Du Jour

Can We Trust An International Leader Who Wears a High Fade?
I don't know if you've noticed, but the "high fade" hair style is coming back among NBA players. The high fade, made popular by Kid 'n' Play in the '90s, consists of shaving the hair along the sides and back of the head while allowing the hair on the top of the head to grow long. The longer hair is then trimmed into what used to be called a flat-top. The New York Knicks' Iman Shumpert sports the recently resuscitated hairstyle.

But Shumpert is not alone. North Korea's Kim Jong-un boasts the Asiatic version of this classic hip-hop hairdo. Along with Kim's embracing of former NBA player Dennis Rodman, it looks as though the North Korean dictator is signalling that he bears no ill will toward the U.S. by attempting to ingratiate himself through his hairstyle with the African-American community and, by extension, our president.

It's clear that Barack Obama has bought into the idea that Kim bears no malice toward the U.S., since the president is blithely and unconcernedly spending his time hob-nobbing with wealthy San Franciscans in order to raise money rather than actually monitoring the increasingly alarming prospect of a chubby, delusional, high-fade wearing North Korean dictator daily moving his nation closer to war with the United States.

The real questions are these: "Why doesn't Obama himself change his hairstyle to a high fade?" and "Will Obama have the cojones to confront Kim if he does go through with what should be a suicidal attack on our nation or one of its allies?" This is unfortunately a serious question. Given Obama's lack of anything resembling a backbone, a Kim missile attack might just turn into yet another retreat by the president in the face of aggression by a dictatorial regime.

Dirty Energy
There are two components to Barack Obama's energy policy. The first question he asks is "If I issue the order to follow a specific energy strategy, will I be able to funnel billions of dollars to the rich guys that donated a lot of money to me?" The second is, "If I implement a specific energy program, will I simultaneously be able to satisfy my deluded global warming cohorts and destroy our carbon-based energy industry, all at the same time?"

Energy produced in coal-fired plants accounts for nearly 50% of our total electricity output. If Obama were truly committed to reducing emissions generated in coal-fired energy production — rather than to destroying the coal industry altogether — he could simply have redirected, say, half of the tens of billions of dollars he funneled to his corrupt green-energy cohorts into grants and provided the money to coal-fired plants to install technology that would reduce their carbon emissions.

Rogue Cop Christopher Dorner and Prescription Psychotropic Drugs
With the Christopher Dorner case, the role of prescription psychotropic drugs in mass killings has again come to the forefront. Numerous articles have approached the role of so-called "psych meds" in causing depraved and indifferent violent behavior, but one in particular deserves attention because it highlights the fact that among psychiatric professionals there is no coherent understanding of what needs to be done after we take people off of drugs that are prescribed for their psychiatric illnesses. The article -- Jon Rappoport's "Is Christopher Dorner Another Psychiatric Killer?" -- makes a number of important points about the former Los Angeles police officer's mental health. Dorner had been treated for severe depression since 2008, and Rappoport correctly proposes that the drugs Dorner was prescribed to treat his depression were almost certainly among the causes of his seeking violent revenge against members of the Los Angeles Police Department. (Read more . . . )