MinuteMom Magazine - April 2012

MinuteMom April 2012• Volume 1 Issue 8

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YYPresident’s Letter Welcome Dear Moms and Moms-at-Heart, I can’t believe we are already celebrating spring, planting our veggie seeds, and well into our 2012 election year.

Here in Colorado our caucuses are over and we are heading to the state conventions. I was very pleased to see more women participating in these events. At my last caucus I was the only woman attending our precinct meeting.

This year half of the eight attendees were female. There were also more women in my district meeting and running for delegate positions.

I am encouraged by this increased participation of conservative women. With this increased political participation on our part comes targeted propaganda messages on the part of the candidates and their parties. Assumptions have been made about our concerns and what we want from our representatives. I have found some of these assumptions to be far off the mark, but unless I speak up how will they know they are misinformed. We all need to speak up and let the candidates, the media, and our neighbors know where we stand. I believe as we begin to speak up many other women will hear our combined voice; and it will ring true with them, and they will come join us, like-minded people seeking to make our desires heard.

This month’s magazine joins Sharon Slater as she observes and reports on proceedings at the UN. Her unique experience brings us greater knowledge and perspective. We also have more about the history and development of the American educational system with the continuation of our AAM University feature. And we round out this month’s edition with articles on knowledge and prepping. Join us for a minute mob of kindness on April 26th and make plans to attend our AAM ice cream social held in conjunction with Glenn Beck’s Restoring Love event in July.

Have a great month and if you are a delegate and heading to the Colorado state conventions on April 13th and 14th – I’ll see you there.

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Obama’s Radical Sexual Agenda Ruins UN Negotiations!

By Sharon Slater, President of Family Watch International

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16 Instilling Homegrown values in our Children Parents have always faced the challenge of competing with outside influences when it comes to instilling the proper values and morals into our children.

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Pro-family Victory at UN Obama’s Radical Sexual Agenda Ruins UN Negotiations!

“Quick!” said a UN delegate, grabbing my arm, “The U.S. delegation is in the hallway trying to convince a group of delegates from developing countries that they should accept “comprehensive sexuality education” without recognizing the “right of parents!”

He immediately had my attention.

I was at the UN Commission on Status of Women (CSW) in New York with the Family Watch International [FWI] team trying to protect the family and family values during this critical meeting.

Family Watch Launches Petition/Campaign to Stop the Sexualization of Children At CSW our team, with support of youth from all around the world, had just launched our petition campaign calling on the UN and governments to stop the sexualization of children through dangerous “comprehensive sexuality education” programs.

We had been aggressively lobbying delegates all week asking nations not to accept provisions calling for “sexuality” education. We urged them to demand that the rights of parents to guide the sex education for their children be recognized in the three main documents under negotiation, one on combatting HIV/AIDs, one on preventing maternal mortality and the main document negotiated at CSW every year called “Agreed Conclusions.”

The schedule had been grueling, especially for developing nations that only had one delegate to cover the negotiations on each of the three documents. It was literally impossible for such countries to keep up. We know because we stayed up many of those nights analyzing the latest drafts, which were complicated and deceptive in the ways they tried to promote an anti-family agenda.

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By Sharon Slater President of Family Watch International www.familywatchinternational.org

Obama Administration Blocks Provisions Recognizing Parental Rights, Religious and Cultural Values Negotiations on the maternal mortality resolution were being completely controlled by the U.S, since it was their original resolution to begin with. But to everyone’s surprise, the U.S. unilaterally stopped the negotiations. They then produced a new text which was supposed to be a compromise text. While the text still contained most of the controversial anti-family elements like paragraphs calling for “sexuality education” for children and “reproductive rights” for both women and girls, they had removed the key provisions calling for recognition of parental rights and respect for national sovereignty and religious and cultural values.

The U.S. arrogantly refused to put these provisions back in, clearly showing the Obama administration’s contempt for parental rights, religious and cultural values, and displaying great disrespect for the positions and views of many other member countries.

Fortunately for me, due to lack of space, the UN had kicked the delegates out of the room where nations had been engaged in intense closed negotiations on this U.S.-led resolution, ostensibly aimed at preventing maternal mortality. The reality was that the resolution appeared to be just an excuse to promote the radical feminist agenda internationally to appease Obama’s supporters.

Laurie Phipps was the lead negotiator for the U.S. delegation, and as I came upon her in the hallway she was explaining in a very patronizing way to delegates from developing countries why the “right” of parents did not need to be mentioned in the paragraphs regarding sexuality education and a “right” to sex education.

I was fuming.

I pushed my way through the delegates and challenged her exclaiming that the majority of Americans firmly believe that parents have the “right” to guide the education of their children and that she was abusing her mandate to represent the American people. I exclaimed that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights also recognizes this “right” of parents and that what she was doing was wrong and she was not representing the views of the American people.

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what she was doing. She demanded that I leave telling me that I was interrupting “intergovernmental” negotiations. While I backed off, I continued listening from a distance.

Commission on Status of Women Opens 56th Session A wide view of the General Assembly Hall at the opening of the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). On screen is Marjon V. Kamara, Permanent Representative of Liberia to the UN and Chair of the fifty-sixth session.

U.S. Promotes Abortion Under the Guise of Reproductive Rights Ms. Phipps then began to tell the delegates in her patronizing voice, as if she were speaking to school children, that she had no idea why people were saying that “reproductive rights” included abortion because clearly they did not and that it was very important to have such a reference in the document.

It was all I could do to restrain myself from challenging her again. Instead, I waited until she was done and as the delegates walked away I informed them that Ms. Phipps was intentionally misrepresenting the facts because she knew full well that her boss, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a Congressional hearing admitted that the Obama administration considers even the weaker term, “reproductive health,” to include abortion, let alone “reproductive rights.”

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“A number of delegations were extremely upset by the U.S. manipulation and strong-arm tactics.”

In reality there was no consensus on the radical provisions in the document, and a number of African countries subsequently withdrew their co-sponsorship from it.

One African delegate was so angry he said he was going to go back to his country and write articles and do press conferences to let his people know that what is coming out of the UN is not consensus but rather policy made by manipulation, blackmail, coercion and deception. He reported having been shoved out of the way by a U.S. delegate as he was trying to explain to a fellow African delegate how harmful comprehensive sexuality education is and why it needed to be opposed.

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Holy See Delegate Calls the U.S. to Account for Promoting Controversial Agendas that Hurt Women and Children These excerpts from the official statement of the delegate from the Holy See upon the adoption of the U.S. resolution on maternal mortality seem to eloquently capture the feelings of many delegations: “My delegation notes with grave concern various agendas which were being advanced during the negotiations regarding so-called “reproductive rights . . . ,” “Language contained with the ICPD Programme of Action affirms respect for religious and ethical values. Regrettably, the main sponsor failed to allow a paragraph to affirm these principles which respect conscience and the freedom of religion . . . ” “It is the sacred and solemn responsibility of parents to care for their children and no one— including the state—has a right to advance an agenda which does not respect the natural moral law. The attempt on the part of the main sponsor [the U.S.] of the text to not recognize the prior and primary responsibilities, rights, and duties of parents regarding their children, is disrespectful of the nature of marriage and the family and undermines international law. . .”

“The advancement of an agenda which promotes “sex education” and artificial contraception to children, and completely disregards their parents’ involvement, is antithetical to the role of the state which has the responsibility to promote the common good of the family and society. . . ” “It is tragic that the present resolution is clouded by various attempts to advance the aforementioned agendas which are contrary to respect for human life.”

U.S. and EU Exploit AIDS Pandemic to Promote Controversial Sexual Rights.

Fortunately for those of us who want to protect the family and family values the U.S. shenanigans and manipulations on the maternal mortality document began to backfire. The developing countries had had quite enough of the U.S. bullying and refused to accept controversial antifamily provisions in the HIV/AIDS resolution, especially after it became quite clear that the U.S. and the European countries were bent on using the HIV resolution to promote sexual rights and especially the LGBT agenda. www.AsAMom.org

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U.S. Through Coercion and Manipulation Achieves “Consensus” on Their Resolution I had also overheard Ms. Phipps firmly say there was no chance for any further changes to the maternal mortality resolution despite the fact that numerous controversial provisions remained.

It was clear that the U.S. was going to coerce the developing countries (and it is now common to blackmail them with the threat of withdrawal of aid money), to get “consensus” on their highly controversial resolution.

A number of delegations were extremely upset by the U.S. manipulation and strong-arm tactics.

Caught off guard by the U.S. actions, African nations whose lone delegates were overwhelmed with the other negotiations going on, especially their own resolution under negotiation to combat HIV/AIDS, were unable to stop the U.S. from declaring consensus on the maternal mortality document. My guess is many counties did not even have a chance to read the document before it was adopted. This certainly did not improve the way that much of the world views the U.S.

In fact, I think it was the last straw when the EU proposed a provision promoting the controversial International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights. This awful document says that to combat AIDS, nations must legalize same-sex marriage, abortion, prostitution and comprehensive sexuality education for children. Please note that the U.S. delegation also announced in their briefing that they were supporting the reference to these controversial guidelines yet again.

African Countries Stand Up to the U.S. and Refuse to Back Down The resolution to combat HIV/AIDS became stacked with controversial U.S. and EU proposals that actually promote the destigmitization of the highest risk behaviors for spreading AIDS. The African and Islamic delegates were so upset with the way the U.S. handled the maternal mortality resolution that thankfully, they did the almost unthinkable—they stood up to the U.S. and the EU. They refused to accept the provisions promoting sexual rights which included comprehensive sexuality education for children.

They refused to come to consensus even though it meant that their own resolution was thrown out.

I think everyone was in shock.

U.S. Obsessive Focus on Sexual Rights Ruins Negotiations Causing Main Document to be Thrown Out By that time, delegations had to focus on the main document “Agreed Conclusions.” The African voting bloc, feeling the power they had to refuse the demands of the developed countries, continued to strongly refuse to accept the unacceptable. They determined again that no document was better than a bad document and made it clear that they would no longer be bullied by the Western countries and especially by the U.S. In the end it was the U.S. that ruined the main CSW document, which was supposed to have the objective of helping rural women overcome poverty. The U.S. had again tried to turn that document into a radical feminist document and were refusing to recognize the “right” of parents, demanding sexuality education and also demanding language promoting “modern contraceptive methods” and multiple references calling for “access” to contraceptives.

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context that would limit its meaning to make it hard for it to be used to promote abortion. They said they had “instructions” not to come to consensus unless all of their demands were met.

So in the end the main document had to be thrown out too, all because of the U.S. obsessive focus on sexual rights.

A mother and her children smile and make funny faces for the camera inside their home in the small town of Clay Ashland, Liberia.

CSW 2012: A True Victory for the Family All in all CSW was a great pro-family victory because the developing countries, especially the African Group, stood up to the U.S. and the EU when it really counted, not just in a statement but in action—refusing to accept the unacceptable. This will put them in a position of strength in the future as everyone will now know they mean business when they say they can’t accept something.

Some people wonder why the U.S. is losing popularity worldwide. Could it possibly be because internationally, the Obama Administration is pushing initiatives to advance a radical sexual rights agenda that they would never dare push in the U.S.? Remember, President Obama recently issued a directive to U.S. embassies and agencies saying that the U.S priority is to promote LGBT rights even in countries like Pakistan, and in African countries with the highest HIV rates.

At CSW we saw firsthand how the Obama Administration is clearly making enemies right and left by trying to force a radical sexual rights agenda on the developing world.

Sharon Slater is the author of Stand for the Family: A Call to Responsible Citizens Everywhere. For the past ten years, Sharon has been leading pro-family advocacy teams at the United Nations. She is the president of Family Watch International www.familywatchinternational.org, an organization that works to protect the institution of the family.

She is a wife and mother of seven.

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The George Washington Challenge

Benjamin Franklin said, “God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!”

There has been no greater need for knowledge than now. There has been no greater effort to manipulate the information than now. There is indeed an assault on the minds of Americans.

This assault is meant to confuse, molest, & trivialize the real information…the truth! As we get closer to the truth of the information, we are bombarded with an onslaught of fallacious material in both written and spoken language. This information is coming from supposed trustworthy sources, and yet, there is deception.

