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In George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” the protagonist works for the Ministry of Truth, where his job is to revise any past news that doesn’t fit the current narrative and send the evidence down the “memory hole” to be incinerated and forgotten. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her comrades in the establishment media are attempting to do just that when it comes to what they were doing about coronavirus until just last month. Thankfully we live in the internet age, where revising history is impossible, and Pelosi cannot run from the fact that her own actions literally set people up...

More than 100 LGBT+ rights groups on Wednesday called on U.S. public health officials to address the heightened vulnerability of gay and trans people to the coronavirus, warning that their frequently weakened immune systems can put them at risk.

The last time we checked in on Chelsea Manning, she had been in jail on contempt charges for nearly a year and was running up massive fines that the judge ruled would have to be paid. Manning also wasn’t being released without agreeing to testify before the grand jury investigating Julian Assange and the Wikileaks debacle. But now the story has reportedly taken a darker turn. Yesterday, Manning was transported to the hospital after allegedly attempting to commit suicide in her jail cell. (Fox News) Former army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning tried to “take her own life” in a...

In recent years, discussion about homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The homeless were thrown onto the streets, we’re told, because of rising rents, heartless landlords, and a lack of economic opportunity. Activists, journalists, and political leaders have perpetuated this line of reasoning and, following it to its conclusion, have proposed investing billions in subsidized housing to solve homelessness. But new data are undermining this narrative. As residents of West Coast cities witness the disorder associated with homeless encampments, they have found it harder to accept the progressive consensus—especially in the context of...

Studies suggest that most people who transition to another gender do not have second thoughts. But after two trans men met and fell in love, their personal gender journeys took an unexpected turn, to a destination neither had foreseen. "I always felt we have a very special history. We have special bodies, and a special connection based on the physical experience we had." Ellie is 21 and Belgian. Her German partner, Nele, is 24. Both took testosterone to become more masculine, and they had their breasts removed in double mastectomy surgery. Now they have detransitioned, and live again as female...

A Hong Kong dog has been confirmed as the first case of human-to-animal transmission of the coronavirus COVID-19. The Pomeranian has a "low-level" infection of the disease, which has been spreading across the world and may soon reach pandemic levels. The little dog is now under quarantine at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department for further testing. The department has said there is no evidence that pets could transmit the virus to humans. Pet owners need not be particularly concerned and should not abandon their animals, a spokesperson said. The dog was initially placed into quarantine after its owner developed...

Thank you. It’s great to be here with Ja’Ron Smith.For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), we are the largest of three grant-making components in the Department of Justice. The COPS Office and the Office on Violence Against Women are the other two. We award billions of dollars in grants every year for a full range of public safety activities – everything from preventing and reducing violent crime to protecting children to serving victims. We fund reentry services, drug courts, forensic testing, tribal public safety and dozens of other programs – some...

Transgender Athlete Wins The Women’s National Title After previously competing in the men’s division, a transgender woman has taken home the gold after winning the 400-meter hurdles in an NCAA event. Her name is Cece Telfer, and she has taken home the Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships gold during the 2019 NCAA competition in Kingsville, Texas in May. Despite the fact that the senior at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire was born male, she identifies as a female and has been afforded the right to compete with other females in the sanctioned NCAA event. Despite the fact...

A biologically male marathon runner who identifies as a transgender woman is set to compete in the USA Olympic trials later in February. Megan Youngren “is set to make history on Feb. 29 as the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials,” Sports Illustrated reported. Youngren qualified for the trials after a strong performance on Dec. 8, 2019, in the California International Marathon. “People will try to put it down by saying, ‘That’s too easy because you’re trans.’ But what about the 500 other women who will qualify?” Youngren told the magazine. “There’s probably someone...

The large response to my recent article The Case for a Federal Government Takeover of America's Homeless Crisis merits further discussion about how such an approach might unfold. Most importantly, a federal intervention must be kept limited in scope and with a specific outcome in mind.  As such, I'm proposing a bold new strategy called "Federal Leadership, Local Control."  The reality is that homelessness has always existed, and always will.  But the current homeless crisis on our streets – a humanitarian, public health and environmental disaster – has not always existed.  And it is resolvable with the right leadership and...

