News and Views: April 23, 2025

Supreme Court will decide: Can schools mandate LGBT books?   

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today on whether parents have the right to opt out of lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs, reports Ann E. Marimow in the Washington Post. 

   "The parents behind the storybooks lawsuit say they are not trying to change the lesson plans or remove any books from classroom shelves," she writes. They just want participation to be voluntary. The coalition includes Muslim, Christian (many of them Ethiopian), Mormon, Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox parents.

   “Parents should have the right to decide when to introduce these topics to their kids," says Billy Moges, who pulled her three daughters from public school. "We’re not telling other parents how to raise their kids.”

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Here’s How Much The Federal Government Is Spending To Make Nurses Less White The program “is a clear example of the federal government using its vast funding capabilities to encourage and incentivize racial discrimination,” Do No Harm wrote in its report. “The nursing workforce is best served when nursing education programs select the best and the brightest, when excellence and merit are prioritized rather than race.”

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Militants kill at least 26 tourists at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir  On Tuesday, a lethal attack was carried out by suspected militants targeting tourists in the Pahalgam region of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Between 20 and 24 people were killed, with several others sustaining injuries, according to various reports, although an official death toll had not been released as of the time of publication. Pahalgam, known for its scenic meadows and glaciers, attracts substantial tourist numbers yearly.

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NEW STUDY – Ivermectin Shows Striking Anticancer Potential and Remarkable Safety  Largest review to date of ivermectin use in cancer patients finds no safety concerns, promising anecdotal reports, and strong preclinical evidence of tumor suppression. Image

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Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government? -VD Hanson  The best-kept secret of our marquee universities is a radical fall-off in standards as once defined by their own, once much ballyhooed, tough requirements. Our best universities customarily now ensure that 70-80 percent of students in their classes receive A’s.

   Prestigious campuses, like Harvard and Stanford, have recently introduced remedial math classes. Privately, the supposedly most demanding campuses know that their prior non-meritocratic admissions have resulted in thousands of students who enter college without the high-school preparation necessary to meet their own past traditional university requirements.

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Is The Economist Smoking Crack?    

I thought crack-smoking had lost its appeal, but perhaps it is still a regular pastime among journalists determined to take down Trump’s America. The Economist, for example, has suggested that “the land of the free” has moved across the Atlantic, from America to Europe. The continent, the magazine claims, is now the best place to enjoy the “pursuit of happiness”, while embracing “moral norms” on following climate edicts, fostering free trade and preventing oligarchal overreach.

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US Birthrate Falls Through the Floor 

Fertility rates have plunged everywhere, and while some decline in fertility is to be expected as economies modernize and modern medicine increases lifespan and reduces infant deaths, the falloff is so great that it is civilization threatening.

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The Last Revelation of Saint Al Gore and His Final Prophecy for America Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday compared President Donald Trump’s administration to Nazi Germany and issued a dire warning about Trump’s use of power in a speech devoted to climate change...

    ...So says the man who predicted all the polar bears would drown, Florida would vanish, Kilimanjaro would bake, the hurricanes would grow, and the Earth would go BOOM like an overcooked burrito in the microwave.

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