Appeals court rules for professor who refused to use transgender student’s preferred pronouns

A federal appeals court on Friday unanimously ruled in favor of a professor who refused to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit found that Shawnee State University in southern Ohio violated the First Amendment’s free speech and free exercise clauses by punishing Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor, for using a transgender student’s biological pronouns. The ruling reversed a previous district court decision dismissing Meriwether’s claims.

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Mitt Romney Receives JFK ‘Profile In Courage’ Award For Voting To Impeach Donald Trump

Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney has been officially announced as the 2021 recipient of the JFK Profile In Courage Award.

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation made the announcement Friday, and cited Romney’s vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his first Senate impeachment trial as the reason for his selection.

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Jason Kenney says Alberta didn’t prep carbon tax fallback plan, was hoping to win in court

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says his government didn’t prepare a fallback plan on implementing a consumer carbon tax because they were hoping to win in the country’s top court.

Kenney said the province was buoyed by a lower court win in Alberta, and noted that three of the nine Supreme Court justices had concerns with Thursday’s majority decision that the tax is onside with the Constitution.

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Biden’s Lies About the Border Crisis Leave the ‘Disinformation Police’ Strangely Quiet

Biden’s Lies About the Border Crisis Leave the ‘Disinformation Police’ Strangely Quiet

“The “Information Age” has become a nightmare from which we are unable to awaken. As it turns out, there is, indeed, such a thing as too much information. We are all forced to selectively filter what information we process, resulting in our natural biases playing a large role in what information we actually absorb.

Take the border crisis. Whom do you believe?  Whose opinion do you trust? Whose facts can you rely on?”

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Original assessment of COVID-19 as low-risk wasn’t wrong, Tam says, despite Auditor-General’s report

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer says her agency wasn’t wrong when it rated the risk of COVID-19 to the country as low in early 2020, a ranking that the federal Auditor-General says was concerning and based on a faulty assessment tool.

At a news conference on Friday, Theresa Tam said the low-risk assessment was to show a moment in time rather than the potential risk the coronavirus posed to Canadians. However, she said her agency is now more focused on its forward-looking risk assessments, rather than only capturing the immediate risk posed by a disease.

“It was not wrong, it’s just that it is important to also provide what that future state might be like,” Dr. Tam said. Public-health agencies, she said, “need to be prediction organizations and not just being able to assess the risk of that present moment.”

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Getting the Facts Straight on the ‘Boulder Gun Ban’

After another tragic mass shooting, the Left peddles its usual anti-gun propaganda, facts be damned.

Even in a country full of politicians, activists, and pundits who mislead and obfuscate, few public policy conversations come with more heat and less light than those surrounding “gun control.” Unsurprisingly, this is especially true during the emotion and trauma following a horrific event such as Monday’s massacre at the King Soopers supermarket on Table Mesa Road in Boulder, Colorado.

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Prince Harry is here to help

Prince Harry is here to help

The Duke of Sussex has got a job flogging expensive pseudo-therapy to corporate droids the world over

Nothing duller for those of us not in therapy than listening to people who are in therapy talking about it, something they seem to like to do incessantly, at every opportunity. For this reason, my heart sank during the Oprah interview — which I’d been looking forward to tremendously — when early into his appearance, Prince Harry made an unsmiling reference to the ‘many years’ he had spent ‘doing the work — and doing my own learning’. Here we go, I thought.

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Arkansas Governor signs bill banning biological males from girls’ sports amid criticism of it being ‘cruel’ & ‘illegal’

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law a bill that bans biological males from competing in female school sports programs, marking the third Republican-controlled state to enact such legislation.

“This law simply says that female athletes should not have to compete in a sport against a student of the male sex when the sport is designed for women’s competition,” Hutchinson said in a statement after signing the bill on Thursday. “As I have stated previously, I agree with the intention of this law. This will help promote and maintain fairness in women’s sporting events.”

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The Courts and the Election of 2020

The Courts and the Election of 2020

While the mainstream news media continues to shout down anyone raising even the slightest penumbral emanations of possible 2020 election irregularities, and social media giants suspend, and even erase, people for similar “violations of community standards” (whatever that means) — a Supreme Court justice and a Michigan Secretary of State have issued written opinions that refute what every sensible MSNBC viewer desperately wants to believe is true.

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Xinjiang cotton: How do I know if it’s in my jeans?

Rights groups say Xinjiang’s Uighur minority (also spelled as “Uyghur”) are being persecuted and conscripted for forced labour.

Evidence shown to the BBC suggests that upwards of half a million Uighur minority workers a year are being marshalled into seasonal cotton picking under conditions that appear to raise a high risk of coercion.

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French teenager’s Twitter account suspended despite her being threatened with rape

After being slapped with a temporary ban from Twitter, 17-year-old Mila — who was forced into hiding in France last year after receiving thousands of death threats for her criticism of Islam — simply wrote, “Hi, I’m back!” after her account was reinstated.

When contacted by Le Point, she said she received no explanation or apology from Twitter.

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