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The treatment that never lets the patient leave
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Opioid maintenance treatment raises questions about how medicine defines recovery. Regulatory pressure, medical education, and financial incentives favor continued enrollment, while pathways toward ending treatment receive less attention. The debate centers on whether success means retaining patients indefinitely or helping them pursue independence from treatment...
NYC college to host Marxist “radical assembly”
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – BMCC is a taxpayer-financed institution. They’re forcing taxpayers to pay to promote Marxism, whose goal is the violent overthrow of the US government. It’s a threat to our society. The invitation, enticing college students to attend, plays upon the fears of young people by painting a “brutish and bleak” future if we continue to operate our nation under the...
The 4.0 mirage: California’s students confront a harsh reality
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – California students earn soaring GPAs while math and reading proficiency decline. Teachers face pressure to inflate grades, leaving graduates with a false sense of achievement. Behind the straight A’s, concerns grow over academic honesty, weakened standards, and whether schools adequately prepare students for college demands...
Falling behind! America’s education crisis goes global
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Initial findings show that students from Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, and the UK continue to outperform U.S. public school students in reading, science, and math. Compared with the 2022 results, U.S. scores in science remained the same, but for math and reading it’s a different story...
9/11 at 25: History is a warning, not just a memory
After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Twenty-five years after September 11, America faces the danger of forgetting. Honest history education, clear recognition of extremist threats, and respect for victims and first responders preserve the lessons of that day. National strength depends on remembrance, vigilance, and leaders who speak with moral clarity...
Bedside to the Kennedy Room: The COVID protocol reckoning
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Melissa Schreibfeder, BSN, RN, BC-FMP – Nurse Jodi O’Malley calls for renewed commitment to nursing ethics as she challenges COVID hospital protocols. Her advocacy centers on informed consent, patient rights, and family access, urging nurses to question harmful policies, strengthen ethics education, and put patient welfare above institutional pressure and profit...
Long tail activism
Cutting Through the Chaos with Wallace Garneau – Long-tail activism turns institutions into engines of political influence that persist beyond elections. Universities, corporations, and government agencies spread ideological priorities through incentives, policies, and professional standards. Restoring their core purposes helps return political power to voters and strengthens democratic accountability across American public life...
When ideology clouds our view of history
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Learning from the past requires honest reflection rather than politically convenient interpretations. From judicial precedent and scientific integrity to socialist policies and declining school performance, life’s consequences challenge us to examine our assumptions, question institutional failures, and ask whether history truly informs our decisions today...
Can the DOE neutralize the power of teachers’ unions?
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The NEA and AFT wield an exorbitant amount of power within and over government policy, and that power should be put in check. On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education initiated proceedings to withdraw federal recognition from that body which accredits most American law schools...
Schools are lowering the bar and calling it equity. Here’s how to stop it!
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The practice of equitable grading will only further reinforce an entitlement mentality with zero responsibility or self-government being taught. Equitable grading includes ineffective practices such as unlimited retakes, no late penalties, no zeros, no homework, and no required participation. These grading policies make no sense to...
Is public education unconstitutional? Nebraska Court to decide
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Nebraska law requires all children to be enrolled in a “public, private, denominational or parochial school,” or to homeschool them. If parents fail to comply, the punishment is a Class III misdemeanor, including up to three months in jail and a $500 fine. Families are urging a Nebraska court to consider if the government-school monopoly is an unconstitutional...
The Republic depends on what we teach the next generation
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Pastor David Whitney – America’s constitutional republic depends on citizens who understand its founding documents and defend their God-given rights. Constitution Day calls families, schools, and churches to renew civic education, embrace faithful citizenship, and preserve liberty through knowledge, responsibility, and active participation in the nation’s shared public life...
Woke educators rewrite 9/11 history in America’s classrooms
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The NEA provides resources for teaching 9/11 calling the US “cruel and inhumane” and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America’s support for the Jewish state. Not only do the lessons not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the attacks, but they also appear to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks...
Labor Day safety reminders and civic responsibility
Truth Be Told with Booker Scott – Labor Day highlights the workers who keep America moving while rising fuel prices, inflation, healthcare costs, struggling schools, and mounting debt pressure families. The growing divide between political slogans and practical solutions underscores the need for accountability, election reform, and responsible leadership for future generations...
