CHILD ABUSE: These Schools Across the U.S. Have Brought Back Mask Mandates

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Torturing children. Not to mention how harmful and dangerous masks are.

These Schools Across the US Have Brought Back Mask Mandates

By: Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times, September 7, 2023:

Amid a small increase in COVID-19 hospital admissions in recent days, a handful of schools and colleges across the United States have re-imposed mask mandates—or at least started recommending them.

In the most recent example, a school in Montgomery County, Maryland, announced it would mandate masking for at least 10 days after three students tested positive for the virus in one classroom. The masking rule applies to students, teachers, and other staff in the classroom, it said.

A letter posted by the Rosemary Hills School online said that KN95 masks have been distributed to students and teachers in the classroom. At-home rapid testing kits were also sent home.

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Pamela Geller

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Torturing children

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Oklahoma School District Hires Drag Queen Elementary School Principal with Child Porn Arrest Record

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You don’t have to imagine what these monsters would do to your children when you’re not looking. They are doing it right in front of your face and laughing at you, mocking you, and abrogating your parental rights.

An Oklahoma school district is taking heat for standing firm on its employment of an elementary school principal who is a part-time drag queen and who also has an arrest record for child pornography.

Again… and he’s a school principal for little kids.

Dr. Shane Murnan, the 52-year-old principal of John Glenn Elementary School in southwestern Oklahoma City, parades himself around as a drag queen named Shantel Mandalay, and was even crowned as this year’s Miss Oklahoma FFI, a drag queen event. (more here)

Oklahoma district that hired drag queen to be elementary school principal faces backlash: ‘Unimaginable’

‘This is the liberal insanity every parent wants out of the classroom,’ Oklahoma’s education superintendent said.

By Hannah Grossman Fox News, September 7, 2023 6:00pm EDT

EXCLUSIVE – The superintendent of the State of Oklahoma, Ryan Walters, called for Western Heights School District to “immediately” terminate a drag queen they hired to be an elementary school principal.

“It’s outrageous to have a drag queen running a school, you know, here in Oklahoma that doesn’t line up with Oklahoma values,” Walters told Fox News Digital. “I hear from parents every day that are concerned with this woke left-wing indoctrination or schools, this gender theory that continues to be thrust upon our kids. It’s completely inappropriate.”

The principal of John Glenn Elementary School, Shane Murnan, is a drag queen who goes by the name “Shantel Mandalay,” Fox News Digital can confirm. Murnan maintained a separate Facebook page from another called “Shantel Mandalay.” According to the page, Murnan was employed as a drag queen at a venue called “The Boom.”

“This individual is not fit to lead a school district,” Walters said. “It has to stop.”

Dressed as a drag queen, Murnan has read books to children to celebrate Pride for the Metropolitan Library System.

Walters added that the gender ideology integration in K-12 education is part of a larger Marxist agenda from the left.

“I think that the left has absolutely an agenda for our kids, that they are at war with our kids in the classroom,” he said. “What they are doing is injecting this ideology for an end goal here. Their end goal is to absolutely break down a child’s mind, break down the classroom, break down the family, and you see the results that have come from this. They want kids to turn on their parents and only listen to their leftist ideology.”

Walters explained how he believed the left’s agenda was turning them against parents.

“And how do you do it?” he said. “You start…. breaking them apart and say, listen, you’re gender-fluid. Listen, you can change your pronouns…. Look at the sexual material. When the kid takes it home and their parent is outraged by it, the kids turn on their parents. This is absolutely trying to break down that family unit, so the kid is more susceptible to the most radical Marxist gender ideology we’ve ever seen to pit groups of people against each other. And frankly, it’s to create Democrat voters.”

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Pamela Geller

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Biden Regime Releases LGBTQ Toolkit Encouraging Schools To Support Student ‘Sexuality’ Clubs

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The pedo party is sick, sick, sick. And our children are the prey for these predators.

Photo: Graphic created for CDC, LGBT+ Pride inclusivity for use at pride parades.

Biden Admin Releases LGBTQ Toolkit Encouraging Schools To Support Student ‘Sexuality’ Clubs

By REAGAN REESE

The Department of Education (ED) released an LGBTQ toolkit in June for schools and wider districts to create an “inclusive” environment, encouraging the creation of student clubs centered around Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSA).

The ED’s “Toolkit for Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students” aims to provide school districts and wider areas with sample policies and practices they can adopt to create a “safe and supportive” environment for LGBTQ students. The toolkit encourages schools to hold student-led GSA clubs for kids to discuss “LGBTQI+ issues” and encourages the use of “gender-neutral language.”

“The U.S. Department of Education (Department) recognizes that student-led groups can be an important part of creating safe, inclusive and supportive educational environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) students and students with LGBTQI+ parents, friends, or family members,” the toolkit states. “The Department offers this resource to provide information about the rights students have to form and participate in Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) and other similar groups.”

The toolkit states that having a GSA creates a “safer” environment and that the school district must allow the club to be held under federal law.

Keep reading.

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Pamela Geller

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True History Trumps Ignorance

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By now, word has gotten out about a 12-year-old boy in a Colorado school getting in trouble, temporarily, because of a small patch seen on his backpack. That boy is Jaiden Rodriguez, and he attends a charter school in Colorado Springs, Vanguard Secondary School.

