Derrick Anderson [Green Beret Veteran]: Washington has forgotten what it means to serve the people who elected them in the first place. Once these career politicians make empty promises and get elected, they instantly forget their purpose: service.

Washington has forgotten what it means to serve the people who elected them in the first place. Once these career politicians make empty promises and get elected, they instantly forget their purpose: service. I first learned the meaning of service when I was very young, working with my mom at our local family diner. Do I wish I was outside spending time with friends? Of course! But I had to make a sacrifice to help my mom out, and looking back, it helped me become the man I am today. Flash forward: After I graduated from Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!), I decided to follow in my grandfather's footsteps and was immediately commissioned into the US Army as an Infantry Officer. I completed Ranger School and was assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division as a Platoon Leader, where I was deployed for 15 months in "the Surge" in Iraq. Following this service, I completed the Special Forces Qualifications Course and became an A-Team leader in the Green Berets (Special Forces of the Army) and served 5 deployments to Afghanistan, Bahrain, Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon.

We were thrown into a hornet's nest in the Middle East. There were times it was tough surrounded by America's enemies, but I knew I had a duty of service. America's freedom was on the line. This brings me to my first point. Career politicians in Washington forgot the duty of service to their country. Liberal politicians would rather blindly follow Joe Biden's leadership than do what's right for the American people. I'm ready to change this and shake up Washington. I served our great country once in the Army Special Forces, and I'm ready to do it again in Congress, but I can only do it with your help. The Democrat Establishment is afraid of a political outsider like me with no loyalties to anyone except the American people.

Calvert Research and Management (Calvert): Elon Musk Describes ESG as Communism Rebranded. Calvert is all in.

How Calvert Helped Create the Barron's Most Sustainable Companies List

This marked the seventh year in a row that Calvert scored the 1,000 largest U.S. publicly traded companies across 230 environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators for Barron's annual list of the "100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies." These firms achieved the highest scores across those ESG metrics, ranging from workplace diversity to greenhouse-gas emissions. Here's a brief look at how we did so.

Proxy season recap — and what's in store for 2024

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Calvert continues to leverage our proxy-voting guidelines to advocate for progress on financially material ESG issues.  Climate issues continue to be a primary investor concern, and in the most recent proxy season (2022-23) we voted in favor of climate proposals 83% of the time. However, we voted against say-on-climate management proposals more than 60% of the time because a large portion of companies' energy transition plans fail to meet our standards. In these cases, we first reach out to companies to explain our views.

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Anti-ESG proponents were more active in filing resolutions during the 2022-2023 proxy season. The vast majority — 95% — of proposals from anti-ESG proponents were filed in the United States. However, these proposals received just 2.4% support, on average. Support levels this low mean the same resolution can't be refiled with the same company again the following year.

In the current 2023-24 proxy season, in addition to other areas of focus, Calvert will pay close attention to companies' energy transition plans, say-on-pay packages and governance around Board and Chair role separation. In evaluating energy transition plans, our focus will shift from target setting to actual progress made in emissions reduction. We will continue to hold directors accountable for poor disclosures, especially from high-emitting companies.

Calvert expects anti-ESG proponents will continue to try to roll back some of the progress made on material ESG issues over the past few years, such as public disclosure of US Equal Employment Opportunity data and climate action. For investors focused on getting companies to better address material ESG issues, we expect climate, lobbying and worker's rights, in addition to health and safety, to remain a priority.

Closing Diversity Gaps in the Corporate Pipeline

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Calvert Research and Management recently released the third paper of our gender diversity series. In "Parity Beyond the Boardroom: Closing Diversity Gaps in the Corporate Pipeline," we discuss one of the top remaining global gender issues: the gap in the corporate talent pipeline. This issue contributes to structural disparities in pay and, ultimately, may further advance a wealth gap for underrepresented groups that is hard to close.

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Our research shows that female representation at the board and employee levels is much higher than at the executive and senior management levels. Ethnic diversity is greater among lower-level employees than in senior positions at large-cap U.S. companies. Notable differences are observed among resource-based and service-based sectors for both gender diversity and ethnic diversity.

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The trickle-down effect from increased gender representation in the boardroom, expected to help resolve the diversity pipeline issue, has not taken place as quickly as anticipated. We think this is largely due to national quotas driving the high percentage of female board directors, particularly in countries or markets that lag their peers.

