SSRIs and Youth: The Chicken, the Egg, and the Prescription Pad

SSRIs and Youth: The Chicken, the Egg, and the Prescription Pad: We’re living in a moment when it’s reasonable — even healthy — to question the wisdom of “experts.” The United States was built on the idea that authority rests with the people, not with a select class of specialis...

Scrooge Was A Liberal – Issues & Insights

Scrooge Was A Liberal – Issues & Insights: Think about what he says and does.

“My Negro Problem-and Ours” at 50

“My Negro Problem-and Ours” at 50

My Negro Problem—And Ours

My Negro Problem—And Ours

Trump and Putin ‘Play the Pipes of Peace’ as Zelensky Sings ‘Burn Baby Burn’

Trump and Putin ‘Play the Pipes of Peace’ as Zelensky Sings ‘Burn Baby Burn’: Questioning political decisions which carry the high cost of human lives, Paul McCartney released an album in 1983, titled “Pipes of Peace.”  The music video, “Pipes of Peace” recounts the history of the temporary armisti...

Comments for: Trump and Putin ‘Play the Pipes of Peace’ as Zelensky Sings ‘Burn Baby Burn’

Comments for: Trump and Putin ‘Play the Pipes of Peace’ as Zelensky Sings ‘Burn Baby Burn’: Questioning political decisions which carry the high cost of human lives, Paul McCartney released an album in 1983, titled “Pipes of Peace.”  The music video, “Pipes of Peace” recounts the history of the temporary armisti...

Comments for: Fifth Circuit: libraries don't have to buy LGBTQ porn

Comments for: Fifth Circuit: libraries don't have to buy LGBTQ porn: Supposed censorship of library books took off as a faux-major issue during the Biden’s Handlers’ Administration. This was almost entirely in response to local efforts to remove LGBTQWERTY+- books from public and school libraries, or to at...

Obama’s billion-dollar middle finger to America

Obama’s billion-dollar middle finger to America: Nothing says “hope and change” quite like bulldozing a beloved public park for a 235-foot phallic tower dedicated to oneself. Welcome to the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), an $830 million (and rising) vanity project in Chicago’s h...

Venezuela boat strike baloney

Venezuela boat strike baloney: Chavista shills and Trump-haters are dancing with glee at the claim that President Trump committed a so-called

Venezuela boat strike baloney

Venezuela boat strike baloney: Chavista shills and Trump-haters are dancing with glee at the claim that President Trump committed a so-called

America’s navy did exactly what it’s supposed to do: Sink the pirates

America’s navy did exactly what it’s supposed to do: Sink the pirates: On September 2, 2025, U.S. forces wiped a cartel pirate crew off the map in the Caribbean. The target was a classic modern pirate craft—a swift, unmarked go-fast boat running low in the water, built for speed, smuggling, and violence. It was mo...

Obama Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuelan Killings

Obama Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuelan Killings: President Obama's targeted killings program paved the way for Trump's Venezuelan killings

What’s the Deal with the Prophet Muhammad?

What’s the Deal with the Prophet Muhammad?: Within Islam, the Prophet Muhammad is highly respected and revered.  Even mentioning his name requires Muslims to follow it with an honorific like “peace be upon him.”  He was also given prestigious titles, such as apo...

The Left’s ‘stolen-land’ rhetoric threatens private property

The Left’s ‘stolen-land’ rhetoric threatens private property : Left-wing “land acknowlegements” could be having real-world consequences for property owners in Canada. And the United States may be next. It began as a polite ritual. Before meetings or ceremonies, institutions began acknowledging tha...

The internet catches up with Neil Tyson

The internet catches up with Neil Tyson: It’s been a good week for internet karma. Michael Mann, the promoter of the climate science “hockey stick”, who was ordered to pay $1 million in damages last year for his bogus lawsuits against critics, has now been forced...

America’s sin of omission when it comes to teaching the history of slavery

America’s sin of omission when it comes to teaching the history of slavery: Confession in all three branches of the Christian Church includes both sins of commission and omission. Acts violating God’s commands are confessed as sins of commission. Sins of omission are committed by failing to perform an action one ought ...

