New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge’s 62nd home run on Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas, sets a new American League record for most dingers in a season – and makes a solid case for why the beloved slugger should be credited with the all-time long-ball distinction.

Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa all hit more in a season – but all three of those players allegedly used performance enhancing drugs.

Roger Maris Jr., son of Roger Maris, the Yankee who previously held the single season American League record of 61 home runs in 1961, called Judge the “new CLEAN HOME RUN KING!”

Despite their record-setting statistics, all three of the steroid-era users have been deprived election into the Baseball Hall of Fame – a clear indication the baseball writers who vote agree with Maris’ assessment.

Cheating has always been a sad shortcut to supposed success, but cheaters soon realize tainted success is really no victory at all. Could Bonds, McGuire and Sosa have accomplished the same without the drugs? Maybe – but we’ll never know. That’s one of the many tragic consequences of cheating. Many people forget Richard Nixon didn’t need any help in the 1972 presidential election, which he won in a landslide. But he was forced to resign two years later after being tied to the Watergate break-in, which was all about collecting “dirt” on his political opponents.

“Supreme Court, dogged by questions of legitimacy, is ready to resume,” The Washington Post headline blares.

“The Supreme Court Seems Awfully Nervous About Its Own Legitimacy,” The New York Times helpfully exclaims.

Not to be outdone, CNN jumps in with, “The Supreme Court is fighting over its own legitimacy.”

And there are approximately 8 million more references to “Supreme Court” and “legitimacy” according to Google.

That sure sounds serious. What in the world is going on?

It’s the start of the new term for the U.S. Supreme Court and there are plenty of interesting cases that will be argued and decided, including 303 Creative, LLC v. Elenis, which involves a Christian graphic artist and website designer fighting for her religious and free speech right to choose which weddings she wants to promote with her business.

And the media, which equated the June Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade with the end of human rights as we know them, are suddenly posting poll results that show people have the lowest opinion of the high court since such polls originated.

As a concerned Christian, should you be worried?

Two high school girls in Vermont are being investigated for “harassment” after doing the unthinkable: asking a biologically male student who identifies as “trans” to leave the girls’ locker room.

According to a recent story from the Daily Signal, several girls at Randolph Union High School in Randolph, Vermont were using the female locker room at school, getting dressed for a volleyball game when the biologically male student who identifies as “trans” entered the locker room.

The girls were partially undressed, one not wearing a shirt, when the male student entered. “Please don’t come in here, we’re still changing,” one girl said to the male.

As the Daily Signal reports, “The trans-identifying student allegedly told her that it was fine, entered the locker room, and stood in the corner ‘watching’ as the other girls finished dressing. Female student A said that the interaction made her incredibly uncomfortable.”

Reporters for the Daily Signal asked the female student why she told the male student not to enter the locker room.

“It’s a dude,” she replied.

According to female student B, “when she and her fellow teammates tried to bring the matter to school officials, she said, they were told that they had to comply with state law.”