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Missouri high school where teen was brutally attacked refuses to give records to state's AG

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Podcast: The 3WHHβ€”With a Twist!

(Steven Hayward)

This week’s episode could be mistaken for the Three Martini Happy Hour, because this week’s installment comes with a tangy twist. John Yoo is away this week, so we brought in a ringer to take his place: Prof. Hadley Arkes! Thus this episode become a Positivism-Free Zone, in which we review the deepest ground of the natural law unencumbered by John’s usual alarums, excursions, and errors.

The episode comes in three parts: Hadley made some news yesterday, celebrating the retirement of the noted Notre Dame Law professor Gerard V. Bradley, who will be joining Hadley at theΒ James Wilson Institute on Natural Law and the American Founding.

Gerard V. Bradley

From there Hadley proceeds to answering the question that we’ve been kicking around ever since the Dobbs decision, namely, just how should pro-life politicians break out of their self-imposed muteness about abortion. Hadley has the strategy.

Finally, we spend some time toward the end getting down some of Hadley’s β€œorigin story” that brought him to Leo Strauss’s classroom at the University of Chicago back in the 1960s, and key friendships made along the wayβ€”especially our late friend and unsung hero Michael Uhlmann.

Note: We had some internet glitches while recording this episode that weren’t easily edited or smoothed over, so we ask listeners’ indulgence with these hiccups, in return for which we’re presenting this installment ad-free.

As usual, listen here, or at our hosts at Ricochet when it goes live there.

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EXCLUSIVE: DC Library Sought to Hire Ex-Felon for Drag Queen Story Hour

FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL: A District of Columbia library sought to engage a drag queen with a criminal background to perform at pride-themed Drag Story Hours for children.

A staff member at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library solicited drag queen Latrice Royale, otherwise known as Timothy Wilcots, to sing and dance in drag before children, according to an email obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news outlet).

According to that May 17, 2023, email, the library employee was under the impression that the LGBTQ organization the Human Rights Campaign would pay the drag queen’s travel fees and $10,000 performance fee. Wilcots ultimately proved too pricey for the event, the HRC’s Brandon Hooks shared in a later email (neither Hooks nor the HRC responded to requests for comment).

β€œBefore I ping her manager again, I just want to make sure HRC would be able to cover 10k fee plus, hotel, ground, and air. Please let me know if this is possible,” wrote the library’s youth services manager, Paula Langsam. The library did not immediately address The Daily Signal’s inquiries.

I’m 52 today!!! #BirthdayGirl pic.twitter.com/SlDqcMniVt

β€” Latrice Royale Inc. (@LatriceRoyale) February 12, 2024

That email was addressed to both Hooks and Amy Oden of the HRC. The email’s subject line read: β€œPride Family Day at MLK Update.”

Wilcots, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, was previously arrested and incarcerated for possession of oxycodone, clonazepam, cannabis, and ecstasy,Β court records show.

Wilcots has described his time in prison in a number of media interviews since then.

The library’s interest in Wilcots, despite his criminal background, underscores concerns that drag queen story hour organizers are failing to perform background checks on the adults who dress in drag and read LGBTQ books to children at drag queen story hours.

Wilcots is a biological man who stands at 6 feet, 4 inches tall, weighing almost 400 pounds. When dolled up and wearing heels, one media report says, Wilcots β€œtowers close to seven feet tall.” He is legally married to a man, describes himself as β€œlarge and in charge chunky yet funky bold and beautiful,” and has over a million followers on social media.

Drag queen story hoursΒ beganΒ as niche events on the West Coast that spread to libraries and schools across the U.S. The official Drag Queen Story Hour website boasts of almost 50 independently operated chapters across the U.S., including in New York City, D.C., and Chicago, as well as two international chapters in Tokyo and in Berlin.

According to theΒ Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website, the events are designed to be about 45 minutes long for children aged 3 to 8 years old and intended to capture children’s imagination and help children explore their gender fluidity through β€œglamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

For example, The Daily Signal previously reported that drag queen β€œVV Majesty” led a Capital Pride Alliance drag queen story hour in Washington, D.C., where β€œVV Majesty” read a book about a trans-identifying little boy to toddlers.