Lessons for Christians from the French Revolution

Lessons for Christians from the French Revolution: There is a striking paradox where Christians align themselves with policies championed by Democrats. Christians ostensibly profess a faith rooted in the sanctity of life, traditional morality, and a deference to divine authority. Yet many support, pr...

The bitter ironies of the Kirk assassination

The bitter ironies of the Kirk assassination: There are bitter ironies associated with the assassination of conservative Charlie Kirk while on speaking tour stop at Utah Valley University. Kirk was doing what he did best, extending a challenge to students there to prove him wrong about h...

What is a fascist?

What is a fascist?: What is a fascist? Don’t ask any of the college students who throw this word around. They won’t remember Benito Mussolini, who started a political movement in Italy, and who gave us a quotation that will serve to characterize his intent: ...

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A history of violence

A history of violence: The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a horrific reminder that the left is based on nothing other than terror, violence, and aggression. This has been true since Karl howled to Friedrich that the bourgeois would someday pay for his plague of s...

Comments for: The despicable track record of the US Army Corps of Engineers

Comments for: The despicable track record of the US Army Corps of Engineers: Because it is a relatively small part of our big military and kept in a dusty back room far from the shiny B-2 bombers, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been off the radar of legislators and commanders-in-chief alike since George Washington ended...

Tom Hanks does not deserve a West Point alumni association honor

Tom Hanks does not deserve a West Point alumni association honor: The latest leftist kerfuffle is that the official West Point alumni association abruptly disinvited Tom Hanks from a ceremony that was to have awarded him the Sylvanus Thayer Award, which is given to “outstanding” non-West Point graduates...

The Trump White House brings the ultimate troll to all the Democrats on LinkedIn

The Trump White House brings the ultimate troll to all the Democrats on LinkedIn: LinkedIn is the social media platform for professionals. According to one source, it had an estimated 310 million users in 2023, all of whom have posted their resumes on the platform. Its portly founder, Reid Hoffman, is an ardent, big-money Democrat...

The Light Shines On Another Obama Scandal – Issues & Insights

The Light Shines On Another Obama Scandal – Issues & Insights: The media have one more nasty Obama affair they can, and will, ignore.

WSJ.com: The Phantom Patients of ObamaCare

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The Phantom Patients of ObamaCare By The Editorial Board Nearly 12 million enrollees don't bother to use their subsidized insurance. Health insurers get the benefit. Read the Article ›   Related Articles Opinion | What Kind of Peace in Ukraine? Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says Access WSJ‌.com and our mobile apps. Subscribe

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Barack Obama and the Predictable Coup

Barack Obama and the Predictable Coup: The most intriguing part of the storm surrounding Barack Obama’s involvement in the effort to remove Donald J. Trump from office is that some people still refuse to believe the allegations.  There are certain Americans who continue to...

One of the media’s favorite economists is at it again

One of the media’s favorite economists is at it again: For four years the media and other Democrats gaslighted the public about how great the Biden economic policies were. But six months into Trump’s term, the media is trashing Trump’s policies in order to influence, not inform, the voters. A...

On Her 141st Birthday, It's Vital To Understand The Statue Of Liberty's True Meaning

On Her 141st Birthday, It's Vital To Understand The Statue Of Liberty's True Meaning: On this exact day, August 5th, in 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid. Encased in its core were copies of the three greatest documents of liberty in the world: The Bible, The Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution. ...

Comments for: RIP Disparate Outcomes, Credentialism, and the Russian Collusion Hoax

Comments for: RIP Disparate Outcomes, Credentialism, and the Russian Collusion Hoax: Reams have been written about the latest revelations in the Russian collusion hoax that so hamstrung President Trump’s first term. I will summarize below the most important revelations. It’s clear the Administration is taking its time to ...

Did Trump's victory hurt Obama's feelings?

Did Trump's victory hurt Obama's feelings?: Back in 2016, I remember reading an analysis that President Obama's two terms had left the Democrats in bad shape. In other words, he started in 2009 with huge majorities and left town with the GOP in charge of the U.S. Senate and House. It was p...

Want to cancel Hulk Hogan? Fine, then Muhammad Ali’s got to go, too

Want to cancel Hulk Hogan? Fine, then Muhammad Ali’s got to go, too: It wasn’t long after legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan’s passing that we heard the condemnations. Don’t honor him, the nattering ne’er-do-wells insisted — he was a stone cold “racist.” When evaluating this,...