The patch is a small reproduction of the Gadsden flag. This flag shows a field of yellow with a coiled rattlesnake and the bold words, declaring, “Don’t Tread on Me.”

Who knew that a tiny patch on his backpack could cause so much of a stir—because of historical illiteracy?

There is video of a school official sitting down at a conference table with Jaiden and his mother (who is off camera). The administrator intones: “The reason that [the school officials] do not want the flag…is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade.”

The Daily Signal of the Heritage Foundation reports: “In an email exchange Monday between Jaiden’s parents and Jeff Yocum, executive director of The Vanguard Secondary School, Yocum says that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had determined that the Gadsden flag is an ‘unacceptable symbol.’”

And they add, “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, however, later admitted that the Gadsden flag ‘originated in the Revolutionary War in a non-racial context.’”

Thankfully, after word broke out about this incident, the school relented and allowed Jaiden to bring his backpack to school after all. It’s good that Jaiden and his mother stood their ground—after all, the facts of history are on his side, not the school officials.’

Gary Bauer writes about this incident: “The ignorance is unbelievable! Every school official pushing that garbage [that Gadsden’s Flag stood for slavery] should be fired! The Gadsden Flag was created in 1775 and used during the Revolutionary War as a symbol in the fight against tyranny and oppression.”

Bauer notes also that he could not imagine school officials doing something similar if a student had had an LGBT or a BLM flag.

Connor Boyack, author of the Tuttle Twins series of books geared toward creating young American patriots, provides updates on this story involving Jaiden Rodriguez, whom Boyack calls a “super patriotic kid.”

Perhaps it’s because of kerfuffles like this that the majority of Americans are not happy with public education today, as seen in a new survey. As the WashingtonExaminer.com reports, “The poll from Gallup found that 63% of people are not satisfied with the quality of K-12 education, while only 36% said they are satisfied, including a meager 8% who said they were ‘completely satisfied.’”

Interestingly, Jaiden has become something of a hero to some of his classmates and has inspired a movement at his school. Citizen Free Press quotes him as saying: “I got to school and kids were hype. They’re putting ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ stickers on their lockers.’”

Indeed, the Gadsden flag has nothing to do with “slavery” and “the slave trade.” It has everything to do with the founders of America insisting on their God-given rights at the time trouble was brewing between the American colonies and the King of England and Parliament.

The Gadsden flag was used as a symbol of freedom for whites and blacks. For example, The Daily Signal observes: “Notably, the Culpeper Minutemen enlisted one of the more ‘racially diverse’ units in the Revolutionary War, with 14 blacks and Native Americans, including a black flag-bearer. These men were specifically honored in a statue dedication and bricklaying ceremony in 2020.”

Modern Americans should learn more details about the heroes who stood their ground in the American War for Independence, such as Christopher Gadsden.

In 1982, two history professors wrote the book, Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press). E. Stanley Godbold, Jr. and Robert H. Woody even include a whole chapter explaining the development of “Gadsden’s Flag.” They label Gadsden “a radical leader of the American Revolution.”

Gadsden served on the first committee in the Continental Congress that helped push for a navy (known as the Naval Committee or also the Marine Committee), forerunners to the U.S. Navy.

Godbold and Woody write that Christopher Gadsden would have been very familiar with rattlesnakes in his native South Carolina. They warn their potential victims before they strike, which they only do in self-defense. And their strike is deadly. The authors note, “No more fitting symbol could have been found to express the mood of the Continental Congress.”

After it was introduced in December 1775, Godbold and Woody point out, “Gadsden’s Flag became the most popular symbol of the American Revolution.”

America stands for self-rule under God, a summary of our Declaration of Independence. But that won’t last forever if we continue down a path of our schools cutting us off from rich national heritage.

©2923. Jerry Newcombe, D.Min. All rights reserved.

Classical Christian Schools See Enrollment Explode

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Since the beginning of 2020, when the COVID pandemic caused widespread and lengthy public school shutdowns and vaccine requirements that proved to be immensely controversial, a growing number of parents are removing their students from public schools and enrolling them in private ones. Among the private schools that have seen substantial growth are classical Christian schools, which focus on instilling students with a biblical worldview through the wisdom and traditions of Western civilization that have been established for centuries.

With 1.2 million students leaving public schools since 2020, many are enrolling in private schools, which have seen enrollment increase by 140,000 students since 2019. As a result, classical Christian schools have seen enrollment mushroom over the last three years. As David Goodwin, president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, told guest host Jody Hice during Monday’s edition of “Washington Watch,” classical education is about getting back to the basic building blocks of education that have already been established for centuries within the church.

“For over a thousand years it was the churches that did the educating,” he underscored. “… It’s only been the last hundred or 150 years that that’s moved away from the churches and into the public school system. So what we’re calling for is a form of Christian education called classical Christian education, which seeks to restore that form that was existent before the American public school system developed.”

Goodwin further observed that classical education is rooted in the founding of Western civilization and of America.

“It was a form of education developed in the church after the fall of the Roman empire,” he explained. “It sustained the church as the primary form of education up until about 1830. It developed most of our Founding Fathers.”

