Good morning from Washington, where the Justice Department demands five years of documents from a conservative group while suing Alabama for protecting kids from gender transition treatments. Fred Lucas reports. Something is terribly wrong when a government official can label a legal defense organization as a “hate group,” Alliance Defending Freedom’s Lathan Watts writes. On the podcast, defense expert Elbridge Colby argues that the U.S. is unprepared for a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Plus: “Problematic Women” explores the psychological consequences of suppressed speech; and Cal Thomas remembers Queen Elizabeth II. On this date in 1963, Texas-born entrepreneur Mary Kay Ash launches what will become a cosmetic empire in Dallas with $5,000 in life savings and help from son Richard Rogers, 20.
Free speech can help individuals grow and learn as they explore and debate ideas with others, Chloe Carmichael says, adding that it even improves anxiety and depression.
The Justice Department is pursuing a conservative group’s documents going back five years as part of a lawsuit challenging an Alabama law that prohibits sex change treatments for minors.
California has become an example of what a state looks like when it is controlled by a single party who are trying to impose a green energy secular religion on their people.
America inevitably will be drawn into any potential conflict between China and Taiwan, but author and defense expert Elbridge Colby says we are woefully unprepared.
One commentator said the queen's death is the symbolic end of the greatest generation. We pay lip service to the virtues that made the greatest generation great, but no longer promote them.
When a senior official in the Justice Department tosses about a smearing “hate group” label, all Americans should take notice—no matter their political leanings.
