<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - textbooks</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/textbooks</link><description>Newsvine - textbooks</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 05:48:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 02:17:24 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Guaranteed Knowledge Allowing a Chosen Response</title>
<description><![CDATA[Although a remarkable figure in history, Nikola Tesla remains a mystery to a great deal of people in our modern society. We&nbsp;are all affected by&nbsp;this problem because though seemingly slight, it is an example of an injustice.
The majority of people share the common belief&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[dance4334]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[dance4334]]></source><link>http://dance4334.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17663598-guaranteed-knowledge-allowing-a-chosen-response</link><guid>http://dance4334.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17663598-guaranteed-knowledge-allowing-a-chosen-response</guid><category>justice</category><category>freedom</category><category>nikola-tesla</category><category>textbooks</category><category>injustice</category><category>not-news</category><category>knowledge</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 05:48:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Existential Pain of Being Young, White, and Affluent </title>
<description><![CDATA[
By sophomore year Evan was sleeping on a blowup mattress in an empty house off campus. He had no bed. No furniture. No posters or mini-fridge or shelf fraught with textbooks. He had no friends. He had sold the former, severed ties with latter, and now spent his hours curled up &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ms CYPRAH]]></source><link>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/09/17247926-the-existential-pain-of-being-young-white-and-affluent</link><guid>http://mscyprah.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/09/17247926-the-existential-pain-of-being-young-white-and-affluent</guid><category>fda</category><category>campus</category><category>credit-card</category><category>us-news</category><category>textbooks</category><category>evan</category><category>aerobed</category><category>sophomore</category><category>prescription-drug-abuse</category><category>national-issues</category><category>oxycontin-addict</category><category>young-white-affluent</category><category>drug-monitoring-programs</category><category>liz-kulze</category><pubDate>Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:25:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA7A35F50-C86C-4F29-D005-3BEAAFF7510E.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="215" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mscyprahA7A35F50-C86C-4F29-D005-3BEAAFF7510E.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="65" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>&quot;The Revisionaries&quot;: Texas schoolbook battle — crazier than you thought!</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Don McLeroy is a dentist in suburban Texas with the geeky, earnest manner of an American guy who has educated himself, however imperfectly, on a wide variety of topics. With his balding pate and high-waisted, pleated slacks, he makes Ned Flanders from &ldquo;The Simpsons&rdquo;&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jedipunk]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jedipunk]]></source><link>http://jedipunk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/25/14698849-the-revisionaries-texas-schoolbook-battle-crazier-than-you-thought</link><guid>http://jedipunk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/25/14698849-the-revisionaries-texas-schoolbook-battle-crazier-than-you-thought</guid><category>education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>christianity</category><category>documentary-movies</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:04:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jedipunk183CF77E-EC22-4CD4-FC29-2E2F22A9EE08.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="150" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jedipunk183CF77E-EC22-4CD4-FC29-2E2F22A9EE08.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Tennessee Tea Party Groups Demand School Textbooks Overlook Slavery</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Remember the Tea Party &mdash; that reactionary right wing movement that helped lead the Republican Party into the fever swamp of madness?
Well, in places like Tennessee they found especially fertile ground, and that state&rsquo;s Teabaggers are now demanding that school textb&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/08/12624899-tennessee-tea-party-groups-demand-school-textbooks-overlook-slavery</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/08/12624899-tennessee-tea-party-groups-demand-school-textbooks-overlook-slavery</guid><category>slavery</category><category>tennessee</category><category>politics</category><category>textbooks</category><category>right-wing-lies</category><category>tea-party-republican</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2012 12:17:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfan6EEF4306-2694-A5E2-7DA6-4235E25CDB73.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="28" width="32" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfan6EEF4306-2694-A5E2-7DA6-4235E25CDB73.jpg&amp;width=120" width="32" height="28" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>South Korea set to remove examples of evolution from textbooks  - NY Daily News</title>
<description><![CDATA[South Korean publishers are poised to delete references to evolution from high-school textbooks, a victory for the growing creationist movement in the country.