Goodwin continued, “It studies what are sometimes called the ‘Great Books,’ it looks to the wisdom of the past, it studies a lot of theology. The students in our schools often learn Latin and Greek as avenues to the past to be able to read original manuscripts. But it’s really for everybody. We’ve got people from every walk of life. We have inner city schools, schools across the suburbs and in metro areas. They all have in common a love for the lordship of Jesus Christ and an establishment of the Christian worldview, which is really when you think about it what school does. In the Bible it’s called ‘paideia,’ it’s the Greek word. We now call it worldview. … That’s the primary function of classical Christian schools.”

Goodwin went on to illustrate how classical schools are expanding, and encouraged churches to join the growing movement.

“Before 2020, we were [seeing] 20-30 new schools a year,” he noted. At present in the last two years, we have brought in about 200 new schools. … [W]e would love to have churches across the country join with us in building those schools. We have about 500 right now in our membership. We’ve been operating for the last 30 years, and the demand is … going so high at this point that we’re dependent on church buildings and church resources to get these schools started.”

Goodwin further emphasized that churches should not be intimidated at the prospect of starting a classical school.

“This may seem daunting, but really education has been made a little bit overcomplicated by all the bureaucracy and all the systems that have to be there for things like public schools,” he commented. “Really all it takes is a room, a teacher, and some kids. Of course, the teacher has to be gifted at teaching — it’s a spiritual gift. But don’t think too small is too small. Most of our schools start with between three and 12 students the first year. And you can blend classrooms, you can use what are called ‘pod schools’ where you get a single teacher that teaches across multiple ages. There’s a whole lot of ways you can do this.”

“My hope and prayer is that parents will — in this cultural moment where things are so challenging, so many evil things are going on in the public sphere — it’s time for us as Christians to come back to the kingdom, to come back to Christ, to dedicate all of the universe, all of the world to his service and his glory,” Goodwin concluded.

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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‘Education Crisis’: Scores of Maryland Schools Have No Students Proficient In Math But Court Mandates LGBTQIA+ Curriculum, No Opting Out

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On Thursday, a Maryland district court sent a clear message to parents at Montgomery County Public Schools: you don’t get a say in what your kids read at school. Or more specifically, as the court concluded, a parent’s right to opt out of a public school curriculum that “conflicts with their religious views is not a fundamental right.” The ruling was a shock to parents, the majority of them Muslim and Ethiopian Christians, who supported a federal lawsuit against the Montgomery County Board of Education earlier this summer in response to new requirements that their children—many as young as prekindergarten age—would be mandated to read (or have teachers read them) books about LGBT topics, regardless of their parents’ objections. “It’s very disrespectful,” Shaykh El Hadji Sall, the parent of three children who attend a school in the system, told me at a rally organized by parents Thursday. “It’s ignoring the will of the people” (Free Press).

‘EDUCATION CRISIS’: 23 BALTIMORE CITY SCHOOLS HAVE NO STUDENTS PROFICIENT IN MATH

A Project Baltimore investigation revealed the devastating reality of nearly two dozen Baltimore City Schools having zero students proficient in math.

New test scores, known as MCAP (Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program), obtained by Project Baltimore, revealed that 23 schools, including elementary, middle, and high schools, had not one student that could do math at grade level.

“The results of the latest Project Baltimore study are very alarming, “Civil rights attorney Ben Crump told FOX 45

We’ve shared reports from Project Baltimore (read: here & here) over the years exposing the school system’s corruption. The question people need to be asking: Why is the liberal-run city setting up future generations of kids to fail? 

Keep reading.

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Pamela Geller

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12-Year-Old Student in Colorado Kicked Out of Class for Having a ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Patch on Backpack Fights back and WINS

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American public schools continue to fail our children. They have fallen behind most industrialized nations in math and reading, but they are getting real life lessons in censorship, despotism, and anti-Americanism.

12-Year-Old Student in Colorado Was Kicked Out of Class for Having a Gadsden Flag Patch on His Bag, The Mother Brilliantly Defends the Child.

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Colorado Kid Pulled from Class for Wearing ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ Patch

By  August 29, 2023

A twelve-year-old boy in Colorado Springs, Colo., was removed from his class on Monday for reportedly wearing a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. The famous yellow insignia features a coiled snake with the words “Don’t Tread on Me” emblazoned beneath the imagery.

In a video seemingly captured by the student’s parent, an administrator insists that the child cannot return to his studies at the Vanguard School unless the patch is removed. “The reason that they do not want the flag — the reason we do not want the flag, basically — is due to its origins with slavery and the slave trade,” a female representative of the school is seen saying in a video that went viral on X, the social-media platform formerly known as Twitter.

“I was upset that he’s missing so much school, so I asked if he could just take his stuff out of his bag and go back to class. I just want him to go back to class. The bag can’t go back; it’s got the patch on it. Because we can’t have that in and around other kids.”

“Yeah, it has nothing to do with slavery. That’s the Revolutionary War patch,” the boy’s guardian responds. “Maybe you’re thinking about the Confederate flag?”

“I am here to enforce the policy that was provided by the district, and definitely, you have every right not to agree with it,” the teacher responds before the boy’s mother insists that the Gadsden flag is permitted unless there is a blanket ban on all patches. The educator then offered to connect the guardian with Jeff Yocum, the director of operations at the school.

