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By: Sally Lockwood – news.sky.com – October 5, 2019 Charlie Evans, 28, was born female but identified as male for nearly 10 years before detransitioning. The number of young people seeking gender transition is at an all-time high but we hear very little, if anything, about those who may come to regret their decision. There is currently no data to reflect the…

By: Jeanine Santucci – usatoday.com – October 14, 2019 The White House says President Donald Trump hasn’t seen the violent video edited to depict him carrying out a massacre of news organizations and political opponents, but he does condemn the contents being reported. The statement comes as questions about the video and its use continue to swirl and as the people “killed” in…

By: Anika Reed – usatoday.com – October 14, 2019 NBC News president Noah Oppenheim is rejecting allegations made in Ronan Farrow’s new book, “Catch and Kill.” The NBC News chief condemned Farrow’s upcoming book in a memo sent out to NBC News and MSNBC staffers Monday morning, writing that Farrow took the allegations against ousted “Today” show anchor Matt Lauer and spun them…

By: Nate Day – foxiness.com – October 12, 2019 SpongeBob’ is a ‘violent,’ ‘racist’ colonizer, says University of Washington professor. “SpongeBob SquarePants,” which celebrated its 20th anniversary on Friday, has millions of fans around the world, but one University of Washington professor is clearly not among them. For a recently published academic journal, the professor, Holly M. Barker, wrote an article “Unsettling SpongeBob…

By: Leonardo Blair – christianpost.com – October 11, 2019 Former Texas representative and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said Thursday that churches, charities and other religious institutions that oppose same-sex marriage should lose their tax exempt status. And if he becomes president, this is a policy that he will seek to quickly enforce by executive action, according to the LGBTQ plan on…

By: Amie Parnes – thehill.com – October 13, 2019 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is the candidate with the most momentum as the Democratic presidential field heads into a critical debate on Tuesday. Warren has surged in front of former Vice President Joe Biden in recent polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and in some national polls. She also is seeing some encouraging…

By: Ben Shapiro – dailysignal.com – October 10, 2019 In recent years, the NBA has become famously political. During the heyday of the Black Lives Matter movement, the NBA permitted players to wear slogan-printed T-shirts in support, and stars like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Paul spoke out loudly on the issue. The Sacramento Kings actually announced a partnership with the…

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 8, 2019 It looks like the decade-old U.S. shale oil boom may keep us out of war. Recall that when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait in August 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush led a coalition of countries against Iraq — though it was mostly a U.S. effort. The aerial attack began in January…

By: Merrill Matthews – thehill.com – October 9, 2019 Not long ago, the U.S. entered the never-ending presidential election campaign, in which the next campaign begins the morning after Election Day. Americans have been groaning about the non-stop election cycle ever since. Well, it appears we’ve entered the never-ending presidential impeachment campaign, as well. President Trump’s alleged quid-pro-quo offer to the Ukrainian president…

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 9, 2019 President Donald Trump issued a “Proclamation” on Oct. 4 requiring many immigrants seeking a U.S. visa to prove they will have health insurance coverage within 30 days of entering the country. While we are skeptical that such a requirement will save taxpayers a lot of money, it’s still the right thing to do. The Proclamation…

By: Zach Despart – houstonchronicle.com – October 8, 2019 Two Harris County Commissioners Court members skipped Tuesday’s meeting, preventing the Democratic majority from voting on a property tax hike that would increase county revenue by 8 percent. The no-shows by Republican commissioners Steve Radack and Jack Cagle mean the county will revert to the effective tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year, which will…