6-28-13 EAGNews.org Updates

EAGNews.org Updates

By Kyle Olson

Socialists honor the Chicago Teachers Union for walking out on students last fall

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recently claimed she isn’t politically “radical." Tell that to the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA recently honored the CTU and various activists for their work on left-wing causes at its 55th Annual Debs-Thomas-Harrington Dinner in Chicago. The socialist group recognized the CTU for "consistently stand[ing] for education and professionalism." The union "has shown that organizing is more than just mobilization and that defending a public good requires an organized public," the socialist group said. [more...]

Portland principal slams $2.4 million 'investment' in cultural sensitivity training for staff

Spending problem or funding problem? That’s the legitimate question facing public schools these days. Some might suggest that the Portland, Oregon school district spends far too much for the services of a left-wing organization that promotes some pretty silly ideas about race relations. Last fall, EAGnews revealed Portland Public Schools had paid Pacific Educational Group $526,901 to conduct "cultural sensitivity training" for school leaders in 2011. PEG’s mission is to "enlighten" educators about how public schools promote "white culture" and "white privilege" to the disadvantage of minority students. [more...]

Chicago’s Karen Lewis: We’re flying the 'Common Core' airplane as we’re building it

Despite all of her nutty racially-charged rhetoric, when Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis speaks, people listen. So they should be interested in what she has to say about the national Common Core initiative. Lewis is a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers and a member of its executive council. Despite the AFT’s solid support for Common Core national standards, Lewis says she’s "not a personal fan." [more...]

The Conservative Plan for Immigration Reform

By Wayne Allyn Root

The Obama socialist cabal and mainstream media frame the immigration debate as having only two options: the Democrat way (let everyone in and put them all on welfare)... or the supposed Republican way (keep everyone out and send those already here, home). That is a blatant lie.

The second Obama lie is that there is only one definition of compromise - agree with Democrats on everything! How absurd. How is that "compromise?" If the GOP agrees to this Democratic version of "compromise," the U.S. economy will be damaged beyond repair.

We are already a bankrupt nation with over $100 trillion in debt and unfunded liabilities. Letting in millions of new immigrants who are poor, uneducated and low skilled in the middle of an economic depression and jobs crisis, as well as giving them access to welfare and Obamacare, can only be described as "the end of America." It is a disaster for the middle class in terms of jobs competition, the lowering of wages, and the cost of taxes to pay for the new entitlement bills.

But, there is a simple and truly fair compromise that is based on the practical advice from my latest book, The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide: How to Survive, Thrive, and Prosper During Obamageddon. Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarians would have to be blind or idiots not to support it. [more...]

Mayors Against Illegal Guns?

By Rob Olive

Michael Bloomberg's group, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns," issued an apology for his group's characterization of Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a "victim of gun violence." The group says he shouldn't have been included on the list of victims. They claim Slate.com provided the list and it wasn't properly scrubbed. Slate is unapologetic, however, saying that, of course he was included on the list, since it is "a pure accounting of deaths... regardless of cause and without comment."

The list also included "wrongdoers killed by law enforcement," according to Slate. This "accounting" of ALL deaths involving the use of a firearm reveals the mindset of Slate, Bloomberg, and the rest of the control-freak community: If there wasn't access to firearms, society would be much better off, and that we should pass all of the bans and registration schemes proposed by Bloomberg.

Inconvenient little examples such as Chicago would tend to argue against that mindset, however, since gun control in the Windy City is some of the strictest in the country and it happens to be the murder capital of the U.S (in total number of murders committed). Bloomberg and his ilk would like to make this a "gun problem." In reality, however, we have a "gang problem" in some U.S. cities and those of us who do not contribute to that problem should not (and WILL NOT, in my case) be held responsible for it. Welfare states have been created in many of the most violent cities in the U.S., including Bloomberg’s own NYC. That’s something that many liberty-minded people have argued against for decades and now the welfare state creators (and those who derive their power from that dependency) want to use the results of their folly to deprive us of our liberty? I don’t think so. [more...]

6-25-13 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Dave Bego: Desperate SEIU Resurrects Persuasion of Power

2. John LeBoutillier: The Continued Deterioration of Obama, the Latest on the Scandals and the GOP Response

3. Rabbi D. B. Ganz: Dealing with Iran - When Noble Principles Become Monsters

4. Doug Johnson: Government's Answer to Fix Unemployment: Fire You, Hire Illegal Immigrants

Desperate SEIU Resurrects Persuasion of Power

By Dave Bego

Once again the SEIU is utilizing its patented persuasion of power to achieve its political goals and to boost its dwindling membership. Over the past two weeks, the SEIU has aired television commercials to support President Obama's immigration policy, to initiate a living wage attack campaign against McDonalds and Wal-Mart, targeting home health care workers and to attack conservatives working to balance the liberal media. The SEIU's "insidious tentacles" are reaching far and wide to achieve one simple goal - to increase its membership, thereby resulting in increased revenues and political power! The SEIU and this Administration are tethered at the hip in this venture. [more...]

