Plus: Drew Barrymore’s Radical Message to Our Sex-Crazed Culture
October 19 2022
Good morning from Washington, where politicians on the left won’t protect schoolgirls from males in their locker rooms. In Vermont, a school district suspends one dad for speaking out. Mary Margaret Olohan reports. Hollywood star Drew Barrymore raises eyebrows by saying sex isn’t everything, Katrina Trinko writes. On the podcast, a former top Pentagon official says America must be ready for China to invade Taiwan. Plus: Biden promises to codify abortion on demand; Chicago benches unvaxxed poll watchers; and a cosmetics chain seeks beauty tips from unlikely sources. Forty years ago today, American automaker John DeLorean is charged with trying to obtain and distribute 55 pounds of cocaine, for which he’ll be acquitted within two years.
Travis Allen is suspended without pay from his job as Randolph Union Middle School’s girls soccer coach. The superintendent writes that Allen “misgendered a transgender student.”
In a blog post, Drew Barrymore pushes back against our culture’s obsession with sex, our way of seeing it as the pinnacle of worthwhile human experiences.
“So now, it’s … pretty clear that the Chinese are thinking seriously of making a move. So why aren’t we acting like it?” asks Elbridge Colby, a former Defense Department official.
Missouri is withdrawing assets from BlackRock’s control because the state believes that the company is using its control of pension funds to push a “left-wing” agenda.
President Biden announces that if Democrats win the House and Senate in the midterm elections Nov. 8, the first bill he will send to Congress would codify Roe v. Wade.
“You had two grown men tell actual women what it’s like to be a girl, as if they could have any earthly idea,” tweets conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey.
