June 2012 – Western Voices World News

The Menace of the New McCarthyism

June 30, 2012 John Young

by Cooper Sterling On June 25, the <a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/06/25/martin-sewell-racist-cambridge-university-academic_n_1623370.html”>Huffington Post</a> “reported” that a Cambridge University academic “responsible for mentoring students” has “come under pressure” […]

Let’s Celebrate Human Diversity!

June 30, 2012 John Young

by Mathilda (From Mathilda’s Blog) We aren’t all the same- science is finding evidence of genetic diversity between populations as well as between individuals http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7265/full/461726a.html Bruce Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein Nature, 8 October 2009 […]

Easier to Arrest Helpful Women than Real Criminals

June 30, 2012 John Young

by Stephen C. Webster A woman in Houston, Texas spent 12 hours in jail recently after being arrested while holding up a makeshift sign warning passing motorists of a police speed trap ahead. Claiming that […]

New Trend: Gyms Banning Slim Clients

June 30, 2012 John Young

by John Young Only in relatively materially affluent countries could gyms get away with this. A new trend is emerging where gyms ban slim and normally-statured clients in order to foster comfort for overweight patrons. […]

How Intellectual Salons Paved the Way to the French Revolution

June 29, 2012 John Young

<h1 class=”entry-title” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”>From Salon to Guillotine Augustin Cochin on the French Revolution</h1> <div class=”entry-meta” style=”font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;”><a title=”View all posts by F. Roger Devlin” href=”http://www.counter-currents.com/author/frdevlin/" class=”url fn n” style=”font-weight: […]

Why ObamaCare Will Fail

June 29, 2012 John Young

by John YoungYesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the individual mandate clause in the universal health care bill is Constitutional. The essence of the individual mandate is that anyone who can afford health insurance […]

Statement on Supreme Court Obamacare Decision

June 29, 2012 John Young

by Ron PaulWASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Ron Paul issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.”I strongly disagree with today’s decision by the […]

The Myth of the Finite Pie

June 27, 2012 John Young

by John Young There is a disturbingly prevalent line of reasoning that goes like this: “Anyone who has substantially more material goods than me must have somehow deprived me of my fair share.” This idea […]

The Front National’s Tactical Winning Streak Continues

June 25, 2012 John Young

by Patrick Le Brun Since the election of Marine Le Pen to the head of the Front National the party has moved from one tactical victory to another. As the baton passed from the previous […]

Supreme Court Clears Path for Enhanced Immigration Enforcement

June 25, 2012 John Young

by John Young Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the path for enhanced state enforcement of laws pertaining to illegal immigration by refusing to overturn a key provision of Arizona’s tough anti-illegal-immigration law. While […]