Social Worker: “All Homeschoolers Get Psychological Evaluations”

Social Worker: “All Homeschoolers Get Psychological Evaluations”

The Home School Legal Defense Association relates a horrifying tale from some Miami homeschoolers. Fortunately, they (HSLDA) were able to correct the illegal behavior of this social worker toward this particular family. The US government seems to be doing it's best to become a Soviet state. We must always be ready to defend out freedom.

Social Worker attacks family:

The social worker found nothing—but said still she wanted the family to “undergo a formal psycho-social assessment.”

When the Smiths asked “Why?” the social worker replied, “This is done in all investigations with homeschooled children!”

Needless to say, the Smiths declined the assessments, and relied on HSLDA to take care of the rest.

Klicka sent the social worker a letter outlining all the ways in which she had broken the law: 1. By entering the home and interviewing the children through intimidation; 2. By not letting them know the allegations at the initial visit; and 3. By interviewing children whom the allegations did not concern.

A Peek Into a Girl’s Book...

A Peek Into a Girl’s Book...

A good review of Louisa May Alcott's book "Little Women" on The Heritage American blog.

A Peek Into a Girl’s Book: Little Women and Traditional Womanhood

...Here we find the moral values at the core of America’s greatness, but also the seeds of America’s future sacrifice of everything it has and is to non-Western “humanity.” When the March girls sacrifice their Christmas breakfast to a poor German woman with six children, we see the native American sense of charity in all its sweetness, but we may also note how easily such an impulse could morph into suicidal liberalism...

...And though modern critics would attack the book for “suppressing” the black, American Indian, and other “marginal” viewpoints, the truth is that the March girls are just being themselves. They live their own lives in their own society, and it is because their society is relatively homogeneous that they are able to live with a sense of higher meaning, struggling to do good and develop as women, within the common understandings of that society...

Also see

The Heritage American Essays on American Culture, Traditionalist Conservatism, Politics, Race, and Immigration

Why Tom Friedman thinks “Globalization” is good for America…

Why Tom Friedman thinks “Globalization” is good for America…
Tom Friedman: “Globalization” good because it makes Americans poor and dependent on government.

Tom Friedman tells us “Globalization” is good because it makes Americans poor and dependent on government. A “churning workforce” makes people unsure of their employment and also breaks down families, friends and neighborhoods leaving people forced to rely on the government.

Tom Friedman is best know for promoting “Globalization,” in his book "The World is Flat." He is a Neocon/Neoliberal who was promoting Bush’s war and is now promoting Obama. A shill for the establishment who promotes every one of their stupid ideas uncritically.

Even globalization’s downsides—such as displaced American workers—can have an upside for liberals in political terms. A churning workforce strengthens the case for the kind of safety net that Democrats champion and Republicans resist. (Globalization-induced jitters may help explain why President Bush’s plan to make Social Security less secure hasn’t captured the nation’s imagination.) Friedman outlines an agenda of “compassionate flatism” that includes portable, subsidized health care, wage insurance, and subsidies for college and vocational school. You can argue about the details, and you can push them to the left. (He notes that corporations like to put offices and factories in countries with universal health care.) But this is clearly a Democratic agenda, and, as more and more white-collar jobs move abroad, its appeal to traditionally Republican voters should grow...1

PC thugs Hired to roam Canadian university

PC thugs Hired to roam Canadian university

The politically correct Speech/thought police just keep getting nastier. It looks like things are getting even worse for the residents of the Soviet Republic of Canuckistan. Now that Comrade Obama is about to take power, I fear more “racism” hysteria from the state and media will be coming soon in the US too. I afraid of what the state will do after Comrade Obama and the crazed Obamaists takes power; more and nastier political correctness will be coming that is the one thing I do know.

Speech Police Hired to Roam Queens University Campus:

Queens University in Kingston, ON is coming under criticism for hiring six “dialogue facilitators” to roam its campus and intervene in student conversations in order to promote “diversity” and deal with what they deem to be any “offensive” material...

Social conservatives in Canada have in the last several years expressed increasing alarm at escalating efforts to silence “offensive” speech – efforts that, in practice, have led primarily to the targeting of those with politically incorrect views, particularly Christians with traditional views on sexual morality...

