Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in Atlanta. She is organizing the Resistance to the Re-Education of America at www.DissidentProf.com. Her writing can be found at www.marygrabar.com. Subscribe to dispatches here. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In 1969, hippies and the Vietnam War were abstractions to me, glimpses from photos in an occasional Life Magazine. I had not heard about the Weathermen. I was twelve years old. In the following year my main source of http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2013/05/15/bill-ayers-bringing-down-america-destroying-education-n1596641 c10947b8-4ca1-452c-aee0-402b441a13f9 Wed, 15 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT My antennae go up whenever any education initiative is associated with radicals, like Bill Ayers. We still don't know why Bill Ayers was at an education conference with Arne Duncan and a representative from Achieve,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2013/04/18/more-radicals-for-common-core-the-proamnesty-contingent-n1571723 b7e6708b-c52c-4654-b4e3-9b69297e7c58 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:04:00 GMT When the radicals start defending "standards," that's when you have to become suspicious-of the standards. That is the case with Obama's federalized education plan called Common Core. Perhaps there is no clearer... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2013/04/05/common-core-when-radicals-defend-standards-n1558219 317baeeb-ebe9-423f-abfc-f92c243cfd42 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:01:00 GMT First we have a college student ordered to stomp on a piece of paper with the word Jesus written on it. But on Holy Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education sent out this video from the Teaching Channel with a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2013/04/01/dissident-prof-dispatch-common-core-teaching-demonstrating-a-crucifixion-n1554578 f67e4a15-5626-4049-a638-9eec563daea3 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:18:00 GMT Where to begin with the screed in The New Republic, "Original Sin: Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people," mislabeled "an historical investigation"? In his claim that racism is the original... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2013/02/16/sam-tanenhauss-fevered-historical-imagination-about-the-racist-gop-n1512773 758ce60b-4b77-4f2f-8ff2-f80259d65d21 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:01:00 GMT Ask any college freshman what he knows about communism and he will likely engage in a word association game. "The red scare, McCarthyism," he will blurt out, displaying lessons well-learned from his textbooks and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2013/01/19/common-core-orwellian-lessons-in-florida-n1490561 f08ff314-a197-4a9a-89ac-719d4fbcefdc Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:01:00 GMT Liberal media outlets presented President Obama as a competent and compassionate leader in the time of a natural disaster, last week's Hurricane Sandy. Some attribute Obama's slight bump up in the polls to the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/11/05/obama_replacing_the_tuxedo_with_the_bomber_jacket c03d7cdf-6941-4c2b-8ea0-51221d19dd46 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:30:00 GMT Sorry, fact checkers at Associated Press: you are wrong about Barack Obama's claim that Mitt Romney's accusation that Obama went on an "apology tour" was a "whopper" (of a lie). You sniffed, "Romney has repeatedly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/10/24/yes_it_was_an_apology_tour fcf54ba4-1ec3-4c28-975f-00b228da0c59 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT Vice President Joe Biden, in his debate with Congressman Paul Ryan last Thursday, attempted one of many of the strategies liberals use when debating conservatives. The American public got a great display of advancements... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/10/16/wear_your_romneyryan_tshirt fd2e775f-1619-48cf-a89c-6c069486239c Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:01:00 GMT Recently announced Vice Presidential pick Paul Ryan is being called a radical by the left for his fiscal policies. But no one would expect that anyone would imply that the Roman Catholic family man would be a Black... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/08/21/the_historically_incorrect_smear_of_paul_ryan 13dc664f-d988-4051-84c6-d74756b6bc08 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:01:00 GMT It was while I was driving from Florida, where I gave a presentation on education to citizens, that I heard from talk show hosts about the abuse by North Carolina High School social studies teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/05/23/ignorant_teachers_who_see_obama_as_a_king 9c2ec988-7dff-4208-b001-ed0f11cdbabb Wed, 23 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Why would GALEO (Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials), which lobbies against enforcement of immigration laws, thank “students” and “educators” (among others) for defeating Georgia... