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Anti-abortion leaders see Josh Hawley as possible 2028 force
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Washington Examiner
During the 2024 presidential election, former Vice President Mike Pence was the most staunchly anti-abortion candidate, pressuring other Republicans in the primary to endorse a 15-week federal abortion ban. Pence was unsuccessful in his White House bid against his former boss, President Donald Trump. Two years later, the anti-abortion movement is searching for leverage inside a Republican Party dominated by Trump, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) could be its answer.

NHL team Dallas Stars won't have Pride Night for first time in 5 years
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: The Post Millennial
“The new Hockey Unites Night allows our organization to use our platform to celebrate and support a different underrepresented community each season." The move was made known when the team announced its 2026- 2027 season schedule on Friday, with the usual "Pride Night" not present. According to the Dallas News, for the last five seasons, the NHL team has had a Pride Night in February or March. The game night where the pride event would be was instead dubbed “Hockey Unites Us: Women in Sports Night” on March 23.

Denmark, Decades-Long Forced Contraception of Greenlandic Women
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Associated Press
Now, Reports Investigate Whether this Constitutes Genocide. Around half of fertile women in the Arctic Island were fitted with IUDs or given hormone birth control shots. Known as the ‘spiral case,’ the revelations have rocked both Denmark and Greenland. More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, previously came forward to investigators and reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities. Denmark says more than 4,000 women and girls — reportedly half the fertile women in Greenland at the time — received IUDs between the 1960s and mid-1970s.”

The International Criminal Court Is a Woke NGO. Shut It Down.
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: American Greatness
The Trump administration’s recent declaration of war on the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a welcome advancement toward the rule of law. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s critique of the ICC is on target and should be shared by anyone who has monitored the activities of this court over the years. The ICC is fruit of the poisonous tree. The “court” is a creature of both the European Union—by way of conception or adoption and funding—and of unaccountable (and largely EU-funded) international and national non-governmental organizations, which, amongst other things, vet judicial candidates for the ICC bench.

Callaway, PGA Tour officially DROP partnerships with Good Good
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Post Millennial
The PGA tour released a statement backing Good Good's decision to step away as a sponsor, dropping them from their roster. The statement reads: "The PGA TOUR has been informed of Good Good Golf's decision to step away as sponsor of the event in Austin, Texas, this fall. We agree with their decision to use this time to focus on their organization and the work ahead.[Ed: This is the controversial ad.]

Education secretary says elimination of department is ‘realistic’
Topic: Children and Family
Source: KOCO
...but timeline for shifting services is unclear. In a one-on-one interview, Education Secretary Linda McMahon detailed the status of agreements to shift key services to other federal agencies as students return to the classroom. Trump contends that the federal agency is costly and ineffective, while critics argue that closing down the department would disrupt crucial services and weaken civil rights safeguards.

Girl Scouts USA responds to controversy over 'Islamic' badges
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Middle East Eye
After a viral tweet accused the organisation of embedding Islamic practices into scouting, GSUSA says the badges come from an independent faith group. On 24 August, White House correspondent and War Room co-host Natalie Winters shared a thread on X titled "The Islamisation of Girl Scouts Across America", featuring photos of badges including one labelled "Girl Scout of the Islamic Faith", alongside others tied to Islamic practices such as Ramadan and Hajj.

UK’s Sick Islamic ‘Grooming Gangs’ Exposed By Shocking New Report
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Trending Politics
A sweeping new inquiry into Britain’s notorious grooming gang scandal is putting attention on decades of child sexual exploitation, institutional failures and allegations that authorities were reluctant to confront the backgrounds of perpetrators. The Rape Gang Inquiry, led by survivor Sammy Woodhouse and former MP Rupert Lowe, examined organized groups accused of targeting vulnerable girls across the United Kingdom. The report argues that predominantly Pakistani Muslim gangs were responsible for a significant portion of the group-based child sexual exploitation cases it studied while police, social services and other institutions repeatedly failed victims.

Parents and politicians love social media bans for kids.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
Experts worry they’re a shot in the dark. It’s a muggy summer afternoon in London and more than two dozen academics and civil society experts, all interested in how digital technology affects children, have gathered in an airless basement lecture theatre to discuss a hot topic. The U.K. government’s statutory ban on smartphones in English schools only came into force the day before, so the launch of new research exploring how students experience these restrictions couldn’t be more timely. Experts like the ones assembled worry that policymakers around the world weighing broad crackdowns on children’s access to smartphones and social media are at best barrelling ahead of the evidence, and at worst ignoring it altogether.

Jury Weighs Whether "Darn Good Mother"
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Lindsay Clancy Is Criminally Liable For Murdering Her 3 Kids. "This young lady did nothing wrong in her life. She was… a darn good mother..." Jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial started on Aug. 27 after five weeks of testimony. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is accused of killing her three young children while her now-ex-husband was running errands in January 2023. The 36-year-old mother faces three counts of first-degree murder, one for each child: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. Judge William Sullivan gave the jury the option to instead consider second-degree murder or manslaughter.

Home Possession of AI-Generated Porn Depicting Fake Children
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
Remains Constitutionally Protected, Seventh Circuit Rules. The appeal in this case deals only with Anderegg's challenge to the home possession charge, not to the production or distribution charge. Here's the court's analysis:
"Obscenity, along with certain other categories of speech, has historically fallen "outside the scope of the First Amendment." And, although the precise meaning of "obscenity" is difficult to pin down, the Supreme Court has offered the following articulation: "[S]peech is obscene to the public at large—and thus proscribable—if (a) 'the average person, applying contemporary community standards[,] would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest'; (b) 'the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law'; and (c) 'the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.'" Miller v. California (1973)."