The move came after the South Korean government passed along to publishers a petition organized by a pro-creationist gr&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[trekie70]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[trekie70]]></source><link>http://trekie70.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/07/12110297-south-korea-set-to-remove-examples-of-evolution-from-textbooks-ny-daily-news</link><guid>http://trekie70.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/07/12110297-south-korea-set-to-remove-examples-of-evolution-from-textbooks-ny-daily-news</guid><category>evolution</category><category>education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>darwinism</category><category>origin-of-the-species</category><category>ministry-of-education</category><category>us-institute-for-creation-research</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=trekie70356FE40C-94FE-B33D-9B55-08693B20CF73.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="210" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=trekie70356FE40C-94FE-B33D-9B55-08693B20CF73.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Don McLeroy - The Colbert Report</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Former Texas Board of Education Chairman Don McLeroy discusses the documentary "The Revisionaries," science in textbooks and religious conservatism.
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jedipunk]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jedipunk]]></source><link>http://jedipunk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11519766-don-mcleroy-the-colbert-report</link><guid>http://jedipunk.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11519766-don-mcleroy-the-colbert-report</guid><category>education</category><category>comedy-central</category><category>creationism</category><category>textbooks</category><category>stephen-colbert</category><category>don-mcleroy</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 13:32:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New Hope For Open Source Textbooks</title>
<description><![CDATA[A college textbook can cost a staggering $200. Over four years of  study, students can easily spend thousands of dollars on books on top of  a hefty tuition.
The situation is not much better in public elementary, middle and  high schools, where taxpayers pick up the bill.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[B-Rizzle]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[B-Rizzle]]></source><link>http://bluejackett24.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/20/10453884-new-hope-for-open-source-textbooks</link><guid>http://bluejackett24.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/20/10453884-new-hope-for-open-source-textbooks</guid><category>technology</category><category>education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>open-source-textboks</category><category>open-source-textbooks</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:48:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bluejackett24D9AB075C-AB8D-7080-2930-14F9F307D929.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="126" width="150" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bluejackett24D9AB075C-AB8D-7080-2930-14F9F307D929.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="101" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Tennessee Tea Party Wants Slavery Removed From School Textbooks To Make Founding Fathers Look Good </title>
<description><![CDATA[
As if the Tea Party hasn&rsquo;t butchered American history enough since their creation, the Tea Party in Tennessee is demanding the immediate removal of any mention of slavery as it applies to the Founding Fathers because they want schools clean up their image and teach studen&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/22/10212701-tennessee-tea-party-wants-slavery-removed-from-school-textbooks-to-make-founding-fathers-look-good</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/22/10212701-tennessee-tea-party-wants-slavery-removed-from-school-textbooks-to-make-founding-fathers-look-good</guid><category>slavery</category><category>tennessee</category><category>politics</category><category>textbooks</category><category>founding-fathers</category><category>right-wing-lies</category><category>tea-party-republicans</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:52:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfanE41983E3-73D2-2B11-B168-026124277AE5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=redsfanE41983E3-73D2-2B11-B168-026124277AE5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>10 Ways Right-Wing Christian Groups Will Likely Shove Religion Down Your Throat This Year </title>
<description><![CDATA[You don&rsquo;t have to look far or wide to see signs that the Religious Right was resurgent in 2011.
