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The American Spectator
2h ago
A Rasmussen Reports poll shows that approximately 60 percent of Americans believe that schools should not counsel children on gender and sexual orientation without parental consent.
Even though the majority of American parents oppose it, 3 million students attend schools where they can change their gender without parental consent. That’s according to a study conducted by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies.
The radical Marxist Left, which has taken over the education system, has a much broader goal of destroying parental rights and dismantling the nuclear family.
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The American Spectator
4h ago
This morning, a Wisconsin school board policy committee voted to move forward on a policy that would ban all political signs from schools in the district — including Pride and Black Lives Matter flags.
The ban, which would apply to schools in the Arrowhead Union High School District located just west of Milwaukee, is one of several similar bans implemented across the country. School districts in Utah, Missouri, Oregon, Florida, Indiana, and Pennsylvania have already restricted political signage — Pride and BLM included — in classrooms. The policy will now go to the school lawyer before it can ..read more
The American Spectator
5h ago
Word is just in that noted “televangelist” Pat Robertson has died at the age of 93.
Robertson will no doubt at this moment be maligned by the secular Left, which he would expect and literally laugh off with his characteristic grin. But he will also take some posthumous shots from people on the conservative side, too. A lifetime of appearing on television every day — most notably on his 700 Club, carried by the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which he founded — provided plenty of fodder. (One of the most infamous Robertson statements for me was on a man’s right to divorce his wife if she ..read more
The American Spectator
7h ago
Three people contributed to the creation of a baby who was born in the U.K. thanks to genetic experimentation at the Newcastle Fertility Centre, a U.K.–based fertility organization.
“The first U.K. baby created with DNA from three people has been born after doctors performed a groundbreaking IVF procedure that aims to prevent children from inheriting incurable diseases,” Ian Sample, science editor for the Guardian, writes. (READ MORE: Biden’s Big Lie about Contraceptive and Abortion ‘Access’)
According to Sample, the mitochondrial donation treatment — otherwise known as MDT — extracts he ..read more
The American Spectator
18h ago
We have a debt-ceiling deal. It’s a relief for most people. This deal avoids a default and the need for the Department of the Treasury to make hard choices over which bills to pay. It gives Republicans the sense that a step was taken toward fiscal responsibility and gives Democrats the sense that they’ve made an unprecedented sacrifice. Many hope their spending restraint days are over. But a deeper look into headline-grabbing projections of huge savings reveals that nothing could be further from the truth.
READ MORE: The Real Cost of the Debt-Ceiling Deal
Much more needs to be done, and it ..read more
The American Spectator
18h ago
Furries mark the next iteration of the Left’s LGBTQ progression.
How fast the media has successfully memory-holed past variations in an attempt to discount the — clearly correct — slippery-slope argument from conservatives.
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“We just want the right to get married!”
“We’re not coming after kids. But adults can be transgender!”
“Kids should be exposed to LGBTQ ideas from an early age. It teaches them to be tolerant!”
“Children should be able to get gender-reassignment surgery and hormones without their parents’ consent!”
If you don’t know what furrie ..read more
The American Spectator
18h ago
A federal judge is blocking a Tennessee state law banning drag shows for children while other states advance similar legislation. Trump-appointed District Court Judge Thomas Parker ruled last week that Tennessee’s new law prohibiting the presence of children at drag and other sexually explicit shows was unconstitutional. Parker wrote that “Tennessee’s compelling interest in protecting the psychological and physical wellbeing of children” was trumped by what he called the law’s “unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech.” The legislation was signed into law in March by Republican Go ..read more
The American Spectator
18h ago
As the debate continues to rage over Los Angeles Dodgers’ honoring of the “good works” performed by the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a group that has spent the last four decades denigrating Catholic religious nuns by dressing in drag and performing obscene gestures at Gay Pride parades — most of the criticism is directed at Dodgers management for caving to pressure from the LGBTQ tyrants. Few seem to notice the role that the LGBTQ enablers have played from their privileged perches within the Catholic Church itself.
It is time to call them out. It is time to point to the dissident priest ..read more
The American Spectator
18h ago
As president, Donald Trump oversaw a number of excellent policies — but, despite those strengths, he will harm conservatives and Republicans if he wins the nomination in 2024. Constitutionally term limited, Trump would be a lame-duck president from day one, with all the limitations that come with that status. To secure success in 2024 and 2028, Republicans must unite behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or North Carolina Sen. Tim Scott.
If Trump wins the Republican nomination and then happens to win the general election, he will be term limited. The 22nd Amendment would prevent him from runn ..read more
The American Spectator
18h ago
Michelle Obama appears to be the next Democrat figurehead. In a May 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein give voice to a fear that has been haunting those deranged by the very thought of Donald Trump: “He could be elected president again in 2024.”
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These two savvy Democrats understand how vulnerable President Joe Biden is, both politically and medically. To prepare a “backup plan,” they speed through the likely suspects for a substitute but soon realize that none is viable. The “stronges ..read more