Will the end of ‘substantive due process’ kill the fiction of constitutional gay marriage?

Will the end of ‘substantive due process’ kill the fiction of constitutional gay marriage?: A decade ago, Kim Davis, a court clerk in Kentucky, earned the ire of the entire leftist establishment when she refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses. Now, she’s filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking it to end “the legal fi...

Nothing could be more wonderful than Trump’s dumping UNESCO

Nothing could be more wonderful than Trump’s dumping UNESCO: For myriad reasons, I’m not fond of traveling, not the least of which is that traveling in the 21st century is such a horrible shlep. Having said that, I am a very well-traveled person. That means that I’ve visited more than my share of p...

The truth about Alligator Alcatraz

The truth about Alligator Alcatraz: The brouhaha created by the latest federal detention facility in the Everglades of Florida is surpassed only by the Epstein Files and the latest documents on the Russian Collusion hoax. It’s noteworthy that there are still Democrats who are cry...

Democrat fallacies of predicate logic

Democrat fallacies of predicate logic: A classic case of a defect in predicate logic is found in the statement --

President Trump: Recognize Somaliland!

President Trump: Recognize Somaliland!: President Trump ran for office to Make America Great Again.  He wanted our borders respected, our language restored, and our culture reinvigorated.  He is accomplishing all three at breakneck speed.  Even his foreign pol...

Buttigieg blew more than half the DOT budget on DEI, failed to make critical air traffic upgrades

Buttigieg blew more than half the DOT budget on DEI, failed to make critical air traffic upgrades: Democrat frontrunner for 2028 Pete Buttigieg, is the kind of guy who could give California's Gov. Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles's mayor, Karen Bass, a run for the money. Amid news of an aircraft near collision over North Dakota, fo...

When read carefully, the New York Times may have admitted that Biden pardons are illegitimate

When read carefully, the New York Times may have admitted that Biden pardons are illegitimate: My pet peeve as both a writer and reader is passive voice because it makes writing turgid, but I also hate it because it allows the author to avoid assigning responsibility. Other pet peeves are chronologically confusing or ambiguous writing. When go...

Electricity rations hit Dutch citizens as government goes ‘green’

Electricity rations hit Dutch citizens as government goes ‘green’: As the Dutch government goes “green” for the agenda of the progressive left, electricity rations are hitting the Dutch citizens. Here’s the story, from a report published yesterday at the Financial Times: Thousands of businesse...

On Bastille Day, we must distinguish the American Revolution from the French Revolution

On Bastille Day, we must distinguish the American Revolution from the French Revolution: Today, July 14, is celebrated as Bastille Day in France. It should be a day of mourning across the rest of Western civilization. Ten days after we celebrate July 4 as the symbol of the American Revolution, the pinnacle of the Enlightenment Era, th...

No, the Bible does not say conservatives must support illegal immigration

No, the Bible does not say conservatives must support illegal immigration: One of the fascinating things about following leftists on social media is that they are lemmings. The order goes out that all must put up a specific meme and, suddenly, all do. That’s why my long-ago high school classmates (99% of whom are left...

The Claim That America ‘Stole’ California From Mexico Is An Ignorant Lie

A brief study in California history reveals the real population of the Golden State. https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/13/the-claim-that-america-stole-california-from-mexico-is-an-ignorant-lie/

Comments for: A JFK Assassination Riddle: Was John Connally the Target?

Comments for: A JFK Assassination Riddle: Was John Connally the Target?: The Warren Commission’s basic conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) and that there was no evidence of any conspiracy. Yet the Trump Administration’s r...

Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens

Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens: On the very day Donald Trump became president again, he signed an executive order prospectively eliminating birthright citizenship for children born to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Immediately, lawsuits were filed in a half-doze...

Supreme Confusion

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Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens

Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens: On the very day Donald Trump became president again, he signed an executive order prospectively eliminating birthright citizenship for children born to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Immediately, lawsuits were filed in a half-doze...

Illinois’s insane leftism now propping up bordering states!

Illinois’s insane leftism now propping up bordering states!: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-Hyatt Hotels) is economically strengthening communities all over the Midwest.  The catch: None of them is in Illinois. Take New Buffalo, Mich. for example, a quiet town on the shore of Lake Michigan in ...