From  the halls of Congress, where the U.S.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Don Overton]]></source><link>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/05/9986091-10-ways-right-wing-christian-groups-will-likely-shove-religion-down-your-throat-this-year</link><guid>http://don-overton.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/05/9986091-10-ways-right-wing-christian-groups-will-likely-shove-religion-down-your-throat-this-year</guid><category>oklahoma</category><category>mormon</category><category>muslim</category><category>discrimination</category><category>politics</category><category>prayers</category><category>muslims</category><category>republicans</category><category>roman-catholic</category><category>mitt-romney</category><category>missouri</category><category>in-god-we-trust</category><category>anti-defamation-league</category><category>alliance-defense-fund</category><category>first-amendment</category><category>aclu</category><category>public-schools</category><category>textbooks</category><category>cult</category><category>right-wing</category><category>lds</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>same-sex-marriage</category><category>islamic-law</category><category>curriculum</category><category>fundamentalists</category><category>religious-symbols</category><category>religious-liberty</category><category>personhood</category><category>u-s-house-of-representatives</category><category>u-s-constitution</category><category>conference-of-catholic-bishops</category><category>proselytizing</category><category>christian-nation</category><category>americans-united</category><category>religious-minorities</category><category>christian-groups</category><category>values-voter-summit</category><category>save-our-state-amendment</category><category>voter-guides</category><category>faith-based-funding</category><category>school-voucher-onslaught</category><category>election-involvement</category><category>alliance-for-school-choice</category><category>religion-amendment</category><category>marriage-war</category><category>religiously-based-censorship</category><pubDate>Fri, 6 Jan 2012 00:17:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Palestine in Israeli School Books: Nurit Peled-Elhanan - YouTube</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Alternate Focus interviews Nurit Peled-Elhanan, author of the forthcoming book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Meloney]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Meloney]]></source><link>http://meloney.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/04/9203000-palestine-in-israeli-school-books-nurit-peled-elhanan-youtube</link><guid>http://meloney.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/04/9203000-palestine-in-israeli-school-books-nurit-peled-elhanan-youtube</guid><category>israel</category><category>myths</category><category>racism</category><category>palestine</category><category>world-news</category><category>textbooks</category><category>schoolbooks</category><category>nurit-peled-elhanan</category><category>strategies-racism</category><category>social-conformity</category><pubDate>Sun, 4 Dec 2011 14:14:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Texas History Education Standards Receive Dismal Reviews In Recent Report</title>
<description><![CDATA[
A recent report says Texas K-12 standards in history are&nbsp;inadequate, ineffective and "fail to meet the state's college readiness standards,"&nbsp;and the report's authors are pointing the finger at Gov.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[rescue dogs62]]></source><link>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/14/8790559-texas-history-education-standards-receive-dismal-reviews-in-recent-report</link><guid>http://onesearch4-2.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/14/8790559-texas-history-education-standards-receive-dismal-reviews-in-recent-report</guid><category>texas</category><category>education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>u-s-news</category><category>revisionists</category><category>history-textbooks</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:59:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null8EBAAD08-8794-85CC-E4A5-C385D1266800.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="82" width="112" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=null8EBAAD08-8794-85CC-E4A5-C385D1266800.jpg&amp;width=120" width="112" height="82" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Publisher Receives 'Terroristic' Threats After Complaints That Textbook Promoted Islam</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Police are looking into a series of online threats made against a Georgia textbook publisher after a parent complained that one of the books promoted Islam and polygamy.
The controversy began last week when Hal Medlin, the parent of a student at Campbell Middle School in Cobb &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/29/8036219-publisher-receives-terroristic-threats-after-complaints-that-textbook-promoted-islam</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/29/8036219-publisher-receives-terroristic-threats-after-complaints-that-textbook-promoted-islam</guid><category>georgia</category><category>politics</category><category>islam</category><category>textbooks</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:02:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=nullA9FC7C39-6656-B588-F7EA-7F02F11E45BB.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="320" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=nullA9FC7C39-6656-B588-F7EA-7F02F11E45BB.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>From oppressed to oppressor | The Dawn Blog | </title>
