The whole Nation is abuzz with Dr. Benjamin Carson's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama in attendance. The good Doctor, actually the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, railed against political correctness, about fiscal irresponsibility, about taxation, and host of other issues including his passion for education.
Dr. Carson's creds are over whelming,..I will not take up the reader's time going over them except to say that he is a published author both in the medical field and non-fiction. He and his wife are philantrophists giving scholarships to deserving kids; he is a widely respected surgeon and did all of this growing up in poverty where he learned the importance of education and self responsibility.
I have no idea on Dr. Carson's political affilations or voting record, but he has to be a burr under Obama's saddle as a successful, capitalistic, self responsibility touting black man is opposite of what Obama is and what Obama wants to create for minorities and frankly, everyone else in this country.
Dr. Carson said that people ask him why he gves speeches that border on political issues. He said "why not and that everyone needs to get involved, including physicians, after all six of the founding signers were Doctors." If you do nothing else listen to his entire speech,....and watch Obama's facial expressions and body language.
Cowboys and the Tea Party political movement have a lot on common. Both believe in individual responsibility; judging a man by his actions not words; and, both are disgusted with government intrusions into our lives and particularly our God given rights.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Legal Immigrant Supports the Second Amendment
Henson Ong - Legal Immigrant's speech on the 2nd Amendment at a Gun Violence Prevention Working Group Public Hearing in Hartford, CT on January 28th, 2013.
Mr. Ong, a legal immigrant who described himself as an American by choice, calmly and succintly destroys the anti-gun arguement especially on civilian versions of military weapons. Apparently much of crowd agreed with him based on the applause. Yeah, Mr. Ong gets it.
Mr. Ong, a legal immigrant who described himself as an American by choice, calmly and succintly destroys the anti-gun arguement especially on civilian versions of military weapons. Apparently much of crowd agreed with him based on the applause. Yeah, Mr. Ong gets it.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Defense Department Violates Academic Freedom
The headline from a Thomas More Law Center press release,....."Defense Department’s Actions Against LTC Matthew Dooley Violate National Interests: Complaint Filed Challenging National Defense University’s Accreditation".
ANN ARBOR, MI — The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced that it filed a formal complaint with the President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (Commission) challenging the accreditation of the National Defense University (NDU). The Commission, which accredited NDU as a degree granting university, responded that it has begun a “preliminary review” of TMLC’s complaint.
TMLC’s complaint provides overwhelming evidence that several NDU and Department of Defense (DoD) policies relating to academic freedom were violated when Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Dooley was removed from his teaching post as a result of demands by Muslim organizations that all training materials offensive to Islam bepurged and instructors using the materials disciplined.
TMLC also asked the Commission to conduct its own confidential on-site interviews of NDU faculty members to determine the extent to which academic freedom has been diminished and what measures should be taken to insure the future integrity of NDU as a university.
LTC Dooley was an instructor at the NDU, and one of the faculty members assigned to run the elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism. Click here to read TMLC’s 7-page complaint.
Richard Thompson, TMLC President and Chief Counsel, observed: “The actions taken against LTC Dooley are astonishing. NDU’s own policies recognize that academic freedom is essential to the integrity of the university classroom setting as well as U.S. national interests. In fact, the Department of Defense had specifically directed the National Defense University to establish a climate of academic freedom within the university, with the directed purpose to foster lively, classroom debate in the examination of national security issues. Contrary to these established policies, NDU and DoD have subsequently gone on to violate their own rules in handling this incident concerning the Islamic Radicalism elective.”
General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, publicly excoriated LTC Dooley and characterized his course on Islamic Radicalism as “offensive to Muslims”, and “against our values.” General Dempsey’s evaluation of LTC Dooley was in stark contrast to the glowing reports from those who witnessed LTC Dooley’s abilities as an instructor first hand, namely, his students and superiors at NDU. Clearly, the inaccurate prejudicial narrative that was permitted to persist against LTC Dooley clashes with the positive narrative, voiced again and again, by the students who were actually in Dooley’s classroom and by his immediate superiors at NDU who witnessed his teaching methods.
In light of LTC Dooley’s public ridicule by General Dempsey, his termination as an instructor and his career-ending Officer Evaluation Report (OER), other NDU faculty members have voiced their own concerns about academic freedom at NDU.
NDU policy defines academic freedom as the “freedom to pursue and express ideas, opinions, and issues germane to the University’s stated mission, free of limitations, restraints, or coercion by the University or external environment. Academic freedom is the hallmark of an academic institution.”
ANN ARBOR, MI — The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, today announced that it filed a formal complaint with the President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (Commission) challenging the accreditation of the National Defense University (NDU). The Commission, which accredited NDU as a degree granting university, responded that it has begun a “preliminary review” of TMLC’s complaint.
TMLC’s complaint provides overwhelming evidence that several NDU and Department of Defense (DoD) policies relating to academic freedom were violated when Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Dooley was removed from his teaching post as a result of demands by Muslim organizations that all training materials offensive to Islam bepurged and instructors using the materials disciplined.
TMLC also asked the Commission to conduct its own confidential on-site interviews of NDU faculty members to determine the extent to which academic freedom has been diminished and what measures should be taken to insure the future integrity of NDU as a university.
LTC Dooley was an instructor at the NDU, and one of the faculty members assigned to run the elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism. Click here to read TMLC’s 7-page complaint.
Richard Thompson, TMLC President and Chief Counsel, observed: “The actions taken against LTC Dooley are astonishing. NDU’s own policies recognize that academic freedom is essential to the integrity of the university classroom setting as well as U.S. national interests. In fact, the Department of Defense had specifically directed the National Defense University to establish a climate of academic freedom within the university, with the directed purpose to foster lively, classroom debate in the examination of national security issues. Contrary to these established policies, NDU and DoD have subsequently gone on to violate their own rules in handling this incident concerning the Islamic Radicalism elective.”
General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, publicly excoriated LTC Dooley and characterized his course on Islamic Radicalism as “offensive to Muslims”, and “against our values.” General Dempsey’s evaluation of LTC Dooley was in stark contrast to the glowing reports from those who witnessed LTC Dooley’s abilities as an instructor first hand, namely, his students and superiors at NDU. Clearly, the inaccurate prejudicial narrative that was permitted to persist against LTC Dooley clashes with the positive narrative, voiced again and again, by the students who were actually in Dooley’s classroom and by his immediate superiors at NDU who witnessed his teaching methods.
In light of LTC Dooley’s public ridicule by General Dempsey, his termination as an instructor and his career-ending Officer Evaluation Report (OER), other NDU faculty members have voiced their own concerns about academic freedom at NDU.
NDU policy defines academic freedom as the “freedom to pursue and express ideas, opinions, and issues germane to the University’s stated mission, free of limitations, restraints, or coercion by the University or external environment. Academic freedom is the hallmark of an academic institution.”
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