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Pamela Geller

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Should a Catholic School be Teaching Social Emotional Learning?

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Does the New Testament discuss children determining their sexual identity?

I’ll skip naming names here, to protect the innocent (if there are any).

Let’s say that a Left-Leaning national organization, approaches a K-12 Catholic School, and gives them a very polished sales pitch about how they can help this school institute a program for each grade level on Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

Their spiel includes such assertions as: a) SEL is a hot commodity, as they have signed up many schools already, b) SEL is consistent with the school’s values, c) SEL can be introduced without taking up more class time, by simply having it replace some already scheduled religion time, d) there will be no “consequential” cost for this new SEL classroom material (e.g., see here for sample annual cost), e) etc.

Are any of those claims true and/or make sense? IMO the answer for each is: a) This is more proof that Critical Thinking is at dangerously low levels. FYI, if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you too? b) This is totally false. c) It makes no sense to reduce religion education time in a Catholic school. It makes even less sense to substitute secular ideology for religion time! d) The real cost is not in dollars, but in what is being put into the heads of innocent students.

Please read my prior short Substack Commentary on SEL, and my answers should now make sense. Pay particular attention to this superior Report by Moms for Liberty.

So if your Catholic K-12 School says that they are considering adding SEL to the curriculum (or if they have already surreptitiously done it), I would suggest politely asking these questions:

1 – Exactly what specific additional religious values will the new SEL material be adding that are not part of the existing religious curriculum?

2 – Does the school advocate less emphasis on academic accomplishment and more on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)?

3 – Will the SEL program involve any discussions of sex with our children (e.g., regarding sexual identity)?

4 – Why would a Catholic School replace teaching the New Testament, etc. with material concocted to promote a secular non-Christian religion?

SEL is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A sample endorsement of SEL is: “In a world where emotional intelligence is critical for lifelong happiness, successful careers, and healthier relationships, SEL gives students a framework for developing these skills.”

But WAIT! Isn’t that the main reason that parents are paying a premium to send their children to a Catholic School? That School’s public position should be: “In a world where critical thinking and strong religious values are essential for lifelong happiness, successful careers, and healthier relationships, this school gives students a solid Judeo-Christian framework for developing these skills.”

A more honest assessment of some SEL goals is found in this study, which says that the field of SEL aims to prepare students for not only engaged but also critical citizenship (i.e., collectivism, productive interactionism). In layman’s terms, it means that SEL is designed to inspire children to be social revolutionaries. Is that a goal of Catholic education?

The number one objective of K-12 education (Catholic and otherwise) should be to produce graduates who have the ability and interest in doing Critical Thinking. On the other hand, one of the primary goals of SEL is to groom children to be compliant future global citizens who do not question authority and who go along with the consensus. This is the exact opposite of teaching Critical Thinking.

Catholics believe that we are engaged in a cataclysmic war between Good and Evil. These opposing forces are led by Jesus Christ and the Devil. We can visualize Jesus, but the Devil is another matter: a fire-breathing demon with a pitchfork, etc? In actuality, the Devil knows no one would embrace such a threatening character, so he shows up as a smiling, helpful, Ph.D. saying: Let me have access to the souls of your children. It will only be two hours a week, and they will be happier and less anxious. Trust me!

There is no bigger victory that Satan can have, than a Catholic School voluntarily turning over access to the souls of children in their care, by agreeing to reduce time spent on Jesus and substituting material from a secular (i.e., atheistic) organization.

My commentaries here are about Critical Thinking, and the only way that parents, teachers, administrators, and clergy of a Catholic School would allow such a travesty to happen, would be due to a profound deficiency in Critical Thinking by all parties involved.

Note 1 — Who am I to comment on Catholic education? First, I’m a product of Catholic education: I had Sisters of St Joseph in grammar school, Xavarian Brothers in high school, and Jesuits in college (Boston College). It was excellent! Second, I’ve been on Catholic School boards for over ten years — even though we had no children in the schools. Third, I’ve extensively studied K-12 education and what needs to be done (e.g., see my Education Report). Fourth, I’m a Critical Thinker.

Note 2 — Most everything here applies to public schools, charter schools, religious schools of other denominations, and home schools.

Note 3 — If you’d like to do additional research on SEL, here are some good materials: Report: Social Emotional Learning — K–12 Education as New Age Nanny State… Report: Social Emotional Learning — Don’t Be Fooled By The Title… Article: The Trouble with Social Emotional Learning… Article: The Latest Big Education Fad, Social-Emotional Learning, Is As Bad As It Sounds… Short video: Social Emotional Learning explained w James Lindsay… Longer Video: Social Emotional Learning | James Lindsay (Here he explains the connection of Communism with SEL.)

©2023. John Droz, Jr. All rights reserved.

Rich Men North of Richmond

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Christian Virginian Christopher Anthony Lunsford, known to many as Folk Performer  Oliver Anthony  (his grandfather’s name) touched a resonant chord with at least 61 Million suffering Americans & Freedom Lovers worldwide, these past weeks *  –  all vibrating with his heartfelt lament,

Rich Men North of Richmond.

Lyrics

by  Oliver Anthony

I’ve been selling my soul,
working all day.

