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February 24, 2017
Jon Schweppe

White House Chiefs Bannon, Priebus “Clash” at CPAC
In what could only be described as anti-climatic, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon joined Chairman of the American Conservative Union Matt Schlapp to have a heart-to-heart discussion about the state of the White House and how the first month in office has gone.[...]
February 23, 2017
Maggie Gallagher

I Was Wrong About Trump and LGBT Extremism
The breaking news is that the Trump administration has told a federal appeals court it is withdrawing its argument that Title IX requires every public school in America to let biological males who want to identify as girls that day to enter locker rooms, showers, and bathrooms; play on girls’ sports teams; and share girls' hotel rooms on travel trips.[...]
February 23, 2017
Kevin Dawson

Trump Admininistration Withdraws Obama Transgender Guidelines
On Wednesday, the Departments of Education and Justice jointly issued a “Dear Colleague” letter, withdrawing Obama era guidelines dictating that U.S. schools allow transgender students access to facilities – such as bathrooms and locker rooms -- matching the students’ “gender identity” rather than their biological sex.[...]
February 21, 2017
Jonathan Decker

Sorry Liberals. Millennials Aren’t Communists — Not Even Close
In a recent article in The Daily Beast, Joel Kotkin argues that millennials “battered by capitalism” could be the future “red generation.” Unfortunately for those yearning for the United States to look like Venezuela, the reality couldn’t be further from the truth — millennials will be among the most radical, free market capitalists the world has ever seen.[...]
February 17, 2017
Ralph Benko

Huffington Post Predicts Trump Will Call for Gold Standard
Recently, two of The Huffington Post’s political reporters, Eliot Nelson and Jeffrey Young (who have managed to fuse ridicule and journalism into something functionally indistinguishable from “Alternative Facts”) recently made a telling observation. Their characteristic facetiousness may obscure a brilliant intuition. They observed: “we give it a month until Trump calls for the gold standard to be reinstated because he likes the sound of it.”[...]
February 17, 2017
Karen R. Effrem, MD

Will Trump and DeVos Protect Preschoolers from Transgender Ideologues?
In good news this week for student privacy and safety, the Trump administration announced it would be dropping objections raised by the Obama Justice Department (DOJ) to a nationwide injunction from a Texas judge against transgender student access to bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to gender identity instead of biological sex. Oral arguments were to have begun this past week in the case, the first time federal courts have been asked to review whether laws prohibiting sex discrimination also apply to gender identity, a subjective and changeable construct. A preponderance of research shows that most gender confused youth return to identifying as their biological sex by adolescence or early adulthood.[...]