Law School Conservative

Mitt Romney is backing down from a statement he made recently regarding former GOP Presidential Candidate Bob Dole’s defense of Sen. John McCain.

Dole wrote a letter to Rush Limbaugh defending McCain, a fellow decorated veteran, as a “mainstream conservative” not deserving of a grassroots effort to torpedo his nomination.

Romney stated  that Dole is “probably the last person I would have wanted to have write a letter for me.”

McCain responded by slamming Romney, who in turn said he “thinks very highly” of Dole.

This is the Young American’s Foundation list of the most bizzarre politically correct college courses for the 06-07 year.

These are all major requirements for the B.S. in BS program.

Rather than re-write what Michelle Malkin said, I’ll let you read it yourself.

Among my favorites is a principal who got rid of the honor roll in his school to “reduce stress” and also directed teachers to go with “less homework, more yoga”

Yeah…

Every so often, abortion groups hand out wire hangers in a form of awareness protest for their cause.

Gay groups remain silent for a day.

Animal Rights groups have their “meat out” days.

They are generally praised for their “creative” and “thought provoking” methods of raising awareness for their cause.

I wonder how the main-stream media feels about these guys.

Yeah, that’s right. Students in Penn State, Miami University of Ohio, Seattle Pacific University and other schools wore empty holsters to school all week to protest campus policies that outright ignore state law and prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons.

The campaign, run by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, lasted all week, and was intended to bring awareness to policies that prevent students from being armed and able to defend themselves on campus. These students argue that one armed student or professor could have stopped the Virginia Tech massacre last April.

What did the morons at the Brady Campaign say to this?

“You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school”

No one should be forced to choose between civil rights and education, but I digress.

Even if the main-stream media does not praise these students for bravely standing up for the bill of rights (nothing like using the first amendment to defend the second), we do. Good job, guys! Keep up the fight!

This is the type of article that gets nominees in trouble. This is the type of article that parents, students, liberals, girlfriends and politicians will go no where near. It raises the type of question you don’t want asked in time of war.

Should we bring back compulsory military service?

Why on earth would I ask that question?

Simple. We’re at a point in history where laziness is rewarded. Really. Indigent kids drop out of school and join gangs. Rich kids graduate high school and spend 4, 5, 6 or 9 years in college “fratting” out and then get a cushy job in daddy’s company. Not to say that there aren’t young people out there who do bust their necks in high school and college, and later become a contributing member of society, but they’re a dying breed.

To not make this drawn out and pointless, I’ll get to the gist of it. My proposal is this: Every person between the ages of 18 and 21 will be required to spend two years active duty in either the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard or National Public Health Corps. They will have the option of going before college as enlisted personnel, or after college as an officer. For those with an aversion to Military service, they will be required to spend two years after college teaching in a Public School, full time.

What effect will this have? Ideally, it would ensure that virtually an entire generation of people are trained in marketable skills. Not all military personnel are fighters, there are electricians, mechanics, engineers, medics, clerks, bookkeepers, communication specialists, photographers, reporters, chaplains, law clerks, and others. If they opt to not enter the military until after college, they will serve with their generation as officers and leaders, also gaining marketable skills that most employers salivate over. Finally, I don’t think I need to explain the benefit of having a throng of trained, young public school teachers enter the workforce.

This proposal, while provocative, and maybe even initially repugnant, is, I think, sound. It would require a generation that has been spoiled by the media into being lazy (a generation that, sadly, includes me) to get off their butts, stop bitching, and get something done. Chances are, it might even reduce crime, increase the high school graduation rate, and possibly even create an incentive for kids who otherwise wouldn’t try to get a better education.

This is probably not a solution, but its a good place to start looking.

By: Nathan D. Fox

Check out this article at FOXNews.com. UK schools will no longer be teaching about the Holocaust and the Crusades, so as not to offend some children. Excuse me? What sort of fantasy land are we trying to put children in? Are we trying to make sure they are ill-equipped to deal with the evils of the real world? I am quite certain some smart guy said “those who do not know/understand history are condemned to repeat it.”

This is a classic example of revisionist instructional history by attempting to avoid uncomfortable material. Also, please catch the line that “A lack of factual knowledge among some teachers” is a large reason why UK schools are. It seems, call me crazy, that the problem is with the TEACHERS. I am disturbed that primary school teachers in the UK do not have adequate factual knowledge to discuss the Holocaust and the Crusades. I wonder if they realize that they would be speaking German today if Hitler was not stopped in WWII. I wonder if they realize what sort of hell their nation went through during the Battle of Britain. For now I am going to stop wondering, and make my point. Congratulations UK on creating a losing solution to a significant problem. When things are not up to par, you do not lower your standards; you push to make things better. Also, those poor children are NEVER going to be able to deal with the realities of life if they are sheltered from “uncomfortable and offensive” material. Good parents should be doing cartwheels across the pond.