{"id":310,"date":"2004-03-21T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/the-past-\r\n\r\nrepeats-itself\/"},"modified":"2004-03-21T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T17:02:47","slug":"the-past-\r\n\r\nrepeats-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-past-\r\n\r\nrepeats-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past Repeats Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

GOP Collegians are not claiming ”victim <\/p>\n

status.” … These young men and women eager for knowledge are merely seeking a balanced presentation of materials. Classrooms today <\/p>\n

do not foster a ”marketplace of ideas” — which is at the very core of an education.<\/p>\n

Students are being inundated with <\/p>\n

left-wing ideology<\/b>, without an alternative viewpoint presented in the classroom. — CHARLES MESSIN, Rio Rancho, ABQjournal: Letters to the <\/p>\n

Editor<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The recent furor over too many Democrats at the University reminds me of Spiro Agnew. Young <\/p>\n

Republicans may have to google Agnew to find he was a foul-mouthed petty thug who was forced to resign from the Vice Presidency (yes, <\/p>\n

before Dick Nixon, conservative Republican, did the same thing). Before Agnew’s fall, he railed against the liberal media and <\/p>\n

universities. So did another great conservative, George Wallace.<\/p>\n

Funny that we hear the same crap today, more than 30 years later. <\/p>\n

Apparently, conservatives believe they narrowly escaped the fiendish programming of their liberal teachers. Who taught you to read, to <\/p>\n

write, to reason, to listen? Must have been all those Republican grade school teachers. It certainly wasn’t Rush Limbaugh, Jerry <\/p>\n

Falwell, Pat Robertson, ad nauseum. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ultra<\/i>liberalism today translates into a whimpering <\/p>\n

isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law <\/p>\n

and order. — Spiro T. Agnew<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[notice it is no longer necessary to append ”ultra<\/i>-” — just liberalism<\/b> <\/p>\n

is scathing enough.]<\/p>\n

\"SpiroSpiro Agnew – Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

On October 10, 1973, Agnew became the <\/p>\n

second Vice President to resign the office. Unlike John C. Calhoun, who resigned to take a seat in the Senate, Agnew resigned after <\/p>\n

pleading nolo contendere (no contest) to a criminal charge of tax evasion<\/b>, part of a scheme where he allegedly accepted $29,500 in <\/p>\n

bribes<\/b> during his tenure as governor of Maryland. Agnew was fined $10,000 and put on three years’ probation.<\/p>\n

Online NewsHour: <\/p>\n

Remembering Spiro Agnew — September 18, 1996<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOP Collegians are not claiming ”victim status.” … These young men and women eager for knowledge are merely seeking a balanced presentation of materials. Classrooms today do not foster a ”marketplace of ideas” — which is at the very core of an education. Students are being inundated with left-wing ideology, without an alternative viewpoint presented … Continue reading The Past Repeats Itself<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}