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The EPA got really creative with the Clean Air Act to try to include CO2 which is not a pollutant. If the case brought by the fishermen now pending at the Supreme Court is decided the way most expect, I think that power grab is going to be rammed down their throat. That case should be decided in the next few months.

But the last time the EPA tried a power grab to impose these sort of restrictions on power plants, that power grab was itself shot down by the SCOTUS.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 9:17 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

My point Stan is this. Hillsdale teaches a whitewashed version of American history. From a single perspective. Ignoring other perspectives. Now if you want to pay good money to absorb that fairly tale by all means attend that school and get your degree.
However, a public school is indeed public. Non white kids have a right to learn their history. All students should be exposed to different perspectives. Saying this doesn't make me a communist, it makes my a grown up.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 8:21 pm By: Big Bob

Congress passed the Clean Air Act. Pretty sure a republican was supportive. Tricky Dick as I recall.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 8:36 pm By: Big Bob

Kids in my family are afraid to mention any conservative opinion in school because they are afraid that will be used against them. This is not an atmosphere we should have in our schools. Some teachers are too obvous in their liberal political opinions, and there is too often a question mark in kids minds about the others. No teacher who may have conservative opinions seems to want those known in the system.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 2:30 pm By: Bubba

Bob is clearly a woke globalist, and for them loyalty to your native country is evil, as is being a member of the white race. "Nativist" is another one of the terms therse people throw around aimed at their enemies.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 1:39 pm By: borderhawk

That is a term of Orwellian Newspeak used by the extreme left. They made up the term "white nationalist" to use for anyone to the right of "woke". If you are not "woke", these far left goons call you a "whate nationalist".

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 8:24 am By: Conservative Voter

What they are being given in schools is the "woke" version of everything, very one sided, not too different from education in the old Soviet Union with Marxism crap like CRT, DEI, and ESG. Of course, that is what you on the far left want.

Commented: Saturday, May 13th, 2023 @ 6:59 am By: Conservative Voter

Bob
Have you looked at the Hillsdale Curriculum? It is available on their website. Strange how facts matter. But that may not be in your agenda.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 9:24 pm By: Buzz Cayton

Big Bob: What is a "White Nationalist?"

I know you Leftists like to throw that term around as if it is an invective of great shame.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 11:20 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I really don't know enough about the Hillsdale Curriculum to comment on its exact proficiency.

However, I can reasonably deduct from my observations that a good number of the young men and women that they do graduate are clean cut (which I have never been), and seem to understand their defined purpose (which I do try to be cognizant of for myself, every day).

So ... what is there NOT to truly appreciate about the Hillsdale paradigm of producing effective American citizens? It may not be perfect, but I would wager that they render fewer overtly stupid graduates than near most any other center of higher learning in these United States, and ... "that's a good thing."

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 8:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Sorry but the truth isn't the fairytale some of us, including me, we taught back in school. Students should definitely get more than one perspective.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 3:55 pm By: Big Bob

Big Government Bob's lame attempt to change the discussion to a different subject, Jim Crow makes no sense, as he again does not have a good grasp on history. He apparently knows little outside the leftwing narrative. What Jim Crow most resembles are the Black Codes of the antebellum NORTH. The Black Codes imposed in many northern states created far more severe restrictions on free blacks than the later Jim Crow laws of the South. Free blacks, which were 20% of the black population in the South, were generally given more rights in the South prior to the war than in many northern states. This is reflected on the differing treatment of black soldiers by the two sides during the war. The North gave them half the pay of white soldiers while the South gave them full pay. The North put them in segregated units while the South integrated its units. The North did not allow minorities to serve as commissioned officers while the South did allow it and even had a minority general.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 10:51 am By: John Steed