rush! ^ | 1-1-2010 | James

  Fox news video: Politiken says: He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions. And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated – - but rather the President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama. “We have Jesus’ miracles that everyone still remembers but which only benefitted a few” Politken Editorial Benefitted a few? I beg to differ. Jesus died for the sins of every human being who has or will ever live. Even Obama can’t pull that one off!

Wanted: Adult Supervision for White House

• Friday, January 01, 2010 2:23:32 PM · by STARWISE · 3 replies · 263+ views

  American Thinker ^ | 1-1-10 | Russ Vaughn

  It would appear that what is needed most in the Obama White House is adult supervision. In the wake of the latest terror incident was the Administration’s top priority finding the weakness in our security systems that allowed a Muslim terrorist to come so close to destroying an American airplane full of Christmas travelers? Well, no, according to an unnamed staffer who is quoted at American Spectator: “The idea was that we’d show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could,” says a staffer in the counsel’s office. “We were told that classified material involving…

The Weapon of Mass Health Destruction

• Friday, January 01, 2010 2:31:08 PM · by shield · 2 replies · 44+ views

  To The Point News ^ | January 01, 2010 | Dave Janda M.D.

  For years our military has been in search of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our intelligence agencies have also been scouring the world to unearth these threats. The heart and core of their plan is based on the most inhumane and unethical means of cutting costs: the rationing and denying of care. Even worse, the death panels that will ration and deny care, according to the Obama-Pelosi-Reid plan, will be unelected and unaccountable Federal bureaucrats. On Sunday, November 22, Fox News Sunday interviewed Senator Arlen Specter, who was a Democrat before he was Republican before…

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Growing Old in Peace Cancelled by Big Government
By Judi McLeod

In both Canada and the United States, war veterans are abused by their own governments.  Governments tend to cater to groups more politically correct than the heroes returning home after going into harm’s way in the continuing Fight for Freedom.

More…

Control of Climate Policies by Unaccountable Bureaucracies; The Canadian Example
By Dr. Tim Ball

CanadaFreePress published some of this article a few years ago but few saw it because it was quickly pulled after I received a legal threat I was financially unable to fight. Legal threats to silence people are a common practice of supporters of human caused global warming. I related my experience to Dr Fred Singer and he immediately named the lawyer. How did he know? He and others had received threats from the same lawyer.

More…

Terror probes – what you’re not being told
By Doug Hagmann

On August 1, 2001, Hollywood actor James Woods witnessed four men of Middle Eastern appearance engaged in suspicious behavior on a transcontinental flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Mr. Woods’ first public recounting of his observations was five months after 9/11 on The O’Reilly Factor. During that February 15, 2002 broadcast, Mr. Woods stated that the suspicious behavior of the four men “would have been blatantly obvious to the most casual observer.”

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Climate conference organizers asked for trouble in Copenhagen
By Tom Harris

It is not surprising that climate campaigners became increasingly aggressive during 2009, eventually resorting to violent conflicts with police on the streets of Copenhagen at year’s end.  While activists had finally succeeded in getting most politicians to sing from the same song sheet – the Earth supposedly stands on the brink of a man-made climate catastrophe, leaders recited one after another at the United Nations climate conference in December – environmental groups have totally failed to convince governments to take actions that are even remotely commensurate with the alleged threat.

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The Revolution is on in 2010
By Dr. Laurie Roth

Happy New Year everyone!  This year brings us huge challenges but we are Americans and I’m not sorry for that, I’m humbled and proud.  We can reinstate the real vision of who we are,  call upon the real God for help and stand up for the confrontation and battles to come.  We can survive and we will heal up.  We are Americans not yesterday’s news.  We are still the light of freedom on a hill.  We need a new light bulb, Not a new light!

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Growing Old in Peace Cancelled by Big Government ~ By Judi McLeod

Growing Old in Peace Cancelled by Big Government
By Judi McLeod

In both Canada and the United States, war veterans are abused by their own governments.  Governments tend to cater to groups more politically correct than the heroes returning home after going into harm’s way in the continuing Fight for Freedom.

