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Pro-Life Father Targeted By Biden’s FBI Wins $1M Settlement
Topic: Abortion
Source: Thomas More Society
Mark Houck, a devoted pro-life Catholic and father of seven, found himself caught in a legal battle against the United States of America after defending his young son from an aggressive Planned Parenthood escort. Known for his dedication as an author, speaker, and sidewalk counselor, Houck would often take his twelve-year-old son with him during his weekly trips to speak outside abortion clinics. However, when the escort confronted his son with ridicule and profanity, Houck stepped in to protect his child. The escort attempted to initiate a private prosecution against Houck, but the case was dismissed when he failed to appear at the hearing. Almost a year later, on September 23, 2022, the Houck family was shocked when nearly twenty-five FBI agents raided their home, arresting Mark without explanation and taking him to the FBI Headquarters in Philadelphia. The Department of Justice had decided to make an example of Mark, charging him with two felony counts and threatening him with prison time for defending his family and advocating for life. [Ed: definitely biased in favor of prolife but interesting info.]

Anti-Hate Poster Has No Home in Ohio Classroom, Says School District
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Reason
The poster, which included a rainbow flag, counts as "instruction that includes sexuality content" and triggers an Ohio parents' rights law, the board said. "Hate Has No Home Here," read the classroom poster. The school board said it had to go. Now, the teacher who put up the poster is suing, saying his First Amendment rights were violated. How could such an anodyne message spark a constitutional controversy? The drama stems from the images under the words: five hands—of varying skin colors—holding five hearts, each decorated differently. The largest heart features an American flag pattern. One heart has a peace sign on it. The controversial hearts feature stripes, one in a rainbow of colors and one in pink, blue, and white.

How 30,000 LA School Employees Won a Landmark Contract
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Payday Report
Education About LAUSD Budget Manipulation. On Monday evening, I watched as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass paced nervously back and forth outside the conference room of SEIU Local 99. Bass had been called in by the LA United School District (LAUSD) to negotiate an agreement hours away from an imminent strike of more than 30,000 school employees, backed by as many as 50,000 teachers and administrators who were ready to strike in solidarity. ?Both the teachers' union and the school administrators’ union reached tentative agreements earlier in the week, but SEIU 99, which represents low-wage cafeteria workers, janitors, and other school employees, many of whom live in poverty, was holding out for better hours and protection from layoffs.

LA authorities dramatically raise stakes in investigation of alleged Swalwell rape
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AOL
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office has already assigned a prosecuting attorney to aid in the criminal investigation of a bombshell rape claim against disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell. LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced the rare move after Lonna Drewes, 50, on Tuesday accused Swalwell of drugging, choking and raping her at a West Hollywood hotel in 2018.

Musk's Grok AI chatbot still making sexual deepfakes, despite X's promise to stop
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: NBC News
An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month. A review by NBC News found dozens of AI-generated sexual images and videos depicting real people posted publicly on Musk’s social media app, X, over the past month. The images show women whose likenesses were edited by the AI chatbot to put them in more revealing clothing, such as towels, sports bras, skintight Spider-Woman outfits or bunny costumes. Many of the women are female pop stars or actors. The Grok software, created by Musk’s company xAI, made the images at the request of users who tried to break through undressing restrictions the service put in place in January. Grok, via its X account, or the users then posted the images to X.

New video shows Oklahoma high school principal tackling gunman
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
...who opened fire inside the school. [Ed: a true hero.] Kirk Moore wrestled the gun away from suspected shooter Victor Hawkins, who allegedly studied the Columbine shooting beforehand. The footage shows Pauls Valley High School Principal Kirk Moore confronting the suspect — identified as 20-year-old former student Victor Hawkins — after he walked into the building on April 7. Moore was shot in the leg during the confrontation and was airlifted to a hospital in stable condition, authorities said.

British drama ‘The Teacher’ features ‘nonbinary’ student
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Human Events
who overdoses after being misgendered by teacher. The show features a character named Dee Rainford-Thomas, a student who identifies as nonbinary and clashes with drama teacher Helen Simpson, the newly promoted head of drama at Cheetham Hall. The character is depicted in the series as being misgendered and “deadnamed” by the teacher, as tensions between the two rise. The storyline escalates as the teacher also becomes involved in disputes with other students, including one who describes herself as an ally of “Dee.” At one point, after an exchange takes place where the teacher tells Dee she should “kill herself” if she cannot stand up for herself, the student proceeds to overdose on pills.

Dominican Sisters File Lawsuit to Block New York LGBT Law
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Washington Stand
A group of Catholic religious sisters is taking the Empire State’s Democratic government to court, citing religious liberty violations. For over a century, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, founded by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the American novelist Nathanial Hawthorne, have ministered to the sick and dying in New York. In 1901, the Sisters opened Rosary Hill House, providing hospice care for terminally-ill cancer patients. In 2024, however, the Sisters were notified that they could potentially face jail time for falling afoul of a New York law requiring the Sisters and other hospice care providers to assign rooms and beds according to patients’ gender identities rather than their biological sexes, to use patients’ “preferred pronouns,” to “accommodate patients’ desire for extramarital relations,” and a host of other policies in conflict with the longstanding moral teachings and practices of the Catholic Church.

Drugs, sexual blackmail
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Gray Zone
...shocking confession letter exposes Israel’s Red Crescent spy ring. A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups.