<description><![CDATA[ recently came across a news report about a simmering controversy over textbooks in the Punjab. An Islamiyat textbook had apparently committed the unforgivable sin of printing a photograph of a crucifix.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[bigsaf]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[bigsaf]]></source><link>http://bigsaf.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/27/6352765-from-oppressed-to-oppressor-the-dawn-blog</link><guid>http://bigsaf.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/27/6352765-from-oppressed-to-oppressor-the-dawn-blog</guid><category>human-rights</category><category>british</category><category>india</category><category>pakistan</category><category>spain</category><category>church</category><category>muslim</category><category>minority</category><category>violence</category><category>constitution</category><category>discrimination</category><category>mosque</category><category>military</category><category>prejudice</category><category>parade</category><category>islam</category><category>world-news</category><category>crucifix</category><category>prophet-muhammad</category><category>mecca</category><category>textbooks</category><category>restraint</category><category>secularists</category><category>bigotry</category><category>intolerance</category><category>minorities</category><category>majority</category><category>tolerance</category><category>repression</category><category>1947</category><category>calcutta</category><category>bengal</category><category>1945</category><category>common-sense</category><category>bigots</category><category>makkah</category><category>hindus</category><category>non-violent</category><category>punjab</category><category>tolerant</category><category>cowards</category><category>gettysburg-address</category><category>oppressor</category><category>jinnah</category><category>intolerant</category><category>1949</category><category>muslim-league</category><category>british-india</category><category>non-muslim</category><category>1940</category><category>zia</category><category>zia-ul-haq</category><category>zulfikar-ali-bhutto</category><category>majorities</category><category>pbuh</category><category>blasphemy-laws</category><category>opportunists</category><category>oppressed</category><category>demagogic</category><category>nadir-hassan</category><category>martin-luther-king-s</category><category>lahore-resolution</category><category>direct-action-day</category><category>pakistan-day</category><category>lahore-resolution-day</category><category>the-objectives-resolution</category><category>religious-sentiments</category><category>plight-of-muslims</category><category>guarantee-basic-protections</category><category>final-authority</category><category>militarised</category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:25:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Inaccurate textbooks banned from Virginia schools </title>
<description><![CDATA[Two social studies textbooks that were found to contain factual errors were blacklisted on Thursday by the Virginia Board of Education.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[redsfan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[redsfan]]></source><link>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/25/6345172-inaccurate-textbooks-banned-from-virginia-schools</link><guid>http://redsfan.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/25/6345172-inaccurate-textbooks-banned-from-virginia-schools</guid><category>slavery</category><category>politics</category><category>virginia</category><category>textbooks</category><category>propaganda</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:32:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Some Va. history texts filled with errors, review finds</title>
<description><![CDATA[ In the version of history being taught in some Virginia classrooms, New Orleans began the 1800s as a bustling U.S. harbor (instead of as a Spanish colonial one). The Confederacy included 12 states (instead of 11).]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[henry1966]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[henry1966]]></source><link>http://hvdk.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/29/5731540-some-va-history-texts-filled-with-errors-review-finds</link><guid>http://hvdk.newsvine.com/_news/2010/12/29/5731540-some-va-history-texts-filled-with-errors-review-finds</guid><category>schools</category><category>education</category><category>virginia</category><category>mistakes</category><category>textbooks</category><category>classrooms</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:23:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>From Europe: Tea Party Republicans - &quot;drooling imbeciles,&quot; &quot;rednecks,&quot; and a &quot;traveling circus of fools.&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[ On the day before this year's Mid-Term elections, I published a commentary to Andrew Leonard's Salon.com article, "The Unbearable Stupidity of American Voters." In the commentary, I made the following trepidacious forecast:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Basora]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Rick Basora]]></source><link>http://rickbasora.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/05/5409145-from-europe-tea-party-republicans-drooling-imbeciles-rednecks-and-a-traveling-circus-of-fools</link><guid>http://rickbasora.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/05/5409145-from-europe-tea-party-republicans-drooling-imbeciles-rednecks-and-a-traveling-circus-of-fools</guid><category>texas</category><category>germany</category><category>elections</category><category>british</category><category>new-york</category><category>senate</category><category>europe</category><category>ny</category><category>pastor</category><category>constitution</category><category>election</category><category>fraud</category><category>america</category><category>conservatives</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>president</category><category>health-care</category><category>war</category><category>american</category><category>england</category><category>house</category><category>jefferson</category><category>poverty</category><category>image</category><category>2012</category><category>change</category><category>nevada</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>fear</category><category>changing</category><category>harry-reid</category><category>mice</category><category>republican</category><category>christian</category><category>first-amendment</category><category>democrat</category><category>reid</category><category>election-fraud</category><category>cuomo</category><category>textbooks</category><category>atheism</category><category>conservative</category><category>paul</category><category>autism</category><category>stupid</category><category>brits</category><category>freedom-of-religion</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>theocracy</category><category>separation-of-church-and-state</category><category>thomas-jefferson</category><category>ignorance</category><category>partisan</category><category>autistic</category><category>masturbation</category><category>neo-con</category><category>atheist</category><category>values</category><category>christine</category><category>curriculum</category><category>neo-conservatives</category><category>1st-amendment</category><category>neo-cons</category><category>extreme-right</category><category>reverend</category><category>mitch-mcconnell</category><category>opression</category><category>odonnell</category><category>ignorant</category><category>demint</category><category>deist</category><category>bi-partisan</category><category>sarah-palin</category><category>radical-right</category><category>american-theocracy</category><category>value-voters</category><category>anoint</category><category>anointing</category><category>2012-election</category><category>christian-extremist</category><category>value-voters-summit</category><category>christine-odonnell</category><category>free-thinker</category><category>texas-school-board</category><category>president-palin</category><category>paladino</category><category>texas-sboe</category><category>us-gop-tea-party-obama-republicans</category><category>rand-plaul</category><category>radical-christian</category><category>limited-information</category><category>ameras-image</category><pubDate>Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:06:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FRickBasora2F5410031.