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Attending a meeting near Union Station in Washington, D.C., requires me to park a few blocks away and then walk under a bridge to an office building. People in business attire, like me, step carefully around the homeless men and women who have pitched tents under the bridge. They look filthy and miserable, especially in winter. The persistence of large numbers of homeless Americans is one of the signal policy failures of the past two generations. A 2015 survey found that more than half a million people are homeless on any given night. According to Mentalillnesspolicy.org, about 45 percent of...

MYRTLE POINT, Ore. - Melissa Morris was arrested on New Year’s Eve after she told deputies she punched her boyfriend in the face for leaving her dog outside in the rain. Police say they responded to a call of a suspected assault where they were met by the Oregon woman’s boyfriend, James, who said she punched him in the face two times. Investigators say they saw a marble-sized welt and scratch mark on James’ right eyebrow. James told police that he was talking to Morris when she began hitting him. Morris was then taken into custody on a domestic...

“We need a president who will lift up the voices of every gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, Two-Spirt and intersex person,” . . . Warren vows that she will immediately use unilaterally presidential action—not congressionally enacted legislation—to advance LGBTQ+ rights.

It is a startling reaction, but LGBTQ advocates are continuing their campaign to ostracize “transgender” people who want to return to their birth sex. Charlie Evans fits the profile of a “former transgender” who felt shunned by LGBTQ members and was labeled a “traitor.” She naively set out to help teenagers from making the same “horrendous mistakes” she had made when starting to transition at age 17. She began living as a boy, binding her chest and shaving her head. The floodgates to this bizarre phenomenon opened in the aftermath of Evans appearing on a popular cable program, Sky News,...

The 18-year-old actress will play Lexi, "a beautiful, sharp-tongued cheerleader and the most popular girl at Bayside High who is both admired and feared by her fellow students"

Tattoos are not new. What is new is their ubiquity and extent of body coverage. They meet the eye with livid starkness everywhere one looks, turning the atmosphere and the culture positively fluorescent. What was once a niche market has expanded exponentially. Practically everyone of a certain age group, say, late teens to early fifties, seems to flaunt these decorative glyphs and totems on every visible part of their bodies, including the head and face. (Actress Amanda Bynes and rapper Post Malone are recent celebrity examples.) And judging from my experience in the change room of the gym where I...

Full title: NYPD officer violently attacked while 'partner' politely asks criminal to stop. Suspect released with no bail. Video: https://twitter.com/SBANYPD/status/1210935475168567297BROOKLYN, NY – It’s open season on cops in New York City, and an incident this past Thursday shows that criminals no longer care about assaulting them, especially since in the state of New York, assaulting a police officer is not considered a serious enough crime to warrant cash bail. In downtown Brooklyn, 40-year-old Steven Haynes apparently sucker punched the unsuspecting officer for no reason. The officer fell to the ground, at which point Haynes continued punching the officer in the...

It seems like there’s no shortage of alphabet soup in the diet of media consumption during [current year]. The buffet of pop-culture offerings seems to be dwindling down heteronormative standards in place of trying to adhere to the whims of the Twitter hordes and Portland-esque propaganda puppets who want all things Rainbow Reich controlling media, politics, and society in general. This became evident with Amazon’s Christmas ad, which decided to fall lock-step in sync with [current year] trends. The ad is a minute and a half long, and it was originally published back on November 3rd, 2019 over on Amazon’s...

Someone needs to remind all these mega-corporations that Pride month ended months ago… or did it? Based on the amount of alphabet soup propaganda finding its way into the mainstream nearly every other major ad these days, one would think that Pride has become a 24/7 holiday. Not to be outdone by Amazon’s lesbian kiss, or Renault’s lesbian make-out session, or Sprite’s LGBTQIA+ ad, T.G.I. Fridays decided to get in on the action with an ad featuring a gay kiss. YouTube outlet SN posted up the ad, featuring a couple of couples kissing, one of which involves two men locking...