June 20, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where a Supreme Court decision upholds Americans' freedom to offend. Elizabeth Slattery walks through the ruling. In related news, political incorrectness could land some Canadians in jail, as Rob Shimshock reports. Another study concludes that fracking doesn't pollute well water. Fred Lucas has highlights. Plus: Kay Coles James on the failure of public education, Arina Grossu on a "cure" for the abortion pill, and Ryan T. Anderson on the politics of gender confusion. It's American Eagle Day.
Increasingly, gender therapists and physicians argue that children as young as 9 should be given puberty-blocking drugs if they experience gender dysphoria. But a new article by three medical experts reveals that there is little scientific evidence to support such a radical procedure.
The study also explored the impact of fracking on geology and earthquake activity, air quality, and the economy.
Thanks to a cartel of unions, bureaucrats, and politicians, African-American or Latino children living in poor urban neighborhoods are likely to go to a failing school, a school where more than half of all students can’t read or write well, and won’t graduate.
This decision continues the trend of cases extending First Amendment protection for offensive speech, such as burning crosses, animal "crush" videos, violent video games, lying about military honors, and the Westboro Baptist Church protest of military funerals.
Medication abortions have increased from 6 percent of all abortions in 2001 to 31 percent in 2014.
Canada passed a law making it illegal to use the wrong gender pronouns. Critics say that Canadians who do not subscribe to progressive gender theory could be accused of hate crimes, jailed, fined, and made to take anti-bias training.
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