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“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children," Walt Disney once said. Walt’s unique strategy of building an entertainment empire for kids once made Disney a trusted source of family entertainment. That didn’t last long after Walt's death as Disney started releasing R-rated movies and adult television programming under the Touchstone label. A decade later, Disney bought Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax. During the 90s, while Disney's more family friendly brand was releasing animated cartoons, Miramax featured Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, and the Scream sequels. During this time Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment and assaults. Some of this was taking...

President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requested last year that the University of Montana restrict access to her controversial master’s thesis, which advocated for the creation of population control propaganda for environmental reasons. The university’s digital initiatives librarian confirmed to Breitbart News on Friday that the embattled nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, asked the school in June 2020 to limit access to the thesis, titled Into the heart of the beast | A case for environmental advertising, which Stone-Manning authored in 1992 for her master’s degree in Environmental Studies. The restricted thesis itself made headlines on...

US women's groups Thursday were bracing for a fight over abortion rights and gender equality with the new conservative majority in Congress. "We now face an anti-choice majority and a new speaker of the House who will threaten to roll back hard-fought progress for women," said Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the largest women's group in the United States. Republicans by Wednesday had picked up 60 seats in the 435-seat House of Representatives, well more than the 39 they needed for a majority. At least 49 of the newcomers to the House are opposed to...

San Francisco's board of supervisors has voted, by a veto-proof margin, to ban most of McDonald's Happy Meals as they are now served in the restaurants. The measure will make San Francisco the first major city in the country to forbid restaurants from offering a free toy with meals that contain more than set levels of calories, sugar and fat. The ordinance would also require restaurants to provide fruits and vegetables with all meals for children that come with toys."We're part of a movement that is moving forward an agenda of food justice," said Supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored the...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - President Obama's budget recommendations unveiled yesterday are being criticized by the National Right to Life Committee for recommending the re-introduction of taxpayer-funded abortion in Washington, D.C. The White House submission urges the House and Senate to repeal a law known as the Dornan Amendment that prevents tax-funded abortion, except for cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother's life, in the District of Columbia for several years. Because Congress holds legislative authority over the District of Columbia, the district's budget must be appropriated by Congress through an annual appropriations bill. The White...

LifeNews.com Note: Samantha Singson writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a pro-life group that lobbies at the United Nation. This editorial originally appear in the group's Friday Fax publication. A new global initiative was launched by various UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in New York last week that includes a call for legal abortion. Among the sponsors of the initiative called "Deliver Now for Women and Children" is the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), a UN agency that persistently denies they support abortion in any way, shape, or form. Marketed as a campaign to raise awareness of...

This morning the am radio talk guy said that the dance performance of New Mexico kids which Laura Bush will attend is the target of protestors who hate the Bush presidency. They are attacking the organization which is putting on the production...(a good noble art loving group who is doing something for kids) Swastikas have been sent and the woman who heads up the organization has been told that she has the blood of innocent Iraqi children on her hands ... This raises the question in the Santa Fe liberal community whether to be nice to the children doing art...

Planned Parenthood has recently generated media controversy because of its distribution of “Choice on Earth” greeting cards this Christmas season. Planned Parenthood leader Gloria Feldt defends this mockery of Christianity by claiming on its web site that “Choice on Earth” “…is a popular sentiment that expresses some of the highest values of our democratic society: respect for diversity, without which there can be no peace…choice represents belief in every individual’s human and civil right to make our own personal decisions about whether and when to become a parent so that we can all experience the great blessings of motherhood and...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A judge has fined the National Education Association $800,000 after the teachers' union missed a deadline to respond to a campaign finance lawsuit filed by the conservative Evergreen Freedom Foundation. It wasn't clear whether the order Thurston County Superior Court Judge Daniel Berschauer issued Monday will stand. If lawsuits go unanswered, judges can presume the facts and allegations contained in them are true and rule accordingly, but such cases are rare. Berschauer ruled in favor of the foundation's claim that the NEA violated state law against spending -- for political purposes -- fees paid to the...