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/04/13/georgia_professors_bribe_students_to_lobby_legislators 28805b2b-7a91-465b-81ec-facc442ed779 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:32:00 GMT What happens when an education editor wants to advance her own liberal agenda, even as her newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, brags about "Bringing Balance to Opinions"? She publishes an op-ed by a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/03/14/editors_collude_with_distinguished_professors_to_silence_education_reform_debate 530f8b97-aa8b-4f69-9416-c11bc0dcc603 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:41:00 GMT In an age and time when I find most of my college students unfamiliar with the story of Adam and Eve or the origin of the phrase, "judge not lest ye be judged," I enter discussions about religion with some caution.... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2012/02/22/teaching_george_washington_when_professors_aim_to_stop_santorum 84705013-3190-4f0a-8b4e-59ed0186b9c1 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT It was right around the same time that Marc Lamont Hill ("Professor, Author, Speaker, Public Intellectual," according to his website) claimed to Bill O'Reilly that conservatives and Republicans are incapable of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2011/12/12/deconstructing_newt_gingrichs_dissertation 0645bff8-4ad8-4aa6-9ed3-1109ffe1b799 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:00:00 GMT Dissident Prof is getting whiplash every time she visits the website for the Center for American Progress. Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow and “distinguished professor of English” at Brooklyn College,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2011/12/08/dissident_prof_rants_the_media_bias_against_occupy_wall_street 17c39e4c-287d-456d-a939-8cdbf7ba3955 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:28:00 GMT In a turn-around that made the Dissident Prof’s head spin more than Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist, the Center for American Progress, the think tank co-founded by George Soros, posted several articles and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2011/11/29/news_flash!__progressives_hail_founding_fathers,_praise_the_constitution 454c64f1-f04d-4e01-badc-2457e783a161 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:35:00 GMT Many of the signs at the recent Wisconsin protests against Governor Scott Walker's efforts to scale back public union power reminded us that "if you can read this sign, thank a teacher." But they should read, "If you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2011/03/15/see_a_picket_line_thank_a_teacher ba33d350-8a8d-482d-8dd5-3aaa06382279 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:20:50 GMT For college students at the memorial service for the victims of the January 8th shooting at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' event the benediction by a longhaired college professor invoking "masculine energy" and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2011/01/20/charges_of_"incivility"_silence_lessons_from_school 93bb161c-c0d9-4711-9da1-1088a685cbd8 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:32:35 GMT The media, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Democrat politicians are predictably using the tragic shooting of Gabrielle Giffords by what appears to be a mentally deranged young man to make political points and clamp... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2011/01/11/the_real_decay_of_rhetoric_labeling_speech_in_the_tucson_shooting 7cbfb3fc-bfab-4f0f-b523-b80faaf72f8e Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:01:00 GMT Finally, a Kennedy has come out to denounce, albeit in a very small way, one of the privileged professors who have worked, both inside and outside the classroom, on behalf of murderous revolution. ... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/09/27/sociopath_professors,_part_iii_too_little_too_late_"punishment"_for_ayers f853a583-b4e7-4924-a334-36c1ec0576b6 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:00:36 GMT "We are terrorizing ourselves." So says Fawaz Gerges, professor at the London School of Economics. To him, someone who esteems himself capable of seeing beyond what ordinary mortals see by virtue of the powerful... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/09/17/the_sociopath_professors_part_ii_we_are_terrorizing_ourselves 32fc2d1e-ff2d-497e-a71b-1e05f5f20a9a Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT Howls of protest are coming from Los Angeles teachers whose evaluations on their effectiveness in raising student test scores have been published in the Los Angeles Times.But that is to be expected, for teachers are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/09/13/merit_pay_a_start_toward_making_sure_teachers_follow_their_job_descriptions a2fb8cba-606c-40b5-9845-3e2d073162fb Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:00:00 GMT I was probably one of the last people in the world to learn about the attack on September 11, 2001. I was deep into revising my dissertation on Walker Percy for a committee member who ultimately had to be replaced;... