Regulators are adding a new regulation to Title IX that “prohibits discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics in federally funded education programs …” said the Education Department fact sheet.
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Rich Lowry: Nothing good comes from Columbia University radicalism
It’s Columbia 1968 — the antisemitic version.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: Biden’s real Achilles heel
The upper-middle class, in the form of college students, threatens to withhold votes from Biden while also riling up millions of moderate voters with their protests of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Rich Lowry: Alvin Bragg makes history — preposterously
Lesser prosecutors would have been daunted by the prospect of creating a national melodrama and a norm-breaking prosecution of a former president over what is, in essence, a misdemeanor business-records charge.
Froma Harrop: Creeps hunt kids on social media
We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young people, mostly boys, to take their lives.
Steve Collins: Oct. 25’s darkness a constant reminder of the need for greater kindness
As the first flowers begin to bloom and potholes proliferate, life in Lewiston seems normal. Then a glimpse of a “Lewiston Strong” sign in a window or an overheard snatch of somber conversation at Hannaford or the sound of sirens wailing in the distance brings it all back. Six months have somehow passed since that […]
Michael T. Peters: Jewish people deserve to be celebrated: Judeo-Christian teachings built America
The Jewish people are part of our America and deserve our respect and our protection. We should not tolerate what is taking place on American campuses, and we should demand that the influencers who are teaching this new Marxist garbage be terminated.
Cal Thomas: The empires begin to strike back
Let’s hope that others follow the lead of Columbia’s president and Google management, and we stop wet nursing kids who for too long have demonstrated their ignorance and in some cases denounced America while reaping its benefits.
Clarence Page: Loss of support from Republican evangelicals suits MAGA crowd just fine
It’s reasonable to assume that in 2024, the number of churchgoing Republicans has declined even further. Significantly so. And thus, they matter less to the ever-expedient Donald Trump’s campaign for president.
Clarence Page: Better public understanding of domestic violence was the one silver lining of O.J. Simpson’s fall
As much as O.J. absurdly talked about finding “the real killer,” a truly real killer is our own failure to take the complaints of domestic violence victims seriously — an issue on which we’ve made progress, but not enough.