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Seeking the Good, the True, and the Beautiful: A Student’s Commentary on Hillsdale College
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ellie Fromm Editors’ Note: The Editors of The Prickly Pear are pleased to publish this essay by Ellie Fromm. Ellie has been serving as an intern at The Prickly Pear since her junior year in high school and with great effectiveness and quality. Her acceptance into Hillsdale College is not surprising but is certainly […]
The 1619 Project’s Confusion on Capitalism
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Phillip W. Magness A pervasive sense of confusion characterizes Hulu’s new 1619 Project episode on “capitalism,” beginning with the basic definition of its titular term. Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones opens the episode by conceding that “I don’t feel like most of us actually know what capitalism means.” This should have provided her an opportunity […]
Sweden Did Exceptionally Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Gotzsche No wonder the news media are totally silent about the data that show that Sweden’s open society policy was what the rest of the world should have done, too. Numerous studies have shown Sweden’s excess death rate to be among the lowest in Europe during the pandemic and in several analyses, Sweden […]
MINNESOTA: Elementary School Hosts ‘Gender Resource Fair’ Featuring A ‘Drag Story Hour’ For Kids
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Not even half the students at this school are proficient in reading or math….but sexualizing illiterates is the priority. Elementary School Hosts ‘Gender Resource Fair’ Featuring A ‘Drag Story Hour’ For Kids By: Reagan Reese, Daily Caller, March 28, 2023 A Minnesota elementary school is hosting a “gender resource fair” for children […]
5 Takeaways From House Hearing on COVID-19 School Lockdowns
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Fred Lucas Federal and state officials—as well as teachers unions—should be held accountable for the consequences of school closures, lawmakers on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said Tuesday. “Long-term closing of schools proved to be harmful for students—their academic, mental, and social development, and overall success,” Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said. […]
Untold Stories: Heroes to Remember on Vietnam Veterans’ Day
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado A soldier who led his wounded comrades to evacuation after being wounded 18 times. A machine gunner who charged an enemy position on his own. A teenager who sacrificed his life without hesitation to save his comrades. That’s the Vietnam War the media and government doesn’t want you to know. There are […]
The Graves of Academe: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Queer and Trans Studies
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch I’ve been intermittently visiting – sometimes with amusement, always with horror — a website where academic jobs are advertised. I do this not for myself, but to help keep tabs for a friend’s son, who has been looking for permanent employment in a university for several years. His problem is that he […]
Filter Legislation to Protect Kids Gains Ground, Despite Big Tech Misinformation
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy National Center on Sexual Exploitation Last week, a friend asked me for advice on how she could keep pornography off digital devices used by her children. I was happy to help, which meant spending over an hour emailing step-by-step instructions, attaching numerous screenshots with scribbles directing “Click here –>” and “BAD –>”, “GOOD –>”, […]
White House To Host ‘Roundtable On Affirming Transgender Kids’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The White House will host a “Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids” Friday as part of its observance of “Transgender Day of Visibility,” according to a fact sheet. The roundtable is part of a push from the administration to support transgenderism, including childhood medical transitions, in the wake of numerous red states restricting the procedures. […]
Virginia School District to Remove 14 Sexually Explicit Books from School Libraries
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council On Wednesday, Spotsylvania County Public Schools (SCPS) in Fredericksburg, Va. announced that it would be removing 14 books that “contain sexually explicit content and themes that are inappropriate for young persons” from the school district’s libraries. With the move, SCPS joins a growing list of school districts around the country that […]
WaPo Writer Agrees Transgender Killer Reacted Against Christian Brainwashing
/in Education, Featured, Gun Rights, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado In the wake of the tragic shooting today that left three nine-year-olds and three school employees murdered, a sick Twitter user took to the platform to claim that, while murder is wrong, the shooter was just reacting to cruel indoctrination. You see, the murderer was a 28-year-old “transgender” woman named Audrey Hale […]
A Reckoning May Be Coming for Universities on Foreign Funding
/in Education, Featured, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Sarah Lee The sword of Damocles hanging over much of what the new GOP-led House is planning to investigate in any number of coming hearings – everything from COVID origins to tech/government collusion – is the influence of the Communist Party of China. And why wouldn’t it be? Now that President Biden’s entanglements with […]
DeSantis Signs Universal School Choice Program Into Law
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a piece of legislation into law on Monday creating a universal school choice program. House Bill 1, sponsored by the Education Quality Subcommittee, establishes an Education Savings Accounts (ESA) program under which every family is eligible to receive up to $8,000 to cover education expenses […]
How Lori Kuykendall Is Combatting Cultural Lies in Sex Education
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council This week, at Family Policy Alliance’s SoConCon Social Conservative Policy Conference, I sat down with Lori Kuykendall, president of Beacon Health Education Resources. In this conversation, we explore how her organization is fighting back against exploitative progressive sexual education curricula — and teaching kids about the beauty of God’s creation. JOY […]
Professor Suspended After Writing That Killing ‘Right-Wing’ Speakers Is ‘Admirable’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller A Wayne State University (WSU) professor was suspended with pay after writing on Facebook that it is more “admirable” to kill a right-wing speaker than it is to shout them down on a college campus, The New Guard reported. Steven Shaviro, a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences professor, wrote in […]
