Internist and Co-Author of “Dissolving Illusions”, Suzanne Humphries, MD discusses her awakening to the catastrophic dangers of vaccination and walks Del through the data of how severe illness and death from disease declined rapidly across the board years before the introduction of vaccines. Hear how data continues to be manipulated and cherry picked even today to strike public fear in outbreaks from diseases that were once commonplace. She joins The HighWire on the heels of her interview with Joe Rogan, and dispels the myth that measles can erase your immune system's memory.
To those familiar with constitutional history, it may seem trite to observe that the meaning of the Constitution is contested. Yet many contemporary political commentators treat the Constitution as a document whose meaning is plain and obvious. An op-ed in the New York Times, criticizing President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, informs us that “Trump doesn’t get to decide what the Constitution means.” The writer argues that the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment is plain: “Virtually everyone born in America would be an American, end of story.” In his view, by stating that children born to illegal immigrants are not US citizens, “The Trump administration is wrong.” After setting out the terms of Trump’s Executive Order, the writer asks “How could this be possible, given the plain text of the amendment?” He adds that “every plain reading of the amendment comes to the same conclusion,” namely his own conclusion.
The aim of this article is not to settle the contested meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, but to highlight a different problem: the fact that both sides of the debate view the matter as so clear as to be beyond debate. The argument advanced here is that where the meaning of the Constitution is contested, as it often is, the readiness of both parties to deny that the meaning is contested is a problem in itself. A contested issue cannot be resolved when the protagonists deny that there is anything that needs to be resolved in the first place. The Politically Incorr... Best Price: $3.55 Buy New $8.80 (as of 02:20 UTC - Details)
Some of the federal judges who have issued temporary injunctions against the Executive Order seem to regard the issue as clear beyond the scope of doubt or debate. A federal judge in Seattle described the