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/09/11/sociopathic_intellectuals_on_911 c92d3efd-f205-4ca9-a327-157e70ba8423 Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:01:00 GMT So you think that if you plunk down $200,000 for Junior's education at an Ivy League school, rated in the top ten by U.S. News and World Report or the Princeton Review, he'll become a well-educated,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/08/16/higher_education_why_pay_more ba4794c3-71d5-41f8-b256-15d0b012dda2 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:24:00 GMT I tell my college students to feel free to hate. I try to explain to them that in the context of all the other freedoms of choice they have, like their "spiritual path," their gender identification, term papers... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/07/14/the_freedom_to_hate f15be8ef-3f04-4b5b-9fd6-5dfb9ba8fb41 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:36:37 GMT The slave-turned-abolitionist Frederick Douglass answered this question which serves as the title of the speech he gave on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. The Fourth of July is "A day that reveals to [the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/07/04/what_to_the_slave_is_the_fourth_of_july feff2126-e3d3-46d2-9400-93103b327029 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:40:18 GMT Author's note: Much of the mainstream media coverage of tea parties has been unfair and based on outright lies. But I have to give credit to my city's newspaper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/06/23/profiling_populists_and_the_tea_party 39df0727-e1f8-4ba2-839c-0305bdaa6e18 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:01:00 GMT Greetings from the fourth congressional district in Georgia! You know where we are. We are represented by a Buddhist who worries that Guam will fall into the ocean, who saw in his mind's eye "folks putting http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/06/14/guam,_guns_and_grannies_in_white_hoods_save_us_from_hank_johnson 65b7633a-7d89-4fec-9ca5-4b02237d5ccd Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:52:50 GMT I was shocked to learn that Al and Tipper Gore were going Splitsville and there was no other woman in the picture-no call girl, Argentinean divorcee, amateur videographer, or intern. So I figured that since Al... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/06/07/al_gore_goes_on_a_date 67329b47-70ca-4726-9170-167760902b8a Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:17 GMT Collaboration, or working in groups, is a favorite pedagogical strategy of hung-over graduate teaching assistants, soviet indoctrinators, educators with advanced degrees, and social studies teachers too dumb to do anyth http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/03/08/group_work_=_group_think db9b446c-5783-4972-b04d-3965d5b04255 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:43:06 GMT Imagine if, as you chat with your child's first-grade teacher and ask about how he decided to embark on a career in education, he told you, "I walked out of jail and into my first teaching job." Imagine him telling... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2009/08/12/direct_threat_to_education_bill_ayers f2977663-4090-40fb-802f-20011ea76fb3 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:00:59 GMT I was a bit surprised to hear former Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge echo President Obama's criticism of Rush Limbaugh by calling him "shrill" and "divisive" recently. Then Senator John Cronyn joined in th http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2009/06/03/rush_limbaugh,_intellectual 54b487a9-3b23-4017-be88-fe6c2a9c27e6 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:25:41 GMT When I teach Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech to my college students, the few students who know who Barry Goldwater was usually claim that he was a reactionary racist. They've learned their lessons... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2009/05/06/1964_act_should_guard_individual,_not_groups 5853323e-e7b4-44f7-bbe5-536227f6a070 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:46:51 GMT             Tis the season. . .  for atheist Grinches to display their hatred of Christmas by trying to stomp out one of the most visible displays of Christianity in a country founded, and still operating on,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/12/25/the_atheists_who_try_to_steal_christmas e0d5272d-362d-4b14-9411-fcd0e27b3494 Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:01:00 GMT The final issue of American Home, the oldest Slovenian newspaper in the world arrived in my mailbox last month. The masthead, as always, featured the Statue of Liberty and the slogan, "American in Spirit; Fo http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/09/28/an_elegy_for_american_home___and_american_immigrants da52ed4f-bdec-4eda-922c-926bda8692db Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Every morning God wakes me up and