Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comment from Woody Holton, who appeared in the documentary series. A new Hulu series based on The New York Times’ “The 1619 Project” includes historical references that are factually inaccurate, historians told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Hulu released the first 2 episodes on Jan. 26 […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/iStock-1406083231-scaled.jpg14872560Alexa Schwerhahttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngAlexa Schwerha2023-02-10 00:29:172023-02-06 13:51:45‘1619 Project’ Documentary Is Laced With Inaccuracies, Historians Say
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a proposal to eliminate all funding for so-called “diversity, equity and inclusion” and critical race theory “bureaucracies” at public universities during an event about “bringing accountability to the higher education system” in Florida on Tuesday. “All DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida — no funding, and that […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/desantis.jpg5301041Evita Duffy-Alfonsohttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngEvita Duffy-Alfonso2023-02-09 00:28:382023-02-06 07:28:57DeSantis Plan Would Defund Critical Race Theory, DEI Nonsense At Florida Public Universities
Fixing education has to start sometime, and it has to start somewhere; it looks like that time is now, and that place is Florida. SARASOTA, Fla. — In early January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a group of six conservative academics and activists to the board of trustees of the New College of Florida in […]
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Arizona’s public universities may be stacking the deck against conservative students and staff, as documented in a just-released Goldwater Institute report, The New Loyalty Oaths: How Arizona’s Public Universities Compel Job Applicants to Endorse Progressive Politics. Indeed, joining a herd of colleges across the nation, Arizona’s three public universities have all begun forcing faculty job […]
Erin Friday’s daughter was introduced to gender identity ideology in a comprehensive sex-ed class in seventh grade. “The seed was planted after that class,” Friday says. “And in fact, all of her friends, there were five, sat in my front yard saying what their new labels were.” Friday says she was “alarmed by the language […]
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Public school officials caused harm to Asian students’ college applications by not notifying them of important academic achievements. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin began 2023 by asking the state’s Attorney General Jason Miyares to investigate the allegation that officials at Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ) intentionally withheld notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s students […]
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Understanding the “trans” phenomenon means recognizing it’s about more than gender. In 2013 the DSM-V, an authoritative diagnostic manual for therapists and clinicians published by the American Psychiatric Association, defined gender dysphoria as “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender,” where “gender” refers not to […]
Taking “the hair of the dog that bit you” means curing a hangover with another drink in the morning. Nobody follows that principle as public policy, but current government practice regarding gambling and drug use subscribes to the same logic. For instance, there haven’t been too many Puritans around in a long time who objected […]
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With each new batch of the “Twitter Files,” it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Twitter censors were not only duplicitous scoundrels aiming to advance an agenda but also incompetents who failed to see the consequences of their actions. Whether it was suppressing the Hunter Biden story, shadow banning and de-amplifying popular conservative figures and certain medical […]
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On election night, I was half-watching Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s victory remarks when something quite extraordinary and encouraging caught my attention. DeSantis evoked Churchill’s “fighting on the beaches” speech, in which Churchill stirred the resolve and patriotism of the British people in anticipation of the invasion of their homeland by the Nazis. DeSantis, of course, […]
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‘1619 Project’ Documentary Is Laced With Inaccuracies, Historians Say
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Alexa SchwerhaEditor’s note: This article has been updated to include comment from Woody Holton, who appeared in the documentary series. A new Hulu series based on The New York Times’ “The 1619 Project” includes historical references that are factually inaccurate, historians told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Hulu released the first 2 episodes on Jan. 26 […]
DeSantis Plan Would Defund Critical Race Theory, DEI Nonsense At Florida Public Universities
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty/by Evita Duffy-AlfonsoFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a proposal to eliminate all funding for so-called “diversity, equity and inclusion” and critical race theory “bureaucracies” at public universities during an event about “bringing accountability to the higher education system” in Florida on Tuesday. “All DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida — no funding, and that […]
DeSantis’ College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America’s Academies Is Far From Over
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty/by Samuel Mangold-LenettFixing education has to start sometime, and it has to start somewhere; it looks like that time is now, and that place is Florida. SARASOTA, Fla. — In early January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a group of six conservative academics and activists to the board of trustees of the New College of Florida in […]
Arizona Universities Demand Applicants’ Allegiance to Progressive Politics
/in Arizona News, Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty/by Goldwater InstituteArizona’s public universities may be stacking the deck against conservative students and staff, as documented in a just-released Goldwater Institute report, The New Loyalty Oaths: How Arizona’s Public Universities Compel Job Applicants to Endorse Progressive Politics. Indeed, joining a herd of colleges across the nation, Arizona’s three public universities have all begun forcing faculty job […]
Mom Explains What It Took to Rescue Daughter From Transgenderism
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Life Advocacy/by Virginia AllenErin Friday’s daughter was introduced to gender identity ideology in a comprehensive sex-ed class in seventh grade. “The seed was planted after that class,” Friday says. “And in fact, all of her friends, there were five, sat in my front yard saying what their new labels were.” Friday says she was “alarmed by the language […]
America’s Systemic Racism Problem Is Mostly In Woke, Anti-Asian Education Bureaucracies
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty/by Helen RaleighPublic school officials caused harm to Asian students’ college applications by not notifying them of important academic achievements. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin began 2023 by asking the state’s Attorney General Jason Miyares to investigate the allegation that officials at Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ) intentionally withheld notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s students […]
Weekend Read: Soul Dysphoria [A Trans and GenZ Disaster]
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Life Advocacy/by Spencer KlavanUnderstanding the “trans” phenomenon means recognizing it’s about more than gender. In 2013 the DSM-V, an authoritative diagnostic manual for therapists and clinicians published by the American Psychiatric Association, defined gender dysphoria as “the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one’s experienced or expressed gender and one’s assigned gender,” where “gender” refers not to […]
A Little More Poison
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Latest News, Politics/by David Lewis SchaeferTaking “the hair of the dog that bit you” means curing a hangover with another drink in the morning. Nobody follows that principle as public policy, but current government practice regarding gambling and drug use subscribes to the same logic. For instance, there haven’t been too many Puritans around in a long time who objected […]
Shadows on the Wall [A Start to Defeat Woke Tyranny]
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, National Security/by Auguste MeyratWith each new batch of the “Twitter Files,” it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Twitter censors were not only duplicitous scoundrels aiming to advance an agenda but also incompetents who failed to see the consequences of their actions. Whether it was suppressing the Hunter Biden story, shadow banning and de-amplifying popular conservative figures and certain medical […]
DeSantis Goes to War
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, National Security, Politics/by Thomas D. KlingensteinOn election night, I was half-watching Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s victory remarks when something quite extraordinary and encouraging caught my attention. DeSantis evoked Churchill’s “fighting on the beaches” speech, in which Churchill stirred the resolve and patriotism of the British people in anticipation of the invasion of their homeland by the Nazis. DeSantis, of course, […]