President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services is going for broke when it comes to supporting “gender affirming” health care – including permanently body-mutilating surgeries for otherwise healthy adolescents not yet old enough to buy a pack of cigarettes.
Pope Francis apologized and begged forgiveness Friday for the “deplorable” abuses suffered by Indigenous Peoples in Canada’s residential schools, saying he was ashamed and indignant at all they had endured at the hands of Catholic educators.
Reka Gyorgy belonged in the finals of the 500-yard freestyle at last week’s NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships in Atlanta — but the NCAA refused to exercise the slightest bit of common sense when it came to male University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas.
As the Taliban continues door-to-door searches in a so-called “clearing operation,” poverty in Afghanistan has become so extreme that many people have sold one of their own kidneys in order to feed their families.
With the sudden dismissal of China basher Enes Kanter Freedom, the NBA has regained the seal of approval from its dictatorial communist masters. The pathetic league is now fully cleansed of anyone who would dare criticize its appalling silence over the human rights atrocities of its Chinese business partner.
Over the past half-century or so, American law enforcement and popular culture have conferred an extra level of seriousness and gravity to “hate crimes” as opposed to regular crimes. The definition of a hate crime, according to the FBI, is a regular crime with an added element of bias. “A ‘criminal’ offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity,” the FBI.gov website states.
Joe Biden has achieved at least one groundbreaking result – though likely not the sort that he had in mind – as polling indicates that he has lost the most ground in voter approval of any new US president in more than 75 years.