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23. Howard Zinn is being banned by the right wingers. here's an excerpt from an article about Mitch

Daniels who was a Republican politician (Governor maybe) in Indiana who then got an appointment to head Purdue University.

"The question is, would this lead to this material being taught to innocent school children? I promise that if the parents of Indiana understood what was in the book in question, 99 if not 100 out of 100 would want some other book used," Daniels said after the trustees' meeting on the West Lafayette campus.

After being told Zinn's work was being used at Indiana University in a course for teachers on the Civil Rights, feminist and labor movements, Daniels wrote:

"This crap should not be accepted for any credit by the state. No student will be better taught because someone sat through this session. Which board has jurisdiction over what counts and what doesn't?"

The left in this country has it's work cut out for it, don't ya think?