Plus: New Canadian Law Could Send Parents to Jail for Not Affirming Gender Identity
February 11 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where Sen. Rand Paul speaks for many Americans who’ve had enough of COVID-19 mandates. The Kentucky Republican tells our Mary Margaret Olohan that he welcomes Canada’s protesting truckers to American cities and he also slams some leaders’ hypocrisy during the pandemic. On the podcast, Virginia Allen examines a law that criminalizes parents who question a child’s gender confusion. Plus: lawmakers take from Medicare to prop up the Postal Service; the CDC’s credibility gap; and one father’s stand against a school assignment romanticizing illegal aliens. Twenty years ago today, pop superstar Whitney Houston is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Canada has surrendered “to the political sphere … [on’ how to teach our own kids what a biblical view of sexuality and gender looks like,” says Jojo Ruba of the Calgary, Alberta-based Free to Care.
The Kentucky Republican discusses top Democrats being photographed without masks, and says he finds COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare professionals “repulsive.”
In terms of unfunded obligations—benefits promised but not paid for—Medicare already has racked up long-term (75-year) unfunded obligations of $48.3 trillion. That’s about $150,000 per person.
“The American people don’t do well with being told ‘Because I told you so,’ which has ... been the Biden administration’s public relations approach to COVID-19 vaccinations,” says Rep. Brad Wenstrup.
During 2020, nonprofits donated more than $400 million to election boards to support their work and get out the vote. About $350 million came from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.
