Evan Poellinger
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Evan Poellinger | May 7, 2024
Boeing’s Starliner Space Capsule was scheduled to launch at 10:34 PM Monday on its first crewed flight, but was ultimately scrubbed after being delayed for years by technical problems. Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for a week-long evaluation of the spacecraft before it would join SpaceX’s Crew Dragon as one of two…
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Evan Poellinger | May 6, 2024
British comedian John Cleese says that it should not be controversial to characterize some cultures as being better than others. In an interview with the Oldie Magazine, Cleese expressed his concerns surrounding the cultural changes that had taken place in the United Kingdom: “I think that some cultures are superior to others, and we should not be frightened to say so. A society that goes in…
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Evan Poellinger | May 3, 2024
A group of members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity worked together to prevent the desecration of an American flag at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC) by a mob of pro-Palestinian protesters on Tuesday. The group of protesters managed to take down the American flag, which was flying at half-mast in UNC’s quad in honor of four Charlotte police officers who were gunned down the day…
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Evan Poellinger | May 2, 2024
The principal of a high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico found herself out of a job after a drag show was hosted during the school’s prom. Irene Cisneros was fired from Atrisco Heritage Academy High School, and several other school employees were placed on administrative leave as a result of the incident. A video taken at the prom on April 20 was posted on TikTok, showing “performer in thigh-…
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Evan Poellinger | May 1, 2024
A bill sponsored by Rep. Greg Murphy (R, NC) would withhold federal funding from medical schools which engage in discriminatory practices related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology. Rep. Murphy’s bill, the EDUCATE Act, which had its companion bill introduced in the Senate by Sen. John Kennedy (R, LA), establishes a number of different actions that would jeopardize the reception of…
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Evan Poellinger | April 30, 2024
A parental rights organization has bestowed its infamous “Millstone of the Month” award onto a group of South Carolinian librarians who tried to sneak books on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other left-wing-aligned works into school libraries. The U.S. Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) highlighted a report from the Daily Signal which revealed that librarians at a South Carolina school…
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Evan Poellinger | April 29, 2024
Iowa’s three major public universities have made the decision to shut down their offices of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and to reduce or dissolve DEI-related positions. On Thursday, the presidents of Iowa State, the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa told the state’s Board of Regents of the various changes they would be making to their respective DEI programs on…
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Evan Poellinger | April 26, 2024
A pro-Palestine protest held at the University of Texas, Austin resulted in the postponement of a rally against the university’s dissolution of its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office and firing of personnel. On Wednesday, the Texas Student Employees Union intended to hold a rally called Stop the Purge in protest of the firings and dismantling of UT Austin’s DEI office. The rally was…
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Evan Poellinger | April 25, 2024
A Pulitzer Prize winner and the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company have contributed their perspectives to the growing backlash against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology. On Sunday, The Los Angeles Times published an interview with Pulitzer award-winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, which included his castigation of DEI ideology. Mamet minced no words concerning his…
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Evan Poellinger | April 24, 2024
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) DEI official Natalie Perry allegedly plagiarized her Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Ph.D. dissertation. Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Rufo has reported that large sections of Perry’s dissertation were taken directly from the writings of other authors, without citation, and that she failed to even mention some of the authors…