How Entrepreneurs Are Expanding Education Options For Families in Texas
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) “Parents are the best advocates of their children and ultimately know what type of schooling is best from an academic, social and moral perspective,” said Braveheart founder Chrystal Bernard. In early 2020, Chrystal and Joshua Bernard decided that they would begin homeschooling their four young children at the start […]
The Ultimate Cancel Culture and Equality
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A review of Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962, by Frank Dikotter (Bloomberg Publishing, Hardback Edition, 2010; Paperback Edition, 2017, 420 pages). It is seen as gauche, hateful, and unenlightened on college campuses and like-minded places to quote Winston Churchill because he was an imperialist and […]
House Passes Legislation To Give Parents More Say In Their Kids’ Education
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The U.S. House of Representatives passed a piece of legislation on Friday aimed at giving parents more of a say in school curriculum and more control over their children’s education. In a 213 – 208 vote, the House approved the Parents Bill of Rights, which would require school districts to annually post their curriculum […]
‘Extensive Collusion’: House Committee Report Confirms DOJ Targeting of Parents
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The Department of Justice “extensively colluded” with a special interest group to “manufacture” a supposedly sweeping threat against school personnel posed by parents, a House Subcommittee interim staff report has found. Experts say the findings further confirm what DOJ officials have denied — that the government worked behind the scenes to […]
Elon Musk Tweets Stanford University Law Students’ Protest Represents ‘Soviet Levels of Indoctrination’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report With 15,750 administrators for 16, 973 students Stanford has devolved into a public works program for well-paid charlatans supervising intellectual hooligans whose long journey up the Everest of comprehension is now supervised by the spawn of the spawn of the 1960s Marxist professoriate. Parents should demand a refund and all federal […]
What Were We Thinking to Allow Government Unions to Organize?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas C. Patterson It’s not exactly breaking news that America’s public schools are failing academically. There have been encouraging stories of charter schools and other schools of choice successfully raising achievement levels for underprivileged students previously deemed uneducable. But our schools are still producing a generation of students lacking basic computational or literacy skills, […]
DEI Is An Attack on Free Speech
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Dr. Thomas Patterson Jonathan Haidt is a professor at NYU, an acknowledged leader in the field of social psychology, and a champion of free speech. He recently faced a requirement that all scholars wishing to present research to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology were to submit a statement explaining “whether and how […]
Law Schools’ Heckling Trends Show Disturbing Future For The Legal System, Experts Argue
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Alexa Schwerha Law schools that permit students to heckle and disrupt speakers fail to impress upon them the importance of free speech rights and could have a negative impact on the future of the legal profession, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. In the past year, protestors have attempted to shut down speakers […]
Woke Universities Sacrificing Science on the Altar of Ideology and Profit
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Three case studies from Canada and Australia about suppression of heterodox opinions in universities. Two thousand five hundred years ago the Greek playwright Aeschylus is reputed to have said “the first victim of war is truth.” Recent events in the academic world have demonstrated that truth is also a […]
MICHIGAN: Guess Who is Detroit’s Bloomfield Hills High School Diversity Expert?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy W.O. Williams The diversity expert is Huwaida Arraf 47 year-old Democrat born in Detroit to Palestinian Christian parents. She is US citizen but caries also an Israeli passport. As a Palestinian American activist and lawyer co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), “a Radical Palestinian-led organization suggests using non-violent protests and international pressure to support […]
Thousands of Schools Won’t Tell Parents About Kids’ Gender Transition: Report
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Healthcare, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council More than 5,000 schools across the nation allow teachers to hide a child’s decision to identify as a member of the opposite sex from the child’s parents. The parental exclusion policy — which is heavily advocated by LGBT lobbying groups and applies to more than 3.2 million children nationally — has […]
The Iraq War, 20 Years Later
/in Education, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Mueller On Thursday, March 16, we reach the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq under the George W. Bush administration. There will be an afternoon of panels on that day at Cato reflecting on the event. As the invasion loomed, there was quite a bit of protest both in the […]
Biden Proposes Federally Regulated ‘Universal Pre-K’ for Children as Young as 3
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council President Joe Biden’s $6.9 trillion proposed budget would have the hand of the government rock the cradle by creating a federally regulated, universal pre-K program for children as young as three. Altogether, President Biden would spend more than half-a-trillion dollars over the next 10 years to allow all American preschoolers to spend their […]
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS: America’s Average IQ Declines for First Time in Nearly 100 Years
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Biden finally leading the way in—DECLINE. The Democrats will solve this by designating IQ as “racist” and ban the tests altogether. Is It Any Wonder? America’s Average IQ Declines for First Time in Nearly 100 Years By: RedState, March 13, 2023; And there it is. A new study has found that the […]
Republican Governors Are Taking The Culture War To Campus
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Republican governors are leading the charge to reform higher education as part of the ongoing culture war on college campuses. Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas are both focused on countering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs on college campuses, while Gov. Glenn Youngkin prioritized fostering free speech. […]