The battle for childhood: Identity, authority, and the right to grow up
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Children face growing pressure from schools, clinics, social media, and cultural institutions shaping beliefs about gender, identity, and truth. The debate centers on vulnerability, parental authority, medical intervention, misinformation, faith, and whether compassion protects children or pushes them toward lasting harm and regret without restraint...
Project Panama: Inside AI’s secretive race to consume the world’s books
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Booksellers have recently discovered that AI has breached the gates. The revelation that millions of print books are being scanned to train artificial intelligence models and then destroyed should raise concern. “What I’ve been hearing is alarming. People are right to raise a red flag about it,” Susan Benne, executive director of the Antiquarian...
Detroit’s $1,000 bribe to get kids to class
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Detroit public schools offer gift cards worth up to $1,000 to reward student attendance as chronic absenteeism remains a serious problem. Critics argue that simply paying students to appear in class does little to improve engagement, academic performance, or meaningful learning outcomes for struggling students...
Dr Peter McCullough on preventing viral illness, detoxing spike protein & transforming healthcare
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Melissa Schreibfeder, BSN, RN, BC-FMP – Dr. Peter McCullough discusses preventing respiratory illness, early treatment, long COVID, vaccine injury, and persistent spike protein. He explains nasal hygiene, supportive therapies, patient recovery cases, and a prevention-focused healthcare model while outlining how physicians and functional nurses can better support patients moving...
No more secrets! DOE warns schools to stop hiding information from parents
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The fact that his letter had to be sent speaks to the horrible state of affairs in which our pubic education system finds itself. The impetus behind the letter was due to reports surfacing about schools withholding critical information from parents under the guise of “confidential medical information.” Other reports noted that teachers were...
Randi Weingarten’s Target boycott puts ICE battle at center stage
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – AFT president Randi Weingarten calls ICE actions illegal and immoral while they claim she is a criminal illegal alien supporter. Weingarten is urging her members to boycott Target, deeming the company unethical, because it refuses to publicly denounce ICE. As usual, Weingarten finds herself on the wrong side of the argument...
Skepticism toward critical race theory in universities
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Cambridge’s handling of Jason Arday raises difficult questions about academic standards, plagiarism, racial preferences, and institutional accountability. The debate examines whether universities compromise equal scrutiny in pursuit of diversity goals and argues that scholarship depends on consistent standards applied fairly to every academic without exception...
From teddy bears to hidden grades: America’s growing fear of discomfort
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Have we made it a normal practice for grown adults to carry around stuffed animals for comfort? If students are not given the opportunity to be courageous in the face of struggles, progress will be nonexistent in their lives. They will expect everything to be handed to them, and be sorely disappointed when they come to realize we live in...
DEI exposed: How the biggest con of the century almost toppled higher education
The Tenpenny Files – Professor Stanley Ridgley examines how DEI reshapes American higher education, tracing its academic theories, financial incentives, campus programs, and evolving terminology. He argues that renamed initiatives such as inclusive excellence may preserve the same ideology, urging students, parents, and institutions to question assumptions and evidence...
What we are teaching the rising generation
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – What are we teaching the rising generation through schools, government policies, and our own actions? Declining academic standards, political influence, mounting national debt, and punishment of parental concerns raise troubling questions about whether young Americans are learning to think independently, value freedom, and accept responsibility...
This one thing determines academic success for young people
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – Brad Wilcox, Senior Fellow at IFS, said the report looked at “whether or not kids are being raised by their own mother and father.” They found that family structure was often a more important factor in children’s well-being. “It’s pretty clear that the character of the family you grew up in is more important than the color of your skin,”
AZ Supreme Court says NO to obstructing school voucher program
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A Teachers Union-led organization used fraudulent signatures in order to get obstructions to the school voucher program on the November ballot in Arizona. The state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program allows funding allocation to follow the child to the K12 school of their choice rather than automatically assigned to the local...
The great divide: Those who think vs. those who don’t
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – America’s deepest divide is not simply political but intellectual, separating those who think critically from those who surrender judgment to entitlement and government dependence. Education rewards compliance over reasoning, while classical learning offers an antidote by teaching students how to question, analyze, and think independently...
