Published March 24th, 2023
Biden administration blocking Josh Hawley bill requiring a cleanup of radioactivity at Missouri elementary school, senator says
A lone U.S. senator Wednesday blocked a bill requiring a cleanup of an allegedly radioactive elementary school near St. Louis, even after an ardent appeal to his…
Published March 15th, 2023
Missouri needs to ban transgender treatments for minors, says Senator Josh Hawley, as national group decries the treatments for kids
Missouri lawmakers should go ahead and ban transgender treatments for children, in U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley’s considered opinion. Hawley’s office last month launched an investigation…
Published March 13th, 2023
Elected leaders’ concerns about early-age sexual indoctrination in Leavenworth elementary school is unwelcome, brings call to resign
As a conservative, Pat Proctor never did feel welcome at Leavenworth’s David Brewer Elementary School in Kansas. It’s only gotten worse now. After they blew…
Published March 2nd, 2023
Americans deserve to know what the government knows about the ‘likely’ leak of COVID-19 from a lab in Wuhan, China, says Hawley
Josh Hawley wants you to know what he knows about the origin of the COVID-19 virus. The U.S. senator from Missouri, along with Sen. Mike…
Published March 2nd, 2023
Missouri State University clings to robust Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs and ‘loyalty oaths’ despite nationwide retreat from them
Even as companies, universities and whole states back away from divisive and legally suspect Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, Missouri State University is all in…
Published February 23rd, 2023
Missouri attorney general files ouster of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner after she keeps suspect free to critically injure young athlete
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who has faced searing criticism for repeatedly failing to prosecute serious crimes, is now facing ouster proceedings from the…
Published February 23rd, 2023
Former presidential advisor Kellyanne Conway urges Missouri legislators to enact school choice
As Missouri appears poised to spend an unprecedented amount of money on K-12 education, it must spend it wisely – meaning school choice and an…
Hawley files bills, launches investigation of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, to protect children from social media and gender transitions
Bills have been filed and an investigation launched by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley to protect children from both Big Tech and gender transition treatments. One…
Published February 9th, 2023
Kids under 16 should be barred from social media, and parents should be empowered to delete their Big Tech data, says Hawley
Children shouldn’t be allowed on social media until age 16, argues Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, who plans that and other legislation to protect kids from…
Published February 6th, 2023
Failed federal prosecution of pro-life advocate Mark Houck a frightening tale of persecution worthy of a totalitarian state
I’ve read about countries like this. I never thought I’d live in one. In his book When Faith Is Forbidden: 40 Days on the Frontlines with Persecuted…
Published January 24th, 2023
Citizen concerned over lewd books in this Missouri school district was immediately shown the door by his school board. But he’s not going anywhere
A citizen distressed about lewd books in school libraries was immediately gaveled down during public comments to the Lee’s Summit, Missouri school board, and was…
Published January 23rd, 2023
Inaugural ‘Stolen Innocence’ panel aims to help parents guard their children against increasing sexualization in schools
Alexandra Schweitzer had turned the children’s book she was inspecting sideways, like a curious youth trying to better see a Playboy centerfold. Her husband wondered…
Published January 13th, 2023
Graduate wages lonely battle against anti-religious, erotic book for 9th-graders in her Kansas City-area school district
Ninth graders in a Kansas City-area school district have been subjected to a book with bawdy anti-religious and erotic passages, its school board was told…
Published January 13th, 2023
‘Religion is poison,’ ‘Death to Christmas’: Kansas City Council candidate Chris Gahagan and his virulently anti-religion tweets
(The Heartlander) – A candidate for Kansas City Council has a bizarre record of acid-tipped tweets about religion and religious people, writing in one that,…
Children as young as 6 attend erotic ‘Christmas’ drag queen show in Kansas City, guarded by police and Antifa
Imagine if exotic dancers left their strip clubs to stage a vulgar, sexually suggestive public performance at a local theater – for “all ages,” no…
Published December 7th, 2022
Loudoun County school superintendent sacked after grand jury condemns handling of transgender sex assaults that sparked parents’ movement
