Pat Condell is back

His latest video "OK Groomer" has already been taken down by YouTube but is still available on his own site:

https://patcondell.net/

It is a scathing takedown of the transsexual mania

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UK: Trans women patients will be banned from female hospital wards under proposals to be announced by the Health Secretary today.

Steve Barclay will unveil the plans to push back against 'wokery' in the health service amid concerns that women's rights are being sidelined.

The move will also see 'sex-specific' language return to the NHS, meaning terms such as breastfeeding will no longer be replaced by 'chestfeeding'.

Mr Barclay said: 'We need a common-sense approach to sex and equality issues in the NHS. That is why I am announcing proposals for clearer rights for patients.

'And I can confirm that sex-specific language has now been fully restored to online health advice pages about cervical and ovarian cancer and the menopause.

It is vital that women's voices are heard in the NHS and the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients are protected.'

The changes will give men and women the right to share wards with people of the same biological sex and have intimate care only from those of the same sex, the Daily Telegraph reported last night.

A source close to Mr Barclay told the newspaper: 'The Secretary of State is fed up with this agenda and the damage it's causing, language like 'chestfeeding', talking about pregnant 'people' rather than women. It exasperates the majority of people, and he is determined to take action.

'He is concerned that women's voices should be heard on healthcare and that too often wokery and ideological dogma is getting in the way of this'.

The proposals follow 2021 NHS guidance that said trans patients could be placed on single-sex wards on the basis of the gender with which they identified.

Mr Barclay will use his speech to the Conservative conference to announce a consultation on changes to the NHS constitution in order to strengthen protection for women.

Under the proposed changes, trans patients could be housed in separate accommodation or their own rooms.

Maya Forstater, executive director of campaign group Sex Matters, praised the plans, telling the Telegraph: 'This is fantastic news – the return of common-sense.'

An NHS Trust is allowing staff to take a year of paid leave for the 'male menopause', The Daily Telegraph reported last night.

East Midlands Ambulance Service managers have been told to give consideration to men experiencing menopausal-like symptoms, despite the condition not being clinically recognised.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12586639/Trans-women-patients-banned-female-wards-plans-announced-Health-Secretary-Steve-Barclay-today.html

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Inside Defamation Lawsuit That Could Blow Southern Poverty Law Center Wide Open

The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty “hate groups” or “antigovernment extremist groups,” placing them on a map alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

Many of the SPLC’s targets have sued for defamation, but almost every lawsuit has failed. Earlier this year, however, a judge allowed one defamation lawsuit against the SPLC to move forward.

D.A. King, founder and president of the Dustin Inman Society, brought a uniquely strong case against the SPLC. King didn’t just argue that the SPLC was lying by branding his organization, which supports the enforcement of immigration law and has legal immigrants on its board, an “anti-immigrant hate group” that “focuses on vilifying all immigrants.”

King argued that the SPLC had reason to doubt the claim that the Dustin Inman Society is an “anti-immigrant hate group” because the SPLC itself had explicitly stated that it did not consider his organization an “anti-immigrant hate group” years before it later did so.

In 2011, Heidi Beirich, then-director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project (the project behind the “hate map”), told The Associated Press that the SPLC did not consider the society a “hate group.” In 2019, however, the SPLC published its 2018 version of the “hate map,” and it included the Dustin Inman Society. The SPLC has kept the Dustin Inman Society on that map ever since, including this past June, even after a judge ruled that the society is likely to succeed in its lawsuit.

In another interesting twist, most of the quotes the SPLC uses as evidence to brand the society a “hate group” date to before 2011.

I sat down with King recently to discuss his important case. In our interview, he noted, “It’s the SPLC versus the SPLC.”

Many defamation suits against the SPLC fail due to the quirks of Supreme Court jurisprudence on defamation law. The bar for a plaintiff suing for defamation is extremely high, especially if the plaintiff counts as a “public figure.” While the Supreme Court precedent that established this kind of rule—New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)—actually involved an elected official, later precedents expanded the definition of “public figure” to include anyone who puts himself or herself out to the public, and nonprofits such as the Dustin Inman Society fit that definition.

Public figures who seek to restore their good names in court have to prove that those they’re suing acted with “actual malice,” which means proving they published their statements with “reckless disregard for the truth.”

In order to demonstrate that, a plaintiff such as King must prove that the SPLC had reason to doubt the truth or falsehood of its claims, and the 2011 AP article would appear to meet that criteria.

A federal judge rejected the SPLC’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit earlier this year, allowing the case to move to discovery. That means King can request documents from the SPLC that may help prove his case (and the SPLC can also request documents from him).

King is far from alone in facing the SPLC’s “hate group” accusation.

