Oh, the things you learn by watching C-Span

Especially on the weekends, when you're normally not subjected to the stultifying proceedings of the House and Senate.

For example, here's a remark from Phyllis Schlafly at the Spence Publishing banquet (a fundraiser for the Tertio Milliennio Seminar), which I watched, spellbound, on C-Span 2 Saturday evening:

"Our enemies include the public schools which turn out little savages who don't know right from wrong and don't know how to read or write."

Speaking of savages and public schools, Schlafly also apparently wrote this as head of the Eagle Forum:

“Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.” [See the linked Schlafly article above.  It's a must read!]

All in all, it was a strange gathering of right-wing panelists who seemed intent on

• berating feminism
• fighting for a "moral" soicety
• condemning the "activist" judiciary
• establishing a Christian theocracy in America

What did I learn?  I learned that Spence Publishing exists, that Tertio Millennio is an ultra -Catholic group that worships the teachings of John Paul II, and that, at age 80, Phyllis Schlafly shows no signs of slowing down.
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While C-Span 2 aired the Spence banquet, over on C-Span 1, a gathering of the Young America's Foundation was listening to the exhortations of some North Carolina -Greensburg professor to file lawsuits against colleges that issue "silly" diversity rules and regulations. 

And you thought conservatives were critical of our overly litigious society?

See the things you can learn by watching C-Span? 

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[marcia]

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