Category: Constitution
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By Selwyn Duke For years now I’ve been warning, to imprecisely echo Twain, that reports of wokeness’s death are greatly exaggerated. The force is in fact alive and well and still metastasizing. A story out of Portland, Oregon, illustrates this perfectly, too. It involves a mother who, after complaining about “trans” propaganda targeting her son,…
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s something many Americans don’t know: There is no category in American law such as “hate speech.” It doesn’t exist. Some people nonetheless behave as if it does — including many who sit on legal benches and juries. Some would say this is the reality, too, with a Minnesota court case that…
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By Selwyn Duke “Education is useless without the Bible,” stated Noah Webster (1758-1843), known as the “Father of American Scholarship and Education.” “The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields,” he continued. “God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.” Texas is now taking this to heart.…
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By Selwyn Duke One of the nation-shattering issues hardly ever discussed, distracted as we are with frivolity, is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This is the state-led scheme to circumvent the Electoral College and force presidential elections to be decided by popular vote. It’s dangerous not just because it would essentially enable densely…
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By Selwyn Duke “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every…
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By Selwyn Duke What do you do when the people elect a sheriff you don’t like? What’s your recourse when that lawman won’t push the “woke” agenda? If you’re like Washington state’s Democrats, who control the government, you’ll seek veto power over the people’s will. The current target of these politicians’ ire is Sheriff Keith…
