Penna Dexter In the mid-20th century, powerful societal forces were asking the question: ‘Does the culture really need religion?’ The Christian consensus lost ground to multicultural ideology and the ideas of the sexual revolution. A new secularist theology took hold. It turns out, society is not improved by our insistence on a naked public square. In an article for First…
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Penna Dexter Competitive fairness returns to the highest level of amateur sports. The International Olympic Committee has announced that, beginning with the 2028 games in Los Angeles, participation in women’s competitions is reserved only for biological females. IOC President Kirsty Coventry stated in a video that “The scientific evidence is very clear: male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that…
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Penna Dexter The pro-trans frenzy in public education is supposedly fading. Early in his second term, President Trump issued several executive orders meant to protect against attempts to indoctrinate K-12 students into delusional gender ideologies. School districts who violate these directives and retain policies, like allowing boys on women’s sports teams and into women’s private spaces, risk losing federal education…
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Penna Dexter Planned Parenthood affiliates are getting creative in the face of the loss of taxpayer funding. In a 6-3 decision last June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs on the basis that the organization provides abortions. This imperils the organization’s presence in conservative states. Soon thereafter Congress passed and the…
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Penna Dexter We’re in the thick of Lent, the period of 40 days, which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar. Lent is a time of preparation for Easter, and, in many Christian traditions, a season of remorse. Lent can serve a good purpose even for people who are not in liturgical churches and don’t observe or think about it…
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Penna Dexter It’s been more than ten years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling extending same sex marriage to every state. Gallup polling shows that, in the five years following the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, public support for gay marriage rose from 60 to 70 percent. Then it plateaued. Gallup found that, among Republicans, approval of same sex…
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Penna Dexter It’s been three years since Budweiser featured transgender personality Dylan Mulvaney’s face on cans of Bud Light. This was a horrible business decision from which Budweiser is still working to recover. Plus — it began a three-year death spiral for the corporate influence strategy employed by the Human Rights Campaign. Family Research Council applauds this collapse in its…
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Penna Dexter According to Fortune magazine, Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley “thinks America needs a wake-up call.” Mr. Farley told Monica Langley, host of Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, his company has 5000 open jobs for mechanics. He said these jobs pay six-figure salaries. It’s not just Ford that’s having trouble finding people to fill manual labor positions. Mr….
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Penna Dexter At this year’s D.C. March for Life, Vice President J.D. Vance announced the “historic expansion” of the Mexico City Policy, which prevents federal funds from going to groups that perform abortions overseas. Pro-life administrations have maintained and reinstated the Mexico City policy since President Reagan initiated it in 1984.When pro-abortion presidents enter office, they rescind it. The edict…
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Penna Dexter Newly-inaugurated New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran for office on a 4-point platform: rent freezes, free buses, free childcare, and city-run grocery stores. In an essay for The Claremont Review of Books, Christopher Caldwell points out that these are the policy positions of the Democratic Socialists of America which, he says, “shows signs of turning into the main…
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Penna Dexter On January 13th, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases that are, arguably, the most important of the current term. At issue are laws passed in West Virginia and Idaho that protect female sports. According to these laws only biological females may participate in women’s sporting events. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged both…
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