There are two kinds of voters in the United States right now. First, there’s the kind that is voting for Ron DeSantis in the GOP primary. Second, there’s the kind who doesn’t know what Ron DeSantis has accomplished in Florida. He has achievements in every single area that conservatives care about, even foreign policy! Let’s see the latest demonstrated achievement from Ron DeSantis.

This report is from the CBS News:

For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a Florida program to import certain prescription drugs in bulk from Canada, where drug prices are much cheaper, to significantly cut costs for American consumers.

Floria’s proposal specifies a number of drug classes, including medications for asthma; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD; diabetes; HIV and AIDS; and mental illness. The medications would be only for certain people, including foster children, prison inmates, certain elderly patients and, eventually, Medicaid recipients.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the plan into law in 2019, but it required federal review and approval by the FDA, which controls prescription drug imports.

[…]DeSantis celebrated the FDA’s move Friday, saying that the program will save the save up to $180 million in its first year alone by bringing lower cost drugs to Floridians.

“After years of federal bureaucrats dragging their feet, Florida will now be able to import low-cost, life-saving prescription drugs,” DeSantis said. “It’s about time that the FDA put patients over politics and the interests of Floridians over Big Pharma.”

[…]Florida has estimated that the program could save it up to $150 million annually. The FDA authorized the state’s importation program for two years once the agency is notified of the first shipment of drugs ordered from Canada. State officials must first test the drugs to make sure they’re authentic and relabel them so that they comply with U.S. standards.

I just want to stress this. If you are the kind of conservative who cares about results, then the best candidate in the 2024 election is Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis also promised to end the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

Here’s the latest about that.

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis joined the Dana Show with Dana Loesch Thursday afternoon where he vowed to abolish the ATF should Congress pass the appropriate legislation.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was established in 1886 and is responsible for the enforcement of specific guns and tax laws.

DeSantis also commented on a recent school shooting in Iowa and the current crop of ‘Red Flag’ laws across the United States.

“They try and use these things as leverage to advance a political agenda,” explained DeSantis.

Eliminating the ATF is in addition to his promise to eliminate the Departments of Education, Commerce, Energy, and the IRS. Would you like to see that happen? If you do, vote for DeSantis. Trump had 4 years to do this, 2 with a Republican House and Senate, and he did not get it done. In the same clip, DeSantis opposes Red Flag laws, and he refuses to build a new headquarters for the FBI. He wants to move as many agencies as possible out of Washington, D.C. as well!

What about Trump? Trump allied with Anthony Fauci to lock America down, and with Christopher Wray, to corrupt the FBI. Trump promised to build the wall, he didn’t. Trump promised to end birthright citizenship, he didn’t. Trump promised to drain the swamp, he didn’t. Trump  did nothing at all during the BLM and Antifa rioting. Trump is now criticizing pro-life laws at the state level. Trump wants to build the FBI a brand new, state-of-the-art Kremlin-sized headquarters near Washington.

America can do better than Trump in 2024.

Related posts on DeSantis’ achievements

• fires district attorneys who were elected with help from George Soros
• Mamas for DeSantis: Casey DeSantis champions parent’s rights at the national level
• high tourism and low unemployment
• six-week abortion ban
• no sex-reassignment surgeries on kids
• no pronouns required in Florida schools
• no kids at drag queen shows
• pre-game prayer is allowed
• universal school choice
• making collection of union dues optional for teachers
• flying illegal immigrants to Massachusetts
• elect conservatives to school boards
• teach students about the historical record of communism
• ban grooming of young children
• protect wildlife
• banning biological males from women’s sports
• punishing Big Tech social media companies for censoring conservatives

A MUST-SEE lecture based on Dr. Stephen C. Meyer’s book “Signature in the Cell“. One of my favorite 6 arguments for a Creator and Designer is the origin of the simplest replicating living system. When you look into the cell, what you’ll find is carefully sequenced components that for complex structures, like proteins. In this lecture, you’ll learn all about this “biological information”.

