Biden’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act attempts to force all employers to cover abortion
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LifeSite News ^
| April 17, 2024 | Louis Knuffke
Biden’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act attempts to force all employers to cover abortionThe Biden administration announced a new rule that will force employers to cover abortion under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), trampling upon religious liberty and conscience rights and furthering the White House’s aggressive abortion agenda.On Monday, April 15, Biden’s
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced the “Implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.” The rule is over 400 pages and set to be published Friday, April 19.According to the summary of the Act, the government will require “a covered entity to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified...
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Study finds voters skeptical about fairness of elections. Many favor a strong, undemocratic leader [barf]
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Associated Press ^
| April 11, 2024 | Jan M. Olsen
Voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s largest democracies, are widely skeptical about whether their political elections are free and fair, and many favor a strong, undemocratic leader, according to a study released Thursday. The report by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, or International IDEA, concluded
that “democratic institutions are falling short of people’s expectations.” The 35-member organization promotes democracy worldwide. ”It is past time that people’s perceptions are centered in conversations about the future of democracy; this analysis is a small but important first step towards that effort,” the Stockholm-based organization wrote. […]...
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The quest for fairness in Trump's trial jury selection
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American Thinker ^
| 9 Apr, 2024 | Melody Jennings
The integrity of the American judicial system, predicated on the principle of a fair trial by an impartial jury, faces a monumental test in the upcoming hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump. As Judge Juan Merchan lays out the jury selection questionnaire, probing potential jurors on their political affiliations, rally attendances,
and views on Trump, the challenge of assembling an unbiased jury in Manhattan—or anywhere, for that matter—becomes glaringly evident. The questionnaire, as reported, delves into whether prospective jurors have participated in Trump’s rallies, are members of politically charged groups like the Proud Boys or Antifa, or have engaged...
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Scientists Refute Olympic Committee’s Misguided Policies On ‘Fairness’ And Testosterone Levels
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The Federalist ^
| 03/29/2024 | GEORGE M. PERRY
A new published report from international researchers marshals every line of evidence in defense of fairness in women’s sports.The International Olympic Committee (IOC) developed its 2021 framework on sex and “gender” around the concepts of fairness, inclusion, and non-discrimination. This
framework leaves it to each sport’s governing body “to determine how an athlete may be at a disproportionate advantage against their peers.” However, they admonish sports organizations against “targeted testing … aimed at determining [athletes’] sex, gender identity and/or sex variations.” Instead, it’s up to each sport to “[provide] confidence that no athlete within a category has an unfair and...
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NH School Funding Fairness Project = HIGHER State Taxes
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Citizen Watch Report ^
There’s a highly organized, concerted effort underway here in NH to get outrageous amounts funded for NH schools and education agendas. I
smell a racket in the making. This organization seems suspect and needs more looking into – which leftist/globalist entities are supporting and pushing this: The New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project.
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Proposal seeks fairness in representation, ending influence of noncitizens in congressional apportionment.
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Citizen Watch Report ^
A call for change in the way congressional districts are drawn has emerged, emphasizing a focus on the population of U.S. citizens alone. The
proposition suggests that the Census should specifically count U.S. citizens for the apportionment of representation, contending that only U.S. citizens should be directly represented in the U.S. Congress.
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The Catastrophic Death of Fairness
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American Thinker ^
| 16 Nov, 2023 | J.B. Shurk
Some social psychologists believe that humans are biologically wired to seek “fair” relationships with others. Some
theologians believe that the soul’s capacity for distinguishing right from wrong leads a moral person toward the same result. Whether genetically or spiritually inclined to prefer fair outcomes, we humans are not comfortable around those who cheat and prosper from duplicity. Cheating is ugly and therefore despised. Systemic cheating, however, now dominates Western life. Elevating “diversity for diversity’s sake” over all other metrics for gauging achievement has reduced merit and hard work to second-class virtues. Rewarding illegal aliens with amnesty has cheapened the sacrifices...