How climatologists got it all so horribly wrong

How climatologists got it all so horribly wrong: Please note that I will only be talking about the global mean (average) surface temperature, not weather events that may or may not be related to such temperatures. So, all data relating to weather events is not relevant. For decades, people have ...

‘Free trade’ is not as great as you think it is

‘Free trade’ is not as great as you think it is: When it comes to free trade, it’s often helpful to review first principles.  David Ricardo’s comparative advantage, for example, is the Gold standard, so it’s probably best to start there. Basically, Ricardo argued that i...

Timothy Van Eck invites you to read the WSJ article: Randi Weingarten’s Teachers Union Privilege

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Randi Weingarten's Teachers Union Privilege By The Editorial Board The American Federation of Teachers chief has a double standard on locating charter schools. Read the Article ›   Related Articles How Being Stuck in Space Changes an Astronaut's Body Chief Justice Roberts Criticizes Trump's Call to Impeach Judges Access WSJ‌.com and our mobile apps. Subscribe

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Video: This Is Real! Obama Created a ‘DOGE’ Department in 2011 – And Guess Who He Put in Charge?

Video: This Is Real! Obama Created a ‘DOGE’ Department in 2011 – And Guess Who He Put in Charge?: Hold onto your hats, patriots—this isn’t AI, it’s a jaw-dropping, laugh-out-loud truth bomb from 2011 that proves President Donald Trump’s

No, Mr. Secretary, generals do not have civil service protection or tenure. They serve at the pleasure of the president.

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When it comes to Ukraine, Europe is delusional

When it comes to Ukraine, Europe is delusional: European leaders in Brussels declare themselves the “leaders of the free world” while arresting citizens for memes. Likewise, they claim Putin woke up one morning, had a cup of coffee, and attacked the beautiful democracy of Ukraine...&ld...

Whiskey Rebellion Truth: Noncompliance, Resistance, and Federal Retreat

https://granitegrok.com/national/2025/02/whiskey-rebellion-truth-noncompliance-resistance-and-federal-retreat

WSJ.com: Who’s Afraid of Medicaid Reform?

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Who's Afraid of Medicaid Reform? By The Editorial Board States have turned the program for the poor into an entitlement for able-bodied men. Read the Article ›   Related Articles Opinion | We Pay Dead People Israel Missed Signs in Plain Sight Hamas Was About to Attack, First Oct. 7 Probe Finds Access WSJ‌.com and our mobile apps. Subscribe

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Dr. Birx Admits Young and Healthy People Didn\'t Need COVID Vaccine

Dr. Birx Admits Young and Healthy People Didn\'t Need COVID Vaccine

America’s slavery: More complex than black and white

America’s slavery: More complex than black and white: America’s slave history continues to haunt us even today, beginning with how it is taught to America’s children and youth in their classes in school.  The current approach contributes to unnecessary and continuing racial animosity, p...

The Eastman Dilemma: John Eastman vs. the Left

The Eastman Dilemma: John Eastman vs. the Left: John Eastman should be a household name among conservatives, along with anyone else who believes authoritarianism can exist not just in the past or in faraway parts of the world, but in modern “liberal democracies” as well. For th...

Mythologies About Musk

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/02/14/mythologies_about_musk_152363.html

WSJ.com: Justice for Elizabeth Warren

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Justice for Elizabeth Warren By James Freeman The Massachusetts senator is the reason her regulatory creation remains out of her control. Read the Article ›   Related Articles Opinion | The Federal Spending Boom Rolls On Opinion | Elon Musk Is Having a Ball Access WSJ‌.com and our mobile apps. Subscribe

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Covid Vaccine Impacts

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates claims that Covid vaccines saved "millions of lives" and allowed "us to go back to work."


IN FACT, large RCTs involving 72,663 people found no evidence that C-19 vaccines save more lives than they take, and U.S. life expectancy fell with the Covid vax rollout:

 
Covid deaths enduringly plunged and life expectancy began to rise not when vaccines were deployed but after naturally acquired immunity flourished:



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Actions of DOGE

Based on a report that DOGE plans to audit the Social Security Administration, Congressman Dan Goldman (D–NY) claims that "Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to take away your hard-earned Social Security benefits."


