FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The chief pediatrician at Texas Children’s Hospital resigned in April 2022 after just seven months in her role, shortly after Gov. Greg Abbott forced the hospital to pause attempted sex-change procedures on children, such as puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries.

Apparently, you can litigate anything these days, and it’s gotten far more insidious than suing McDonald’s over hot coffee being, you know, hot. A new climate activist group called Our Children’s Trust is suing state and federal government agencies on behalf of individual children.  

Nearly half of the states have passed legislation restricting or banning what’s referred to as “gender-affirming care” for minors. Most of those laws have been challenged in court, with some judges upholding the bans, while others have blocked them.

Dallasnews.com – November 23, 2023 In all of the controversy around gender transition, there is one group that is persistently marginalized by both the right and left. They are known as detransitioners — people who decide that they want to return to their birth gender, often after receiving years of interventional care, including surgery, to treat their gender dysphoria. Now,...

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – May 10, 2024 Young people who smoked marijuana in the 1960s were seen as part of the counterculture. Now the cannabis culture is mainstream. A 2022 surveysponsored by the National Institutes of Health found that 28.8% of Americans age 19 to 30 had used marijuana in the preceding 30 days—more than three times as...

Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.

Whether one believes that God created the universe on purpose, or that something else did in a random and chaotic manner – the Big Bang comes to mind – it’s difficult to argue against the order of the cosmos. This order will be visible on April 8 when millions of Americans can witness a total eclipse of the sun as...

Countdown to the Great American Solar Eclipse  Join us on April 6th! This fun-filled, and family friendly event will commemorate the Great American Solar Eclipse of 2024, which takes place the following Monday. There will be something for all ages, with featured presentations from NASA Astronauts, ICR scientists, amateur astronomers, and other guest speakers.  

Bill Maher has made some MSNBC-like tirades in recent weeks.

The Department of Justice recently announced that eBay has “agreed to pay $59 million and to enhance its compliance program to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in connection with thousands of pill presses and encapsulating machines that were sold through its website.