I’m reminded of Plato’s allegory, “The Cave.” In this story, the chained prisoners could only look one direction onto a wall that produced distorted images of reality. Behind the prisoners was a flaming fire. An object was placed in front of the fire to cast a shadow on the wall the prisoner’s perceived in front of them. The prisoner’s perceived the shadowy images as reality. If a book was being used to cast a shadow on the wall, they perceived the shadow of the book, as the real object.

When released from this prison they could see the real object for what it was, because their perception had changed. But, even then, it was only an object, and was not reality to them.

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They had been conditioned to accept the distorted image as reality. How does that compare with life today?

I venture to think what would have happened if they had opened the book and read it? Their perception would have changed into knowing the value of the book, and then what? But, value is learned through experience.

And like those prisoners in this allegory, people of today are looking only one direction, to that of entitlements

are prisoners and only take things at face value, accepting what is laid before them. Yet, others investigate further.

They weigh the information they receive with their own research and wisdom. Knowledge opens doors that otherwise would remain closed. But, we must see knowledge as only part of a two-part key, discernment being the other part. Knowledge gives us power…to do! Discernment gives us the power to do…right!

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country! and handouts, inhibiting growth and knowledge. This requires no effort on the part of the individual, thus depleting the value of their most basic rights and privileges of, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Isn’t it amazing that simply allowing or accepting things at face value, can distort the image of reality. How often does that happen in politics, in our government or with dishonorable individuals that lead us to believe one thing or another?

You see, we can liken the allegory of, “The Cave,” to ourselves. There are many of us that fall into differing categories pertaining to knowledge. Some

What good is information, unless you use it and use it wisely? Until the knowledge we receive is taken to task and used with discernment to gain some experience, it is good for nothing.

It is only through experience that we gain wisdom in anything. According to John Locke, “No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience.” And so it is, that unless we gain knowledge and put it into practice, all the information we receive will leave us stagnant with intellectual rot. Knowledge gives us the power to wield our freedoms.

Discernment gives us the power to wield our freedoms as God intended.

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Host your own: what those freedoms are, how will we know when they are taken away?

In speaking of knowledge in Proverbs we read, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction” (1:7). God tells us that wisdom, instruction and the ability to “perceive the words of understanding” (1:2), and “to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity,” (1:3) this is knowledge. Discernment is the ability to identify- through the Holy Spirit- light and truth, from lies and darkness… to be enlightened! Light cleaves to light and our ability to identify and qualify the truth of things is made easier as we live a life of integrity. If you live a life contrary to truth, how often do you think you will recognize truth when you see it or hear it, or falsity for what it is?

Ask yourself, “What do I know? What am I willing to find out? And what am I willing to do with that information?” Have you read the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence? Each of these documents contains life saving truths. And to understand what rights you have, you must educate yourself to know what they are.

Do you know?

The poignant command by Glenn Beck to question with boldness, is not a request to question in terms of uncertainty- it is a firm, resolute request -to question in terms of validity and truth. I don’t need to question that God exists, because I see evidences of Him every day. I do need to question the motives of a government, whose actions are contrary to Constitutional freedoms and liberties. One supports truth and is the author of it, the other’s actions often plagiarize truth and contradict it.

Today is a pivotal moment in our generation. Many are blinded by societal precepts. Many are confused as to what truth is and where to find honest information. Still, more are lured away by that which appears to be good, but is evil.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter,” (Isaiah 5:20). In many ways, truth is unrecognizable to them because they have lived so long accepting deceptive practices. These practices have restricted our freedoms and have removed our basic Constitutional rights.

This is the moment where we prove to have a, ‘thorough knowledge of the rights of man,’ because our freedoms and the liberties of our countrymen depend upon it. We need not chain ourselves to the wall, accepting what is displayed before us. We can break free and use the keys of knowledge and discernment to open the door to all truth, and welcome freedom.

—Kami Watkins * -George Washington Challenge http://www.beinggeorgewashington.com © 2012, Mercury Ink.

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OUTDOOR GOURMET Last summer we had a huge wind storm and my electricity was out for a few days. No cable TV, no internet, no computer – even my cordless phone didn’t work. I was lost. I read for awhile but was restless and looking for something else to do, so I went to the closet, drug out the vacuum cleaner, plugged it in and flipped the switch.

Duh…..Oops.

Our technologies are so much a part of us that I’m sure most of us take them for granted and we go through life operating on some sort of ‘auto pilot.’ Take away those technologies and we sometimes flail around a bit before being able to function again. After the vacuum cleaner incident, it occurred to me that the microwave was also not going to work – it was pushing 100° F outside with no air conditioning inside – and heating up the house with my gas stove or oven was not something I was looking forward to. I remember thinking how nice it would be to have one of those popular outdoor kitchens like I’d seen on HGTV so many times. But, alas, such an extravagance is not even a blip on my radar – no extra cash, no outside kitchen.

But I do have a plain, old-fashioned charcoal grill. I used to have a gas grill, but I ran out of gas one too many times while cooking on it and decided it wasn’t worth lugging those tanks around. My brother tried to talk me into buying an electric grill; and, I did consider it, but I felt that having too much technology would be 12 MinuteMom Magazine

cheating somehow….. you know? Backyard barbecuing should be more – well – rustic and basic – or something. Nope – I settled on a plain old charcoal grill. I didn’t realize it back then, but it turns out a charcoal grill is not a bad idea to have around in case of an emergency. Did you know that fifteen 20 lb bags of charcoal are enough to prepare one meal a day for a full year? The best time to buy charcoal is at the end of the season and you can often find broken bags that have been marked down which will save you money.

Charcoal must be kept dry though, so if you don’t have a dry place to store it, think about transferring it into 5-gallon buckets with tight-fitting lids that you can stack in the garage or on a porch.

Everyone has their own “tried and true” method of starting the coals – I use small “logs” of twisted newspaper that I’ve rolled tight – and an inexpensive charcoal chimney. I don’t use or store lighter fluid and I don’t buy charcoal that has additives to make it light or burn faster. I believe all you need is a little patience and the chimney will do all the work for you. Oh! And make sure you have plenty of matches stored in a waterproof container too.

By the way, you can’t use a charcoal grill inside the house because the charcoal gives off too much carbon dioxide and uses too much oxygen – so please don’t try it – even in an emergency! Also, you should know that if you put your mind to it, do some research, practice and www.AsAMom.org

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have a charcoal grill with a well-fitting lid, you can pretty much cook or bake anything you want in it – even bread or cake! If you’re interested, use your internet search engine and enter ‘bake bread on a charcoal grill.’ I guarantee you will get lots of information. You can count on about 40° of heat from each briquette and briquettes will usually give you 40 to 60 minutes of cooking time.

Here’s another tip: If you have a cast iron Dutch oven you can start your coals in the grill pan, set the Dutch oven on top of the hot coals, use your barbecue tongs to put a few hot coals on the Dutch oven lid, and use the Dutch oven to cook stew or bake cornbread just like the pioneers used to do using wood coals. Again, check the internet for recipes and details, or see if your local library has books on Dutch oven cooking and cooking/baking on the grill. There’s more to a charcoal grill than steaks, hot dogs and hamburgers!

I was about to set up my grill when I remembered I had never gotten a chance to try out the solar oven/cooker I put together over winter. If you aren’t familiar with solar cooking, you can’t fry or sauté foods, but you can cook or bake

anything you would in a conventional oven cookies, cakes, pies, bread, stew, roast chicken, vegetables, etc. Since it uses low temperatures, it’s great for cheese and egg dishes too; and – unlike a microwave oven – foods do actually brown.

If you do an internet search on ‘buy solar oven’ you’ll find hundreds of entries for commercially manufactured units costing up to $300. But if you search on ‘homemade solar oven’ you’ll find a huge variety of plans and methods for building your own solar cooker and many will cost you only a few dollars. The plans for one unit I found

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YY You can even use your solar cooker on a cloudy day – as long as there is at least 20 minutes of sunshine during each hour.

YY The close you live to the equator, the more prime solar cooking days you will have. A prime day is one where the sun is 45 degrees or more above the horizon each day (your shadow is longer than you are tall). That is, if you live along the 40° N parallel (Northern California; Central Nevada; Northern Utah, Colorado, Kansas or Missouri; Central Illinois, Indiana, Ohio & Pennsylvania), you should have about 150 prime days per year. Whereas, if you live along or south of the 35° N parallel (Southern California; Arizona, New Mexico or Texas; Southern Oklahoma & Arkansas; Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina or Florida), you should be able to easily use your solar cooker for half the year or more.

YY When building your solar cooker, do not use any materials that could give off toxic fumes when heated, such as duct tape or plain Styrofoam.

YY Cold temperatures and high winds will lengthen needed cooking time.

YY For best results use thin, dark-colored pots with lids.

Enameled steel Spatterware is an excellent choice.

Dark, non-stick coated bakeware also works well.

You can even cook in a glass casserole dish if you paint the exterior of it black with tempera paint. But cast iron cookware is not a good choice because it takes too much energy to heat the heavy, thick iron mass.

YY To facilitate cooking, pots should not be too large and should be short and wide rather than tall and narrow.

YY Cooking time will be about twice that of a conventional oven.

YY Preheating your solar oven will take about 30 minutes.

YY You can put as many pots and pans in your cooker as you have room for, but the more you have in the oven, the further you are asking the heat to stretch – it will take longer.

YY The sun is usually hottest between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm and your oven will be able to reach the highest temperatures during this time, so it is usually the best time to cook bread, pies or cakes.

YY Remember to use potholders – the containers can get hot!

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used an old tire with a piece of glass on top. Another set of plans utilized a couple of car windshield reflectors to make a reflective cone – you set the pot in the center of the cone and allow the sun to do the rest. I liked the box cookers, but you might prefer one of the other styles. And don’t be put off by the recent obsession with all things solar seeming to fail – this is one ‘low tech’ solar project that actually works!

I made my cooker out of cardboard boxes, a piece of foam insulation board, some metal flashing that I could cut with scissors, some aluminum foil tape, a large disposable foil cookie sheet, a 12” piece of hanger wire, a can of non-toxic black spray paint, white glue, an oven thermometer and one of those oven cooking bags like we use at Thanksgiving to bake the turkey in. I used a dark blue, Spatterware, covered casserole for the food.

I rolled my empty charcoal kettle grill out into the front yard, took its lid off, sat the sun cooker on top of the grill ( so I wouldn’t have to bend over), aimed the reflector toward the sun and put my pot of food inside. Then I put a comfortable yard chair in the shade, turned on my little radio, laid my book on my lap, took a drink of my iced tea, leaned back and closed my eyes. About every hour or so I got up and shifted the entire contraption slightly so as to maximize the effect of the sun’s energy. It worked great and when it was done I had not only taken a little nap and read part of my book, I also had a great meal.

And as a bonus, a couple of my neighbors stopped by to see what I was doing and I got an afternoon of great conversation! Now if I could only figure out how to make a solar powered vacuum cleaner… www.AsAMom.org

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Instilling Homegrown values in our Children

I grew up in the Midwest in a middle class family with both parents and three siblings. I think I took for granted what family life is “supposed” to be. Every evening we ate dinner as a family, and every Sunday we went to Church. My parents sent us to Catholic school, where our teachers reinforced the values that we were taught at home: love for God, love for our country and respect for all.

My sisters, my brother and I were raised to help out around the home, whether it was preparing dinner, cleaning up after or doing yard work. I wouldn’t say my parents were terribly strict, but if we broke the rules or were acting inappropriately, we were “corrected” and didn’t intentionally make the same mistake again. Lucky for me, I had my two older sisters to observe…I made a lot of mental notes as to which lines NOT to cross when I got older.

My parents made it look easy: they raised four children, three of which are now raising their own families. We all are healthy, happy and 16 MinuteMom Magazine

“well adjusted.” We all get along, we’re all still very close and we all realize how fortunate we are to have had such a stable and loving family. Now that I have two sons of my own, I see that raising them to be good people really isn’t easy, but it is the most important thing I can do for them.

Parents have always faced the challenge of competing with outside influences when it comes to instilling the proper values and morals into our children; friends, media and culture all play a very important, if not always ideal, role in influencing our children. However, this point in history seems to bring the most obstacles to raising strong, morally grounded people who can think for themselves: access to unlimited television channels 24-hours a day, the Internet, social media, liberal public schools, even our politicians are telling our children not to listen to their parents because we don’t understand today’s culture and the important issues society faces.

