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How the Chinese regime targets professors and schools to censor and indoctrinate worldwide
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy Editor’s Note: This is the third piece in a six-part series by J. Michael Waller on Beijing’s global network of Confucius Institutes. Part One Part Two Pressure on other faculty The Confucius Institutes serve as outposts to spy or inform on American professors with China expertise who have no Institute […]
Saying ‘American’ Is Now RACIST and Stanford University’s List of Other UNACCEPTABLE WORDS
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative is a “multi-phase” project of Stanford’s IT leaders. “Stanford University” – now there’s an unacceptable term. What will it take for the people rise against this leftist scourge destroying the country? Stanford Scrambles To Hide List Calling ‘American’ Racist or ‘Harmful’ Language By: Valient News, […]
Gov.-Elect Katie Hobbs to Scrap Arizona’s Position As Top State for School Choice
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Susan Berry, PhD When Katie Hobbs becomes Arizona’s next governor, she plans to utilize the support of teachers’ union lobbyists to undo the nation’s most expansive school choice program. Hobbs promised on her campaign website she would be “addressing unaccountable expansion of school vouchers”: Too often, Republicans have completely disregarded public opinion in an […]
Revising America’s Original Sins
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel The story of Kennewick Man is a story that branches into anthropology, archeology, history, politics, DNA testing, our legal system, and the frustrations of simply attempting to derive a scientific truth while in conflict with bureaucracy. Kennewick Man was discovered in 1996 quite by accident by two college students in south-central Washington […]
Republican Cracks Down on Trans Bathroom Policies After High School Restroom Assault
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council The top education official in a heavily Republican state is cleaning house, demanding that all public school districts and charter school have policies respecting the privacy of female students, after a male who identifies as female allegedly beat up two teenage girls in a high school restroom. No media outlet covered […]
Weekend Read: Plausibility But Not Science Has Dominated Public Discussions of the Covid Pandemic
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Harvey Risch “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.” ~ Anthony Fauci, June 9, 2021 (MSNBC). Preposterous. For one thing, Dr. Fauci has not reported accurately on scientific questions throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. For another, the essential dialectic of science is arguing, questioning, debating. Without debate, science is nothing more than propaganda. Yet, […]
Elon Musk Nukes Scott Kelly Over Wokeness And Dr. Fauci
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ryan Saavedra Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed Scott Kelly, astronaut and the brother of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in a tweet Sunday evening after Kelly called out the 51-year-old executive over mocking the use of pronouns. “Elon, please don’t mock and promote hate toward already marginalized and at-risk-of-violence members of the #LGBTQ+ community,” Kelly tweeted. […]
Taiwan Semiconductor’s Travails in Phoenix
/in Education, Featured, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni Lessons about American education and bureaucracy. A recent Wall Street Journal news story detailed the problems encountered by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company in getting a $12 billion plant up and running in Phoenix. The company is planning to produce state-of-the-art 3-nanometer chips at the plant. The company cited federal regulatory requirements, […]
Recent Stories Illustrating ‘Education’ Can Be Worse Than Ignorance
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado “Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” —GK Chesterton In case you were blissfully unaware lately of the perverted craziness increasingly dominating American educational institutions, I bring you three reminders that sometimes “education” is worse than ignorance. The Founding Fathers, who dreamed of a classical education for everyone, would […]
A Midterm Reality Check
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Paul Gottfried The Nov. 8 midterm election, which was preceded by early voting that invariably favors the Democrats, has come and gone. On the basis of what we now know, the Republicans have a small majority in the House of Representatives and—since their misfortune increased Tuesday through Hershel Walker’s loss to Sen. Rachael Warnock […]
RYAN WALTERS: We Are Fighting Back Against The Left’s Radical Education Agenda In Oklahoma. Here’s How…
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Despite Republicans securing a narrow majority in the House, Democrats have managed to maintain control of the Senate. To make matters worse, Joe Biden still sits in the White House where he can cram his radical education agenda down American parents’ throats across the country. The tide is turning. Oklahoma’s parents […]
PODCAST: What do all Communist Globalists have in common? They LIE!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Karen Schoen Until we recognize that the Globalists are our enemy, that they are in both parties, and unless we call them our enemy, we lose. These people are NOT true Americans. They want the destruction of America. For the past 60 years, they have taught our kids that America is the enemy. Where […]
Elite Chicago Private School Official Brags About LGBTQ+ Health Center Teaching ‘Queer Sex’ to Minors
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Project Veritas *CLICK HERE TO TWEET THE VIDEO* Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a high-ranking private school official, Joseph Bruno, who admitted that he teaches underage children about sex with items such as “butt-plugs” and “dildos.” Bruno, who works as the Dean of Students at an elite school in Chicago called […]
War on Parents: The Left Calls Out the Big Guns
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US The Left has called out the big guns in the War on Parents. For those concerned about the early sexualization of children, there’s a lot more to worry about than just the small arms fire of individual school boards and teachers. It’s time to pay attention to the infrastructure […]
Give The Gift Of True American History With These Wonderful Biographies For Children
