California Bill Would Charge Any Parent Who Doesn’t Affirm Transgenderism With ‘Child Abuse’

PLUS: We Must Reform America’s Politicized Law Enforcement. Here’s How to Start. June 10 2023 Good morning from Washington, where the incumbent president’s law enforcement agencies are going after his greatest rival in hopes of disqualifying him for the White House. Here’s what Americans should do, Steve Bradbury writes. In California, lawmakers target parents who don’t embrace their kids’ interest in transgenderism. Tony Kinnett has the story. Who would have thought the law would compel women to watch men disrobe? Katrina Trinko has had enough. Plus: the hunt for “extremists” in the military; the environmental disaster at the southern border; and the death of an influential televangelist. Seventy years ago today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower rebuts critics of his Cold War foreign policy in a speech insisting on America’s commitment to a worldwide battle against commu nism . Enjoy the weekend. 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