I highly recommend watching the lecture, and looking at the slides. The quality of the video and the content is first class. There is some Q&A (9 minutes) at the end of the lecture.

Topics:

• intelligent design is concerned with measuring the information-creating capabilities of natural forces like mutation and selection
• Darwinists think that random mutations and natural selection can explain the origin and diversification of living systems
• Darwinian mechanisms are capable of explaining small-scale adaptive changes within types of organisms
• but there is skepticism, even among naturalists, that Darwinian mechanisms can explain the origin of animal designs
• even if you concede that Darwinism can account for all of the basic animal body plans, there is still the problem of life’s origin
• can Darwinian mechanisms explain the origin of the first life? Is there a good naturalistic hypothesis to explain it?
• there are at least two places in the history of life where new information is needed: origin of life, and Cambrian explosion
• overview of the structure of DNA and protein synthesis (he has helpful pictures and he uses the snap lock blocks, too)
• the DNA molecule is composed of a sequence of bases that code for proteins, and the sequence is carefully selected to have biological function
• meaningful sequences of things like computer code, English sentences, etc. require an adequate cause
• it is very hard to arrive at a meaningful sequence of a non-trivial length by randomly picking symbols/letters
• although any random sequence of letters is improbable, the vast majority of sequences are gibberish/non-compiling code
• similarly, most random sequences of amino acids are lab-proven (Doug Axe’s work) to be non-functional gibberish
• the research showing this was conducted at Cambridge University and published in the Journal of Molecular Biology
• so, random mutation cannot explain the origin of the first living cell
• however, even natural selection coupled with random mutation cannot explain the first living cell
• there must already be replication in order for mutation and selection to work, so they can’t explain the first replicator
• but the origin of life is the origin of the first replicator – there is no replication prior to the first replicator
• the information in the first replicator cannot be explained by law, such as by chemical bonding affinities
• the amino acids are attached like magnetic letters on a refrigerator
• the magnetic force sticks the letters ON the fridge, but they don’t determine the specific sequence of the letters
• if laws did determine the sequence of letters, then the sequences would be repetitive
• the three materialist explanations – chance alone, chance and law, law alone – are not adequate to explain the effect
• the best explanation is that an intelligent cause is responsible for the biological explanation in the first replicator
• we know that intelligent causes can produce functional sequences of information, e.g. – English, Java code
• the structure and design of DNA matches up nicely with the design patterns used by software engineers (like WK!)

There are some very good tips in this lecture so that you will be able to explain intelligent design to others in simple ways, using everyday household items and children’s toys to symbolize the amino acids, proteins, sugar phosphate backbones, etc.

Proteins are constructed from a sequence of amino acids:

Proteins sticking onto the double helix structure of DNA:

I highly, highly recommend this lecture. You will be delighted and you will learn something.

Here is an article that gives a general overview of how intelligent design challenges. If you want to read something more detailed about the material that he is covering in the lecture above related to the origin of life, there is a pretty good article here.

There is a good breakdown of some of the slides with helpful flow charts here on Uncommon Descent.

Positive arguments for Christian theism

• The kalam cosmological argument and the Big Bang theory
• The fine-tuning argument from cosmological constants and quantities
• The origin of life, part 1 of 2: the building blocks of life
• The origin of life, part 2 of 2: biological information
• The sudden origin of phyla in the Cambrian explosion
• Galactic habitable zones and circumstellar habitable zones
• Irreducible complexity in molecular machines
• The creative limits of natural selection and random mutation
• Angus Menuge’s ontological argument from reason
• Alvin Plantinga’s epistemological argument from reason
• William Lane Craig’s moral argument
• The unexpected applicability of mathematics to nature

The Iowa GOP primary vote is coming up very soon, and I just want to make sure that everyone has a chance to get to know the candidate with the best record of achievements. DeSantis’ appearance on CNN was praised by CNN and others as the strongest they have seen him speak. He’s improving his speaking ability, and so I thought I would post it along with an article.

Here’s the video:

And the article from the far-left Iowa Capital-Dispatch.

