09010903 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 3 – Hugh spends the hour debating Obamacare with the legislative policy director for the American Association of Retired Persons, yes, AARP, David Certner.
09010902 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 2 – Hugh talks about Obama’s education indoctrination speech he’s planning next week with pre-eminent military historian and classicist, Victor Davis Hanson, foreign policy in Afghanistan and the Holder decision to go after CIA interrogators with Max Boot of the Council On Foreign Relations, and Russian missionary work with Stan Lazarian and Gary Parsons.
09010901 Hugh Hewitt: Hour 1 – Hugh talks about the disturbing plan for Barack Obama to address the public school children of America next week with National Review Campaign Spot blogger, Jim Geraghty.
Gary Parsons who leads Young Life in Russia and the former Soviet Union will be stopping by the studio, accompanied by Stan Lazarian of Armenian Gospel Mission for some conversation on how evangelical Christianity is faring in the former lands of Stalin
Here’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s letter to principles announcing President Obama’s speech to America’s schoolchildren on September 8.
Here’s the list of suggested classroom activities for before, during, and after the speech for grades pre-K to 6 grades 7 to 12.
In the section for pre-K to 6th graders titled “Extension of the Speech: Teachers can extend learning by having students” is this suggestion:
• Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. These would be collected and redistributed at an appropriate later date by the teacher to make students accountable to their goals.
Liberals will say critics of this “first ever” presidential speech to students are politicizing a nice gesture by the president about the importance of learning.
But the widespread and growing objection to the idea is that the president has no business injecting himself into every classroom or suggesting to teachers that they help students figure out how they can help the president. If W has tried such a stunt he would have been rightfully roasted for doing so. It is a terrible idea, and ought to be abandoned, but won’t be. Parents who object to the exercise are going to find themselves mocked, but many will do so nonetheless. Whether they will be listened to remains to be seen.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a national contest for video submissions on this question was won by Chapman Law student Branigan Robertson. The video:
I don’t know if Mr. Branigan is in my ConLaw class, but I hope so.
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Gary Parsons who leads Young Life in Russia and the former Soviet Union will be stopping by the studio, accompanied by Stan Lazarian of Armenian Gospel Mission for some conversation on how evangelical Christianity is faring in the former lands of Stalin