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  • Despite Cooling, Warmists Haven’t Cooled on Global Warming

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps we could say that old mistaken theories never die — they just keep pace with government funding. A case in point is the vaunted scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They cannot explain why the Earth, defying their climate models, hasn’t warmed now in 15 years, but they’re…

  • Communism Now Big in Japan; Still Little in Virtue

    By Selwyn Duke Will the grinding poverty and initiative killing of collectivism soon wear the label “Made in Japan”? Such a prospect is likely a ways off, but it could become a reality if Yoshiko Kira has her way. Kira is one of a slew of Japanese Communist Party (JCP) candidates who won office in…

  • The Babe and the Cynic

    By Selwyn Duke A certain very erudite and ever entertaining social critic remarked recently that he always thought the worst of people. He went on to say — perhaps, at most, half jokingly — that he was always right about them, too. He then revealed that he actually had been very trusting as a boy,…

  • Are Children Dumber Today Than a Century Ago?

    By Selwyn Duke Seeing high-school student Rachel Jeantel — who can’t read cursive or speak proper English but boasts a B average — testify at the recent George Zimmerman trial certainly could make one wonder what passes for education in 2013 America. And now this question has been brought into even sharper focus by the…

  • When Atlas Shrugged at Detroit

    By Selwyn Duke Many of us have seen the striking video footage. Dilapidated homes and buildings, whole neighborhoods abandoned, large areas being reclaimed by nature and people growing vegetables where businesses once stood. It looks a bit like a post-apocalyptic world. Some would say it’s the apocalypse of government policy. Detroit, Michigan’s recent declaration of…

  • Diploma Disaster?

    By Selwyn Duke When Joshua Baron works delivering food for a local delicatessen, the customers wouldn’t guess that the man handing them their delectable fare is a law-school graduate. But neither the New York City resident’s undergraduate degree in International Affairs nor his law degree has translated into a career. And while he hasn’t yet…

  • The Post-racial President’s Profiling: DWW (Defending While White)

    By Selwyn Duke What would it have taken for the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman to find him guilty? Well, try this on for size: imagine that instead of emerging from his encounter with Trayvon Martin bloodied with a broken nose, he didn’t have a scratch on him. Imagine he had also admitted he confronted…

  • George Zimmerman and the Wannabe Cop

    By Selwyn Duke In a Hollywood-worthy twist, it was just revealed that George Zimmerman helped rescue a family from their overturned SUV a mere four days after his trial’s conclusion. Yes, that would be the much-maligned George Zimmerman. The accused “murderer” George Zimmerman. The targeted-for-death George Zimmerman. And what were the chances such an accident…

  • Obama’s Dangerous Racial Hang-ups

    By Selwyn Duke When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon,” it perhaps didn’t say much for him as a parent. And when the president now says that Martin could have been him “35 years ago,” it doesn’t say much for him as a youth. Of course, we know…

  • Total Recall: Why Recall Elections are a Must

    By Selwyn Duke Should recall elections be reserved only for politicians who break the law? Columnist Rick Moran thinks so. Opining on an impending recall election in Colorado, he writes: The recall device should be reserved for politicians who either break the law or are corrupt in some other way. It shouldn't be employed because…