Overtime hours,
for bullshxx pay.

So I can sit out here,

and waste my life away,

drag back home

and drown my troubles away.

It’s a damn shame,
what the world’s gotten to,
for people like me

and people like you.

Wish I could just wake up

and it not be true.

But it is.

Oh, it is.

Living in the new world,
with an old soul.

These rich men north of Richmond,
Lord knows,

they all just want to have total control.

Want to know what you think.
Want to know what you do.

And they don’t think you know,

but I know that you do.

‘Cause your dollar ain’t shxx

and it’s taxed to no end,
‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond.

I wish politicians would look out for miners
and not just minors on an island somewhere.

Lord, we got folks in the street,

ain’t got nothing to eat
and the obese milking welfare.

Well God, if you’re 5 foot 3

and you’re 300 pounds,
Taxes ought not to pay,

for your bags of fudge rounds.

Young men are putting themselves

six feet into the ground,
’cause all this damn country does,

is keep on kicking them down.

Lord, it’s a damn shame,
what the world’s gotten to,
for people like me

and people like you.

Wish I could just wake up

and it not be true.

But it is,

Oh, it is.

Living in the new world
with an old soul.

These rich men north of Richmond,
Lord knows,

they all just want to have total control.

Want to know what you think.

Want to know what you do.

And they don’t think you know,

but I know that you do.

‘Cause your dollar ain’t shxx

and it’s taxed to no end,
’cause of rich men north of Richmond.

I’ve been selling my soul
working all day.

Overtime hours,
for bullshxx pay.

 

WATCH:  Oliver Anthony – Rich Men North of Richmond (Fan Edit Music Video)

 

During a recent performance, at  Morris Farm  in the little town of Barco  –  just a few miles north from where the Wright Brothers first achieved powered flight 120 years ago on North Carolina’s Outer Banks  –  Chris opened with a reading from the Book of Psalms, at Psalm 37, coming straight to the point,

 

12.  The wicked plotteth against the just,

        and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

13.  The Lord shall laugh at him:

        for he seeth that his day is coming.

14.  The wicked have drawn out the sword,

        and have bent their bow,

        to cast down the poor and needy,

        and to slay such

        as be of upright conversation.

15.  Their sword shall enter into their own heart,

        and their bows shall be broken.

16.  A little that a righteous man hath

        is better than

        the riches of many wicked.

17.  For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:

        but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

18.  The LORD knoweth the days of the upright

        and their inheritance shall be for ever.

19.  They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:

        and in the days of famine

        they shall be satisfied.

20.  But the wicked shall perish,

        and the enemies of the LORD

        shall be as the fat of lambs:

        they shall consume;

        into smoke

        shall they consume away.

 

Clearly, young Americans like Chris Lunsford, already intuit & pivot from the last century and more of Anglo-Banker Kommunist, Kritical Theory, Divide & Konquer Societal Dekonstruktion and Indoktrination of the old & the new world.  For in fact,

T‘was ever thus.

We read in Proverbs 1  –  set down by the wisest man to ever live, King Solomon, some 3,000 years ago,

 

1.   The proverbs of Solomon the son of David,

       king of Israel;

2.   To know wisdom and instruction;

       to perceive the words of understanding;

3.   To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice,

       and judgment, and equity;

4.   To give subtilty to the simple,

       to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5.   A wise man will hear,

      and will increase learning;

      and a man of understanding

      shall attain unto wise counsels:

6.   To understand a proverb,

       and the interpretation;

       the words of the wise,

       and their dark sayings.

7.   The fear of the LORD

       is the beginning of knowledge:

       but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

8.   My son, hear the instruction of thy father,

       and forsake not the law of thy mother:

9.   For they shall be an ornament of grace

       unto thy head,

       and chains about thy neck.

10. My son, if sinners entice thee,

      consent thou not.

11. If they say,

      Come with us,

      let us lay wait for blood,

      let us lurk privily for the innocent

      without cause:

12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave;

      and whole,

      as those that go down into the pit:

13. We shall find all precious substance,

      we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14. Cast in thy lot among us;

      let us all have one purse:

15. My son, walk not thou in the way with them;

      refrain thy foot from their path:

16. For their feet run to evil,

      and make haste to shed blood.

17. Surely in vain

      the net is spread

      in the sight of any bird.

18. And they lay wait

      for their own blood;

      they lurk privily

      for their own lives.

 

Brother Lunsford’s songs are as nourishing now to humble souls of God-fearing American Patriots, as doubtless divine services had been then  –  160 years ago  –  ‘mongst the twinkling watch fires of his Fasting & Prayerful Forefathers, encamped in martial array, between Richmond & the Rich Men to the North, while upholding Christian Liberty on the American Continent.

Should the Lord tarry in His Glorious Return, one perceives events in the offing, in continuing American Defense of Christ’s Liberty on this Earth.

 

A Prayer by General Lee

General Orders, No. 83

13 August 1863

The President of the Confederate States has, in the name of the people, appointed the 21st of August as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer. 

A strict observance of the day is enjoined upon the officers and soldiers of this army. 

All military duties, except such as are absolutely necessary, will be suspended.  The commanding officers of brigades and regiments are requested to cause divine services, suitable to the occasion, to be performed in their respective commands.