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Proportionality...Fairness...Whatever You Want To Call It Rearing Its Ugly And Anti-Semitic Head
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Ace of Spades HQ ^
| 15 Oct 2023 | Ace of Spades
Big bad Israel, with its high-tech weaponry and space-age air force and missile subs and satellites is the bully of the Middle East! Those poor, poor Palestinians who just want to go about their business and live in peace are no match for Israel. That's why they have to resort to decapitating
babies and murdering concert-goers and slaughtering grandmothers and taking hostages! It's only fair. And when Israel decides that an existential threat on their border is too much to tolerate, they immediately kill too many people and destroy too many buildings!The big meanies!Nearly Half of Democrat Men Already Think...
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'It's about fairness': Portland Public Schools considers grading changes to reduce bias in classrooms
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KGW Portland ^
| 09 01 2023 | Thomas Shults
Portland Public Schools is considering adopting new ‘equitable grading practices’, which would change how teachers grade students. A
handout from the school district said historical data shows racial disparities in students’ pass/fail rate. The handout also instructs teachers to not assign zeros to assignments that are handed in late, or are missing. It also states that for students caught cheating, they are to face disciplinary action instead of having their grade be penalized. District administrators said these changes and others would make classrooms more fair and reduce bias. "What it's doing is, it's assessing mastery and accuracy,” PPS’ Chief Academic...
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Illinois becomes 1st state to abolish cash bail as Pre-Trial Fairness Act takes effect
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ABC News Local ^
| September 18, 2023 | ByJessica D'Onofrio
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Pre-Trial Fairness Act, part of the SAFE-T Act that eliminates cash bail, goes into effect Monday morning. Many
local elected officials plan to celebrate the elimination of cash bail which takes effect Monday after extensive delays and legal challenges from some prosecutors and law enforcement leaders who sought to keep the existing system in place. Under the existing system, a judge can set bail as a means of ensuring the defendant will show up for court hearings. However, starting Monday, that will no longer be the case. If a judge decides a defendant does not pose...
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The Court Got Campus Affirmative-Action Right. Thursday’s ruling is a huge step toward true admissions fairness.
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| July 3, 2023 | Wenyuan Wu
The latest Pew Research Center polling suggests that a mere one-third of Americans favor considering race and ethnicity in college admissions. Over
9.65 million California voters rejected a proposal to repeal an existing race-based affirmative-action ban in 2020. Now, with their ruling overturning race-conscious university admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and the University of North Carolina (UNC), America’s highest court has affirmed this broad national consensus against race-preferential government action. The 237-page-long Court decision is a victory for what Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, sees as “the transcendent aims of the Equal Protection...
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Nextrush Unplugged Weekend: 50 Years Ago Remembering The "Fairness Doctrine", The Two "Epstein Suicides", Lindsey Graham Update, Was June 24th January 6th In Russia? Three Years Ago Today
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Nextrush Free ^
| 7/1/2023 | Nextrush/Self
The music wow Kelly Willard with a song I first heard in the summer of 1981 in my car as the legendary WGCB Radio in Red Lion (The First Amendment, "Red Lion" Case Involving The Fairness Doctrine) experimented with Contemporary Christian Music... Donald Trump Had It Right As President He Unleashed America's
Economic Potential I posted something on Free Republic the other day in a thread concerning the comments of Liz Cheney about "idiots" being elected to office nowadays... Senators like Lindsey Graham who have kissed up to powerful people as US Senators enriching themselves becoming Fellatio Alger's deserve this...
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A Florida Bill to Promote Fairness on Campus. HB 931 will improve campus debates and ban flagrantly ideological hiring.
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James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^
| May 5, 2023 | Jenna A. Robinson
Earlier this week, the Florida legislature passed a bill that may become a model for the nation. House
Bill 931, sponsored by State Representative Spencer Roach, requires universities to host public-policy debates and bans the use of political litmus tests in hiring and admissions. Both provisions address the increasing ideological homogeneity on college campuses. In the past three decades, university faculty and administrators have become overwhelmingly liberal. This orthodoxy of opinion is bad for academic research, student learning, and universities’ reputations in the eyes of the public. The bill is inspired by two pieces of model legislation. Its first part...
