Why So Many Americans Worry About The Costs Of Prescription Medicines

Tyler O'Neil is the managing editor of The Daily Signal and, in this conversation, he assesses the current debate over the "transgender" trend happening in the US right now. The discussion includes the social/cultural extremes being taken to promote and protect the movement, even as emerging research confirms the harms being done to young people. The conversation also includes the long-term damage done to "detransitioners" and the issue of liability for those who administered the elective treatments (hormones, puberty blockers, surgeries, etc). These and other aspects of the "transgender" trends are covered in the Daily Signal's podcast: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/07/transgender-series-part-1-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria/ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/08/transgender-series-part-2-truthful-therapist-explains-parents-cant-trust-mental-health-professionals/ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/09/transgender-series-part-3-detransitioner-medical-malpractice-lawsuits-will-yield-10m-judgments-lawyer-says/

Tyler O'Neil is the managing editor of The Daily Signal and, in this conversation, he assesses the current debate over the "transgender" trend happening in the US right now. The discussion includes the social/cultural extremes being taken to promote and protect the movement, even as emerging research confirms the harms being done to young people. The conversation also includes the long-term damage done to "detransitioners" and the issue of liability for those who administered the elective treatments (hormones, puberty blockers, surgeries, etc). These and other aspects of the "transgender" trends are covered in the Daily Signal's podcast: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/07/transgender-series-part-1-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria/ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/08/transgender-series-part-2-truthful-therapist-explains-parents-cant-trust-mental-health-professionals/ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/09/transgender-series-part-3-detransitioner-medical-malpractice-lawsuits-will-yield-10m-judgments-lawyer-says/

Former Florida State Representative Mike Hill, who is black, argues that Black History Month has become a month of "grievances" and has become counterproductive to the goals of teaching black history, uplifting people, and being a source of unity in America. He also argues that the observance has become weaponized politically by the Left in America. Hill is now part of the Project 21, America's largest network of black conservatives. For more information: https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2024/02/05/black-history-month-as-black-americans-push-back-on-progressivism-their-future-looks-brighter/

New York City is the first to declare social media a health hazard. The point of that can be to draw awareness to something and motivate people to do more to protect young people. Another possible point of that is to set things up for more government regulations. Americans For prosperity's James Czerniawski discusses the City's declaration and warns against government trying to do too much under the guise of protecting young people.

RJ Cross is the director of the Don't Sell My Data Campaign, part of the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). In this segment, she discusses a new study about digital privacy and consumer protection online. The State of Privacy: How State “Privacy” Laws Fail To Protect Privacy, And What They Can Do Better grades the 14 state-level consumer privacy laws that have passed so far, finding nearly half receive an ‘F’ for how well they protect consumers’ personal information. None get an ‘A’. In this conversation, Cross describes how personal data can be collected and used (for both legitimate marketing and criminal purposes) without your knowledge or permission. She also discusses what PIRG suggests as ideal policy for consumer protection and critiques some of the laws on the books around the country now. For more information: https://epic.org/documents/the-state-of-privacy-report/ https://pirg.org/

The Shumer-McConnell border deal, known as the Senate bi-partisan border security deal, is dead. Both opposition in the US Senate and refusal by Republican leaders in the House stopped it before any debate happened. Keep in mind that the "Green New Deal" was also stopped in Congress before elements of that ended up in other legislation. Could elements of the border bill end up the same way? NumbersUSA's James Massa explains why so many conservatives in particular objected to this bill and offers his thoughts on what Congress and the President should do to secure the border.

Souther Methodist University Professor James Coleman critiques the Biden Administration's decision to halt the permits for multiple natural gas projects. The Administration says the pause is for environmental reasons. Dr. Coleman argues that slowing down - or stoppoing - natural gas drilling, distribution, and exporting is not only bad for US customers because gas is less expensive than other options; he says it's bad for the US internationally. That's because, Coleman says, limiting the exports of liquefied natural gas leads other countries to depend on nations including Russia for their energy needs.

American Commitment's Phil Kerpen assesses the aspect of the US economy that are stabilizing and that are moving in the right direction. He also cautions against assuming the worst is over in this economic cycle, saying that more bad decisions on taxing and/or spending could lead to more inflation.

Elaine Parker from the Job Creators Network discusses the current state of the economy and why the public sometimes is getting incomplete information about it. * this discussion originally aired on NewsTalk STL in St. Louis. RedState.com's Deputy Managing Editor, Susie Moore, cohosted this segment.

Over the weekend, US Senate leaders released rthe text of their new bipartisan border security bill. That plan is already facing significant opposition for multiple reasons. In this discussion, Hugh Fike from the Conservative Partnership Institute focuses on the fact that known criminals and some of the terrorist watch list have illegally entered the country through the southern border. In one case, a known terrorist was apprehended in southern California as he was entering the US illegally and then released into the country.