It’s been just over seven months since radio legend Rush Limbaugh died - and eight since signing off for his final show on February 2, 2021.

Radio personalities come and go, sometimes quietly and even mysteriously. At times, station managers invoke Soviet-era tactics, surreptitiously making talent changes overnight. It’s the nature of the business, not wanting to promote another station or call attention to a departing personality. One day a host is advertising a local car dealership, the next day they’re gone. Explanations are rarely given – they’re into the ether and out of our lives.

But not Rush. 

A fixture on the dial for over 30 years, Rush Limbaugh was woven into the fabric of weekday radio life. Critics couldn’t stand him, but they couldn’t ignore him either. No matter where you were in America, you could find him somewhere mid-morning or early afternoon, the familiar beat of ‘The Pretenders’ opening each hour of every show. Regardless of what was happening in the world, you could be sure he had an informed opinion about it.

School board meetings across the country have become contentious as parents push back on many areas of concern, including books and lessons with inappropriate sexual content, “transgender” policies that affect student privacy and safety, and radical ideologies such as critical race theory (CRT). School board members have shut down meetings, kicked out parents and called police to remove citizens.

As a result, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the president asking for “federal assistance to stop threats and acts of violence against public schoolchildren, public school board members, and other public school district officials and educators.”

The letter said that “many public school officials are also facing physical threats because of propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula.”

“False inclusion”? Despite denials by teachers unions and other left-leaning groups, we’ve written numerous times at The Daily Citizen about the inclusion of CRT concepts in the classroom – and vows by teachers unions to continue teaching this Marxist-based ideology. 

The United States Census Bureau has just started asking about sexual orientation and gender identity in their major Household Pulse Survey which tracks COVID pandemic behaviors, experiences and beliefs among its citizens. The findings on both are genuinely curious and reflect how problematic the new gender and sexuality categories truly are. They do not track with common assumptions.

Gender:

This latest Census data indicates that only 1% of all Americans identify as “transgender.” But what is most interesting is the remainder. One would assume that 99% of Americans would therefore identify as genuinely male or female. But this would be incorrect. Just under 96% say they are clearly and naturally male or female.

So what’s up?

The most stunning findings are found in the difference between the two groups: 1.5% of American adults — 3.8 million of them — identify as “none of these” and 1.7% – 4.2 million — refused to respond to the question. This means 3.2 percent of American adults do not identify as male or female or “transgender.”