The drag queen was dressed in a voluminous tulle princess dress with a black bodice and an exposed red braβ€”a β€œfairy rose princess,” as the drag queen told The Daily Signal. He also sported a long black wig, a three-horned crown with red paper roses on it, and a large glittery necklace.

Critics on both sides of the aisle have expressed strong concerns about lasciviously dressed men, often in corsets, heels, wigs, and heavy makeup, reading books about gender ideology to very young children.

These concerns are heightened by news reports, such as the arrest of a Milwaukee judge on child pornography charges. That judge was the former president of an organization sponsoring Drag Queen Story Hour

The Justice Department sentenced Brett Blomme in December 2021 to nine years in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for distributing child pornography showing abuse of young boys. At his sentencing, District Judge James Peterson described the child pornography that Blomme was distributing as β€œthe worst of the worst.”

Drag queens who perform for children at story hours insist that they are well intentioned.

β€œI’m a nonviolent offender, not a child molester, or a pedophile,” Wilcots reportedly said in an interview with NewNowNext. β€œI wasn’t standing in front of schools targeting kids.” 

Today in DC: a @CapitalPrideDC sponsored drag queen story hour takes place at Stead Park. Drag queen reads a book about gender ideology to a big crowd of little kids and enthusiastic parents. pic.twitter.com/GrZ7LBQHBq

β€” Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) June 10, 2023

Have an opinion about this article? To sound off, please emailΒ letters@DailySignal.comΒ and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular β€œWe Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state.

The post EXCLUSIVE: DC Library Sought to Hire Ex-Felon for Drag Queen Story Hour appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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β€˜Most Terrifying Poll Result I’ve Ever Seen’: Scott Rasmussen Surveys America’s Elite 1%

When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it’s OK to win an election by cheating.

The elite 1%β€”individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degreesβ€”are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, compared to his 40% average from the rest of Americans.

Rasmussen asked these liberal voters: β€œSuppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught. Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”

Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. But that number rose to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day.

β€œI’ve been polling for a very long time and the last finding is the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen,” Rasmussen told The Daily Signal.

Rasmussen spoke to β€œThe Daily Signal Podcast” about his findings and his upcoming plans for a weekly TV show. Listen to the full interview or read an edited transcript below.

Rob Bluey: Your firm, RMG Research, takes a different approach to polling and public opinion, trying to understand where voters stand on key issues. You’ve coined the term counterpolling. Tell us what that means.

Scott Rasmussen: Counterpolling is designed literally to counter misleading information that’s that comes out from a lot of establishment polls. Our belief is that most public opinion polling that comes out of Washington is presented and analyzed in the language of a Georgetown cocktail party. They use words that nobody else in America uses.

We go out and we make a strong effort to ask questions in the language of everyday Americans. We respect voters. We think they are intelligent. We have great hopes for the commonsense wisdom of the American people, but we also know they have better things to do with their lives than talk politics every day.

Bluey: It reminds me of after the 2016 presidential election when so many media organizations had a reckoning that they were out of touch with everyday Americans.

Rasmussen: We start by trying to understand. We don’t want to get into the innards of what you think about this policy detail vs. that policy detail. We want to know their attitudes. We want to know because that is something that is constant.

I’ve been polling on immigration for decades. And you know what’s never changed. About 80% of Americans say legal immigration is good for America and about 80% say illegal immigration is bad for America. That’s constant.

Bluey: One of the polls you did recently was on what you call the elite 1%. Can you give us some toplines on what you learned?

Rasmussen: The elite 1 % are people who make at least $150,000 a year. They live in a densely populated urban area, more than 10,000 people per square mile. And they have a postgraduate degree.

That last one is very important. We hear a lot about the diploma divideβ€”that people with a college degree are more Democratic. Actually, it’s the postgrads who are different. The gap between postgraduates and people with a bachelor’s degree is often bigger than the gap between people with a bachelor’s and without a bachelor’s degree.

