Plus: The Rise of ‘Chief Diversity Officers’ at K-12 Schools
November 9 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden’s vaccine mandate targeting tens of millions of Americans is the subject of a growing number of legal challenges by states and employers. Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, Heritage Foundation education expert Jay Greene describes the damage being done by so-called chief diversity officers in public schools. Plus: the left miscalculates big time; public sector unions influence elections; the happy warrior who is Winsome Sears; and “Problematic Women” examines some welcome news on the dating scene. On this date in 1970, the Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote declines to hear Massachusetts’ challenge of the constitutionality of the undeclared Vietnam War.
Plaintiffs have brought lawsuits in federal appeals courts for the 5th, 7th, 8th, and 11th circuits. The next step will be a “lottery” process to determine which circuit hears the case.
“One of the central ideas being advanced by chief diversity officers is that people belong in different groups, the oppressor group or the oppressed group,” says Heritage Foundation scholar Jay Greene.
The chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, wrote that there are three phases to an insurgency. Conservatives should keep his words in mind.
Amid “lots of conflicting messages about love, lust, relationships, [and] sexuality,” Caitlin Zick says Moral Revolution “really seek[s] to try to define God’s design for it.”
Where are the news reports supporting the accusation that parents act like terrorists in confronting school boards? Surprisingly, the attorney general and his Justice Department didn’t produce them.
