'Sen. Moonbeam' speaks

A great editorial from the Courier-Journal:

At a Liberty University speech (Rand Paul) warned students that “in your lifetime” society could eliminate the weak or less intelligent by culling inferior DNA.

Possible? Yes. But such eugenics programs have been discredited by scientists, ethicists and most everyone, and are not on the front burner of political thought today.

...as a Forum Flashes colleague noted, the choice of subject matter seemed so politically random: “It’s like he watched ‘Gattaca’ the night before, and said, ‘Dude, we NEED to talk about this, like, RIGHT NOW.’ ”