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FLORIDA: Jane Goodwin, Sarasota County School Board Chair, Orders Police to Forcibly Remove Parent and Mother of Four from Meeting

By Dr. Rich Swier Goodwin had the mother of four children forcibly removed by police because she was, “about to say something horrible…[about a School Board Member].” Sarasota County (FL) School Board Chairman orders police to throw a citizen out of a Public Meeting because she was…”About to say something horrible…[About a School Board Member]” […]

A SARASOTA, FLORIDA CASE STUDY: The Evolution of the ‘Political Grooming’ of Children by the State

By Dr. Rich Swier “If you can get a child when he is 7 and you’ll have him forever.” – Adolf Hitler “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” – Vladimir Lenin “Parents claim they have the right to shape their kids’ school curriculum. […]

Boston College Psychology Professor: “School Has Become a Toxic Place for Children”

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Self-directed education, grounded in play, is most beneficial for youth learning and development. More families may be flocking to homeschooling and other schooling alternatives over the past two years, but Peter Gray has been urging families to flee coercive schooling since long before the pandemic began. The Boston College psychology professor […]

Why Big Media Is so Unoriginal and Shallow

By Craig J. Cantoni Media consolidation and interlocking directorships are the reasons. If you want to know why Big Media on the left and right is so unoriginal and shallow, a couple of left-leaning sources have the answer. The sources also explain why the residents of most cities and towns across the country no longer […]

Get a Government Job, Do What You Want

By Bruce Bialosky When talking points are created or written, they seem to be automatically rejected by the opposition. Using the term “Deep State” will set a liberal’s hair on fire and cause them not to listen. The question is whether federal employees act in a manner of their choosing as opposed to following the wishes of […]

Wokeness is stalking your kids. Here’s how to protect them

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Parents need Courage, Clarity, Compassion, and Communication to dialogue effectively with their children. In recent weeks, the following incidents took place, all involving people I know personally who live near me. A middle-schooler was unable to focus at school where a female student who identifies as a boy identifying […]

The New York Times Reported ‘the Mainstreaming of Marxism in US Colleges’ 30 Years Ago. Today, We See the Results

By 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. […]

Reagan’s Goal to End the Department of Education Is Finally Gaining Momentum

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Ending the Department of Education may seem like a radical idea, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds. The debate over the federal role in education has been going on for decades. Some say the feds should have a relatively large role while others say it should be […]

‘The Dumbest Generation Grows Up’

By The Geller Report An English professor Mark Bauerlein, saw what was happening to young people. In 2008, he wrote the The Dumbest Generation, arguing that millennials would become increasingly ignorant, vain, and immature because of their chronic use of digital technology. Thanks to the Federalist for bringing this read book to the fore. The […]

Starting the Brainwashing Early: New game Called ‘Playing with Pronouns’ is Pitched to Kids Ages 4-9

By Jihad Watch 2+2=5, Winston. If you refuse to accept that, you are an enemy of the state. EDITORS NOTE: Here’s the promotional video for Playing with Pronouns: Ready, Set, GROOM! Teachers are Recruiting Our Kids Into the Transgender Life with Books and Games by Kevin Downey Jr., PJ Media, April 15, 2022: For a group […]

PODCAST: School Nurse Suspended for Exposing 11 Students Who Changed Their ‘Gender Identity’

By Martin Mawyer When school nurse Kathleen Cataford wrote on a ‘mom’s page’ that 11 students were identifying as gender non-binary – 9 without parental consent – she was suspended within a week at Richard J Kinsella Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut. WATCH: ​School nurse gets booted for exposing too much ​ She did not disclose […]

Florida Rejects 41% Of Math Books Containing ‘Critical Race Theory’ and Other Indoctrinating Propaganda

By The Geller Report Math books with CRT? Florida Rejects Dozens Of Math Books Containing ‘Critical Race Theory’ And Other ‘Indoctrinating Concepts’ By  Tim Meads • Apr 16, 2022  • Daily Wire” The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that after a recent review, 41% of proposed K-12 mathematics books intended for use during the 2022-2023 […]

NYT Columnist Admits Schools Are Grooming Children Into LGBT Identities

By NATHANAEL BLAKE A New York Times columnist has again confirmed that social conservatives were right: educators are pushing LGBT ideology on students. Is Michelle Goldberg a conservative plant at The New York Times? Although she claims to be a liberal feminist, some of her recent columns are essentially admissions that social conservatives have been […]

Do Greedy Countries Have Higher Inflation?

By Nicolas Cachanosky Blaming high inflation on corporate greed has become a favorite pastime of some prominent politicians. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has accused large corporations of driving inflation, a view that is out of sync with the data. More recently, Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) joined the chorus. “Corporate greed is Tyson Foods raising the […]

Schools Are Outdated. It’s Time For Reform

By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) By continuing along with this standardized type of schooling, we are putting millions at a disadvantage. The public education system we currently know has been around for more than 150 years. However, the basic schooling model remains the same. Roughly 20 to 30 kids of the same age are […]

Giving Our Money Away Again

By Bruce Bialosky President Biden thinks his real title is “Spender in Chief,” not Commander in Chief. He is always throwing our money around. It seems every answer he provides has him committing our money without any clear explanation of his authority. His recent failings have caused him to refocus his efforts on a new, […]

An Easter Essay: Why Did Jesus Come?

