National News Roundup

Plus Nellie Bly

Mar 02, 2026

Today’s Women’s History Month honoree is western PA native Nellie Bly. From guides.loc.gov/nellie-bly:

"Nellie Bly" was the pseudonym used by Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922) during her pioneering career as an investigative reporter. Writing for the New York World, the daring Bly sought to expose the ills of society, going so far as having herself committed to an insane asylum to view first-hand the treatment of the mentally ill. She is perhaps best known for her reporting as she traveled around the globe to challenge the record of the fictional Phileas T. Fogg from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days—her journey lasted just over 72 days. In later years, Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Taking over the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. after his death, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman patented a steel barrel, viewed as the first practical 55-gallon oil drum. In 1998, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Readers can follow Bly’s journey around the world here. For more information about PA pioneering women journalists, read this article from the Heinz History Center.

National News, in No Particular Order

Dear Readers may have heard about the kerfuffle in Kansas over drivers’ licenses. This only affects approximately 1800 Kansans. Of course, the MSM are entirely pro-trans.

Jesse Singal wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about youth “gender care.” Trans agitators didn’t like it. Leor Sapir did.

What The Dems Should Say On Trans Rights. Andrew Sullivan, a gay conservative, writes that Dems “can own the compassionate, sane center on this. Just drop the crazy.”

Inevitable: Medical groups sue over US FTC launching gender-affirming care probe.

Western WA state was a sanctuary for transing kids. Now not so much.

VA school board settles with two boys who complained about girls in their locker room.

Here’s an excellent article on why gay marriage isn’t a slippery slope to transmania.

Helen Joyce writes about no-debate dodos.

Why CA is a predators' paradise.

This is hilarious: The Woke Era. A Video Retrospective. Do watch the videos!

Not so hilarious: Use The Pronouns Or You'll Be Sorry. Also This Does Not Even Affect You, Why Do You Care?

Paxton sues Dallas doctor over ban on gender-affirming care.