Written by Curtis Ferrin
It’s always been true—pride comes before the fall. This summer, companies proved it like never before. The people spoke, voted with their dollars, and chose family values over corporate America’s virtue signaling. We witnessed companies that went “woke”—from Target to Anheuser-Busch—instantly regretting the backlash they caused and taking backward steps. People are tired of the nonsense, especially when marketing departments promote things like gender ideology that actively targets our children. Let’s review the corporate wokeness we’ve seen in recent months, and what happened next.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abprallen, American First Legal, Anheuser-Busch, Brain Craig, Bud Light, Christina Hennington, Coors Light, Disney, Dylan Mulvaney, Elemental, Forbes, Gavin Hattersley, Gay Pride, JP Morgan, Kohl's, Latoya Raveneau, Matt Fradd, Michael Fiddelke, Miller Lite, Modelo Especial, Molson Coors, Pixar, Rachel Zegler, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Skittles, Snow White, Target, Target Corp.
LGBTQ Agenda, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | August 29, 2023 6:49 AM | Comments Off on The Hard-Earned Lesson of the Summer: Go Woke, Go Broke
Written by Robert Knight
Off the main roads, where all you see are cornfields, farms, cows, horses and an occasional buggy, it’s easy to forget the predatory culture that has eclipsed normal American life in most other places.
A peaceful spirit animates the countryside inhabited by the Amish, a growing sect in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and more than two dozen other states.
“English” visitors, which is what the Amish call everyone else, seem to sense that they should behave better.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amish, Bud Light, Centers for Disease Control, China, Disney, Donald Trump, Drag Queen Story Hour, FBI, Hunter Biden, Justice Department, Kazakhstan, New York Post, Pennsylvania Dutch, Romania, Russia, Teapot Dome, The Washington Post, Ukraine, Warren G. Harding
Executive Branch, Federal Issues | David E. Smith | August 14, 2023 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Biden Scandal Will Have Us Looking To The Amish For Help
Written by Robert Knight
Did you know that debating issues in Congress is part of the culture war and is bad for democracy?
That’s what The Washington Post (motto: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”) implied in its front-page story after the Republican-led House approved the National Defense Authorization Act in a 219-210 party-line vote.
The bill authorizes an $886 billion defense budget and rolls back some of the Democrats’ schemes aimed at turning America into a Marxist version of Sodom and Gomorrah.… Continue Reading
Tags: Angel Studios, Biden Administration, Catherine Rampell, COVID–19, Disney, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, Elena Kagan, Environmental Protection Agency, Gerald Groff, Harold Shurtleff, Jim Caviezel, Joe Kennedy, Kevin McCarthy, Lorie Smith, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Mira Sorvino, Obergefell, Roe v. Wade, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, same-sex marriage, The Washington Post, Tim Ballard, U.S. Postal Service
Marriage, Family & Culture, Political | David E. Smith | July 24, 2023 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Yes, The Culture War is Real, And Democrats Started It
Written by Dr. Richard D. Kocur
Anheuser-Busch InBev is the world’s largest beer company with over 400 global brands. Among these brands is one of America’s leading light beers, Bud Light, known for its sophomoric, fun, and outlandish advertising characters like Spuds McKenzie and the Dilly-Dilly knights.
Recently, the beer’s executives decided that the best way to communicate the attributes of the product to their target audience of mostly young, blue-collar males was to promote a sponsorship with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alissa Heinerscheid, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Bud Light, Budweiser, Clydesdales, Dilly-Dilly knights, Disney, Dylan Mulvaney, New Coke, Parental Rights Bill, Spuds McKenzie, Wharton School of Business
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | May 16, 2023 6:24 AM | Comments Off on The Bud Light Hangover
Written by Robert Knight
I had thought that President Joe Biden could not sink any lower than his bitter, Third Reich-style speech on Sept. 1, 2022, at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. That’s when he projected himself as a sweet angel of light while labeling MAGA Republicans as “extremist” and a “threat to democracy.”
But Mr. Biden outdid himself last Monday on “The Daily Show.” He came out for sexually mutilating children, disparaging those who would stand in the way of such horrors.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
When my wife and I were in Colonial Williamsburg several years ago, we talked briefly to a store clerk about an unwanted change – the passing of a longtime pharmacy in the Market Square area near the William & Mary campus.
The pharmacy had an old-fashioned lunch counter that served up the best milkshakes and limeades we had ever tasted. Now it was gone.
As we lamented its replacement by a chain store, the clerk stiffened her spine and barked, “Change is good!”… Continue Reading
Tags: Boy Scouts, Country, Country Extra, Country Woman, DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, Disney, Elizabeth Bartholomew, Farm & Ranch, Great American Family, Hallmark, Jason Buhrmester, New York Times, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Reiman Publications, Reminisce, Siege: An American Tragedy, Trusted Media Brands, War on Books
Media Watch | David E. Smith | November 29, 2022 8:05 AM | Comments Off on When Old Friends Like Reader’s Digest Go Off The Rails
Written by Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Wikipedia defines CSR as “a form of … private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature.” That seems rather vague, even amorphous. As Wikipedia acknowledges, “A wide variety of definitions have been developed but with little consensus.”
Investopedia says that CSR “helps a company be socially accountable to itself, its stakeholders, and the public” and that CSR helps companies be aware of their impact “on all aspects of society, including economic, social, and environmental.”
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Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Disney, Environmental, ESG, Governance, Major League Baseball, Rob Manfred, Social
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | August 19, 2022 4:00 PM | Comments Off on Corporate Social Responsibility and its Newest Version: ESG
Written by Dr. Richard D. Kocur
The recent reversal of Roe v. Wade, acting like a starter’s pistol at a track meet, has initiated a new round of corporate social activism and virtue-signaling. American companies are racing from the starting blocks to demonstrate their support for aborting would-be future employees and customers. Many businesses pledged to cover or reimburse U.S. employees who need to travel to gain an abortion if access is limited because of specific state laws.… Continue Reading
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Historically, even when conservatives appear to be temporarily winning on some issue, it’s really a sign of losing ground long-term to every leftward shift of the Overton window of politics. For example, as we temporarily appear to be winning on one cultural onslaught of the left, it’s only because we long ceded the previous battle, leaving leftists with new territory to claim, which they inexorably do. However, there are signs that with the transgender obsession, the Overton window might be shifting to the right – for the first time ever!… Continue Reading
Tags: birthing person, Bryan Slaton, Disney, Hillsdale College, Marxism, Mitch McConnell, pregnant people, Ron DeSantis, Title IX, Transgenderism, U.S. Supreme Court
LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | July 15, 2022 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Conservatives Are Finally Winning a Culture War. Time to Double Down.
Written by Robert Knight
There are many column-worthy topics, but I’m going to limit this to the Hunter Biden laptop, President Biden’s troubling gaffes and Disney’s latest plunge into “wokeness.”
The Washington Post, like The New York Times, has finally admitted the validity of Hunter Biden’s laptop 16 months after the New York Post broke the story. Like Big Tech, they suppressed it until after his father, Joe Biden, was safely ensconced in the White House.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Chapek, Burisma, CEFC China Energy, China, Christopher Rufo, Disney, Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, James Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karey Burke, Latoya Raveneau, Parental Rights in Education, Ron DeSantis, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Walt Disney Company
LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | April 4, 2022 6:00 AM | Comments Off on From Hunter’s Laptop to the LGBTQ Mouse and the White House