From the article -- Following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022, the Biden administration sought to undermine the decision by expanding access to chemical abortion. It relaxed the FDA’s Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), removing the long-standing requirement for in-person dispensing and medical oversight.
But another obstacle remained: the Comstock Act, an 1873 federal law prohibiting the use of our mail system to send articles intended for abortion. Rather than enforce that law, the Biden Justice Department issued an opinion concluding that abortion drugs could be mailed unless the sender specifically intended an illegal abortion. In effect, the government said, “Presume lawful use and ask no questions.”
That DOJ opinion remains in effect today under the Trump administration. Unlike the FDA’s REMS policy, which is being challenged in court, the Justice Department can withdraw and replace that opinion without waiting for Congress or the courts.
Related articles: “Blanche Hearing Blows Holes in Trump’s Pro-Life Credibility” (Suzanne Bowdey, Washington Stand)
2) “A Winning Political Strategy? JD Vance Opts To Appease Dangerous Anti-Israel Conspiracies” (Breanna Claussen, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article -- As antisemitism ingrains itself deeper into the Democrat Party, and many young Republicans follow behind, taken captive by the conspiracies of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and others, recent statements by Vice President JD Vance have shown that he is more than willing to feed into the trend.
On an episode this week of the “Joe Rogan Experience,” Vance seemed eager to brand himself as the “reasonable moderate” voice, repeatedly calling Israel an ally while simultaneously propping up outlandish theories directed against the Jewish State.
Related article: “The Vance Variable: Veep is the partisan divide on Israel -- In a week when the majority of House Democrats abandoned the Jewish state, the vice president served as a reminder that the GOP's lockstep pro-Israel stand is not set in stone.” (Jonathan Tobin, Jewish World Review)
3) “‘Art’ and the Pathology of our Age: Modern art stopped challenging convention long ago. Now it challenges only common sense and rewards the people willing to applaud the loudest absurdities.” (Roger Kimball, American Greatness)
From the article -- What is it about the word “art”? Pronounce it, and the IQ of susceptible folk is instantly halved. (I’ve seen cases where it is diminished by 87 percent.) Normally sensible people who do not, as a rule, appreciate being made fools of stand idly by as someone tells them that a video of some charlatan climbing naked up a scaffolding while applying Vaseline to sensitive parts of his body is “the most important American artist of his generation.”
Instead of throwing something soft and rotting at such mountebanks, they nod solemnly and reach for their wallets. They are only too eager, when a stiffy arrives from the Museum of Modern Art or some similar establishment, to don the soup and fish and buzz round to the super-exclusive evening event where scores of beautiful people line up to sip the shampoo (David Niven’s word for champagne) and admire a tank full of formaldehyde and a dead tiger shark.
What is it about the word “art” that endows it with this mind- and character-wrecking property? Why does it induce incontinent gibbering, not to mention mind-boggling extravagance, among normally hard-headed souls?
4) “NEA Same Ol’ Same Ol’ -- The latest annual National Education Association convention, as usual, focused on the union’s radical political and social agenda.” (Larry Sand, American Greatness)
From the article -- Then, in her opening talk, Moss said that teachers must “organize, organize, organize.” Notably, she went off on the new national tax-credit scholarship program, which is set to go into effect next year. She attacked the program, incoherently spouting, “First of all, it’s important our members understand what’s happening. I don’t know if they know there is an intentional plan to destroy public education—and if public education is destroyed, then we have a population whose critical thinking skills are diminished, and it’s easier for an authoritarian government to have influence.” Moss also said that the NEA “can be and must be the most powerful force in America.”
On another note about leadership, Cecily Myart-Cruz, the president of United Teachers Los Angeles, was elected by her union colleagues to serve on the organization’s highest governing body, the NEA Executive Committee.
This is the union boss who, when asked about the learning loss students incurred during the COVID-19 shutdown, replied, “There is no such thing as learning loss. Our kids didn’t lose anything. It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their timetables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup.” She even bizarrely suggested that “learning loss” is a fake crisis marketed by “shadowy purveyors of clinical and classroom assessments.”
5) “Zero Sympathy for the Democrats’ Political Death March: After years of empowering the fringe, Democrat insiders are discovering that the monsters they cultivated are now consuming them.” (Scott McKay, American Spectator)
From the article -- Primary season is just about over in advance of the 2026 midterms, and it looks like the old-time party faithful on the Democrat side are awfully disappointed with how things sit.
I could show you lots of other examples of the old-school Democrats coming out of the woodwork to sound the alarm about the Democratic Socialists of America turning out enough radicals to win low-turnout party primaries around the country — and tubing the chances of that massive wave election they’ve all but guaranteed themselves.
Other Provocative Articles from the Week
* “The Church of England has betrayed British Jews – again. General Synod has given oxygen to vile lies about Israel.” (Limor Simhony Philpott, spiked!)
* “Fraud: More Than We Can Imagine?” (John Hinderaker, Power Line)
* “Feds Recover Less Than 1% of $400 Billion+ in COVID Relief Funds Lost to Fraudsters” (Mark Tapscott, Washington Stand)
* "Where is Muslim-American Assimilation Headed? A new poll shows a strong patriotic streak -- but also reason to worry." (Zainab Al-Suwaij, City Journal)
* "America’s Top Companies? -- This survey of the nation’s greatest companies is both nonsensical and evidence of the problems that plague our mainstream media." (Stephen Soukup, American Greatness)
