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(REUTERS/Brian Snyder) A public school district near Louisville, Kentucky has come down with a bad case of what I call “Participation Trophy Syndrome” – or PTS. The Greater Clark County School Board in Jeffersonville, Indiana, is considering a plan to eliminate the valedictorian system because it creates “unhealthy competition,” according to Supt. Andrew Melin. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for Conservatives! Unhealthy competition? Is he serious? Did a kid suffer a concussion while trying to parse a participle? “When students are competing for the Val and the Sal, they’re trying to find ways to maneuver through the system to try and get the best grades they can...

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Dean “Chico” Bolin was my great uncle. But to the folks around Travelers Rest, South Carolina, Uncle Chico was a legend – on and off the football field. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for Conservatives! He was a good man – a Christian man –a no-nonsense disciplinarian. Uncle Chico was also a Marine. He fought in World War II and was severely wounded – shot in the leg at Iwo Jima. When Chico retued home he enrolled at Furman University and eventually took a job at Travelers Rest High School. Among his first assignments was to restart the dormant football program. So that’s exactly what he did – naming the squad in honor of his beloved Marines. And since 1949,...

The sign hanging on the door at the Catholic High School for boys in Little Rock, Arkansas. Let's say your 10th-grader forgets his lunch. So you receive a telephone call at work. “Mom, I left my baloney sandwich on the kitchen counter,” he tells you. “Can you bring it to me, pretty please?” Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for Conservatives! So, what would you do? I’d be willing to bet a Moonpie that many parents would drop everything and rush to the school to personally deliver their little snowflake’s brown bag lunch. But that sort of coddling is not allowed at Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock, Arkansas. As a matter of fact -- it’s outright baed. Cat...

The Bible on the desk of Maj. Steve Lewis. (Courtesy of MRFF) The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is demanding an Air Force major be “aggressively punished” for having an open Bible on his desk at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo. “It [the Bible] is very obviously a statement of Christian preference, Christian primacy,” MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein told me. “Had that been the Book of Satan or the Koran there would be blood in the freaking streets.” Click here for a free subscription to Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for Conservatives He accused Maj. Steve Lewis, a supervisor at the Reserve National Security Space Institute, of “harboring and encouraging a tr...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district utilized a ‘gender unico’ cartoon character to explain issues like gender identity and gender expression. (Courtesy NC Values Coalition) Teachers in Charlotte, North Carolina, have been advised to stop calling the children “boys and girls,” according to a training presentation on transgender issues. Instead, the progressives who control Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools want teachers to identify the youngsters as either “students” or “scholars.” So what if a teacher has a student who is dumb as a rock? Would the child still be called a scholar? Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for Conservatives! The transgender guidelines, whi...

The Mainstream Media and Democrats have gone bat-crap crazy over Donald Trump. This time they’re accusing Mr. Trump of threatening to assassinate Mrs. Bill Clinton. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch – a must-read for conservatives! I mean it's full-blown, head-spiing, Linda Blair-projectile vomiting kind of crazy, folks. So first - I want you to hear what Donald Trump actually said about the Second Amendment. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment," Trump started. "By the way, and if she gets to pick - if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know." 2016 Election He...

The Mainstream Media and Democrats have gone bat-crap crazy over Donald Trump. This time they’re accusing Mr. Trump of threatening to assassinate Mrs. Bill Clinton. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch – a must-read for conservatives! I mean it's full-blown, head-spiing, Linda Blair-projectile vomiting kind of crazy, folks. So first - I want you to hear what Donald Trump actually said about the Second Amendment. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment," Trump started. "By the way, and if she gets to pick - if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know." 2016 Election He...

Politically correct tyray is afoot at the University of Houston. I was recently made aware of a student at the university who was suspended for 50 days by the student govement association and ordered to attend diversity training over a reference she made about the Black Lives Matter crowd. “#ForgetBlackLivesMatter; more like AllLivesMatter,” wrote Rohini Sethi, the vice president of the school’s student govement association. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! Ms. Sethi wrote those words last month just a few hours after five Dallas police officers were assassinated. Her belief that every life matters set off a firestorm of controversy among stud...

The owners of a Christian bookstore in Knoxville, Teessee were dumbfounded after the News Sentinel rejected their ad because it included an offensive word – “Christian.” Lois McGiis and her family own Cedar Springs Christian Store. They recently decided to close a second location of the store so they decided to place an ad in the classified section of the newspaper, which is owned by Gaett. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! The advertisement read: “Store closing sale – Cedar Springs Christian Store – Clinton Highway location – All merchandise, fixtures, slat walls must go. Sale through August 13, phone 865.947.XXX.” Mrs. McGiis placed the ad on Jul...

The owners of a Christian bookstore in Knoxville, Teessee were dumbfounded after the News Sentinel rejected their ad because it included an offensive word – “Christian.” Lois McGiis and her family own Cedar Springs Christian Store. They recently decided to close a second location of the store so they decided to place an ad in the classified section of the newspaper, which is owned by Gaett. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! The advertisement read: “Store closing sale – Cedar Springs Christian Store – Clinton Highway location – All merchandise, fixtures, slat walls must go. Sale through August 13, phone 865.947.XXX.” Mrs. McGiis placed the ad on Jul...

