Kerby Anderson
Here’s a phrase I sometimes use on radio: “It is difficult to solve a problem when politicians won’t even admit there is a problem.” This is true about our national debt, but it is also true about America’s health. We can’t solve America’s health problems if we won’t admit that Americans are unhealthy. The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. may be changing our mindset. But we still need to understand the depth of the health care problem in America.
We have heard that “America is a first-world country facing third-world health issues.” When you hear that, it sounds too extreme. Is that true? You can read an article in the Annual Review of Public Health that attempts to answer: “Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than people in other high-income countries?”
It is even worse for poor Americans. One research paper on “Life Expectancy in the United States” says this: “The poorest men in the US have life expectancies comparable to men in Sudan and Pakistan; the richest men in the US live longer than the average man in any country.”
A CDC research paper documents that: “Six in 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease, and 4 in 10 have two or more chronic diseases.” It is worth mentioning that chronic disease may account for as much as three-quarters of America’s health care spending.
Another study in the New England Journal of Medicine on the “Prevalence of Adult Obesity and Severe Obesity,” made this ominous prediction. The researchers estimated that by 2030 nearly half of US adults will be obese.
These statistics, and many others, illustrate the need to address the health of Americans. There are solutions to this problem, but the first step is to admit there is a problem and understand the depth of our health care problem.

Penna Dexter
As the transgender agenda began to unravel, author J.K. Rowling posted her summary of the damage it’s done, including this:

Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women and girls’ safety, privacy and dignity. It’s also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.
Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police.

Here are just three actions the Trump administration has already taken to dismantle this woke regime:
On February 5, National Girls and Women in Sports Day, surrounded by crowd of female athletes, President Trump signed an executive order titled, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports. The president warned education institutions and their athletic associations, “if you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of Title IX and risk your federal funding.”
Secondly, two days after Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in, the administration reversed its position in a case currently being considered at the U.S. Supreme Court. In December, the Court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti. the Biden Administration’s challenge to Tennessee’s law protecting minors from gender transition procedures. The Bondi Justice Department has dropped all opposition to the law.  .
Twenty-five other states have similar laws. A ruling in Skrmetti, will affect challenges to those laws. So, the Supreme Court will continue to deliberate and resolve this case.
Finally, pursuant to another of President Trump’s executive orders, the administration is rewriting admissions requirements, ceasing the funding of gender transition procedures and otherwise moving the military away from transgender tyranny in favor of restoring a “warrior ethos.”
There is more being done, and much more to do. And Congress must act to make sure this rejection of trans tyranny is permanent.