Terror probes – what you’re not being told (Terror dry runs over America)

• Friday, January 01, 2010 10:55:05 AM · by AuntB · 14 replies · 637+ views

  CAnada Free Press/ Northeast Intelligence Network ^ | Dec. 31, 2009 | Douglas J. Hagmann

  On August 1, 2001, Hollywood actor James Woods witnessed four men of Middle Eastern appearance engaged in suspicious behavior on a transcontinental flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Mr. Woods’ first public recounting of his observations was five months after 9/11 on The O’Reilly Factor. During that February 15, 2002 broadcast, Mr. Woods stated that the suspicious behavior of the four men “would have been blatantly obvious to the most casual observer.” Investigation ultimately confirmed that the actor witnessed a “practice run” for the 9/11 hijackings. He ultimately learned that all four men he observed aboard his flight were terrorists…

India firm pushes trucks’ U.S. debut back to the spring

Article published December 26, 2009
India firm pushes trucks’ U.S. debut back to the spring
By LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE
BLADE BUSINESS WRITER
A pair of diesel-powered pickups made in India that were expected to be on sale last summer in the United States have been delayed again, and now won’t make their debut until spring. The Mahindra TR20 and TR40, originally scheduled to go on sale in America last summer, are to be available by the middle of spring, said John Perez, chief executive officer of Mahindra’s distributor Global Vehicles USA. The pickups, a two-door regular cab and a four-door crew cab, will feature Mahindra’s 2.2-liter diesel engine and are expected to boast fuel economy ratings as high as 30 miles per gallon. The trucks, nicknamed “Taj Mahaulers” by one automotive reviewer, are to be offered in four colors: black, white, gray, and red. Pricing for the pickups is expected to start near $22,000. Locally, the vehicles are to be sold by the Taylor Automotive Group. Local auto dealer Steve Taylor purchased a Mahindra franchise in 2007 and had plans to locate the dealership on the north side of Central Avenue between his Kia and Cadillac franchises.

America’s armed militia on the rise

• America’s armed militia on the rise (semi-Barf)

  Friday, January 01, 2010 11:05:52 AM · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies · 30+ views

  Telegraph ^ | 12/31/09 | Tom Leonard

  America’s armed militia on the rise Extremist “patriot” groups and other armed militias have undergone a dramatic resurgence in America, their numbers more than doubling in the past year amid growing Right-wing fears over expanding federal power and gun control. By Tom Leonard in New York Published: 4:35PM GMT 31 Dec 2009 Such groups – a mix of libertarians, gun rights advocates and survivalists – appeared to be in terminal decline before the election of Barack Obama, according to monitoring bodies. The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks extremist organisations, says it has so far counted more than 300 patriot…

Obama’s dangerous denial ~ Charles Krauthammer

• Obama’s dangerous denial

  Friday, January 01, 2010 10:45:57 AM · by rhema · 1 replies · 12+ views

  Jewish World Review ^ | Jan. 1, 2010 | Charles Krauthammer

  Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.” The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers. Heck of a job, Brownie. The reason the country is uneasy about the…

Saving American lives: American airlines must immediately start profiling and publicly announce it ~ The Collins Report

• Saving American lives: American airlines must immediately start profiling and publicly announce it

  Friday, January 01, 2010 10:16:41 AM · by jmaroneps37 · 15+ views

  The Collins Report ^ | January 1, 2010 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

  Let’s give these terrorist swine who want to blow themselves up on our airplanes a clear choice of which lines they should fly and which they should avoid. The best way to do this is for American airlines to publicly announce they will now profile their passengers at will. The wording could be: “In order to do everything possible to insure the safety of our passengers and crews, (name) Airline reserves the right to profile and reject anyone attempting to fly with us who appears to be dangerous. We are fully prepared to defend our actions against all legal challenges…

Tea party movement grows

Tea party movement grows

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 01:36 AM PST

Tea Party Attendant

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this month showed more than four in 10 Americans have a favorable view of the movement, significantly more than the 24 percent with a negative opinion. That was better than the 35 percent positive rating for Democrats and the 28 percent Republicans got. In a Rasmussen poll in December, more people said they would vote for tea party movement candidates than for Republican ones — 23 percent to 18 percent, respectively.

Danita Kilcullen of Fort Lauderdale stands at at the intersection of Federal Highway and Oakland Park Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale with her fellow protesters. The protesters are part of the tea party movement and stage a weekly protest at the intersection.

It could be the birth of a party.

Fueled by anger at politicians and distrust of the government, the rapidly growing tea party movement could upend the political establishment in the 2010 elections — ultimately becoming a permanent, game-changing force in American politics.

Or, it could fizzle.

Even supporters aren’t sure. Joyce Kaufman, a talk-show host on WFTL, AM 850, thinks the answer will come in the November elections. “If nothing happens in 2010, it falls apart,” she said.

But she doesn’t see that happening.