First it “dropped the ball” in two sexual assaults of girls by a transgender student. Now the Loudoun County school board has dropped the hammer…
Published December 5th, 2022
Cross-dressing book for pre-K students crossed the line: Kansas City school district changes book-approval system after Lion story
A school district that gave preschoolers a book on cross-dressing has changed its procedures for giving out books after news of the incident surfaced last…
Published November 30th, 2022
Cross-dressing picture book allegedly a class assignment in Kansas City-area preschool, sending grandfather into battle
A children’s book promoting cross-dressing was handed out this week to a 4-year-old’s Kansas City-area preschool class, according to the girl’s livid grandfather. “This is…
Published November 22nd, 2022
5 ways Christian education just might be the salvation for a hopelessly divided and confused America
A character in the historical movie Braveheart says of 13th-century Scotland, “from top to bottom this country has no sense of itself.” The same could…
Published November 15th, 2022
University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was tossed into the transgender athlete debate. Come on in, she says, the water’s fine
Riley Gaines figures she had all of three weeks away from swimming during her entire four years in college, when she became an elite competitive…
Published October 24th, 2022
Latest school shooting leaves at least three dead at magnet school in St. Louis
A school shooting at a St. Louis magnet school Monday morning has killed at least three, including the young gunman, while injuring and traumatizing others.…
Kansas mom finds joy-of-sex book for kids in her public library, which refuses to move it from children’s section
Addie Thompson and her 4-year-old son were scanning their local public library’s children’s section for a book on airplanes. What the young mother found on…
Published October 10th, 2022
This state’s public education achievement crisis, and needed solutions, are documented in a new call-to-action book
With one in three students testing below grade level in reading and math, Kansas public education is embroiled in a chronic achievement crisis – one…
Published October 5th, 2022
Georgia substitute teacher allegedly fired for raising questions as a mom about age-inappropriate book being read to elementary students
A Georgia substitute teacher is suing after being fired for raising questions about depictions of same-sex couples in a picture book included in a library…
Published September 29th, 2022
Small Kansas town council rejects state’s legal protections for teachers, librarians who submit obscene materials to minors
Should teachers and librarians have legal immunity for providing obscene materials to minors? The state of Kansas says yes. One small town defiantly says no.…
Published September 26th, 2022
Opponents likely to fall short in effort to block Arizona’s new ‘gold standard’ school choice law
An Arizona anti-school-choice organization blocked a statewide expansion of choice in 2018, but its effort to defeat a similar law this year could be falling…
Published September 22nd, 2022
Teacher of the Year Josh Ernst: God is in all things, including science
Maybe it’s his own considerable struggle in his youth that makes science teacher Josh Ernst such a magnet for students in crisis. While teaching at…
Published September 20th, 2022
Teacher of the Year Greg Finch: Christian education may be the last best hope for America, Western civilization
Many of us hear a divine calling in our prayers. Greg Finch actually heard his with his ears. After finding his passion for history in…
Money, messaging and deceit led to failure of Kansas abortion regulation amendment. What has the pro-life side learned?
Like many around the nation, Tracey, a former Kansan, watched the state’s Aug. 2 abortion vote with great interest. Although living on the Missouri side…
Published August 24th, 2022
Parents against sweeping new K-12 sex ed curricula met with hate, physical assault – and a claim that toddlers should pleasure each other sexually
Parents opposed to an aggressive new sex education curriculum in Wisconsin suffered assaults on both their persons and their sensibilities from a hostile crowd supporting…
Published August 23rd, 2022
‘Pedophilia took a win’ in Wisconsin school board approval Monday of gender-bending sex ed lessons as young as kindergarten, activist says
A Wisconsin school board Monday approved a sex education curriculum that expects kindergartners to begin exploring gender issues and to know such terms as penis,…
Published August 18th, 2022
Are they being asked to sign away their parental rights? Arizonans cautioned not to sign anti-school-choice petition
Arizonans are now being asked to give up their parental rights. That’s the way school choice advocate Corey A. DeAngelis sees it, anyway. Since Arizona…
Published August 15th, 2022
A new educational frontier opens wide with coming of Arizona’s universal school choice law. What’s it mean for Christian educators?