The Continued Deterioration of Obama, the Latest on the Scandals and the GOP Response

By John LeBoutillier

The POLITICAL INSIDERS examine the decline in President Obama's approval ratings; his $100 million Africa trip; the contempt D.C. has for the American people; the burgeoning IRS, NSA and Benghazi scandals; the weak/non-existent GOP response; and the Special Senate election in Massachusetts. Here are our shows: Sunday: Part 1 - Part 2 - Monday [more...]

Dealing with Iran - When Noble Principles Become Monsters

By Rabbi D.B. Ganz

For decades, Muslim Iran has been the world's foremost sponsor of terrorist murder. The hideous marks of its bloodstained hands have been left wherever civilized people live. Now Iran is building nuclear weapons that will enable it to further threaten and wreck mayhem upon the planet. Clearly, both negotiations and economic sanctions have done absolutely nothing to stop its bomb building. Seemingly, the U.S. is repeating the same catastrophic 1930s mistake made by England when dealing with Adolph Hitler. In the interest of "peace," it is allowing Iran the years needed to arm itself with the weapons it seeks. Repeating this same colossal error in the case of Iran could lead to infinitely more human death than even the Nazis ended up causing. What is the U.S. waiting for? It should utterly destroy all of Iran's nuclear facilities and end that threat to all of us while it still can - not tomorrow, but today! [more...]

Government's Answer to Fix Unemployment: Fire You, Hire Illegal Immigrants

By Doug Johnson

The Gang of Ocho's immigration deal just keeps on giving with its latest revelation. It seems that part of the deal would give incentive to American employers to get rid of American citizens and hire illegals (we're supposed to call them amnestied immigrants).  It's a simple plan and, as usual, does nothing for hard working Americans who are struggling to survive these days. [more...]

'World War Z' Suffers from Reshoots, Rewrites & Redos

By James Hirsen

With a $66 million take, zombie movie "World War Z," starring Brad Pitt, did reasonably well at the box office in its opening weekend. However, the film still faces challenges to its profitability, due to the movie’s swollen production and marketing budget.

The movie is based on the 2006 book of the same title, written by the son of Mel Brooks and Ann Bancroft, author Max Brooks. China was the country of origin for the zombie virus in Brooks' book, related to the segment in the novel that involves a black market trade in human organs. However, Paramount executives, like so many others in the industry, are afraid to upset the film gatekeepers since China now ranks as the second biggest film market in the world. Consequently, the film's story line was altered to have the virus originate in the country of North Korea, a place with an inconsequential movie market. [more...]

6-21-13 EAGNews.org Updates

By Kyle Olson

Labor boss: Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU should decide school budget

The controversial claim by Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis that “rich white people” are to blame for the school district’s woes earned much attention this week, but another doozy from her appearance at the City Club of Chicago was equally humorous. Lewis was asked if Chicago Public Schools’ $1 billion budget deficit was “real or illusionary,” she first replied that it wasn't her call, that “you’d have to ask the [school district] CEO who prepared that budget.” [more...]

Feds announce ‘redesign’ of public high schools as Obama attacks Catholic education

To all conservative Common Core supporters who claim the initiative is state-led, please pay attention. And to all liberals who support parochial schools, you might want to pay attention, too. On June 7, the federal Department of Education announced its plan to “redesign” all government high schools in America. Creating yet another federal enticement program - this time called the “High School Redesign Initiative” - the feds will offer “competitive grants to local educational agencies” to do such things as “redesign academic content and instructional practices” as well as “strategically use learning time in more meaningful ways,” whatever that actually means. [more...]

School official goes to absurd lengths to keep outsiders and ‘thugs’ out of the district

In at least one school district in Michigan, officials make it illegal for students to enroll if they live on the wrong side of the tracks. And they go to absurd lengths to enforce that policy. Leaders of Grosse Point Public Schools, located in an upscale community northeast of Detroit, regularly engage in spying on students to make sure only those living within the district’s boundaries attend their schools. [more...]

Entitled to Entitlements?

By Rabbi D.B. Ganz

Is it ethically proper for a government to tax those who work in order to give to others who are less fortunate? Even if in theory it is morally correct for a government to take one person’s earnings and donate it to others, should entitlements be curtailed or eliminated since the U.S. is now approaching bankruptcy?

Liberals generally support ever-greater entitlement spending (think of the budget-busting Obamacare program). They feel that a prosperous country such as the U.S. must do more to help the unfortunates in its midst.

My recently released book Uncommon Sense takes issue with this approach. It advances the overarching Talmudic principle that the primary roles of government are providing infrastructure such as roads, bridges and sewers and protecting its citizens. What it should NOT be doing, though, is interfering with the personal morality of the citizens and distributing charity for them.

Accordingly, a government should not be determining how much soda people may drink, who may be in one’s bedroom, which museums advance the cause of culture and should therefore be funded, and so forth. Politicians are elected to govern, not to serve as the guiding moral beacons of the citizenry.

As for charity, the Judeo-Christian tradition has always esteemed mercy and charity when willingly extended with a generous heart. But people should not be taxed against their will so that government charity can be given to causes chosen by politicians. In a free country, people should have the right to either not give charity at all or to donate exclusively to a favorite cause, be it a hospital, church, symphony orchestra, or the Girl Scouts. [more...]