Soldiers!  We have sinned against Almighty God. 

We have forgotten his signal mercies, and have cultivated a revengeful, haughty, and boastful spirit.  We have not remembered that defenders of a just cause should be pure in his eyes;  that “our times are in his hand” and we have relied too much on our own arms for the achievement of our independence. 

God is our only refuge and our strength.

Let us humble ourselves before him. 

Let us confess our many sins, and beseech him to give us a higher courage, a purer patriotism and more determined will:  that he will convert the hearts of our enemies:  that he will hasten the time when war, with its sorrows and sufferings, shall cease, and that he will give us a name and place among the nations of the earth.

R. E. Lee, General

 

*  It is widely reported  –  and empirically observed over & over  –  YouTube (YT), owned by Google, Inc., ‘haircuts’  View Numbers for Posts managing to get past  YT Censorship Algorithms or actual Direct Interventions of Google’s  ironically monikered  “Truth & Safety“  staff.  This unsatisfactory Orwellian Cultural Marxist Censorship  –  including ‘shadow banning’ & other dirty tricks  –  is applied under ruse of ‘User Agreements’ and contract law, to effectively neuter First Amendment guarantees of Free Speech for any posts not comporting with an arbitrary YT Globalist Narrative.  Net effect is, viewership is actually as many as five to ten times reported Views.

Thus, the  61 Million Reported Views  of Chris Lunsford’s folk song may actually approach 305 Million or more views, especially considering whole families of Americans are watching together a single view of Patriotic themed posts.

The  political consequences  of Public Comprehension of this Reality are devastating to the ‘New World Order’ Mammon Agenda  –  which seeks to hornswoggle The American People into believing they are naught but clinging remnant to past culture.  This, despite possession by 330,000,000 Americans of  Two & Three Billion, well supplied, Personal Arms  –  the most irresistible force for Liberty on the face of the Earth.

Meanwhile, your present correspondent, became intimately aware of deep & abiding connections between Google & the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  –  from Google’s putative incept in 2003-2004  –  at the Agency’s heavily redacted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) website pages, which notoriously published email correspondence between Google’s then Federal Contracts manager, a fully Beta-Maled, Marxized, Houston, TX Apostate name of Jon Venverloh and a CIA Contracting Officer  ‘with money burning a hole in her pocket‘.  The Agency was requesting quick receipt of Google Beta products, so it could fashion digital ‘trap door’ access to all communications passing through Google’s developing bandwidth.  Thus is it confirmed, no digital communication of any kind bears even a hint of privacy or security, be it email ( or in Google’s case ‘G’mail, the G surely standing for Gub’mint ), cell phone text messages, or even digitally processed cell phone spoken conversations.  When news of this incept correspondence broke in February & again in July of 2019, 45 days later on 11 September 2019, Venverloh was broomed from the Board of Anglo-Banker Globalist controlled Salem Media, after a ten year stretch, along with a handful of other Banker Globalist minions, who proved too visible to support the ongoing charade Salem is a nominal Christian media.  Salem’s Globalism-Kompliant leadership had its eyes squarely on black money DoD appropriations into the tens of billions, which Venverloh is waist deep in, providing access through his charter affiliation with the DoD Office of Net Assessment & its Highlands Forum, off books, Tech Industry-Gub’mint, ‘Profit Tank’  –  the Veritable Belly of the Mammon Beast.

You wanna know where the full spectrum, copious, digital, Global Election Management Fraud of 2020 came from?

Carefully read above Anglo-Banker, CIA, Google paragraph agin Brother.

Unprecedented events, like the 4.7 Million Americans arriving in Washington, DC on January 6th of 2021, at the request of their duly re-elected President Trump to Secure Their Election with Parade of Their Numbers, or the 96 mile long ‘Trump Train’ on Arizona’s freeways prior to the 2020 Election & the simultaneous 30 mile long Trump Train on the I-15 Southbound Lanes in Riverside County, California, likewise witnessed by your present correspondent, or the tens of thousands of vessels involved in many ‘Trump Flotillas’ across the country, or the tens of millions of Americans attending the Trump Rallies yet ongoing, or the documented paltry mere hundreds, including paid stooges, in evidence at Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden political occasions…all sharply burst a facile, sortied YT Globalist Propaganda Balloon, like so many pin pricks  –  giving the lie to an obscene fiction of the death of American Christian Patriotism.

The Constitutional enforcement of Christ’s Liberty in America  will ultimately have quite dire consequences for such outlaw pernicious prevaricators  –  and in their Godless delusions, deep down …they know it.

 

© 2023 DEACON.  All rights reserved.

Music © 2023 Christopher Anthony Lunsford.  All rights reserved.

Attribution 2019 Patriots4Truth.  Creative Commons.

 

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Top Law Schools Promote Ditching the Constitution

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“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” — William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV.

Top Law Schools Promote Ditching the Constitution

Think tanks contend that the radicalization of attorney education threatens American freedom in a never-before-seen way

By: Darlene McCormick Sanchez, Epoch Times, August 25, 2023:

In almost every state, law students who pass their state bar examination, which allows them to practice law, take an oath to support the U.S. Constitution.

But the country’s top law schools teach future lawyers and judges the opposite.

