I would like to officially announce my endorsement of Mike Huckabee for President of the United States.

There is no clearer choice.  Mike Huckabee appears to be a man of deeply held convictions and faith.  In word and deed Mike Huckabee is pro-life, pro-family, and pro-homeschooling.  Conservative, articulate, and likeable... I like Mike.

If you have been waiting to support a Presidential candidate, now is the time to consider carefully and act.  Mike Huckabee needs your support.  Mike Huckabee has shown that he can win Iowa.  Give him your support and contributions so he can win South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Florida too.

Mike Huckabee can beat Hillary Clinton (as well as Barack Obama or John Edwards) next year.

Please pray that God guides Mike Huckabee's steps and his heart.  And pray that Mike Huckabee's victory glorifies God.

"In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God."
- 1 Thessalonians 5:18

The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth.
By Jennie A. Brownscombe (1850-1936).
Painted in Honesdale, PA, or New York, 1914.
Material: Oil on canvas.

Tyrico Tyler, a former middle-school history teacher and "teacher of the year" winner from San Diego, was sentenced to "two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a charge of possessing child pornography" in this AP story.

Go ahead and delude yourself that your kids' public school is a "good school" or has "good teachers".

Just in case you thought this was isolated, check out these recent headlines: 
 

• Teacher to face 'up-skirting' charge
  Australia - The Age understands the teacher has been sacked but is unlikely to face charges for broadcasting or distributing the footage. It is believed the likely...
   
• Teacher faces sex charges
  Toranto - Four sex-related criminal charges have been laid against a Brampton high-school teacher alleged to have developed an online relationship with a...
   
• Birth certificate shows boy in teacher-sex case is 13
  Cedar Rapids - That would be too old for a statutory rape charge against Peterson. Statutory rape charges have not been filed in the case yet...
   
• Nebraska teacher accused of fleeing to Mexico with teen is silent
  Three days after her capture, a Nebraska middle school teacher appeared in court for the first time to face federal charges that she fled to Mexico to have... 
     
• Document: Boy in Teacher Sex Case Is 13
  The lawyer for Kelsey Peterson, 25, suggested earlier this week that the boy might be 16 or older — too old for a statutory rape charge against Peterson...
   
• Teacher on Thai child porn charge
  UK - A teacher has been charged in Thailand with distributing hundreds of child porn photographs over the internet. Paul Cornelius Jones, 39, originally from...
   
• Former substitute teacher given 7 months on molestation charge
  Fort Pierce - A former substitute teacher at Manatee Elementary School in Port St. Lucie was sentenced this morning to 225 days...

Here is another horrible story highlighting the German Government's fascist attitudes about homeschooling from World Net Daily.  Tillman and Dagmar Neubronner have been fighting for the right to homeschool their children.

Government officials determined to stamp out "parallel societies" are adamantly opposed to homeschooling in Germany.

Please pray for the Neubronner family and others who are risking everything to homeschool their children in Germany.

World Net Daily has a commentary from Migdia Chinea, a former substitute teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the country's largest public school district:

In my view, the LAUSD is completely corrupt, inept and broken, with many students having serious behavioral problems and disinterested in learning, whereas the teachers remain underpaid and exhausted – some of them just marking time until their retirement and giving out charity passing grades to high school students who can barely write or do math at a third-grade level.

Perhaps the school district where you live is not as exceedingly bad as Los Angeles, but it is bad.  We lived in Irvine, California a few years ago, which is noted for its "excellent" public schools -- our homeschool is better.