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Transgender Teen Tromps On Rule To Get Into Boy Scouts, Disses Boy Scouts on Way Out

John Cronin

The central Massachusetts high school student born as a girl now identifies as a boy, but joined a Boy Scouts troop two years before the Boy Scouts started letting in transgender persons. Then the student left the Boy Scouts, finding it "did not focus as much on teamwork for the community" as another organization the student had previously belonged to — the Girl Scouts.

New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails
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New York Times Tax Coverage Goes Off the Rails

Ira Stoll

Binyamin Appelbaum is one of the more fair-minded and accurate reporters at the New York Times. For an example of his best work, one might look back to his reporting from Hazleton, Pennsylvania in October of 2016.

So it was particularly dismaying to read Appelbaum's dispatch earlier this month in the Times, under the headline "Trump Tax Plan Will Not Bolster Growth, Economists Say."

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