‘No Critical Thinking’: Parents Sound Alarm as Tech Begins to ‘Replace the Teacher’
Parents are growing increasingly concerned about the prevalence of technology in classrooms, and the negative side effects that change is fueling among children nationwide.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic pushed schools to remote learning, many have only grown increasingly reliant on technology, shifting assignments into digital forms and handing every student a computer or tablet to aid their education in the classroom. But after seeing their kids become angrier, less sociable, and less educated, parents are asking where the teachers have gone.
“What are we doing with an iPad all day, for eight hours a day in our kids’ hands?” Patricia McCoy, a mother of four in Wyoming, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Honestly, it’s disturbing. They give your kids worksheets on the iPad. There’s no actual critical thinking happening because they’re given apps to replace the teachers.” Click here to read more.
What Brought the Trump Administration to the Brink with the Venezuelan Regime
At this writing, the United States appears to be on the verge of military action against Venezuelan regime. The president of the United States has de facto closed Venezuelan airspace — via Truth Social, of course — and the largest concentration of American military power in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility since the 1989 Christmas season is gathered across the Caribbean basin. Naval assets are afloat to the north of the Venezuelan littoral, and American bases and facilities have emerged (or been reactivated) not just in U.S.-controlled territories like Puerto Rico and Guantanamo Bay, but in sovereign allies such as Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic. All this raises obvious questions, foremost among them: Why now, and why Venezuela?
Anyone outside of the administration who offers definitive answers to either is misleading at worst and incomplete at best. The decision-makers know their full rationales and will share them when they wish. For now, even the legal memorandum justifying the strikes on maritime traffickers remains undisclosed. Click here to read more.
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — A Sterling Heights police officer is being celebrated for his life-saving actions on a baby boy who had stopped breathing after choking in a Walmart store.
Officer Edwar Talia responded to the Walmart on Van Dyke Avenue Nov. 1 at around 8:30 p.m. for a report of a 5-month-old infant who was having trouble breathing.
Newly-released bodycam video showed Talia rushing into the Walmart to find the distraught mother with her child, who appeared not to be breathing. He began giving continuous back blows to the infant, which cleared the airway and allowed the child to breathe on his own again.
“I rushed in there — the doors could not open fast enough,” Talia told WXYZ-TV ( Channel 7 ) Click here to watch video.
America First Legal Demands Repeal of Biden-Era Rule That Uses Race to Determine Kidney Transplant Recipients
America First Legal (AFL) has filed a Rulemaking Petition urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to repeal a Biden-era regulation that embeds race-conscious policies into America’s organ transplant system.”
The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model, which took effect on July 1, 2025, alters how transplant hospitals determine who receives a kidney during the transplant process. Instead of relying solely on clinical urgency and established medical criteria, the Biden Administration directed hospitals to factor race, ethnicity, and “equity” into allocation decisions—an outgrowth of the administration’s sweeping equity agenda aimed at confronting the “unbearable human costs of systemic racism.”
Under this model, select hospitals must operate within an equity-driven framework that pressures them to adopt race-conscious transplant policies. As part of the model, hospitals are encouraged to submit “ Health Equity Plans” to CMS that:
Identify target “health disparities” based on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status.
Develop “targeted strategies to close those gaps.”
Conduct a “resource gap analysis” to reorient staffing, funding, and operational needs around equity goals.
Establish performance measures designed to achieve predetermined racial and ethnic outcomes in transplant access. Click here to read more.
FDA commissioner says data showed 10 child deaths due to COVID shots
The US Food and Drug Administration said that at least 10 children had likely died “because of” COVID-19 vaccinations, citing myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a possible cause, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the report outside business hours. But FDA Commissioner Marty Makary on Saturday confirmed the report during a TV interview.
“There were, it appears, 10 deaths of children from the COVID shots,” he told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” weekend show, citing data gathered during the Biden administration. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sharply changed government policy on COVID vaccines, limiting access to them to people 65 and older, as well as those with underlying conditions.
Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine crusader before taking on the nation’s top health post under President Donald Trump, has also linked vaccines to autism and sought to rewrite the country’s immunization policies. Click here to read more.
