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21 hours ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced legislation last week to repeal the Patriot Act, a post-9/11 assault on the Constitution that the government has used to vacuum up information on millions of innocent Americans.
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3 days ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
President Donald Trump’s plan to shutter the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program is being portrayed in the media as harming both consumers and the environment — but others in the know, including federal agencies, beg to differ. Instituted in 1992, Energy Star is a voluntary program that certifies that home appliances meet certain criteria for energy efficiency.
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5 days ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
The state of Virginia is investigating reports that a school district is charging three high-school boys with sexual harassment after a transgender student secretly took video of them in the boys’ locker room. Recorded in Stone Bridge High School in ultra-woke Loudoun County, the video showed the boys committing the unpardonable offense of expressing discomfort with the girl’s presence in the locker room.
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3 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
In a decision with wide-ranging implications, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the nation’s laws do not consider transgender women to be actual women. The court “holds that the terms ‘man,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘sex’ … refer to biological sex,” the justices stated in a press summary of their decision. The case concerned a 2018 Scottish law that set sex quotas to increase the number of women on public boards.
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4 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
Archaeologists in Guatemala uncovered an ancient Mayan altar that was clearly used for child sacrifice, yet the Associated Press managed to find someone to claim the practice was “not … violent” but just “their way of connecting with the celestial bodies.”The AP story, published last week, recounts the discovery of an altar in Tikal National Park, about 325 miles north of Guatemala City.
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4 weeks ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
A consumer group just launched a campaign targeting Michigan’s second-largest health system for “prioritizing politics over patients” via its “woke” policies, Fox News Digital reported Monday. The health system’s response? Bury the evidence.
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1 month ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
An Australian judge awarded custody of a 12-year-old boy to his father, who sought to prevent his estranged wife from putting the boy on puberty blockers to “affirm” his belief that he is female. On April 4, rejecting the prevailing “gender-affirming care” orthodoxy, Justice Andrew Strum of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia applied science and common sense to determine the boy’s best place was with his father.
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1 month ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
Twice recently, Planned Parenthood has been caught distributing inappropriate materials to children, putting the lie to the notion that the nation’s number-one abortion provider is simply interested in “reproductive health.”Last month, Planned Parenthood distributed sexually explicit coloring books to kids at a Kentucky science museum, which promptly banned the organization from its premises.
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1 month ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
Christian schools, parents, and lawmakers — including some Democrats — are sounding the alarm over a bill in the Illinois House of Representatives that would heavily regulate homeschooling and private schooling. House Bill 2827, known as the Homeschool Bill, would require homeschool parents to supply local and state education authorities with personal information about their children and what they are being taught.
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1 month ago | 
thenewamerican.com | Michael Tennant
U.K. schools are increasingly suspending and expelling students — including preschoolers — for being transphobic or homophobic, a trend that author J.K. Rowling called “totalitarian insanity.”The Telegraph reported Monday that, according to Department for Education (DfE) statistics,94 pupils at state primary schools were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia and homophobia in 2022-23. These included 10 pupils from year one and three from year two, where the maximum age is seven.