IN FACT, Trump is using DOGE to root out fraud, waste, and abuse of taxpayer money. The SSA has significant amounts of that, like the following for example:

In 2022, the SSA made roughly $2.0 billion in fraudulent and other improper overpayments—enough to pay 89,947 retired workers the average annual old-age benefit of $21,924 for 2023.


Under a policy called "administrative finality," once the SSA mistakenly overpays a beneficiary for more than four years, it does not recover past overpayments and deliberately continues to make future overpayments excepting cases of fraud.


A Government Accountability Office investigation found that the SSA sent roughly 7,000 federal employees disability benefits in 2008 while they were also receiving wages from federal jobs.


A Government Accountability Office investigation found that the SSA sent 71,688 Obama "stimulus" checks to people who were deceased, including 63,481 people whose deaths had already been reported to the SSA and 8,000 dead people who were born before the oldest living person in the United States.



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When Democrats Were Called Fascists: Corporate Socialism and Roosevelt’s New Deal

When Democrats Were Called Fascists: Corporate Socialism and Roosevelt’s New Deal: The presidential election of 1932 was about Wall Street selecting a candidate willing to implement actual fascist plans in America. Unlike the Democratic party candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, Republican party candidate Herbert Hoover refused to subm...

Fwd: Federalism and the 10th Amendment: Explaining Delegated and Reserved Powers

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Read this: Forget the JFK files, this is the real Kennedy bombshell

Forget the JFK files, this is the real Kennedy family bombshell: MAUREEN CALLAHAN (who knows more about their twisted secrets than anyone) presages the death of Camelot

So this is what passes for a 'profile in courage' among Kennedys these days: sanctimoniously calling out an inconvenient cousin while ignoring all the sins of your lecherous father...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14339609/JFK-files-RFK-Kennedy-confirmation-bombshell-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html?ito=email_share_article-top


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A pocket guide to why Trump is correct on birthright citizenship

A pocket guide to why Trump is correct on birthright citizenship: I was having lunch with some conservative gal pals yesterday, and the subject got around to birthright citizenship. I was quickly able to sum up the arguments in favor of Donald Trump’s position (many of which have been made on this site), so I...

The Right-to-Work Freeloader Fallacy

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The Communist Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Give Away the Panama Canal

The Communist Who Convinced Jimmy Carter to Give Away the Panama Canal: The late Jimmy Carter didn’t come up spontaneously with the idea of giving away the Panama Canal, which America spent blood and gold on and which is an essential part of its national security. Instead, he had Robert A. Pastor, a communist, whis...

