Halloween legacies, from the Romans to Anoka
Ghouls, gourds, and giggles will abound tonight — but whose idea was it to have a celebration on such a chilly night? What we now know as the celebration of…
Ghouls, gourds, and giggles will abound tonight — but whose idea was it to have a celebration on such a chilly night? What we now know as the celebration of…
Untwisting the falsehoods about religion and government Should people of faith have any influence on our state and nation? Is their influence dangerous? These are increasingly frequent questions, sometimes being…
Tracing the Minnesota influence of a different shadowy international billionaire. There is a famous H.L. Mencken quote that goes, Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they…
Hennepin County worked for over a year on their version of the latest woke fad: a land acknowledgement. After reading it, I think someone with Dakota or Anishinaabe heritage should…
Students at Valley View Middle School in the Bloomington school district can leave class for “reflection” time during Ramadan, according to school communication. Parents were sent an online form to…
Mainstreet Minnesotans fight the ‘woke’ direction of K-12 education.
The radical Left is making race the most important factor in evaluating everyday Americans.
Education Minnesota President Denise Specht had an op-ed in the Alexandria Echo Press recently (“Commentary: Preparing students for civic life shouldn’t be so controversial,” July 17) that stated Minnesota’s proposed…
A cabal of progressives wants to rewrite how students learn about their American heritage.
Woke elites have a long history of intellectual activism in modern America.
It’s not too late to fight the alarming attempt to further radicalize public school curriculum.
The opposition to opposing views coming from the Social Studies Standards Committee mirrors disturbing examples of leadership from one DFL senator.
This op-ed originally appeared in the Star Tribune. Minnesota parents, are you ready for the coming “woke” invasion of your child’s public school? By 2022, as your first-grader is learning…
Deciding what should be taught to students in grades K-12 is not an easy task, especially when it comes to a politically charged subject like social studies. Acknowledging the challenge,…
The Minnesota Department of Education has recently released the first working draft of the state's K-12 academic standards in social studies. The public feedback and comment period about this first…
How Macalester College indoctrinates its students into a militant new secular faith.
Aside from the unsettling cover image that shows a sad homeschooled girl trapped inside a house with prison bars over the window while other kids play outside, the article “The…
Eloise Anderson, former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families and a nationally regarded welfare expert, reflects on the experiences that shaped her past and stresses the importance…
Almost without fail, the loudest preachers of the climate doom are also the ones who are least likely to walk the walk. Michael Shellenberger nails it in this article, which…
We've heard lately what happens when people from Minnesota don't go to Israel. What happens when they do?
This is a great day for America; our First Amendment jurisprudence remains strong in the face of attacks on our Judeo-Christian culture. In a 7-2 opinion, the Supreme Court ruled…
There was a time when people in certain occupations were assumed to be educated, and educated people could be presumed to know certain things. There was, in other words, a…
Without it, aches can be even harder to bear.
What must we do to repair our culture of massive family fragmentation?