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The Republican National Committee (RNC) asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to back one of Pennsylvania’s key safeguards for mail-in ballots. The petition urges the justices to reconsider a lower court’s decision finding the state cannot exclude undated or misdated mail-in ballots from vote counts. “Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballot dating requirement is a simple, commonsense safeguard […]

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As medical associations are reconsidering transgender “medicine” for minors, Democrats—even “moderate” ones like Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear—seem to be missing the memo.

Just a few days after a jury awarded $2 million in damages to a detransitioner woman who underwent surgery at 16, and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons subsequently recommended against surgeries for patients under 19, Beshear decided to double down on transgender “treatments” and tie the issue to his Christian faith.

Beshear said on “The View” Monday that “the most authentic thing” that “drives” him is his faith.

“My decisions are based on ‘we love our neighbors like ourselves’ and the parable that says everyone is our neighbor,” he explained. “When I vetoed one of the nastiest pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation that came through my state, I described it in those terms.”

“I said my faith tells me that all children are children of God and I didn’t want people picking on those things,” the governor said.

I find that position rather ironic.

Beshear is right on the basics: Jesus does teach us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and while not all children are children of God, they are made in his image. But when it comes to protecting children, he has the policy exactly wrong.

His policy isn’t about protecting children, it’s about making them vulnerable to the transgender agenda.

Beshear’s Veto

As the Democratic governor of a red state, Beshear has vetoed many bills, although the Legislature often overrides him.

During a speech last year, Beshear touted having vetoed 2023 Senate Bill 150, which he then called “the nastiest piece of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that this state had ever seen.” The Legislature overrode his veto, so the bill became law, protecting parental rights, preventing boys from entering girls’ restrooms in schools, and forbidding transgender medical interventions.

In his 2023 veto message, Beshear said the bill “allows too much government interference in personal healthcare issues,” that his “faith teaches [him] that all children are children of God and Senate Bill 150 will endanger the children of Kentucky.”

Yet he had no qualms about government interference in health care issues in 2024, when he signed an executive order forbidding “conversion therapy.” In defending that order, Beshear wrote, “as leaders and policymakers, we should be in the business of protecting our citizens and kids from harm, not subjecting them to discredited methods that jeopardize their health, wellbeing, and safety.”

His “conversion therapy” order involved a double standard: allowing therapists to encourage a minor toward LGBTQ identities, but preventing counseling in the other direction, assuming that any such counseling is harmful. While LGBTQ activist groups have claimed “conversion therapy” is dangerous, data shows that thoughts of suicide decrease after counseling.

The governor’s reasoning about protecting kids isn’t entirely baseless, however. He just applies the protection to the wrong issue.

How to Actually Protect Kids

The theory goes like this: “conversion therapy” is so dangerous for kids long term that they cannot consent to it until they turn 18. Therefore, the government should protect them.

I agree with Beshear that minors face a threat to their health from which they should be protected, because they cannot give informed consent. The problem is, Beshear’s executive order explicitly protected the counseling that encourages the truly dangerous practice.

Beshear’s order states that therapy “that assists an individual seeking to undergo a gender transition” does not count as “conversion therapy.”

Activists push minors along a child mutilation pipeline, which begins with the anodyne-sounding “social transition.” Even just using names and pronouns that align with a kid’s stated “gender identity” acts as a “powerful psychotherapeutic intervention that radically changes outcomes,” according to psychologist Dr. Stephen B. Levine.

This often leads kids to undergo increasingly intrusive “treatments” to alter their bodies. Pre-pubescent kids take “puberty blockers,” the same drugs authorities use to “chemically castrate” sex offenders. A Food and Drug Administration study found an “increased risk of [suicidal thoughts] and depression” among minors using these drugs.

During puberty, minors take cross-sex hormones, which can carry increased risks of infertility, diabetes, and cancer. Then, of course, came the most irreversible “treatment”—the surgical removal of otherwise healthy sex organs, rendering patients infertile and dependent on the medical industry to maintain their Frankensteinian facsimiles of the opposite sex’s organs.

America’s medical institutions, which rushed to embrace most of this insanity in recent years, have started moving in the opposite direction. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended against surgery for patients under 19, and even the American Medical Association stated that it “generally” agreed. The society also cast doubt on hormone “treatments.”

This comes after the Department of Health and Human Services released a peer-reviewed study finding “extremely weak evidence” that these interventions have any beneficial effect for children, and that the risks for these interventions are becoming “increasingly undeniable.”

What Does Christianity Have to Do With It?

As a Christian, I believe in loving my neighbor, and that entails protecting kids from experimental medical interventions. Minors cannot give informed consent to interventions that will likely leave them stunted, scarred, and infertile, and we should protect them from the sex-rejecting procedures euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.”

Christianity also teaches that God made us male and female, and I can think of no worse form of “conversion therapy” than lying to a boy that he can become a girl or vice versa.

It is the exact opposite of compassion to gaslight children and drive them toward institutional medical self-harm.

It infuriates me to see Andy Beshear twist the Bible to endorse this cruel ideology. Luckily, the medical industry is seeing through the charade.

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The Jeffrey Epstein files, fraud, and the Biden administration’s lawfare were among the topics that Attorney General Pam Bondi addressed during her testimony Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee.  

Here are four big takeaways from the hearing.  

1. ‘Should be Apologizing’ 

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., suggested investigations of Trump’s enemies were distracting the Justice Department from reviewing the files of Epstein, a well-connected convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019. 

He spoke for four minutes before asking a question.  