/in Books, Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joy Pullmann Photo credit: Joy Pullman/The Federalist Everyone was reading the Heroes of Liberty books in my home for Thanksgiving, from the early elementary kids to their twenty-something aunts and uncles to their grandpa. After I opened a box containing the children’s history series Heroes of Liberty and set the books on the playroom […]
Weekend Read: The Promise of Habit-Based Learning
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Barbara Oakley Subconscious, habitual learning is far more common, complex, and important than we’d realized. This type of learning has been making a comeback everywhere except where it’s needed most—education. Education is a vital discipline, but something has gone awry. For example, over the past decades, the U.S. has dropped to the bottom of […]
ESG Is A Non-Starter That We Are Being Pushed Into
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas C. Patterson The world of finance is turning bullish on ESG, an investment strategy directing funds to corporations with woke environmental, social, and governance policies. Trillions of dollars have already flowed into ESG funds, projected to hit $50 trillion in two years. ESG boosters claim the funds enable investors to do well by […]
The Joys of Being a Californian
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Our California governor Gallivanting Gavin has his eyes on running for President, assuming the octogenarian in the White House bows out. Gavin will be telling America what a wonderful job he has done here in California to deserve being promoted to ruling over all fifty states. We should review the sparkling aspects […]
Hillsdale Imprimis: Education as a Battleground
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Larry P. Arnn The following is adapted from remarks delivered on November 3, 2022, at a Hillsdale College reception in Santa Clara, California. If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools […]
Newly Elected Conservative School Board Fires Superintendent bans CRT
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. With full acknowledgement and appreciation to Epoch Times for covering the story below. Parents across the country finally have had enough of the indoctrination of their children in the school systems. A newly elected conservative School Board back by “Moms for Liberty,” a conservative activist group supporting parental rights and […]
The Other Thanksgiving Story
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel It really is about being grateful, which is something too few of our spoiled citizens appreciate. But since the holiday is being weaponized by “woke culture”, there are some other elements of the story to think about. The short version, the way it is taught today, is that greedy Pilgrims landed in […]
Arizona Charter School Students Outperforming Most of Nation
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce If Arizona eighth-grade charter school students were a separate state, they would rank first nationally in math. Arizona’s charter schools, if separated from their public school counterparts, have eighth graders that perform at higher levels than nearly any other state. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as the Nation’s Report […]
Kathy Hoffman Concedes in Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Race
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce Photo Credit: Matt York/AP Photo Incumbent Democrat Kathy Hoffman conceded in the race for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction on Thursday morning [November 17]. Hoffman trailed Republican Tom Horne by 8,718 votes as of Thursday morning. Horne was leading the race 50.2% to 49.8%, according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s office. […]
The Dangers of Woke Law
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John O. McGinnis Paul Clement, the best Supreme Court advocate of his generation, won an epochal Second Amendment victory for his clients this past summer. The august law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, where he was a partner, rewarded him by offering the choice of dropping his clients or leaving the firm. And he […]
PARENT TO SCHOOL BOARD: “Am I a Cat?”
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Editorial Staff Editors’ Note: We urge all readers of The Prickly Pear to watch this short video presentation by a very astute and wise mother speaking truth to power at a school board meeting. It is tragic that this reality check from a parent to a ‘woke’ school board actively destroying the reality and […]
Education as a Battleground
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Imprimis Digest The following is adapted from remarks delivered on November 3, 2022, at a Hillsdale College reception in Santa Clara, California. If you want to see the problem with American education, look at a chart illustrating the comparative growth in the number of students, teachers, and district administrators in our public schools in […]
Taxpayer-funded Middle East Studies Centers at U.S. Universities Promote Anti-U.S. Propaganda and ‘Islamophobia’ Myths
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch It’s good to see the National Association of Scholars acknowledging this and documenting it in detail. Jihad Watch has been warning about and documenting it for years, and as a result has been one of the targets of the scurrilous pro-jihad, pro-Sharia propaganda mills that operate out of these compromised universities today. […]
4 Realities Conservatives Must Swallow In The Wake Of The 2022 Midterms
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Burfeind The electorate has crossed a point of no return, shattering previous assumptions conservatives had baked in. Unlike the left, the stunning under-performance of Republicans on Tuesday should not be an opportunity for screaming at the cosmos. It’s a reality check, and the sooner we adapt to reality, the sooner we can be […]
Demand They Strike Their Colors
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Watson Emily Oster, an economics professor at Brown University, caused a stir with an opinion piece in The Atlantic, the venerable magazine now owned by liberal mega-donor Laurene Powell Jobs through her Emerson Collective. In it, Oster called for a “pandemic amnesty” for those who encouraged ultimately pointless intrusions on life amid COVID-19. This was seized upon […]
Medical Education Slides Into Intolerant Wokeness
/in Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas C. Patterson One of the things I appreciated most during my 30 years practicing medicine in Community Hospital ERs was that there, race just didn’t matter very much. ERs were open to all and there was one standard of care for all races and classes. That was then. Today a wave of intolerant […]