Common sense has been restored in Louisiana, Republican Governor Jeff Landry declared Wednesday after signing his state’s “Biological Truth Act.” The new law removes gender-identity labels and eliminates all ambiguity regarding a person’s legally-recognized sex: “‘Sex’ means an individual's biological sex, either male or female, as observed or clinically certified at birth. ‘Gender identity’ and other subjective terms shall not be used as synonyms or substitutes for the term ‘sex.’” The effect of the Biological Truth Act is to institute changes to the use of terms in state statutes, the new law explains: “[T]o change references from gender to sex; to provide with respect to definitions; to provide for the use of gender and number; to provide for boards, commissions, and councils; to provide for statistical data collection and reporting; to provide for various technical revisions; and to provide for related matters.” “Common sense will always be the law in Louisiana! Thank you Representative [Republican Mike] Johnson for bringing this bill to my desk!” Gov. Landry says in a social media video announcing the new law removing gender-identity ideology subjective pronouns from government documents: “You know, when I grew up, there were actually only two sexes: male and female,” Gov. Landry says in the video, expressing disappointment that, today, “We can’t even come to some understanding that there are still only two sexes.” “With the signing of this bill, Louisiana has only two sexes: male and female. And now, we go back to plenty of common sense,” Gov. Landry says, concluding his remarks.

Is your business “needed”? Bizarrely, in many states, if you want to start a business, you first must convince bureaucrats that your business is “needed.” Four years ago, Louisiana blocked social worker Ursula Newell-Davis from helping kids with special needs. Bureaucrats said she hadn’t proved her business was needed. “Why does the state of Louisiana have the right to stop me from doing what I love?” she asks in this update video. Good question. Ursula has a master’s degree and a social work license. For two decades, she’s helped kids with special needs. One, Kamal, told us he struggled to make friends, until Ursula “helped teach me how to talk to people.” Kamal’s mother is grateful: “She explained to me things that I didn’t understand about my kids. It allowed me to go back into the community and work.” Ursula helped many families. But four years ago, she tried to help more kids by doing short-term respite work. Louisiana wouldn’t let her. “You have these skills, you could help people,” I tell her. “What do you think is going on with these regulators?” “Louisiana wants to limit how many agencies they have to regulate,” she replies. “Make it easy for the state.” Anastasia Boden of the Pacific Legal Foundation is helping Ursula sue Louisiana, arguing that its regulation is unconstitutional. “Louisiana gives you no clue about how to prove you’re needed,” says Boden. “That would be difficult for even the best entrepreneurs. Nobody can prove with any certainty that they’re needed.” Right. I can’t prove Stossel TV is “needed.” Is McDonald’s needed? What about the local phone store? “The only way to find out is to open up your doors and try,” says Boden. But Ursula isn’t allowed to try, even after giving regulators what they demanded: She rented office space, paid fees and wrote seven pages about why her work is “needed.” Louisiana decided that wasn’t good enough. That’s what usually happens. The year Ursula applied, the state turned down 75% of applicants. The health department says it limits “the burden on regulators.” “That’s just not a legitimate excuse,” complains Boden, “that government doesn’t have enough money to administer people’s constitutional rights.” Stossel TV reached out, but state officials wouldn’t talk to us about their rule. Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C. have (appropriately named) “CON” laws requiring entrepreneurs to get a Certificate of Need before opening certain businesses. This creates nasty side effects. Try not to get injured in Kentucky. The state’s CON law for ambulances results in longer wait times for transportation. But Louisiana is the only state that applies this nonsense to social workers doing respite work. The result: “Consumers in Louisiana are less satisfied with their care,” says Boden. “It might be easier for the government, but that’s not benefiting consumers.” If these laws don’t benefit consumers, why do they stay on the books? “Hospital (and) medical associations give money,” explains Boden. “They don’t want the competition,” I ask. “Of course not! But the result is to deprive people of economic opportunity and to make care worse,” says Boden. Now, four years later, Boden’s latest lawsuit winds its way through America’s bureaucratic courts, and bureaucrats still won’t let Ursula do respite work. But good news: Ursula now helps people with special needs by employing them at her new fried chicken restaurant. At least Louisiana’s government doesn’t get to decide if a new restaurant is “needed.” What Louisiana’s bureaucrats do is just wrong. So often, government just gets in the way. Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon denounced CBS for firing 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after his meltdown during an internal meeting where he viciously attacked his new bosses. Both alleged, with no evidence, that CBS is moving dramatically rightward while making the same quip about Pelley being replaced by Stephen Colbert’s replacement, Byron Allen. Kimmel began by claiming, “Last night, the Trump suck-ups at CBS fired a great and deeply respected journalist, Scott Pelley, from his job at 60 Minutes because he stood up for truth and integrity at a show that's been the gold standard for broadcast journalism for 57 years. Pelley had had enough after the clowns who now run that show fired reporters Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with the executive producer, Tonya Simon, and replaced Tonya Simon with a guy who has no experience in TV news, and that was it for Scott Pelley.”   Jimmy Kimmel attacks CBS for firing Scott Pelley after his outburst, "Last night, the Trump suck ups at CBS fired a great and deeply respected journalist, Scott Pelley, from his job at 60 Minutes because he stood up for truth and integrity at a show that's been the gold standard… pic.twitter.com/EJI29zn1lJ — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 4, 2026   In reality, Pelley was fired for acting like a petulant child despite being a 68-year old man. However, Kimmel suggested his outburst was merited, “He said, 'The collapse of values at the top has become untenable,' and he let them have it in a staff meeting, right to the new guy's face. So, last night they fired him. 60 Minutes will be replaced by new episodes of Reporters Unleashed.” Trying to tie it all back to Trump, Kimmel concluded, “And the president, of course, applauded this decision. He said Scott Pelley is part of a game of ‘crooked, stupid people.’ Different from the gang of crooked, stupid people he's a part of.” Back on NBC, Fallon kicked off his show by declaring, “CBS just fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after he criticized his new bosses at the network. Yeah. The story gets more bizarre because today they announced they're replacing Scott Pelley with Byron Allen.”   Jimmy Fallon did a similar thing, "CBS just fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after he criticized his new boss at the network. Yeah. The story gets more bizarre because today they announced they're replacing Scott Pelley with Byron Allen.... CBS is getting more… pic.twitter.com/xTzI3p3OBs — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 4, 2026   Fallon then suggested more MAGA programming was on the way, “CBS is getting more and more conservative to appease President Trump, but don't be totally shocked when they replace 60 Minutes with the Kid Rock/My Pillow Guy News Hour. Yeah, in the last few months, 60 Minutes has lost multiple producers and correspondents. You can tell they got rid of a lot of people because the show is now called 60 Seconds. It's a TikTok. It's a TikTok. And in response to Pelley's firing, Trump called him a stiff. Yeah. He's not like all those other free whaling rock star 60 Minutes correspondents we're used to.” The “guy” with “no experience in TV news” that Kimmel alluded to and that Fallon implied would make 60 Minutes more conservative is Nick Bilton, who comes from Vanity Fair, which is not exactly a MAGA publication. While there, Bilton focused heavily on tech issues with a heavy focus on AI and Elon Musk. Like the rest of CBS’s news coverage, the idea that it might become slightly less liberal does not mean it is turning into an arm of the White House’s communications team. Here are transcripts for the June 3-taped shows: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 6/4/2026 12:03 AM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Last night, the Trump suck-ups at CBS fired a great and deeply respected journalist, Scott Pelley, from his job at 60 Minutes because he stood up for truth and integrity at a show that's been the gold standard for broadcast journalism for 57 years. Pelley had had enough after the clowns who now run that show fired reporters Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with the executive producer, Tonya Simon, and replaced Tonya Simon with a guy who has no experience in TV news, and that was it for Scott Pelley. He said, "the collapse of values at the top has become untenable," and he let them have it in a staff meeting, right to the new guy's face. So, last night they fired him. 60 Minutes will be replaced by new episodes of Reporters Unleashed. And the president, of course, applauded this decision. He said Scott Pelley is part of a game of “crooked, stupid people.” Different from the gang of crooked, stupid people he's a part of. *** NBC The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 6/3/2026 11:35 PM ET JIMMY FALLON: Well, guys, everybody is talking about this. CBS just fired longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley after he criticized his new bosses at the network. Yeah. The story gets more bizarre because today they announced they're replacing Scott Pelley with Byron Allen. Odd. CBS is getting more and more conservative to appease President Trump, but don't be totally shocked when they replace 60 Minutes with the Kid Rock/My Pillow Guy News Hour. Yeah, in the last few months, 60 Minutes has lost multiple producers and correspondents. You can tell they got rid of a lot of people because the show is now called 60 Seconds. It's a TikTok. It's a TikTok. And in response to Pelley's firing, Trump called him a stiff. Yeah. He's not like all those other free whaling rock star 60 Minutes correspondents we're used to. 