“The DOJ has failed to bring any of these perpetrators to justice,” Nadler said regarding the names in the Epstein files. “Instead, you have engaged in a relentless pursuit of Donald Trump’s perceived enemies. I want to focus on just one example.” 

He brought up a federal indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James alleging mortgage fraud; a case subsequently dismissed.  

“How many of Epstein’s coconspirators have you indicted? How many perpetrators are you even investigating?” Nadler asked.  

Bondi attempted to answer, but Nadler kept interrupting her. He eventually jumped to answer his own question, “zero.” 

“I’m not going to get in the gutter with these people,” Bondi said. 

Nadler noted a social media post by Trump complaining about the two impeachments and five indictments against him.  

Bondi, who was on the team of lawyers defending Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial in early 2020, noted she and Nadler–one of the House managers–were on opposite sides.  

“During impeachment, you said the president conspired and sought foreign interference in the 2016 election. [Former special counsel] Robert Mueller found no evidence,” Bondi said. “Have you apologized to President Trump? All of you who participated in those impeachment hearings against Donald Trump, you all should be apologizing. You sit here, and you attack the president, and I am not going to have it.” 

She followed that the Trump administration is in the process of releasing the Epstein files.  

“They are talking about Epstein today. This has been around since the Obama administration,” Bondi said. “This administration released over 3 million pages of documents. Over 3 million, and Donald Trump signed that law to release all of those documents. He is the most transparent president in the nation’s history.” 

Trump signed the bill that passed overwhelmingly in Congress. 

Later in the hearing, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, asked Bondi if more individuals involved with Epstein would be indicted. She responded, “We have several investigations pending.”

2. ‘You Have to be Quiet’ 

At several points, ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told Bondi–the second woman to serve as U.S. attorney general–to stop talking. 

Raskin jumped into the exchange between Bondi and Nadler to say he warned Bondi not to “filibuster.” 

“I told you about that Attorney General, before we started,” Raskin said.   

Bondi defiantly replied, “You don’t tell me anything.” 

Later in the hearing, the two got in another exchange when Raskin said each member has only five minutes and accused Bondi of “going off on a wild goose chase, another tangent.” 

“If you do that, then we’re allowed to say we are reclaiming our time,” Raskin said. “At that point, you have to be quiet. You have no choice. You have to be quiet.” 

3. Fraud ‘Rampant Throughout the Country’ 

Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., asked Bondi about the investigation into the estimated $9 billion welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota.  

“Well, it’s not only rampant in Minnesota but also, throughout this country,” Bondi said. “Much of it is in California, as you know, and in other places. Yes, we are working on it actively. Our criminal fraud division has been working on it. We are expanding that.” 

Tiffany followed, “Why did federal law enforcement have to go to Minneapolis? Because of industrial scale fraud.”  

Tiffany, whose district is only about 20 miles from Minneapolis, added he asked Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, D-Wis., to open the books for a federal audit on food stamps and Medicaid. 

“Don’t you think it would be a good idea for every governor to do that at this point?” Tiffany asked. 

Bondi called it a “great idea.” 

4. ‘Failed Politician’ and ‘Hypocrite’ 

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., a co-author of the bill that forced the release of the Epstein files, criticized the Justice Department for redacting the name of a potential perpetrator. Bondi said the name was added back within 40 minutes.  

“Within 40 minutes of me catching you red-handed,” said Massie, a libertarian-leaning Republican who has clashed with Trump on issues.  

“Red handed, there was one redaction,” Bondi said laughing.  

Massie responded, “He was listed as a co-conspirator.” 

“He has Trump derangement syndrome,” Bondi said of Massie. “You’re a failed politician.” 

Bondi went on to add, “He’s a hypocrite because he voted against the ban that we were talking about on deepfake AI porn. One of only two people voted against it.” 

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WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. government posted a $95 billion budget deficit in January, down $34 billion or 26% from a year earlier as revenue gains including customs duties outpaced growth in outlays, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.

Adjusting for routine calendar shifts in benefit payments due to holidays, weekends and other factors in both years, the Treasury said the January deficit would have been $30 billion, a decline of $52 billion or 63% from January 2025.

January receipts totaled $560 billion, up $47 billion or 9% from a year earlier, while outlays totaled $655 billion, up $13 billion or 2%.

Through the first four months of the 2026 fiscal year that started October 1, the deficit fell to $697 billion, down $143 billion or 17% from the same period of fiscal 2025. Year-to-date receipts totaled $1.785 trillion, up $188 billion or 12% from the prior year period, while outlays reached $2.482 trillion, up $46 billion or 2%.

January receipts and outlays were records for the month, but the deficit was not a record, a Treasury official told reporters. Year-to-date receipts and outlays were also both records for the first four months of a fiscal year, but the deficit was not a record.

Helping to drive both January and year-to-date results were sharply higher net customs receipts due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. These totaled $27.7 billion in January, about the same level as December and slightly below the $30 billion monthly pace late last year. Customs duties in January 2025, the month that Trump took office and well before his tariff announcements, totaled $7.3 billion.

Fiscal year-to-date net customs duties were $117.7 billion, up from $28.2 billion a year earlier.

Also cutting the deficit was a rare $12 billion decline in Treasury interest outlays on the public debt to $72 billion for January. The Treasury official said this stemmed from downward adjustments to payments on inflation-linked securities that were delayed by last year’s government shutdown and publication of consumer price index data.

Year-to-date Treasury debt interest totaled $426 billion, a record for the period, up $34 billion or 9%.

(Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Andrea Ricci)

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