By Lynne M Taylor ([email protected]) (Image from Tenor GIF) What’s “mansplainin’”?! Merriam-Webster defines it as a man saying something to a woman in a condescending way1. For our context of this article, manspailin’ is to treat someone like they have no knowledge of the topic, nor could they...

By Lynne M Taylor ([email protected]) Special for American Policy Center September 2025 Recently, Americans celebrated Constitution Day. Each year, schools across our nation take some time out of their lessons to review concepts, facts and figures surrounding this ever important and vital framing document. For some ages, the concepts of...

“Data Centers: Monster Moves” Special article for American Policy Center By Lynne M Taylor (aka Common Core Diva) August 2025 Author’s Note: It’s not new news that Data Centers are becoming quite an issue, all across America. These massive centers are also an issue, across the world. With the...

“Data Centers: Growing Dangers” Special article for American Policy Center By Lynne M Taylor (aka Common Core Diva) July 2025 It’s not new news that Data Centers are becoming quite an issue, all across America. These massive centers are also an issue, across the world. With the continued push...

Special article for American Policy Center By Lynne M Taylor (aka Common Core Diva) June 2025 If you remember the Disney version of “Peter Pan”, you may well remember the Island’s name, Neverland. If you were raising children in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, you may...

If you’ve heard of “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or STEAM (the “A” stands for Arts) or even STREAM (the “R” stands for reading/writing); you may NOT know that there’s a new acronym around called “STEAMA”. Now, depending on where you live in the...

To my Anti Fed Ed/Global Warriors, We've not too long before our next election cycle. Across the globe, about 70 countries will be casting votes for the candidates presented before them to choose from.  However, with the recent UN (United Nations) Summit of the Future1, what...

First, some background and context: By now, most of you reading, are familiar with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If not, the Goals are in a set of 17 different topics which spearhead every part of our lives, governments & economies. The over-reaching goal...

Author's Note: Today's article is not to state what you should do when it comes to the choices you make for your family. I am passing on vital information about schools being used, one more time, to overreach into those decisions, especially when it comes...

My dear fellow Americans, recently APC published my article concerning the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) on a local level. Thank you for all the feedback I’ve received. This article will give you a first person account of what happened as a result of practicing citizen...