Once again, the Elitist Media are omitting coverage of inconvenient Democrat candidates ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. After getting shamed into finally covering the many scandals of Graham Platner, the media are now hiding the terror-adjacent likely next congressman from New Jersey. Here’s how Fox reported on Dr. Adam Hamawy’s primary win and ties to the notorious Blind Sheikh: The evening news somehow forgot to cover another inconvenient Dem: Blind Sheik-adjacent Adam Hamawy. Here's how Fox covered his primary win and background: AISHAH HASNIE: But first, Senior Correspondent Eric Shawn, who covered the Blind Sheikh and his attacks that all began in… pic.twitter.com/eFdjN4KfMA — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 4, 2026 AISHAH HASNIE: But first, Senior Correspondent Eric Shawn, who covered the Blind Sheikh and his attacks that all began in 1990. Hi, Eric. ERIC SHAWN: Hi, Aishah. Well, he could be the next Democratic Member of Congress from New Jersey. But you know his links to one of the country's most notorious radical islamic terror leaders? Well, that continues to shadow his bid. Dr. Adam Hamawy, a plastic surgeon and US Army veteran, won the Democratic primary in the Garden State’s 12th District last night, and he has admitted that in the 1990s he did associate with the infamous Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of terrorism and seditious conspiracy in 1996.  He led the jihadi terror cell of Islamic militants who in 1990 assassinated extremist rabbi Meir Kahane in New York City hotel, then bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 that killed six people, and plotted to blow up New York City landmarks in 1995. Rahman was sentenced to life in prison. He died behind bars. Hamawy testified at the Blind Sheikh’s trial, he was a defense witness. But during the campaign for Congress he denied any wrongdoing. ADAM HAMAWY: He wasn't, you know, preaching, like, death and destruction all the time. He had certain views that he spoke in certain forums. But that's not what he did every single day. SHAWN: Hamawy’s relationship with Rahman also reportedly includes a 1991 road trip together, and Hamawy serving as the Sheikh’s translator during a news conference where Rahman denied having any role in the Trade Center bombing. Hamawy’s campaign said the candidate did not have any, quote: “meaningful relationship with Rahman”, had no contact with him after his arrest, and that he does condemn the Sheikh’s violent rhetoric.  Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth credits Dr. Hamawy with saving her life. When she was a helicopter pilot, her helicopter was shot down in Iraq. She has endorsed him. Hamawy, by the way, is a favorite to win in the heavily Democratic district at the general election in November. Aishah. HASNIE: Okay. Thanks for getting us started. Eric Shawn live for us. Eric, thank you.  The longtime ties to The Blind Sheikh aren’t the only concerning associations that come up when discussing Dr. Hamawy. Per Jewish Insider: But just one year before Hamawy took the witness stand to describe his travels with Abdel-Rahman, the now-Congressional candidate made a different journey with another party entangled in terrorist conspiracies: to Bosnia, with a group subsequently shut down for providing “logistical support” to Al-Qaida. In a 1996 interview with the Newark Star-Ledger, according to a copy Jewish Insider recovered through an archive of print publications, Hamawy described volunteering in Bosnia during the summer of 1994 with a Chicago-based nonprofit called the “Benevolence International Foundation.” “I worked in Sarajevo for 10 days and then the rest in Zenica, a large regional center in central Bosnia,” Hamawy, who had just graduated from medical school, told the paper about the five weeks he spent with the organization. “We went out to hospitals around the area and in the mountains to check what supplies they needed and we tried to deliver them.” The report goes on to note that a 2003 joint US-Bosnia raid uncovered that the foundation was a front for Al-Qaeda, providing substantial financial and “other” support. These substantial terror ties merit scrutiny, especially from an Elitist Media evening news that treats anything coming out of the New York metropolitan area as national news. Local weather and traffic emergencies have drawn more coverage on the national evening news than does the prospect of someone with potential terror ties representing a state in Congress that lost over 700 people on 9/11.  The Elitist Media evening news had zero seconds for Hamawy. What got covered instead? Glad you asked. CBS was tapped out after giving Scott Pelley a five-plus minute sendoff. ABC mentioned New Jersey Congressman Tom Kean, Jr., but had no time for Hamawy in their primary election recap. NBC focused on Randy Feenstra losing his Iowa gubernatorial primary.  Here again, the omissions only cut one way. One does not imagine a Republican candidate with equally troubling ties drawing a free pass from the Elitist Media. Yet again, a reminder that were it not for double standards, there would be none at all.  