Arizona may soon be the site of the Oklahoma Land Rush of school choice, as a new law allows all parents in the state to…
Published August 12th, 2022
School board turns tail, votes to permit satanic clothing a week after banning it
A school board that only a week ago chose to prohibit satanic clothing in schools voted Friday to do the opposite and permit it. The…
Published August 10th, 2022
Ban on satanic clothing in student dress code reconsidered by Kansas school board after parent complaint
A Kansas public school district is rethinking its ban on satanic clothing after a parent’s complaints and threats to sue. The Hays Unified School District…
Bleeding Kansas: What will the state look like after the coming surge in abortions and decrease in regulations?
If there is any good that comes from the defeat of the Kansas abortion regulation amendment Tuesday, it ironically may be the bad that comes…
Are we in a culture war in America? If so, can the media bring themselves to report on it fairly?
What would you say is the state of the Union at this point? Well, let’s take a look at it. Racial and sexual indoctrination in…
Published August 1st, 2022
Parents must fight on together against the sexualization of young children in public schools, rally participants say
Scarlett Johnson gets emotional at how far-left hatred made her want to quit her battle against the sexualization of young children in public schools –…
Published July 14th, 2022
Berkeley professor: Questioning whether men can get pregnant is dangerous. Sen. Josh Hawley responds
For just asking her who is capable of giving birth, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley was accused by a Berkeley professor this week of stoking violence…
Published July 12th, 2022
Pro-life organizers explain Kansas’ misunderstood abortion amendment, plead for truthful reporting on it
Kansas gave Donald Trump around 57% of its votes in both 2016 and 2020. Yet, barring approval of a constitutional amendment Aug. 2, it could…
Kansas pro-lifers fighting vandals, thieves, misinformation to restore abortion regulation authority to lawmakers Aug. 2
Kansas is suddenly ground zero in the abortion fight, and there’s a ground war to prove it: Supporters of the Aug. 2 amendment to allow…
Biden’s smear of Supreme Court on foreign soil a disgrace to the nation, a disservice to its intricate design
In defaming the U.S. Supreme Court – in front of an overseas audience – for its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Joe Biden didn’t…
Published July 1st, 2022
Attack on GOP office in Kansas widens the Left’s war on conservatives after Roe
A brazen vandalism of a Republican headquarters in the heart of Kansas may signal a widening war against conservatives after the overturning of Roe v.…
Published June 27th, 2022
Silent prayer in public is protected by the Constitution, US Supreme Court rules in coach prayer case
The government cannot punish its employees or anyone else for silent prayer, even at public events and facilities, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday in…
‘Egregiously wrong’ Roe v. Wade overturned; abortion returned to states to decide – and Missouri already has
The overturning of Roe v. Wade Friday is a new day for the cause of life in America, largely an end to abortion in Missouri,…
Published June 21st, 2022
Landmark religious liberty ruling Tuesday prohibits denial of public funds to schools based solely on their religion
In yet another landmark case for religious liberty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the government cannot exclude religious institutions from government funding based solely…
Published June 16th, 2022
Biden administration, media, ignoring or downplaying rising violence against pro-life community
An assassination attempt on a conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Continued illegal protests outside conservative justices’ homes. And a wave of dozens of attacks and…
Published June 15th, 2022
Mass shooting threat closes summer schools in Kansas City area Wednesday; suspect’s arrest means classes back on
Multiple Kansas City-area school districts canceled summer classes and activities indefinitely Wednesday after word Tuesday of a mass shooting threat in the suburb of Blue…
Published June 15th, 2022
‘In God We Trust’ is added to school buildings in this legendary Kansas town to boost patriotism, morality
God is back in Dodge City schools – at least on the walls. The legendary western Kansas town’s Board of Education voted 5-2 Monday to…
Published June 8th, 2022
Extent of far-left race and sex curricula in schools, and solutions, to be discussed by national panel at free public event in KC Monday
Frighteningly fringe curriculum on race and sexuality is much more widespread across America – and much less coincidental – than many parents realize, close observers…
Published June 3rd, 2022
Possible school election bribery case not big enough for a local Kansas prosecutor. Will the attorney general step in?
