As a retired public high school American history teacher, I can tell you with some authority that the true history of this country is not being taught to our children. The textbooks being utilized are written with a definite progressive slant (like about 75 degrees!) and are so revisionist that for the last 10 years that I taught I refused to use them. I assigned the books the first day of school because I was required to do so. I told the students to put it somewhere safe because I would need it back in May. I taught from my own notes which I made available to the administration. Not once did they ask to see them.

For the first 7 or 8 years all was well. Then I was hampered by a new AP who was a screaming progressive liberal. She dogged me day after day, gave me unsatisfactory reviews (not a single bad review ever up to this point) and even suspended me without pay for 2 days. Of course she felt free to attack me because I refused to join any teachers' union ... a waste of my time and money, not to mention the philosophical differences. At any rate, with all the stress and other health issues, I finally opted for early retirement.

To this day, I am still in regular contact with former students, doctors, soldiers, some are themselves educators, even a few politicians! All share with me that what they learned in my class was invaluable to them. Kids are hungry for the truth about their history and the history of their homeland. Taking that from them is theft as much as taking money from their pocket. Without a good background in American history, they are left to repeat previous mistakes and to grope for answers to questions asked and settled long ago. History should not be an "also ran" to math and science. All are equally important to the survival of the nation.

The fact that history is no longer taught in public schools (the subject is mentioned, but not studied; and much of what is mentioned is filtered and altered), I believe, is intentional. The Leftist radicals have taken over the education system since the Sixties and have been on a deliberate path to destroy it. The Catholic Church has recognized for centuries that it's future lies in the control of the schools, and so did Hitler (in fact, Hitler's promise of this control to the Vatican enabled him to win the chancellorship). The Soviet Union took control of education and Mao re-educated all of China. This is a logical progression to achieve totalitarian government control. The study of history must be suppressed to achieve it.

They apparently are blind to the similarities. A history lesson, or ten, needs to be administered. Otherwise it will be repeated here.

Once again: this goes to the kind of recruits tht State, county, and municipal police academies--and maybe also the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia--are accepting.

Ugh! Wanna be black-ops. Visions of grandeur running through their heads. And the general populace suffers for it.

Peterson even went on from what he perceived as a threat to mock John's Christian faith saying, "Be nice John you carry the bible right? Then don't talk like a man that doesn't."

---White Blackmail. A friend of mine had a family court judge threaten to take his son away because my friend has guns. Also White Blackmail.

Thank you Ayn Rand....

That fire fighter exam crack was pretty hilarious.

Couldn't happen to a nicer more deserving guy. Perhaps he will learn to keep his mouth shout. He has freedom of speech and he found out that exercising that right can be very costly as so many of us have so found.