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  • Orwell in the Classroom: University Spends Money to Stifle Speech

    By Selwyn Duke The program may seem “crazy” to many, but don’t you dare call it that. Because this is just one of many words and phrases that Orwellian social engineers at the University of Michigan deem are, well, not at all doubleplusgood. It’s part of a sensitivity-oriented “Inclusive Language Campaign” (ILC) at the public…

  • Radical Atheist Kills Three Muslims in North Carolina

    By Selwyn Duke “I don’t deny your right to believe whatever you’d like; but I have the right to point out it’s ignorant and dangerous for as long as your baseless superstitions keep killing people.” Craig Stephen Hicks may or may not embrace “baseless superstitions,” as he characterized religious faith in the above statement at…

  • China in the Classroom: How the Reds Are Reaching American Students’ Minds

    By Selwyn Duke The university was prohibited by an arm of the Chinese Ministry of Education from hiring a professor who would discuss Tibet. So, instead, a classical Chinese poetry chairman who wouldn’t dare broach the topic was retained. Of course, this type of state control of teaching isn’t unusual in superficially Marxist and un-officially…

  • Silicon Valley Girls: Do Women Need Affirmative Action in Tech Industries?

    By Selwyn Duke It was a couple of decades ago now that Mattel got in trouble for making Barbie dolls that exclaimed, “Math class is tough!” The company had done market research, the story goes, and found the aforementioned was one of young girls’ laments. But it appears that changing toys hasn’t changed reality. Because…

  • Global Conning: Temperature Data Cooked in “Biggest Science Scandal Ever”

    By Selwyn Duke What do you get when you combine copious amounts of government grant money, layers of dishonesty, the heat of environmental activism, a few dollops of ambition, and a glaze of science in a political pressure cooker? It’s a recipe for enriching a few, impoverishing most, and serving up bad policy all around.…

  • Germany vs. the Pope: To Spank or Spank Not?

    By Selwyn Duke We’re a long way from TV depictions of corporal punishment, such as the spanking of the main character in the 1957 film The Invisible Boy (yes, he was invisible at the time). Now we live in an age when many want to make spanking disappear. And recent comments Pope Francis has made…

  • Terrible Deeds in Christ’s Name? Obama Displays Ignorance of History

    By Selwyn Duke Barack Obama (shown at National Prayer Breakfast) certainly makes his share of mistakes, from believing there’s a language called “Austrian” to claiming to have been to “57 states” to pronouncing “corpsman” “corpse-man” three times in the space of one minute. But while many of his displays of ignorance hurt mainly his own…

  • Brian Williams Admits Peddling False Story of Taking Fire in Iraq

    By Selwyn Duke NBC newsman Brian Williams (shown) said that while covering the Iraq War in 2003, he’d come under fire. Now many are calling for him to be fired. Because his story, which he has repeated more than once, is false. Writes the Washington Post: Williams said he was not aboard a helicopter that…

  • The Real White Privilege and My Radio Race War

    By Selwyn Duke If you look for the worst in a group, you’re sure to find it. Using a twist on an Abraham Lincoln line, I made that statement on the Mildred Gaddis Show (Radio One Detroit WCHB AM) last Wednesday during a debate on “White Privilege: Myth or Reality.” Finding myself pitted against the…

  • Little Boy Suspended for Pretending to Have Lord of the Rings Magical Powers

    By Selwyn Duke Nine-year-old Aiden Steward told a schoolmate he could make him disappear with his magic ring. It was an idea the wee lad got after watching The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies the weekend before last. But the only one who disappeared was Aiden. His unauthorized exercise of imagination inspired school…