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Here’s Why the Left Is So Determined to Destroy the New College of Florida
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Signal The Biden administration is attempting to crush a small Florida liberal arts school for not being left-wing. The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights recently announced that it would launch an investigation into the New College of Florida. The school, which previously had been known for its liberal politics, is being transformed […]
Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Terri Marcroft Each year, almost three million American women face an unplanned pregnancy. When a pregnancy is unwanted and those involved are not ready, willing or able to parent, that is a dilemma for which there is no ideal solution. The obvious options for one facing an unplanned pregnancy are abortion, parenting and adoption, […]
Is Governor Ron DeSantis a Hypocrite? Has he cleansed our public schools of the gay agenda? NOT!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier On May 17th, 2023 Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Let Kids Be Kids bill package to protect Florida’s children from permanent mutilating surgical procedures, gender identity politics in schools, and attending sexually explicit adult performances. HB 1069 protects students from having to declare their pronouns in school and expands parental rights […]
Harvard University Ranked Worst School for Free Speech in America
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities The oldest institution of higher learning in the United States has been named the worst for free speech in the nation. Harvard University, originally founded by Puritans fleeing England in search of tolerance, scored 0.0 out of a possible 100 points on this year’s College Free Speech Rankings. Published […]
Goodbye, Mr. Anderson
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado In August of 2020, Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony published an essay on the website Quillete, entitled “The Challenge of Marxism”. Setting aside the fact that the major challenge of Marxism is the inherent stupidity and vice of human beings, and their infernal urge to systematize it, Mr. Hazony set out to explain […]
SICK: Transgender Coach Strips in Front of Teen Girls in School Locker Room
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Jail for this pedo pervert. Look what the left did to education, culture, morality…. Transgender Coach Strips to Undies in Front of Teen Girls in School Locker Room By: Todd Starnes, September 13, 2023: The girls’ tennis coach at Gettysburg High School is a man who dresses like a woman. Sasha […]
NYC School Kids KICKED OUT to Make Room for Illegal Migrants, ‘No More Room’ For American Students
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Immigration, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report A government by the people? Hardly. By: Blaze, September 11, 2023 New York City is not handling the influx of illegal immigrants well — and it’s American children who are paying for it. When the children of NYC went back to school, 21,000 of them were turned away due to the arrival […]
University Spent Over $200,000 On ‘Diversity’ Course Teaching Physicians That Healthcare Is Racist
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The University of Minnesota (UMN) paid over $200,000 to develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training program that teaches medical professionals that healthcare is fundamentally racist, according to documents received by the medical watchdog Do No Harm and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. The training, developed by Diversity Science, […]
‘I Put Some Lube On’: John Kennedy Reads Aloud From Pornographic Kids Books At Senate Hearing
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Republican Sen. John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana read from a pornographic book at a Senate hearing on Tuesday amid a heated exchange about school boards removing such books from libraries. Kennedy read from two books — “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Gender Queer: A Memoir” — both which have been removed from bookshelves […]
A window is opening to show the shameful record of state schools on sexual abuse
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse wound up in December 2017. In five years, it held 8,000 private sessions, held 444 days of public hearing, heard more than 1,200 witness, commission more than 100 research papers, examined more than 1.2 million documents, and generated more than 45,400 pages […]
Chinese Professor With World Economic Forum History Leads Critical Race, Gender Theory Research On Children At ASU, NAU
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Corinne Murdock A professor hailing from China with a World Economic Forum (WEF) background is behind critical race and gender theory research on children at two of Arizona’s taxpayer-funded universities. Sonya Xinyue Xiao teaches psychological science and performs developmental research on moral and gender development at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Xiao was a postdoctoral […]
CHILD ABUSE: These Schools Across the U.S. Have Brought Back Mask Mandates
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Torturing children. Not to mention how harmful and dangerous masks are. These Schools Across the US Have Brought Back Mask Mandates By: Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times, September 7, 2023: Amid a small increase in COVID-19 hospital admissions in recent days, a handful of schools and colleges across the United States […]
Oklahoma School District Hires Drag Queen Elementary School Principal with Child Porn Arrest Record
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report You don’t have to imagine what these monsters would do to your children when you’re not looking. They are doing it right in front of your face and laughing at you, mocking you, and abrogating your parental rights. An Oklahoma school district is taking heat for standing firm on its employment […]
Scientist Admits Omitting “Full Truth” From Climate Study To Get It Published
/in Education, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Nick Pope Patrick T. Brown, a climate scientist, wrote Tuesday in The Free Press that he deliberately omitted the “full truth” from a paper he recently authored in order to increase its chances of publication in a prestigious journal. Brown explained his decision-making in the piece, asserting that he overlooked truths in his work in […]
Weekend Read: What the Left Did to Our Country
/in Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Victor Davis Hanson Will their upheaval succeed? In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood. With such support, between 2009-17, […]
True History Trumps Ignorance
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jerry Newcombe By now, word has gotten out about a 12-year-old boy in a Colorado school getting in trouble, temporarily, because of a small patch seen on his backpack. That boy is Jaiden Rodriguez, and he attends a charter school in Colorado Springs, Vanguard Secondary School. The patch is a small reproduction of the […]
Biden Regime Releases LGBTQ Toolkit Encouraging Schools To Support Student ‘Sexuality’ Clubs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The pedo party is sick, sick, sick. And our children are the prey for these predators. Photo: Graphic created for CDC, LGBT+ Pride inclusivity for use at pride parades. Biden Admin Releases LGBTQ Toolkit Encouraging Schools To Support Student ‘Sexuality’ Clubs By REAGAN REESE The Department of Education (ED) released an LGBTQ toolkit […]
Don’t Give Up on the Constitution
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Yuval Levin I am enormously grateful to Law & Liberty for recruiting such heavy hitters to respond to my lead essay. What a joy to get such humbling and instructive comments, each brimming with its author’s characteristic intellectual virtues. I thank all four responders and only regret that the imperative for brevity in this summary […]
Institutional Racism: Fact or Fiction?
