Chicago cop sues city for right to change his race
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The New York Post
... after department allows officers to change genders. A Chicago police officer is suing the city to change his race on his official records after the department said it would allow officers to freely change their gender to match their identity. Mohammad Yusuf, 43, said in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed last week that he is looking to change from “Caucasian” as he “currently identifies as Egyptian and African American.” However, the Chicago Police Department is not allowing him to change his race. The lawsuit comes as the department allows an officer’s “gender identity [to be] corrected to match their lived experience,” Yusuf’s lawsuit alleges. And, the decision is impacting Yusuf’s professional advancement, he claims.

Canada. Prison for Hate Crimes Someone Fears You Might Commit
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
The Liberal government’s newly tabled Online Harms Bill will, if passed, allow people to report others to a provincial court judge out of fear that they may commit a hate crime in the future. As well, investigators will be allowed to enter people’s workplace without a warrant and demand access to records, and in some cases, people can file anonymous complaints alleging “hate speech.” These are just some of the many red flags lawyers have identified in Bill C-63 since it was tabled before the House of Commons on Feb. 26. Under the bill, if a judge is satisfied that an “informant has reasonable grounds” to fear that a future hate crime may be committed by a defendant, the defendant must abide by certain restrictions for a year.

With handouts, piped water and cooking gas, India’s Modi woos women voters
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Channel News Asia
Living in a slum in central India with her widowed mother and two young daughters, Nayantara Gupta says she owes her relative prosperity in recent years to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Gupta, a 28-year-old single mother, said she voted for the BJP in the last two general elections and plans to do the same in the next vote due by May, citing the party's focus on women's welfare, including cash handouts and domestic benefits such as piped water, 24/7 electricity and a cooking gas connection in her cramped home.

Labour MP: "Millions Of White Men" 'Beat Or Murder' Women In UK Every Week
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: Modernity News
In response to debate over Muslim ‘no-go’ areas... When another user cited a case in Newcastle of a Muslim man who spat in a baby’s face and shouted, “white people shouldn’t breed,” Phillips chimed in again. “This man is horrific, just like the millions of white men I could post about who beat or murdered women this week, but I’m not stupid enough to blame all white men for that, are you?” she wrote.

GOP Senators Block IVF Vote
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Associated Press
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization, objecting to a vote on the issue Wednesday even after widespread backlash to a recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that threatens the practice. GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith objected to a request for a vote by Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who used IVF treatments to have her two children after struggling with years of infertility. Duckworth's bill would establish a federal right to the treatments after the Alabama ruling upended fertility care in the state and families that had already started the process, the AP reports.

Ron Johnson Slams Wisconsin DOC for Housing Trans Prisoners With Women
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Daily Signal
Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson reacted Tuesday to a new report from The Daily Signal on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections housing a transgender prisoner, a child rapist, with women. “Housing biological males in women’s prisons is insane,” Johnson said Tuesday. “Forcing a woman to share a cell with a biological male is even worse.” “When will America reject these radical left policies destroying our country?” he asked. The senator was referring to The Daily Signal’s report on Katie McGraw, a woman incarcerated in Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Court Says Democrats Who Broke Quorum Rules Unconstitutionally Spent $1.7T
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Federalist
Congress lacked the constitutionally required quorum to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, a federal court ruled Tuesday. Accordingly, the Biden administration cannot enforce the new mandates imposed on Texas by the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which was part of the omnibus spending bill. However, Tuesday’s ruling left untouched the $1.7 trillion in appropriations, and with most of the money already spent, there is no real remedy for the Democrat-controlled Congress and White House’s blatant disregard for the Constitution.

New policy guide details how states can strengthen laws to fight child labor
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Economic Policy Institute
The report recommends two critical measures frequently put forward by advocates: increasing funding for enforcement and increasing civil and criminal penalties for violations. In addition, the report presents an array of impactful yet less-often-highlighted avenues for preventing and addressing violations. All of them draw on existing precedents within various federal, state, or local employment laws—demonstrating their feasibility—and many are also low-cost or likely revenue neutral. These recommendations include...

Give your mom a gun
Topic: Women, Minorities, and Guns
Source: London Review of Books
An AR-15 ‘gives you your voice’. Gun politics in the US are now identity politics, and the AR-15, more than any other firearm, has become a symbol not only of consumer freedom, but of freedom of expression or even faith. ‘It will make people treat you differently if you are armed with an AR-15,’ a militia member told the Washington Post. Those who feel diminished by the political economy of American liberalism see the rifle as enabling them to be more than someone to whom history happens. This is what makes the idea of a shit-hits-the-fan moment so appealing. The AR-15 seems to provide a way to attain the independence and freedom the national mythology promises but reality denies: the chance to leave a mark on the world.

Number of monthly abortions about the same as before Roe overturned: Study
Topic: Abortion
Source: The Hill
The number of abortions occurring nationally each month remained about the same as in the months before the Supreme Court overruled the federal right to an abortion in 2022, according to data released Wednesday. In the three most recent months of data collected, from July to September 2023, the number of reported abortions each month was between 81,150 and 88,620, according to the #WeCount public report from the Society of Family Planning.The national monthly average in that period was slightly lower than the preceding three months, from April to June 2023, when the average was about 86,800. The data does not include self-managed abortions or those that are conducted outside the traditional health care system.

Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Co-chair Resigns; No Confidence in University
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Breitbart News
The co-chair of Harvard’s antisemitism task force resigned Monday, reportedly because she did not have confidence that the university would implement any of the committee’s recommendations on ending Jew-hatred at the nation’s top university. The Harvard Crimson reported: "Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun resigned from the presidential task force on antisemitism, according to a source familiar with the situation. Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 appointed Sadun in January to lead the task force as a co-chair last month. Her decision to resign was confirmed in statements from Sadun and Garber on Sunday. Sadun’s decision to resign is just the latest setback for Garber’s antisemitism task force, which has been dogged by controversy since its inception."