Many now teach that the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the nation since its ratification in 1788, is broken and should be

At least that’s what two members of conservative think tanks believe after reviewing courses at the country’s Top 10 law schools, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report in 2022. They examined the teaching at Yale, Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia universities and others.

Law professors at elite schools are open about their disdain for the U.S. Constitution, the researchers found.

“They’re saying they want to get rid of the Constitution—they’re making no secret about it,” said J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation. He’s also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center and former DOJ counsel, agreed.

The radicalization of law schools is a threat to freedom not previously encountered in the nation’s history, Mr. von Spakovsky said.

“In fact, some of them are very direct in teaching kids that they need to be revolutionaries, according to these courses that these law school students are taking,” he told The Epoch Times.

Pitching the Ditching of the Constitution

In 2022, Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn—who teach law at Harvard and Yale universities, respectively—wrote a New York Times editorial titled “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed.”

In it, they wrote that the struggle over the Constitution has proven to be a dead end for liberals. They called the founding document “undemocratic” and “inadequate.”

“The real need is not to reclaim the Constitution, as many would have it, but instead to reclaim America from constitutionalism,” they wrote in the piece.

The writers reasoned that it would be far better if liberal legislators had the power to make a case for abortion and labor rights on their own merits without having “to bother with the Constitution.”

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AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Democrat Presidential Frontrunner Newsom Proposes a Legislative Crackdown on Parental Rights

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This is who and what the Democrat party wants in the White House. This is what the Democrats mean to do to us.

California’s Newsom Hints at Legislative Crackdown on Parental Rights

Legislative push comes as admin has threatened school districts that want to notify parents if their child is trans or nonbinary

By: Susannah Luthi, Washington Free Beacon, August 15, 2023

“I’ll be meeting with the [assembly speaker and senate leader] this evening, we’ll be discussing it,” Newsom said during a speech about public school funding where he touted California as pro-parents’ rights. “I know that the LGBT [legislative] caucus has some language they’re working on. I haven’t had the privilege of looking at it. It’s a work in progress.”

Newsom failed to give any further details on the forthcoming proposal. His impromptu announcement was in response to a reporter who asked him to weigh in on two Southern California school districts that passed policies to notify parents if their children say they are transgender or nonbinary. Representatives for Newsom and the state’s top Democratic legislators did not respond to requests for comment.

Newsom’s potential legislative push comes after leaders in the administration sent a series of threats to Chino Valley Unified School District and Murrieta Valley Unified School District, the first two districts in the state to pass parental notification policies. Last week, the California Department of Justice launched a civil rights probe into Chino Valley. Attorney General Rob Bonta and state superintendent of public schools Tony Thurmond have both said the districts may be violating California law—without specifying which one.

The districts’ supporters say the pending bill is a sign those threats had no legal basis.

Read more.

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Pamela Geller

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Over 1,000 School Districts Hiding Students’ Gender Identities from Parents

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A new report is sounding the alarm on the growing number of schools embracing transgender ideology and keeping parents in the dark. According to Parents Defending Education, at least 1,040 U.S. school districts have adopted policies instructing or encouraging faculty and staff to keep students’ gender identities a secret from parents. Those districts include over 18,000 schools responsible for nearly 11 million students. The vast majority of those school districts (593) are in California.

Meg Kilgannon, senior fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council, told The Washington Stand, “I am grateful to Parents Defending Education for their attempt to quantify this problem. It is important to support with evidence what many parents know by instinct or experience: our educational system that is supposed to work with parents will often work around parents instead.” She added, “At this point, parents need to assume they will be deceived by their school if their child makes a gender identity declaration to a teacher or counselor at school.”

Commonly called “Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Policies,” such dictums have been the subject of controversy and even protest across the nation, with parental rights organizations such as Moms for Liberty and Mama Grizzly forming to combat the policies and others like them. Speaking on the role of parental rights organizations, Kilgannon commented, “[I]f we have the ability to do so, we must engage with people and systems that view this parental deception as good for children. Obviously, something is very wrong if some people can believe the answer is government first, parents second or never.”

A recent example of the ongoing controversy may be found in New Jersey, where a state judge last week blocked a trio of school districts from enforcing a policy requiring faculty and staff to inform parents of students’ gender identities at school, effectively forcing the school districts to keep parents in the dark. The judge wrote that the policies, “if implemented, will have a disparate impact on transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary youth.” Those policies would require teachers, coaches, and other staff to inform a student’s parents if that student used a bathroom that didn’t correspond to their biological sex, requested different pronouns be used in addressing them, or asking to play on a sports team that didn’t correspond to their biological sex.

The controversy over “Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Policies” comes as debate continues on why an increasing number of children are identifying as transgender or non-binary. One study from earlier this year, for example, classified the increase as part of “a socially contagious syndrome,” stating that it’s likely that “common cultural beliefs, values, and preoccupations cause some adolescents (especially female adolescents) to attribute their social problems, feelings, and mental health issues to gender dysphoria. That is, youth[s] … falsely believe that they are transgender…”

While some theorize that standard peer pressure, coupled with the social popularity of transgenderism, is largely responsible for the increase in children identifying as transgender, others — like Mama Grizzly founder Stacy Langton — allege it’s largely rooted in the sexual grooming of children by teachers.

