Good vs. Evil Inside American Schools

By: Paul Batura

Once more, an American school has become a crime scene.

Reports out of Nashville indicate that three children and three adults have been killed inside Covenant School, a private, Christian institution that educates kindergarten through sixth grade students.

At this point, there are few answers to the countless questions we all have concerning a tragedy of this type. Nashville Police indicate the shooter was a 28-year-old female. She was shot and killed by police.

According to the school’s website, “The Covenant School is a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church, created to assist Christian parents and the Church by providing an exceptional academic experience founded upon and informed by the Word of God.”

That evil lurks everywhere, including inside the assumed safe enclave of a Christian school is something we all know — but it’s nevertheless shocking, heartbreaking and maddening, and all at once.

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Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936-1986 by James Rosen

Why Scalia Will Always Matter in American History

By: Timothy S. Goeglein

My friend James Rosen has marvelously captured the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia in his wonderful new biography, Scalia: Rise To Greatness 1936-1986 (Regnery Books, 2023).

The book is so vivid and timely that the reader feels right from the start as if he has joined a journey or pilgrimage wending toward some kind of grand arrival or validation in the public square.

The sheer eloquence and deep research of the book echoes Scalia’s own such commitments to excellence, and along the way we get to know with sparkling engagement and definitiveness the brilliant manner and route in which one of the most talented, gifted writers and jurists ever to sit on the high court actually got there.

What I particularly loved about the book is that, when finished, I felt as if I genuinely understood how Scalia got to be Scalia — the people, chapters, and vicissitudes of his otherwise busy-life all pouring into the shaping, impacting, and molding of the making of a great American legacy.

This is the best kind of biographical history: fact-based, not-ideological, and willing to tell the truth about the course and nature of human ambition and the application of both power and influence which are not the same thing even though often used interchangeably.

Rosen writes with a brio and crackling energy that is almost tangible, and his personal style carries you along.

House of Representatives Passes Parents Bill of Rights

By: Zachary Mettler

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to protect parental rights in public education.

The Parents Bill of Rights Act (H.R. 5) passed the House on March 24, 2023, by a vote of 213-208. Two hundred and thirteen Republicans voted in favor of the bill, with five voting against it, while 203 Democrats opposed it with none in favor.

In urging his colleagues to support the legislation, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said the bill would empower parents to know what their children are learning in school, how their taxpayer dollars are being spent and whether their child is safe. “Once you are a parent, you will give your life for your child,” Speaker McCarthy said. “You have a right to get the basic information about your children’s education … the Parents Bill of Rights is an important step towards protecting children and dramatically strengthening the rights of parents.”

As the Daily Citizen previously reported, the bill would ensure that parents have the following rights concerning their children’s education nationwide:

Right to know what’s being taught in schools and to see reading material.
Right to be heard.
Right to see school budget and spending.
Right to protect their child’s privacy.
Right to be updated on any violent activity at school.

It wasn’t so long ago that a bill as innocuous as defending parental rights in education would have received unanimous support from both parties in Congress.

Sign for 'Furman University: Founded 1826'

Mary Eberstadt Tells Historic Baptist Furman University: “You Can’t Cancel Me, I Quit”

By: Daily Citizen Staff

It is no secret that college students today are all hot and bothered about people speaking ideas they might not agree with out loud on their campuses. Students at Stanford’s law school ceremoniously pitched a fit earlier this month when their campus’ Federalist Society invited Stuart Kyle Duncan, a conservative federal judge, to speak on current issues and the Supreme Court. Last week, Michael Knowles was shouted down at Purdue University by adult students with chants far too nasty to quote here.

But Mary Eberstadt, a researcher who compellingly documents the dramatic downsides of the sexual revolution, took a very different route when Furman University’s student-run campus newspaper opined that invited speakers like her who advocate for “restoring … the heterosexual nuclear family” and “blame inner-city gang violence on fatherlessness” are making “Furman a worse place.” They accused her of perpetuating “dangerous and evidence-less myths” while offering no evidence of her having done so. Posters advertising her talk around campus were mysteriously removed, replaced by organizers, then disappeared again.

Eberstadt told these grumpy Furman students in the pages of The Wall Street Journal today, “You can’t cancel me, I quit.” She refused to play along with their silliness by simply canceling her talk. In her piece, she referenced an essay in the journal First Things where Liel Leibovitz offers advice to intellectuals who find themselves in such situations: “stop talking to people who hate you.”

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New Hampshire House Votes to Allow Abortions Up Until Moment of Birth — With Major Assist from Republicans

By: Jeff Johnston

The New Hampshire House voted to repeal all penalties from the state’s “Fetal Life Protection Act.” If HB 224 passes the Senate and is signed by the governor, the state will allow unrestricted abortion until birth, reports Cornerstone Action, a pro-life, pro-family ally of Focus on the Family.

Cornerstone Executive Director Shannon McGinley was outraged by the vote, which passed when 16 Republicans joined Democrats for the majority. Many of those Republicans had run as “conservative” candidates. She stated: “The House’s vote for HB 224 today was a bloodthirsty act. Make no mistake: voting to allow the execution of viable, late-term children is on the same moral plane as a wartime atrocity.”

Cornerstone explained the consequences of the vote for preborn babies: “Under current New Hampshire law, the only abortions that are prohibited are those which knowingly kill a viable child six months or older. Let’s be clear about what HB 224 will do: its sole purpose is to allow the execution of children who are so well-developed that they could be delivered and would live.”

With the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the fight to save preborn lives largely shifted from the federal level to state governments. New Hampshire is now a battleground state for protecting preborn babies.

The legislature passed the Fetal Life Protection Act in 2021, with the act going into effect in January 2022.

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