The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Making Contact
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young designer creating packaging for a pharmaceutical company. Looking at the rows of pregnancy tests she thought, “Well, women could do that at home!” and so she made it a reality for potentially pregnant people to be able to know about and take control of their own lives and bodies. But while the design of the prototype was simple, Crane faced the issues we continue to fight when it comes to reproductive rights and the health and autonomy of people who give birth: an uphill battle to convince the pharmaceutical companies, the medical community and conservative social leaders that at-home pregnancy testing was safe and necessary. After all this, Crane is only now receiving credit for her contributions to the industry.

The Disastrous Rollout of the Feds’ $10-a-Day Child-Care Program
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
In 2021 Ottawa announced plans for nationwide $10-a-day child care at a cost of $30 billion over five years. Three years in, how is it going? Not well. From the outset, skeptics predicted shortages, reduced parental choice, the destruction of private-sector operations, and a significant discrepancy between projected spending and the actual cost of providing child care at a fraction of its true value. The evidence from coast to coast shows all this now coming to pass.

State attorneys general say more than 85,000 children lost at the border
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Just the News
They are asking Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and FBI Director Christopher Wray to provide information on when the children were last seen and what safeguards are in place to ensure they are placed with family members. owa Attorney General Brenna Bird led the coalition along with Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. “Losing 85,000 kids is like losing the entire population of Sioux City," Bird said. "This is unacceptable. As a mom, it makes me sick to know that many of these missing kids have been trapped into forced labor and exploited by heinous sex traffickers. It’s the federal government’s job to keep these children safe. I’ve joined with 21 other attorneys general in demanding that the Biden Administration immediately locate and protect these children.”

Disney film president OUT immediately after woke remake flops
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
Bailey stepped down amid pressure from investors. Sean Bailey, king of remakes at Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture production, has stepped down at the entertainment company after pressure from investors to "reverse Disney’s box office cold streak," The New York Times reports. Bailey will still be producing a new Tron movie, however. Bailey has been in his role as a production president with Disney for 14 years and produced the live-action Aladdin, a more realistic version of The Lion King, and the live-action Beauty and the Beast. His latest remakes, however, have been less successful. He produced The Little Mermaid remake and The Haunted Mansion, which faired poorly at the box office.

The Collegiate War Against Merit
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: James G. Martin Center
A story in Inside Higher Ed last week revealed that two more Ivy League schools, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, have stopped publishing “dean’s lists” that recognize high levels of academic achievement. As one anonymous Penn alumnus put it, “The war against individual achievement continues unabated.” Other Ivies (e.g., Brown and Harvard) had already abandoned—or never really embraced—the concept of recognizing merit in this manner. Why is this happening? As Inside Higher Ed interpreted it, “Some universities are working to address a culture of perfectionism on campus, where students feel pressured to earn the highest grades, participate in the most extracurriculars or land the most elite internships.” Let’s stamp out excellence, the pernicious act of striving to do better, learning more, and becoming more productive students and citizens.

The hate we refuse to name
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
A new report on the intimidation of politicians ignores the foul behaviour of Islamists and trans activists. But there is a much bigger problem with this report. It fails to even mention some of the most prevalent sources of hostility in politics today. Take Islamist extremism. The report does contain one reference to the murder of Sir David Amess in 2021, who was killed at his constituency surgery. It says this ‘highlighted the risks that MPs face’, particularly when meeting constituents face-to-face. Yet it fails to mention the very specific threat that Amess faced. He wasn’t the victim of just anyone. He was stabbed to death by Ali Harbi Ali, a man who described himself as a ‘soldier of Islamic State’. He said he wanted to ‘punish a British lawmaker for the UK’s actions in Syria’.

‘The left’s hypocrisy on free speech is mind boggling’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Spiked Online
Heather Mac Donald on the anti-Semitism crisis in US universities. Anti-Semitism has exploded on US campuses since 7 October last year – especially on its most prestigious ones. In Ivy League universities, anti-Zionist fervour has frequently spilled over into the outright intimidation of Jewish students. Anti-Semitic slogans have been chanted on demos and projected on to buildings. Academics and students alike have praised or tried to excuse Hamas’s October pogrom. Strikingly, all of this is happening in spite of the stringent speech codes that now reign on university campuses – and in spite of colleges’ professed commitment to so-called diversity, equity and inclusion. Might these supposedly ‘anti-racist’ policies in fact be part of the problem?

Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Epoch Times
A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy” (1943). It is not a systematic treatise. It’s more of a series of observations about huge problems that vexed those times and ours. . He correctly saw that the West was headed toward bringing ever more people into the academic fold with classes and degrees, away from manual labor and raw skill and toward intellectual pursuits. By that he doesn’t just mean becoming academics but people working from and with an apparatus of ideology and philosophy—a class of information workers—that is ever more distant from actual productivity.

Peter Menzies: Even more Big Gov is not the solution to keeping kids from porn
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Hub
The state has no business in the WiFi of the nation. By the time you have finished reading this, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party of Canada may have figured out that making Canadians the freest people on earth doesn’t involve the state assigning hall monitors to govern the internet. Because prior to this week’s launch of the government’s Online Harms Act, there was considerable evidence to suggest the Tories don’t understand the consequences of internet regulation any better than their hapless opponents in government. The Conservatives, as we speak, are backers of Independent Senator Julie Miville-Dechene’s private member’s Bill S-210. Its intent, like so many pieces of legislation, is virtuous, as it is trying to protect children from access to online pornography. But the road to regulatory hell is paved with good intentions, and the legislation is so clumsily constructed as to pose significant threats to privacy and free expression.