How Radical Feminism Sowed the Seeds of Our Transgender Moment

The Daily Signal
July 21, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Attorney General Jeff Sessions is taking friendly as well as unfriendly fire. Fred Lucas reports. The Heritage Foundation rolls out its Index of Culture and Opportunity, and Genevieve Wood talks with "Hillbilly Elegy" author J.D. Vance about it. What's feminist rhetoric got to do with the transgender agenda? Scott Yenor links the two. Plus: Bob Moffit on big change to help poorer Americans in the Senate health care bill, and Hans von Spakovsky on why he wants to be part of ending voter fraud.
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How Radical Feminism Sowed the Seeds of Our Transgender Moment

The founding mother of radical feminism is French thinker Simone de Beauvoir, whose book "The Second Sex" was published in the U.S. in 1953. "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," she wrote.

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Legal Experts Weigh in on Trump's Right to Be Riled at Sessions, DOJ

"Sessions should un-recuse himself and get rid of [special counsel Robert] Mueller," says Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton. "This is a political effort to jail the president and his family because people don't like him."

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'Hillbilly Elegy' Author Outlines Ways to Increase Opportunity

"What we often miss is that government isn't everything in these conversations," says J.D. Vance. "There's a lot going on at the individual level, and importantly, this point about culture, there's a lot going on at the community level."

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To Grow the Economy, Lawmakers Must Update the Tax Code

Unlike Democrats, who see more government spending as a solution, conservatives are working to get the government out of the way of economic growth, writes Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan.

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Senate Health Care Bill Could Be Greatest Entitlement Reform in a Generation

Medicaid is an open-ended entitlement, meaning that if a state spends more, for whatever reason, bigger federal payments to the state are automatically increased.

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My Parents' Experience With Dictatorships Inspired Me to Fight Voter Fraud

We were taught as children that the right to vote is a very precious right, it's one that can be easily lost, writes Hans von Spakovsky, who is on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

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