Tag: morality ethics
US Department of Education refers Maine to Justice Department after AG’s Office rejects resolution on Title IX Violations
As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent to Maine state officials two weeks ago drew down to its final hours, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office issued a response saying the state would neither sign a resolution agreement nor propose an alternative, setting into motion a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice.
[RELATED: Mills’ Continued Defiance of Trump’s Deadline for Title IX Compliance Could Cost Maine Hugely]
“Nothing in Title IX or its implementing regulation prohibits schools from allowing transgender girls and women to participate on girls’ and women’s sports teams,” Maine Assistant Attorney General Sarah Forster wrote to the regional director of the U.S. DOE’s Office of Civil Rights. Her letter chided the federal agency for wrongly interpreting the statute and added that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution also justified Maine’s policy — in direct defiance of the federal instruction.
That letter prompted a fast response from the DoE’s civil rights office:
“Accordingly, OCR has determined compliance cannot be secured by informal or voluntary means,” it wrote, adding: “OCR now refers this matter to the Department of Justice with a recommendation for appropriate proceedings to enforce all legally available remedies.”
The response to Maine’s attorney general went on to notify the state that it is “initiating administrative proceedings to suspend, terminate, defer final approval, and/or refuse to grant or continue Federal financial assistance to the MDOE.
Throwing away good money for a bad reason. ABN
Amy Coney Barrett never divulged her membership in a small, tightly knit Christian group called People of Praise
Ms. Barrett told the senators that she was a faithful Catholic, and that her religious beliefs would not affect her decisions as an appellate judge. But her membership in a small, tightly knit Christian group called People of Praise never came up at the hearing, and might have led to even more intense questioning.
Some of the group’s practices would surprise many faithful Catholics. Members of the group swear a lifelong oath of loyalty, called a covenant, to one another, and are assigned and are accountable to a personal adviser, called a “head” for men and a “handmaid” for women. The group teaches that husbands are the heads of their wives and should take authority over the family.
Current and former members say that the heads and handmaids give direction on important decisions, including whom to date or marry, where to live, whether to take a job or buy a home, and how to raise children.
Legal scholars said that such loyalty oaths could raise legitimate questions about a judicial nominee’s independence and impartiality. The scholars said in interviews that while there certainly was no religious test for office, it would have been relevant for the senators to examine what it means for a judicial nominee to make an oath to a group that could wield significant authority over its members’ lives.
Press Release: U.S. Department of Education Announces Consequences for Maine’s Title IX Noncompliance
The Department of Education Is Referring the Case to the Department of Justice; Initiating Federal Funding Termination Proceeding
April 11, 2025
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) referred its Title IX investigation into the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for further enforcement action. Simultaneously, ED will initiate an administrative proceeding to adjudicate termination of MDOE’s federal K-12 education funding, including formula and discretionary grants.
These actions are a direct result of MDOE’s continued refusal to comply with Title IX. ED issued a noncompliance finding on March 19, and sent a final warning letter to the state on March 31.
“The Department has given Maine every opportunity to come into compliance with Title IX, but the state’s leaders have stubbornly refused to do so, choosing instead to prioritize an extremist ideological agenda over their students’ safety, privacy, and dignity,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “The Maine Department of Education will now have to defend its discriminatory practices before a Department administrative law judge and in a federal court against the Justice Department. Governor Mills would have done well to adhere to the wisdom embedded in the old idiom—be careful what you wish for. Now she will see the Trump Administration in court.”
Leftist Maine disgraces itself logically and morally
Also economically and mathematically. Mills and her followers are a disaster for Maine. ABN
Kip Tom, a farmer in Indiana, explains what China did to him
It’s time to get mean, brutally, harshly mean. Delicate sensibilities must be dispatched like a feather in a hurricane
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I hope this means Sundance also understands we have experienced several generations of savage covert warfare. Since the battlefront has been covert, it is slightly difficult to see what has been happening. Use your imagination for a few hours, maybe less. Consider the gains compared to costs of a covert war against USA. There are trillions at stake, plus the most powerful military the world has ever known. How to win control of all of it? Infiltrate, takeover, attack strong boys and young men especially. In three or four generations all will be yours. Once you conceive of this strategy, you will begin to see the evidence. Lobotomies in Tibet and wherever young men are incarcerated for nothing. Lobotomies in USA without incarceration. Poison, sensory damage, done covertly. It’s a very simple strategy employing very simple tactics. I hope Sundance sees this and spends some time thinking about it. Many things will become clear, even obvious. Our enemy has long ago gotten ‘brutally, harshly mean’ with us. Remove ‘delicate sensibilities’ from your imagination and it will all become clear. ABN
Paul dithers and wastes time as usual
Paul surely understands Trump MUST move as quickly as possible to accomplish urgent goals. I have come to despise Paul for his constant talking and never doing anything or his constant chirping against Trump. In a moment of national crisis, a small window of deep change has opened and Paul dithers over abstractions. All law and all moral principles are pragmatic at the national level. This is always and especially true in time of crisis. Gangs of ruthless illegals must go; USA has a debt crisis which must be fixed now; world trade has been imbalanced against USA since WW2 and now is the time to balance it. From a Buddhist POV, seize the day, use the real-world conditions we have to make real progress repairing and improving our country. ABN
John Rich on why Trump stopped talking about the covid vax
Sign seen in Northern Ireland
It appears that Catholics and Protestants are uniting on this issue. It may also be that Ireland is being used as a testing ground to see how they will react to forced settlement of illegals; and this will become a metric for the rest of Europe. The sooner this confrontation is settled in Ireland’s favor, the less violent it will be. I hope Irish patriots realize they are setting an example for all of Europe. Buddhists take note: the Dalai Lama himself agrees with them on this. Buddhism is a wisdom teaching. Only an immoral moron will give up their country to invaders enticed by depraved elites. The sooner this is stopped, the wiser and kinder the resolution will be. ABN
Pam Bondi’s track record does not inspire confidence
Under Biden non-citizens got Social Security numbers, free money, and VOTED — AND ‘HUMAN TRAFFICKERS MADE $13-$15 BILLION OFF OF THIS’
‘It’s not just about money. It’s the people, the kids. How many people died on their way up here’?
This may be the most most important video on DOGE and the depraved Biden admin you will watch. ABN
Trump Signs EO to Review Statues ‘Improperly’ Removed in Past 5 Years, Restore Truth to American History
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to restore truth to American history through an overhaul of the Smithsonian.
The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” slams the Biden administration for ushering in an era of “corrosive ideology” in recent years and seeks to unfurl “divisive, race-centered” themes plaguing the institution.
“Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” the order reads. “This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
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