Dallas Oregon School Sued For Protection Of Privacy When Dallas School District decided to allow a biological female pretending to be a male, to undress in the boys’ locker room, Parents’ Rights in Education drew the line. Along with Parents for Privacy, we sued the Dallas School District for the rights of individual students to […]
Recent actions show reform is in the wind, but much remains to be done, especially on climate Dr. Brian Wansink recently resigned from his position as Columbia University professor, eating behavior researcher and director of the Cornell “food lab.” A faculty investigation found that he had misreported research data, failed to preserve data and results […]
We are locked in an intense civil war over the values that will govern our life as a nation. I recently read a column by media consultant Peter Leyden and political commentator Ruy Texeira, perceptively entitled The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War. The whole thing is worth the read, because it’s […]
The November election, with ballots arriving in late October, involves a number of candidates and issues that could have far reaching positive consequences for our state. But if voters opt for the status quo, as they frequently do, Oregon will sink further into the abyss of corruption and incompetence. We have massive problems that are […]
Governor Kate Brown has announced a legislative proposal that she claims is necessary to “resist” the Trump administration’s changes to federal environmental regulations. While this bit of showmanship will play well to her base, it has no actual substance. The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission has long had the authority to adopt its own standards that […]
For students born with learning disorders like dyslexia, learning to read without a specialized program is an incredibly difficult task. Instead of being a satisfying challenge, it becomes a demoralizing chore. Consider the experience of Tara Mixon, who quit her job to homeschool her dyslexic first grader. His self-confidence had plummeted when he couldn’t learn […]
Are we failing Oregon’s foster kids? A January audit from the Secretary of State uncovered serious shortcomings in how Oregon’s Department of Human Services has handled foster care, including chronic mismanagement and irresponsibility, overburdened caseworkers, and a common practice of children with nowhere else to stay having to sleep in hotels or their caseworker’s office. […]
What a tangled web Bloom weaves, since first it practiced to deceive. By Paul Driessen and Clint Laird Bloom Energy executives, investment bankers, venture capitalists, politicians, regulators and others involved in advancing Bloom’s business, reputation and financial dealings are living the complicated life that flows from lying. Lies typically start small. Often, they’re small deceptions. […]
But I meant you – not me! We’re supposed to be exempt from rules we inflict on others. Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves? We laugh at those who suddenly object to a policy that seemed perfectly OK when (they thought) it only applied to others. […]
Permanently bury these job-killing proposals, after pounding wooded stakes through their hearts The House of Representatives recently passed a sense of Congress resolution that a carbon tax would kill jobs, damage the revitalized U.S. economy, and disproportionately impact poor, minority and working class families. The vote also reflects the fact that America is still over […]