Gavin McInnes hosts and welcomes guests Eric Metaxas and Ambassador John Bolton.
Feds Spend $194,788 to Study How Transwomen Use Facebook
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly $200,000 to study how transgender women use social networking sites like Facebook and how their use affects their chances of getting HIV.
The Friends Research Institute, based in Maryland, received $194,788 last month to begin the project operating on the premise that due to "transphobia" transgendered women are forced to use social media as an outlet, often leading to risky sexual behaviors.
Facebook recently added more than 50 gender options for its users to choose from to accommodate transgendered individuals. Users can now identify as "Agender," "Androgynous," "Cis," "Two-spirit," or over 20 variations of "trans."
The grant will fund focus groups and "iPad Social Network Interviews" with about 300 transwomen in order to define their "egocentric social networks."
One of the project's aims is to determine how the "behavior of other people" on social media influences transwomen to engage in "HIV risk" or "protective behaviors."
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EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses the day's news. President Obama accepts the resignation of Secretary Eric Shinseki -- Wyatt Goolsby reports and Brian speaks with Joseph Violante of the Disabled American Veteran's. It's been a violent year for some American cities -- Jason Calvi reports on this alarming trend. Plus, Brian is joined by The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway and CNSNews.com's Terence Jeffrey to wrap up this week's top headlines.
EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses the day's news. Jason Calvi reports on American bishops in Washington D.C., who are speaking up for immigration reform. Wyatt Goolsby reports on the continuing V.A. scandal from Capitol Hill. Brian talks to the Heritage Foundation's Daniel Kochis about President Obama's recent foreign policy statements. Brian is also joined by the National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez and National Black Pro-Life Union's Dr. Day Gardner to discuss Maya Angelou's pro-life decisions. And the State of Homelessness in America report has been released -- Steve Berg of the National Alliance to End Homelessness provides analysis.
Guest host Brett Winterble and NRO's Jim Geraghty discuss Eric Shinseki's fate, $3 million in prizes awarded by the V.A. for a 2013 contest to develop an appointment scheduling app, and men who drink human breast milk as a nutritional supplement.
Emails Track How V.A. Officials Conspired to Manipulate Wait Times
Despite years of repeated complaints and evidence showing patient wait-time fraud at the Central Texas VA, the inspector general never held anyone accountable and even bestowed the Robert W. Carey Performance Excellence Award on the facility, The Daily Beast reports.
A Texas whistleblower provided the publication with emails and internal memos detailing "how high-level VA hospital employees conspired to game the system" by doing things like entering the next available appointment date instead of a patient's desired appointment date into the computer system, according to The Daily Beast, which was often a difference of weeks and months.
Fifty percent of VA executives' "field bonus" pay hinged on wait times, according to the whistleblower.
This "low-risk, high-reward form of cheating" was pervasive throughout the VA, the whistleblower said, yet the outcome of a 2011 inspector general investigation that found "significant delays" and "widespread manipulation" of appointments didn't result in disciplinary action against any VA officials.
"Every doctor, nurse, and clerk in the hospital knows it's true, but the VA's investigative team wasn't able to find any evidence," the whistleblower said. "They didn't interview any of us or really try to find out what was going on. This was reported in 2011 and it's still not fixed today."
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EWTN News Nightly's Brian Patrick discusses the day's news. Live Action is releasing an explosive report on Planned Parenthood today. Jason Calvi speaks with Lila Rose and Brian is joined by Alison Howard of Concerned Women for America and Anna Franzonello of Americans United for Life for further analysis. Pope Francis will be meeting with sex abuse victims next month -- Brian talks to clinical psychologist Monsignor Stephen Rossetti to discuss the significance of this announcement. Plus, the National Organization for Marriage files a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court -- Brian is joined by NOM President Brian Brown to discuss it.
Brett Winterble and Jim Geraghty discuss WaPo's stinging criticism of Obama's foreign policy, a whistleblower's description of the V.A. as an "organized crime syndicate," and CNN's Carol Costello ignorantly crediting FLOTUS with signing a bill into law.
Obama leads America to glorious victory over straw men at West Point
There are those who believe military action is always the answer and there are those who believe military action is never the answer, but the president — wait a minute. No one believes either of those things! All right, granted, maybe John McCain does, but who else's foreign-policy views can fairly be reduced to one of those two positions? Even Ron Paul voted to invade Afghanistan. You know how it goes, though, with the Adult-in-the-Room-in-Chief: His position, by definition, is the sensible, pragmatic one, and therefore his critics on either side are necessarily out on the fringe. Ben Shapiro translates:
So shopworn has this gimmick become that it's now practically a drinking game on Twitter during O's speeches to spot the straw men as they arrive. I do think there's a strategic component to it, though, not just some knee-jerk impulse on Obama's part to reassure the world that he's Mr. Reasonable. It's not quite true that McCain supports military intervention everywhere, but given his high media profile and his eternal belief that the U.S. should be doing more abroad, no matter how much the U.S. is already doing, I think he's become a useful proxy for that position to the White House. McCain is, after all, the closest thing the GOP currently has to a spokesman for George W. Bush's foreign policy (I think he's even more gung ho about interventionism than Dubya was, but never mind that) and running against Bush's foreign policy has always paid off for Obama.
As one person on Twitter said, read today's speech and you'll see that chunks of it seem to be aimed directly at McCain — which is to say, aimed directly at Bush. The same was true the last time he spoke up in defense of his foreign policy, slightly less than a month ago. Setting up that contrast, passivity abroad or another Iraq war, is good for O.
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