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marchmeena29/iStock/Getty Images Plus Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a Dallas-area doctor of violating the state’s prohibition on gender treatments for minors and concealing her activities via false insurance-billing codes.May Lau, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and medical director of the adolescent and young adult clinic at the...

zimmytws/iStock/Getty Images Plus ObamaCare was a disaster from Day 1, with “at least a dozen significant promises … broken,” and has not improved since, according to a new report examining the program’s dismal 14-year history.“The Falsehoods of Obamacare,” by the Paragon Health Institute and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, is a devastating look back at the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA)...

Parents, beware! Your children are in danger of getting hooked on “digital cocaine” if they aren’t already, according to a leading expert on the threats posed by brain-warping technologies engineered to get them addicted. In a compelling installment of The Liberty Report with Alex Newman, technology and computer-science expert Brad Huddleston, shined the light on growing concerns surrounding screen addiction...

altmodern/iStock/Getty Images Plus A new government report from the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has drawn attention to alarming trends related to the promotion of transgenderism among young Americans. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3.3 percent of high school students now identify as transgender, with an additional 2.2 percent “questioning” their sex.One important...

Claudia Longo/iStock/Getty Images Plus When hearing that many “elite” undergraduates “can’t” read books, first coming to mind could be that they’re not actually elite. (The term “pseudo-elite” suggests itself.) As for the word “can’t,” no, it’s not that these college students, often Ivy Leaguers, are illiterate. The issue is something different: conditioning.Fox News reported on the story last Thursday, writing:...

WhiteHouse.gov The mysterious, opaque, and secretly funded White House’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP), headed by Vice President (and now presidential candidate) Kamala Harris, has refused to cooperate with attempts to investigate its collusion with the anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety. Accordingly, on Thursday the House Oversight Committee, chaired by James Comer (R-Ky.), issued two subpoenas: one to...

RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Virginia school board recently agreed to pay over half a million dollars to a teacher they fired for his refusal to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns, a move one attorney said has “seismic implications.”According to a press release from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), in late September, the West Point School Board settled with former...

AP Images Donald Trump & Elon Musk “As I was saying,” former President Donald Trump began his speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, at what might have been one of the largest campaign rallies in American history.The GOP presidential candidate returned not just to the scene of his attempted assassination, but to the immigration chart to which he was referring when would-be...

Public domain Camp Grayling, Michigan The Federal Bureau of Investigation certainly appears to know how to target Trump supporters in the run-up to November’s election. It’s also adept at launching shock-and-awe, pre-dawn raids on the residences of harmless, wizened, elderly men (Roger Stone). But what of protecting the homeland from spies working for our main geopolitical adversary?Not so much, critics...

AP Images Donald Trump speaking in Butler, Pa., on October 5 Former President Donald Trump is holding a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, today. The event is being held at the site of the July 13 assassination attempt in which Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man, used an AR-15 rifle in an attempt to kill Trump. Crooks fired at...

AP Images Secret Service agents at Trump rally, July 13, 2024 After the Secret Service failed to protect former President Donald Trump from a would-be assassin in July, the agency did what all government agencies do when caught with their pants down: blame it on a lack of funding. Congress, naturally, obliged by giving the agency another $231 million.But, as...

John Whitehead You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.—Bob DylanA water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking-water supplies and boil-water notices.One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs repair, endangering hundreds of millions of commuters. More than 42,000 bridges across the country, carrying about 167 million vehicles...

bruev/iStock/Getty Images Plus Georgia’s parliament passed legislation that imposes restrictions on “gender-affirming” procedures, changing gender designations in official documents, same-sex marriages, adoptions by same-sex couples, and media representations publicly affirming LGBTQ+ relations.Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili did not veto the bill, but refused to sign it, sending it back to the Georgian Parliament. Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili announced...

AP Images Tim Walz The shellacking that GOP Senator J.D. Vance gave Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate apparently triggered a panic attack among the leftist Mainstream Media.Case in point: Politico. Having witnessed a confused, walleyed Walz blow the debate — “I’m a knucklehead,” he declared in a refreshingly candid moment — the website rushed out...

danielfela/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s bad enough that Vice President Kamala Harris, trying to look presidential, announced that the federal government would give victims of Hurricane Helena a whole $750.But adding insult to injury is what every citizen of Ukraine has received in federal aid since 2022: almost $5,000, nearly six times what the needy Americans who have lost everything will...

The Post Millennial/X Sign at the Food Trap Project Bodega in Minneapolis From each according to his skin color and, well, to each according to his skin color? That’s right,Forget the old Marxist formula. Now, in our diversity-über-alles society, calls to equity from the morally bent have a racial bent. This would explain, too, a couple of recent stories.The first...

Culture Who Is the Man Behind Bitcoin? A new HBO documentary claims to have solved one of the great mysteries of the internet age. (Have a nice day Photo/Shutterstock) In the 15 years since Bitcoin was created, a question has stalked the greater cryptocurrency space—who (or what) invented the pace-car digital currency that has forcefully woven itself into the financial...

Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus Conservatives, let not your heart be troubled. You are being censored more on social media, a new study has found. But the researchers can help you solve the problem because, they say, they have identified it.You.The study has “found,” you see, that conservatives endure social-media suspension more only because they share more “misinformation.” The remedy?Just echo mainstream...

sabthai/iStock/Getty Images Plus Federal prosecutors have asked the judge in their case against Ryan Wesley Routh, accused in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, for an indefinite delay in the would-be assassin’s trial.The reason is the complexity of the case, which permits a judge to waive the speedy-trial provisions of federal law.The filing in the U.S. District for...