Britain doesn’t have a grooming gang problem. It has a mafia problem
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Unherd
The grooming gangs are just the tip of the iceberg: Britain has a mafia problem. This is the clear inference from The Network Map, a report due to be published this week. The report details the level of interconnection between key individuals in purportedly localised grooming gangs, collating over 1,000 convicted perpetrators, regional gangs, extended families, establishments, and “notable individuals” including councillors and police officers. What is likely to emerge is a network of affiliation both across gangs and with other forms of crime in Britain and beyond.

Exempt from Supreme Court rulings?
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
N.J. school district, Calif. defend secret gender transitions. California has bicoastal company in its efforts to drastically reinterpret a Supreme Court precedent that reinstated a permanent injunction against the Golden State's so-called gender secrecy policies in public schools, with the majority citing a century of parental rights precedents that it said lower courts were ignoring. Moms for Liberty is suing a New York City suburb on behalf of unnamed members with children there, seeking to force New Jersey's Chathams School District to notify and give parents veto power over their children's "asserted 'gender transition'" and "social transition-related accommodations," arguing a trio of related policies violate the Mirabelli precedent.

Nihilists, Man: WPATH Goes the Full Lebowski
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Ait
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) has made a serious turnaround in its public position on pediatric sex changes. For years, it established itself as the pre-eminent scientific voice on transgender transition therapies, and claimed that it had the standing to define the standard of care in that medical 'discipline.' The American medical establishment relied on WPATH as legal and political cover for pediatric sex change operations and chemical treatments. Now that it faces action from the Federal Trade Commission for fraud, however, WPATH suddenly wants to wrap itself in the First Amendment. All of those claims about a scientific basis for chemical and surgical sex changes on children? That was just their opinion, man!

Did You Know That a Trans Man Has Already Played in the WNBA?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Hot Air
It's fascinating to me that none of this has come up in all the discussion about the WNBA's fight over the eligibility of Royce White and Enes Freedom, although it does likely explain why the commissioner and her team of advisors were stymied when they tried to define the word "woman" in order to exclude these two former men from eligibility to play. By its own standards, they have already allowed a man to play, and by their own standards the issue does not appear to be testosterone levels. And if the definition of male or female is simply self-identification, their claim that these two beautiful females are not women is based entirely on mind-reading, since they both claim to identify as women. [Ed: this would have significant legal implications for banning another biological male who claims to be a woman.]

Good Good Golf fires people behind spoof ad after backlash
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Post Millennial
"And I think at the end of the day, we wanted to make sure that everyone knew that we understood that we made a mistake, and we weren’t going to deny that." Matt Kendrick, CEO of Good Good Golf, told Front Office Sports that the company had “removed people responsible for the ad” following widespread backlash over the advertisement. The video featured Good Good Golf co-founder Garrett Clark knocking influencer Alexis Mietwoski to the ground as she attempted to grab a golf driver. Clark then said, “Do not touch my driver.” The ad immediately drew backlash for its depiction of a man hitting a woman.

Calif’s Univs Cannot Compensate for Failure of the Primary School System.
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Lew Rockwell
California’s political leaders often celebrate the state as a global engine of innovation, diversity, and progressive governance. Yet its public schools—despite record spending and one of the most liberal electorates in the nation—remain among America’s worst. The contrast with Massachusetts is instructive. Boston Latin School, a public institution founded in 1635, still produces some of the strongest academic outcomes in the country. Massachusetts consistently ranks first in K–12 performance. California, by contrast, now sends entering freshmen to the University of California system who require math remediation at the level of third grade competency. UC San Diego has reported incoming students unable to perform basic arithmetic. This is not a failure of universities. It is a failure of the primary school system—and the political structure that governs it.

Democrats: Are The Newspeak Buzzwords Working For Them?
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Victory Girls Blog
[Ed: of course, the GOP has buzzwords and Newspeak of their own.] But can they really talk like normal human beings? Equality became diversity, equity and inclusion. Abortion has changed its definition over the years from “freedom of choice” to “reproductive healthcare” to, the latest, “gender-affirming healthcare”. A baby is a “clump of cells”, a “fetus”. Prison inmates and criminals are the “justice-involved population”. Illegal aliens are “undocumented immigrants”. Riots became “peaceful protest”. Complying by getting a shot in your arm became “following the science”. Drug addiction is now “substance abuse”. Hunger and starvation is “food insecurity”. Parents are “birthing people”. Pregnant women became “pregnant people”. If you dared question this concept, you are “othering”. A boy child who tried on his mother’s heels ONCE or a girl who liked to play in the dirt and dig up worms became “gender questioning”. Mutilating children for the sake of their “gender questioning” became “gender affirming care”. The morbidly obese became “body positive”. Praying at a mosque became “social justice”. Socialism is “warm collectivism”. Being a Muslim is “cooler” than being a Christian. I can go on.

Texas Proves School Choice Can Work at Scale
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Real Clear Education
As summer draws to a close and millions of students begin packing their backpacks to return to the classroom, Texas is crossing a historic threshold. For the first time, families can choose the educational path that is best for their children. Thanks to the successful rollout of Texas Education Freedom Accounts, the educational landscape in the Lone Star State has fundamentally shifted. So too has the opportunity for other states to emulate the success that Texas has experienced.