Volume 81, no. 10 October 2025
When a nation is on a path to losing its identity, traditions, morality, and freedoms, it needs to turn around.
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA organization, which he founded in 2012 when he was 18 years old, states its objectives are to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government” and to build the “most organized, active, and powerful conservative grassroots activist network on high school and college campuses across the country” (https://tpusa.com).
Charlie developed a bold strategy to counter the dominant left-wing perspective in colleges. He challenged his political opponents to “prove him wrong” during open debates on academic campuses. During such an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, a bullet brutally interrupted the dialogue.
This shocking assassination highlights the deep divisions in our society, and the hatred and lust for violence displayed by large numbers of Americans, most appallingly by educators.
Some of them are paying a price for their comments. Democrats have suddenly become the party of free speech, proposing the NOPE (No Political Enemies) Act, which would make it easier for citizens to sue government and recover attorney fees if federal officials abused their power to silence critics—too late for the pandemic. How ironic coming from the party of microaggression, deplatforming, social media censorship, hate speech, and cancel culture, writes Jeff Childers (tinyurl.com/5fswp2mf).
Charlie was not merely a political activist. He was an evangelist for Christ. After his death, many reconsidered their rejection of Christianity, bought a Bible, or went to church. Such personal turning points have occurred before. For many who took his challenge to “Prove Me Wrong,” years of leftist, anti-Christian, anti-American indoctrination have been nullified. Instead of proving him wrong, some interlocutors saw the light of righteousness.
As usual after a shooting, leftist pundits looked for a “right-wing extremist” inspired by “hateful right-wing rhetoric” that should be immediately censored.
Prosecutors appear to be preparing to argue that the suspect, Tyler Robinson, killed Charlie because he disagreed with Kirk’s “anti-trans rhetoric.” Robinson lives with a male roommate, who was said to be “transitioning.” Bizarre engravings on Robinson’s bullets might be “anti-fascist” or pro-LGBTQ—or an in-group joke by online video gamers (https://tinyurl.com/ywa565m7).
The transgenderism focus might be a diversion. Kirk has been called the greatest political organizer in the last 50 years, persuading young people who were committed to the other side, and helping to elect Trump and a Republican Congress (https://tinyurl.com/2a3zxky7). His success is a threat to globalists, transhumanists, eugenicists, and supporters of “forever wars.” He appealed to young white men, the essential builders of our future, who are being marginalized and demoralized (see p 2).
History Rhymes
Kirk’s murder leads to some of the same questions as John F. Kennedy’s: Was it solely the work of one lone gunman, and was the neck wound an entry or an exit wound? (Or was there no exit wound?) And perhaps a magic (or miracle) bullet?
The internet is abuzz with theories, videos from several camera angles, and purported (but inauthentic sounding) text messages with Robinson’s roommate. The main evidence for Robinson’s guilt is his confession. So far, the fatal bullet has not been matched with the rifle found wrapped in a towel. Was it really a .30-06 Springfield cartridge reportedly found just beneath the skin (https://tinyurl.com/wnvcw9k7)?
What about an autopsy? Or at least a post-mortem scan? From the statement of one of the men who rode with Kirk to the hospital, it appears that Kirk died instantly, as from a wound to the base of the brain, not from exsanguination over a few minutes (https://tinyurl.com/bdz9fyps). Decorticate posturing was described (https://tinyurl.com/2wpzse4b).
JFK had powerful enemies in the Deep State. He had threatened to rein in intelligence agencies. He hoped to make peace with the Soviet Union and to avoid sending American troops to Vietnam—contrary to the agenda of the military-industrial complex. He also opposed nuclear weapons for Israel.
Kirk had been supportive of Trump’s foreign policy, but recently had begun to express doubts. He favored peace in Ukraine, criticized the Netanyahu government, and reportedly tried to dissuade Trump from bombing Iran. His views could threaten the agenda of those who are expert at assassination—far more capable than embittered “transgenders” or their promoters.
Prosecutors are for rapid conviction and plan to ask for the death penalty. Chances are that Robinson, if he made it to trial, would not languish for years on death row like other perpetrators of heinous crimes, but would meet a rapid fate—as Timothy McVeigh did before all the questions about the Oklahoma City bombing were answered.
The outcome may be different from what the assassin intended. Kirk’s presentations are being viewed by people who never heard of him before. “Just leave us alone” Americans might awaken to an existential threat. There could be a revival of faith.
Charlie Kirk is an American hero and martyr. We need to turn America around and transmit our heritage to our youth, if belatedly. He showed the way. It’s up to us now.
American Dream Being Crushed, Kirk Said
Society without ownership is a globalist goal—which is on its way to achievement in what Charlie Kirk called a “credit-centric, renter economy.”
Young men are the builders of the future, who defend and protect civilization. What if they don’t?