Kilgannon commented, “[T]his is where our own action as parents are so important. We must be present to our children, engaged with them, being the most important person in their lives. … [L]ike everything in life, it starts with ourselves and our relationships to the people God has put in our lives, especially the children we are blessed with and responsible for.”

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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PODCAST: Back to School — The State of Education in America

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Do you know what the first 10 amendments to the constitution are called?

If you said the Bill of Rights, congratulations, you are in the 33% of college graduates that know that fact…yes only 33%.

Host Joseph Backholm is joined by The Washington Stand’s Sam McCarthy. Educators and schools have a powerful influence on what the next generation values and believes. Children spend close to 16,000 hours in the classroom so what are they absorbing?

Sam & Joseph discuss the importance of parents instilling critical thinking and morality within their children. They also highlight the need to go back to the basics of education where parents and educators worked together — not separate — to mold and shape the minds of future generations.

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New College Makeover in Florida: A Case Study in Higher Ed Reform

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New College in Florida has been making news lately, for all the right reasons. The Board of Trustees, with six new members appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), charts a new course for New College.

For context, a little history: New College was founded in 1960 as a private university. It was later absorbed into the University of Florida system, making it publicly funded. It’s a small college with fewer than 650 students in Sarasota. To be fair, New College is a highly rated public university in Florida and in the U.S. overall. It is an “honors college” with a contract model for course work. New College lets students design their own course of study. Course work is not “graded” per se, but professors provide narrative feedback to students through a timeline they determine together. New College had the highest number of Fulbright Scholars in 2020.

But that was then. New College is getting an overhaul. As described by Chris Rufo, among the changes underway at New College: “[President Richard] Corcoran has recruited a new team that is busy rebuilding the institutional capacity of the college, which had atrophied significantly under previous administrations, and is designing a new core curriculum, which will begin with an immersive first-year study of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ and continue to provide a foundation based in logos (the cultivation of human reason) and techne (the cultivation of the applied arts).”

Student and faculty reaction to these changes is shockingly conservative for such a progressive bunch. It seems the new Board of Trustees’ pursuit of the good, the true, and the beautiful is a regressive and oppressive insult to many current students and faculty members. They are not on board with Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz’s goal: “It is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida’s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South.”

Breathless news coverage of this development ranges from the unhinged to the comical. How dare any governor (no less a Republican governor) deign to make an impact on the taxpayer-funded colleges and universities? Who is the governor to attempt to oversee publicly funded universities, regardless of the overwhelming mandate to lead he is given by the voters?

The new trustees have begun the process of remaking New College into a classical college. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dean and a “queer librarian” were among the first to go. Tenure for five professors approved by an interim president has been denied. The College is recruiting more students and placing more emphasis on athletics as an integral part of the new New College experience.

Bringing in a larger freshman class, one that is eagerly anticipating the new emphasis on classics over social justice warfare, is one of the best ways to ensure the success of the transition. These bright new students will be great ambassadors for the cause and will quickly outnumber the disgruntled — another smart move by a very capable group and New College President Richard Corcoran. Surely this effort to diversify both the curriculum of the college itself and the student body will prove more efficient than the DEI commissariat the Board of Trustees recently removed, as displayed by the 2022 tally of the student body composition.

The cancelation of Gender Studies seems to be the final straw for the old guard. NCF Freedom filed a lawsuit challenging the defunding of ideologically biased course offerings, among other perceived indignities. We look forward to updating you on this as events unfold. Pray for New College, for the leadership team, the faculty, staff, and students. Pray that God will be known there and everywhere.

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Meg Kilgannon

Meg Kilgannon is Senior Fellow for Education Studies at Family Research Council.

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NEW JERSEY SCHOOL BOARD VIDEO: ‘Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity’ Taking Precedence over Reading, Writing and Arithmetic

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After receiving tips from concerned parents in Livingston, NJ, my team investigated and found that “equity, inclusion, and diversity” was taking precedence over reading, writing, and arithmetic with elected school board members.

Indoctrination starts behind closed doors in almost every instance – whether in school boards nationwide or in corporate America training rooms.

Radicals attempt to push identity politics on just about everyone – and our kids are the most vulnerable.

The best way to handle this is by exposing it, and that’s why my team at OMG is handing out cameras to parents around the nation – empowering them to break their own stories and impact their community with change.

So, when I showed up at a school board meeting in Livingston, NJ, to announce our effort to arm parents with undercover cameras, the board’s chairman, Vineeta Khanna, ironically ordered me to stop recording (violating New Jersey’s recording laws). 

While I asked my cameraman to put his camera down, I made the announcement and then proceeded to show them how they would be recorded by pointing out a hidden camera in the room – they didn’t seem thrilled.

Thankfully, Ms. Khanna and elected school board members around America cannot stop parents equipped with hidden cameras and trained to ethically use them.

Now here’s where things got interesting.

As I left the meeting, I faced local law enforcement who had been called on me!

I can’t make this stuff up.

Their fear of exposure, combined with their ignorance of the law, should alarm us all – as these are the folks tasked with leading entire school districts to educate our children while setting an example of morality and character values.

Do you trust them?

I certainly don’t.

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