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni The wrong answer has resulted in the wrong public policies. A popular narrative is that institutional racism explains why African Americans, as a group, on average, experience higher poverty rates, lower test scores, fewer advancement opportunities, worse health outcomes, higher arrest rates, longer prison sentences, fewer housing options, and higher rates […]
Wealthy Democrats Aided And Abetted The Biden Border Crisis, Now They’re Whining About It
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Daniel Davidson Amid the scrum of news this week about Democrat-led schemes to put former President Donald Trump on trial during the GOP primaries and rig the 2024 election in plain sight, you might have missed a cautionary tale out of New York City, where Democrat millionaires are whining about a migrant crisis […]
COVID-19 Lies and What to Do About Them
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kurt Mahlburg The fall of Fauci and the unraveling narrative about COVID-19’s origins is something of a slow-motion train wreck. As recently as 2021, White House Chief Medical Advisor and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was hailed as a national hero and an icon of science. To be […]
The Three-Headed Monster Giving Us Lousy Public Policy
/in Economy, Education, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Art Carden We have made fantastic strides in our understanding of how the physical and social worlds work. The Great Enrichment of the last three centuries or so that happened because we adopted the Bourgeois Deal of “Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich” has lifted us to standards of living our ancestors […]
Court Lets State Protect Kids From Transgender ‘Care,’ Making Key Point About Evidence
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tyler O’Neil A Missouri trial court declined Friday to block a law preventing transgender interventions for minors, citing “conflicting and unclear” medical evidence on the effectiveness of so-called puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. “The science and medical evidence is conflicting and unclear,” Judge Stephen R. Ohmer ruled. “Accordingly, the evidence raises more questions than answers.” Three […]
‘Education Crisis’: Scores of Maryland Schools Have No Students Proficient In Math But Court Mandates LGBTQIA+ Curriculum, No Opting Out
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report A Project Baltimore investigation revealed the devastating reality of nearly two dozen Baltimore City Schools having zero students proficient in math. New test scores, known as MCAP (Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program), obtained by Project Baltimore, revealed that 23 schools, including elementary, middle, and high schools, had not one student that could do math at […]
12-Year-Old Student in Colorado Kicked Out of Class for Having a ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Patch on Backpack Fights back and WINS
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report American public schools continue to fail our children. They have fallen behind most industrialized nations in math and reading, but they are getting real life lessons in censorship, despotism, and anti-Americanism. 12-Year-Old Student in Colorado Was Kicked Out of Class for Having a Gadsden Flag Patch on His Bag, The Mother […]
Should a Catholic School be Teaching Social Emotional Learning?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Does the New Testament discuss children determining their sexual identity? I’ll skip naming names here, to protect the innocent (if there are any). Let’s say that a Left-Leaning national organization, approaches a K-12 Catholic School, and gives them a very polished sales pitch about how they can help this school institute a program for each […]
Chloe Cole: Anyone Trying to Hide Kids’ Gender Identity Is ‘Plain Perverted’
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council There aren’t a lot of 19-year-olds who give up their birthdays to go to Congress and plead for kids’ lives. But Chloe Cole isn’t your average teenager. The face of the detransitioner movement has come into her own by walking a painful path she prays no one else follows. Now, after […]
Top Law Schools Promote Ditching the Constitution
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV. Think tanks contend that the radicalization of attorney education threatens American freedom in a never-before-seen way By: Darlene McCormick Sanchez, Epoch Times, August 25, 2023: In almost every state, law students who […]
The Therapeutic Roots of Wokeism
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ian Dowbiggin Political scientist Yoram Hazony argued in Quillette that “an updated version of Marxism” was surging in America today, owing to the decay of liberalism, and its proponents were coming for everyone who did not subscribe to its politically correct, woke dogmas. Hazony’s warning that the followers of this new breed of Marxism “cannot grant […]
Grading the First Peanut Gallery Debate
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Eric Lendrum Vivek was the single exception to an underwhelmingly mediocre debate While the eyes of well over 160 million people were on the highly-anticipated interview between President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, the undercard debate of also-ran candidates proved very telling in its own way, often at the expense of the GOP. With a single […]