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As diversity gaps at the critical management and senior levels are not closing as quickly as expected, we believe investors and companies need to intensify their efforts to address this situation. We think companies that can close their diversity gaps sooner are more likely to benefit from a boost in their intellectual and human capital.

Wayne Allyn Root: We’re all GAZA Now

"We're all GAZA Now." Trump was Right. One Rigged & Stolen Election has Turned America into a Third World Craphole.

Trump was right- again. Only 3 years ago our country was MAGA. America was great again. The economy, prosperity, inflation, interest rates, jobs, incomes, the border, crime, peace around the world. Three short years later we've gone from MAGA to Gaza.  Trump was right about a lot of things. Here are just a few. Trump predicted if the border was open and millions came into our country illegally, we'd be turned into a third world craphole. It happened exactly as he predicted. Look around.

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Gary Bauer: What A Sight

What A Sight

 

I'll get to more profound issues in a moment. But I want to describe what you would have seen this morning if you were standing at the corner of 48th Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Hundreds of construction workers and other New Yorkers had gathered there to see Donald Trump. They were chanting, "USA! USA!" as Trump greeted them, signed autographs, and took pictures.

Scenes like this mini Trump rally in Manhattan must scare the heck out of the left, which is doing everything it can to demonize and destroy Donald Trump. It is also a demonstration of loyalty that the GOP establishment could only dream of and will never understand.

I can think of only one other president in recent memory who generated the same respect among the American people. His name was Ronald Reagan, and he was a populist conservative, too.

Current NEWS from Virginia Christian Alliance for 04/25/2024

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Constitutional Nobody: The Evening Wrap-Up from USSA News.

BIDEN: 'How Many Times Does He Have To Prove We Can't Be Trusted?' In a recent public appearance, President Joe Biden made a statement that has since caught the attention of both supporters and critics alike. During his comments, Biden made what many considered to be an embarrassing mistake. "I don't know why we're surprised by Trump. How many times does he have to prove we can't be trusted?" Biden said. This gaffe … Read more

U.S. Senator Rand Paul: Update from Dr. Rand Paul - April 25, 2024

Dr. Rand Paul Demands Answers from Sec. Mayorkas on Violent Individuals Released into the Country
 
Last week, just one day after Senate Democrats made an unprecedented move to dispense with articles of impeachment against the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a hearing with Sec. Mayorkas. 

In the hearing, I discussed the crisis at the southern border created by DHS's failure to secure and protect the American people. I demanded answers from Sec. Mayorkas on his refusal to follow the laws already in place to effectively secure the nation's borders, leading to numerous instances of violent crime perpetrated by illegal immigrants. 
 
One of those instances resulted in the tragic death of Laken Hope Riley, an Augusta University nursing student who was killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra on the campus of the University of Georgia. Last month, I led a letter with several of my committee colleagues requesting information on Ibarra, who was released into the country through parole and went on to commit several violent crimes.
 
In Thursday's hearing, I pressed Sec. Mayorkas on recent reports indicating Ibarra was released on parole solely because a detention center was at max capacity—a flagrant misuse of the authority. Sec. Mayorkas emphasized a critical point: there's currently no effective method to thoroughly vet these individuals, especially those from Venezuela, for potential violent criminal backgrounds before granting them entry into the country. This oversight is not just a lapse; it is a direct disregard for the safety and security of the American people. 
 
My thoughts and prayers are with all the families that have endured tragic losses from violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants. This should not be happening in the United States and the Biden administration is fully to blame.
 
DHS has the power to secure the border effectively without new legislation. The Biden administration overturned dozens of executive orders from the previous administration, including the Remain in Mexico policy, which required migrants to stay in Mexico instead of being released into the United States. Sec. Mayorkas and the Biden administration need to enforce the laws protecting the American people and ensure dangerous individuals are no longer allowed into the country. 
 
You can watch my opening remarks HERE and watch my questioning of Sec. Mayorkas HERE.

Not The Bee: Biden admin redefines ‘sex’ in federal law

On April 19, the Biden administration announced that it was illegitimately redefining "sex" in federal law—wreaking havoc on Title IX and threatening the future of women's sports.

The Biden administration is making an illegal attempt to redefine "sex" to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Under this, men who identify as women must be treated as women under federal law.

This attempted rewrite is set to be enforced on August 1. Alliance Defending Freedom plans to take action to challenge the administration's unlawful move.