“It’s going to be a huge dynamic. I don’t think it’s going to be easily defused. I think what you’re going to see is an energized voice. What they will do is come out and vote. The tea party movement is going to make a difference,” Kaufman said.

From its start in February with an on-air rant by CNBC analyst Rick Santelli….

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:01 PM PST

“The most notorious American POW camps were the so-called Rheinwiesenlager.” Here, the Americans allowed “anything up to 40,000 German soldiers to die from hunger and neglect in the muddy flats of the Rhine.” … “any attempt to feed the prisoners by the German civilian population was punishable by death.”

This article was published in the Spring 2009 issue of The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, pp. 95-110.

Revisiting the “Good War’s” Aftermath: Emerging Truth in an Ocean of Myth

Dwight D. Murphey, Wichita State University, retired

After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

Giles MacDonogh Basic Books, 2007

“Expose the victorious Allies in their treatment of the enemy at peace, for in most cases it was not the criminals who were raped, starved, tortured or bludgeoned to death but women, children and old men.”

Part I

Those who honestly chronicle human events, present or past, are a rare and honorable breed. We should certainly ennoble them within the pantheon of our earthly gods….

Yahoo! Spies on You by Selling All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price

Yahoo! Spies on You by Selling All Its Users Private Email Contents to U.S. Agencies for Small Price

Posted: 31 Dec 2009 03:02 PM PST

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Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides to “law enforcement” and spy agencies has leaked onto the web.

After earlier reports this week that Yahoo had blocked an FOIA Freedom of Information release of its “law enforcement and intelligence price list”, someone helpfully provided a copy of the Yahoo company’s spying guide to the whistleblower web site Cryptome.org.

The 17-page guide, which Yahoo has tried to suppress via legal letters to the Cryptome.org site run by freedom of information champion John Young, describes Yahoo’s policies on keeping the data of Yahoo Email and Yahoo Groups users, as well as the surveillance and spying capabilities it can give to the U.S. government and its agencies.

The Yahoo document is a price list for these spying services and has already resulted in many people closing down their accounts in protest. However, closing a Yahoo account is not as easy as one might expect: users have reported great difficulty in finding the link to delete their account, and, Yahoo will still keep data for another 90 days.

If you ask Yahoo! to delete your Yahoo! account, in most cases your account will be deactivated and then deleted from our user registration database in approximately 90 days. This delay is necessary to discourage users from engaging in fraudulent activity….

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The Real War

• Friday, January 01, 2010 9:08:03 AM · by Kaslin

  Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2009 | Pat Buchanan

  Had he not proven incompetent to detonate his lap bomb, Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab would have carried off an air massacre to rival Lockerbie. We would all have ended Christmas day watching TV footage of 300 mangled bodies being picked up around Detroit. The system breakdown was total. His father had reported to the U.S. embassy that Umar had gone extremist, disowned his family and vanished in Yemen. Though the 23-year-old Nigerian had been put on a U.S. terrorist watch list and denied a visa to enter Britain, his U.S. visa was not revoked. Though he had been in Yemen for…

The UN and Interpol How the UN will gain power

The UN and Interpol How the UN will gain power
By Barry Napier

It is interesting that the man who cast aside the US Constitution like a rag, and imposes his own laws without consent, has agreed to allow an international police authority to overrule the US government.

Terrorists aloft over America skies, AWOL Obama aloof in Hawaii By Judi McLeod

Terrorists aloft over America skies, AWOL Obama aloof in Hawaii
By Judi McLeod

At the risk of being branded a “birther”,  is President Barack Obama’s post-Christmas Day Flight Northwest 253 terrorist attack a useful way to leave an impression that Hawaii is the place of his birth?

AWOL in Hawaii, Obama’s not coming back until Sunday.  For certain his vacation has little to do with Christmas, which he tried to cancel on Christmas Eve with the symbolic passing of ObamaCare.

Nor according to his royal self, does he particularly believe in Christmas. Describing their own account of the day when Christians celebrate the Birth of Jesus, the Obamas do not give presents to their own daughters.

The “other Michelle” (Malkin) gets it right on the button when she describes Obama’s “”four more full days of reinforcing his image as detached, aloof, and too damned tired to tackle the jihadi epidemic with the once-hyped energy and passion of a 48-year-old Super-agent of Hope and Change”. (michellemalkin.com Dec. 30, 2009).