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a few years ago at an “inner city” school. I was excited for the challenge and looked forward to learning from my mentor; a teacher about which I had heard many positive comments. However, my excitement soon turned to frustration when I was faced with the teacher’s liberal and lax attitudes. Per her instruction, we were not to down grade the children for late work (“It’s a gradebook keeping nightmare!”). There were no consequences for bad behavior, poor grades or failure to turn in homework. Students were not required to do anything, not even bring a pencil or paper to class; a supply of both were readily accessible in the front of the room as the students came in each day. Little did I know that I practically had to hand deliver the pencil and paper to the students as well, since they did not put forth any effort into taking notes or picking up the free supplies as they walked into the room.

On Mondays, the one morning a week that the school said the Pledge of Allegiance, I was constantly telling one young man to stand up and put his hand over his heart. He grudgingly put forth a half-hearted effort to stand, but continued to doodle on his desk throughout the pledge. When I sought her advice, her only comment was…”At least he’s standing…I wish we didn’t even have to say the thing.”

During the lunch break, the teachers would gather in the room and have a team meeting.

Looking for words of wisdom and encouragement, I more often heard comments about the disrespectful attitude of the students (“You get used to it”) and received constant reminders to join the Teachers Union. And while I always thought that teachers should keep their political opinions to themselves and teach objectively, this instructor made no effort to hide her contempt to President George W. Bush or for commentators from more conservative news sources.

Though the experience was, overall, not a positive one, it did open my eyes to what the public education is, at least in some instances, cultivating: the poor work ethic, the low test scores, the liberal bias, and the overwhelming sense of entitlement we see in more and more people today.

I share my story, not to condemn the public school system, but to let people who may not be aware, that as parents today, we are faced with protecting our children from influences that, traditionally, have not been negative. How can parents compete with all these outside forces and not As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots®

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We first need to define what we want the foundation of our family to be. For my husband and me, our core values are our faith in God, love for family, our health, respect, and the importance of doing your best. Now, how do my husband I and instill these values in my seven and five year old boys who are more interested in bathroom humor than doing their homework and cleaning their rooms? The answer is “time”.

Experts say that the time parents spend with their children in the most important factor in influencing who they will become and what they will value in life. Whether it’s time spent directly telling them what you think is important and why, or it’s simply helping them with homework, asking them about their day (and really listening to the answer) or playing catch in the back yard, it all adds up to quality time and showing your child that they matter to you.

Unfortunately, for many families, quality time is at a minimum in today’s society. Often, both parents work and frequently have more than one job. It used to be that school was the one place parents did not need to worry about what their children were learning was in school. Reading, writing and arithmetic, even history were pretty straightforward subjects. My parents would have never thought about the need to read through our school textbooks for accuracy and bias. Today, especially in public schools, children are picking up much more than the three R’s. They are often learning about their country and the world around them through a skewed lens that leads to an agenda that is often different from, even contrary to, your own family’s values.

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Creating a strong foundation is vital to creating a strong family. There was a time when parents didn’t discuss certain topics with their kids; whether they thought it was too advanced for the children or too uncomfortable for the parents.

But we are no longer living in those times. We if are not talking to our children about these sensitive and important topics, you can be assured that someone else is and what they are telling them is not likely to be in line with your family’s values.

Television is one of the biggest culprits of feeding the liberal message to our young people.

Even if you think the shows your kids watch are geared towards children and innocent enough, it’s a good idea to sit down with them and watch some of their favorite shows. It’s not only a good time to cuddle with your kids, but a chance to see what kind of messages they are receiving. Then you can either talk to them about what you’ve seen that you do not agree with or choose not to allow them to watch that program any longer.

Every topic, from politics, to social issues, to religion, to love, sex and relationships can all be discussed on some level with even the youngest

of children and in ways that are age appropriate.

Communication is crucial and children need to feel that they can ask questions and talk about things they hear from their peers and even from teachers.

Giving our children responsibilities around the house is another way to instill in them the value of hard work and accomplishment. Jobs such as keeping their rooms clean, caring for a pet or clearing the dinner table help to teach them how to be accountable and dependable. Don’t forget to include your kids in general house cleaning, yard work and special projects around the home.

In a culture where children are given awards for participation, kindergarteners “graduate” to first grade and youth sports are now scoreless events in which competition is practically a four –letter word, our children have come to believe that no one loses…that we’re all winners. They are learning nothing about sportsmanship or how to be a good loser….or a good winner, for that matter.

They need to know that it takes hard work and practice to do something well. And, yes, there are times that, even when we try our best, we still may not win the prize…and that’s OK. It’s not enough to discuss our beliefs with our children and to give them jobs around the house.

We need to lead by example. How we live our lives re-enforces our values to our children. Do they witness our own reverence for God and our country? Are we grateful for what we have or are we always seeking more? Do we try our best at work? Are we good sports? Do we exercise

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Do we speak out when a wrong has been done?

Basically, do we walk the walk or just talk the talk?

It’s more important now than ever before to be alert and to be informed; and to keep our children informed. We need to keep the lines of communication open, to know what they are hearing, seeing, learning and thinking. The family dinner table has traditionally been the site of prayer, thankfulness and lively discussions. Let’s bring back the tradition and make new, family memories while we’re at it.

Traci Osuna is a happily married mother of two boys, as well as a substitute teacher and teaches Religious Education to 5th graders.

She been freelance writing for about 12 years and write for several local publications, as well as ZENIT, a Catholic on-line newsservice.

She wants to do what she can to preserve the greatness of our country.

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This month AAM is continuing with Part 2 of the Special Edition Education Reports – a survey course in the philosophic break down of our culture.

If you missed last month’s edition, I highly recommend going to the archives and pulling it up. This section will build upon the ideas presented previously.

The articles featured here will do much to bring out the hidden agenda of the school system. It has become increasingly obvious that the “war” we are fighting today is different than anything we have been faced with in the past. The battle is for the hearts and minds of Americans - starting with our own children. Our culture has been attacked on a philosophical level, and we are destroying ourselves because of a radical shift in worldview. This battle must be fought with knowledge, wisdom and words, both written and spoken, and to prepare, you must be armed with the truth.

how your life and your children have been affected by the methods and agendas that we are attempting to expose. In everything there is an undercurrent of manipulation and relativization aimed to create a sense of powerlessness tamed by license.

As you read, remember, evil ALWAYS works under the cover of darkness, because it hates the light. The first step in overcoming the grip of the modern worldview is to understand it, Once you “get it,” you can EXPOSE it. Only the light of truth can, and will destroy the works of evil.

Many of the articles and ideas presented here are both “meaty” and lengthy, however I hope that you will find the information thought-provoking.

Take the time to analyze

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By Samuel L Blumenfeld Most Americans, who have become aware of the “…experiments on learning in the lower academic and moral decline of public education, tend animals have probably contributed more to believe that the humanistic curriculum that now to knowledge of education, per hour or per dominates the system is of relatively recent origin. unit of intellect spent, than experiments on They believe that the great emphasis now placed children.” He also wrote: “The best way with on the “affective domain” – all of those programs children may often be, in the pompous words devoted to values, feelings, activities, behavior, group of an animal trainer, ‘to arrange everything in dynamics, sexuality, etc. – is somewhat new. Actually, connection with the trick so that the animal it is far from new. The fact is that the groundwork will be compelled by the laws of his own for what we have in our schools today was laid early nature to perform it.’” in the 20th century by the Progressives who knew exactly where they wanted to lead America: to a Out of this methodology emerged behavioral socialist society. psychology. In distinguishing behaviorism from earlier introspective psychologies, John B. Watson The Progressives were a new breed of educator that wrote that the behavioral psychologist “must came on the scene in the late 19th century. These men, describe the behavior of man in no other terms than members of the Protestant academic elite, no longer those you would use in describing the behavior of believed in the religion of their fathers. They put the ox you slaughter.” their new faith in science, evolution and psychology.

Science provided the means to know the material Thus, the behavioral psychologist studies only world. Evolution explained the origin of man, thus what can be seen and measured in human relegating the story of Genesis to mythology. And behavior. Watson wrote: “Behaviorism claims that psychology institutionalized the scientific study of consciousness is neither a definite nor a usable human nature and provided the future, scientific concept. The behaviorist…holds, further, that belief means to control human behavior. in the existence of consciousness goes back to the ancient days of superstition and magic.”

Many of these progressives studied in Germany under Prof. Wilhelm Wundt, the father of experimental The progressive-behaviorist curriculum thus psychology. Among the most noteworthy were G. consists mainly of animal training. For example, in Stanley Hall, James McKeen Cattell, Charles Judd, the field of reading instruction, Prof.

James Earl Russell, James R. Angell and Frank K. Walter Dearborn of Harvard Spaulding. They brought back to America Wundt’s described the look-say teachings and methodology and set up psych labs of method of teaching their own in American universities. In these labs man reading as follows was to be studied scientifically as one would study (School & Society, and other animal. But since human beings could not 10/19/40): be experimented on in labs, the psychologists used animals.

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“The principle which we have used to explain the acquisition of a sight vocabulary is, of course, the one suggested by Pavlov’s wellknown experiments on the conditioned response. This is as it should be. The basic process involved in conditioning and in learning to read is the same.”

Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard, in 1916 advocated reform that would hasten the shift from academics to vocational activities. He wrote: “The changes which out to be made immediately in the programmes of American secondary schools, in order to correct the glaring deficiencies of the present programmes, are chiefly: the introduction of more hand, ear and eye-work – such as drawing, carpentry, tuning, music, sewing and cooking.” (School & Society, 3/18/16)

That the ultimate goal of behaviorism is the control of human behavior was spelled out quite plainly

by John B. Watson in his book, Behaviorism (p. 11): “The interest of the behaviorist is man’s doings is Prof. Walter R. Smith, of State Normal School, Emporia, more than the interest of the spectator – he wants to Kansas, in an article entitled “The Fundamentals of a control man’s reactions Socialized Educational as physical scientists Program,” wrote in want to control and 1918: “The process manipulate other of socialization natural phenomena. will require greater It is the business emphasis upon the of behavioristic social studies in our psychology to be schools. The linguistic able to predict and and mathematical to control human core of the old classical activity.” curriculum must give way to a social core.”

The Socialist Plan (School & Society, The Progressives’ plan 7/13/18) to socialize America required the most All of these men thorough and radical reflected the thinking reform of American of John Dewey, who education. To this they had written in 1898: applied their extensive knowledge of “There is … a false behavioral psychology. educational god The Fabian Socialist Window: Setting the world on fire to mold it closer to their hearts.

That the goal was whose idolaters socialism was clearly are legion, and whose known and understood throughout the educational cult influences the entire educational system. establishment. That it meant downgrading academics This is language-study – the study not of in favor of socialization was also understood, for in foreign language, but of English; not in a socialist society an elite rules at the top, and the higher, but in primary education. It is almost masses below are relegated to the subservient, an unquestioned assumption of educational mindless tasks of an industrial system. theory and practice both, that the first three years of a child’s school-life shall be mainly Prof. Dallas Johnson of the University of Washington taken up with learning to read and write his wrote in 1915 in an article entitled “Socializing own language….

Education”: “Scholastic traditions and academic prejudices must give way to the ideal of increasing “My proposition is, that conditions – social, the social solidarity of our people.”(School & Society, industrial, and intellectual – have undergone 12/18/15) such a radical change, that the time has come for a thoroughgoing examination of the 22 MinuteMom Magazine

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emphasis upon linguistic work in elementary instruction…

“The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school-life because of the great importance attached to literature seems to me a perversion.”

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Secular Salvation Why did these men believe in socialism? Because, as atheists, they were convinced that socialism offered the only salvation from evil. To them the causes of evil were societal: ignorance, poverty, and social injustice. As evolutionists they rejected such concepts as sin, innate depravity, or the fall of man. They thus attributed the causes of social injustice to capitalism, individualism and religion. By substituting socialism, collectivism and theism in their place, they had no doubt that heaven on earth was quite attainable.

The Progressives knew that the new society they were trying to build required of them extraordinary efforts and devotion. Their vision included a globalist humanism, which was well expressed in a speech given in 1918 by Prof. Charles H. Judd, the Wundtian dean of the School of Education at the University of Chicago. Judd said: “I am arguing for a new kind of humanism…

We must build in the future a social structure for which there is no pattern. The humanism of the future will be dependent, not on imitation, but on self-determination….

“I have been reading, as I am sure many of you have, the platform of the English labor party.