Duke Gardens to be destroyed.

Duke Gardens to be destroyed. I found the fact they found it necessary to disparage “Caucasians” interesting;” “Caucasians” like it so it must be “bad?” Yes the word “progressive” is a red flag to me too. Is Timothy Taylor white, why is he disparaging “Caucasian females over the age of 50?” Will they close the libraries and art museums next because “Caucasian females over 50” like them too?

I still don’t quite understand why they are destroying Duke Gardens. The Eco Freaks don’t like the display gardens because of the energy needed to heat them in the winter. It likely does take a lot of oil or gas to heat them. The directory of the garden, Timothy Taylor, is a real estate developer with no horticultural expertise. We may never now what is going on or why they destroyed the gardens.

Savedukegardens.org

Duke Gardens in Somerset County, New Jersey were among the most significant glass house collections in America. Created by Doris Duke herself, they were larger than the New York Botanical Garden's Haupt Conservatory, and were open to the public from 1964 until they were closed by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation as of May 25th, 2008. All plants, trees and shrubs will be removed.1

Only "Caucasian females over the age of 50" like botanical gardens...

Last week, two friends and I took a tour of the huge glass indoor gardens at Duke Farms, the 2,740-acre country estate here that was once the home of Doris Duke and is now maintained by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This magnificent glass building (actually, one long conservatory and five attached glass houses) is about 60,000 square feet (one of the largest glass houses in America and bigger even than the New York Botanical Garden's Enid Haupt Conservatory). It was designed by Horace Trumbauer for Ms. Duke's father, and construction was begun in 1909 and completed by 1917.

Duke Farms, whose display gardens opened in 1964, will be transformed into an ecological environment learning center...

...the lovers of those display gardens (whom Mr. Taylor categorizes as being "primarily Caucasian females over the age of 50"). Petra Ross MacDonald, a biologist from Pennington, N.J., has organized a Web site, savedukegardens.org, to rally support for keeping the indoor display gardens. Ruth Schrey, a resident of Branchburg Township, collected 1,000 signatures within 14 days for a petition that was sent last week to all the trustees, and an application to apply for historic landmark status is in the works...

One has to hope that with a little more imagination and a little more sensitivity to the fact that Ms. Duke's display gardens are quite irreplaceable... 1

Here is an article on Doris Duke, sounds like she had rather sad and lonely life.

More on the Gardens...

Doris Duke's own horticultural legacy, Duke Gardens, was the center of a controversy over its removal on May 25th, 2008. Miss Duke developed these exotic display gardens in honor of her beloved father James Buchanan Duke. She extended new greenhouses from the Horace Trumbauer conservatory at her home in Duke Farms, New Jersey. Each of the eleven interconnected gardens was a full-scale re-creation of a garden theme, country or period, inspired by DuPont's Longwood Gardens. Miss Duke, who spoke nine languages, designed the architectural, artistic and botanical elements of the displays based on observations from her extensive international travels . She also labored on their installation, sometimes working 16 hour days. Display construction began in 1958; a rediscovered image of the stunning nightlighting of the French Gardens in the 1970s is an example of the attention to detail that Doris Duke continued to lavish on the Gardens throughout her life. 1

Miscellaneous (August 3, 2008)

More from Lawrence Auster: "The Neocons Go Left"

More nonsense from Gavin Menzies... ‘1434′ is as much junk as ‘1421′

I wish we could get cheap electric cars... The truth is the auto makes could easily and cheaply make electric cars with a 100 to 200 miles range and sell than for under $10,000.

Necessity Breeds Electric Car Innovation on the Gaza Strip

..The conversion purportedly costs a mere $2,500 dollars to accomplish. As reported by the CSM, US experts are baffled as to how the conversion could be done for so little money and that using even the cheapest parts available in the US it would cost 3 times as much to do the conversion here...1

Comrade Obama gives speech to crazed Red Berliners...

A degenerate liberal harlot is attacked.

War Nerd: War of the Babies

An article on the problem of gender imbalance in College Graduates.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn R.I.P.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) R.I.P.

Russian Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn dead
Moscow - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize winner for literature who was exiled from the Soviet Union and graphically portrayed life in Soviet labour camps, was dead at age 89, the news agency Interfax reported early Monday.1