{"id":6365,"date":"2010-11-23T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2010-11-23T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T23:53:34","slug":"poisoning-young-minds-howard-zinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/11\/23\/poisoning-young-minds-howard-zinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisoning Young Minds: Howard Zinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk lately about whether indoctrination is going on in our public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Zinn has re-written history and the books are being used in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington-based think tank, recently carried a favorable review of a book by Howard Zinn.<\/p>\n<p>While the reviewer \u2014 IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin \u2014 designates Zinn &#8220;the people&#8217;s historian,&#8221; nowhere is it mentioned that the late Mr. Zinn was a member of the Communist Party. His lying take on &#8220;history&#8221; has poisoned the minds of children in schools from K-12 and in universities from coast-to-coast. (See this column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/vernon\/100809\">&#8220;Howard Zinn: Communist Liar,&#8221;<\/a> Aug. 9, 2010, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/vernon\/100906\">&#8220;Is it safe to send your child to school?,&#8221;<\/a> Sept. 7, 2010.)<\/p>\n<p>So what else is new?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewamerica.com\/columns\/vernon\/101115\">Read: Web of subversive activity? &#8212; George Soros and a Washington &#8216;far left&#8217; think tank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk lately about whether indoctrination is going on in our public schools. Howard Zinn has re-written history and the books are being used in public schools. &#8220;The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Washington-based think tank, recently carried a favorable review of a book by Howard Zinn. While the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}