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There Is No Constitutional Right to ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care
- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on “The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children.”
- They exposed how children are being coerced by adults in positions of authority into life-altering and medically questionable “gender transition” drugs and procedures without anyone having a full understanding of their impact, including the doctors who prescribe and perform them.
- The constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is indeed being violated. But those violations are not occurring when states protect minors from getting experimental “gender-affirming” treatments. The violations are transpiring in blue states that are cutting parents out of the equation altogether.
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The Damage That Biden Is Inflicting on the U.S–Israel Partnership Is Too Important to Ignore
- Earlier this month, President Biden addressed the recent increase in violence in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin.
- After opining that the terrorist attacks against Israel were carried out by “extremist” elements among the Palestinians, the president added an interesting caveat — that the terrorism was to some extent provoked by Israel’s “extreme” right-wing government.
- In other words, Biden created a moral equivalence between Palestinian terrorists murdering Israeli civilians and the duly elected government of Israel trying to defend them, simply because Israeli politics are not to his liking.
- Biden’s insistence that Israel’s provocations are to blame is disingenuous at best. At worst, it could be a self-inflicted blow to one of America’s most important alliances, needlessly damaging our interests in the Middle East and increasing the threat of terrorism right here at home.
- If his administration refuses to reverse its disastrous pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel policies that will do nothing to promote a real solution to the conflict, then Congress must step in.
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Why a Judge Refused to Rubber Stamp the Shady Hunter Biden Plea Deal
- Hunter Biden’s plea agreement was anything but straightforward. The government entered into two agreements with Biden, one which would normally require judicial approval and one which wouldn’t, and the parties hid material terms that should have been included in the one requiring judicial approval by putting them into the one that didn’t.
- Judge Noreika expressed concern that she was being cast in the role of essentially deciding whether additional charges could be brought against Biden and opined that putting a federal judge in that role may violate separation of powers principles of the Constitution.
- For the moment, the plea deal is on hold, and the parties have been asked to brief the constitutional question that Noreika raised.
- More doubt has been cast due to new material found on Hunter Biden’s laptop; past statements by Hunter Biden’s business partners Tony Bobulinski and Gal Luft; and new testimony from Devon Archer, another of Hunter Biden’s former business partners; all of which suggests that President Biden, was deeply involved in Hunter Biden’s business ventures and handsomely remunerated for his efforts.
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