Its program of social reform and of education for more intelligent citizenship makes a profound appeal to every lover of democracy.

I believe the English labor party is right…

“The social psychology of the future will recognize different mental patterns no less than does the psychology of today, but it will exhibit a new factor, namely, conscious devotion to social solidarity…. Perhaps the time will come when the psychological differences of nations will be assimilated into a larger pattern of intelligent appreciation of the solidarity of a rational humanity.” (School & Society, 9/10/18) As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots®

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reporting on the Cleveland Conference of 1920, “Panhumanity” Some educators indulged in messianic hyperbole could write: when writing of this globalist vision. One such “The schools are moving with an irresistible educator was Prof. J. E. Boodin of Charleston College force on to a program based on the doctrine who wrote in 1918 while World War I was still raging: that pupils must have work in the schools which will interpret the world outside for “If the German Junkers have been willing them and help them to adjust themselves and eager to undergo a life of discipline thereto…. There were no terms used by the and sacrifice to promote the illusion of speakers, except by two or three adherents Pangermany, how much more should we be to the ancient order, which indicated the willing to ear and do for Panhumanity, for slightest belief in the doctrine that the schools an ideal humanity – counting its riches to should adopt a curriculum and methods of promote the general well-being, finding our teaching designed merely to soul in sacrificial cooperation exercise the minds of pupils; with our fellows, realizing the doctrine of the formal that the only thing that is discipline is passed.” (School eternal and worth striving & Society, 3/27/20) for is the good life. Thus shall we make the pattern The NEA’s Role laid up in heaven incarnate The Progressives also realized on earth. Thus shall we build that if their plan was to succeed the city of God.” they would need the cooperation of America’s teachers. And so, in Indeed, such “sacrificial 1917, they took control of the cooperation” was needed to National Education Association carry out the full program of and established its permanent educational reform that would headquarters in Washington, create the new humanist D.C. where they hoped to exert utopia. The organizational maximum influence on the mastermind who engineered federal government. Prof. George this reform was Charles H. Strayer of Teachers College, Judd who, in 1915, organized Columbia, and president of the the Cleveland Conference, a NEA in 1919 told that year’s semi-secret annual meeting of convention: “When our half top educators. Judd urged the members of the conference to undertake “the positive million teachers agree upon educational policies and and aggressive task of … a detailed reorganization of make insistent demands in keeping with national progress, these demands will be heard in Congress.” the material of instruction in schools of all grades.”

(School & Society, 7/19/19) It was Judd’s protégé, William Scott Gray, who created the Dick & Jane look-say reading instruction In 1924 Prof. Edwin D. Starbuck of the University of program that was to start America on its literacy Iowa told an NEA convention: decline. In 1955, when Why Johnny Can’t Read was “We are now gaining conscious control of published, Gray organized the International Reading human development. The future of humanity, Association to insure that look-say would dominate the destiny of nations, the direction of human reading instruction in American primary schools for progress, are in the hands not so much of decades to come despite the mounting opposition makers of laws or captains of industry as of of parents. teachers who are shaping the citizenry of the world.”

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The 1920’s and ‘30’s were devoted to a total transformation of the public school curriculum.

Charles Judd told a meeting of the American Political Science Association in 1931 that the entire organized profession was now engaged in the process of promoting “a movement to bring to full realization the project of socializing the whole body of instructional material in schools and colleges.”

first thing Americans now cry for when something goes wrong is government regulation or control?

Is it any wonder that the farmers of America have ceased to believe in the marketplace and look to the government for their sustenance? We have been so brainwashed to believe in paternal government that most Americans cannot even conceive of education without government ownership or control.

The work, in fact, was being done so vigorously that a reporter, attending the 1932 meeting of the NEA’s school superintendents department, held in washing, D.C. and attended by John Dewey, Charles Judd and other progressives, could write:

The Progressives did their job exceedingly well, and their disciples today, in the highest positions of power in the educational establishment, still press that globalist vision while centralizing all education under state monopoly control. Their political power is enormous, thanks to the NEA, which is convincing more and more legislators to pour more and more tax money down the educational rat-hole.

“Here, in the very citadel of capitalism… this group of outstanding spokesmen of American education talked a remarkably strong brand of socialism.”

And you can be sure that if a superintendent wanted to advance his career he had to tow the socialist line.

Some of these “outstanding spokesmen of American education” had toured Soviet Russia in 1928 and come back with glowing reports about the communist experiment.

Meanwhile, public education has become a moral and academic disaster. But Americans have grown to live with it. They know something is wrong, but they have no idea what to do about it.

Fortunately, there are a growing number of parents who know what is going on and have removed their children from the government schools. This trend will continue to grow despite the determination of the “educators” to crush it.

Even the American Historical Association got into the act of preparing America for socialism. In 1934 its As we have shown, what we have today is the result of a very long process. Indeed, the process was Commission on the Social Studies reported: expected to be long, for as John Dewey wrote in 1898: “Change must come gradually. To force it unduly “The report makes it clear that two social would compromise its final success by favoring a philosophies are now struggling for violent reaction.” supremacy: individualism, with its attending capitalism and classism, and collectivism, with Americans are now in a position to see quite clearly planned economy and mass rights. Believing where the educators want to take us. The goal is a that present trends indicate the victory of world socialist government in which individual the latter the Commission on the Social freedom and national independence will be lost Studies offers a comprehensive blueprint by forever. Clearly this is not what the American people which education may prepare to meet the want. And so, the conflict between the educators demands of a collectivist social order without and the people will persist indefinitely. submerging the individual as a helpless victim of bureaucratic control.”

And so the new purpose of the public education was to prepare America for socialism.

Is it any wonder that so many of us emerged from public schools totally ignorant of the true nature of the free-enterprise system? Is it any wonder that the As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots®

Dr Samuel Blumenfeld has spent the last 30 years writing about American education and seeking answers to such baffling questions as: Why is America experiencing a decline in literacy? He is, no doubt, one of the world’s leading authorities on the teaching of reading.

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By Diana Learn When Hegel entered the debate arena, he postulated that the old “way of thinking” - building a value system around a set of unchanging truths - was simply not providing the answers that they were seeking. He went on to suggest a new methodology. Rather than searching for an antithesis relationship, Hegel proposed that a thesis be stated, an antithesis be identified, but rather than define the relationship on a linear cause and effect line, a third element should be introduced - a SYNTHESIS of the original points. And just like that, the idea of “compromise” or “consensus” had been introduced into everyday thinking.

From its inception, the idea of the Hegelian Dialectic caught on like a brushfire.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel If there were ever an appropriate example to illustrate the old adage that “ideas have consequences,” the omnipresent influence of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on the prevailing worldview is it.

What has been the result? Well – Hegel single handedly changed the epistemology (theory of what we know) and the methodology (the way we found out what we know) of thinking.

Using his dialectic model, EVERYTHING is relativized and we are taught that truth does not exist on its own, but is found in a synthesis of ideas.

The prevailing modern worldview is a direct result of the Hegelian thought process.

Answers are found by synthesizing opposing ideas, resulting in something new EVERY TIME situations change. Truth therefore, is ever-changing. Everything is ever-changing.

Values, morality and even our laws are in a constant state of flux. What’s more, each person “has their own truth” that they have “discovered” from whatever opposing ideas presented themselves over time. Is there any wonder why nothing makes sense?

Since the beginning of time philosophers have been looking for the answers to “the meaning of life.” The great philosophers engaged in logical debate and discussed theories of knowledge, life and morality. Up until the time of Hegel, these discussions centered around the Aristotelian model of antithesis – if something is true, then the opposite is untrue. This very basic tenet allows a This method of thinking and of pushing worldview to be built upon a series of truths that agenda is the cornerstone of Marxism. Look are solid and unchanging. for it. Identify it. EXPOSE it.

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by Linda Kimball

Julian Huxley, the head of UNESCO in 1947, wrote a book titled, “UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy.”

His book was a blueprint for a New World Order that called for a single ‘new’ spirituality — a mixture of Buddhist materialist-pantheism, Liberalized ‘pantheistic’ Christianity, Gnosticism, and other occult traditions — one language, and one way of thinking.

He believed a global order could be brought about through the universal implementation of Hegel’s Dialectic process.

‘position’ v e r s u s ‘opposition’ or ‘thesis’ versus ‘antithesis,’ or ‘truth’ versus ‘falsehood.’

By the traditional rules of conduct, if thesis is correct then it follows logically that antithesis is incorrect.

Georg Hegel, a master magician in the Hermetic tradition and an Enlightenment shock trooper of evil, discarded the rules and turned the concept upsidedown by equalizing thesis and antithesis, which resulted in moral relativity. ‘New truth,’ a merging Huxley observed, “The task before UNESCO...is to help of truth and falsehood and/or Buddhist materialistthe emergence of a single world culture with its own pantheism and Christianity for example, is now philosophy and background of ideas and with its found in something called ‘synthesis,’ or ‘consensus,’ own broad purpose.” Huxley spoke of two opposing the favored vernacular of Progressive Liberals. worldviews — one founded on supernatural creation and the other on atheist evolutionism — Hegelian Dialect is a perfect example of what J. confronting each other from the West and the East. Budziszewski, the author of “What We Can’t Not In describing them he said, “You may categorize Know” termed the “black magic spells of imposture the two philosophies as...individualism versus and unraveling.” Hegel’s form of dialectics is an collectivism or as the American versus the Russian... impostor and its’ purpose is to deceptively unravel or as capitalism versus communism, or as Christianity truth and norms and then replace them with a ‘new versus Marxism. Can these opposites be reconciled, truth’ which is yet another impostor. this antithesis be resolved in a higher synthesis? I believe...this can happen...through the inexorable Hegel’s ‘black magic’ Dialectics is the strange fire fueling the weapon of mass destruction unwittingly dialectic of evolution.” wielded by mind-conditioned Americans and The concept of dialectics has been around for a Westerners on behalf of Transnational Progressive long time. In the American Dictionary of the English New Agers and fellow travelers in their war against Language, 1828, Noah Webster defined dialectics as: the West’s traditional Christian-based worldview and “That branch of logic which teaches the rules and cultural infrastructure. Called “group dynamics” or modes of reasoning.” Simply stated, dialectics refers to the “consensus process,” Hegel’s dialectic is a psycho As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots®

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moving to the new level, and freezing group life on the new level.” In order to speed up the unfreezing phase, communists resorted to physical torture, shock ‘therapy,’ and mind-altering drugs. In America, emotional pain, intimidation, and fear are precipitated by way of vicious psychological bullying such as sadistic ridicule, character assassination, destructive criticism, labeling, and spreading lies.

Until total control has been achieved, psycho politics will remain the preferred method.

There are four key elements necessary for a successful ‘consensus process’ operation. They are: • Multicultural and/or diverse groups, for instance ‘gays,’ atheists, Wiccans, or Muslims, fueled by resentment and envy — necessary for causing social conflict.

• A traditional social or cultural issue around which conflict can be created. For example, the Boy Scouts, Christmas, traditional marriage, and male-female sex norms are demonized as ‘unfair, exclusionary, insensitive, intolerant, racist, homophobic, and hurtful’ to diverse groups.

• The dialoguing to consensus process.

• The predetermined outcome. For example: Christmas parades successfully recast as “Festival of Lights” or “Winter Holiday” parades that are inclusive of gay ‘erotomaniac’ celebrants; traditional marriage compromised by ‘gay’ unions. political behavior and belief modification technique used with great success by Vietnamese communists The consensus process has been so successful at against American POWs and by Chinese communists unraveling the West’s traditional culture that here in America for example, Christianity has been banned against dissidents. from government on all levels as well as from schools The foundation and key strategy of the consensus and increasingly from public areas. Christians have process is the knowledge that all individuals have lost their jobs, been jailed, and their children harassed an inherent fear of being alienated from the group. and even suspended for daring to express their During sensitivity-training and diversity-training Christian beliefs in any way. Anti-Christian bigotry sessions, skillful change-agents (facilitators) has become so bad that John Gibson observed, psychologically manipulate this fear to herd selected victims toward a preplanned conclusion that induces “There is this kind of casual and accepted bias against them to compromise both conscience and position. Christians and Christian symbols.”(The War on Christmas: This is the consensus process in a nut shell, and when How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday we hear Liberals screaming for ‘consensus,’ they’re is Worse Than You Thought, John Gibson). really demanding that they be allowed to ‘facilitate’ the compromise of conscience which leads to the Shock-troopers of evil concur: abandonment of Christian-based Western ideals and “We have battled in America since the century’s turn to bring to nothing...all Christian influences and we principles. are succeeding. You must work until officials of city, There are three steps to the consensus process. county, and state will not think twice before they They are called, “Unfreezing the present level, pounce upon religious groups as public enemies.

