Tag: Social Issues

SHOT Show Exhibitors Promote Gun Safety, Suicide Prevention

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is as committed to promoting gun safety as it is to gun rights, Bill Brassard, senior director of communications and director of the Child Safe program for the NSSF, told The Epoch Times. “It’s about much more than firearms,” Brassard said. According to Brassard, the firearms industry is working…


School System Failing And Is No Longer There to Educate, Says Teacher

America’s education system has failed, according to a teacher and charter school enthusiast. And now parents search for new schools, surveys show. “The goal of the education system today is no longer to educate. It’s to do everything but that,” Dan Fisher told the Epoch Times. Fisher teaches 10th grade at a high school whose…


FDA Asks Federal Judge to Protect Access to Abortion Drug Mifepristone

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is asking a federal judge to reject a lawsuit seeking to withdraw the approval given to an abortion drug as plaintiffs accuse the agency of failing to follow proper regulatory standards and succumbing to political machinations during the approval process. The lawsuit (pdf), filed by a group of…


Wisconsin Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on State Law Giving Patients the Right to Choose Their Own Medical Treatment

The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday concerning a case that has brought into question the purview of a statute giving patients the right to choose their own medical treatment. “No health care may be given to you over your objection, and necessary health care may not be stopped or withheld if you object,”…


Goldman Economist Says US Layoffs Were Far Higher Than Labor Department Reported

The U.S. Labor Department’s job openings report may have overlooked a recent upturn in layoffs, according to new research from Goldman Sachs. Goldman economist Manuel Abecasis stated in a report that available job openings in the United States have declined by a large margin without a boost to the official unemployment rate. Abecasis says that…


FBI Offers $25,000 Reward for Info on Pregnancy Center Attacks

The FBI said it is offering a $25,000 reward for information on a series of attacks on pregnancy centers dating back to last year’s Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade. In a statement, the bureau’s Portland office said it will provide the payment to sources and informants who can give “information leading to the identification,…


Chinese Authorities Halt Plans to Build New Universities, Suggesting Population Crisis: Experts

News Analysis More than a dozen Chinese provinces recently announced that they have no plans to build new universities. China experts point out that with the decline in the country’s population, particularly a large number of COVID-19 deaths, there is a significant reduction in the college-age population, and universities will have trouble recruiting enough students…


Matt Gaetz Introduces Bill to Abolish ATF After It Declared Braced Pistols Illegal

The new “Abolish the ATF Act” bill introduced by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) would immediately disband the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms (ATF) upon its enactment. “The continued existence of the ATF is increasingly unwarranted based on their repeated actions to convert law-abiding citizens into felons. They must be stopped. My bill today would abolish the…


Nebraska’s ‘Let Them Grow Bill’ Would Ban Childhood Gender Treatments

Nebraska lawmakers are considering two gender-related bills; one that bans gender change treatments for minors and another that prevents different biological genders from commingling in sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms. The “Let Them Grow Act” prohibits gender-altering procedures for individuals younger than 19, including surgical and hormone treatments such as puberty-blocking drugs. “The state has…


Chicago Inspector General School Report Reveals 1,735 Reported Sexual Misconduct Cases in Four Years

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) had 1,735 reported adult-on-student sexual misconduct cases in the past four years, according to a report by the Chicago Board of Education’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). Hundreds of cases couldn’t substantiate sex abuse allegations, 302 discovered substantial policy violations, and at least 16 resulted in criminal charges. A backlog of…