June 01, 2017
Good morning from Washington, whose political correctness is getting a run for its money from a Michigan city's decision to punish a farmer for a traditional view of marriage. Don't miss this story from Fred Lucas. The Trump administration is undoing Obamacare’s mandate that employers pay for employees' contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. Rachel del Guidice covers that and Virginia’s crop of nonresident voters. Plus: Nolan Peterson on a "forever war" in Ukraine, and Tom Spoehr on why the Pentagon shouldn’t rush its review of Obama's transgenderism policy.
In order to justify the ban, the Michigan town cited its human relations ordinance, an anti-discrimination law that includes sexual orientation. Now Steve Tennes is fighting back.
On June 30, 2016, then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced a change in policy to allow transgender individuals to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces, effective at the latest by July 1, 2017.
"At long last the United States government acknowledges that people can get contraceptives without forcing nuns to provide them," says a lawyer for the Little Sisters of the Poor.
"Every God-given day/Whether we work or study/Out on a date or go to the movies/Hike in the mountains or rest at the seaside/Has been paid with blood, with lives of Ukrainian servicemen./2,600 Ukrainian soldiers have sacrificed their lives./9,700 got wounded. For the past three years/This is the price/We paid for every single day we lived in peace," reads a display in Kyiv’s main square.
A federal aid agency President Trump proposed cutting is being investigated for giving out nearly $1 billion in loans to several nearly bankrupt solar companies.
The report "highlights the problem of illegal voting by noncitizens and illustrates the shocking fact that not only do election officials not have any measures in place to prevent this from happening, but that law enforcement apparently has no interest in prosecuting this fraud when it is discovered," says a legal expert.
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