A terrifying story about drugs for transgender children has been making the rounds in the past few days. Originating in LifeSiteNews, it claimed that Lupron, a puberty-blocking drug used in treating transgender children, has been associated with 6,000 deaths. It spread like wildfire across conservative sites. However, it was quickly debunked as “a viral fake news
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With the presidential election looming, worried observers of politics have already asked whether the Electoral College will again deliver a victory to the candidate with less than a majority of the popular vote. This has happened in two of the last five presidential elections. Critics like Vox’s Ezra Klein contend that this phenomenon is not
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When I was a kid growing up in Boonville, North Carolina (population 600), my public library was the comic book and magazine section near the front of Weatherwax Pharmacy on Main Street. Because I occasionally spent the 12 cents to buy one of the comic books, Mr. Weatherwax tolerated my hours spent sitting on that
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Senator Kamala Harris from California is one of the Democratic authoritarians running for president. In his recent essay “Kamala Harris and the Cult of the Presidency,” Tyler Curtis documents alarming executive actions Harris promises to take if elected president. In September, at a CNN town hall on climate change, Harris was asked this question: “Would
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Sitting in the park recently, my contemplations were interrupted by a man wielding a large camera, three young ladies pacing behind him. Motioning to the bench on which I was sitting he asked, “Can we use this for our photo shoot?” “Oh, um, sure,” I said. Glancing over my shoulder as I left, I saw
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What happens when you suggest that someone’s failure to get something they believe they deserve is due to widespread – even systemic – maliciousness? Social malfunction. African American economist Thomas Sowell, in Discrimination and Disparities, puts it this way: Those who seem to be promising an end to existing group disparities, as a result of
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