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North Dakota vs. Diversity Training

     Increasingly, many states are standing up against wokeness; North Dakota is joining them.   SB 2247 protects students and employees from being “[p]enalized, discriminated against, or receive adverse treatment due to the individual’s refusal to support, believe, endorse, embrace, confess, … Continue reading

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News of the Week (July 2nd, 2023)

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     Apologies for the lack of posting. Been busy with real life and haven’t had the time to write anything up.      Here are cute kittens to make amends. Tweet

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News of the Week (June 25th, 2023)

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Restricting Freedom For The Common Good

     Ireland is considering a law that would jail people for expressing “hate speech”. “Irish citizens who campaign against transgender women being able to use female changing rooms or crisis centres risk jail under an “Orwellian” hate-speech law, critics have claimed. … Continue reading

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Federal Judge: Actually There IS A Hate Speech Exception To The 1st Amendment

     Expressing wrongthink is now a clear and present danger: A court has cleared a school to censor a student who wore a t-shirt that said “THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS” because expressing something that others don’t agree with violates the … Continue reading

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News of the Week (June 18th, 2023)

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Firing Line Friday: Should America Be Bilingual?

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.      With refugees and illegal aliens in the news, let us look back forty years ago on when they … Continue reading

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Quick Takes – Children In Academia: Naked Men With Schoolgirls; Sexually Assaulting A Six Year Old; But Muh Capitalism

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.      The focus this time: At least sexually abused children aren’t being taught to be capitalist … Continue reading

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Happy Flag Day, 2023

     Happy Flag Day!      There are many historical flags associated with the United States, particularly during the War of Independence.      One such flag is the one that flew over Fort Mifflin during the Revolutionary War. “In the fall of 1777, 240 … Continue reading

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