As I explain in my book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC took the program it had used to bankrupt organizations associated with the Ku Klux Klan and weaponized it against conservative groups, partially to scare its donors into ponying up cash and partially to silence ideological opponents.

In 2019, amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal that led the SPLC to fire its co-founder, a former employee came forward to call the organization’s “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.”

In 2012, a terrorist with a gun used the “hate map” to target a Christian nonprofit in Washington, D.C. Although the SPLC condemned the attack, it kept the gunman’s target on its “hate map.”

The FBI used the SPLC’s “hate group” list to target “radical-traditional Catholics” in an infamous memo earlier this year. According to the SPLC’s logic, the entire Roman Catholic Church arguably should be listed as a “hate group,” because the SPLC cited the Catechism of the Catholic Church in branding the small pro-family nonprofit the Ruth Institute a “hate group.”

Yet President Joe Biden—a self-described devout Catholic—and his team have hosted SPLC leaders and staff at the White House at least 11 times since Jan. 20, 2021, and Biden nominated an SPLC attorney, Nancy Abudu, to a federal judgeship.

Earlier this year, the SPLC added Moms for Liberty, along with other parental rights groups, such as Parents Defending Education, to its “hate map.”

King’s lawsuit represents the best chance to date to expose how the SPLC chooses whether to add an organization to its “hate map,” and that information may prove vital to restoring the good names of so many of the SPLC’s targets.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/02/inside-defamation-lawsuit-could-blow-southern-poverty-law-center-wide-open

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Biden is boosting ‘equality’ in the US — by making everyone poorer

By Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore

The latest Census Bureau report on income and poverty could hardly have been grimmer.

The US “supplemental poverty rate” (a new measure that takes into account government benefits and expenses related to working) rose over the course of a year.

The child-poverty rate doubled.

Almost every group — old people, young people, males, females and residents of every region of the country — lost ground.

There were virtually no bright spots.

Indeed, the middle class got hammered. Median household income fell by 2.2%.

The average family is roughly $2,000 poorer than when Biden entered office.

This followed a more than $6,000 rise in middle-class incomes under Trump.

Biden’s miserable results during his first two years in office are an entirely predictable consequence of his enacting more than $5 trillion of new debt spending — which sent inflation soaring to nearly 8%.

Very few workers received 8% wage increases to keep up with the cost of living.

Just ask the UAW strikers.

There was one quirky piece of “good news” for White House progressives obsessed with “income inequality.”

The income gap between the rich and poor has narrowed, according to several standard measures of income inequality.

The so-called Gini Coefficient — a standard measure of that spread — showed a reduction in inequality.

The ratio of the total income of the top decile of earners to that of the bottom decile fell — by 10%.

How did that happen? Not by making the poor richer.

We now have an all-time high of 38 million Americans living in poverty.

Instead, the incomes of the rich fell at a faster pace than the incomes of everyone else.

Biden says he’s abandoned “trickle-down” economics. And he has: Now there aren’t higher incomes to trickle down for anyone. Everyone is getting a smaller slice of a smaller pie.

Instead of JFK-style aspirations of a rising tide that lifts all boats, we now have a falling tide that is capsizing all boats — but the big yachts have sunk more than the row boats.

Biden has accomplished this through his radical income-redistribution plan, which puts equality over prosperity.

First, he’s raised taxes on the richest Americans; second, he’s redistributed $1.2 trillion per year of taxpayer money to the poor via anti-poverty programs without any requirements that the recipients work. Free money.

This is a recipe for making a nation poorer.

It’s simple math. First, every dollar that the government takes in taxes from the rich reduces their incentive to produce. The higher the tax penalty, the greater the disincentive to work.

Meanwhile, every dollar that is given to the poor (and not related to working) reduces the incentive to produce for those at the bottom.

So, the overall size of the economic pie keeps shrinking, and the more the politicians try to equalize income through taxes and subsidies, the fewer the number of rich and poor alike who will work.

Just look at the historically low level of the labor-force participation rate.

Biden and the Democrats have responded to the rise in poverty by arguing that we should return to COVID-era federal policies that handed out large cash benefits (such as checks of up to $3,600 per child) to families that are poor.

They seem to think that if we make the checks large enough, there will be no poverty in America.

But wait. If we give every family $30,000 (without requiring work), how many Americans with a wage and salary below or anywhere near that level would stop working in order to receive the freebie benefits?

The Holy Grail of perfect equality leads inevitably to everyone becoming poorer and more miserable.

The latest Census report is a warning that Biden has put us well on that road to ruin.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/biden-boosting-equality-in-us-by-making-everyone-poorer/

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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)

http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)

http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)

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