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="475" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FRickBasora2F5410031.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="157" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;From England: Novemer 4, 2004 Brits opinion on re-election of George W. Bush - How Can 59,054,087 People Be So Dumb?&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA - The World's Newest Fundamentalist Nation (a work in progress)</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Not much frightens me, but I must admit that, even as an investigative writer who covered the heated, racially charged Presidential Primaries of 2008, this radical religious &ldquo;thing&rdquo; that is slowly emerging from the bottom of the roiling cauldron of this year&rsquo;s &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Basora]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Rick Basora]]></source><link>http://rickbasora.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/29/5370400-the-united-states-of-america-the-worlds-newest-fundamentalist-nation-a-work-in-progress</link><guid>http://rickbasora.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/29/5370400-the-united-states-of-america-the-worlds-newest-fundamentalist-nation-a-work-in-progress</guid><category>texas</category><category>elections</category><category>new-york</category><category>senate</category><category>ny</category><category>pastor</category><category>constitution</category><category>election</category><category>fraud</category><category>america</category><category>conservatives</category><category>democrats</category><category>politics</category><category>president</category><category>health-care</category><category>war</category><category>american</category><category>house</category><category>jefferson</category><category>poverty</category><category>2012</category><category>change</category><category>nevada</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>fear</category><category>changing</category><category>harry-reid</category><category>mice</category><category>republican</category><category>christian</category><category>first-amendment</category><category>democrat</category><category>reid</category><category>election-fraud</category><category>cuomo</category><category>textbooks</category><category>atheism</category><category>conservative</category><category>paul</category><category>autism</category><category>stupid</category><category>freedom-of-religion</category><category>john-boehner</category><category>theocracy</category><category>separation-of-church-and-state</category><category>thomas-jefferson</category><category>ignorance</category><category>partisan</category><category>autistic</category><category>masturbation</category><category>neo-con</category><category>atheist</category><category>values</category><category>christine</category><category>curriculum</category><category>neo-conservatives</category><category>1st-amendment</category><category>neo-cons</category><category>extreme-right</category><category>reverend</category><category>mitch-mcconnell</category><category>opression</category><category>odonnell</category><category>ignorant</category><category>demint</category><category>deist</category><category>bi-partisan</category><category>sarah-palin</category><category>radical-right</category><category>american-theocracy</category><category>value-voters</category><category>anoint</category><category>anointing</category><category>2012-election</category><category>christian-extremist</category><category>value-voters-summit</category><category>christine-odonnell</category><category>free-thinker</category><category>texas-school-board</category><category>paladino</category><category>texas-sboe</category><category>us-gop-tea-party-obama-republicans</category><category>prsedent-palin</category><category>rand-plaul</category><category>radical-christian</category><category>limited-information</category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FRickBasora2F5517622.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="500" width="333" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FRickBasora2F5517622.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;                                America Divided by God&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>School Textbook Calls Founders 'Old Dead White Men'</title>
<description><![CDATA[Concern over a new hip-hop curriculum that refers to the founding fathers as "old dead white men" has delayed the program's rollout for at-risk students, Oklahoma City Public Schools Superintendent Karl Springer said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S.-1381946]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[John S.-1381946]]></source><link>http://js10131979.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/05/5233408-school-textbook-calls-founders-old-dead-white-men</link><guid>http://js10131979.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/05/5233408-school-textbook-calls-founders-old-dead-white-men</guid><category>oklahoma</category><category>education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>propaganda</category><category>us-history</category><category>founders</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:07:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>International Group Of Jewish Activists Attempt To Break Gaza Blockade ~~~ VIDEO</title>
