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Germany Stunned by Shooting Spree
This story is about a teen in Germany, Tim Kretschmer, who went on a shooting spree and murdered 15 people.

Now, in response to this, we'll hear all the usual nonsense. First and foremost, you can bet that the gun-control nuts will use this as a pretext to create even more laws restricting firearms possession. Yet, the real problems won't be addressed.

What are they? For one thing, how much do you want to bet that this teen, who we're told was "depressed" and had been undergoing "treatment," was on psychotropic medication? It's a safe bet, since all or virtually all the young rampage shooters over the last 15 years have been (there are facts about this here).

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be simplistic. I'll be the first to say that the main problem relating to this is the spiritual/moral malaise sweeping the West (of course, that's why so many of these people are depressed in the first place). But I do tire of the shallow, one-dimensional media coverage of these incidents, where there's nary a mention of the undeniable link between the behavior in question and psychotropic medication use.

The news coverage isn't surprising, however. The media hate guns, but you can bet your bottom dollar that a high percentage of its members use psychotropic drugs themselves or have loved ones who do so. Medication is big business.

I'll close with some food for thought. While I don't consider Sweden to be the gold standard for governance, I will mention something relevant here relating to that nation:

Ritalin has been illegal in Sweden since 1971.

Why Stop With Global Warming?

By Bruce Walker

The heavy artillery of the Left has been wheeled into a line of barrage:  global warming is real; global warming is man-made; and if government does not stop, terrible things will happen.   This means  that we cannot save ourselves unless we are willing to make draconian sacrifices, to surrender our liberties to government, and  to accept blindly the latest version of politically-correct science.

The Dark Truth about Socialized Medicine

By Selwyn Duke

George Mason University economics professor Walter Williams has penned another excellent article, this time about socialized medicine.  And since he relates the truth, it's not a pretty picture.  He talks about how the health-care systems in Britain, Canada and Sweden are running on fumes, and in particular I call your attention to the following paragraph:

Obama: "I Am Not an Animal!"

By Selwyn Duke

Actually, Obama said, in so many words, "I am not a socialist!" in a delayed-reaction response to a question from a New York Times reporter.  That is to say, his initial answer was a very pithy "no," but then he felt compelled to call the interviewer back and give the scribe a piece of his mind (how much, we don't know.  But rumor has it that it was sufficient to lower Obama from socialist to communist status).  And here is what he said:

Perverts Put Price on Head of Prosecutor

By Selwyn Duke

Some people have dubbed the homosexual network within Hollywood the "Velvet Mafia," and a story today indicates that this appellation may be more fitting than many would think.  The New York Post reported Monday that a figure in the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) has put a $10,000 bounty on the head of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.  Writes Fredric Dicker:

ALBANY - A $10,000 Internet bounty was placed on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's head by a suspected agent of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, The Post has learned.

The shocking death threat by the infamous organization of pederasts was posted three weeks ago on an Internet news-group bulletin board that originated in The Bronx, law-enforcement sources said. 

The Left's War on Words

Bruce Walker

Men have long understood the special connection between words and the transcendent. Historians like John Lukacs have noted that virtually all of our reality is words. Novelists like George Orwell saw only too well how the mutilation of words by monsters could send reality into a hopeless downward spiral.

Blaming Economic Freedom: Using the Malaise to Spread the Disease

By Selwyn Duke

“Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” said Barack Obama’s chief-of-staff, Rahm Emanuel, late last year. Mindful of this advice, the left is using our current economic woes to resurrect socialism’s star – and, by extension, communism’s (Marx identified socialism as a transitional stage to communism) – by bemoaning the supposed pitfalls of “capitalism.”

Unfortunately, scared people often glom onto statism’s simplistic message. A little while back I wrote about communism’s newfound appeal with a younger generation which, divorced from history, can easily repeat mistakes of the past.

Read the rest here.

Guest Piece: The Coming Battle over Reapportionment and Redistricting

By Bruce Walker

The decision by Senator Gregg not to become Commerce Secretary is the first round in a vital battle over reapportionment and redistricting. Title 13 Section 2 provides “The Bureau [of the Census] is an agency within, and under the jurisdiction of, the Department of Commerce.”President Obama and his Chief of Staff lack the legal authority to move the Bureau of the Census under the direct control of the White House, and an indirect effort to do that - - exactly what the Obama Administration has said that it intends to do - - is a contravention of federal law. Article I Section 2 of the Constitution makes it clear that Congress, not the President, has the constitutional authority to define the census process. If President Obama tries to politically manage the census process, he is not only violating federal law but he is also violating the Constitution.

Alan Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. Will Cease to Exist

Here is Alan Keyes, eloquently speaking the truth about Barack Obama (PBUH). If people wanted a black president, Keyes was the man to choose. And, by the way, in his case it wouldn't have been an example of cultural affirmative action, since he was the best man running, black or white.

As for Obama (PBUH), is he even a black president? I mean, is he really a president, given that he may not be a natural-born citizen? Is he really black? Isn't he also white? Actually, it doesn't really matter. What is he? The first red president.

A Heroic Congressman Chastises Bailout Czar Neel Kashkari
We tend to look down on politicians, and usually rightly so. But there are some white nights in government's halls, and Congressman Don Manzullo seems to be one of them. Here he is confronted with an automaton named Neel Kashkari, Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability. Manzullo is upset because getting Kashkari to admit that a $3 million-dollar bonus for an AIG executive is excessive is like pulling teeth. And listen to how Kashkari addresses the matter; he does so without passion, rendering a policy-wonk answer.

This is the problem with government.

How is this fool qualified to oversee our tax dollars if he barely bats an eye at an abomination? Thus, I'll go even further than Manzullo and say to Kashkari: Sir, if you would look at an injustice and discuss it dispassionately, if outrageous doesn't outrage you, there's something wrong with you. You are saddled with a profound moral defect and thus are not only unfit for your job, you're unfit for any job. Your parents obviously didn't raise you correctly.

We need to get the Mandarins out of government.