Aug. 17, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where Zika and GMOs are part of the lexicon. But in Florida, Kelsey Harkness reports, residents object to using genetically modified mosquitoes to repulse the virus. In Texas, Fred Lucas learns, it's still OK for a judge to pray from the bench. In Pennsylvania, Josh Siegel writes, a child rape fuels a bill to make sanctuary cities pay for crime. Plus: Elizabeth Slattery on a court ruling that imperils pregnant teens, and Scott Erickson on what's different about the Milwaukee riots.
"These policies are dangerous. Philadelphia, and cities like it, are basically encouraging illegal immigrant criminals to come there," argues Pennsylvania state Rep. Martina White, a Republican.
The mosquitoes, developed by a British biotechnology company, reduced the number of Zika-infected mosquitoes by over 90 percent in trials conducted in the Cayman Islands, Panama, and Brazil.
One year has passed since the Environmental Protection Agency caused a discharge of 3 million gallons of toxic water into the Animas River, and no one has been held accountable.
"The tyranny of political correctness is causing people to step away from their values," says Judge Wayne Mack, a justice of the peace in Montgomery County, Texas.
As a result of this decision, instead of receiving counsel from their parents, minors may be pressured into making a life-altering decision and forced to hide any emotional or physical struggles from their parents after the fact.
What has occurred in Milwaukee since Saturday evening has been nothing more than unmitigated anarchy—a complete disregard for the rule of law.
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