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Supreme Court Rules Religion-Hating Schools Cannot Fire Employees for Praying
/in Education, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mark Wallace The First Amendment to the Constitution provides in clear, unmistakable language that “Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting the free exercise” of religion. This rule applies to the States under the Fourteenth Amendment. Although one might suppose that the clarity of the Free Exercise Clause (as it is commonly […]
Recovering the Path to Manhood
/in Education, Featured, Life Advocacy, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rachel Lu It may have been the worst Super Bowl commercial ever. Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman are competing with one another, trying to use their cell phones in preposterous places. Silverman, still talking to Handler, is delivering a baby in an underground bunker. Handing the baby to the mother, she glances down and […]
Woke California School Board Members Call for Boycott of the Fourth of July
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report This is not conventional warfare but it is war all the same. This treasonous movement must be defeated and destroyed. Woke California school board members call for people to BOYCOTT Fourth of July because ‘there is no reason to celebrate’ AnaMarie Avila Farias, a member of Contra Costa County Board of […]
Celebrate Our Independence By Reflecting On The Promise Of Our Republic
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jason Mercier Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ll admit that I often look at national holidays as simply being an opportunity to spend more time with my family and forget to reflect on the reasons for the day off. With the American experiment frequently feeling like it is on the verge of collapse, we […]
The Great Reset in Action: Ending Freedom of the Press, Speech, and Expression
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Birsen Filip Governments, corporations, and elites have always been fearful of the power of a free press, because it is capable of exposing their lies, destroying their carefully crafted images, and undermining their authority. In recent years, alternative journalism has been growing and more people are relying on social media platforms as sources of […]
Weekend Read: How the Media Fueled the Lockdowns
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Betrus COVID-19 triggered lockdowns around the world never before seen. It isn’t the worst pandemic the world has seen, so why were government interventions so swift? There are really two reasons. One, broadband and laptops. Had there not been ways to continue working for the governments and remote learning to bridge education, we’d […]
Arizona’s New School Choice Bill Moves Us Closer to Milton Friedman’s Vision
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) “Our goal is to have a system in which every family in the U.S. will be able to choose for itself the school to which its children go,” the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman stated in 2003. “We are far from that ultimate result. If we had that, a system of […]
Arizona Extends School Choice to All K-12 Students
/in Education, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jason Bedrick “This session, let’s expand school choice any way we can,” declared Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in his State of the State address on Jan. 10, “Let’s think big and find more ways to get kids into the school of their parent’s choice. Send me the bills, and I’ll sign them.” The Arizona Legislature […]
Foreign Funding of Nonprofits Goes Unchecked
/in Education, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Sarah Lee Think tanks and universities are taking millions in foreign donations, and Biden has no interest in imposing transparency. The University of Pennsylvania received more than $15 million in anonymous donations from China in 2018, the same year it announced the founding of its Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. This is […]
War on Parents: Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, Here I Am At Camp Gender-Change-You-Oughta
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US I told you about the War on Parents being waged in the schools. It’s being waged on other fronts, as well. Some summer camps are assigning kids to cabins based on gender identity, not biological sex, forcing children with parents dumb enough to send them to those camps to sleep and […]
War on Parents: A Fight to the Finish
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US For the rest of the week, I return to the War on Parents which is in full swing. Make no mistake – the radical Left is coming for your children. The news this month is startling. We begin with reports of teachers or others working around children being arrested […]
Climate Realism On The Rise?