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(there must) be a...foaming hatred of religion...a their liberties and their human worth — Christianity. belief that Christian practice is vicious, bad, insanity causing, publicly hated and intolerable.” (Red “Oh but, Christianity has nothing to do with either Communist Textbook on Psychopolitics) the founding of our nation or with our rights and freedoms,” proclaim mind-conditioned scoffers, “I think the subject which will be of most importance doubters, atheists, and skeptics both here in America politically is Mass Psychology. Its importance has and throughout the West. The truth however has been...increased by the growth of modern methods of been ‘hiding’ in full view, but because their minds are propaganda. Although this science will be diligently darkened by black magic spells and their eyes made studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing sightless by black magic dust, the mind-conditioned class. The populace will not be allowed to know how cannot see Truth even when it looks them in the face. its convictions were generated.” Bertrand Russell In boasting of his clever blueprint, Huxley for example, unwittingly ‘confessed’ the truth when he said of the John Gibson asked a Eugene, Oregon city manager two opposing philosophies, “You may categorize the why he had banned Christmas trees. His politically two philosophies as...Christianity versus Marxism.” correct mind-conformed response, “Well, because they’re Christian.” This manager and countless Linda Kimball is the author of numerscores of other Americans testify to the enormous ous published articles and essays on success thus far achieved by psycho political culture, politics, and worldview. Her writoperatives. Having been “unfrozen” from the level ings are published both nationally and whereon America’s traditional worldview resides and internationally. Linda is a team member successfully ‘moved’ to the desired level and then of Grassfire, New Media Alliance, and ‘frozen’ there, they now serve their new masters’ evil MoveOff. desires by mindlessly destroying the source of both

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By Diana Learn Human beings are the only species of life that has been gifted with language.

God created us in His image with an ability to communicate with Him and with each other. It is no wonder, then, that the forces of darkness set their sights on corrupting and/or limiting our ability to communicate ideas, truth and wisdom to each other and even more, to our children.

The Marxist ideology that pervades so much of the public school systems today is attacking our language. If you have children in the government school system, it is very likely that they are spending nearly 1/3 of their life immersed in a system that is teaching a worldview that is in direct conflict with their home values.

In so many of today’s schools language is taught as a “soft science” not as a rigorous core study. Proper spelling is not a focus. Grammar and vocabulary is of minor concern. Handwriting is rarely even addressed. The classic literature that was so rich in meaning and culture has been replaced with nihilistic and often poorly written contemporary “literature.” Students are not asked to study a work and look for the meaning that the author had, but to find their own meaning. All this is done in the context of a worldview in which truth does not exist on its own.

Take a look at the chart on the following page for some prime examples of the perversion of our language. Words that we grew up with now have vastly different meanings and are taught within a whole new, collectivist context.

The tactics used are meant to create a generation gap between parents and children. When we speak we are using the same words, but are speaking an entirely different language at times.... All by design.

NEWSPEAK - As the attacks on our First Amendment rights continue to roll in, George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984 seems to become more and more relevant.

In this book Orwell saw language shrinking, as the ideas of free thought and rebellion were outlawed. The goal of the government controlled speech was to remove any vagueness, creativity or negative connotation from verbal communication.

This meant nothing potentially offensive or critical could be said. By the utilizing prefixes or suffixes, one positive sounding word could cover any allowable dialog.

For example, the negative word stupid becomes “unsmart.” Other words become both nouns and verbs.

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Reprinted with permission from www.crossroad.to OLD PARADIGM Expected Meaning

TRANSITION What we are told.

NEW PARADIGM Actual meaning in the NEW CONTEXT.

OutcomeBased Education

Educating students according to planned results or "outcomes."

A systemic plan to prepare all students to meet high standards.

Critical Thinking

Rational, factual study and analysis.

Values Clarification

Help students clarify traditional American values.

Teaching students to think for themselves.

Help students clarify & communicate their own values.

Mastery Learning

Students must learn the facts required in subjects such as math, grammar, history, etc.

Elected school boards represent local parents.

A UN-led management system based on international educational standards using financial and other incentives to make sure local schools prepare students to meet its affective (feeling-based, not factual) standards.

The delivery system for Mastery Learning (below).

Criticizing and challenging traditional beliefs, values and authorities. Often uses ridicule, intimidation and rejection to conform children to the new paradigm.

Using facilitated dialogue to replace old beliefs and values (first) with moral relativism and self-made choices, then (second) with new global beliefs and values.

Shatters faith, destroys modesty, desensitizes to evil, and frees children to follow their feelings.

Psychological strategies for conditioning students to new beliefs, values, and ways of thinking. Failure to meet attitudinal, not factual, standards means more drilling until students demonstrate the "right" responses.

Local Control

Students will be given time needed to master the new standards.

Local schools choose and manage their own learning programs.

“High standards” needed for work in a global economy

World Class Standards

New standards needed for global challenges

Higher Order Thinking Skills Conflict Resolution

Factual, rational thinking.

Consensus Building

Agreement through facilitated group discussion.

The writer or speaker's normal, intended meaning.

Seeking mutual understanding on a given subject.

Learning to read and write in a relevant, meaningful context.

Co-operative Learning

Students working together.

Multicultural Education

Learning about other cultures.

Drug or Sex Education

Warning students to avoid drugs and premarital sex.

Preparing for work with people whose cultural values differ from yours.

Learning to respect and appreciate “all” cultures & lifestyles.

Teaching facts and values needed for healthy lifestyles.

Whole Language

Resolving conflicts.

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Apply, analyze, synthesize, evaluate.

Learning to settle disputes peacefully.

The lowest level of a new centralized bureaucracy. A selected panel of supportive citizens will make sure students learn what national standards and tests require.

Low standards for literacy, comprehension, and factual knowledge. “High standards” for the beliefs, attitudes, and group thinking needed to prepare human capital for the global workforce.

Analyzing, synthesizing, and applying information based on politically correct sets of opinions and facts.

Learning to synthesize beliefs and trade old absolute beliefs and values for compromise positions and a new set of absolutes.

Reaching a predetermined outcome through facilitated dialogue, often by ignoring, labeling, intimidating, ridiculing, or ignoring any form of dissent.

Student gives his own expression and meaning to text, rather than learning to extract meaning of author.

Accuracy and literacy fade in this process of standardizing human capital.

Vital to global standards in education and workplace.

Faster students help slow students instead of moving ahead. All must practice unity and tolerance for other ways and values.

Becoming a multicultural person, open to the pluralistic beliefs and lifestyles of all except those who cling to Judeo-Christian values.

Classroom encounter groups that discuss options under guidance of non-judgmental teacher. Unthinkable acts become alluring possibilities.

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By Berit Kjos “The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on American school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization... isolation from sources of support [parents], stripping away defenses... and inducing acceptance of alternative values...”[1] Thomas Sowell, PhD. “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Resist him, steadfast in the faith!” 1 Peter 5:8-9 I heard no laughter while watching The Hunger Games on opening day. Just sober silence. This teenage movie -- set in a totalitarian world that supposedly replaced a broken America -- shows the grim struggle for survival in a world without God, hope or meaning. The only “higher power” is a heartless government that supplies its own choice of artificial thrills and trials. And the people suffer.

The book behind the movie was published by the prominent Scholastic. It brought us the Harry Potter series and countless other books promoting witchcraft and the occult. By marketing its books through our education system, Scholastic may have done more to distort history, mythologize truth and promote moral and spiritual corruption among children than any other publisher.

children.With support from the Carnegie Foundations, John Dewey prepared a socialist foundation for the new system. As the first president of the American Humanist Association, he was determined to replace Christianity with pluralistic values that fit the global agenda.

Ponder their goals, which are fast changing our schools, churches, families and values:

1917: “..they [the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace] came to the conclusion that, to prevent a reversion, they must control education. Then they approached the Rockefeller Foundation and they said, ‘Will you take on the acquisition of control of education as it involves subjects that are domestic in their significance? We’ll take on the basis of subjects that have an international If you have children in public schools, they probably significance..’ And it was agreed....They decided the read the Weekly Reader, which offers news and current key to it was the teaching of American history, and events from a strictly non-Christian perspective. It’s they must change that.”[3] publisher, the Weekly Reader Corporation, is owned

by Scholastic. This 1990 message illustrates its earth- 1970: “...absolute behavior control is imminent....

The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is centered propaganda and twisted view of history: sneaking up on mankind without his self-conscious realization that a crisis is at hand. Man will...never self“GiveThanks to the Earth:The firstThanksgiving consciously know that it has happened.”[4] Professor feasts were harvest festivals. People gathered Raymond Houghton to celebrate successful harvests and to thank the Earth for its fruits. You can celebrate the 1989: “What’s happening in America today... is a total earth every day by always taking care of the transformation of our society. We have moved into a environment.”[2] Scholastic News new era....We no longer see the teaching of facts and information as the primary outcome of education.....

Brainwashing and Global Change Decades before the birth of the United Nations, some What we are facing is a total restructuring of of the globalist leaders that launched the Federal society!”[5] Dr. Shirley McCune, Senior Director with Reserve called for a radical new agenda for America’s the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, 32 MinuteMom Magazine

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a leading (occult) Theosophist speaking at 1989 Governor’s Conference on Education 1994:“We have actually been given a course in how not to tell the truth. How many of you are administrators?

You’ve had that course in public relations where you learn to put the best spin on things.”[6] Dr. Jim Causby, North Carolina Superintendent

current dictator rules Panem’s 12 Districts from the mighty Capitol somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

With well-trained underlings to fulfill his commands, he can monitor the masses, manipulate weather, and quench revolts initiated by the poor, discontented serfs.

The fictional history tells us that the Hunger Games began in the wake of a revolution seventy-five years Aldous Huxley was well aware of those plans. After all, earlier. Each year since then, twenty-four young his brother Julian Huxley became the first Secretary Tributes -- ages 12 through 18 -- have been chosen General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, by lottery in each of the 12 Districts. They will be and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In Brave New trained to kill, then transported to a selected area -World, he told us that a profusion of new suggestions probably in the Rockies. Their only assignment is to try to survive by killing each other. At the end, the would transform beliefs and attitudes: sole survivor will be celebrated as a national treasure and a promotional puppet.

“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions The surreal purpose of this annual event is to control, is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind not entertain, the masses. Panem’s yearly battle only. The adult’s mind too -- all his life long. sows fear, not cheer, even though the rulers demand The mind that judges and desires and celebrations. decides -- made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions! ...

Does that remind you of the Roman Coliseum where Suggestions from the State.”[7] trained gladiators and faithful Christian fought to Backed by the authority of the United Nations with death as huge crowds celebrated? its hatred for the Bible, Julian Huxley wrote the following in his 1947 book, UNESCO: Its purpose and The main character is sixteen-year-old Katniss who lives with her mother and twelve-year-old sister, Its Philosophy: Prim, in District 12, the poorest in the land. Since her father died in a coal-mine explosion, Katniss has been “In pursuing this aim, we must eschew the family’s sole provider. Day after day, she and her dogma.... East and West will not agree on a friend Gale hunt rabbits and gather herbs and berries basis of the future if they merely hurl at each on forbidden government land. other the fixed ideas [of which the Bible is the main obstacle] of the past. For that is what But everything is about to change. In the lottery dogmas are -- the crystalizations of some leading up to the games, the terrified Prim is chosen. dominant system of thought of a particular Stunned, Katniss quickly volunteers to take her sister’s epoch..... If we are to achieve progress, we place. Peeta Mellark, who had long had a crush on must learn to uncrystalize our dogmas.”[8] Katniss, is chosen next.

