January 2023

This digest of articles, essays and posts on the internet will help keep you informed about developments in the ongoing culture war. Look and read the offerings that you find most interesting. It will be well worth the time you invest.

 

Battling the Leftist Education Playbook

The Left has taken over much of American public education. This essay exposes the tactics used by the Left to control the education of our children.

We do our best to stay informed, but we don’t always read school policy manuals or attend every board meeting. There are times when we may miss a new rule. Using taxpayer dollars nefariously and covertly to implement changes, public school officials have taken full advantage of parents’ busyness.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that parents all over the country find ourselves battling Critical Race Theory and transgender bathroom policies that we didn’t even know existed. Parental ignorance is no excuse. Public education has taken a dangerous turn. Parents hoping to take back their schools must start by studying the leftist school playbook.

Weaponization of Government Panel Will Investigate ‘Signature Abuse of Our Time,’ Say GOP Members

It is becoming increasingly clear that the Biden administration has weaponized the Department of Justice, the FBI, and other government agencies against American citizens.

Operating with a broad mandate, Republican members of the new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government told The Epoch Times that they will investigate any area where the federal government has abused its power and violated the rights of citizens.

For now, the subcommittee will specifically look at abuses by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI, the legality of vaccine mandates, disinformation about conservative-sponsored election security laws, and censorship by big tech firms under government pressure, according to subcommittee members.

“Since the beginning of the Biden administration, some federal agencies designed to serve and keep Americans safe have instead been turned against them,” he said.

“This fact is beyond dispute. The Biden Administration has used counterterrorism resources against the parents of school children, raided the homes of political opponents, targeted conservative states over their election integrity laws, inflated domestic extremism statistics, and instituted illegal vaccine mandates, just to name a handful of examples,” he added.

‘Fetal containers’: Bioethicist proposes using women in vegetative states as surrogates

If you want to avoid the “inconveniences” of pregnancy but wish to have biological children, why not use the womb of a woman in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) to carry your child?

A bioethicist has argued for using women in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) as surrogates, calling it “whole body gestational donation.”

Anna Smajdor, of the University of Olso, wrote in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics that women who are brain dead shouldn’t have their wombs going to waste, when people who want children can use them. “We already know that pregnancies can be successfully carried to term in brain-dead women,” she said. “There is no obvious medical reason why initiating such pregnancies would not be possible.

But the ethics of such a decision seems to have overlooked by Smajdor.

The DOJ’s ‘Monitoring’ of Pro-Life Laws Is a ‘Usurpation’ of State Authority, Experts Say

The Supreme Court’s Dobbs’ decision overturned Roe v. Wade, giving each state the opportunity to establish pro-life laws. The Biden administration doesn’t like this and has unleashed attack dog U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in a counterattack.

On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland strongly downplayed the rights of states to establish their own pro-life legislation, saying that the Department of Justice is “monitor[ing] state laws and enforcement actions to ensure that states do not infringe on federal protections of reproductive rights.” Experts are pointing out the brazen nature of Garland’s comments in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision last June, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

The Trans Supremacy Agenda

Enabled by the Biden administration the transgender movement is exercising increasing control over American culture.

That brings me to the most important point that must be at the center of this debate—the trans supremacy agenda is harming biological women. That’s what every politician who is asked to address the issue must say.

The trans movement violates female privacy. On the sports field it steals honors from female athletes. It physically hurts and disables female athletes.

So-called “transgendered women” are demanding to get away with things that would send any heterosexual man to jail.

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The Biden Autocracy

 

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. ¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. ¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; ¹⁷ and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.

To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, ¹⁹ and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. (Ephesians 6:10–20 ESV)

 

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