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Juryless Trials Are a Naked Power Grab and a Serious Threat to Liberty
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Harrison Griffiths In Scotland, government officials are piloting a program that would remove ancient procedural checks on state power to suit their preferred legal outcomes. Since the ratification of the Magna Carta in 1215, the right of accused people to be tried by their peers has been an essential protection against government overreach in […]
Class Warfare: Training The Next Generation of Childhood Red Gender-Guards
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities One of the most depressing stories of 2023 features a British teacher who claims to have been removed from her job in a prestigious, fee-paying English high school for the heinous crime of referring to her pupils as being female. This is despite the school in question being a girls’-only institution. Giving testimony […]
A Book to Help Young Americans Understand Economics: Economics in Action by Brian Balfour
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy George Leef Very few young Americans learn anything about economics. Some high schools offer it, but the courses are usually taught by teachers who have scant knowledge of the field, using books that are heavily laden with anti-market sentiments. Such books reinforce socialistic ideas about worker exploitation, the supposed instability of capitalist economies, the […]
Teen Vogue NC-17
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kate Haberl Editor’s Warning: This article contains some unavoidably explicit discussion. A section on the Teen Vogue website is titled “Sex and Relationships.” If you’re anything like me, the mere fact that a publication with “teen” in the name has a sex section is shocking. Some of the articles in the section are exactly […]
Florida Law Defunds DEI in Higher Ed
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed three bills to excise woke ideology from state higher education institutions and promote productive education goals. SB 266 will “prohibit institutions from spending federal or state dollars on discriminatory initiatives, such as so called ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)’ programs,” the governor’s office summarized in a […]
Assistant Professor Sues University That Allegedly Forces Faculty To Pledge Commitment To Diversity
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller An assistant professor is suing a California university that allegedly requires faculty applicants to pledge their commitment to “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) policies and ideology. The Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of Dr. John D. Haltigan, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, against the University of […]
Trans Inc.
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kali Fontanilla I was recently on a Vice debate panel about education. If you aren’t familiar with Vice debates, it’s a series of discussions between conservatives and liberals debating hot topics in a controlled environment. The series has gone viral, receiving millions of views. I was chosen for this panel because I am a […]
‘Destroy The Role Of Parents’: Karine Jean-Pierre Gets Angry Reactions For Saying Children ‘Belong To All Of Us’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has drawn angry reactions for commenting that children “belong to all of us” at an award ceremony held by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Jean-Pierre made the comments during an interview with Jezebel magazine at the 2023 GLAAD awards, weeks after President Joe Biden said there’s, “[n]o such […]
Biden’s Blunders, From A to Z
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Deroy Murdock After reading my list of former President Donald Trump’s triumphs, from A to Z, nationally syndicated radio host Bill Martinez suggested during one of our weekly interviews that I give President Joe Biden’s blunders the same alphabetical treatment. Here goes. Afghanistan’s humiliating abandonment to the Taliban, amid America’s chaotic and deadly military withdrawal, may […]
Washington Elementary School District Settles With ACU After Discriminating Against Christians
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Daniel Stefanski A Christian university in Arizona scored a win for justice this week, ending a two-month legal battle with a local school district. On Thursday, the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) announced a settlement between Arizona Christian University (ACU) and the Washington Elementary School District. The lawsuit, which was filed in the United […]
The World Health Organization has a message for parents: ‘sexuality education starts at birth’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities The World Health Organisation has orchestrated a “framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists” titled, “Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe”. Its purpose is to standardise (in other words override) the diverse teaching practices of each sovereign nation within Europe and the wider international community with […]
Texas A&M received almost $500,000,000 in grants from jihad terror-linked Qatar regime
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch It isn’t just Texas A&M. Georgetown and Harvard, among many others, are bought and paid for as well. This is why our nation’s universities never speak the truth about jihad, Sharia, Islam’s origins, or other key issues, and instead pay lavish attention to the spurious phenomenon of “Islamophobia.” Documents Show Texas A&M Appeared […]
Universities are Losing the Battle on Free Speech
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Eric Kaufmann Is the era of woke censorship coming to an end on campus? The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN, among others, are heralding a new epoch in which university leaders stand up to snowflake students. While it’s encouraging that progressive legacy media outlets are nailing their free speech colours to the […]
‘Christian Nationalism?’ Texas Legislation Would Require Ten Commandments Be Posted in Schools
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Critics are calling a Texas bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be posted in public school classrooms an example of “Christian nationalism.” But the bill’s sponsors say the legislation is needed to help remind students of America’s biblical foundations. In April, S.B. 1515 passed the Texas Senate with a vote of […]
Children’s Hospital Trained Schools to Help Young Kids Be Transgender
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) apparently wants to CHOP off more kids’ body parts. The Daily Caller did an exclusive report on how CHOP was training teachers to help elementary school kids and even kindergartners “transition” to the opposite sex. CHOP was previously caught referring “kids as young as 14 years […]
Watch this WHO School Video that Teaches Kids to Masturbate
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. STOP World Control is a solid, integrity based organization pushing back assertively against the diabolical works of those moving to create a New-World Order, a Global Community where the sovereignty of a nation no longer exist, only the regions developed by a hidden and dark group of people meeting secretly […]
Here’s How You Can Fight Biden’s Crusade to Put ‘Transgender’ Males in Women’s Sports, From the Comfort of Your Own Home
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tyler O’Neil Your teenage daughter is training seven days a week, going for that college scholarship. She’s worked her whole life to excel, only to come up short thanks to a biological male who claims to identify as a girl. This nightmare could be yours, courtesy of President Joe Biden. Every day, it seems […]
‘I Hear No Remorse’: CNN Contributor Goes Off On Randi Weingarten To Her Face
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Nicole Silverio CNN contributor Scott Jennings went off on American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten to her face late Thursday about her lack of “remorse” over COVID-19 school closures. Jennings criticized Weingarten for arguing she was an advocate for reopening schools during the COVID pandemic, even though she called for school closures […]
Due Process or Transgender Protection on Campus?