whispers in my ear, "Goest thou, Mary, through Cyber Land and write for the people. Spread the truth about the evils of atheism, false churches with racist preachers, the eg http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/09/14/god_told_me_to_write_this_column bfd9f43e-80fb-4f91-b61d-bd74ec0b5903 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:01:00 GMT Ah! The sisterhood! I've experienced it. In academia the sisterhood reigns. They have a grip, and exclude every woman who does not share their animus. They are all too happy to disperse their money and support to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/08/31/the_harpies_are_out_to_get_sarah_palin 2e06ec85-fb9f-4ce6-91b7-415d0e568c23 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:30:40 GMT This piece is co-authored by Mary Grabar and Brian Birdnow. Is John McCain's campaign sputtering along the same track that Gerald Ford's and Bob Dole's did? History--after November 4, 2008--will tell. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/08/20/suggestions_to_mccain_to_keep_the_straight-talk_express_on_track 9969bd7a-74cc-422d-bda4-7c798233abe2 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:58:04 GMT When I heard that a major part of Barack Obama's resume included a stint as a "community organizer," I asked myself what the term meant. It's sort of like "activist." I had alw http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/22/you_need_a_weatherman_to_tell_which_way_obama_will_go 128b56b3-8439-4e25-a973-b969f332097c Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT It appears that my use of war metaphors in the opening paragraph of my last column confused a number of people, including someone who blogs at both the American Spectator and the Huffington Post.* * My sentence,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/15/metaphors_for_dummies* 439b3b26-09c4-45fe-aa56-3e24b5387912 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:00:27 GMT An Obama presidency would signal the final salvo by the Left in the culture wars. Obama's advance troops have already taken over our college campuses, have bound and gagged our conservative professors, have ravished... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/06/09/obama's_presidency_victory_in_the_culture_wars 402f0f58-4a4c-41d6-bcfd-23fddadfdf45 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:00:26 GMT "All's fair in love and war." For men of a certain ideological stripe that's true. One of my 80-year-old relatives tells about her experiences as a teenage girl during World War II. Her... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/26/love_and_war b7ec626c-6877-445b-ac0a-90a4882eed6d Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT "Back in my little town," as the song goes, there is "nothing but the dead and dying." Well, if you want to take the northeast section of Rochester, New York, once a neighborhood of plain, but well-kept, houses, as a l http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/25/h_rap_brown,_jeremiah_wright,_and_the_wisdom_of_an_aging_mine_electrician 45162754-c6f7-42ac-9dbe-1afcc7c3cdef Sun, 25 May 2008 04:00:27 GMT One of the unwritten codes for white teachers teaching in public schools has been that when it comes time to discipline a black student, the task should be left to another black teacher or administrator. This is to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/10/assaults_on_teachers_not_just_for_crackers_anymore b4346d26-2516-436e-b182-8eeeb8570bb9 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT In my ignorance, I once held hopes of gaining entrance into a club more exclusive than any country club or nightclub. Having been educated in public schools and therefore exposed to only one form of thought, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/05/04/because_they_wouldnt_let_me_in_their_club 4914fda3-d925-427d-9c4c-4eb76039b308 Sun, 04 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT On a National Public Radio story about violence against teachers, a male high school teacher who suffered permanent injuries from an attack by a student reflected back on the experience and mused that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/04/27/welcome_back,_teach,_but_learn_self-defense_first b35ab7bb-8dd0-45e5-b0bc-1d3a220736e0 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT We know who you're talking about, Barack Obama, when you talk about Pennsylvania and the Midwest, about small towns where the jobs have left. We know who you're talking about when you talk about those who "get bitter"... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/04/20/yes,_barack_obama,_we_are_bitter 43effda0-cd3c-4d99-87fb-1107f6f99056 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:58:23 GMT When I saw the banner held by the ten "brave" grannies arrested for protesting the Iraq War in front of an Atlanta Army recruiting station on March 17, and the same tag in the YouTube video by an aspiring... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2008/04/06/granny_did_not_get_run_over_by_a_tank fe584806-cd94-406b-abcc-27373cfe7c55 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT