Black Student Arrested After Refusing to Say Pledge of Allegiance
Sigh. Yet another story about a teacher ignoring the rights of students not to say the pledge of allegiance, but this one is even worse than most. She got into an argument with the 11-year old...
View ArticleTeacher Tells Pledge-refusing Student to Go Back to Mexico
Here’s yet another example of a teacher attacking a student for exercising their right not to recite the pledge of allegiance. A substitute teacher in Salem, Oregon has been banned after telling a...
View ArticleTrump’s Steel Tariffs Have Hurt U.S. Steel Badly
After announcing his tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum, Trump has touted — and wildly exaggerated — U.S. Steel as a great success story after they reopened one of their blast furnaces. But things...
View ArticleGraham: Schools Have No Right to Teach Anti-Godly Things
Franklin Graham is joining a New Jersey mayor in opposing a new law requiring the teaching of LGBT history in public schools. Not only do they not have right to teach that, he claims, the schools have...
View ArticleMost Republicans Reject Higher Education
A new Pew Research poll finds that more than of Republicans think college and academia in general is having a negative effect on society. This changed rather dramatically around 2016, not...
View ArticleAnother Republican Who Opposes Higher Education
I recently quoted the moronic Jesse Lee Peterson saying that being educated should be shameful, especially for women. Attacks on higher education have become routine on the right and a Tennessee state...
View ArticlePaula White Consecrates White House as Holy Ground
Paula White seems to operate as Trump’s chief “spiritual adviser.” She doesn’t care whether he’s actually religious or not (and he’s not), it raises her profile. She gave a sermon at the church of...
View ArticlePrager Declares His ‘University’ to Be Real
Prager “University” is little more than a media outlet that distributes videos featuring right-wing talking points, but pseudo-intellectual Dennis Prager insists that it’s a real university — just...
View ArticleNazi Flag Flown at Michigan Elementary School
We’ve seen this kind of thing happen at high schools and colleges, but I can’t recall it ever happening at an elementary school. In Battle Creek, Michigan, a Nazi flag was found hanging from the...
View ArticleOhio Considers Law Allowing Wrong Answers on Science if Based on Religion
The Ohio House of Representatives has passed and the Senate is now considering a law that would forbid teachers from marking an answer wrong on a science test if the answer is based on the student’s...
View ArticleTrump Wants to Repeal Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Nutrition Initiative
As First Lady, Michelle Obama made promoting good nutrition for children her primary priority. To that end she pushed and got passed new rules requiring more fruits and vegetables and less junk food in...
View ArticleAnother Teacher Who Needs to Be Fired Immediately
In a Chicago school they held an assembly to celebrate Latino heritage and two students, one Latina and one African-American, protested racial injustice by refusing to stand for the Pledge of...
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