There’s been a great deal of progress in recent years to improve public education, as several states have moved to increase educational freedom, protect parental rights and stop students’ indoctrination into false and harmful ideologies.
There’s been a great deal of progress in recent years to improve public education, as several states have moved to increase educational freedom, protect parental rights and stop students’ indoctrination into false and harmful ideologies.
The federal government has acted with President Trump signing executive orders to end radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling, expand educational opportunity, safeguard girls sports and privacy and safety in sex-segregated spaces.
Some local school boards have made positive moves, fighting state laws that undermine parents’ rights and working toward students’ privacy and safety.
Despite these gains, the battle over public education continues, and parents need to pay close attention to their children’s schools — and take action when needed.
Here are three reasons why parents — and other concerned citizens — must continue the fight to improve public education.
Recently, Florida’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for falsely advertising chemical abortion as “safer than Tylenol.” The lawsuit alleges Planned Parenthood promoted this claim to sell abortion-inducing drugs, like mifepristone, while downplaying the potential risks for women.
Planned Parenthood claims, “Mifepristone is safe. Safer than Tylenol.” Florida’s complaint alleges this statement is “manifestly false.”
The state contends this deceptive advertising violates state consumer protection and racketeering laws:
“Planned Parenthood’s campaign to induce women to purchase abortion drugs by misrepresenting the risks of chemical abortion violates the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act (FDUTPA) and constitutes a pattern of racketeering activity under the Florida Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (the Florida RICO Act).”
The lawsuit cites a recent study released by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious Adverse Event,” which “found that 11% of women experience a serious adverse event like sepsis or hemorrhaging within 45 days of a chemical abortion.”
As reported by the Daily Citizen, the research revealed the complication rate for the chemical abortion regimen “is 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.”
President Donald Trump recently sat down inside the White House with Bev Turner of GB News — the United Kingdom’s most-watched news channel. In a wide-ranging interview, America’s chief executive shared how much his late mother loved Queen Elizabeth, how much he admired the Royal Family, and why he is planning to sue the BBC for $1 billion.
Lots of other timely and controversial topics were covered, but Turner ended the nearly hour-long conversation on a personal note.
“You’re obviously a really good dad,” she said. “Your children really like you, which is obvious.”
Smiling, President Trump interjected, “Or love” — as in all his children love their father.
“But everybody loves their parents, but they don’t all like their parents when they’re adults,” Turner countered. “And they clearly have so much respect and warmth towards you. And I often think watching you that actually being a good president is a bit like being a good father.”
She continued, sharing what she perceives to be the qualities of both a good father — and a good president:
“Tough love, clear boundaries in the interests of the people that you’re looking after,” she explained. “Does it ever occur to you how much the role is like being a father, being a president?”
It was clear President Trump liked the question. “I’ve never thought of it that way,” he said. “I can’t believe I’m getting a question I’ve never thought of or never been asked before.”
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the “historic” recovery of over 100 children in a statewide rescue operation titled “Operation Home for the Holidays.”
The U.S. Marshals Service-led initiative located or safely recovered 122 children, which the attorney general’s office said makes it “one of the largest child-recovery operations in American history.”
“Thanks to one of the single largest child-rescue operations in U.S. history, 122 missing children are safe,” Attorney General Uthmeier said in a press release on Monday.
The operation spanned two weeks and multiple law enforcement agencies, including the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Juvenile Justice, among others.
Focused on central Florida, Operation Home for the Holidays located or recovered 57 children in the Tampa Bay region, 14 in Orlando, 22 in Jacksonville and 29 in Fort Myers. The operation also located missing children in nine other states.
The children ranged in age from 23 months to 17 years old. The attorney general’s office explained many “had experienced various levels of abuse, neglect, exploitation, or exposure to other criminal activity.”
The operation resulted in six felony arrests; additional charges are expected.
“This operation highlights the strength and diligence of Florida’s Law Enforcement,” Uthmeier added Monday.
Twin sports betting scandals swept through professional basketball and baseball in the last month, leaving the NBA and MLB scrambling to defend the integrity of their respective games.
But both leagues continue to court scandal by promoting and partnering with online sportsbooks, which fuel rampant gambling corruption in professional sports.
“It’s sort of an unnecessary crisis of their own making,” Jonathan Cohen, author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling, told PBS.
“With a little bit more foresight [and] a little bit less greed, they wouldn’t have had this problem in the first place.”
Between October 23 and November 9, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York charged a current NBA player, two current MLB players, a former NBA player and an NBA head coach with using inside information to profit from fraudulent sports bets.
Emmanuel Clase and Luis L. Ortiz, two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians, allegedly conspired to place illegal sports bets by rigging pitches, per an indictment filed on November 9.
Clase netted conspirators an estimated $400,000 over two years by agreeing to throw certain kinds or speeds of pitches ahead of time.
Clase recruited Ortiz in June. Both players allegedly accepted $12,000 bribes for Ortiz to throw pre-determined pitches in two different games. Wagers on Ortiz’s pitches alone racked up some $60,000 in fraudulent gambling profits.
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