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New York family court officials have denied a father the legal right to stop his eight-year-old son taking life-changing hormones that would begin his medical transition to a girl. Dennis Hannon, 32, a senior software engineer from Buffalo, has been locked in a 'nightmare' legal battle with Erie Supreme Court spanning seven years, fighting to retain his fundamental parental rights. He claims that the boy's mother 'pushed' their child's transition, and says the boy himself was not distressed about living as a boy.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired a longtime Google executive to oversee her likely presidential campaign's technology development and build new ways for Clinton to engage with voters, according to Democrats with knowledge of the move. Stephanie Hannon, who is Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, will become the chief technology officer of the expected Clinton campaign, according to the Democrats, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the appointment. At Clinton's New York campaign headquarters, Hannon will serve on the senior staff and oversee a team of engineers...

Daniel Hannan is an outstanding British conservative thinker, is an outspoken opponent of big government, and is unafraid to speak against liberal tyranny. Many are comparing him favorably to Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Hannan first rose to prominence in the United States when as a representative to the European Parliament, he gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a blistering a$$ chewing for leading the Labour Party's liberal policies which have caused economic disaster in the United Kingdom. A video of the lashing was posted on YouTube and received more than 630,000 hits within 24 hours. (It is worth a watch...