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But again, even most of our conservative leaders and institutions seem oblivious. School districts in America are talking about revising their curricula to cover transgender issues from grade school on. Now, I went to an English boys’ school, and we were expected to pick up sexuality on our own time. In those days people would have looked puzzled if you had said, “We’re going to have to cancel geography or Latin, because we need to put gay studies in there.” These days, instead of going off behind the bike shed during recess to learn about sex, kids need to sneak behind the bike shed to do a little bit of closeted geography or closeted Latin. It’s completely backwards. And yet what do we hear from most conservative politicians? That it would be nice to offer people a tax cut!
Read more[Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal and co-host of The Right Side of History podcast. He is also the author of the book “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.”]
Read moreI have a friend who’s been married three times and he’s getting ready to say “I do” for a fourth. I say, why bother? I am reminded of the words of the great southern comedic writer Lewis Grizzard who said that instead of marriage just find a woman you don’t like and give her a house. Bolstering his argument is this statistic: in 1940 one in six marriages ended in divorce. Today it’s one in every two! Amongst the millennial generation being married is now considered an “alternative lifestyle” and instead of “man and wife” the proper terminology is now “persons living cooperatively.” And they don’t even have to be of the opposite sex! This makes me wonder, is traditional marriage becoming an outmoded institution?
Read more( Ed. Note : Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
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Southwestern Oklahoma State University’s annual Middle School Band Camp attracted nearly 300 students. The camp for students who have completed fifth-seventh grades was held June 27-30 on the Weatherford campus. SWOSU’s annual band camp for seventh-12th grade students is coming up July 11-16 with approximately 450 students planning to attend. Among those attending the Middle School Band Camp from Kingfisher were, from left: Trayson Deterding, Rosa Wallace, Taylor Horn and Mandy Owens, Kingfisher Public Schools’ band director. [Photo provided]
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Last week was the “dead period” in Oklahoma, which is unofficially the one week during the summer when parents and coaches of junior high and high school athletes are allowed to vacation without fear of retribution (that’s a joke, sort of).
Read moreOne day after blasting his former attorney general, William Barr, as a “RINO,” former President Donald Trump expressed regret for supporting Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
Read moreA police officer friend said we should refer to the Fourth of July as Independence Day, I wholeheartedly agree with him.
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