Michigan lawmakers gave final approval to legislation that would ban so-called conversion therapy for minors, joining other blue states to advance protections for the LGBT community. The approach includes an array of verbal counseling methods by which consenting clients are helped to bring their sexual feelings and identity in line with their biological sex. House…
Trump Lauds SCOTUS, Makes Off-Script Call for Education Reform
June 30, 2023
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Former president Donald Trump praised the U.S. Supreme Court for its historic back-to-back decisions affecting education and religious rights, drawing enthusiastic applause from a conservative parental-rights group’s annual conference. But after making those largely predictable remarks during his June 30 speech, Trump went off-script. He told the Joyful Warriors National Summit of Moms for Liberty,…
Newsom Doubling Number of Officers in San Francisco to Combat Crime, Fentanyl Crisis
June 30, 2023
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With San Francisco plagued by unprecedented levels of crime and drug abuse, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced June 29 that the state will bolster its prior efforts to tackle the fentanyl crisis in the city, with a promise to double the number of California Highway Patrol officers dedicated to crack down on the issue in…
Transgender Soldiers Cost Taxpayers Millions, Likely to Be Medically ‘Unfit to Serve’
In the popular “M.A.S.H.” sitcom that ran from 1972 until 1983, Corporal Maxwell Klinger was so desperate to escape his assignment to a mobile army surgical hospital in the Korean War, he dressed as a woman in an attempt to prove he was mentally unfit to serve. At the time, it was accepted that people…
IN-DEPTH: Former Army Psychologist Raises Alarm on Transgender Soldiers
In the popular “M.A.S.H.” sitcom that ran from 1972 until 1983, Corporal Maxwell Klinger was so desperate to escape his assignment to a mobile army surgical hospital in the Korean War, he dressed as a woman in an attempt to prove he was mentally unfit to serve. At the time, it was accepted that people…
Activists Plan Student “Debt Strike” in Response to Supreme Court Decision
June 30, 2023
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Students with up to $230,000 in student debt have decided that they are rich in political power. At a Zoom meeting hosted by the activist group the Debt Collective, student debtors entering the meeting announced on its chat how much money they owed in debt. Although the meeting numbered around 300 people at its biggest,…
1619 Project’s Reparation Math Curriculum Will Be Harmful: Author
The New York Times’s 1619 Project has added academic curriculum in areas of history, reading, and writing to its repertoire. Most recently, Reparations Math was added to the 1619 syllabus. Author Ian Rowe believes that teaching children this version of history and how the government owes them money is dangerous and detrimental to their taking responsibility…
SCOTUS Cites Nancy Pelosi’s Own Words to Justify Blocking Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
June 30, 2023
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A set of 2021 comments by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ended up undermining President Joe Biden’s efforts to implement a student loan cancellation plan. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Biden could not excuse student debt repayments through the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES Act) or…
Make Role Models of Those ‘Who Didn’t Need Affirmative Action,’ Improve Inner-City K-12 Schools: Rep. Ken Buck
June 30, 2023
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Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) rebuffed criticisms of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down race-based affirmative action admissions policies at U.S. colleges, arguing that students ought to embrace more merit-based measures for systems and educators should raise their K-12 education standards, especially in inner-cities. In an interview with “The Hill” on NewsNation on Thursday, Buck…
Universities Say Affirmative Action Ban Won’t Stop Them From Pursuing Racial Outcomes
While there has been much debate over the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the use of affirmative action in schools, many believe that it won’t change the goals many institutions have of achieving race-based outcomes. Richard Lempert, who helped draft a university affirmative action policy that the Supreme Court upheld 20 years ago, agrees. After…
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