Mr. Obama, Those Are OUR Prisoners at Gitmo, Not Yours; Leave Them Where They Are By Jerry McConnell

Mr. Obama, Those Are OUR Prisoners at Gitmo, Not Yours; Leave Them Where They Are
By Jerry McConnell

How many more American lives are going to be risked before the anti-American traitors in the Obama Administration, including himself, stop their efforts to close Guantanamo Bay military prison facility?

New Year’s Resolutions for Constitutionalists ~ by Mary Starrett

New Year’s Resolutions for Constitutionalists
As another year comes to a close and a new decade beckons I’m looking past my frivolous resolve to exercise more and eat less. Instead, I imagine a wish list compiled by Americans who yearn for a return to government bound by the limits of the Constitution. What would such a list look like? When a minority of colonists stood up to a tyrant king over two centuries ago they did so because they believed that freedom didn’t look…….

Let’s Wake Up and Make a Difference in 2010 ~ by Dr. Laurie Roth, Ph.D

Let’s Wake Up and Make a Difference in 2010
America has always been and continues to be in the crosshairs of Dictators, i.e. socialists, communists, terrorists and “other controllers” due to one major, systemic clash. We view freedom for each individual a pre ordained gift and right from God. They view freedom as a borrowed and assigned privilege from Government. The two ideologies clash to the point of bloody wars because the God’s are different and don’t mix……..

“Detroit bomber” incident: Playing the American people, again ~ by Devvy Kidd

“Detroit bomber” incident: Playing the American people, again
Terrorism is serious. No question we’re all deeply concerned about terrorists coming across our borders while Congress and the last five presidents have sat on their backsides, making half-baked efforts to seal up the borders, hunt down the illegals and get them out of our country. America has paid a terrible price from the slaughter of our citizens by illegal aliens. All we have seen is Band Aids since Ronald Reagan opened the flood gates and our brave U.S. Border Patrol agents treated as nothing but………

Obama Hires His First Transsexual (Big Bucket Alert!)

• Friday, January 01, 2010 8:44:24 AM · by fuzzybutt · 1 replies · 25+ views

  intraa.org via DU. ^ | Thursday, 12. 31. 2009 | intraa.org

  from the National Center for Transgender Equality Amanda Simpson, who has served on NCTE’s Board of Directors for the past 3 years, has been appointed by the Obama Administration as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce. She’ll be working in the Bureau of Industry and Security. “I’m truly honored to have received this appointment and am eager and excited about this opportunity that is before me. And at the same time, as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment…

Top ten Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner articles of 2009

• Friday, January 01, 2010 8:32:53 AM · by marktwain · 20+ views

  Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 31 December, 2009 | Daniel White

  Next week we’ll return to our regularly scheduled programming, but for now let’s take a look at the top ten Cleveland GRE articles as determined by the number of comments they received. #10 Gun nuts right, armed self-defense works A look at several instances of an armed citizens prevailing over a criminal attacker. #9 In Texas, police worried about losing gun permit notification A change in Texas law removed the duty to notify law enforcement that you are carrying a concealed firearm, and issue relevant to Ohio since we currently have such a requirement. #8 Personal Rights vs. Property Rights…

O’s day of reckoning Ralph Peters

O’s day of reckoning
New York Post ^ | December 31, 2009 | Ralph Peters

Posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 12:46:47 AM by myknowledge

It’s showtime, folks! Today’s the deadline President Obama imposed on Iran’s leaders to give up their nuclear ambitions and be nice.

Not sure if the deadline expires at midnight in Tehran or on Washington time, but the mullahs and President Mahmoud “Mighty Mouse” Ahmadinejad aren’t scrambling to give Obama a New Year’s Eve smooch.

Rather than cave in to our president’s mighty rhetoric, the Tehran tyrants took a break from killing protesters in the streets to attempt to import more than 1,300 tons of make-a-nuke uranium ore from Kazakhstan.

They’ve also increased their nuke-cooker centrifuge count, tested new long-range missiles and lied like Persian rugs about hidden nuke sites. In response, our president threatened to huff and puff and blow their house down.

Early Show’s Adoration Of The Obama

Early Show’s Adoration Of The Obama
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 8:20:09 AM by governsleastgovernsbest

Diabetic or not, you might want to have a dose of insulin handy while watching this morning’s video clip. The Early Show’s review of the past year this morning was one sicky-sweet adoration–in overtly religious terms–of Barack Obama.

Harry Smith set the tone with his opening comments:

“Politics, and patriotism and the presidency: it is the place where the secular and the religious merge. One of the sacraments of our national religion is the inauguration. So it was that as many as two million pilgrims made their way to Washington and the Mall to witness this most sacred event.”

