On Monday, Sens. Ted Cruz and Katie Britt unveiled their IVF Protection Act to ensure “IVF is fully protected at the federal level.” The bill would make states “ineligible to receive Medicaid funding if they have enacted an outright ban on access to IVF.”

Cruz touts the bill as being pro-life, as IVF offers “miraculous hope to millions of Americans, and it has given families across the country the gift of children.” Britt insists that “IVF is pro-family” and a “pathway to parenthood.”

In reality, IVF, and the Britt-Cruz attempt to protect it, victimizes children — both in terms of their right to life as well as their fundamental right to be known and loved by their mother and father. This bill is neither pro-life nor pro-family.

IVF Violates Children’s Right to Life

Despite their Wall Street Journal promise that this bill will “Protect Both Life and IVF,” Cruz dodged Annmarie Hordern’s “is an IVF embryo considered life at conception?” question. Instead, the senator assures us that “there is unanimity” in support for IVF among all 100 senators.

His deflection was necessary. Answering “yes, life begins at conception” would kill his bill faster than an embryo of the wrong sex at a fertility facility.

That’s because only a fraction of the tiny lives created through IVF will be born alive. Most will be purposely destroyed. According to a recent Heritage Foundation report, only 3 to 7 percent of embryonic children will make it through the IVF process alive. The vast

As they witness Joe Biden’s support among nonwhite voters collapse in spectacular fashion, the president’s campaign team is in triage, trying to stop the bleeding in ways that are hysterically funny but almost certainly inflict yet more damage.

Well, funny if you’re not a black person. If you’re a voter with self-respect who happens to be black, then it’s patronizing, belittling, and shocking in its naked desperation.

A recent survey published by The New York Times showed Biden with lower support among black voters than even Hillary Clinton in 2016, which — thank God — with the help of independents and Hispanics, helped send her campaign back to the depths of hell where it belonged.

Fortunately for Biden, he’s been able to run up his numbers among women who never know when they might want an abortion, but he’s nonetheless hanging by a thread. So to shore up support from blacks, he’s all but walking around Washington in a durag. Ironically, that might be more helpful to his campaign than what he’s been doing so far.

Last weekend, Biden delivered a speech in front of the NAACP in Detroit, where he even got the storied black Democrat political organization’s name wrong, referring to it as the NAAC. In the same speech, he referenced the commencement address he delivered at the historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta earlier that same day. “I told them I saw them, I heard them, and the nation needs them,” he said of the black male students. “They’re

Earlier this year, in my home state of Texas, Russian cyberterrorists reportedly hacked into the city of Muleshoe’s water treatment facility computer systems, flooding the water tank that supplies drinking water for this small town of 5,000 people. This was one of three attacks levied on small water providers in rural Texas this year — at least one of which has been reportedly linked to Russian hackers — which narrowly avoided cataclysm thanks to these older systems possessing the ability to “pull the plug” and resume operations manually. 

Even with a blunted imagination, the harm that could befall Americans if Russians, Iranians, and the Chinese further ratchet up the frequency of cyberattacks on our water systems is astounding. 

The recent attacks on Texas and elsewhere underscore a national crisis that is silently transpiring. As I outlined in a new research paper, the history of public policy for critical infrastructure cybersecurity is punctuated by a reactionary, fragmented system of governance.

When the Russian cybercriminal group DarkSide successfully brought down the Colonial Pipeline and received $4.4 million in ransom payments to reward their efforts, then and only then did it drive the federal government to take substantive action to protect the digital security of our pipelines. And while there is still tremendous work needed to harden our grid, health care, and nuclear digital targets, these sectors have received more federal attention than water due to palpable harms that have ensued from successful cyberattacks here and abroad.

When it comes to water,