Penna Dexter School discipline policies in several states are changing for the better. The shift comes after President Trump issued an executive order last April aimed at restoring common sense to school discipline. The order states: “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school…
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Penna Dexter Early in her tenure as U.S. Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon began working herself out of a job. Last week she got a boost from the Supreme Court. The Wall Street Journal’s headline was “High Court Paves the Way to Weaken Education Department.” The Court lifted a lower court ruling that blocked staff layoffs at the Department as…
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Penna Dexter The United Nations is notorious for pushing radical gender ideology on member nations, even those who hold to the biological definitions of male and female. Thankfully, the top UN human rights official for women has a refreshing message for those traditional — and often religious— countries. Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls, recently presented a…
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Penna Dexter It feels like common sense is flowing back into the country as the Trump administration goes department-by-department, unraveling much of the woke nonsense under which decision-makers have been operating. One absurd policy after another is being jettisoned and replaced with common sense directives like the one that says: “Sororities are for women.” In early June, the U.S. Department…
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Penna Dexter Students at colleges across the country are increasingly using a relatively new tool for staying “safe:” the No Contact Order. No Contact Orders — NCOs – were originally developed to protect students who were victims of sexual harassment or assault on campus. A recent Wall Street Journal report states: “Over the past 10 years, however, the circumstances under…
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Penna Dexter It’s been ten years, almost to the day, since the United States Supreme Court handed down the Obergefell vs. Hodges decision. The ruling instituted same sex marriage across the land because it struck down all state laws specifying that marriage is the union between one man and one woman. The opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, emphasized the…
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Penna Dexter Historic Christianity celebrates May 31st as The Feast of the Visitation, which has also been described as the first meeting of Jesus and John the Baptist. Mary, early in her pregnancy, travels to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who is much further along in her pregnancy with John the Baptist. The verse is Luke 1:44 where Elizabeth exclaims: “Behold,…
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Penna Dexter It’s Pride Month again. It used to be called gay pride. Now — in an effort to force the concept on all of us — it’s just Pride. There are Pride celebrations taking place across the country. The mayor of Washington DC proclaims her city “the gayest in the world.” DC has been hosting pride events for 50…
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Penna Dexter Reuters reports that the Chinese government, which — not-so-long ago — forced a one-child-per family policy on its population, is considering a monthly subsidy to encourage families to have second and third children. Enforcement of the one-child policy was brutal. It included forced abortion and sterilization. A preference for boys led to the practice of sex selective abortion…
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Penna Dexter It was once a given that a young person would graduate from high school, get a job, marry and then — and only then — have children. No longer. Today, half of American babies are born to unmarried mothers. Economist Melissa Kearney, author of The Two Parent Privilege says, “Roughly 30 percent of kids in the U.S. live outside…
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Penna Dexter Planned Parenthood released its annual report right in the middle of House Republicans’ effort to defund the organization. What timing! The report shows that, in 2024, Planned Parenthood committed more abortions than the previous year and soaked in 13 percent more funding from the U.S. taxpayer. The $792.2 million U.S. taxpayers provided to Planned Parenthood is 39 percent…
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