Posts Tagged ‘ Michael Farris ’

UN Children’s Rights

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CBS News’ Political Hotsheet has an article about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: 31 GOP Senators Oppose U.N. Children’s Rights Convention by Brian Montopoli – 36 comments Thirty-one Republican senators are cosponsoring a resolution opposing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the conservative...
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Zombie Zealots Coming of Age

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There were a number of ways to view this piece in the Falls Church News-Press Online, but the view of homeschoolers and the homeschool movement is chilling: It appears America’s religious fanatics are modeling their efforts on the success of radical Islamists in the Middle East, who reversed the trend of secularization in the...
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Review-’WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN’

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WRITE THESE LAWS ON YOUR CHILDREN: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling By Robert Kunzman The book was released in August of 2009 and published by Beacon Press of Boston. A Review by Susan Ryan, Illinois Homeschooler In one of Robert Kunzman’s interviews with six “strongly conservative” Christian homeschooling families, a California homeschooling...
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Channeling Gomer Pyle

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Su-prise, su-prise, su-prise! Leader in home school movement to speak in Sioux Falls, 17 April 2008, Sioux Falls Argus Leader – Sioux Falls, South Dakota A leader in the national home school movement will speak in a conference Friday and Saturday in Sioux Falls. Mike Farris, chancellor at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va.,...
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Spunky on Rush on HSLDA on Huckabee

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Sounds like The House that Jack Built. Rush on HSLDA endorsement, 7 Janaury 2008, spunkyhomeschool So Rush was incorrect, HSLDA-PAC did endorse Huckabee. But if Ned Ryun is to be believed this endorsement was in reality a Farris endorsement acting alone but done through the PAC. So Rush may have been wrong and right...
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Mary Pride is an ahaH

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Huckabee Not the Best for Homeschoolers, 2008, Homeschool World This is something new for me. For the last 22 years, my family has served the homeschooling movement without ever uttering a single word (in print OR behind the scenes) regarding national or state politics. But now that one particular candidate-former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee-is...
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“Christian” politics?

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This part of a Washington Post article caught my eye: Huckabee, Romney Make Sunday Push for Evangelicals, 31 December 2007, Washington Post, Washington, D.C. On Friday, three national religious leaders backing Huckabee — Tim LaHaye, Michael Farris and Rick Scarborough — convened a conference call with Iowa pastors to urge them to use Sunday’s...
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Political Fundamentals

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Political Fundamentals

This New York Times article is a review of Hannah Rosin’s book God’s Harvard. Political Fundamentals, 9 September 2007, New York Times In the fall of 2000, a failed politician named Michael Farris threw open the doors to a Christian college in rural northern Virginia, … The mission of Patrick Henry College was to...
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