We are seeing an entire generation deprived of the means to accumulate wealth through conventional asset ownership. This dynamic engenders a psychological disconnection from the capitalist framework: “When you do not own something, why would you defend it?” Economic distress can cause political radicalization (https://tinyurl.com/7xxwkpkk).
The average age of first-time homebuyers has surged to an unprecedented 38 years in 2024, compared to just 29 years in the 1980s. The median home price has escalated by 52% since 2020, while rent has surged by 40%. Kirk described Generation Z as “the most indebted generation in history.” Buy Now, Pay Later plans are even being used for necessities (ibid.).
More than 2 million young men are now classified as NEET —meaning not in employment, education, or training—with average student debt nearing $40,000 (https://tinyurl.com/3wrud7xy). Kirk calls this a “volcano waiting to explode.” In an interview with Tucker Carlson (https://tinyurl.com/3w6nfhnv), he places much blame on the Republican Party’s participation in a “concerted effort of intergenerational theft.” After the Rockefeller-Romney takeover, he said, the government defends companies, no matter how anti-human they are. The tax code is rigged for the incumbents.
In the 2008 crash, many families suffered, but nobody went to jail. We did the worst possible thing, he said: codified the wrong behavior, made the incumbent Wall Street banks even more powerful through Dodd-Frank, flooded the zone with cheap interest rates, and depreciated the dollar so that asset prices ballooned so much that young people are priced out of the market. We have oligarchy capitalism, and Marxism is being falsely presented as the only alternative: punishing the 1 percent, instead of improving the situation of the lower 50 percent (ibid.).
All economic policy decisions benefit the self-centered older “Woodstock” generation at the expense of their offspring, Carlson said, and he “hates the Boomer generation.”
As America has deindustrialized, the working class has been destroyed. Blue-collar jobs have been replaced by “pink-collar” jobs. Young male unemployment is 7%; young female 4%. Society has been hyperfeminized, and is being organized around hating white men, Kirk states. Opportunities for men to advance are blocked by HR. Female bosses focus on enforcing norms.
We are creating “Lost Boys,” and men flock to Kirk’s events seeking meaning and purpose. As Larry Fink states, we urgently need 500,000 electricians. Not more sociologists. If young white men check out, we lose civilization, Kirk said. “Young men at my events are battered down. They must be given a purpose, not declared the number one threat.”
Kirk exposed the elites on both the Right and the Left.
“Guilt has so furtively stolen into many hearts and minds that people feel apologetic about being civilized, educated, and productive when others are barbaric, uneducated, and parasitic. When civilization apologizes to barbarism, something has gone very wrong at a very fundamental level.”
Thomas Sowell
AAPS Meeting Report
The following officers were elected:
President-elect: Chandrasekhar Doniparthi, M.D., Yuma, AZ
Secretary : Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, NY
Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL
Board of Directors: Roland Chalifoux, D.O., St. Clairsville, OH; Janis Chester, M.D., Dover, DE; Dan Giurgiu, M.D., San Diego, CA; Jane Hughes, M.D., San Antonio, TX. Vernon Zurick, M.D., of Centennial, CO, was appointed to fill a Board vacancy.
George Smith, M.D., of Covington, GA, was installed as president.
The following emergency resolution, submitted by Wayne Iverson, M.D., was passed: “Be it resolved that: AAPS enthusiastically supports the intent and concept of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiatives as put forth by Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”
A proposed bylaws amendment to admit doctors of podiatric medicine as full voting members failed to pass.
Flashback: Charlie Kirk and Society
From Old Errors and New Labels, by Archbishop Fulton Sheen, 1931, p. 95: “America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded….
“There are some minds that believe that intolerance is always wrong, because they make ‘intolerance’ mean hate, narrow-mindedness, and bigotry. These same minds believe that tolerance is always right because, for them, it means charity, broad‐mindedness, American good nature….
“What is tolerance? Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience towards evil, and a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. But what is more important than the definition is the field of its application…. Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to truth. Intolerance applies only to truth, but never to persons. Tolerance applies to the erring; intolerance to the error….
“Tolerance does not apply to truth or principles. About these things we must be intolerant, and for this kind of intolerance, so much needed to rouse us from sentimental gush, I make a plea. Intolerance of this kind is the foundation of all stability.”
With the Engel v. Vitale school prayer decision, writes Michael D. Shaw, the U.S. became a secular, if not atheistic country. An amoral Leftist movement, more closely identified with Stalin than a socialistic flower child, would be spawned. Charlie Kirk ventured into the belly of this beast (tinyurl.com/5fz4vx5j).