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy H. Sterling Burnett As a climate and energy realist, in my heart of hearts, I dream of the day when the public recognizes climate change will not bring on an end to the world as we know it, or even a long-term net decline for human civilization. That’s what the data and the best […]
‘Safe Haven’ Drag Queen Who Counsels Children Charged With 25 counts of Child Pornography
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Drag Hour for kids takes on monstrous meaning. Drag queen who also works as youth counselor charged with 25 counts of child pornography By: The Blaze, June 27, 2022 A Pennsylvania drag queen who counseled children at a “safe haven” for LGBTQ+ youth has been charged with 25 counts of child pornography, […]
Energy Shortages and Inflation The New Norm as Refinery Closures Outpace Construction
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ronald Stein Editors’ Note: Progressives have played a coy game. As they over-regulate the energy business, denigrate the industry, have their allies in the environmental organization tie the industry up with lawsuits, and deny capital for expansion with their friends in the ESG movement; they grin like the proverbial Cheshire cat when energy costs […]
Strong Families Are Worth Defending
/in Economy, Education, Featured, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas C. Patterson In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a landmark report in which he contended that the rising number of black families headed by unmarried mothers would reduce the prospects for Blacks to rise out of poverty, in spite of that era’s landmark civil rights legislation. Moynihan was furiously denounced for his efforts. […]
Scottsdale Official Faces Board Expulsion After Arizona AG Files Suit
/in Education, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel School Board member Jann-Michael Greenburg is facing potential removal from the Scottsdale Unified School District school board. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court, arguing that Greenburg should be required to step down from the board after multiple violations of public hearing requirements. Brnovich said […]
Toronto’s Largest School Board to Drop Auditions, Aptitude Requirements for Specialized Programs in the Name of Equity
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Unsurprisingly, the move was first proposed by the board’s Enhancing Equity Task Force. “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody […]
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) “It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought.” In chapter 10 of The Road to Serfdom, Hayek describes how some of the worst people always end up rising to the top of the political heap. Continuing to touch on this theme in the eleventh chapter, Hayek digs […]
“Without Logos, the West is lost”
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Western society is crumbling as it loses the vital link between faith and reason. This book provides a wonderfully accessible overview of the evolution of a concept which has been the key to the development of Western civilisation, or we might better say is the hallmark of Western civilisation: the mutual […]
$30K a year, and my kid can’t tell the difference between a boy and a girl
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Religion, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Parents must hold their local school systems accountable for what is taught to their children. Everything has a price. Like every American family, our family runs a constant cost/benefit analysis on our lives. There are the small decisions: is it worth the time to drive to Target for the […]
Unschooler, Entrepreneur, Prodigy: The Story of Cole Summers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t” by Kevin Cooper (aka Cole Summers) deserves a place in the alternative education canon. Kevin Cooper, known to the internet as Cole Summers, was taken from this world far too soon—he tragically died on June 11 in a kayaking accident. But in his 14 […]
Fairfax County School Board Votes To Make It A Potential Crime To Call A Boy A Boy
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The ruling class has lost its collective mind and they mean to take us all and every good thing down with them. Dissenting students at school will now be suspended and possibly charged with a crime. By: Auguste Meyrat, The Federalist, June 21, 2022: Last Thursday, the school board at Fairfax County School […]
The Failure of Public Schooling in One Chart
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Public school spending has become a costly failure. While I have great fondness for some of the visuals I’ve created over the years (especially “two wagons” and “apple harvesting“), I confess that none of my creations have ever been as clear and convincing as the iconic graph on education spending and […]
Forget School Choice, Education Microgrants Are Microsocialism
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy JASON BEDRICK & ADAM KISSEL Not all education choice initiatives are created equal. West Virginia’s near-universal Hope Scholarship, for example, empowers families to choose the learning environment that’s the best fit for their children — without costing taxpayers more. Microgrants do exactly the opposite. The Hope Scholarship is an education savings account, or ESA, that families can […]
Your Misery Is All About Their Power
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Senger It is a testament to mankind’s enduring optimism, as much as our enduring hubris, that with every generation hope should spring anew that the fundamental forces which have governed our affairs since time immemorial have changed for the better. After each passing calamity, the majority are once again lulled back into the […]
Sorry Libs, You Can’t Replace Dads With Government
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kevin Roberts It’s been said that America can always be counted on to do the right thing, once we have exhausted all the other alternatives. As of Father’s Day 2022, America has spent about 60 years exhausting the alternatives to fatherhood — and the collateral damage is all around us. Broken families. Gutted communities. […]
The New York Times Reported ‘the Mainstreaming of Marxism in U.S. Colleges’ 30 Years Ago. Today, We See the Results
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The lesson of 1989 is that today’s culture and ideas are tomorrow’s politics and policies. In August 1989, Poland’s parliament did the unthinkable. The Soviet satellite state elected an anti-communist as its new prime minister. The world waited with bated breath to see what would happen next. And then it happened: nothing. […]
Read This Book To Counter The Hopeless Lies Of ‘1619 Project’ Racial Determinists
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Casey Chalk ‘The State of Black America’ offers a much needed corrective to the cynical (and false) thinking peddled by people like Nikole Hannah-Jones. In an op-ed for The Washington Post last month entitled “For African Americans tired of U.S. hostility, Ghana is still calling,” columnist Karen Attiah discusses the trend of African Americans moving to […]
Soros-Backed Media Consortium Is Buying, to Censor, Conservative Radio Stations
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mike Gonzalez Wait until Americans with origins in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other lands demolished by communism find out that their favorite conservative radio stations are being bought by a media consortium headed by a longtime henchman of the Marxist founder of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza. And wait until Mexican Americans, with roots in this […]
A House Divided – An Open Letter to a Democrat
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mark T. Cicero We are a nation divided today: split into political divisions, Democrat, Republican, Socialist, Progressive; into racial divisions: black, white, Asian, Hispanic; into cultural and sexual divisions: straight, gay, lesbian, transexual, etc. Our entire country’s fabric is being torn asunder as these separate ‘tribes’ are set against one another. In Chapter 3 of the […]