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Politics and law Every citizen fatality in the custody of a government official—like George Floyd’s excruciating death in Minneapolis—deserves a solemn response and ultimate accounting, including both criminal investigation and broader assessment. The fear and fury flowing from recent law-enforcement casualties, however, have been inflamed and manipulated by opportunists to produce something much more sweeping. Hard facts and data about our systems of law and policing are being ignored. E...

MTA ignores state mandate to compare sky-high costs with expenses of transit systems in other countries © MTA Capital construction/New York Daily News/TNS MTA construction The MTA is behind schedule on a state-mandated report meant to encourage transit leaders to make sure they are properly spending the public’s money. Concerned that the MTA’s costs are too high, legislators in 2019 ordered the agency to produce an annual report comparing its operating expenses to those of similar transi...

8 Jan 2021 Parents have filed a lawsuit against Villa Duchesne High School in Missouri, claiming the elite Catholic girls prep school has engaged in “overt and intentional racial discrimination against its Caucasian students,” including their daughter. According to the petition filed in the Circuit Court of the County of Saint Louis, the parents accuse the school of “encouraging and facilitating race-based aggression” against their daughter and attempting to force her to adopt Critical ...

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 21:07 UTC © Getty ImagesParents have filed a lawsuit against Villa Duchesne High School in Missouri, claiming the elite Catholic girls prep school has engaged in "overt and intentional racial discrimination against its Caucasian students," including their daughter. According to the petition filed in the Circuit Court of the County of Saint Louis, the parents accuse the school of "encouraging and facilitating race-based aggression" against their daughter and attempting to force...

Officials allegedly allowed black classmate to repeatedly threaten her The day before a Nevada mother sued her son’s charter school for forcing him to take a class that promotes hostility against whites as a race, a Missouri family sued a Catholic girls school for its heavy-handed implementation of critical race theory, at least administratively. Villa Duchesne subjected the unnamed white plaintiff to 90 minutes of “false imprisonment” in the principal’s office, in order to “coerce, i...

1st lawsuit of its kind against the racist theory destroying our colleges Critical Race Theory is the work of Barack Obama’s mentor and racialist professor Dr. Derrick Bell. It is described by Thomas Sowell as “racism under new management” by a “revenge society.” Along with Intersectionality, it has destroyed higher education and is now infiltrating K-12 education, causing serious harm to the children. Recently, we saw lawsuits and procedural changes by Education Secretary Betsy de V...

The Counterrevolution Begins Eventually I’m going to get around to thinking through and writing up my view that while misguided Millennials lean heavily progressive at the moment, the next generation of young people is going to swing sharply to the right out of rebellion against the stifling conformity of the progressive left that went into hyperdrive this year. In part I’m taking in the lessons of M. Stanton Evans’s first book in 1961, The Revolt on Campus, which argued a similar point....

× ‘Get a lawyer’: Megyn Kelly weighs in on lawsuit over workshops requiring schoolchildren to profess their gender identities Posted at 5:23 pm on December 23, 2020 by Brett T. Colin Wright, managing editor of Quillette, has some news for us about a lawsuit that was filed Tuesday targeting workshops that require children to make public professions about their racial, sexual, gender, and religious identities. This is a long thread, but it’s compelling. 1/ ��BREAKING: Lawsuit filed tod...

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:21 UTC Two years ago, "Titania McGrath," whose satirical Twitter account regularly skewers the ideological excesses of social-justice culture, suggested that "we should remove biological sex from birth certificates altogether to prevent any more mistakes." The joke (obvious to those who follow the culture wars closely, but perhaps obscure to those who dont) was directed at gender activists who insist that male and female designations "assigned at birth" are misleading (and e...

Curriculum swung hard left when New Yorkers acquired the school A Nevada mother has followed through on her threat to file a civil rights lawsuit against her son’s charter school for refusing to let him opt out of a mandatory class that promotes hostility toward whites as a race. Democracy Prep at the Agassi Campus forced William Clark “to make professions about his racial, sexual, gender and religious identities in verbal class exercises and in graded, written homework assignments,” crea...