Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“I challenge you to prove your sexual orientation. Go! Not sure how to do that? Good, because I don’t really want to know what you might come up with to prove it, any of it, in any direction. Plus, I’m not really interested; I don’t care what you do as long as whoever you do it with is of age and willing. That being said, California is asking some people to prove that they’re gay so their companies can qualify for certain government contracts. Why? Because if there are set-asides for gay-owned businesses, someone might simply claim to be bisexual and get some of those contracts. How can you prove they’re lying? The state has a checklist to make sure recipients of gay set-asides are gay enough, which means we finally found some fraud Democrats are against.” [editor’s note: It reminds me of when conservatives were claiming that jobsite quotas would mean daily blowjobs for the foreman – SAT] (06/18/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/06/18/californias-insane-prove-youre-gay-law-n2677924

Source: Law & Liberty
by Ronald W Dworkin

“A separate division for social activism would at least allow for truth in advertising.” (06/18/26)

https://lawliberty.org/the-tripartite-university/

Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by staff

“As American summers grow drier and hotter, the institutions built to manage lands, water, and wildlife have not kept pace. These institutions, made up of laws, policies, contracts, and other rules that govern how we allocate water, manage forests, prevent wildfire, and conserve wildlife, were designed for a cooler, wetter, and more stable environment. This report focuses on helping institutions adapt to our changing reality. It proposes practical recommendations within five topical areas that can help people and ecosystems weather this summer as well as the years ahead.” (06/18/26)

https://www.perc.org/2026/06/18/five-ideas-to-survive-a-hot-dry-summer/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“In a society where a woman’s status is still largely viewed as subordinate to that of a man, a recent ruling by India’s Supreme Court spotlights the significant, and largely unacknowledged, contributions of women to both individual households and the national economy. In dry legalese, the June 11 verdict establishes a monetary value for ‘loss of domestic care’ in a compensation case for a 2001 vehicle crash that claimed the life of a young wife and mother of three. The court granted the woman’s family a sum of 6.3 million rupees (about $66,000) – more than 25 times the initial award offered in 2003. And the judges also set a minimum estimate for domestic ‘homemaker’ duties at 30,000 rupees ($317) per month – which is about 10 times the amount previously used. Arriving at the current award and the benchmark for future compensation is about much more than numbers, however.” (06/17/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0617/India-reckons-with-a-woman-s-worth

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Christopher Snowdon

“In my new book, Inside the Sausage Factory, I examine four campaigns for ‘public health’ policies in the 2010s and examined all the evidence that was marshalled for and against them. It turns out that the evidence for them wasn’t very good and there wasn’t much evidence marshalled against them, but that isn’t really the point. Nor does it matter that all the policies failed. A bad policy introduced on the basis of poor evidence is still an evidence-based policy. The question—or my question at any rate—was whether the four policies were evidence-based at all.” (06/18/26)

https://fee.org/articles/the-nanny-statists-lack-evidence-for-their-campaigns/