Today on Point of View, Penna Dexter is your host. Her first guest is Dr. Lucian Spataro who serves as president and CEO of the of the Joe Foss Institute: a non profit organization that serves Veterans and students in schools across the country. He tells us more about The Civics Education Initiative which seeks to promote civics education and prepare students to be informed and engaged citizens.
Also on the show today is Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. She tells us more about Zubik v. Burwell, more popularly known as Obamacare v. Little Sisters of the Poor, is about the Obamacare mandate requiring employers and private insurance plans to provide cost-free coverage for contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
In the last hour, we hear from Robert Knight, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union; he tells us more about The Left and Free Speech. We will also revisit the issue of the bathroom bill which is still having resounding impact on our culture.
Dr. Spataro’s educational credentials also include a tenure as Chief Operating Officer for Education 2020, an educational software and service provider, and serving as President & CEO of TesseracT, which at the time was the largest for-profit education company in the United States. More recently he served as President of FlipSwitch, a national educational software provider.
He led the nonprofit Joe Foss Institute from 2011 – 2014 as President & CEO, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for both the Joe Foss Institute and the Civics Proficiency Institute, an affiliate of the Joe Foss Institute.
Only one in five Americans aged 18 through 29 cast a ballot in last year’s elections, marking 2014 as having the lowest youth voter-turnout in 40 years. Some reason that young Americans are apathetic about public affairs. Others argue that cynicism about the electoral process is what’s keeping young adults from the polls: They’re so disillusioned with politics they’ve simply given up on it.
Given Millennials’ lifestyle habits and the general public’s ever-growing skepticism of people in power, perennially low voter turnout may seem inevitable. But perhaps schools are largely to blame for the rather pathetic participation numbers; perhaps young adults’ ignorance of civic affairs helps explain why so few of them cast their votes. Perhaps that means change is possible.
Clasping signs that read #blackwomenmatter, black and white women linked hands and walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where Martin Luther King, Jr. once led marches for voting rights.
"If black lives matter, then black women matter … if black lives matter, then black children matter … if black lives matter, then black babies matter," conservative black activist Star Parker told the crowd after it gathered in front of a clinic in June that allegedly performs unlicensed abortions.
The march was a rare moment in the anti-abortion movement, which for decades has been dominated by white conservatives. But activism on abortion may be starting to become more racially integrated, as black activists seek to have their voices heard and leaders of the movement's most powerful groups begin to recognize a need for diversity.
He was a journalist for 15 years, including seven as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Political Science from American University, and was a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
He has held senior positions at the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Heritage Foundation, Coral Ridge Ministries, and the Media Research Center. He wrote and directed the documentary videos Hidden Truth: What You Deserve to Know about Abortion, and The Children of Table 34, about sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
Let’s call this criminalization of dissent “totalitolerance.” This term has been around since at least 2013, but it deserves wider circulation, given the ferocity and frequency of progressive attacks on free speech.
In California, Attorney General Kamala Harris demanded the names of donors to conservative nonprofits in order to expose them to the kind of harassment endured by supporters of the Proposition 8 marriage amendment referendum in 2008. Last month, in a case involving the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, she was rebuffed by a federal judge who issued a permanent injunction against this “chilling effect on First Amendment rights.”
Meanwhile, Ms. Harris joined New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and 18 other liberal attorneys general in an investigation of ExxonMobil’s charitable contributions to groups that question climate change dogma. After Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) writer Hans Bader criticized the inquiry, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker sued for access to CEI’s donor lists.
The scientist said he wouldn’t even begin to think about it. In his work, he stays far away from anything related to race, sex, and gender, unless it can’t be avoided, and even then he treads very, very carefully. Too risky politically. You never know where the land mines are hidden. You could say something you think is entirely uncontroversial and scientifically neutral, but if someone decides to make trouble for you, and call you a racist, homophobe, transphobe, or whatever, it can ruin your academic career.
The Social Justice Warriors have done their work well. Especially in New York City.
Lisa Stickles told CBSDFW what happened at the Ross Dress for Less Department store in Mesquite, Texas.
“I was in the dressing room, when we heard a man’s voice,” she said.
She says she immediately complained, but after management went inside the dressing room and came back out, she was told the man, “was representing himself as a woman today.”
Stickles says he did not look like a woman.
“He was in no way dressed as a woman. He had on jeans, a t-shirt, 5 o’clock shadow, very deep voice. He was a man.”
“(The manager) told me that if I felt uncomfortable in the dressing room with him there…I’d have to wait until he’s finished.”
Businesses are allowing customers to use bathrooms and other facilities, like dressing rooms, based on the users’ gender identity and not the sex at birth.