Senator J. D. Vance (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill seeking to end transgender procedures on minors, insisting it is necessary to save children in the country from “a lifetime of suffering.” The bill (pdf), “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” seeks to ban the genital mutilation, castration, and sterilization of children by categorizing “gender-affirming care” on minors…
JD Vance Bill Aims to Ban ‘Gruesome, Irreversible’ Transgender Treatments for Children
After June Primary, Virginia County Halts Use of Ranked Choice Voting
After a trial run during the June primary for the Arlington County Board in Arlington, Virginia, the board decided not to use ranked choice voting (RCV) for local races in the upcoming November election. Board members made the decision to halt the RCV pilot program after hearing mostly from proponents of RCV at a July…
House Committee on CCP Hosts Debate on Trade and Economic Engagement With China
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosts a Thunderdome debate with policy experts on trade and economic engagement with China at 2:00 p.m. ET on July 19. The event features two bipartisan, two-person teams debating three main policy areas, including China trade relations, technology export controls, and investment flows. Committee Chairman Mike…
LIVE 2 PM ET: House Committee on CCP Hosts Debate on Trade and Economic Engagement With China
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosts a Thunderdome debate with policy experts on trade and economic engagement with China at 2:00 p.m. ET on July 19. The event features two bipartisan, two-person teams debating three main policy areas, including China trade relations, technology export controls, and investment flows. Committee Chairman Mike…
LIVE NOW: House Committee on CCP Hosts Debate on Trade and Economic Engagement With China
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosts a Thunderdome debate with policy experts on trade and economic engagement with China at 2:00 p.m. ET on July 19. The event features two bipartisan, two-person teams debating three main policy areas, including China trade relations, technology export controls, and investment flows. Committee Chairman Mike…
University of Pennsylvania Health System Continues to Require COVID Shot
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS or Penn Medicine) still requires employees to get the COVID-19 shot. Recently Penn Medicine sent a letter to its employees letting them know that if they have a religious objection to the vaccine related to aborted baby cell lines, the Novavax shot uses no such cells in its…
IN-DEPTH: ‘Just Cause’ Policies Benefit Tenants, but Landlords Say They ‘Just Cause’ Problems
While the director of a tenants association says “just cause policies benefit tenants,” the president of a landlord’s association insists they “just cause a lot of problems” for landlords. “Just cause” eviction policies are designed to prevent random, retaliatory, or discriminatory evictions by ensuring that landlords can only evict a tenant for specific reasons, such as…
IN-DEPTH: Online Censorship Corrupts the American Spirit of Individual, Free Thought: Journalist Matt Taibbi
The “consensus enforcement mechanism” of censorship on social media has not only been an attack on civil liberty but has also sapped the public square of a desire to reach the truth, according to journalist Matt Taibbi. Where there was once a hunger for freedom, there is now a collective apathy over fighting to keep…
US Corporate Debt Defaults in 2023 Surpass Last Year’s Total: Moody’s
The total amount of corporate debt defaults in the United States this year have already exceeded the amount seen in 2022. Experts have been warning of a wave of defaults to hit the economy for some time due to higher borrowing rates. At least fifty-five American-based companies defaulted on their loans in the first half…
New York Federal Reserve Reports Surge in Credit Application Rejections
The New York Federal Reserve Bank said more Americans had their credit applications rejected last month at levels not seen in years. The New York Fed reported on July 16 added that fewer people across the country also sought to borrow. The report was part of the bank’s monthly Survey of Consumer Expectations, which is taken every four…
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