March 13, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where school safety is a top priority following the massacre in Florida. Fred Lucas looks at how the Trump administration is deciding what to do. Sex-reassignment surgery offers false hope to troubled souls, Ryan T. Anderson argues. One union doesn’t take workers’ no for an answer, M.D. Kittle writes. Plus: Rep. Jim Banks on needed school choice for military families, Fred Lucas and Jarrett Stepman with their “Right Side of History” podcast, and Monica Burke on Planned Parenthood’s enormous take from taxpayers.
In a discussion of a large and robust study of transgender surgery, the Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pointed out the 19-times-greater likelihood for death by suicide, and a host of other poor outcomes.
In a burst of big labor thuggery, United Auto Workers Local 833 has treated employees who decline union membership to a steady stream of harassment punctuated by not-so-subtle threats.
The Trump administration's plan has three key steps.
“As a veteran who served overseas and away from my family, I know the toll service takes on those who wear the uniform and their families,” writes Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind. “But military families should not have to sacrifice the quality of their children’s education to serve our country.”
“The First Amendment Defense Act simply ensures … that federal bureaucrats will never have the authority to require those who believe in the traditional definition of marriage to choose between their living in accordance with those beliefs and maintaining their occupation or their tax status,” says Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
Republicans fear that insurance companies will, once again, announce large premium increases for Obamacare coverage this fall—just before November’s elections.
One particularly contentious debate over the “Tariff of Abominations” in the 1830s nearly brought the country to war.
Despite receiving billions in taxpayer funds over the course of three years, Planned Parenthood’s scope and services have both declined.
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