Plus: These Transgender Individuals Regret Transitioning. Parents Need to Hear Their Stories.
June 4 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where some lawmakers still talk about defunding or “reimagining” police departments. Skyrocketing violent crime appears to be changing minds elsewhere, our Jarrett Stepman writes. Parents can find hope in evidence that their children desire parental guidance before changing their sex, Nicole Russell writes. On the podcast, a veteran Texas congressman suggests how to call China to account over the pandemic. Plus: the media covers for Hunter Biden; the president welcomes budget deficits; and Oregon’s long goodbye to COVID-19. On this date in 1989, Chinese troops storm Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, killing or arresting thousands of mostly young pro-democracy demonstrators who had gathered there for nearly three weeks.
This surge is returning many of America’s cities to violent crime rates not seen since the early 1990s. Now some cities are quietly reversing “defund the police” policies.
When a public school told two Wisconsin parents that it would address their 12- year-old daughter by a new male name, the parents withdrew their daughter. And she ultimately decided to remain female.
President Biden plans to increase the projected federal deficit every year he is in office and then leave it to a successor to do something about an ever-increasing federal debt.
The Oregon Health Authority requires that businesses that allow no masks first must ask for and inspect “each individual’s proof of vaccination prior to entry or admission.”
