Plus: Why Parental Rights Activists Use Term ‘Grooming’ in Support of Laws to Protect Kids
April 14 2022
Good morning from Washington, where an investigation confirms a veteran senator’s suspicions about conflicts of interest within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Fred Lucas reports. The radical left clutches its pearls when critics call out “grooming” of schoolchildren by LGBT activists, Nicole Russell writes. On the podcast, Sheriff Alex Villanueva tells our Virginia Allen how LA’s rogue prosecutor is letting residents down. Plus: Biden’s toothless bid to cut gas prices; parents’ uphill fight for sane school boards; and “Problematic Women” ponders the grim border situation. On this date in 1910, William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball game, as the Washington Senators face the Philadelphia Athletics at National Park.
A probe concludes that a VA official created the appearance of a conflict of interest by not disclosing her husband’s employment by a nonprofit that assists veterans.
The left ridicules conservatives’ use of the words “groomer” and “grooming”—the semantics—rather than condemn conversations teachers admit to having with young schoolchildren.
A rogue prosecutor is “unleashing a wave of crime by not prosecuting criminals who are victimizing poor people, people of color … in the toughest neighborhoods,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva says.
Biden’s emergency waiver allows service stations to sell gasoline with 15% ethanol, pausing an environmental regulation prohibiting the corn-based biofuel mixture during summer months.