The Democrat Senate Primary in Maine is next Tuesday, and the presumptive nominee Graham Platner is facing a new revelation of sexting with woman outside his marriage, to go along with several  previously reported Reddit posts where he referred to himself as a “communist,” called “all” police officers “bastards” and said rural White Americans “actually are” racist and stupid, and then there is his Nazi tattoo. But if you were watching CNN's Inside Politics Tuesday, Host Dana Bash's segment on Platner covered almost all of this up, even though it was CNN's KFILE who broke the story on Reddit posts last October. Bash headed into a break, teasing the segment with, "We have new details on Graham Platner meeting today here in Washington with Senate Democrats as another revelation rattles his race to flip a GOP seat." Nice tease,but there would be barley a mention of that new revelation.  Bash began the segment by disclosing that Platner was headed into the meeting carrying "new political baggage," claiming that it is "giving his party new reasons to worry." But she made no mention of new or old reasons to worry, instead tossing to a clip from Platner supporter Bernie Sanders, who asked of Platner, "Is he a saint? I guess not. I don't know too many saints." She then gave the floor to Bloomberg Political Columnist Nia-Malika Henderson, who also kept quiet about any specifics. HENDERSON: Progressive Democrats were first out of the gate in backing Platner. Now they have to hope that he is Teflon....They have to in some ways, hope that he's like Trump, who has had many, many scandals, obviously survived the primary in 2016, in the presidency. There is probably a little bit of buyer's remorse.... This is a bit of a mess. What bit of a mess? Why does he need to be Teflon? She didn't give a clue, yet she brought up Donald Trump. Next, Semafor Politics Reporter David Weigel, came the closest the segment would come to revealing anything that Platner had posted or done. WEIGEL: What happened with his former campaign adviser going to the press and saying, his wife told me that he sent texts that we've not seen, but texts to women who he wasn't married to right after he got married. That's a different kind of story, that complicates the narrative that this is a man who went through PTSD, and remade his life. Nine hours later on Fox News's Hannity, Sean handled his Platner segment in a completely different manner, with honest reporting.  HANNITY: We begin in Maine tonight where a rich kid turned communist Graham Platner is now trying to unseat moderate Republican Susan Collins but unfortunately for Democrat, Platner's extremist views are not even his biggest problem. Tonight, sex acts. Apparently he can't pass a porta potty without being attracted to the porta potty to.. pleasure himself. A sexting scandal during his current three-year marriage and of course nearly 20 years that disgusting Nazi tattoo. Graham Platner is clearly unfit for office. He then played a clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer being asked over and over again if he still supports Platner, after meeting with him earlier in the day, and the Democrat kept repeating, "We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate." HANNITY: He's like a robot. Now chuck Schumer is refusing to condemn a candidate with a tattoo based on a symbol used by the Nazi SS guards at death camps. That is moral cowardice. Chuck Schumer, you are a moral coward. Hannity would go on to welcome in Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz with, "You look at this guy, the Nazi thing should have been enough. It wasn't. Sexually explicit messages. Porta potties pretty bad. Blaming sex assault victims suggest women take responsibility.... All cops are bastards, an admitted communist. He called people in his state of Maine, white men, he said they are racist. Hannity told his audience who Platner is, and because it doesn't fit the left wing media narrative of taking the Senate, Bash and CNN kept their viewers totally in the dark.