The elite 1% represent 1% of the population. They are extraordinarily influential. A heavy concentration of them went to one of 12 elite schools. The reason I bring that up is about half the policy positions in government, half the corporate board positions in America, are held by people who went to one of these dozen schools.

Their views really play a large role in the country, and it all feeds into this elite 1%.

They are in power centers. Somebody who is in Manhattan or Washington, D.C., is in a different circle of public influence than somebody who lives in McKinney, Texas.

If you’re thinking of who’s shaping the mainstream media narrative, it’s this group.

The Elite 1% are even more out of touch than you think https://t.co/q1Um2YuqSy

β€” Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) January 26, 2024

Bluey: The biggest headline for me was what this group thinks about the issue of cheating in elections. Can you unpack that one for us?

Rasmussen: We asked voters, 1,000 voters, to suppose there was an election and it was close but your candidate lost. And if their campaign team knew they could win by cheating and not get caught, would you want them to do so?

Among voters, only 7% say they’d rather cheat than win. I wish it was 1% or 2%, but 7% is not bad. Among the elite 1%, 35% would rather cheat than win. Then among a group that we call the politically obsessed eliteβ€”people who are not only in the elite 1%, but they talk politics every dayβ€”69% of them would rather cheat to win the election.

It’s because they don’t have much respect for the opinions of voters.

Bluey: What are their views on government compared to the general population?

Rasmussen: Let’s start with a very simple one. Most Americans think we don’t have enough individual freedom. Among the elite 1%, about half say, β€œNo, we’ve got too much freedom.” And among that politically obsessed group, about 7 out of 10 say, β€œThere’s too much individual freedom in America.”

That’s just mindboggling to me, but part of the reason is because they trust government. In America, it’s been 50 years since most voters trusted the government to do the right thing most of the time. But among the elite 1%, 70% trust the government.

When I look at all the data, there’s a sense that most of us believe in government β€œof the people, by the people, and for the people.” And I think they would say, it’s of and by the elites that is what’s best for the people. They really believe that if they could just make the decisions and get us out of the way, we would be a lot better off.

SCOTT RASMUSSEN NUMBER OF THE DAY:

47% of the Elite 1% of American voters believe that the U.S. provides too much individual freedom.

In contrast, a separate survey found that most voters (57%) believe there is too much government control. pic.twitter.com/1UTXTYNDt5

β€” Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) January 29, 2024

Bluey: As somebody who’s been in the polling business for a long time, what is it that keeps you going?

Rasmussen: I remain convinced that most of the polling data is misleading. Most of the data that guides the polling narrative is misleading. And as someone who believes deeply in our nation’s founding values, I want to lift up the voice of the people so loudly that it can’t be ignored in this city.

That’s the objective. We want to transform the debate. We want to help people see most Americans still embrace those founding ideals.

It just offends me to no end to see this misleading impression of the American people. And by the way, as a people, we are far more united than we are politically. In our day-to-day lives, there’s an awful lot of unity and common ground.

Bluey: On April 7, β€œThe Scott Rasmussen Show” will premiere. Could you give us some details on the show and where people can tune in to watch?

Rasmussen: It’s going to be on the Merit Street Media, which is Dr. Phil’s new television network. It’ll be available everywhere. And I’m sure that they’ll have something on the website to tell you about specifics in your local area.

The show came about because of the counterpolling concept and because of my belief that most Americans still believe in those founding ideals and traditional values.

The show is going to be a lot of politics because as a pollster you can’t get away from that. But we’re also going to touch on other things. We’ll do some holiday types of stories and how people are reacting to cultural twists.

My favorite polling question every year is about New Year’s Eve. Most people are shocked to learn that more Americans pray than drink on New Year’s Eve. Now, that’s because a lot of Americans pray every day. It’s not because they’re out there just on that one day. That’s just a different perspective of the world. And we want to highlight that. Again, it’s all part of lifting the voice of the American people up so loudly that you can’t ignore it.

The post β€˜Most Terrifying Poll Result I’ve Ever Seen’: Scott Rasmussen Surveys America’s Elite 1% appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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