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wendy McElroy College campuses have long been battlegrounds between due process for those accused of sexual misconduct (innocent until proven guilty) and legal privileges for alleged victims who many automatically believe (guilty until proven innocent). The front line is Title IX, the 1972 federal law designed to curb sex discrimination in schools. President Joe […]
The Boy Who Knew Too Much for His School
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Exposing trans madness in education doesn’t require advanced degrees, political influence, charisma, or even 18 years of life, as one plucky middle-schooler demonstrated. At the April 13 School Committee Meeting for Middleboro, Mass. Public Schools, 7th grader Liam Morrison, a student at Nichols Middle School, stepped up to the microphone for two […]
Serbian Seventh Grader Kills 8 Classmates And Guard In Targeted School Shooting
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A 13-year-old boy opened fire at his school in Serbia on Wednesday, killing a security guard and eight classmates and wounding six other students and a teacher, officials say. Kosta Kecmanovic, a seventh-grade student at Vladislav Ribnikar School, was arrested following a deadly attack police say was meticulously planned, complete with a […]
Armed Teachers
/in Education, Featured, Gun Rights, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson Americans were outraged to learn of the Nashville school shooting, where a transgender female shot and killed three children and three adults at a Christian school. As always, a fierce political debate broke out after the murders. Gun control advocates, mostly Democrats, again made impassioned and often vitriolic pleas for more […]
In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The K-12 district schools I went to while growing up in a Boston suburb look nearly the same today as they did when I attended them in the 1980s and 90s, when they also looked quite similar to how they did when my father attended those same schools in […]
Weekend Read: European Author Explains the Massive Disconnect between Young and Old Americans on Capitalism
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jon Miltimore FEE recently sat down with German author Rainer Zitelmann to discuss his latest book, the global financial crisis, and the future of capitalism. The great writer Henry Hazlitt once observed that the path to prosperity is achieved through production, and the best way to achieve production is to maximize incentives. “And the […]
Biden Admin Grants Waiver Allowing Universities To Host Chinese Confucius Institute Chapters: Report
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Department of Defense (DOD) is granting waivers to universities in the U.S. that would allow them to receive federal funding while hosting Chinese Confucius Institute chapters, the Washington Free Beacon first reported Wednesday. The DOD announced it would begin granting the waivers in late March, despite federal law prohibiting federal […]
Four Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
/in Education, Featured, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy James D. Agresti In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing. Shatter-Resistant Entryways As documented in the academic journal Victims & Offenders, an “immediate and economical” way to protect […]
Biden Reelection Bid Promotes Abortion, Pornographic School Library Books as ‘Personal Freedom’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council President Joe Biden officially announced he plans to seek reelection in an online video message that indicates he plans to wage a social issues-focused campaign that presents unrestricted abortion-on-demand and same-sex marriage as “our rights” to “personal freedom.” Biden chose to launch his reelection campaign, not with a traditional campaign speech, […]
Who said, ‘Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier The United States Department of Education was created by President Jimmy Carter and signed into law on October 17, 1979 under the Department of Education Organization Act. The creation of this federal Education Department began the process of inextricably and fundamentally transforming our Constitutional Republic, over the past 44 years, into […]
Bullies Carve Large Swastika into Autistic Jewish Child’s Back and the Nevada School Did Nothing
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report With the rise of left-wing Nazism, Jew-killing is ignored and Jewish children are fair game. Large swastika cut into autistic Jewish boy’s back in Nevada school The boy’s mother filed a complaint after the school did nothing; the FBI is currently investigating it as a hate crime. By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel […]
Joe Biden Escalates War on Parents
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US Joe Biden announced in a campaign video he is running for reelection in 2024. The video talked a lot about ‘rights’, but parental rights were not mentioned. There’s a reason for that. Joe Biden doesn’t believe in parental rights. He thinks children are state property. He said this week, “There’s no such thing […]