Tag: Social Issues

Charges Dropped Against Reporter Arrested at Ohio News Conference on Train Derailment

Criminal charges have been dropped against a reporter who was arrested while covering an Ohio news conference about the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals. On Feb. 15, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced that NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert would no longer face charges stemming from his arrest on Feb. 8, five days after…


Georgia Senate Approves Statue of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Over Democrats’ Opposition

Georgia’s state Senate passed legislation on Feb. 14 to erect a statue honoring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the state capitol in Atlanta, over the impassioned objections of Democratic lawmakers. Thomas, a black man, has long been a target of the left for his conservative, constitutionalist views and has been bitterly denounced by…


China’s Housing Companies Face Debt Ceiling in 2023

Chinese property companies that survived the debt peak in 2022 may not be able to get through 2023. Meanwhile, although a research institute says that China’s housing companies have “seen the dawn,” most private real-estate companies still fail to issue bonds. On Feb. 7, Guangzhou Times Holding Group Co. Ltd. announced that it would suspend…


Ohio Proposes Law Mandating Parental Consent for Children to Access Online Platforms

Ohio’s Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is proposing a new law that would require certain online services to obtain permission from parents before allowing kids to use their platforms, insisting that such measures are necessary to protect children from harmful content. The “Social Media Parental Notification Act” requires online companies to create a method to determine…


Transgender Center Refuses to Stop Hormone Treatment for Distressed Youths as Missouri Investigations Continue

A Missouri transgender clinic says it will continue to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to gender-distressed youths, turning down the state attorney general’s request as investigations of a whistleblower’s complaint continue. In a letter sent to Attorney General Andrew Bailey, leaders at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital said the center is “the…


Transgender Center Refuses to Stop Hormone Treatment for Youths as Missouri Investigations Continue

A Missouri transgender clinic says it will continue to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to minors, turning down the state attorney general’s request as investigations of a whistleblower’s complaint continue. In a letter sent to Attorney General Andrew Bailey, leaders at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital said the center is “the only place…


EPA’s $27 Billion ‘Clean Energy’ Plan Triggers Fraud Concerns, Creating ‘Taxpayer-Funded Slush Fund’

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released initial guidance on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program that commits $27 billion for “clean energy and clean air” projects, but concerns are being raised as to whether the funds are at high risk of fraud. The GGRF was proposed as part of the $739 billion Inflation…


‘RIP Cancel Culture,’ Says Musk, as Joe Rogan Claims People Not ‘Scared’ to Express Themselves on Twitter Now

Cancel culture has been brought to an end on Twitter, declared Elon Musk, responding to a discussion between podcast host Joe Rogan and journalist Matt Taibbi who helped publish the “Twitter files” exposé. “RIP Cancel Culture, you won’t be missed,” Musk stated in a tweet on Feb. 14. In the podcast discussing “Twitter 2.0 and the Fall…


Another Feminist Victory: Back to Winner-Takes-All Custody Battles

Commentary Last week, a television crew from the Japanese public broadcaster came to Sydney to interview family law specialist Justin Dowd, former president of the New South Wales (NSW) Law Society. Japan is considering moving away from mum-custody towards “joint parental authority”,—which recognizes that it’s in the children’s best interests to have both mum and…


New Study Says EV Conversion Will Hike Lithium Demand and Increased Mining Will Cause Wider Environmental Damage

Converting America’s fleet of privately owned cars and trucks from internal combustion gasoline and diesel-fueled engines to Electric Vehicles (EVs) will cause critical shortages of Lithium—a must-have for batteries—and prompt more environmental damage due to increased mining, according to a new report. Avoiding the lithium shortages and dramatically increased environmental demand will require all but…