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Reaffirming Parental Rights

Posted on July 7, 2025 by David E Smith

The SCOTUS ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor is a game-changer for parental rights in public education. While the case centers on LGBTQ+ storybooks in classrooms, its implications reach far beyond reading lists. For the first time in decades, the Court has affirmed that parents have a constitutional right to shield their children from instruction that contradicts their religious beliefs—without needing to prove coercion.

Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Advocates for Youth, Donald Trump, Ford Foundation, Free Exercise clause, George Gund Foundation, Grove Foundation, John Dewey, Mahmoud v. Taylor, Muslim, National Commission on Education, National Sexuality Education Standards, Roman Catholic, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, SIECUS, Social-Emotional Learning, Troxel v. Granville, u.s. department of education, U.S. Supreme Court, Ukrainian Orthodox | Comments Off

Big Foundations Unleashed Collectivist ‘Revolution’ via U.S. Schools

Posted on April 6, 2021 by David E Smith

It may seem counterintuitive, but massive tax-exempt foundations funded by some of America’s most prominent capitalists and industrialists helped foment what congressional investigators described as a collectivist “revolution” in the U.S.

The goal was to “so alter life in the United States that it could be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.” Many tools were used, but the public education system was the most important and effective.

Posted in Education | Tagged Aaron Sargent, Alan Gaither, Alger Hiss, Anthony Sutton, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Carnegie Endowment, Chicago University, Columbia University, Common Core, David Rockefeller, Declaration of Independence, Dewey Laboratory School, Fabian socialism, Ford Foundation, Frankfurt School, Frederick Gates, G. Edward Griffin, Harvard, John D. Rockefeller, John Dewey, Norman Dodd, oligarchical collectivism, Reece Committee, Rockefeller foundation, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, United Nations, United Nations Educational, University of California | Comments Off

The Labor Union that Runs the Media

Posted on May 27, 2014 by David E Smith

One of the major speakers at last week’s “New Populism” conference was Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a labor union which represents on-line writers, reporters, editorial assistants, editorial artists and correspondents at major news organizations.

Cohen gave his speech after returning from the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) conference, where Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, was announced as winner of the title of “the world’s worst boss” for trying to keep prices low for consumers and opposing union control of his workplace.

Bezos, the new owner of The Washington Post, …

Posted in Media Watch | Tagged Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Communications Workers of America, Ford Foundation, Gara LaMarche, George Kohl, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Jim Simpson, Lachlan Markay, Larry Cohen, Martin O’Malley, Open Society Foundation, Tefere Gebre, Tom Perez | Comments Off