Category Archives: A.P. Dillon (LL1885)

‘Kite Runner’ Concerns Fall On Deaf Ears In Buncombe

Posted on June 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

You can’t say that Lisa Baldwin hasn’t fought the good fight over the use of The Kite Runner, which includes graphic homosexual rape scenes, suicide and violent beatings, in her child’s Buncombe county school. Continue reading →

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NC Common Core #ASRC June Meeting Update

Posted on June 16, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday was the May meeting of the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC), which is tasked at reviewing the Common Core standards in order to give replacement recommendations to the State Board of Education at the end of this year. Continue reading →

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Speech By Presidential Hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz Fires Up The Crowd At The NC GOP Convention

Posted on June 15, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Applause and cheers greeted 2016 presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz as he took the stage at the North Carolina Republican Convention.

Opting to move around instead of speaking from behind a podium, Cruz sounded Reaganesque as he spoke on three main points of economic growth, defending our Constitutional rights and restoring America’s position in the world. Continue reading →

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Durham Academy: “I Don’t Say” Anything About The First Amendment

Posted on June 15, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Folks, in this country we are blessed with free speech under the First Amendment.
At Durham Academy, they seem to have forgotten about the concept of speaking one’s mind or being able to express oneself using a simple turn of phrase, like ‘boys will be boys. Continue reading →

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#DM7 Article: How I Spent Common Core’s 5th Birthday

Posted on June 14, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

This is a reposting of my weekly Da Tech Guy column:

How I spent Common Core’s 5th Birthday. Continue reading →

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#WBOC’s John Burns Breaks Campaign Promises, Show His Political Biases

Posted on June 13, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

One of the biggest campaign promises the “More with Four” Democrats ran on was funding education in Wake County. Apparently they meant funding education ‘over time’. Continue reading →

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