Today our gov’t and our educational establishment seem more than willing to implement this agenda After the required time of training, prepping and and punish any parental resistance that gets in its promotion at the Capitol, Katniss and Peeta are brought to the battlefield. On the first day, eleven of way. the twenty-four Tributes are killed. Most of the others The Fictional History Behind the Hunger Games race into the nearby forests to seek water and shelter Let me warn you: the movie is just as seductive as the from rain and each other. book; perhaps more so, since the written message is joined to unforgettable visual images. It draws Meanwhile, the sophisticated high-tech Gamemakers its fans into the oppressive, futuristic nation called back in the Capitol keep busy pointing their hidden Panem (from “Panem et Circenses” meaning “Bread cameras toward the injured, the dead, and the and Circuses”) that supposedly replaced America. The most popular players. Those images are shown on As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots®

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sophisticated tele-screens across the country. The goal is to unify, pacify and intimidate the viewers into ceaseless loyalty and compliance.

It reminds me of a statement in the book, Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman who anticipated today’s rise of Marxist values. To illustrate mental manipulation, he compared two familiar books: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984: “Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies.... [In 1984] people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.”[9] Both have a point. Today, the cultural war against Christ and His Church is being waged on both fronts. The minds of most contemporary teens are bombarded with seductive images and suggestions that mock God’s values and scorn Christianity. “...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...” John 3:19

hazel eyes of the boy from District 9 who died as we struggled for the backpack! And worst of all, the smallest mutt, with dark glossy fur, huge brown eyes....Teeth bared in hatred. Rue! [She was a sweet, twelve-year-old girl before she was killed]...

“Have they been programmed to hate our faces particularly because we have survived and they were so callously murdered?”[10] Perhaps the moviemakers chose to ignore any hint of rebirth or reincarnation. But the scene fits right into the mythical tales and occult phenomena of ages past. Remember, human history is full of cultural and spiritual cycles that show what happens when a civilization that has been blessed by God rejects Him and embraces other “gods” and deceptive snares.

God’s Way to His Shelter The signs of change are all around us, and we already see some of the devastating consequences: broken families, immoral lifestyles, hopelessness, despair and suicides. Many seek temporary relief in the countless artificial fantasy worlds of digital entertainment.

Many are addicted to sensual stimuli or trapped in the forces of darkness and find no way to escape!

Their struggles serve as a wake-up call to many of us.

How can we (parents and grandparents) guard and guide our children through the dangers ahead?

A Glimpse of the Action Near the end of the battle, the voice of a Gamemaker is broadcast to the final contenders, calling them Here are a few suggestions: back to their starting place. Emerging from the forest, Katniss and Peeta confront a new set of foes: • Know (memorize) God’s Word, the only source of genuine wisdom. (Proverbs 2:6). twenty-one fierce, furry, four-legged “mutants” who seem eager to eat them. The book indicates that • Read books and testimonies by faithful Christians who stood firm in their faith in the midst of these “mutants” are actually the twenty-one victims persecution. (For example: A Small Price to Pay brought back to life in new identifiable animal and Trapped in Hitler’s Hell) bodies: • Learn the historical facts needed to defend what we know and believe.

“The mutts are beginning to assemble....

• Recognize the difference between OBSERVATION There’s something else about them, something and assumptions. A lot of supposed “science” that makes the hair rise up on the back of my today is based on useful assumptions rather than neck... They are unmistakably human. ... The observable facts. blonde hair, the green eyes, the number ... it’s • Put on The Armor of God. Glimmer [one of the dead Tributes]. I fire into • Pray for God’s strength, protection and guidance. its throat. Its body twitches and flops onto the Then follow Him, not the corrupt ways of the ground... [Glimmer’s second death?] world!

“The small one with the red coat and amber As our children learn to see all things from God’s eyes... Foxface! And there, the ashen hair and 34 MinuteMom Magazine

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perspective, they will accept what is true and good but reject what is false and wrong. Remember, “...be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might....For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age....Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Eph. 6:10-13

Berit Kjos is a respected researcher, the author of many books and magazine articles, and a concerned parent who has extensively studied religious trends, today’s social changes, the roots and branches of the UN, the rising worldwide management system, and – most alarming of all -- the transformation of the church.

Notes: 1. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., “Indoctrinating the Children,” Forbes, February 1, 1993), 65.

2. Scholastic News, Ed. 4, Vol. 53 (2 November 1990), 7. Statistics from Subscription Department, N.Y. (212) 505-3000.

3. Norman Dodd reported these findings in an interview with the writer, William H. McIlihany II, for his 1980 book, The Tax Exempt Foundations (Arlington House, Westport, USA), p. 60-61. The Special House Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations reported in 1954. It was named after its chairman, Representative, B. Carrol Reece of Tennessee.

4. Professor Raymond Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness: Commitment for the ‘70’s (Washington DC: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, NEA, 1970).

5. Dr. Shirley McCune, Senior Director with the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, a leading (occult) Theosophist speaking at 1989 Governor’s Conference on Education.

6. Cynthia Weatherly, “The Second Annual Model School Conference,” The Christian Conscience (January 1995); 36.

7.Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (New York: HarperCollins, 1932), p. 28.

8. Julian Huxley, UNESCO: Its purpose and Its Philosophy, (Washington DC: Public Affairs Press, 1947), p. 61.

9. Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (NY: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1985), vii- viii.

10. Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Scholastic Inc., 2008) p.333-334

Patriot Political Preparedness

Our Republic is uttering its death rattle.

There is danger everywhere. Who will prevent what will happen if Constitutionalism fails this November? Where is OUR George Washington, OUR Thomas Paine, OUR anybody?

The answer is: there is nobody left but you.

This year will make or break the Great American Experiment. Now is not the time to defer to others what must be done by each and every Patriot.

Success follows from acceptance of individual responsibility, preparedness, and organization.

Acceptance of Individual Responsibility One must first recognize that in this ideological battle there are two levels of action – institutional and individual. Institutional action refers to political parties, special interest clubs, authoritative organizations, media machines, and government itself. Media Matters, MoveOn.org, Girl Scouts of America, the Heritage Foundation, etc are some examples of institutions that either directly promote or are being used to promote ideas and attitudes that result in a desired voting behavior, societal change, and acceptance of 36 MinuteMom Magazine

various governmental actions. Individual action refers to the initiative of a single person or grassroots group to exert similar influences as the Institutions.

Does the action of one person really matter?

Yes. Simply put – people typically believe what they read, and they are willing to think about what is said by a confident person, even if they do not initially agree. This is your “individual responsibility”: find opportunities to clearly write well worded defenses of Liberty and condemnations of Communism and Sharia, and join in any conversation you can (or start one) about the Founding Documents, etc. Practice speaking and writing often – you will learn how to deal with various personalities, personal relationships, and the pre-decided opinions of your audience.

Most importantly – you MUST allow yourself to be verbally attacked. Get it over with and then the fear of it can no longer force your silence. The worst part of the insult is the initial embarrassment, or the surprise if it comes from someone whom you never thought would be capable of such cruelty to you. Then, do it again. Let me www.AsAMom.org

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tell you something from experience – it’s the only way. Make God your center. Make sure that He approves of your words, opinions, and methods.

God is the only one whom you should allow to change your course of action, and He is your only friend. Keep these things in mind, and you realize that your confidence comes from Him, and cannot be stolen from you by any man. His is the only approval you should seek, therefore the potential disapproval of friends/family/strangers is meaningless.

Is it uncomfortable? Yes it is - at first. Is it worthwhile? Very much so. It is the essence of ‘grassroots’. Effecting change of opinion at the local level is imperative. The American Revolution was at least in part begun by conversations and debates in coffee houses and meeting halls. The historic Golden Lamb Inn and restaurant in Lebanon, Ohio was just such a place (which is why it is historic!). And let us not forget the role of pamphleteering, AKA Common Sense etc, in inspiring a Nation to particular action. Modern day pamphleteering is blogging, tweeting, facebooking, trolling comments on online articles, and the old fashioned (and still effective) letters to the editor. Write and talk, talk and write – DO IT!!!

Preparedness Factual knowledge has its place in this – know what is going on and be able to produce reliable references to any who may ask for proof as you debate and/or write. Perhaps that seems intimidating or is a disincentive to “talk and write,” but this needs not be a list a mile long. Where do you get your information? Probably most of it comes from 2 or 3 sources. Simply keep those in mind, ready to rattle off as needed. One word of caution, though – only PROVIDE sources that are objective and factually reliable/credible. Opinions are not facts – do not cite sources that mainly produce opinions. Do not cite partisan sources.

Wisdom is likely more valuable than being armed with raw current events data. Yes – I am serious. It is more important that you know yourself: Do you know why you believe the things that you do? How do you know that your views are correct? Could you defend your views if challenged? If not, then what can you do to strengthen your foundational beliefs so that you can express yourself? Do you understand how our Nation came to be in its current situation?

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What is the solution? The answers to these questions are mostly philosophical; only some require fact finding.

One indispensable leg of the preparedness table is to know your enemy. Get to know their thinking as you just got to know your own. What do they believe? Why do they believe that? Where do they get their information? What are their talking points? What are the most common ways that THEY use to persuade someone with YOUR views? I have found that the absolute best way to learn these things about the opposition is to read the Facebook pages of groups that you do NOT agree with. You risk nothing. You are a fly on the wall, and you will gain much knowledge and wisdom! Scroll through the articles that they post, read the comments of their fans beneath the posts, read the debates that ensue.

Then read the Facebook pages of groups that you DO agree with and do the same thing. There will be trolls on both types of pages so there will likely be many debates, some of them pretty nasty. You will develop a sense of what the most common baits are as well as what methods are most per-

One indispensable leg of the preparedness table is to know your enemy. suasive and what methods are the least persuasive.

You can read when someone is not grounded in their beliefs as they become confused by the troll and begin to be persuaded by THEM! Notice how this happens (and it happens a lot!) and you can stop the process as it happens during a conversation YOU are involved in. The value of that – anyone listening to you or reading your work is not led down a rabbit hole, too. If you can maintain confident footing and credibility then others will listen to you.

Organization The power of the individual is magnified by organizing with other like-minded patriots.

How? Again, let’s look how others get it done.

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Do you recall the recent controversy over the Komen Race for the Cure group’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood? What happened next is textbook for excellent organization. Planned Parenthood activated its fans and followers via social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc) and instantly inspired thousands of people to lodge complaints against the Komen decision and the group itself. Meaning, they already had a structure in place, like the little phone trees from the 1980’s, to get things done in real time. The result – Komen reversed its decision, and the executive responsible for the de-funding decision lost her job. Though the people who APPROVED of the decision likely numbered at least the same as those who opposed it, it was obvious that they were not organized at all and were therefore unable to compete. Lesson: devise a way to notify your group simultaneously and instantly when something needs to be done. Put it in place BEFORE it is needed. Once something is going on, it is too late to try to figure out who can help you and how to reach them. All members MUST be committed to take action once alerted. (Possible actions – phone calls, letters, peaceful assembly/protest, attending meetings to 38 MinuteMom Magazine

network or to protest government action/decisions.) Have back up means of communication available in the event that ordinary means are no longer available or desirable.

We are in dangerous times. This is an emergency – literally to save our lives, to save our freedom, to save our way of life. Three years into Tea Parties, Liberty Groups, and 9/12 clubs – have we risen to the occasion? How would we stand if compared to the Founders? Influencing the Presidential election is only one part of the mission. What has happened in this president’s first term will remain even if he is defeated – unless we succeed. From God we have learned that there is nothing new under the sun. Our current problem is not new. How it happened is not new. How it is to be solved is not new either.

The power is in the hands of the individual. That means you. And we need you right now.

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YYLetters to the Editor Be Wary Young Adults – Preserve Your Independence You are on the edge of claiming the independence of adulthood. You stay up as late as you want, eat what you want when you want, wash your laundry only when you have to and make you bed only if you want to. Whether you have recently graduated high school, or are experiencing the journey of college, your future is before you.

While breathing in your new independence you shake yourself free from parental control.

Be wary young adults, your new independence is fragile. This is a time when it is natural to seek direction from others and you can easily succumb to the promising voices of teachers, professors, activists and politicians. They can appear smarter, and definitely cooler, than your parents.

Chances are some will tell you that you are smarter than your parents as well.

Listen closely to their message. Ask yourself, are they teaching you how to think or are they telling you what you think? Are they showing you how to apply reason to form your beliefs or are they telling what you believe – are you being taught how to determine what is a fact, what is right and what is wrong, or are they just telling you? Question them with the same youthful rebellion you use to question your parents.