In EVERY state, this redefinition would:

• Threaten women's sports
• Allow men who identify as women to undress in women's locker rooms
• Force traumatized women to sleep next to men in women's shelters
• Treat students as whatever "sex" they pick without parents' knowledge or consent
• Punish students and professors at public universities who use pronouns inconsistent with a person's self-ascribed gender identity
• Gut equal opportunities for women
• And more

The administration has rejected reality and chosen ideology over the best interests of women, students, and Americans everywhere. This is an attempt to rewrite federal law to embrace radical gender ideology.

The Federalist: Jeff Clark is being persecuted. We need to stand by him.

Immigration Reform Law Institute: IRLI Sues ICE Over Lack of Transparency on Immigration Violators

Agency practice makes it more difficult to track cases of criminal aliens

WASHINGTON—The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seeking information and emails regarding the agency's policies about how and when to name illegal alien criminals and other immigration violators in its press releases.   Recently, ICE began omitting the names of immigration violators it has arrested from agency press releases, making it virtually impossible for journalists and researchers to locate information relevant to ICE enforcement actions.   IRLI first sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to ICE seeking these records in July of 2023. Under FOIA, federal agencies are legally required to provide requested public records within twenty working days of request. However, more than eight months later, ICE had still provided nothing to IRLI, making the lawsuit necessary to compel production.    In February of this year, IRLI published a report finding that while under the Trump Administration, ICE's press releases identified 97 percent of their subjects, under the Biden Administration that number dropped to only 67 percent.   As IRLI's report noted at the time, "Without the name of the individuals referenced in ICE press releases it is virtually impossible for the public, watchdog groups and the media to determine what action, if any, ICE has taken to remove a violator from the United States."   "This is yet another shameless attempt by the current administration to hide the disastrous impact of its immigration policies," said Dale L. Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of IRLI. "Not including the names of criminal immigration violators is effectively flushing their cases down the memory hole so that watchdog groups will have a more difficult time holding this White House accountable for their destructive actions. The American people deserve transparency on this matter."   "ICE's sudden decision to omit the names of alien offenders from press releases appears to be a deliberate attempt to keep the public from determining whether dangerous foreign criminals have been removed from the United States. That's rather hypocritical coming from an administration that claims to be the most transparent in the history of the U.S." said Matt O'Brien, IRLI's director of investigations.   The case is Immigration Reform Law Institute v. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, No. 24-cv-1101 (D.D.C.)

John Ritchie -- TFP: Sign Protest Against “Drag Queen” Event in School

West Potomac High School in Alexandria, Virginia, is planning a vile "Drag Brunch" for children on May 4, 2024. The show features "professional" adult performers.

In addition, the school is hosting two more events that harm children's innocence: performances of the musical Kinky Boots, and a pro-LGBT pride event.

The Chairman of the School Board, Karl Frisch, is openly pro-LGBT. When sworn in, he used a stack of explicit books for kids instead of a Bible. According to The Christian Post, one of the books allegedly promotes pedophilia.

Let's stand up for the "little ones" as Our Lord wants. "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea" (Matt 18:6).

How is rainbow pride harmful?

Fact #1: "The Houston Public Library admitted Friday that one of its 'Drag Queen Storytime' storytellers was a registered child sex offender." (Newsweek)

Fact #2: Another drag queen revealed his goal: "This is going to be the grooming of the next generation." (Public library hearing)

Parents are mobilizing to defend family values. Among them is Cathy Ruse with Catholics Engaged for Fairfax. "Men in drag are the shock troops for the Marxist transgender movement," she said. "It is not funny. It is highly offensive to women and a mockery of women. It propagandizes and sexualizes children."

• Sign your peaceful protest.
  
• Please share it.
• Above all, pray.

(Please be firm yet civil in your communications)

Mrs. Jessica Statz
Principal, West Potomac High School
Assistant's phone: 703-718-2504
Email: lldesanteswa@fcps.edu

Fairfax County School Board
Email: fairfaxcountyschoolboard@fcps.edu

To protect children's innocence:

PROTEST HERE.

DeSantis Daily

DeSantis Announces Florida Will Not Comply With Biden's Insane New Rule

He Won't Bend the Knee...

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'United for Israel March'

Worship Leader Sean Feucht to Host 'United for Israel March' in NYC   Milton Quintanilla Christian worship leader and activist Sean Feucht is taking action in response to anti-Israel protests at well-known campuses such as Columbia University and New York University.   CONTINUE READING →