<description><![CDATA[The boat, named Irene, was carrying 10 passengers and crew, including Jews from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Israel.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[jade-log]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[jade-log]]></source><link>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/28/5191726-international-group-of-jewish-activists-attempt-to-break-gaza-blockade-video</link><guid>http://jade-log.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/28/5191726-international-group-of-jewish-activists-attempt-to-break-gaza-blockade-video</guid><category>politics</category><category>gaza</category><category>cyprus</category><category>textbooks</category><category>blockade</category><category>fishing-nets</category><category>musical-instruments</category><category>prosthetic-limbs</category><category>childrens-toys</category><category>jewish-activist-organizations</category><category>gaza-mental-health</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:54:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Texas education board to consider rule on Islam's portrayal in textbooks</title>
<description><![CDATA[Just when it appeared the State Board of Education was done with the culture wars, the panel is about to wade into the issue of what students should learn about Islam.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[American Spirit]]></source><link>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/15/5116586-texas-education-board-to-consider-rule-on-islams-portrayal-in-textbooks</link><guid>http://americanspirit.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/15/5116586-texas-education-board-to-consider-rule-on-islams-portrayal-in-textbooks</guid><category>education</category><category>islam</category><category>textbooks</category><category>christianity</category><category>texas-state-board-of-education</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:01:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>6 Outrageously Overpriced Products</title>
<description><![CDATA[
Unless you're filthy rich, you've probably noticed that movie theatre popcorn costs an arm and a leg. Still, for some unknown reason, countless consumers shell out the big bucks for this greasy flick-food.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[B-Rizzle]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[B-Rizzle]]></source><link>http://bluejackett24.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/31/5011306-6-outrageously-overpriced-products</link><guid>http://bluejackett24.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/31/5011306-6-outrageously-overpriced-products</guid><category>business</category><category>popcorn</category><category>water</category><category>products</category><category>cards</category><category>textbooks</category><category>bottled-water</category><category>ink</category><category>greeting-cards</category><category>fashions</category><category>printer-ink</category><category>overpriced</category><category>college-textbooks</category><category>overpriced-products</category><category>movie-theatre-popcorn</category><category>brand-name-fashions</category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:12:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fairfax County schools to try out online textbooks for a year</title>
<description><![CDATA[Fairfax County public schools might be moving toward online textbooks, beginning with a pilot program this fall. ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PiCubed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PiCubed]]></source><link>http://picubed.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/16/4904285-fairfax-county-schools-to-try-out-online-textbooks-for-a-year</link><guid>http://picubed.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/16/4904285-fairfax-county-schools-to-try-out-online-textbooks-for-a-year</guid><category>schools</category><category>education</category><category>students</category><category>teachers</category><category>textbooks</category><category>ebooks</category><category>fairfax-county</category><category>education-technology</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:44:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New law, e-books and rentals may make college textbooks less costly - USATODAY.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[On Friday afternoons between work and rugby practice, Brittany Wolfe would rush to the campus library hoping copies of her advanced algebra textbook had not all been checked out by like-minded classmates.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PiCubed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PiCubed]]></source><link>http://picubed.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/16/4903022-new-law-e-books-and-rentals-may-make-college-textbooks-less-costly-usatodaycom</link><guid>http://picubed.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/16/4903022-new-law-e-books-and-rentals-may-make-college-textbooks-less-costly-usatodaycom</guid><category>college</category><category>students</category><category>higher-education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>e-books</category><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:51:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ping - In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks - NYTimes.com</title>
<description><![CDATA[Will school textbooks go digital?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[S.Hatami]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[S.Hatami]]></source><link>http://hatami.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/09/4849804-ping-in-school-systems-slow-progress-for-open-source-textbooks-nytimescom</link><guid>http://hatami.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/09/4849804-ping-in-school-systems-slow-progress-for-open-source-textbooks-nytimescom</guid><category>education</category><category>open-source</category><category>textbooks</category><category>houghton-mifflin</category><pubDate>Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Textbooks Ditched At High School As Students Get Ready For E-Books</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here's one way to lighten a student's backpack: say goodbye to textbooks.

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<dc:creator><![CDATA[maddad]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[maddad]]></source><link>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/02/4450651-textbooks-ditched-at-high-school-as-students-get-ready-for-e-books</link><guid>http://maddad0467.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/02/4450651-textbooks-ditched-at-high-school-as-students-get-ready-for-e-books</guid><category>education</category><category>textbooks</category><category>e-books</category><category>replace</category><category>amazon-kindle</category><category>ditched</category><category>clearwater-high-school</category><category>one-million-dollars-in-savings</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:11:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>