Consider that for most of us, our parents told us to do things because they wanted to teach us life lessons or help

us build character, but most importantly because they love us. Find out what motivates the other mentors in your life. Do they want to contribute to the betterment of future generations or is it tuition money, your vote or how they can manipulate your innocence to help them achieve an objective? You think you can’t be manipulated, good - live up to that.

We are entering a time when there are many people in this Country working to implement great change. This change will move us away from our Countries founding principles toward a socialist society. They will tell you that you are entitled to a job, housing and healthcare, and it sounds fair.

Be wary young adults, because what they fail to mention is that they will tell you what job you are entitled to, what housing you are entitled to and what healthcare you are entitled to.

They will do this without regard for what job and housing you may want or healthcare you may need. It won’t end there; they will tell you what to eat, how much electricity you can use, what political party to support, what union dues you must pay, what you can discuss and what you must not dare discuss... Wake up because everything in this paragraph has already been, or is about to be, implemented.

Our founders believed that man is endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Do you know the

difference between an unalienable right and entitlement? Do you understand how America’s independence provided the environment for the most successful Nation in the history of the World?

If you said no to either question, read the Constitution and American history and then read the history of socialist societies. Why bother? Because history details the successes and failures of previous Nations. Reading history teaches us what works best for the common good of mankind and what fails. With this knowledge we can benefit from the ideas that led to freedom and prosperity and avoid the ones that ended badly. You have probably heard it said; it has been proven over and over that when we do not know history we are doomed to repeat it. I solemnly state with certainty, there are many things about history and the lack of man’s freedom that you do not want to repeat.

I ask you to ponder one last thought: When you make an attempt that is unsuccessful, you only fail if you give up. Your only chance at success is if you try again. Don’t give up on freedom, don’t give up on self-reliance, preserve your independence so you can achieve personal success while contributing to your community. I sincerely wish you every success, your generation’s future depends on it.

Kathy Shea

April’s Books • Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant by David Barton • The Coming Insurrection May’s Book • Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios by Lisa Bedford http://www.asamom.org/group/freedomfridaybookclub

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YYIn Your State State News from AAM Groups The Presidential Primary/Caucus Information With thanks to Stacy Finch, Samantha Harris, Patsy, Kelly Martin And special thanks to Wiki and to The Green Papers http://tinyurl.com/7b2g9fo Background information and previous elections for primaries and caucuses can be found in the Minute Mom Magazine: editions Jan., Feb. and March 2012, Dec. and Oct. 2011 http://tinyurl.com/772h28h As A Mom has shown the earliest known political activity in each state.

To make the greatest impact on your state elections, it is suggested that interested individuals be involved as early and as often as there are opportunities to make a difference. Often these are at straw polls, at mass meetings, conventions and early caucuses as listed by state and by party.

Please be aware that there is voting going on the US territories also. For more information on the entire schedule of all states, districts and all territories please go to The Green Papers at http://tinyurl.com/7lypf2d A review of terms: binding: delegates must vote for a certain candidate until released by that candidate non-binding: candidates may, at further conventions, change their votes, depending on viability proportional: delegates must vote in proportion to the percentages received non-proportional: “winner take all” viability: a term for having a minimum percentage of votes for a candidate required to have them proceed in the caucus/convention race. The viability percentage is often 15%. delegates-look at the number of delegates from each state and look to see if they are bound or not when looking at possible outcomes from the National Convention. Many states lost one half of their voting strength 42 MinuteMom Magazine

(delegates) to the Republican National Convention due to holding their primaries early**. Since caucuses are nonbinding, this rule did not hold true for caucus states. **”No primary, caucus, or convention to elect, select, allocate, or bind delegates to the national convention shall occur prior to the first Tuesday in March in the year in which a national convention is held. Except Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada may begin their processes at any time on or after February 1 in the year in which a national convention is held ...” [Rules of the Republican Party. Rule 15(b)(1)] brokered convention: there are not enough delegates to support a “win” for one candidate on the first vote. The pledged delegates are released from their pledged candidates and can vote for anyone they choose. Before the era of presidential primary elections, political party conventions were routinely brokered. PLEOs The Democratic Party has what has been termed “Superdelegates” or PLEO’s- Party Leaders and Elected Officials who are non-pledged going into National Convention.

Third party candidates are generally elected at Conventions only. Please look at your own state’s Secretary of State’s or voter information website to find links to viable Third Parties for your state.

New Mexico Precinct Meetings April, 2012/ Primary 5 June, 2012 New Mexico Republican • Precinct Meetings: April 2012 (tentative) • County Conventions: Saturday 12 May - Saturday 19 May 2012 • Primary: Tuesday 5 June 2012 • State Republican Convention: Saturday 16 June 2012 (tentative) Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 23 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 9 re: 3 congressional districts / 3 party / 1 bonus

Republican Party Ward/Precinct Caucuses meet to choose the precinct’s delegates to the County Convention.

[Uniform State Rules of the Republican Party of New Mexico.] There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucuses to relate the presidential preference of the Caucus participants to the choice of the precinct’s delegates to the County Convention. The participants at each Precinct Caucus alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor in such choice and, if so, how it is to be applied. More on the New Mexico Republicans can be found at http://www.gopnm.org / The primaries for state wide elected officials will be held Tuesday 5 June 2012. www.AsAMom.org

Moms, it is time to get together with a few of your friends and get ready for our 4th Minute Mob of Kindness Event!

April 26, we would like you to organize a local flash mob of kindness in your city or town. The needs in our communities is great. The possibilities are endless as to what you could do for those in need. http://www.asamom.org/events/minute-mob-2

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Only at www.asamomestore.com Wisconsin Wisconsin Republican

• District Caucuses: February - April 2012 • Primary: Tuesday 3 April 2012 • Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All (by district and statewide), • Voter Eligibility: Open Primary • 42 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 24 re: 8 congressional districts / 3 party / 5 bonus

Wisconsin Democrat

• Primary: Tuesday 3 April 20121 • County Caucuses: Sunday 15 April • Congressional District Caucuses: Sunday 6 May 2012 • Administrative Committee Meeting and State Convention: Friday 8 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Polling hours 7:00a CST (1300 UTC) to 8:00p CST (0200 UTC).

• Voter Eligibility: Open Primary • 111 total delegate votes - 66 district / 22 at large; 12 Pledged PLEOs; 11 Unpledged PLEOs

Four years ago, John McCain won the primary with 54.8 percent of the votes. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, finished third with 4.7 percent support, while Romney got two percent of the votes, finishing fourth. Romney and Paul are the only major GOP Candidates running this time around.

More on Wisconsin Republicans at http://wisgop.org / More on Wisconsin Democrats at http://www.wisdems.org / Primaries for State wide offices will be August 14.

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Maryland Primary Tuesday 3 April, 2012 Maryland Republican

• Primary: Tuesday 3 April 2012 • Spring Convention: Friday 27 April - Saturday 28 April 2012 Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All (by district and statewide), • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • Voter Participation: Party members • 37 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 24 re: 8 congressional districts / 3 party

Maryland Democrat

• Primary: Tuesday 3 April 2012 • State Democratic Central Committee Meeting: Monday 14 May 2012 Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 120 total delegate votes - 64 district / 21 at large; 12 Pledged PLEOs; 23 Unpledged PLEOs

Notice for Democrats from the S.O.S. Notice of Ballot Correction – Democratic ballots in the 5th and 8th Congressional Districts have been revised to include the names of two candidates that were inadvertently omitted by SBE. Both names should have been included in the list of candidates for Male Delegates to the Democratic National Convention. If you have already received an absentee ballot, you will be sent the corrected ballot.

For Republicans: the delegates are bound proportionally for the first two ballots at the National Convention if

their candidate has 35% or more of the votes.

Information for the Maryland Republicans can be found at http:// www.mdgop.org / Information for the Maryland Democrats can be found at http://www.mddems.org / The primaries for state wide elected officials will be held Tuesday 3 April, 2012 Idaho Idaho Democrat

• County Caucus: Saturday 14 April 20121 • Non-binding Primary: Tuesday 15 May 2012 (cancelled) • State Convention: Sunday 10 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Caucus/ Convention • Voter Eligibility: Open Caucus • 31 total delegate votes - 18 district / 6 at large; 3 Pledged PLEOs; 4 Unpledged PLEOs • Information on March 6th Idaho Republican Caucus is in the March issue of Minute Mom Magazine http://tinyurl.com/772h28h

1 March 2012: Governor C.L. Butch Otter (Republican) signed H391. The bill abolishes the 2012 Presidential Primary.

More information on Idaho’s Democratic Party at http://idahodems. org / Primaries for state wide offices will be May 15th.

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Wyoming Wyoming Democrat

• County Caucuses: Saturday 14 April 20121 • State Convention: Saturday 26 May 2012 • Delegate Selection: Caucus/ Convention

Voter Eligibility: Closed Caucus 22 total delegate votes - 12 district / 4 at large; 2 Pledged PLEOs; 4 Unpledged PLEO Saturday 14 April 2012: First tier.

12 of Wyoming’s 22 delegates to the National Convention are pledged in today’s County Caucuses.

Democratic Party Country Caucuses (also known as “County Conventions”) meet in each county. The County Caucuses choose delegates to the Wyoming State Democratic Convention. Such delegates to the

State Convention are allocated to presidential contenders in proportion to the percentage of the support each candidate received at the County Caucus.

Wyoming Democratic party at http://tinyurl.com/7nvwfoe Wyoming Republicans had caucuses in Feb and county conventions in March. http://tinyurl.com/772h28h Primaries for state wide offices will be August 21.

Nebraska Nebraska Democrat

• Precinct Caucuses: Saturday 14 April 20121 • Advisory Primary: Tuesday 15 May 2012 (tentative) • County Conventions: Friday 1 June Sunday 10 June 2012 • State Convention: Saturday 23 June 2012 Delegate Selection: Caucus/

Convention, • Voter Eligibility: Modified Caucus • 44 total delegate votes - 25 district / 9 at large; 4 Pledged PLEOs; 6 Unpledged PLEOs

Like he did throughout many other states that held caucuses instead of primaries, Barak Obama won the Nebraska Democratic Caucus by more than a two-to-one margin of victory over Hillary Clinton.

Nebraska’s non binding Republican primary will be held on Tuesday May 15th.

Information for the Nebraska Republicans can be found at http:// www.negop.org / Information for the Nebraska Democrats can be found at http:// tinyurl.com/7ws3ybw The primaries for state wide elected officials will be held Tuesday 15 May, 2012

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Washington Washington Democrat

• Non-binding primary (cancelled by the state Legislature): Tuesday 21 February 2012 (cancelled) • Precinct Caucuses: Sunday 15 April 20121 • Legislative District Caucuses: Saturday 28 April 2012 • County Conventions: Sunday 29 April 2012 • Congressional District Caucuses: Sunday 20 May 2012 • State Convention: Saturday 2 June Sunday 3 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Caucus/ Convention • Voter Eligibility: Modified Caucus • 121 total delegate votes - 69 district / 23 at large; 13 Pledged PLEOs; 16 Unpledged PLEOs • The 2012 WA Democratic Presidential Primary has been cancelled.

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Democrats. Those who wish to participate in the caucus and convention process who are not currently registered to vote may register to vote at the caucus or convention and then participate on the same day.

Sunday 15 April 2012: First Tier Precinct Caucuses.

The Precinct Caucuses meet at 1:00 pm to elect delegates to the legislative district caucuses and county conventions based on presidential preference.

After a preliminary tally of presidential support is completed, attendees are given an opportunity to discuss the results. Attendees are then provided a chance to reconsider; and a final tally is taken.

More information on Washington Democratic Party can be found at http://tinyurl.com/6ovg6s3 Washington Republicans caucuses were in March. http://tinyurl. com/772h28h Primaries for state wide offices will be August 7th

Arkansas

• Special Meeting County Conventions Monday 23 April-11 May 2012 / • Arkansas Republican • Special Meeting of the County Conventions: Monday 23 April Friday 11 May 2012 • Primary: Tuesday 22 May 2012 • Special District Convention: Saturday 9 June 2012 • State Committee Meeting: Saturday 23 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Open Primary • 36 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 12 re: 4 congressional districts / 3 party / 11 bonus

Monday 23 April - Friday 11 May 2012: Each county holds a Special Meeting of the County Convention to elect delegates to the Special District Conventions. The Special Meeting is attended by qualified voters from that county who filed to be a Special Meeting delegate. The qualifying period is from 23 February to 1 March 2012. www.AsAMom.org

Voting members of the State Committee, who will elect the National Convention At-Large Delegates, cannot be delegates to the Special District Convention.

