Evan Poellinger
CNSNews Fellow
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Evan Poellinger | March 7, 2024
The state of Louisiana is taking stiff measures on crime by adding additional methods of capital punishment, strengthening parole guidelines, and instituting constitutional carry for firearms. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed eleven bills on Tuesday in the aftermath of a special legislative session on crime. Among the bills Landry signed are a bill restoring electrocution as a method of…
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Evan Poellinger | March 6, 2024
In one of the most substantial anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) decisions by a university to date, the University of Florida has fired all staff who occupied DEI-related positions at the school. On March 1, the university released a memo detailing the dissolution of the position of the Office of Chief Diversity Officer, and also revealed that it had “eliminated DEI positions and…
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Evan Poellinger | March 5, 2024
A recent poll from Pew Research revealed that various education-related demographics, from parents and students to teachers, are opposed to the propagation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology in the classroom. One of the polls, conducted between October 17 and November 14, 2023 among K-12 teachers nationwide found that 41 percent of the 2,531 teachers surveyed said that debates…
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Evan Poellinger | February 29, 2024
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele offered his prediction of the potential future facing the United States, while reassuring Americans that they still have an opportunity to reverse course, in a speech in Washington, DC. President Bukele spoke on the evening of February 22 at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), telling his audience that “they say globalism comes to die at CPAC…
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Evan Poellinger | February 27, 2024
Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland has offered his insights into the challenges facing the American Catholic Church and stated that he believed that the problems facing the Church are paralleled by America’s political woes. The former bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas spoke with CNSNews at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 22. His Excellency opined that…
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Evan Poellinger | February 20, 2024
Descendants of slaves who labored at Saint Louis University are now demanding $74 billion dollars in reparations from the university. The $74 billion demand is multiple times larger than the university’s endowment, a comparatively paltry $1.5 billion. Allegedly, the calculation of the reparations was done according to “time-honored methods,” as stated by Julianne Malveaux, an economist and head…
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Evan Poellinger | February 16, 2024
The Goldwater Institute has filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) over its refusal to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to the department’s assessment of an extraordinary $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University (GCU), a private, Christian college. The Goldwater Institute filed suit after the DOE failed to comply within 20 days with a…
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Evan Poellinger | February 15, 2024
A public university in Kansas hosted an event that inverses the meaning of the Christian penitential celebration of Ash Wednesday. Libs of TikTok posted the details of an Ash Wednesday event being held at Fort Hayes State University, in which participants were given the opportunity to receive their choice of regular ashes or “Glitter+Ash.” The reasoning stipulated for choosing the glitter-ash…
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Evan Poellinger | February 13, 2024
The state of Nebraska has thrown its hat in the ring as part of the growing fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology at public colleges and universities. Legislative Bill 1330, introduced by 15 members of Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, acts “to prohibit educational institutions from taking certain actions relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The bill defines…
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Evan Poellinger | February 12, 2024
A number of publicly-funded colleges and universities in Idaho have increasing spent millions of dollars of taxpayer money on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)-related courses, staff, and policies. The Daily Mail reported that Boise State University and other schools spent $6 million on DEI efforts. Boise State and the three other public schools employ 75 DEI administrators, several of…