Fwd: The Myth of Mt. Denali by Daniel Greenfield

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View in Browser Daniel Greenfield Visit DanielGreenfield.org Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow and the Executive Vice President of Programs at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His book, Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left,tells the story of the Left's 200 Year War Against America. The Myth of Mt. Denali Sat, 25 Jan 2025 9:19 PM PST by Daniel Greenfield The decision to bring back Mt. McKinley's name touched off outrage from those who insist that Mt. Denali was the original 'indigenous' name for Mt. McKinley. But which "indigenous" name? The National Park Service notes that, "no fewer than nine Native groups… used unique names for the mountain. There are five Athabascan languages surrounding the park, each with its own oral place name." And Mt. Denali is not even the right tribal name. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who co-sponsored the bill to change Mt. McKinley's name to Mt. Denali, attacked President Trump's decision to rename the mountain because Mt. McKinley "must continue to be known by the rightful name bestowed by Alaska's Koyukon Athabascans, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial." But the Athabascans don't call themselves that, they use the name 'Dena'. Athabasca is actually a lake in Canada. The name was wrongly applied by Albert Gallatin, President Jefferson's brilliant but erratic French immigrant Treasury Secretary. But 'Dena', like 'Denali, has no great significance. Dena means 'people' and Denali means 'tall one'. The Koyukon were giving pragmatic names to the world around them. It's Westerners who romanticize them as exotic and spiritual antidotes to industrialization and development. No one 'stewards' a 20,000 foot mountain and "time immemorial", a phrase often used in land acknowledgements, would only date back to the tribal crossings across the Bering Strait. The history of this group of the Athabaskans traces back around a thousand years, "time immemorial" turns out to be around less than 500 years before the European discovery of America. And Mt. McKinley isn't even in the territory of the Koyukon. The mountain is actually located in the territory of the Athabascan Dena'ina who called it Dghelay Ka'a. So why was there a push to name it Mt. Denali and not Mt. Dghelay Ka'a? Good luck naming a truck, a college or a whole bunch of companies Dghelay Ka'a. And a mangled version of the name, Traleika, is already in use for a glacier. Denali (or at least once it was compressed from the original 'deenaalee') is much more marketable name than Dghelay Ka'a. Choosing Denali over Dghelay Ka'a was about Americans picking an easy to pronounce palatable name that still sounded exotic. The name Mt. Denali wasn't chosen by tribal peoples, but by Charles Sheldon, a politically connected silver mining tycoon, big game hunter and explorer, who was friends with Theodore Roosevelt. Sheldon liked camping in Alaska, but was no great scholar of the local tribes which is why he chose to promote the name Denali. Advocates claim that calling it Mt. McKinley is colonialism and that calling it Mt. Denali pays homage to tribal peoples, but either one is in use only because the name sounded good to Americans. America is full of real or fake Indian names that the settlers chose to use. There is no 'original' name for Mt. McKinley: there are apparently at least a dozen. Picking and choosing which one we would use was a choice that Americans, not tribal peoples, made. What most of the names used had in common was they meant something like 'big mountain'. Denali is not some deep sacred lore. It means "tall one". The Dena'ina name of Dghelay Ka'a means "big mountain". So does the Deg Hit'an Athabascan name of 'Tenada' which the Russians used before they switched over to calling it 'Bolshaya Gora' which means, you probably guessed it, big mountain. Mt. McKinley is about the only name for the mountain that doesn't mean something like 'big mountain'' in ten different languages. "The Indians who have lived for countless generations in the presence of these colossal mountains have given them names that are both euphonious and appropriate," Charles Sheldon complained. "Can it be denied that the names they gave to the most imposing features of their country should be preserved? Can it be too late to make an exception to current geographic rules and restore these beautiful names—names so expressive of the mountains themselves, and so symbolic of the Indians who bestowed them?" It's unclear if Sheldon, the man who gave us the name Mt. Denali, ever understood that all the "expressive" Indian names were just different ways of saying "big mountain". But then the name 'Alaska' really means something like 'big land'. Westerners seeking spirituality in the tribal peoples in the area assumed that living without technology they were more deeply connected to nature and their names were filled with meaning. In reality the names were often quite practical and not especially significant. The romanticisation of tribal peoples was itself a form of colonialism. The insistence on 'reverting' to tribal names leads to a farce in which the wrong names associated with the wrong tribes are used and those names turn out to mean absolutely nothing of any significance. The only reason there is any interest in what we call Mt. McKinley is that mountaineers began trying to climb the mountain shortly before a push was launched to make it a national park. Tourism became a lucrative source of income for local tribes. The people who actually climbed the mountain were usually tourists from the lower 48. Calling it Mt. McKinley helped sell the federal government on the idea by associating it with a martyred president. Climbers preferred to call it Mt. Denali over Mt. McKinley because of the exoticism of the name. Naturalists liked the idea that they were preserving an untouched wilderness by using Indian names. The argument about what to call Mt. McKinley was always a dispute among Americans. And it was always about the best way to market the mountain and the land around it to other Americans. There are only 2,300 Koyukon left. And only about 300 of them speak the language that the name 'Denali' comes from. What they most need is economic development, not linguistics. Obama's Interior Secretary Sally Jewell had insisted on pushing the Denali name change. Two years earlier, she had visited an Aleutian town mostly populated by members of the Agdaagux people and refused to allow them to build a road in an area where 19 people had already died due to lack of medical care. The road would have made it easier to evacuate patients to the nearest hospital, but Jewell told them, "I've listened to your stories, now I have to listen to the animals." The animals in question were wildfowl whose lives mattered more than theirs did. The Trump administration tried to build a road in its first term, but was overridden by two federal judges. Over a decade later, the case is still pending and more patients have likely died. The western liberals who will fight to the death to use the incorrect name from a dead language for a mountain just to be able to call it 'big mountain' in a tribal language will also let members of tribes die rather than allow any development that would spoil their idea of an untouched Alaska. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. 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