There is no formal system applied in the Special Meetings to relate the presidential preference of the participants to the choice of the meeting’s delegates.

More on the Arkansas Republicans can be found at http://www.arkansasgop.org / More on the Arkansas Democrats can be found at http://www.arkdems. org / The primaries for state wide elected officials will be held Tuesday 22 May, 2012 Runoff Tuesday 12 June 2012 Connecticut Connecticut Republican

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 • State Committee Meeting: May 2012 (tentative) • Delegate Selection: District: WinnerTake-All Primary, Statewide: if winner receives a majority Winner-TakeAll Primary otherwise Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • Voter Participation: Party members • 28 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 15 re: 5 congressional districts / 3 party

Connecticut Democrat

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 20121 • Congressional District Caucuses: Wednesday 30 May 2012 • District Level Delegation Meeting: Wednesday 6 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 88 total delegate votes - 49 district / 16 at large; 8 Pledged PLEOs; 15 Unpledged PLEOs

For Democrats: Starting on Tuesday 20 March 2012, a 15% pledged delegate bonus is awarded when clusters of 3 or more neighboring states (Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island) begin on the same As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots®

date (24 April 2012).The state should receive a 10% pledged delegate bonus for starting in Stage II (April).The turnout of almost 355,000 voters shattered the previous record for a primary election in the state, even topping the bitterly contested 2006 Democratic Senatorial Race. By law, “uncommitted” appeared below the list of candidates on the ballots for both parties in Connecticut.

More information on Connecticut Republicans at http://www.ctgop.org More information on Connecticut Democrats at http://www.ctdems.org Connecticut state wide primaries will be held August 14.

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Republican

• Presidential Nominating Process • Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 • Summer Meeting: Sunday 10 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Loophole Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 72 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 54 re: 18 congressional districts / 3 party / 5 bonus

Pennsylvania Democrat

• Presidential Nominating Process • Primary: Tuesday 24 April 20121 • State Committee: Saturday 9 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 250 total delegate votes - 153 district / 51 at large; 24 Pledged PLEOs; 22 Unpledged PLEOs

For Republicans: This is a loophole Primary. In essence, this means the Presidential Primary votes are a beauty contest only. To put it simply, the delegates are chosen separately from the Presidential candidates. So to win, all a candidate has to do is make sure his delegates win, since the Primary election is viewed as simply a “suggestion.” This type of primary is now illegal for the Democrats.

For Democrats: The delegate selection processes

herein was updated 1 April 2011 per the Draft 2012 Delegate Selection Plan as of April 2011.

Starting on Tuesday 20 March 2012, a 15% pledged delegate bonus is awarded when clusters of 3 or more neighboring states (Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island) begin on the same date (24 April 2012). The state should receive a 10% pledged delegate bonus for starting in Stage II (April).228 of 250 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are pledged to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today’s Pennsylvania Presidential Primary.

More information on Pennsylvania Republicans at http://www.pagop.org More information on Pennsylvania Democrats at http://www.padems.com Delaware Delaware Republican

• Presidential Straw Poll: Wednesday 7 December 2011 • Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 • State Convention: Saturday 28 April 2012 • Delegate Selection: Winner-Take-All, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 17 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 3 re: 1 congressional district / 3 party / 1 bonus

Delaware Democrat

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 (tentative)1 • State Convention: Saturday 9 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 33 total delegate votes - 16 district / 5 at large; 3 Pledged PLEOs; 9 Unpledged PLEOs

For Republicans: In 2008, McCain was the expected favorite in the 2008 primary among the Republican candidates; his campaign was led by Delaware’s only House representative, Rep.Michael Castle.

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Almost twice as many Americans watched the Superbowl than are registered to vote.

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election, resulting in a 26.76 percent turn-out rate.

For Democrats: In 2008,Obama performed best in New Castle County, the most populous and urban part of the state which contains Wilmington. He also narrowly won neighboring Kent County to the south, which contains the state capital of Dover, with 51.76 percent of the vote. Clinton won Sussex County in Southern Delaware, the more rural and conservative part of the state, with 52.73 percent of the vote.

More on Delaware Republicans at http://www. delawaregop.org / More on Delaware Democrats at http://www.deldems.org / State wide primaries will be held September 11.

Rhode Island Rhode Island Republican

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Modified Primary • Voter Participation: Party members and Independents • 19 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 6 re: 2 congressional districts / 3 party

Rhode Island Democrat

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 (tentative)1 • State Convention: Thursday 21 June 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Modified Primary • Voter Participation: Party members and Independents • 41 total delegate votes - 21 district / 8 at large; 3 Pledged PLEOs; 9 Unpledged PLEOs

Voter Participation has changed to modified Primary.

For Republicans: A mandatory 15 percent threshold of the statewide vote is required in order for a presidential contender to receive delegates. [Rules Pertaining to the Delegate Selection Process to the 2012 Republican National Convention. Republican State Central Committee. Article III Rule 3.02] A mandatory 15 percent threshold of the statewide vote is required in order for a presidential contender to receive delegates. [Rules Pertaining to the Delegate Selection Process to the 2012 Republican National Convention. Republican State Central Committee.

Article III Rule 3.02] National Convention Delegates are distributed equally between the state’s two Congressional Districts. Should there be an odd number delegates, the extra delegate is assigned to the Congressional District with the largest number of registered voters at the previous general election. www.AsAMom.org

Registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters may participate in the Democratic primary election.

Unaffiliated voters become affiliated with the Democratic Party by voting in the Democratic Primary.

More on Rhode Island Republicans at http://rigop.org / More on Rhode Island Democrats at http://www.ridemocrats.org / State wide primary elections will be September 11.

New York New York Republican

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 2012 (tentative) • State Committee: Tuesday 22 May Wednesday 23 May 2012 (tentative) • Delegate Selection: District: WinnerTake-All Primary, Statewide: if winner receives a majority Winner-TakeAll Primary otherwise Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 95 total delegates - 10 base at-large / 81 re: 27 congressional districts / 3 party / 1 bonus

opponent on the New York ballot. All four of the Republican candidates have qualified for the ballot. If the winner receives a majority, it’s winner take all, otherwise it’s a Proportional Primary.

The Republicans have 95 delegates and there are 384 for the Democrats. New York has closed primaries, for both Democrats and Republicans. (Only voters registered with a given party can vote in the primary.)

New York has no same day registration. Voter registration deadline is 25 days prior to the election. They do have early voting and absentee ballots. No voter ID is required to vote.

• Presidential Primary / 4-24-12 • US Senate and Members of Congress Primary / 6-26-12 • New York State Senate and Assembly Primary / 9-11-12 (Subject to change)

More on New York Republicans at http://www.nygop.org/home More on New York Democrats at http://www.nydems.org /

California California Democrat

• Pre-primary Caucus: Saturday 28 April 2012 • Primary: Tuesday 5 June 2012 • Delegation Meeting: Sunday 24 June 2012 Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Modified Primary • Voter Participation: Party members and Independents • 611 total delegate votes - 365 district / 121 at large; 61 Pledged PLEOs; 64 Unpledged PLEOs

In 2008, Hillary Clinton won the CA primary in a field of 8 candidates.

She received 204 delegates in comparison to Barak Obama’s 166.

More information at http://www. cadem.org / State wide primaries will be June 5.

New York Democrat

• Primary: Tuesday 24 April 20121 • State Committee: Friday 25 May 2012 • Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary, • Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary • 384 total delegate votes - 226 district / 75 at large; 36 Pledged PLEOs; 47 Unpledged PLEOs

New York has had its population drop, and that means it is losing two Congressional districts. The New York State Legislature is supposed to decide about redistricting, but it has stalled, due to the fact that Democrats and Republicans are fighting to get the districts as much to their advantage as possible. Since they can’t seem to work it out, the courts are stepping in. Justice Dora Irizarry has called for the Second Court of Appeals to create a three judge panel to settle the issue.

Stay tuned...

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Abraham Lincoln was only able to attend school a few weeks, but he was a very well-educated man. How was he able to gain so much knowledge without going to school?

The answer is – he read. From the time he was a little boy, he read everything he could get his hands on. Sometimes he would walk miles just to find a book to read. If you would like to get an idea of the kind of books he read, you will find a list here: (Lincoln’s reading list) Many people have written about his life. The following excerpts are taken from some of the books written about him and give us clues about how Lincoln learned. How many ideas for learning can you find that you can try?

“As soon as Abraham Lincoln was old enough to understand, his mother took great pains to teach him . . . Taking him upon her lap, she would tell him stories which he never forgot of brave and good men, who had lived beautiful lives and done noble deeds. And often in the evenings by the glow of the firelight, . . . she would read to him from a wonderful Book which she kept with great care among her little treasures. The boy could not understand much that he heard; but the sound of his mother’s voice pleased him, and he wished that he too could learn to read.” “...Abraham discovered what opportunity and happiness books can bring to those who learn to read them.”

“He was far better pleased when he could sit at home in the chimney corner and pore over his books. He had only two or three, but he read them again and again. It was his habit to read aloud–the thoughts seemed so much more vivid to him when he could hear the words as well as see them . . . It was a habit which he retained to the end of his life.”

“Whenever Abraham found anything in his reading which seemed to be too good to be forgotten, he would take note of it in whatever way he could. If he had no paper, he would write with charcoal, or with a piece of red ‘keel’, on the side of a smooth board. The logs in the chimney corner were covered with his rude notes. When he had learned his notes by heart, he would rub them out to give place for others.”

“He had heard the in order to speak and write correctly, one should understand the rules of grammar . . . That very night he set out to borrow the book [Kirkham’s Grammar], and after a walk of twelve miles returned with it under his arm. For several days he kept it close by him, and whenever there was a leisure moment he was studying from its pages. In a short time he had learned all the rules by heart, but he found that he still made mistakes in the use of language. It was only by taking great pains with his speech, and by trying very hard all the time, that he was at last able to avoid most of these errors and to use really good English both in talking and in writing.”

“Everywhere he went, Lincoln was pretty sure to carry a book with him.”

“He was a listener and a learner.” “...he saturated his mind with the two great masterpieces of English literature, the King James’ version of the Bible and Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Lincoln read and reread, again and again, both of these books until they became for him a storehouse to which he turned unconsciously for words, and phrases, and ideas.”

(Taken from Stories of Abraham Lincoln in the Freedom Series at gardenofliberty.org) www.AsAMom.org

Where is Molly nOW?

Recently Molly was sighted at the in the GBTV studios. Clockwise from top: Standing at the base of a light in the “green room”. Sitting in Glenn Beck’s chair. With several of the Texas Moms; Mary M., Lori P., Ginger, PJB and Kay TX. See more photos at www.asamom.org

Where is YOUR Molly?

Directions:

1. Print Molly on cardstock or heavy paper.

2. Color and decorate to your liking.

3. Cut out and mail Molly, along with a Constitution and personal letter or story, to your friends. You can find a copy of the Constitution to print here: http://www.rollingchrome.com/AAM/docs/ USConstitution.pdf

4. Ask the recipient to take Molly to a local landmark, town hall or other place that a Constitution is needed and document the visit with a photo.

Make sure Molly and her “sponsors”

are in the photo too!

5. Ask your family/friends to email the photo to you.

6. Post your favorite Molly photos at AsAMom.org.

7. Request that your friends send Molly and her message on to someone else, or help them create their own.

If you have a scanner you can always email your Molly or use the handy pre colored Molly!

Complete instructions and Downloadable PDFs can be found at www. asamom.org

The Save the Constitution - Read It! Campaign is not a group or a program.

It is an Attitude.

The purpose of Save it! Read it! is to encourage patriots everywhere to do two things: 1. Commit to reading The Constitution and review it often.

2. Encourage others to read the Constitution.

We have received challenges to read and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from various sources. All of us must commit to reading the Constitution of the United States of America and review it often. Only by understanding the principles upon which our government was founded can we recognize Constitutional abuses and be able to step up and stop that abuse.

The Save the Constitution - Read It! Campaign started as an extension of the Patriot Pin Program developed by As a Mom... A Sisterhood of Mommy Patriots to encourage patriots everywhere to save the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America.

Classroom packs of 25 bookmarks are available from www.AsAMom.org Pins, Pendants and bumper stickers are at www.asamomestore.com

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