AAPS Calendar
Sep 24-26, 2026. 83rd Annual Meeting, Alpharetta, GA – https://aapsonline.org/2026am
Court Restricts Expert Evidence
In Engelis v. Monsanto, No. 23-4201 (tinyurl.com/5fbu7pey), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s exclusion of expert testimony and its summary judgment for lack of evidence of causation. The case is one of some 22,000 cases brought against Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, alleging harm from exposure to glyphosate.
Plaintiff Peter Engelis claimed that his chronic lymphocytic leukemia was caused by exposure to glyphosate-containing Roundup. The only evidence presented was testimony of a board-certified oncologist who reviewed various possible causes of Mr. Engilis’s cancer, ruled out obesity as a contributing factor, and concluded that glyphosate was the most likely cause.
The court ruled, and the Ninth Circuit agreed, that an expert’s conclusions or opinions are not enough. Under amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 (https://tinyurl.com/ytv96z7n), experts must provide scientifically sound reasons for ruling out alternative causes and do so by a preponderance of actual evidence.
Glyphosate was introduced in 1974, is licensed in 130 countries, and is used every year by millions of homeowners, gardeners and farmers to control weeds. Studies and reviews by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Food Safety Authority, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Health Canada, and dozens of other experts have found it safe and non-carcinogenic. Only one agency, the International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC), says otherwise, based primarily on two mouse studies, writes Paul Driessen, J.D. (tinyurl.com/4p4s4urn).
A 2019 EPA Guidance Letter stated that a warning of carcinogenicity based only on a product’s containing glyphosate would be “false and misleading” (tinyurl.com/3u8u7kww).
AAPS Appeals Do-Not-Fill Case
The federal district court for the Southern District of Florida, based on legal technicalities, dismissed the case of Courtney Morgan, M.D., against Walgreen’s corporate refusal to fill any of his prescriptions (AAPS News, March 2025). The underlying issue, writes attorney Andrew Schlafly in the AAPS brief to the Eleventh Circuit, is not whether an individual Walgreens pharmacist has discretion to honor or reject a prescription, but whether the corporate Defendant Walgreens may contractually or unilaterally exempt itself from complying with legal obligations governing pharmacy conduct under Florida statutes and pharmacy rules.
“This case raises important public policy considerations regarding the enforceability of state health and pharmacy laws, as well as a provider’s access to legal redress when a pharmacy claims contractual immunity from regulatory compliance.”
CDC Sued over Vaccine Schedule
For the first time, a federal lawsuit challenges the CDC’s 72-dose childhood vaccine schedule on the grounds that it has never been safety tested as actually administered, in Thomas v. Monarez, (No. 1:25-cv-02685, https://tinyurl.com/4c6yrsm3).
While most challenges have been about state mandates or exemptions, writes attorney Richard Jaffe, this case goes to the source. Every state law, every school requirement, every board disciplinary action traces back to “Category A” recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)— which function as binding standards despite their advisory nature.
The suit challenges the CDC on multiple constitutional and administrative grounds. Perhaps most damningly, Jaffe said, HHS has disregarded federal law for 27 years by failing to submit the required biennial vaccine safety reports to Congress. “During this decades-long silence, the schedule ballooned from 24 to 72+ doses, autism rates exploded from 1 in 150 to 1 in 31, and chronic disease now affects over half of American children” (https://tinyurl.com/ycxbu6zx).
“The ‘vaccine framework’…is only based on an evaluation of short-term individual vaccine risks” (tinyurl.com/3muxx7xc).
The lawsuit asks that all recommendation be changed to Category B—shared decision-making between families and physicians —until the CDC does the required testing.
Tip of the Month. Request a new investigator from your state medical board whenever you dislike the one initially assigned. Perhaps surprisingly, this simple request has been immediately granted, and a less biased and friendlier investigator was then assigned to replace the belligerent one. It helps if you can cite examples of bias, disrespectful conduct, or overreach by the investigator you dislike, although examples may not be necessary. Some who work for state medical boards are very aggressive and anti-physician, while others are more reasonable. Exercise your right to request a replacement, who is likely to be fairer.
Vaccine Liability on the Table
On July 28, HHS Secretary Kennedy called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) a “morass of inefficiency, favoritism, and outright corruption,” writes James Lyons-Weiler, Ph.D. (https://tinyurl.com/4y5628n3).
VICP was established in 1986 under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act to shield vaccine makers from product liability lawsuits. Instead, a special court would hear injury claims and disburse funds from a trust financed by a 75-cent surcharge on every dose. The system was adjudicated by government attorneys, immune from civil discovery, unbound by the rules of evidence, and utterly inaccessible to traditional tort remedies. “It is, in every material sense, a system rigged against the injured” (ibid.).
Lyons-Weiler left his role when a special master attempted to bribe him. He had prepared testimony linking aluminum adjuvants to autoimmune conditions via well-established immunological pathways, including molecular mimicry, the use of aluminum hydroxide to induce autoimmunity reliability and reproducibility in animals, and chronic inflammatory cascades. Instead of rebutting the data, the special master told the plaintiff the VICP had already determined that aluminum was not a problem.
