No Dissent Allowed

Penna Dexter Lamenting the rise of censorship and speech controls, prominent First Amendment attorney and law school professor Jonathan Turley writes: “That alarming trend is no more evident than lawyers saying they “cannot breathe” in the presence of the exercise of free speech.” He points to the story of Robin Keller, an attorney with a distinguished career spanning 44 years,…

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Single Woke Females

Penna Dexter Move over Soccer Moms. There’s a rising voting bloc in American politics: the Single Woke Female. She’s young — these are Gen Z and Millennial voters — she’s often urban and she’s never been married.  She’s usually progressive, often discontented. Two professors, experts in demography, economics, and politics, write about her at Real Clear Investigations. Joel Kotkin, a…

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Is All-Electric Inevitable?

Penna Dexter Last month the White House and the Consumer Product and Safety Commission denied that they’ve been working with climate groups to ban gas stoves after the GOP called them out on it. But, in a recent column, The Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel warns readers that, “A ban is the plan.” She describes last month’s White House “electrification summit”…

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Chinese Demographic Crisis

Penna Dexter New numbers from China’s National Bureau of Statistics show that the ruling Communist Party has gotten too much of what it wished for. In the late 1970s, in order to slow the country’s rapid population growth, the Chinese state began limiting how many children families could have. This became China’s one-child-per-family policy, which was sometimes administered via community…

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Pharmacies: Abortion Businesses?

Penna Dexter About a year ago, the Biden Administration announced a policy change, stating it will allow pharmacies to fill prescriptions for abortion pills. Last week the FDA began implementation by formalizing a process so that retail pharmacies can become certified to stock mifepristone, the first drug in the 2-drug chemical abortion regimen. Mifepristone cuts off progesterone, which is required…

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Fixing The House

Penna Dexter If the expected red wave had taken place in November, the US House of Representatives would have remained the dysfunctional body it has been for 20 years. But, since Republicans won the House by only a narrow margin, the man expected to become Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, had a battle on his hands. During the four-day, 15-round Speaker election,…

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Transgender Sports Ruling

Penna Dexter The sad stories of female athletes being forced to compete against biological males and losing positions, titles, and opportunities are getting more numerous. Reporter Laurel Duggan writes: “There is a common misconception that born-male athletes participating in women’s sports is a non-issue because it’s not happening often, but that’s a false narrative.” In an article in The Daily…

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Prayer for 2023

Penna Dexter As 2022 ends, we’re looking at some disturbing trends. Inflation is up. Government spending has reached unheard-of levels. Population growth is sluggish with more deaths than births in 24 states. Our Congress has placed a twisted definition of marriage into law that people of faith may be forced to accept and even celebrate. We’re mainstreaming transgenderism. People are…

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Satan After School

Penna Dexter If a school hosts a Christian group for kids, like the Good News Clubs that meet in elementary schools across the country, is the school also required to accept a Satan club? School board members in Chesapeake, Virginia argue they have no choice. The Satanic Temple is requesting the board’s approval to start an ”After School Satan Club”…

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Transing American Girls

Penna Dexter On a recent Saturday, I traipsed up our attic stairs to retrieve my daughter’s childhood American Girl doll along with the accompanying furniture and doll clothes. It’s time, we thought, to pass the doll along to my 5-year-old granddaughter. Imagine our surprise when, just a day or so later, we began to see critiques of the brand American…

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Abortion Pill Lawsuit

Penna Dexter Two decades after the Clinton FDA approved the abortion pill, a lawsuit has been filed asking for the removal of these drugs from the US market. Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit in federal court on behalf of four medical organizations and four doctors who had treated patients with these drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services is…

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