Sessions: Southern Poverty Law Center Uses ‘Hate Group’ Label to ‘Bully’ Conservatives

Plus: Bureaucrats Want to Make a Woman With a Grass Allergy Grow a Lawn

Aug 09, 2018   Good morning from Washington, where federal health officials want Planned Parenthood to report evidence of sexual abuse or human trafficking. We've got one congressman's commentary on why the new rule is needed. Under fire from the left for his task force on religious liberty, Attorney General Jeff Sessions travels to Georgia to speak to a summit on defending our "first freedom." Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Bob Moffit and Kevin Pham on some good news about Medicare, John-Michael Seibler and Jonathan Zalewski on "grassroots" politics, and Monica Burke and Spencer McCloy on signs of division in the LGBT movement.     News Sessions Calls Out Southern Poverty Law Center for Using 'Hate Group' Label to 'Bully' Conservatives "They have used this designation as a weapon and they have wielded it against conservative organizations that refuse to accept their orthodoxy and choose instead to speak their conscience," says Attorney General Jeff Sessions. More Commentary Bureaucrats Want to Make a Woman With a Grass Allergy Grow a Lawn. She's Fighting Back. A Missouri town's ordinance requires residents to grow turf grass on at least 50 percent of their yard or face potential penalties of up to $500, 10 days in jail, or both, for each day of noncompliance. More Commentary Why the LGBT Alliance Could Be on the Brink of Schism One group, "Drop the T," suggests that "the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community." More Commentary New Title X Rule Will Hold Planned Parenthood Accountable on Reporting Abuse While all health establishments should follow mandatory reporting laws, it is especially important that federal dollars do not go to institutions that willfully refuse to report cases of sexual abuse. More Analysis The Daily Signal Podcast: Thursday, August 9 Can drones be used for assassinations, terrorist attacks, and drug trafficking? The Heritage Foundation's Jason Snead explains how drones are already being exploited by bad actors—and why the U.S. needs to act more aggressively on the drone issue. More Commentary How Medicare's Private Plans Surpass the Traditional Program Medicare Advantage, a system of competing private health plans, is surpassing the traditional Medicare fee-for-service program in delivering high quality, cost-effective medical care for senior and disabled citizens. More News Christian Student Group Sues University for Rejecting It as Official Club The University of Iowa chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA was one of the student clubs kicked off campus for not conforming to a university rule that clubs must eliminate a faith-based precondition to serve in leadership. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames@comcast.net. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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