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And half the students wanted to be put to death instead of being forced to listen to him.

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Imagine if our mass media actually informed the audience, as part of the event coverage, when a presidential candidate says something that's unambiguously false...

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The Chicago Teachers Union also opposes Common Core. Ergo, Ted Cruz is a filthy commie Canadian-Cuban sleeper agent. INPEACH!!!1!

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I read that attendance at his speech was mandatory, so it was probably much more than half.

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I think he stops the Chemtrails first.

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LOL. yes. I know my avatar is loud. I am a high school reading teacher and I am sick of seeing my kids increasingly shut out of an education by this - what is essentially - a war that has been declared on public ed.

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Liberty University's "Common Core" program:

There are no wrong answers if you are blonde, and your legs look fantastic through a glass desk.

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Lower taxes, probably.

Or make war with Iran.

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Wait, did Rick Santorum announce, or something?

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Liberty's lack of credibility is a feature, not a bug.

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We'd be hearing about how the Liberals persecuted him because they hate god.

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I seem to remember Mittens promising that too.

Oddly, Mittens isn't president...

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And that's why you're not a Republican politician, Symmetry. Obama is what's wrong with everything.

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I've seen the way Common Core teaches math.

I took algebra 1 three time and geometry twice. They put me in stupid people math after that. I'd never have graduated under Common Core stipulations.

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So... Liberty University, then?

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God, I hope we can do better than that guy.

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