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…
Read NowPenna 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…
Read NowPenna 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…
Read NowPenna 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….
Read NowPenna 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…
Read NowPenna 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…
Read NowPenna 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…
Read NowPenna Dexter Post-Roe v. Wade, abortion numbers have increased. Although some states prohibit it outright, chemical abortions take place in every state. Well before the justices handed down their 2022 Dobbs ruling freeing us from Roe’s federal “right” to abortion, the Food and Drug Administration made abortion easier to obtain, and more dangerous. Abortion drugs first became legal in the…
Read NowPenna Dexter It’s about time! Last summer, Congress voted to stop funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Last week the corporation formally disbanded. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — or CPB — was a private non-profit organization, authorized by Congress in 1967 as the funding mechanism for public radio and television. The Washington Post’s Dominic Pino says this “was part…
Read NowPenna Dexter Most studies show married women are happier. But a recent Pew survey shows young men are more interested in marriage than young women. Politics is a factor. An NBC News survey published in September found that “Gen Z men who voted for Trump rate having children as the most important thing in their definition of success,” while “Gen…
Read NowPenna Dexter I knew before I was a mom that, if and when I had children, I didn’t want to work outside the home. Still, my education prepared me for a career. I went to college in the 70’s when feminism was taking hold. After graduating, I spent more than 8 years working for a bank, first in systems engineering…
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