Do You Have a Right To Wear a Penis Costume in Public?
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Reason
A 62-Year-Old Alabama Woman Is About To Find Out. A police officer threw Renea Gamble to the ground and handcuffed her because her costume might have offended his kids. In October, millions of people took part in "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump. In one Alabama town, police arrested a woman in a lewd costume and threatened her with jail time—a clear violation of her First Amendment rights.

Biden DOJ worked with abortion-rights groups
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Examiner
...to track conservative activists and withheld evidence in FACE Act trials. Federal prosecutors in the Biden Justice Department worked closely with abortion-rights groups to track anti-abortion activists while withholding key evidence in FACE Act prosecutions, according to a 900-page report released by the DOJ on Tuesday detailing evidence of political bias under the Biden administration. The report, the first of several to be released by the Trump administration’s Weaponization Working Group, is based on a review of roughly 700,000 internal records and represents the most detailed account to date of how the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act was enforced in the years following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision.

Jury selection starts for Harvey Weinstein’s latest retrial in a New York rape case
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: AP News
After years of #MeToo infamy, legal peril and prison, Harvey Weinstein is again going on trial on a rape charge in New York City. Jury selection started Tuesday in the onetime movie mogul’s latest retrial, where jurors will weigh — for the third time — whether he raped hairstylist and Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel in 2013. It’s a more streamlined proceeding than the array of allegations that were aired at Weinstein’s previous trials in New York and Los Angeles. The Oscar-winning producer denies all the accusations and declared in court this winter that he had “acted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.”

New Finnish Study on Mental Health Outcomes Among Adolescents
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: LGB Alliance Australia
Referred for Gender Identity Assessment. A newly released Finnish study of 2,083 adolescents who contacted specialised gender identity services found high levels of psychiatric distress which was not reduced and sometimes increased following medical gender reassignment. The study, conducted by researchers from Tampere University Hospital and Helsinki University Hospital, was based on anonymised national health records and looked at 2,083 under 23-year-olds who contacted the two Finnish gender clinics in the period 1996-2019. They were compared with a control group of 16,643.

“To Know Is Not Enough”
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
Hampshire College Joins Growing List of Failed Academic Institutions. On Tuesday, Hampshire College became the latest academic institution to announce its closure. There was a time when such failures were rare occurrences. That trickle is turning into a torrent, but the media and academics are missing a critical part of the lesson. There is no greater example of how academics are killing higher education than the death of Hampshire College.

They Have You by the Ovaries
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Do Not Research
[Ed: I don't agree with the tone or message...but it is an interesting article.] Success: I emptied my savings and endured excruciating medical experiences to liberate myself from reproductive anxiety. I froze my eggs. Now I have a new, disembodied tension that’s completely out of my control. In the absence of robust social safety nets—paid parental leave, affordable childcare, universal healthcare—many have turned to egg freezing as a form of insurance. In 2021, I was hot off a break up, feeling stagnant in my career, and still deep in the COVID pandemic. My 35th birthday loomed, a notorious date for women who want a biological family since egg quality and quantity begin to rapidly decline thereafter. I received an onslaught of targeted ads to freeze my eggs. Every time I opened social media I drowned in egg freezing ads that made a daunting medical procedure seem simple and transparent, with a clear pricing structure and monthly payment plans.

‘Let My People Go,’ A Smoker’s Plea
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Libertarian Institute
A March 20 headline in the New York Post declared “Cigarettes are Back!” It seems that in liberal, health-conscious Hollywood, celebrities are smoking publicly and on magazine covers and cigarettes are big at the events, including in some instances provided to guests by the host. This is a good sign for those of us who oppose the nanny state, as the obsessive hatred of smoking has been one of the most egregious infringements on personal liberty in the last forty years.

Eric Swalwell and the Fall of a Made Man
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Jonathan Turley
The worst, however, may be yet to come. walwell has spent his entire career protected by an enabling establishment and media. He was a made man in Washington, and those who made him protected him despite years of rumors and allegations of misconduct. He was never much of a legislator. One 2025 study showed that he was outvoted in Congress by a colleague who had died months earlier. His value was his vicious signature. He was always first to a mob. When Sen. Susan Collins received death threats, it was Swalwell who mocked her. In running for governor, he not only pledged to arrest ICE agents but to deny them driver’s licenses and jobs. He trafficked in unadulterated rage to a nation of rage addicts.

Swalwell, Who Said We Should 'Believe Survivors,'
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Western Journal
Issues Denial Saying We Shouldn't Believe Women Who Say They Survived Sex Abuse By Him. To cap Friday off, Swalwell issued a late-night denial video in which the man who once told America that we should “believe survivors” during the Brett Kavanaugh hearing — where such so-called “survivors” had not a trace of the evidence Swalwell’s accusers have — said that we shouldn’t believe his survivors. In the one-minute video — recorded, it appears, inside a hotel room with the curtains drawn, which isn’t a good look when you consider how much of Swalwell’s alleged sexual misconduct took place inside hotel rooms — the representative used the “nobody’s perfect” defense (which can usually be interpreted as “some sex happened while he was married, but it was totally consensual,” although he’s not going to tell you any of that directly) and said that the allegations that this conduct was coercive or abusive were lies.

The Department of Education: Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: by Wendy McElroy
In a world of loud events, the significance of quiet ones can be lost, especially when they are described in dry bureaucratic terms. On March 19, the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of the Treasury (USDT) announced the formation of the Federal Student Assistance Partnership (FSAP) to facilitate the renewed repayment of student loans. A March 27, 2026, headline on CBS News unpacked the announcement’s bureaucratese, “Education Department notices inform students in SAVE plan that their payments will soon resume.”