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Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Parents Lose Custody of Daughter Who Wants to ‘Transition’ to a Boy
Parents in Ohio lost custody of their 17-year-old daughter Friday because a judge ruled that she should be allowed to receive therapy, including testosterone therapy, to identify as a boy.
A Pox on SOX, It’s Bad for Stocks
Sarbanes-Oxley promotes inequality by discouraging companies from going or remaining public.
At Trump’s HHS, a Cry for Health
Donald Trump isn’t your average politician — and no one seems more surprised than LGBT activists. Like us, the other side is used to candidates promising things they’ll never deliver. But, as most Americans know by now, this president is committed to keeping his promises — and a year into his first term, there’s nothing more upsetting to his opponents.
Obama’s Real Debt and Deficit Legacy
Is a diet successful if you start by weighing 200 pounds and eight years later you weigh 400 pounds?
Warning Signs Ignored Again
Reaction to the latest school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead and many more wounded begins at the wrong end. It’s not about passing more gun laws, which people intent on breaking existing laws will not obey; rather it is about heeding warning signs and doing something before it is too late.
Monday, February 19, 2018
James Madison University’s Sexual-Assault Star Chamber
It may finally be payback time for one student at James Madison University. In a case involving a dubious sexual-assault claim and a proceeding reminiscent of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” “John Doe,” the accused male student, received a five-year suspension from the university. A court later reinstated him. And now the university may be required to pay Doe a cool $849,231.25 to cover his legal costs — if the judge on the case accepts the recommendation of a federal magistrate.
Pastor: School District Told Us to Remove Cross From Sanctuary
A Texas school district will no longer hold its graduation ceremonies at one of the largest megachurches in the nation after the church refused to remove a cross from the sanctuary.
Indicting Russians for 2016 Election Interference
I am not a lawyer — I don’t even play one on TV — but I just did a layman’s read of the 37-page indictment against Russians released Friday, reviewed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s comments, and have some commonsense reactions.
Limiting the Coming War
“War is the realm of the unexpected.” —B. H. Liddell Hart (1950)
Nancy Pelosi, AKA Wonder Woman
Liberals were in awe of Nancy Pelosi’s eight-hour filibuster. They gave her extra points because the old woman did it while wearing stiletto heels, the way that others used to argue for Ginger Rogers’ superiority over Fred Astaire because she did everything he did but did it backwards and in heels.
Sunday, February 18, 2018
LA’s Mayor Deserves a Presidential Hearing
It was dicey being Jewish in a Russia that was tolerant of pogroms, and then came the threat of conscription into the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, so one of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s great-grandfathers headed west to America. Another Garcetti great-grandfather married a Mexican woman who, fleeing revolutionary ferment there, headed north to America. Which is why Garcetti, a fourth-generation resident of the world’s most polyglot city, is as American as a kosher burrito, a delicacy available at Mexikosher on Pico Boulevard.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Russians Indicted
Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday indicted 16 Russian individuals and entities for meddling in the 2016 elections.
Reflections From the Vatican
There was a woman who came up to me while I was about to caffeinate at the McDonald’s here on Borgo Pio. I had seen her before, from a block or two away. She wears duct-taped garbage bags either as her shoes or over her shoes.
Court: Accept Your Child’s New Gender or Lose Custody
This week, a shocking story hit the national news about an Ohio teenager who was removed from her parents’ home by authorities.
I Love a Parade, but Not This One
Trump’s supporters and opponents alike are decent and patriotic. If only he lived up to their standard.
Bats in Their Belfry
In case it may have escaped your attention, it’s not just Democrats who are deranged. It’s not even limited to the usual suspects, John McCain, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and, on occasion, Ron Paul’s son, Rand.
Friday, February 16, 2018
Have Democrats Overplayed Their Trump Hand?
It turns out that, with apologies to Nancy Pelosi, Republicans really did have to pass the tax bill so people could find out what’s in it.
It’s Still Not Guns
During the intense media coverage of Wednesday’s tragic events in Parkland, FL, I was shocked to hear it was the 18th school shooting so far this year. 18. In 45 days. That sounds terrible. That sounds like a huge American crisis that needs to be addressed immediately by our great leaders in Washington. But that 18 number, which the anti-gun lobby in the media has emphasized without going into the details of the individual incidents, is highly misleading.
Soros vs. America
George Soros and his cronies in the media were certain that Hillary Clinton was going to be president. They just knew that their “socialist justice” movement here at home, and the undermining of the United States on the world stage that they were achieving under Barak Obama, would continue under another President Clinton.