By Jarrett Stepman ~

The institutional Left senses that its dominance over our societal mores faces a sudden and unexpected challenge. It is responding with predictable derangement.

A woman protests outside of a Target store on June 1 in Miami. The protesters were objecting to “Pride Month” merchandise at Target. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Human Rights Campaign, a powerful and well-funded left-wing advocacy group, declared a “national emergency” for “LGBTQ+” people on Tuesday.

“LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency. The multiplying threats facing millions in our community are not just perceived—they are real, tangible, and dangerous,” HRC’s president, Kelley Robinson, said in a press release.

“In many cases, they are resulting in violence against LGBTQ+ people, forcing families to uproot their lives and flee their homes in search of safer states, and triggering a tidal wave of increased homophobia and transphobia that puts the safety…

By Tim Graham ~

In his “Fourth Watch” newsletter on Monday night, former CNN producer Steve Krakauer drew attention to how the media frame transgender issues. The New York Times podcast The Daily — which airs across America on National Public Radio affiliates — explained on June 1 how transgender controversies came to the center of the debate. The guest was West Coast cultural correspondent Adam Nagourney, a former chief political correspondent and gay historian.

Following the Obergefell ruling in 2015 making gay marriage legal in America, major gay rights advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD were in a bit of a bind — gay marriage was their defining issue. In many ways, these organizations became the victims of their success. They won. As The Daily told it, now they needed a new mission to drive interest, and donations. Suddenly the focus shifted from gay rights to…

The CCP’s use of Uyghur and Kazakh slaves allows China to manufacture the world’s cheapest solar panels and the first world to feel smug about using them to purportedly ‘save the Planet’. Aalthough, evidently, these noble Western saviours aren’t so concerned with those places where daily life is spent under lock and key and every move is scrutinised by jackbooted thugs.

The CCP – hardly renowned for its compassion – has rounded up something in the order of 2.6 million of its minorities and enslaved them as “surplus labour”, hundreds of thousands of them have been directed into dozens of China’s large-scale solar manufacturing plants; coerced with a mix of mass incarceration (aka “re-education camps”), threats to the victim’s families and actual violence – in so-called “labour transfer” programs.

But give these characters their due, the CCP has managed to dominate not only the production solar panels, but is…

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~