America, Opinion
How about ‘American Pride Month’ in July? It’d be a great discussion starter, and your beleaguered country sorely needs the loveI suddenly stopped eating to scan the dining room. I saw seemingly every make and model of human being enjoying Kansas City barbecue and each other – many in racially… Read More
Opinion
America’s most unashamedly biased union endorses Biden-Harris for 2024American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers’ union in the nation, officially endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the 2024 presidential election. “President Joe Biden and Vice President… Read More
Opinion
Op-ed: How the teachers’ union broke public education(Tablet) – On May 17, the Oakland, California, teachers’ union ended a two-week strike—the union’s third strike in five years. The district offered a substantial salary increase for teachers before the… Read More
Culture, Opinion
Indoctrination nation: Missouri has moved to protect the youngest of children from age-inappropriate library books. Why won’t Kansas?Missouri has taken steps to protect its children from libidinous library books. Kansas obviously hasn’t. Why in the world not? Last week The Heartlander found a talking children’s book in… Read More
Opinion
Religious groups, cultural conservatives stand on same side of culture warPolitics may make for strange bedfellows, but culture wars marry them. In the clash between traditional values and radical gender ideology, Christians, Muslims and other culturally conservative groups share many… Read More
Opinion
Kansas ed officials deceive school districts on efficiency and achievement(The Sentinel) – Imagine 100 students take a test where Johnnie gets a C and only four students had higher grades. That puts Johnnie in the 95th percentile relative to… Read More
Opinion
Wisconsin med school fully embrace DEI(Do No Harm) – The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (UWMSMPH) scores in the green on the Diversity, Inclusion, Culture, and Equity (DICE) Inventory, as it… Read More
Opinion
Med school and association all in on DEI with ‘socially accountable admissions’(Do No Harm) – The University of California, Davis medical school gets top marks from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) for its commitment to… Read More
Opinion
I’m a mother. What is so hateful about parents fighting for children in schools?The liberal Southern Poverty Law Center recently added several parental rights organizations to its “hate group” list, including Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education. But… Read More
Opinion
‘Eat or be eaten’: Academe’s cancel culture law of the jungle(The Daily Signal) – In the savagery of the jungle, the rule is “Eat or be eaten.” It seems that law of the jungle has made its way to… Read More
Opinion
Public Schools: Busily answering questions no one is askingThe survey responses of roughly 2,000 parents and staff of Omaha Public Schools distressingly reveals a problem plaguing the nation: people really don’t understand the purpose of public schools. The… Read More
Opinion
Why special education needs school choicePublic education is often touted for providing a universal education. But recent reports reveal public schools often neglect to adequately provide for their special education students. A report from Advocates… Read More
Opinion
There’s no ‘XY’ in female sports(The Daily Signal) – I was part of the last generation of female-only athletes in women’s sports. Discomfort changing in the locker room, missing out… Read More
Opinion
5 things I saw at DC Library’s Children’s Pride Parade(The Daily Signal) – The Children’s Pride Parade held on a sunny Saturday by the D.C. Public Library drew fewer than 100 parents, children, and other… Read More
Opinion
Associated Press: media should ignore biological science when covering transgender issuesThe Associated Press released its latest style guidance for journalists, effectively denying the existence of biological sex and forbidding journalists to write otherwise. In fact, it recommends not using the… Read More
Opinion
Op-ed: Conservatives, it’s time to even the electoral technology playing fieldThe old aphorism, “good for the goose, good for the gander,” is yet another casualty of America’s new woke sensibilities. Along with the concepts of objective truth and fairness, equal… Read More
Opinion
Op-ed: The wokes’ uncivil war against America“This idea of being woke and if you’re socially compromised you cancel people out and all of that stuff, you need to get over that quickly. Being woke isn’t cool… Read More
Opinion
Biden’s ed department tells nation’s schools to go back to race-based discipline(The Daily Signal) – The school year is over, but a new race-based missive from Washington will loom over teachers and students all summer. Just before Memorial Day, federal education… Read More
Opinion
Raising the bar: The Scripps National Spelling Bee is an American bastion of academic excellenceWhile political and divisive ideologies have pushed public education to lower academic standards, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has championed excellence since it began almost a century ago. The Bee… Read More
Opinion
Op-ed: Power and money is behind the leftist crusade for ‘gender affirming care’According to leftists, transgenderism is not something to merely be tolerated and accepted. It must be celebrated as worthy of emulation or else. But why? Transgenderism is a tool for… Read More