Kennedy criticized the VICP for prioritizing the solvency of the HHS Trust Fund over the duty to compensate victims, and called out the agency for denying plaintiffs access to the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)—the most robust adverse event surveillance system in existence.
Lyons-Weiler states that true reform requires, inter alia, open public access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink; a neutral body—independent from HHS—to adjudicate claims; and the restoration of civil discovery and standard evidentiary procedure.
Correspondence
Annual Meeting Disrupted. The talk by Deputy HHS Secretary and Acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill was interrupted by loud “circus” music from speakers hidden under a table. When asked about the disruption, AI said it “never happened.” When I asked AI whether it checked police reports about the incident, there was no response. When asked whether it puts out false information,
AI said that it “frequently” distributes false information.
Sabotage is evidently a tool favored by opponents of the current Administration. President Trump’s microphone was cut off and his teleprompter failed at the recent UN meeting.
Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, N.Y.
Millions Red-Pilled. The graphic posts of the murders of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska in the Charlotte Area Transit System and then of Charlie Kirk have had a huge impact on millions who never paid attention to politics. The victims were not politicians, but people ordinary Americans could identify with. Apolitical moderates are now driving in the express lane to the politically active right and are piling virtually all of the blame on progressives: Those who vote to release criminals back on the streets. Those who call people like Charlie “fascists” and cannot say that murdering someone for their skin color or political beliefs is not okay without adding “but, that being said” or “whataboutisms.” Polling data from YouGov showed that 26% of liberals ages 18-44 responded that physical violence is justifiable to achieve political goals, while 12% of moderates agreed, and only 7% (still too high) of conservatives did. Although it may still be a minority of those on the left, they are all guilty by association since most have done absolutely nothing to counter this.
Chris Martz, https://tinyurl.com/2rr8j37h
Too Late to Turn Around? In 2006, I wrote that unless it corrects course within the next five to 10 years, Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb: the grand buildings will still be standing but the people who built them will be gone. By the next century, German will be spoken only at Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and Goering’s Monday night poker game in Hell. And long before the Maldive Islands are submerged by “rising sea levels” every Spaniard and Italian will be six foot under. But sure, go ahead: worry about “climate change.”
In the 14th century, the Black Death wiped out a third of Europe’s population. In the 21st, a larger proportion will disappear—in effect, by choice. We are living through the self-extinction of the civilization that shaped the age we live in.
Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/4m2mweb7
Mortality Increasing in Elderly? From Coffee & Covid on Jul 3 (tinyurl.com/y46xxvek) came potentially awful news. Centene Corporation (CNC) suffered the worst single-day stock drop in its history—crashing up to 40%. CNC is one of the largest health insurance providers in the U.S., specializing in government-sponsored programs. The company cited two “unexpected” developments. Morbidity (sickness and permanent disability) is rocketing upwards, while at the same time, their insured pools are shriveling. Centene’s customers are possibly the most heavily jab-propagandized populations on planet Earth. At the same time, Social Security payouts spiked downwards, before the clawback in fraudulent payments began. It’s not just plausible, but likely that we’re seeing the same people vanish from two systems at once. In contrast, Service Corporation International (SCI), America’s largest provider of funeral services, has climbed more than 109%. Are we witnessing a slow-motion iatrogenic catastrophe?
Avery Brinkley, Jr., M.D., Panama City, FL
Kirk and Medical Freedom. Charlie Kirk did not take the COVID-19 vaccine. He was a vocal opponent of the vaccines and vaccine mandates, often spreading the truth about their safety and efficacy. He referred to mandatory vaccination requirements as “medical apartheid” and repeatedly criticized the vaccines on social media and in public statements, and publicized claims that they caused harm or were ineffective. There is no record of him ever disclosing that he received the vaccine or recommending it for himself or others beyond early praise for its rapid development under the Trump administration.
Peter A. McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., Dallas, TX
The Boomer Generation. Remember the rapacious refusal of retirees to allow any reform whatsoever to the government health care that they are convinced they earned despite all actuarial fact, and which has directly led to shortages and rationing. It’s a special generation and mindset that allows wise old people to devour the economic seed corn for generations not yet born, and blame any delay in care due to shortage on doctors’ “greed.”
Pat Conrad, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2nfha4rx
Educational Standards. When professional footballer Dexter Manley, who had attended Oklahoma State Univ. for four years, retired, he said he would like to learn to read. But language literacy is a small part of the problem. Actual mathematical literacy is well under 1%. This is at the root of globalist plans. A mathematically illiterate population can be controlled through mathematically obvious lies forcing them to rely on specious authority arguments.
Jonathan Cohler
