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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website
Psychiatrist Paul McHugh: Transgender ‘Folly’ Will ‘Collapse, Just as Eugenics Folly Collapsed’
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Psychiatrist Paul McHugh: Transgender ‘Folly’ Will ‘Collapse, Just as Eugenics Folly Collapsed’
One of the world’s most renowned experts on the transgender phenomenon declared in an interview he is “absolutely convinced” the transgender movement is “folly and it’s going to collapse, just as the eugenics folly collapsed.” In an interview at the end of May with Matthew J. Franck, contributing editor of Public Discourse, Paul McHugh, M.D. the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, warned puberty is a complex biological process that has been “over-simplified” to the detriment of children with gender dysphoria who are being treated with puberty blockers.
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from Competitive Enterprise Institute
The White House today announced it plans to cancel several leases for energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. ,,, “The government cannot enter into a contract to take over $14 million and then invalidate the contract without cause. No cause for canceling the ANWR leases has been provided.”
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
When prices go up, you are quietly getting poorer.
When Americans read about inflation in the newspaper or hear rising prices pop up in a policy debate, it often feels like an abstract, far-away concept. But revealing remarks from a top Costco executive offer a timely reminder of how inflation ultimately gut-punches everyday people in the wallet. CNBC reports that Costco CFO Richard Galanti recently warned that the big-box retailer is facing surging prices across its supply chain. This has manifested itself in a 20 percent increase in costs for essential goods like meat and increases in crucial operational expenses like shipping containers and aluminum foil.
After a tough year, Americans need their incomes more than ever. But the IRS is holding onto their money longer than usual because they are unable to keep up.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake
There was a time when the Covid pandemic seemed to confirm so many of our assumptions. It cast down the people we regarded as villains. It raised up those we thought were heroes. It prospered people who could shift easily to working from home even as it problematized the lives of those Trump voters living in the old economy. Like all plagues, Covid often felt like the hand of God on earth, scourging the people for their sins against higher learning and visibly sorting the righteous from the unmasked wicked. “Respect science,” admonished our yard signs. And lo!, Covid came and forced us to do so, elevating our scientists to the highest seats of social authority, from where they banned assembly, commerce, and all the rest. ... But these days the consensus doesn’t consense quite as well as it used to. Now the media is filled with disturbing stories suggesting that Covid might have come — not from “populism” at all, but from a laboratory screw-up in Wuhan, China. You can feel the moral convulsions beginning as the question sets in: What if science itself is in some way culpable for all this?
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
There is no reason for pessimism about the future of our species or the planet.
On April 25, British Vogue published an article titled “Is Having a Baby in 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?” The author, Nell Frizzell, “worried about the sort of world” that she would bring her “child into — where we have perhaps just another 60 harvests left before our overworked soil gives out.” In the end, she decided to have a son and teach him to live within humanity’s “environmental means” and free of “the fever of consumerism.” Frizzell is not alone in worrying about the increasing size of the world’s population and the accompanying growth in resource consumption. In the last few years, books, articles, and organizations arguing in favor of limits on population growth have proliferated in line with the increasing radicalization of the environmental movement. Where did that radicalization come from, and do the environmentalist extremists have a point?
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from MedPage Today
First, an admission: this is not really a column about the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Others have written great ones, and I am not terribly interested in the question. Why? Right now, the two most widely discussed possibilities are the virus underwent zoonotic transmission (from some animal to a person), possibly at a wet market, and the other is that it escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology due to poor safety protocols in a biosafety level (BSL) 3 or 4 laboratory. If it escaped due to a wet market, I would strongly suggest we clean up wet markets and improve safety in BSL laboratories because a future virus could come from either. And, if it was a lab leak, I would strongly suggest we clean up wet markets and improve safety in BSL 3 and 4 ... you get the idea. Both vulnerabilities must be fixed, no matter which was the culprit in this case, because either could be the culprit next time. I want to talk about the real lesson of "lab leak," which in my mind is the way in which the idea moved from a taboo subject -- a conspiracy theory -- to a perfectly acceptable topic of discussion. In fact, last week, Facebook removed its ban on posts discussing the laboratory escape of the virus as a possibility. How could this happen? What was misinformation yesterday is something that needs investigating today?
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from RealClear Policy
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MOSTLY FACTUAL Media/News Company
Government Regulation of App Stores Could Wind Up Costing Consumers
App stores are in the crosshairs of regulators around the world, threatening the privacy and security of consumers in jurisdictions throwing the red tape at companies. The E.U. has preliminarily found that Apple has a monopoly and is abusing its market power in the distribution of music streaming apps. In the U.S., several states are considering legislation to regulate the platforms. Epic Games is currently suing Apple in District Court in California. Regulating app stores is a bad idea at the continental, federal or state level. There simply isn’t the consumer harm to justify these regulatory interventions.
Government Regulation of App Stores Could Wind Up Costing Consumers
App stores are in the crosshairs of regulators around the world, threatening the privacy and security of consumers in jurisdictions throwing the red tape at companies. The E.U. has preliminarily found that Apple has a monopoly and is abusing its market power in the distribution of music streaming apps. In the U.S., several states are considering legislation to regulate the platforms. Epic Games is currently suing Apple in District Court in California. Regulating app stores is a bad idea at the continental, federal or state level. There simply isn’t the consumer harm to justify these regulatory interventions.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Washington Examiner
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, News & Media Website in Washington, DC
Apparently determined to win Russian President Vladimir Putin's favor by any means necessary, President Joe Biden is sacrificing yet another American interest to Putin. The Biden administration is revoking the permit for a United States oil company, Delta Crescent Energy, that has been operating in northeastern Syria, as reported by Al-Monitor. Delta Crescent Energy is working with local Kurdish and Sunni Arab interests to develop the local economy and provide much-needed investment. Recognizing the U.S. and dual security-humanitarian interests involved, I previously wrote in favor of Delta Crescent Energy being granted a U.S. Treasury Department waiver for its Syria engagement. The Trump administration later offered that waiver. In contrast, Biden's removal of the waiver is yet another gift to Putin.
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