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By Selwyn Duke “‘Guns don’t kill people; men and boys kill people,’ experts say,” read an October 2017 USA Today headline. The next month, Democrat Dana Nessel, running for Michigan attorney general, told state residents to support her, not a man. She meant any man because, her reasoning went, a woman won’t likely commit sexual harassment. (Nessel won her…
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By Selwyn Duke While it was contrary to our Founders’ warning to avoid entangling alliances and European wars, we certainly can understand why NATO was created in 1949. The USSR, which President Ronald Reagan would later rightly call an “evil empire,” appeared a burgeoning force. Ensuring his post-WWII domination of Eastern Europe, Soviet despot Joseph…
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By Selwyn Duke There’s a storm brewing, quite understandably, among millennial and Gen Z white men. Denied jobs over their race, they’re looking for remedy and reparation. Given this, it’s not surprising that a long essay documenting the problem with stories and stats has gained much traction. Appearing at the website Compact on Monday and…
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By Selwyn Duke “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” noted Austrian psychiatrist/philosopher Viktor Frankl. Much has been written about the need for meaning, in recent years especially. Without it, a person can descend into a morass of addiction, degradation, and self-destruction. The same, however, is true…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s becoming a new Christmastime tradition: Islamic jihadist attacks on non-Muslim celebrations. We all now know of Bondi Beach, Australia, after two jihadists murdered 15 Hanukkah celebration attendees there on Sunday. The perps, father-son duo Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, were reportedly inspired by the Islamic State. (Apparently, dad and…
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By Selwyn Duke Establishment Republicans may not like the MAGA movement. Establishment Republicans may want it to disappear. Establishment Republicans may hope it’s going to soon run its course. Establishment Republicans’ hopes are in vain. So says Dr. Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, one of America’s most influential think tanks. Who is he…
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By Selwyn Duke A quarter-century ago, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy wrote the jarring essay, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” He warned that new technologies threatened to make humans obsolete (if not endangered). Now that future is nigh.
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By Selwyn Duke “Everybody, in all mainstream political parties and media … would laugh — laugh — about the word assimilation,” lamented journalist Mikael Jalving in 2014. It “is a Nazi word in Sweden [now]” What kind of people was Danish journalist Jalving talking about? A good example is Swedish multiculturalist Mona Sahlin. Commenting on…
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