I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

Now's not that time.

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

Oh, why everything?

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

Don't be afraid.

I'll feel free, that.

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

Your professor has arrived.

Tom Woods.

To any government.

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

The Tom Woods Show.

Welcome, everybody. It's Thursday, March 20th, 2014. What is the deal with these common core educational standards?

That's what we'll be talking about today with my guest James Pesta. Stay tuned after my conversation with Dr. Pesta for some special announcements that I hope you will like.

But right now it's my pleasure to welcome Dr. James Pesta, who's a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and is also the academic director at the Freedom Project. The website there is

F-P-E-U-S-A.org. Dr. Pesta, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Tom. Let's start

off with the basics. I want to ask you a few things right off the bat. I want to ask you to give

us the basic dumb guy overview, short overview,

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