By James Rousseau As we approach Easter, we might ask ourselves what is its real meaning? Is it about Easter egg hunts and cute bunnies or is it more than that? Nowhere else do we celebrate two events each year focusing our attention on one person, Jesus. The first event is Christmas. The word has […]

The Left’s War on Childhood

By Jihad Watch From Greta Thunberg to children put on puberty blockers, the victims of the war on childhood are everywhere. They show up at environmental or gun control rallies holding up giant signs in their little hands, they’re indoctrinated at school to enlist as child soldiers for the latest cause. Adults tell them that […]

The BLM Scam

By Thomas C. Patterson I don’t know about you, but the first time I heard the slogan “Black Lives Matter“ I thought it was, well…curious. Who said otherwise these days? Wasn’t that obvious? I soon discovered the depths of my naïveté. The tip-off was realizing that “All Lives Matter“ was not a more inclusive iteration […]

How we are being diversified into uniformity

By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Russell Jacoby’s book is a fascinating account of how people across the world have come to conform to a particular mode of behaviour and thought, despite claims to the contrary. On Diversity: The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era by Russell Jacoby, Seven Stories Press, 2020, 152 […]

VIDEO: The Communist Revolution Started in the Public Schools

By Vlad Tepes Blog VIDEO: The Communist Revolution Started in the Public Schools – Dr. Rich Swier Copyright © 2021 DrRichSwier.com LLC. A Florida Cooperation. All rights reserved. The DrRichSwier.com is a not-for-profit news forum for intelligent Conservative commentary. Opinions expressed by writers are solely their own. Republishing of columns on this website requires the […]

We Must Acknowledge the Damage Inflicted by Transgender Ideology

By Family Research Council There are at least 24 international LGBTQIA+ awareness days in addition to Pride Month. Some of these days are Drag Day, Pronouns Day, Trans Awareness Week and Month, and Trans Parent Day. No other subject known to humanity has been afforded such a salute on our yearly calendars as the LGBTQIA+ […]

Yale Law School Recruits and Trains Social Justice Warriors

By Michael Cutler Mission: Wage lawfare to effect change across every sector of society. If practitioners of any profession would be expected to understand and honor the notion of Free Speech it would be lawyers.  In years past this would be a reasonable conclusion.  However, in so many ways traditional American values have been turned […]

VIDEO: Parents Nationwide, They’re on Kids’ Side

By Family Research Council Waukesha, Wisconsin conservatives went three-for-three in Tuesday’s school board elections, shutting out the progressive “slate” opposing them. A third of the nine-member school board stands for election each year, with the seats going to the three candidates who receive the most votes. Current incumbents finished in 5th and 6th place on election […]

Against Scientific Gatekeeping

By Jeffrey A. Singer Science should be a profession, not a priesthood. In March 2020, the iconoclastic French microbiologist Didier Raoult announced that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine had cured all 36 COVID-19 patients enrolled in his clinical trial. Many of Raoult’s colleagues rejected his conclusions, arguing that the trial was too small and noting that […]

Pittsburgh: Catholic university hosts speaker who calls on white people to ‘crucify their whiteness’

By Jihad Watch Miguel de la Torre argues that “hope” is a “white concept,” which would come as a surprise to St. Paul. In typical fashion, Sean McFarland, Carlow University Public Relations & Communications Manager, defends the university’s featuring of de la Torre’s message of fashionable racial hatred, resentment, and rage by claiming that the […]

DeSantis to authorize teaching the ‘foundations of Western and American civilization’

By The Geller Report “The purpose of the center is to support teaching and research concerning the ideas, traditions, and texts that form the foundations of western and American civilization,” the amendment to Florida’s SB 2524 reads, granting the authorization to the public university. DeSantis to authorize Hamilton Center for teaching the ‘foundations of western […]

Biden Administration Endorses Child Sex Changes On Transgender Visibility Day

By Harold Hutchison The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released guidance Thursday endorsing gender reassignment procedures for children. The documents, “Gender Affirming Care and Young People” released by the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) and “Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Informed Care” released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Child Traumatic […]

‘Gay Agenda’: Disney Employees Reportedly Reveal Effort To Inject ‘Queerness’ Into Children’s Shows

By Laurel Duggan Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, shared videos that purportedly show Disney employees revealing their efforts to inject LGBT content into children’s shows during a discussion of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill. Company leaders reportedly boasted about the many existing LGBT characters in Disney shows and their plans […]

Baltimore parents sue city after student graduates high school not being able to read

By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. Shocking number of students have failing GPAs  Every parent has a God-given right to protect their child or children from ALL harm; malicious or accidental, neglectful or pathologically over indulgent, especially from outside sources intent to erase the child’s family morals, values and heritage. This moral obligation extends to a […]