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Christian high school girls' basketball team forfeits playoff because transgender student on opposing team 'jeopardizes the fairness of the game and safety of players'
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Daily Mail ^
| January 27th, 2023 | Sophie Mann
-The Mid Vermont Christian School varsity girls basketball team dropped out of the state championship playoffs because of a trans player on the opposing team. -The
head of school wrote that the team dropped out because 'playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game' -In Vermont, state law prohibits discrimination against student athletes on the basis of their gender identityA Christian prep school in Vermont forfeited a playoff girls basketball game in the state championship tournament after discovering the opposing team had a transgender player on the roster. The Mid Vermont Christian School girls...
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WHOA: Even Liberal Newsweek Casts Doubt on DirecTV’s ‘Fairness’ for Nixing Newsmax
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NewsBusters ^
| 1/27/2023 | Joseph Vazquez
Even a liberal media outlet raised questions about DirecTV’s standard of fairness in how it’s treating Newsmax in comparison to the leftist channels distributed on its platform. Newsweek’s
Jan. 26 headline didn’t beat around the bush: “Newsmax Ratings Compared to Vice Raises Questions About DirecTV Fairness.” Newsmax reported after having its signal cut that it was “seeking a fee with a 75% discount to its market value, and compared to fees currently paid by DirecTV, almost all 50 channels below Newsmax in ratings get higher fees.” After propping up DirecTV’s excuse that it didn’t give Newsmax a “carriage fee” due...
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MFE (Merit, Fairness, and Equality) Versus DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Should be NC (No Contest)
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AIER ^
| 11-25-22 | George Leef
Roughly one century ago, “progressives” set out to take over American education. They
wanted to extirpate the individualism that had always been the hallmark of the people’s character, so that they would be receptive to the collectivism and central control that progressivism calls for. The best way to make that happen would be to instill their precepts in young minds. The progressives (I will not call them “liberals” even though that’s common parlance today; the progressive project is the exact opposite of true liberalism) have been extraordinarily successful in their goal of dominating our educational institutions. For many decades, they...
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Thousands of asylum seekers will be housed in rural areas in bid to 'ensure fairness' and spread the numbers out across the country
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UK Daily Mail ^
| 11 17 2022 | David Barrett
Thousands of asylum seekers will be sent to live in Britain's rural communities Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said migrants will be housed across UK 'We're seeking to procure accommodation more broadly in smaller cities' The Home Office has been warned it could be liable for unlawful detentions Richard Martin, co-owner of the
Blazing Donkey Country Hotel near Sandwich, Kent, turned down a £1 million opportunity to house asylum seekers - saying he 'couldn't think of anything more absurd' snip
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RAND PAUL NEW CAMPAIGN AD: I will fight for fairness in women's sports
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twitter ^
| Sep 28 | Sen. Rand Paul
@RandPaul I believe we should be free to compete in a FAIR space - not a socially engineered, liberal "safe space." That's
what I'll continue to fight for in Washington. Ad ...
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Elizabeth Warren points out Mitch McConnell graduated from a school that cost $330 a year amid his criticisms of Biden's student-loan forgiveness: 'He can spare us the lectures on fairness'
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Business insider ^
| 08/26/2022 | Ayelet Sheffey
Republican lawmakers have been quick to slam President Joe Biden's recent student-loan forgiveness announcement — and Democrats aren't letting it slide. On
Wednesday, Biden announced up to $20,000 in student-loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients making under $125,000 a year, and $10,000 for other federal borrowers within the same income cap. While this was a long-awaited policy that many Democrats were waiting for the president to implement, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was not thrilled with the expansive relief.
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A technique to improve both fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence
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techxplore ^
| 07/20/2022
For workers who use machine-learning models to help them make decisions, knowing when to trust a model's predictions is not always an easy task, especially since these models are often so complex that their inner workings remain a mystery. Users
sometimes employ a technique, known as selective regression, in which the model estimates its confidence level for each prediction and will reject predictions when its confidence is too low. Then a human can examine those cases, gather additional information, and make a decision about each one manually. But while selective regression has been shown to improve the overall performance of...
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