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Lessons in Preferred Pronouns Should Start in Pre-K, Largest Teachers Union Says
The nation’s largest teachers union recommends that educators begin teaching the concepts of preferred personal pronouns and gender identity starting in pre-kindergarten. “When you look at elementary school students, many people think they are too young to talk about pronouns,” said panelist Matthew Powell, a member of the National Education Association’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee,… -
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Big Docket Gets Bigger: Supreme Court Grants Review in Case on Employees’ Religious Rights
In what is certain to be another high-profile addition to its docket this term, the Supreme Court has granted review in Groff v. DeJoy—a case in which the religious rights of employees will take center stage. The petitioner in the case, Gerald Groff, has asked the justices to determine whether his employer, the U.S. Postal… -
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Biden Administration Pursues Racial Balkanization
President Joe Biden came into office promising to be a unifier, but make no mistake, he’s rapidly becoming the divider-in-chief. He is now reviving former President Barack Obama's idea of adding yet one more racial category to our Balkanized nation and effectively turning Hispanics into a race, not an ethnicity. In a document from the Office… -
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Mother Tells How Daughter Fell Victim to Trafficking After School Hid Her Gender Identity. New Bill Aims to Prevent Such Tragedy.
A subcommittee in the Virginia House of Delegates voted Monday to advance a bill requiring schoolteachers and school staff to notify parents about their children’s purported gender transitions, partially in response to the horrific sex-trafficking story of Sage, a girl whose high school hid her transgender identity from her mother. HB 2432, “Sage’s law,” requires… -
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DeSantis Announces Changes to Florida’s Colleges
Florida is making a slew of changes to its colleges, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, said Tuesday morning. “We will eliminate all DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] and CRT [critical race theory] bureaucracies in the state of Florida,” DeSantis said in a news conference in Bradenton, Florida. “New College has really embraced that, and I… -
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Rand Paul Warns Biden Admin Against ‘Unconstitutional’ Abortion Public Health Emergency
Pushed by abortion activists and Democratic lawmakers, President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly considering declaring a public health emergency on abortion as a response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. “There are discussions on a wide range of measures … that we can take… -
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ESG Is ‘Terrifying,’ ‘Problematic’ Concept in Investing. Author and Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy Explains Why.
Conservatives have been sounding the alarm over the use of environmental, social, and governance policies as they relate to investments, particularly for private and public pension funds. But, what exactly is ESG? According to Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder of Strive Asset Management, “ESG refers to the use of dollars—including your dollars—to advance environmental or social goals,… -
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Killing of Tyre Nichols: Senseless Inhumanity in Memphis
No adjective is sufficient to describe the reaction one gets from watching five Memphis, Tenn., police officers beat 29-year-old Tyre Nichols to within an inch of his life. He later died of his injuries in a local hospital. “Inhumane” and “senseless” are as close as it comes. While Nichols was accused of “reckless driving,” it… -
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Could Lower Standards for Police Recruits Breed Future Misconduct?
The death of Tyre Nichols following a vicious beating by Memphis police officers indicates the perils of lower standards for police recruits nationally amid recruitment challenges, a law enforcement advocacy group says. The Memphis Police Department hired two of the five officers who were fired and charged in Nichols’ death in 2020, after the department… -
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How Should Americans Respond to the Fatal Police Beating of Tyre Nichols?
A black man died at the hands of at least five black police officers. Now, some Americans are demanding police reform to prevent such injustice in the future. Tyre Nichols, 29, reportedly was pulled over for reckless driving Jan. 7 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was on his way home after taking pictures of the sunset, a… -
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Grotesque, Woke Art in Public Spaces Is Next Phase in War on History, Culture
Get used to grotesque works of “art” being injected into every public space. Last week, an 8-foot-tall, golden statue was unveiled atop a New York state courthouse in New York City. It stands alongside several other, older statues of classical design. According to the artist, Shahzia Sikander, the statue is meant to be a representation… -
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Police Chief Who Placed Officer on Leave for Voicing Traditional Marriage Views Retires
Port Wentworth, Georgia, Police Chief Matt Libby announced his retirement Monday, less than a week after The Daily Signal reported that Police Officer Jacob Kersey had been placed on administrative leave after sharing his views on traditional marriage on Facebook. WTOC first broke the news of Libby’s retirement Monday afternoon, reporting that the police chief… -
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NOT GUILTY: Jury Clears Catholic Father Targeted by Biden DOJ
A jury has found Mark Houck not guilty of federal charges brought against him by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. The DOJ had charged Houck with two counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when, outside a Pennsylvania abortion clinic, Houck allegedly pushed a pro-abortion activist who was allegedly… -
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin Aims to Save Virginia From California-Style Energy Policies
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is drawing a sharp contrast between his energy initiatives and those of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, saying he remains committed to withdrawing Virginia from a multistate climate pact and pulling away from California’s vehicle emission goals. Youngkin’s executive order calling on Virginia to “reevaluate” its participation in… -
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Utah’s Spencer Cox Signs Bill Protecting Minors From ‘Life-altering’ Transgender Surgery
Utah minors can no longer receive sex-reassignment surgeries after Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, signed a bill restricting transgender medical procedures on Saturday. The bill prohibits “performing sex characteristic surgical procedures on a minor for the purpose of effectuating a sex change” and allows minors to bring legal action against the person who performed sex-reassignment surgery… -
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Bill Aims to Block Federal Funds From Schools That ‘Indoctrinate With Critical Race Theory’
A Texas congressman has introduced legislation to ban federal funding for public schools that promote theories that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. “The Combatting Racist Teaching Act will prohibit federal funding from going to schools that seek to indoctrinate children with critical race theory,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said in… -
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Biden Administration Is Playing Deceitful Shell Game to Claim Fewer Illegal Border Crossings
The Biden administration is getting ready to claim that its new immigration “parole” process is a success—drastically cutting down the number of immigrants illegally crossing the southern border between ports of entry. What it won’t tell you is that it’s playing a crooked shell game—simply taking the same illegal aliens and shifting the processing burden… -
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What Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Black Card’ Can Teach Lawmakers About Debt Limit
As members of Congress debate the debt limit, some seem to think the government has an American Express “Black Card.” In a 2018 episode of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” Jerry Seinfeld explained his version of how the Black Card came to be: I was waiting for [the crew] to move some cameras, and the… -
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Get Ready for Another Cynical, Useless, Gun-Control Push by Democrats
The first question any reasonable person asks after a horrible crime is, “What could have been done to stop it?” Yet after every mass shooting, gun controllers suggest unworkable, unconstitutional, completely ineffectual ideas that target people who will never commit a crime. After the twin mass shootings in California earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom… -
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Pro-Life Priest Who Padlocked NY Abortion Clinic Gate to Appeal ‘Politically Motivated’ Verdict
A pro-life Catholic priest who blocked the entrance to a New York abortion clinic was convicted on Wednesday in federal court under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York tried Father Fidelis Moscinski earlier in a bench trial in connection with his July 7 pro-life…