OPINION:
I’m Anath Hartmann, Washington Times Deputy Commentary Editor, and here’s a look at some of the op-eds running this week.
First, as the Supreme Court prepares to decide two cases concerning whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to biological females, Florida State University political science professor Ryan Owens writes a piece for us on what Americans really think about the issue. He cites data from a recent FSU poll of 1,500 people, in which 79% of respondents said high school girls’ sports should be played only by females. That response cuts across age groups, gender, race, and political party.
What does it mean for the high court’s coming decisions? That the court could uphold sex-based rules for girls’ sports without facing major public backlash. Despite the noise, the current public has quietly reached a conclusion, and it favors preserving girls’ sports for biological girls, he writes.
Next, I wrote a piece this week on the global political left’s ingratitude for the ongoing Iran operation by the U.S. and Israel. The two nations, I write, have together saved the West. In less than a month, America’s Operation Epic Fury and Israel’s Sha’agah Ha’ari (Lions Roar) have produced heretofore unseen military results. They’ve struck more than 15,000 targets, slashing Iranian drone attacks by 83% and destroying over 85% of Iran’s air defenses.
But leftist European leaders and congressional Democrats haven’t just ignored the results. They’ve had the gall to lambast the strikes, calling them illegal and unnecessary. In fact, however, the West writ large was very much a danger prior to the start of the operation. Israeli intelligence recently uncovered a secret weapons development site outside Tehran that could help it resume aspects of weapons development for a nuclear bomb, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Even if the U.S. and Israel ended their campaign today, the damage they have managed to inflict these past few weeks would prove a serious challenge to Iran’s diabolical plans for its neighbors, most notably Israel, Europe and the U.S.
Finally, Protect the Public Trust’s Michael Chamberlain penned a piece on Virginia’s lax treatment of criminals. He wrote, “Virginia news has been rife with stories of criminals receiving slaps on the wrist and then proceeding to commit more heinous crimes.” And he mentions the February murder of a woman at a Fairfax County bus stop. The suspected killer, Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant with more than 40 charges against him in the county. Why wasn’t this man incarcerated? Because County Commonwealth’s attorney Steve Descano dropped most of the previous charges, Chamberlain writes.
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