By: Diane Benjamin Start with what most people would agree with: Students should to be taught how to think, not what to think. That means the cultural and political views of teachers should never enter the classroom. If your kids know who their teacher voted for, where they stand on abortion, or what activism they […]
Sorry, I’ve been sidetracked away from history for way too long. Since February is Black History month and much of Black History has been erased by progressives, here’s a story you probably don’t know. A former black slaved named Jack Sisson was a hero of the Revolutionary War. In case you forgot, that war won […]
By: Diane Benjamin This is something I have wanted to do for a LONG time. We aren’t being taught our founding documents which allows threats freedom. We have people attempting to steal liberty and too many who don’t understand why America is different from every other country. Here we believe in the individual not some […]
By: Diane Benjamin BlnNews.com now has a ton of history – all the way back to early 2012. Here’s a nugget you might have forgotten: Bloomington didn’t have a gas tax until 2014. They didn’t have an Amusement Tax either. Fazzini and Fruin voted for for both. The gas tax only meant nothing had to […]
By: Diane Benjamin Democrats have lost their minds: High school kids will never have a job again. Businesses aren’t going to pay $15 an hour to a kid who has never worked before. They have to be trained to show up on time and actually work the entire time they are clocked in for. They […]
We live in a great country where everyday acts of kindness largely go unreported. I hope these stories prove Americans are still the most generous and caring people on earth. Good Samaritan returns wallet left on Frontier flight, adds money to it just because http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/us-world-news/good-samaritan-returns-wallet-left-on-frontier-flight-adds-money-to-it-just-because Soldier Says A Stranger’s Christmas Card Got Him Through Vietnam. […]
By: Diane Benjamin Today the paper has a cool graph showing City of Bloomington budgets for the last 10 years. I recapped the same info here: https://blnnews.com/2018/03/08/bloomington-budget-workshop-saturday/ See the Pantagraph graph here – bottom of the story: http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/government-and-politics/council-eyes-business-fees-overdue-parking-fines-to-balance-budget/article_b1dd3a23-7b7c-50aa-8f9e-30046a7375a9.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1 Instead of pretending spending is up over 10 years, they should have marked on the graph […]
Maybe when a 30 year History Teacher has a problem with Common Core, somebody should listen! The next question is why did the Chicago Tribune refuse to print it? “Nothing that is capable of being memorized is history” R.G. Collingwood “History is an argument without end” Peter Geyl The End of History in Illinois? As […]
by: Norm Lenhart Everyone, I know we all have opinions on this and mine is no more special than your own. But I ask you all to think seriously on the following and the deeper implications of it: From the dawn of recorded history, the story of mankind, in all it’s aspects, is a series […]
From: Maggie Raffel To: president@whitehouse.gov Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:47 PM Subject: From a Concerned Business Woman in Ohio Mr. President, I’ve read your speech about business creation and I’ve listened to it and I’ve looked at it in every context you could ask me to look at it in, except the rose-colored […]