Birthright citizenship:

DeSantis said that if elected, he would sign an executive order eliminating the constitutional guarantee of citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants born in the U.S., also known as “birthright citizenship.” While president in 2018, Trump said he would sign an executive order to eliminate it, but never did so.

“The 14th Amendment obviously applies to U.S. citizens,” DeSantis told CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins. “It was never the intent to say, ‘you come illegally across the border, have a kid and all of a sudden, the kid is an American citizen.’ That creates an anchor in the society so that you then can’t deport the illegal aliens who came in. It’s an incentive to come in illegally. That was not the intention of that.”

[…]The governor then followed up by bashing Trump for saying that he would do the same thing, but never did so. “What is he now telling people in Iowa this time around? He says he’s going to do the same thing that he didn’t do the first four years. I mean sometimes you can say ‘Congress stymied you’ and all this other stuff.  All he had to do was put his John Hancock on a piece of paper, and he did not do it. When I tell you I’m going to do something, you can take it to the bank. I’m going to do it.”

Abortion legislation:

On abortion, DeSantis defended his signing of a bill last year that would ban abortions in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy, with some exceptions (the law has not gone into effect as the Florida Supreme Court is reviewing a legal challenge to the 15-week ban passed in 2022. If they do maintain that law, the six-week ban would go into effect short afterwards). And he said Trump was weak on the issue.

“This was a guy who was at the March for Life in January of 2020, and he said that all life was a gift from God. He said the unborn was made in the image of God. He said that there should be protections. That’s what he was saying when he was president at the March for Life. Now he’s saying it’s a terrible, terrible thing. So how do you reconcile those two views. Did he flipflop? Did he not believe it at the time?”

When Collins asked him if he thought that Trump wasn’t actually “pro-life,” DeSantis replied, “Of course not.”

“Some issues are pretty fundamental,” DeSantis added. “How do you flipflop on something like the sanctity of life?” as the audience cheered.

Trump supported pro-life during his first term as president, but recently he’s been critical of the repeal of Roe v. Wade decision, and also critical of states like Florida, that have restrictions on abortion.

All 99 counties:

DeSantis has gone all in on Iowa, the first state in the country where Republican voters will be able to decide on who their presidential nominee will be in November. He’s campaigned in all 99 counties in the state and received the endorsement of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.

Gun rights:

[…]The town hall took place just hours after six people were shot at a high school in Perry, Iowa, approximately 40 miles northeast of Des Moines earlier in the day. DeSantis called the shooting a tragedy, and then pivoted to how he had worked to enact a comprehensive gun safety law that was passed by the Florida GOP-controlled Legislature in the immediate wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in February 2018 that killed 17 people.

Collins asked him about one provision in the law that GOP lawmakers now say that they want to repeal: a three-day waiting period to purchase a firearm in the state.

“I think the background checks should be instant,” he said, giving a boost to the proposed legislation. He added that if the background check reveals a criminal conviction or a mental health issue, the purchase would then be prevented. “But I think that you want instant background checks, and so that’s what I support.”

Ukraine funding:

DeSantis… said on Thursday that “we need to bring it to a conclusion.”

Did that mean ending U.S. support for Ukraine? Collins asked.

“It means end the conflict,” DeSantis responded, before blasting President Biden for not giving the American people a clear message on what the U.S. objective is in the conflict. Collins again pressed him what “ending the conflict” actually meant – did that mean no more American dollars or military aid to the Volodymyr Zelensky administration?

“What it means is bringing it to a situation where Russia is in a box and you’re not having wars break out to Europe,” he said, adding that he would never send U.S. troops to fight in the conflict – something that Joe Biden said when the war began nearly two years ago. He did say that he would be willing to help out Europe “to bring it to a conclusion.”

As he had done on the campaign trail, DeSantis spoke about his own military experience, saying that if elected he would be the first veteran to serve in the White House since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

Just to help the author of the article out, DeSantis wants no more funding, and no more weapons. He thinks that Europe should supply Ukraine with funding and weapons, because the United States has to prioritize the threats from China and America’s Southern border.