Blog pages in a series, part 4

Public School Horror Stories

Each of the pages in this series has quotes of news stories and sometimes informal articles that document the bad behavior of teachers and administrators in America's public schools.  The 4th and 5th pages in this series are focused on one topic within the general topic of American public education.

1. This page documents the hypocrisy of the Michigan chapter of C.A.I.R., which demanded that Muslim students be allowed to take time away from classes to pray and which also demanded that Christian students could not participate in a Bible Study during school time.  This page also has 30+ links to news stories about teachers who were arrested for sexual activity with their students plus another 30+ links to news stories about teachers who were convicted of these crimes.


2. This page has a story about an elementary school in Manhattan that required its' students to learn the Arabic language.  Teachers in different states were arrested for soliciting a prostitute.  A school in Colorado criticized 7th grade students who had conservative political attitudes.  Two schools sent students out in handcuffs.


3. This page includes the story of a satanic group that wanted to distribute literature in a school system, various public schools that discouraged patriotism, one school that encouraged the desecration of an American flag, a teacher who forced a student to use his bare hands to unclog a urinal, and a section about dual-language public schools.  A police officer used a taser on a violent student at a Utah public high school.  A school nurse stole prescription medicine from students.  One boy was not allowed to read his personal Bible during free time at school.  A teacher showed an erotic film to her students.  A teacher and his roommate were arrested for possession of illegal drugs that had a street value of $6.2 million.


4. This page shows how some public schools, typically run by leftist activists, have overreacted when a young boy pretends to have a gun.  Students have been suspended for activities that are clearly legal, including wearing an N.R.A. t-shirt.


5. This page is about Common Core.  It begins with a summary of the three categories of objections to it.  Then, the page includes a YouTube video that shows how first-graders in one school district were taught how to write like a political activist.


6. This extra page, published in September 2013, before the publication of the second page in this series, has 23 YouTube videos.  Most of them are a news story about a public school horror story.

Reelect Ted Cruz

The first page in this set was written in March 2017, although Google misdated it.  Other pages were added later.

1. This page is about his basic biography and his early career.  It includes a few articles about one of his professors at Harvard Law School, Alan Dershowitz, who called him "brilliant".  There is a 2003 press release about the end of his job as the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Office of Policy Planning.  There is a section about his personal faith and how he, as a U.S. Senator, helped a Christian woman who was being persecuted in the Sudan.  Another section is about a dispute he had with the openly lesbian Mayor of Houston.  Another section has videos of him listening to criticism.


2. This page, written in March 2017, is about him as an author.  There are quotes from many of the articles he's written for journals that include Real Clear Politics, the Wall Street Journal, and the National Review.  There is a large section about his best-selling book, "A Time for Truth", which the New York Times denied was a best-seller until the evidence was shown to them by many publishing professionals.


3. This page, written in March 2017, is about the November 2009 murder of some soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas and the fact that other soldiers were wounded.  President Obama called it "workplace violence" and denied the wounded soldiers the medical benefits that they would've received if they had been awarded the Purple Heart, but Senator Cruz, who represents Texas in the Senate, began a multi-year project, with the help of other legislators, to change the law that President Obama had relied upon.  He was successful.  This page also shows some of his visits to military bases and one Navy ship in Texas.


4. This page, written in March 2017, is about his dedication to the Rule of Law, Due Process, and other principles that are embedded into the U.S. Constitution.  He will support and defend these principles even when they're unpopular.  He introduced a Constitutional amendment to prevent the U.S. Government from overturning state laws on marriage.  This page also includes a section about Hillary Clinton's e-mail server, which he criticized in the Senate.
   


5. This page, written in April 2017, is about his principled opposition to legislation that claimed to give financial help to people who were hurt by Superstorm Sandy.  This legislation included many unrelated financial benefits, sometimes called pork.  The page also mentions his effort to get financial help for his home state of Texas when it was victimized by flooding.


6. This page has copies of tweets that he has made that show him interacting with various individuals and groups in his official capacity as a U.S. Senator.  These groups include the March for Life (January 2017), Texas Wheat Producers (February 2017), the British Ambassador Kim Daroch (February 2017), and the Customs and Border Protection agency (February 2017), and some Boy Scouts (March 2017.  This page was published in April 2017, but I have added many more tweets since then.


7. This page has copies of tweets that thanked Senator Cruz for helping them in some way.  This page also has tweets from VIPs who complimented him.  In May 2016, the Governor of Texas said that Ted was "the most conservative of all with a No. 1 ranking by American Conservative Union."  The police chief in Pasadena, Texas said, "Had the opportunity to met Senator Ted Cruz, who has always been an advocate of law enforcement on the national level." This page was published in May 2017, but I have added a lot of tweets to it, also.


8. This page is about his effort to repair Obamacare early in 2017.  Its' exchanges were failing.  This was a clear sign that the law had created an unsustainable medical economy.  A July 2017 Christian News Service article is quoted with this headline "Cruz: Free Health Care Is Wonderful in 'World' of 'Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Pixie Fairies’".


9. This page is about the Senator's commitment to the religious liberty of all Americans.  There are subsections.  One is about a Supreme Court case based on a business called Hobby Lobby.  The second section is about the Washington, D.C. City Council, which passed two City Ordinances that restricted the rights of religious-based health-care organizations.  The third is about his support for a county clerk in Kentucky who refused to process marriage licenses from two men or two women. The fourth section shows how he used religious liberty effectively as a campaign issue, and a companion section about the Democrat Party's hatred for organized religion.  Thee is a brief section about a conversation between the Senator and a gay business owner, followed by his support for Pro-Life causes.  The last section is a Supreme Court case involving a Lutheran Church.

In August 2017, a hurricane came into Texas.  The first large city it hit was Houston.  While it was still in the Gulf of Mexico, Senator Ted Cruz sent out, on his Twitter account, a series of tweets, some of them written in Spanish, to prepare the people of Texas, who he loves, for that disaster.  They're copied onto these two blog pages.

Page 1 covers the time period from August 17, 2017 to August 26, 2017.

Page 2 covers the time period from August 27, 2017 to August 31, 2017, but I added more tweets that were made by Senator Cruz, starting in July 2018.

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