“I can hardly imagine any laws so bad, to which I would not rather be subject than to the caprice of a man,” said British philosopher John Stuart Mill. Yet the caprice of a man was precisely what Americans were subjected to on Tuesday, when a federal judge ruled that while President Trump has the authority to end DACA, he must provide what the court considers “adequate reasons for doing so.”
This courts-über-alles opinion, handed down by Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, states that Trump must restore the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
From Prozac to Parkland: Are Psychiatric Drugs Causing Mass Shootings?
By Selwyn Duke
Whille mass killers generally have guns in their hands, another commonality is that they often have psychiatric drugs in their blood. The difference, though, is that it isn't guns that have the side effect of "homicidal ideation."
If you develop digestive problems after a change in diet, do you look for the cause in foods you always ate or the new ones you started eating? While the answer is obvious, this common sense is painfully uncommon when analyzing the new phenomenon of continual mass shootings: Many blame the long-present “foods” — guns in this case — and ignore the new diet whose embrace coincided with the problem. And part of what’s new is the widespread use of psychiatric drugs.
As a case in point, the Parkland, Florida, shooter (I won’t use his name and help provide the fame he craved), who murdered 17 on Valentine’s Day, was on medication for emotional issues, his aunt related. This is now a familiar story, too. As WND.com’s David Kupelian put it Thursday, the following is par for the course: As information about a “perpetrator emerges, a relative confides to a newspaper that the ‘troubled youth’ who committed the mass murder was on psychiatric medications — you know, those powerful, little understood, mind-altering drugs with fearsome side effects including ‘suicidal ideation’ and even ‘homicidal ideation.’”
SoS: Democrat Cowards Want GOP to Pass Their Anti-gun Laws
By Selwyn Duke
In the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shooting, Democrats are demanding that Republicans pass gun-control laws that they themselves didn't have the guts to pass when they were in power.
Moreover, what would it accomplish? After all, there's no correlation whatsoever between stricter gun-control laws and lower murder rates, as I explain in this video.
Race and IQ: A High School Science Fair Project Ignites a Storm
By Selwyn Duke
We don’t know the student’s name, but we do know that he hit a nerve — in fact, he hit a whole bunch of them. Identified only as a boy of Asian descent at C.K. McClatchy High School in California, the teen’s recent science-fair project, “Race and IQ,” propounded the thesis that differences in groups’ average intelligence influence their academic performance. He couldn’t win, though, because his project was removed after parents, staff and other students became “upset” and one girl said she felt “unsafe and uneasy.” The irony?
A project on evolution would no doubt have been well received — even though an assumption of racial differences is implicit in evolutionary theory.
She was enthusiastic about the Muslim “refugees” entering Germany and even founded an organization to aid them. Now Rebecca Sommer — whom the migrants called “the stupid German whore” behind her back — has changed her tune. She says that the newcomers won’t shed “their medieval view,” are developing “parallel societies” within her country, and that if Germans “don’t wake up quickly, the whole situation will end tragically.”
The Neutered West: Canada Makes National Anthem “Gender Neutral”
By Selwyn Duke
It’s certainly no surprise in a country whose prime minister wants to raise “feminist” sons and prefers the term “peoplekind” to “mankind,” but Canada’s national anthem has now become “gender neutral.”
“Climate Change” Is Stopping People From Having Children
By Selwyn Duke
With the United States already having a fertility rate that’s below replacement level, and dropping, a new factor exacerbating this problem has become apparent: people reluctant to have children because of “climate change.” Some are worried about having kids destined to live in a “kind of ‘Mad Max’ dystopia,” as one woman put it. Others don’t want to add to the planet little “carbon footprints” who’ll grow into big “carbon footprints.” All have things out of perspective.
The New York Timesreports on this phenomenon, writing, “A 32-year-old who always thought she would have children can no longer justify it to herself. A Mormon has bucked the expectations of her religion by resolving to adopt rather than give birth. An Ohio woman had her first child after an unplanned pregnancy — and then had a second because she did not want her daughter to face an environmental collapse alone.”
Time to Remove Socialist “Huddled Masses” Plaque from Statue of Liberty
By Selwyn Duke
With storied statues having come down from sea to shining sea the past year, it’s time for the same to happen with something somewhat newer: the socialist-born plaque in the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal.
Yeah, it’s the one with the “huddled masses” bit. There are good reasons for it to be removed, too — above and beyond the fact that our whole nation is being turned into a huddled mass.
The plaque contains the poem “The New Colossus,” written by socialist writer Emma Lazarus. It didn’t come with the statue, a gift from France unveiled in 1886, but was slapped on smack dab in the middle of the “Progressive Era” (in 1903). This was also the period that gave us other things as American as Lazarus’ poem, such as entry into WWI, the income tax and the notion that the Constitution could be considered a “living document” (Woodrow Wilson loved to bloviate about this).
The abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by senior Obama administration officials is “worse than Watergate.” So said House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa; shown) in January. King based his comments on his reading of the FISA memo, whose much anticipated release to the public occurred Friday. And since Watergate led to history’s only resignation of an American president, we should ask: is King’s pronouncement risible or right? Let’s contrast and compare.
Below is an interesting little documentary about leftists (though they're not called that in the film) who've left the West to live in South American jungles. Don't get me wrong, as a nature lover, I certainly see the appeal, though I wouldn't want to attach myself to any of the wacko groups in question. But A few things should be pointed out.
First, "sustainability" is emphasized by these people. But living off the land (assuming that's what they're actually doing) is only sustainable if practiced by extremely small populations. One square mile is required for one person to live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so one billion people couldn't do it in the Americas.
Second, the documentarian, Ben Zand, states at the film's end that these expat jungle dwellers were getting "the truth they always wanted." But he misuses the term "truth," which, properly defined, references something objective. The word he was looking for is "perspective." He also says that the problems of the outside world have a way of intruding into paradise, but they're not the problems of the "outside world." They're the problems of our inner world. Man's nature doesn't change just because he enters a jungle.
On a more mundane note, "paradise" sounds great until some microorganism works its way up your urethra or some other orifice and you develop a devastating disease or a worm that grows in your brain. Then you'll desperately haul your anti-Western butt to the nearest Western doctor posthaste — assuming you still can move.
By Selwyn Duke
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