Only the Cross of Christ Makes the Horrific Texas School Shooting Bearable







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Only the Cross of Christ Makes the Horrific Texas School Shooting Bearable

By: Zachary Mettler




The horrific, unconscionable mass shooting yesterday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas has now claimed the lives of at least 19 children and two adults.


We’ve learned that the massacre took place in just one classroom, perpetrated by the mass murderer, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who barricaded himself in a fourth-grade classroom and started shooting.


He was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent who had responded to the scene and rushed into the school without waiting for backup.


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Tennessee Requirement for Schools to Post ‘In God We Trust’ Upheld by Federal Court



By: Bruce Hausknecht





Congress established our national motto – “In God We Trust” – in 1956, although it first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864. Legal challenges to its constitutionality at the federal level have frequently been brushed aside by federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.


But no one had ever challenged the constitutionality of state laws requiring the motto’s posting in public schools, which Tennessee and 14 other states have on their books.


Until now. A father of a young girl entering kindergarten at a public charter school in Nashville, Tennessee, objected to the national motto displayed in the entryway of the school and sued. He argued he was bringing up his daughter to be non-religious, and the motto’s presence was a religious statement that violated her constitutional rights.


The good news, however, is United States District Judge Aleta A. Trauger considered and rejected that father’s challenge to Tennessee’s 2018 law, the “National Motto in the Classroom Act.” The law requires local public schools to display the motto in “a prominent location,” defined as “a school entryway, cafeteria, or common area where students are likely to see the national motto display.”


In granting judgment in favor of the school and other state defendants, Trauger first pointed out that the motto has been challenged in other contexts.






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How to Protect Disadvantaged Millennials from Poverty – The Success Sequence



By: The Daily Citizen





A new research report released today – a joint project of the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies – demonstrates definitively that the color of your skin does not have to result in a life of poverty in America today.



What if there was a relatively simple secret formula that put anyone’s chances of not living in poverty in the solid 90 percentile without needing a high paying job or college education? It’s called the “Success Sequence” and it nearly guarantees protection from poverty regardless of one’s socio-economic status, family, or racial background. Simply put, the Success Sequence requires three basic steps:



1. Finish high school.

2. Maintain a full-time job once you finish school.

3. Get married before you have children and stay married.


This new report demonstrates how powerful the Success Sequence is for minority young adults seeking to establish productive lives.


First off, 97% of American Millennials who do these three things will not be poor as adults. 97 percent!



But there is even better news. Social scientists explain in this new report, “young adults from disadvantaged circumstances who follow the sequence are markedly more likely to overcome challenges and achieve economic success.” The numbers are quite encouraging.






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State Farm Ends Donations of ‘Transgender’ Books to Classrooms and Libraries – But Still Supports LGBT Activism




By: Jeff Johnston





Following a day of backlash from customers, State Farm Insurance has dropped its support for a project that placed “transgender, inclusive and non-binary” children’s books in classrooms, libraries and community centers.


The company partnered with The GenderCool Project, a “transgender and non-binary” youth activist organization to donate books, for children ages five and up, written by GenderCool spokespeople.
LGBT activists are now angry with the company, even though State Farm still supports a variety of LGBT activist groups, including those that target children and teens.


Will Hild, executive director of Consumers First, who first broke the story, said dropping support for the project is not enough.


In an email statement to The Daily Citizen, the insurance giant said:


“State Farm’s support of a philanthropic program, GenderCool, has been the subject of news and customer inquiries. This program that included books about gender identity was intended to promote inclusivity.


We support organizations that provide resources for parents to have conversations about gender and identity with their children at home. We do not support required curriculum in schools on this topic.”





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U.S. Birth Rate Increases for First Time Since 2014, Still Well Below ‘Replacement Rate’



By: Zachary Mettler






The U.S. birth rate increased in 2021 for the first time since 2014, the federal government reported on Tuesday.


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) reported preliminary data showing that the U.S. birth rate increased 1% in 2021 compared to 2020, the first increase in seven years.


The provisional data showed that there were 3,659,289 births in the U.S. in 2021 – leading the total fertility rate to rise to 1.66 births per woman in 2021, up from 1.64 in 2020.


The “replacement rate,” at which a population replaces itself from one generation to the next without immigration, is 2.1 children per woman in most developed countries.


This means that despite the small increase in the fertility rate last year, the U.S. is still well below the level needed for our population to sustain itself without migration.


Phillip Levine, an economics professor at Wellesley College, told The Wall Street Journal, “This minor blip up still leaves us on a long-term trajectory towards lower births.”


Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has consistently been raising the alarm about the low fertility rate in recent years.







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