A very convenient warming
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Climate alarm turns fear into a profitable tool while history shows Earth’s temperatures have always changed. Rising crops, carbon dioxide’s role in plant growth, and the dangers of replacing debate with consensus challenge claims that modest warming justifies higher costs, fewer choices, and constant panic...
Nathan Cofnas and the price of asking
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Nathan Cofnas examines how universities respond when evidence challenges accepted beliefs, tracing disputes over morality, intelligence, liberalism, and academic conformity. His experience at Cambridge raises questions about whistleblowers, institutional incentives, and whether scholars are rewarded for pursuing uncomfortable truths or punished for disrupting consensus...
Natural health: More choices, more control
The Nurses Report with Nicole, Ashley & David – Natural health education gives people practical tools, greater confidence, and more choices for improving wellness. Julie Whitman Kline discusses Trinity School of Natural Health, holistic training, community support, herbal resources, upcoming events, and opportunities that empower individuals to take a more active role in health...
SCOTUS receives petition to review TX 10 Commandments law
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – The ACLU asks the Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit ruling upholding Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms, arguing the mandate violates First Amendment protections and risks religious coercion, while supporters contend the law is constitutionally permissible under current precedent...
Schools, AI & the fight for our children’s minds
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Some schools are trying to take the teacher out of the classroom, replacing them with Artificial (Imitation) Intelligence. If we take the humanity out of teaching, who will check what our children are being taught? How often do we have to see reports of AIs like ChatGPT, Grok, or Claude simply making up lies before we decide not to trust them to...
The great squandering: How America is spending its inheritance
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Randall Bock – Institutions thrive on inherited trust, competence, and capital, but decline when leaders treat those reserves as limitless. From universities and medicine to government and social life, the fallacy of abundance shows how standards erode, trust disappears, and prosperity weakens when stewardship gives way to ideology...
School world order
The Tenpenny Files – John Klyczek examines how education reform, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, public-private partnerships, and global policy reshape schooling. He challenges parents to look beyond public, private, and homeschool labels and consider who designs these systems, collects the data, and influences how future generations learn and think...
Women pay the price when ideology trumps biology
Don’t Imbibe the Kool-Aid with Kim Kennedy – Women’s sports face growing controversy as debates over gender identity, fairness, parental rights, and child protection intensify. The discussion challenges institutions to defend biological distinctions, preserve competitive integrity, respect families, and provide vulnerable young people with compassion, honesty, and responsible adult leadership with moral courage...
Why teachers across America are receiving major bonuses right now
The Hidden Lightness with Jimmy Hinton – There is a generous, compassionate, and hopeful side of humanity that can easily get buried beneath the constant stream of negativity dominating our news and conversations. But stories like these remind us that people are still looking for ways to help one another. Whether it's a wealthy resident writing a million-dollar check, a community...
The disastrous results of public education have become normalized
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – A staggering 43% of the 912,000 students in New York City schools are in failing schools, according to a recently released shocking report. The level of failure in the nation’s largest public school system “has been normalized — and, worse, systematically obscured.” Socialist Mayor Mamdani’s city DOE slammed the report as a hit job, but did not...
Who owns your child’s mind? The battle for educational freedom
The Nurses Report on America Out Loud with Gail Macrae, BSN, RN – The systems that trained generations into dependency are not failing. They are succeeding at what they were designed to do: dissolve unique individuality, authenticity, and morality, putting individuals into a box of conformity. The response is not despair. It is the quiet, daily work of raising human beings who know their...
The last of the firsts: Savoring the back-to-school years
America Out Loud PULSE with Dr. Angelina Farella – The first day of school symbolizes a child's independence and an annual milestone achievement. It can also be a nerve-wracking experience for parents. The first day of kindergarten and the first day leaving your kid at college are highly charged emotional days. School used to start after Labor Day in September, but in recent years it has been...
Shocking 57% of NY 5th graders failed to make the grade!
The Dean’s List with Host Dean Bowen – While New York spends more money per pupil than any other state, shocking new data reveals more than half of 3rd- to 5th-grade students failed their reading proficiency state exams. If money isn’t the solution, what is? More money doesn’t bring students up to this standard, but a change in the educational model will...