{"id":40356,"date":"2020-11-03T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40356"},"modified":"2020-11-03T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:38:09","slug":"this-is-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40356","title":{"rendered":"This Is Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Paul Mirengoff at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/11\/trump-establishes-1776-commission.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power Line Blog<\/a> reported that President Trump has signed an Executive Order establishing the 1776 to study the teaching of American history in America.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports the purpose of the Executive Order:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;empowers the 1776 Commission to produce and publicly disseminate a report within a year. That report shall discuss \u201cthe core principles of the American founding and how these principles may be understood to further enjoyment of \u2018the blessings of liberty\u2019 and to promote our striving \u2018to form a more perfect union.\u201d In other words, says Kurtz, \u201cthe 1776 Commission, likely to be populated by some of America\u2019s finest historians and scholars, will produce a report on the meaning of the Founding, on how American history can be understood as a struggle to realize our founding principles, and on how best to teach all this to the rising generation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article points out one ray of hope in the Executive Order:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But President Trump\u2019s order doesn\u2019t entail imposing his vision of patriotic education on the nation. Instead, he calls on local communities to reassert control over the curriculum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Isn\u2019t it great to have a president who views America with pride, who is willing, unabashedly, to defend our founding, and who will contest the views of radicals seeking to enlist an all-too-complicit education establishment in tearing America down? If Joe Biden wins the election, we won\u2019t have such a president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The federal government has no business in education in the states (because of the Tenth Amendment). This may actually be a step toward regaining local control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Paul Mirengoff at Power Line Blog reported that President Trump has signed an Executive Order establishing the 1776 to study the teaching of American history in America. The article reports the purpose of the Executive Order: &#8230;empowers the 1776 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40356\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13073,1551,3046,8203,10589],"class_list":["post-40356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1776-commission","tag-executive-order","tag-paul-mirengoff","tag-power-line-blog","tag-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40357,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40356\/revisions\/40357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}