Please Pray for Coach Joe Kennedy







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Please Pray for Coach Joe Kennedy

By: Jim Daly


Many will remember the case of high school football coach Joe Kennedy.



Coach Kennedy was fired back in 2015 from Bremerton (Wash.) High School for praying silently on the 50-yard line after games. The coach never forced anyone to join him. He didn’t even pray out loud.



And for that, he was dismissed from his job.



Coach Kennedy will finally have his day in court on Monday. Our friends at First Liberty will be representing him, and I’m confident they’ll do a great job. But he needs our prayers, and I hope everyone in our audience will commit to praying for him.


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Tony Dungy Fires Back After Left Criticizes Him for Supporting Fatherhood Bill



By: Zachary Mettler





Just yesterday, The Daily Citizen reported on a newly signed Florida bill which allocates $70 million to support fatherhood.


The “Responsible Fatherhood” bill provides funds for “education programs, mentorship programs and one-on-one support to encourage responsible and involved fatherhood in Florida.”


Former NFL head football coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts, Tony Dungy, endorsed the bill in a statement, saying that the bill is “tremendous and such a good help to fathers in Florida.”


“This bill is so important. I want to thank all of the men and women that have been behind this. It is going to allow groups like All Pro Dad and people like those here today to do great things for our fathers here in Florida,” the coach added.


But for his vocal support of the initiative to help promote fatherhood, the left viciously attacked Coach Dungy.


Leftist political commentator Keith Olbermann called him a “fascist political prop.”


Another called Coach Dungy a “racist apologist.”


“Tony Dungy lives in fantasy land with the rest of the Trump/DeSantis fanboys,” another tweeted.


But in the face of this fierce criticism, Dungy didn’t back down. He fired back.






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Travelers Breathe Sigh of Relief; Federal Judge Strikes Down CDC Mask Mandate



By: Bruce Hausknecht





In a win for personal freedom and a blow to overreaching federal agencies, a federal judge has vacated (i.e., ruled invalid) the travel mask mandate issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2021. The judge ruled in a lawsuit brought by two airline travelers and a consumer group that the agency exceeded its authority and violated federal laws requiring a public notice and comment period before issuing its mandate.



Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a federal district court judge in Tampa, Florida, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, issued her ruling on April 18, right in the middle of a 15-day extension of the mandate that runs through May 3. The February 2021 masking order applied to airplanes, trains and other forms of transportation.



The judge examined the law governing the CDC’s authority granted by Congress under the Public Health Service Act, which permits the agency to issue regulations aimed at “identifying, isolating, and destroying” diseases.



Other provisions in the Act provide the CDC with the limited power to “apprehend, detain, examine, or provide conditions for the release of individuals coming into a state or possession from a foreign country, or traveling between states.”






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Warren Buffett is Very Successful, Very Rich – and Very Wrong about These Three Very Important Things




By: Paul Batura





By his own assessment, these are good days for Warren Buffett, the iconic investor and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.


At 91 years of age, the “Oracle of Omaha” was recently ranked the 5th-richest person in the world with a net worth just north of $125 billion. Investing since age 11, Buffett still loves what he does and remains fully engaged in day-to-day operations just ahead of his company’s highly anticipated annual shareholder’s meeting on April 30th. He is the “E.F. Hutton” of his day – when Buffett speaks, the markets listen.


Yet in so many ways, he appears very much the “every man.” Though now widowed, he still lives in the same house he and his wife bought in 1958, eats McDonald’s for breakfast, has burgers and blizzards at Dairy Queen (which he owns) and drinks bottles of Coca-Cola Classic (another company he’s heavily invested in) each day. He doesn’t exercise, likening his body to an antique car, i.e. the fewer miles you drive it, the longer it will remain on the road.


In an increasingly global economy, Buffett is also a perennial optimist when it comes to all things American, believing our country’s best days are to come. He happily put his money where his mouth is, investing in domestic-based juggernauts. In addition to Coke and Dairy Queen, Buffett owns Geico insurance, Benjamin Moore paint, Duracell batteries and Fruit of the Loom underwear. He says if he’s going to buy stock in a company, he has to understand how it works.





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‘Decenter Book Reading and Essay Writing,’ Says National Council of Teachers of English



By: Jeff Johnston






A report from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) encourages English and Language Arts teachers to move away from “book reading and essay writing” – and toward “speaking and listening” and “media education literacy.”


The NCTE commissioned a Task Force on Critical Media Literacy in June 2020. Anyone else remember what was happening that school year?


Forty-eight states had closed in-person education for more than 50.2 million public school students. But the NCTE thought it was important to assess “the current national landscape of policies, practices, resources, and dialogue related to critical media literacy education.”


Given that most schools were unprepared for distance learning, teachers were scrambling to keep up with basic lessons, and students were falling through the cracks, the launch of the Task Force was an exercise in tone-deafness, a disconnect from parents’ real concerns about their children’s education.


The report shows the NCTE’s deep concern with Marxist issues like “equity” and “power relationships.” It lists a core theme:


“Exploring Representation and Power through Critical Reading, Listening, and Viewing. Educators value the use of teaching and learning practices that help to identify and disrupt the inequalities of contemporary life…”







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