John Ransom

John Ransom is a Lion contributor and a national political writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Epoch Times, at Townhall.com, Newsmax, the Daily Caller and IBT.

Government
State-run youth council in Colorado pushes penalties for incorrect pronoun usage encouraged by Democrat lawmakers

A state-run youth council in Colorado is pushing a series of legislative bills to push gender ideology. One of the bills would allow persons to be charged with “discrimination” for… Read More

November 9, 2023
Public Education
Virginia judge says lawsuit of teacher shot by student will go forward as school district argues worker’s comp shield

A $40 million lawsuit in the notorious case where a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher in Virginia is going forward, a local judge in the case… Read More

November 8, 2023
Opinion
Op-ed: SEL is ‘class warfare some want warring in classrooms,’ contrary to the claims of EdWeek and others

In a recent piece by Education Week categorized under “leadership,” the authors disguised what was, in fact, an editorial, as in-depth reporting on social, emotional learning (SEL) in the state… Read More

November 7, 2023
Culture
Nashville trans shooter cited students’ ‘white privilege’ as partial motive for school shooting, says alleged manifesto

Three pages from the long-awaited manifesto of the Nashville transgender person police say shot and killed six people at a Christian school, including three children, was posted online by commentator… Read More

November 6, 2023
Culture
Higher education has to catch up with pace of new technology, says Ben Sasse in University of Florida inaugural speech

When former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse was inaugurated president of the University of Florida Thursday, he promised to “transform the student experience to deliver even more… Read More

November 3, 2023