July 5, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where green energy's effect on the nation's power grid gets scrutiny from the Trump administration. Fred Lucas reports. The administration also is correct to sift through growing evidence of voter fraud, Jason Snead writes. A boost for health savings accounts would improve the Senate's alternative to Obamacare, Jarrett Stepman argues. Plus: Peter Parisi on the liberal media's aversion to the words "illegal immigrant," Walter Williams on real intolerance on campus, and Kelsey Harkness on feminism's dismissal of conservative women.
Studies prove that the belief in "innate gender identity"—the idea that "feminized" or "masculinized" brains can be trapped in the wrong body from before birth—is a myth that has no basis in science.
"If the renewable energy industry has confidence in its technology, they shouldn't worry about a government-funded study looking at the grid," says The Heritage Foundation's Nick Loris.
There is now documented proof of electoral fraud in 47 states.
Students at Evergreen State College harassed biology professor Bret Weinstein because he refused to leave campus, challenging the school's decision to ask white people to leave campus for a day of diversity programming.
Police arrested and charged a suspect, Darwin Martinez Torres, an illegal alien from El Salvador. But The Washington Post buried the detail of Martinez Torres' immigration status in the 24th paragraph of an article on the crime published online.
One of the primary benefits of health savings accounts is that their management is put in the hands of individuals, not the government or health insurance providers.
Cosmopolitan recently published an article headlined "7 Women Who Could Be Our First Female President." Among those seven, of course, is not a single conservative or Republican-leaning lady.
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