Back to the studio for the personal testimonies of the Early Show crew . . .

(Krauthammer:) A terrorist war Obama has denied

(Krauthammer:) A terrorist war Obama has denied
Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2010 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 12:04:08 AM by maggief

Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.” The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers.

When Government Slippery Slope Goes Vertical

• Friday, January 01, 2010 3:16:44 AM · by rabscuttle385 · 2 replies · 276+ views

  CATO ^ | 2009-11-08 | David Boaz

  Libertarians often warn about the slippery slope of government intervention: Let the government run the schools, and it may end up teaching your children values that offend you. Let the government have new powers to fight terrorism, and it may use those extraordinary powers in the pursuit of ordinary crimes. Let the federal government give the states money for highways, and it may eventually use its money to impose its own rules on the states. In the Obama era, the slippery slope has gone vertical. Instead of “eventually,” the feared extensions of government power come immediately. When President Obama decided…

Brain-dead Conservatives

• Friday, January 01, 2010 3:20:30 AM · by rabscuttle385 · 42 replies · 807+ views

  CATO ^ | 2009-10-04 | David Boaz

  “The heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism,” Ronald Reagan said on many occasions, including a speech at Vanderbilt University when I was an undergraduate. I’m not so sure. But at least the conservatism of Sen. Robert Taft, Sen. Barry Goldwater, and Reagan stood for a limited constitutional government in opposition to the federal aggrandizement of the New Deal and the Great Society. Back in the FDR-JFK-LBJ years, conservatives even stood for congressional government and against the imperial presidency. But what does conservatism stand for today, other than opposition to President Obama? President Bush expanded entitlements, increased federal spending by…

Welcome to the Obama Zone

• Friday, January 01, 2010 7:11:15 AM · by vrwc54 · 2 replies · 267+ views

  You Tube ^ | 12/31/09 | RobtKraft / Granny Jan

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Local blogger attracts feds’ attention

• Friday, January 01, 2010 7:37:58 AM · by CTGOPPER · 1 replies · 97+ views

  The Day ^ | January 1, 2010 | Izaskun E. Larrañeta

  The federal Transportation Security Administration has questioned a Niantic man who posted a document on his blog that described temporary measures for screening airline passengers. Steven Frischling, a Niantic travel blogger and photographer, said he was on the phone Tuesday with Florida travel writer Chris Elliot when Elliot asked him if any federal agents had paid him a visit. Elliot, like Frischling, posted security directives they each received by e-mail, detailing new security measures for all outside flights headed for the United States. Frischling said Elliot told him that federal agents had just visited him. Frischling said Thursday that he…

War? What War? ~ Charles Krauthammer

• War? What War?

  Friday, January 01, 2010 7:38:50 AM · by Kaslin · 13 replies · 197+ views

  Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2010 | Charles Krauthammer

  WASHINGTON — Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.” The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber paid cash and checked no luggage on a transoceanic flight. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers. Heck of a job, Brownie. The reason the country is uneasy…

Clueless

• Friday, January 01, 2010 7:57:02 AM · by Kaslin · 1 replies · 49+ views

  Townhall.com ^ | January 1, 2010 | Linda Chavez

  Clueless. It’s the word that best describes the Obama administration’s first year in office. They’ve proven themselves clueless about creating jobs; clueless about handling growing nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea; and now, most devastatingly, clueless about protecting Americans from terrorist attacks on our own soil. And with nearly one year under the belts, they can’t keep blaming the Bush administration for everything that goes awry. It is hard to imagine a more incompetent handling of the thwarted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. jetliner. First, the commander in chief was too busy enjoying his vacation in Hawaii to…

Intelligence Report to Obama Shows Failures Persist (The only failure was the election of an idiot)

• Friday, January 01, 2010 8:02:39 AM · by tobyhill · 1 replies · 17+ views

  Fox News ^ | 12/31/2009 | AP

  U.S. security chiefs briefed President Barack Obama on Thursday about missteps in the lead-up to the attempted Detroit jetliner bombing as lawmakers joined the White House in racing to find out what went wrong. The Senate Intelligence Committee announced Jan. 21 hearings as part of an investigation to begin sooner. “We will be following the intelligence down the rabbit hole to see where the breakdown occurred and how to prevent this failure in the future,” said Sen. Kit Bond, top Republican on the committee. “Somebody screwed up big time.” Few questioned that judgment, even if Obama’s fellow Democrats rendered it…