A local prosecutor won’t touch the case, but the Kansas Attorney General’s office may investigate whether a school superintendent attempted to bribe district employees into voting…
Published June 2nd, 2022
Christian pro golfers Burns and Scheffler absolutely torching the PGA Tour while spreading the good word
Best friends and outspoken Christians Sam Burns and Scottie Scheffler put faith to the fore once again Sunday on the PGA Tour, with a short…
Published June 2nd, 2022
Missouri group’s tracking of extreme ‘woke’ activity for parents brings venomous backlash, death threats, from the left
A Missouri nonprofit has been ferociously attacked in liberal media, and its executive director threatened with his life, for its website that maps instances of…
Published May 31st, 2022
Race-based grading in this Chicago-area school? News report says yes, school says no
A Chicago-area high school is being accused of planning to no longer penalize students’ grades for missed assignments and classes, or for bad behavior, in…
Published May 23rd, 2022
COLUMN: Are conservatives being censored by Big Tech? The evidence is becoming overwhelming. What to do?
If Facebook has a “Most Wanted” poster in its break room, John Altevogt’s mug is likely on it. The Kansas City conservative has been in…
Published May 23rd, 2022
‘In God We Trust’ decals OK to go back on police vehicles, after Haven City Council reversal
The people have spoken. What’s more, they have been heard. For now. After voting to strip “In God We Trust” decals off the city’s police…
Published May 13th, 2022
Residents angry, defiant after this small Kansas town orders ‘In God We Trust’ taken off police cars
There’s been a run on “In God We Trust” car decals this week in the Haven, Kansas area, in defiance of the city council’s vote…
‘Vandalism’? No, a politically motivated arson attack on the pro-life community is an act of terror
One local news report called the perpetrators “vandals.” Likewise, the New York Times called the arson attack of a Wisconsin pro-life group “an act of…
Published May 2nd, 2022
Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court delivers huge win for religious expression and free speech
The religious in America are no longer second-class citizens in the public square. That’s the impact of a remarkable unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday…
Published April 11th, 2022
Scottie Scheffler wears his Christian faith on his sleeve as he dons the green jacket for his first Masters tournament win
Long before he donned the famous green jacket as 2022 Masters Tournament champion Sunday, Scottie Scheffler was wearing his Christian faith on his sleeve. “Very…
Published April 6th, 2022
Students as young as kindergarten can identify as transgender and be taught about it, says suburban Kansas City school official
The youngest public school children should be taught all about gender identity if they’ve heard anything at all about the topic, and teachers should welcome…
Published April 5th, 2022
Parents upset with Disney’s leftward lurch have a wholesome alternative in Missouri’s Silver Dollar City amusement park
With Disney’s odd opposition to parental rights in Florida – and a company executive’s pledge to include “many, many” characters of various sexual categories in…
Published March 28th, 2022
Parental rights bill signed by Florida governor, while conservatives at Disney note a climate of political fear
Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday signed Florida’s historic parental-rights bill protecting kids in grades K-3 from sexual and gender instruction in schools. The bill has inspired…
Published March 18th, 2022
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has to sue to obtain public records. What chance do ordinary citizens have?
The attorney general of the Show-Me State can’t get the Missouri School Boards’ Association to show him open records. That’s the assertion in a lawsuit…
Published March 10th, 2022
Opponents of school choice in Georgia Senate exercise it in their own families
Georgia lawmaker Jodi Lott has a quick and easy answer for why she supports school choice. “Because it already exists,” the Republican state representative told…
Published March 8th, 2022
Kansas teacher sues school district after punishment for refusing to use student-preferred name and pronouns
A Kansas school district is accused of suspending and reprimanding a teacher for “discrimination and harassment” after she refused to use a student’s preferred first…
Published February 28th, 2022
Kansas education commissioner suspended, nearly ousted, for childhood anecdote about Indians
The Kansas commissioner of education has been suspended a month without pay, and nearly lost his job, after recounting a childhood story about his California…
Published February 22nd, 2022
This public school district’s ‘X-rated’ book may reveal an agenda parents aren’t aware of
After teachers’ raunchy read-alouds to sophomores, and after one to the school board last week, the Leavenworth Board of Education may now revisit whether a…
Published February 16th, 2022
Are Christian-schooled kids sheltered – or is it public school students?
Are Christian-schooled and homeschooled students sheltered from the “real” world – or are they merely being well-prepared to face it? In many ways it’s both,…