(AP) Javier Chavez loved his job at Macy’s. The devout Roman Catholic was hired in 1990 as a door guard. A few years later he was promoted to store detective – and he eventually became a senior store detective at the department store’s location in Flushing, Queens. But after more than 26 years on the job, Mr. Chavez was fired – allegedly over an incident involving a man who identifies as a woman using the ladies room. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! Mr. Chavez has filed an official complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights claiming he was terminated because of his religious beliefs. Here’s the back story: In May, Mr. Chavez res...

A group of firefighters in Riverside County, Califoia wanted to honor police officers killed in Baton Rouge and Dallas. So firefighter Eric Hille decided to display a pro-police flag on one of the fire engines at Suymead Ranch Station 48. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch - a must-read for Conservatives! You’ve probably seen the flag — it’s black and white with a blue stripe through the middle — symbolizing the “thin blue line.” He posted the flag on July 17 -- just a few hours after a gunman attacked officers in Baton Rouge, killing three. “We just wanted to show our support for law enforcement,” Mr. Hille told me. “We wanted them to know that we stand shoulder to shoulder in so...

(Robin Kanady/WJZY) A pair of deputy sheriffs got a hankering for some chicken the other day so they decided to drop by a Zaxby’s in Shelby, North Carolina. For you folks in Wisconsin, Zaxby’s is a Southeaste fast-food chain specializing in chicken fingers and wings. Although, they do have delicious fried pickles – but I digress. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! Anyway, the Cleveland County deputies (who were in uniform) placed their orders – and then something very disturbing happened. Several workers in the back of the kitchen allegedly began hollering at the law enforcement officers and calling them names. And one of the workers allegedly tam...

(Robin Kanady/WJZY) A pair of deputy sheriffs got a hankering for some chicken the other day so they decided to drop by a Zaxby’s in Shelby, North Carolina. For you folks in Wisconsin, Zaxby’s is a Southeaste fast-food chain specializing in chicken fingers and wings. Although, they do have delicious fried pickles – but I digress. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! Anyway, the Cleveland County deputies (who were in uniform) placed their orders – and then something very disturbing happened. Several workers in the back of the kitchen allegedly began hollering at the law enforcement officers and calling them names. And one of the workers allegedly tam...

If you are prone to microaggressions you might want to stop reading and evacuate to your safe space -- because what I'm about to write is politically incorrect. All lives matter. Every single life -- matters. Back home in the Deep South, we used to sing a song in Sunday school – “Red and yellow black and white - they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world." Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! We are all God's children no matter what color our skin might be. I thought about that song as Dallas Police Chief David Brown delivered the stuing news about the sniper who went on a killing spree Thursday night. "The suspec...

FILE -- March 26, 2005: A cross is silhouetted against the sun in Pinellas Park, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP) Congregations across the state of Iowa are in grave danger of having their pastors silenced in the pulpit over LGBT public accommodation rules, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. Fort Des Moines Church of Christ filed what is known as a “pre-enforcement challenge” – arguing that a portion of the Iowa Civil Rights Act is a threat to First Amendment freedoms. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal firm that specializes in religious liberty lawsuits, is representin...

FILE -- March 26, 2005: A cross is silhouetted against the sun in Pinellas Park, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP) Is a church a place of public accommodation and if so – are congregations required to follow anti-discrimination laws regarding gender and sexual orientation? That’s the issue raised by a brochure published by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission. They contend that any church that opens its doors to the public would be required to comply with sexual orientation and gender identity laws. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! It’s unclear when the Commission’s brochure was published, but it clearly outlines their interpretation of the 2007 Iowa ...

FILE -- Haah Hargis enjoys a snack as she watches the LibertyFest Fourth of July Parade in Edmond, Okla. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry) The Star-Spangled Baer survived the rocket’s red glare and bombs bursting in air – only to face a mode-day threat – silly town ordinances and petty bureaucrats. I’m not sure if it’s an epidemic of anti-American nincompoopery sweeping across the fruited plain or if it’s a general lack of common sense. Maybe it’s both. I’ll let you be the judge of that. Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! In Lexington, South Carolina Marine veteran Bob Michaelis was told to remove a patriotic display from his mattress company....

(Courtesy of 5 Mile Cafe) Whenever folks in Penfield, New York get a hankering for pancakes for lunch – they head over to the 5 Mile Café. The family-owned restaurant is known in those parts for serving breakfast any time of the day (order their homemade coed beef hash). Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for conservatives! They are also known for their patriotism. “We are very patriotic here at the café – all year round –not just this time of year,” owner Jeifer Aquino told me. “We have American flags and patriotic things around the café.” So Jeifer decided to ask the town for a permit so she could post a “God Bless America” baer on the front of her restaurant. She...