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  • States’ Reaction to Same-sex “Marriage” Ruling: A Little Talk, Even Less Action

    By Selwyn Duke “To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.” So wrote Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, the…

  • When the Feds Quash Free Speech with Legal Tyranny

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine you run a website and are ordered by the federal government to divulge personal information on article commenters. Now imagine that the feds also issue a gag order preventing you from revealing what they’re up to. This is precisely what happened with award-winning libertarian website Reason.com Site editor Nick Gillespie related…

  • Chinese Espionage: Was the OPM “Hack” Not a Hack, but Treason?

    By Selwyn Duke Despite its importance, there’s a story that’s not getting out to the public — at least not as quickly as data that should be secret is getting out to the Chinese. Many of you have heard about the supposed “hack” of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in which the Chinese were…

  • Orwellian America: Principal Fired for McKinney-comment Thought Crime

    By Selwyn Duke "He did nothing wrong. He was afraid for his life. I commend him for his actions." The essence of this opinion, about ex-McKinney, Texas, police officer Eric Casebolt, has been expressed by many, including talk-radio giant Mark Levin. But the verbatim quotation above was in reality authored by high-school principal Alberto Iber…

  • Obama’s Justice Dept. Wants Names of Internet Commenters Who Trashed Judge

    By Selwyn Duke In an age where a British politician was arrested for publicly quoting legendary statesman Winston Churchill, it’s not surprising that a loose Internet comment can get a person in trouble. And this may be what’s happening in the case of six Internet posters whom the federal government believes issued “threats” against a…

  • Biker Shootout: Libs Going Wacko over Race in Waco

    By Selwyn Duke Leftists are upset about what they view as a double standard with respect to the Baltimore/Ferguson affair and the recent Waco gang shootout. They’re right, too — there sure is a double standard. And, as usual, it’s their own. Consider, for example, an Associated Press piece by one Jesse J. Holland titled…

  • Proposed Federal Law: Don’t Sway People from Homosexuality — or Else

    By Selwyn Duke In the beginning, the homosexual agenda was about the right to be an “out” homosexual without government interference. Now it’s about using the government to prohibit efforts to get out of homosexuality. And the latest attack on this front is the ominously named “Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act” (TFPA), which would ban same-sex-attraction…

  • Was Politician Forced Into Mental Institution for “Islamophobia”?

    By Selwyn Duke One tactic Soviet-bloc countries would use to stifle dissidents was involuntary confinement to mental institutions. After all, you have to be crazy to oppose state ideology, right? Now, though, 26 years after the Berlin Wall’s fall comes a similar shocking story — from well west of where the wall stood. It is…

  • Killing Pamela Geller in a Dying America

    By Selwyn Duke Hey, isn’t creating sacrilegious images brave? That’s what we heard years ago when at issue was “art” such as a crucifix immersed in a glass of urine or a Virgin Mary picture smeared with feces. But that wasn’t quite the response to pundit Pamela Geller’s Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, was…

  • The Real Racism in the Freddie Gray/Baltimore Affair

    By Selwyn Duke Did you hear about the white cops indicted in Freddie Gray’s death? You likely did. Did my opening question cause you to take exception? It likely didn’t — but it should have. Because half the officers (shown) charged in Baltimore drug dealer Freddie Gray’s April 12 death are black. Yet in a…