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  • Minimal Thinking Kills: California’s Minimum Wage Continues to Destroy Restaurants

    By Selwyn Duke Would you rather have some jobs available at $12 an hour or no jobs available at $20 an hour? The answer may vary depending on whether you’re a business owner or job seeker — or politician or bureaucrat. Regardless, the opening question, which is of the kind late economist Walter E. Williams…

  • Nuclear War: Risk Has Perhaps NEVER Been Greater, Harvard Expert Says

    By Selwyn Duke As a child of the ’70s and ’80s, I, along with my age mates, remember Cold War nuclear annihilation fears well. Oh, I was born after “duck and cover” days, but we did, for example, have the post-apocalyptic 1983 film The Day After, which portrayed a nuclear war’s consequences. Watched by 100…

  • Louisiana, Law, and Lies: Is Displaying the Ten Commandments in Classrooms Constitutional?

    By Selwyn Duke “The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount,” said a famed American figure. “The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.” Which evangelist said the above? Billy Graham? Pat…

  • CNN: Calling U.S. a “Republic” Is “an Attack on Democracy”

    By Selwyn Duke “You’re entitled to your own opinions,” late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) once famously said — “but not your own facts.” This, apparently, would be news to the Cable News Network (CNN). That is, after interviewing Trump supporters on Sunday, a CNN reporter claimed their observation that the United States is a…

  • Poll: MOST Black Americans Believe in Anti-American Racial Conspiracy Theories

    By Selwyn Duke What are the fruits of propaganda, of playing the woke racial-grievance card? Here’s one consequence: Most black Americans today, a new study has found, believe in racial conspiracy theories — i.e., that U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back. What’s more, the entity conducting the study, the normally sober Pew Research Center,…

  • Billionaire Finally Realizes 7-year-old Tale About Trump Is a Lie

    By Selwyn Duke Just as it’s “garbage in, garbage out” with a computer, feeding incorrect data (lies) to the population has serious consequences. After all, how can people make correct judgments about what politicians and policies to support — i.e., civilization-preserving decisions — if they’re being fed misinformation about those politicians and policies? And, boy,…

  • Heard About the European “Far Right”? How About Unicorns?

    By Selwyn Duke The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So goes the theme of an old book I’ve often cited, The Tyranny of Words. Examples would be if the media routinely called pro-gun-control people “anti-freedom” or pro-abortion individuals “pro-death.” Mainstream journalists don’t do that, of course — but they do use…

  • Seriously? L.A. Removes “Homophobic” “No U-turn” Signs

    By Selwyn Duke First we had Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg talking about “racist roads.” Then we had the city of Oakland, California, remove traffic lights because public officials were unwilling to stop thieves from stealing copper from them. Now there’s yet another indication of what many consider our descent into idiocracy and social decay:…

  • White Girl Paid a Lot: Caitlin Clark’s Woes in Racialized America

    By Selwyn Duke Caitlin Clark would assuredly just like to play basketball. Unfortunately for the WNBA standout, however, focus on the game has been subordinated to racial games in an America in which everything is now about identity politics. Because of this, some may say the WNBA is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.…

  • Gotcha? Secret Alito Tapes Make the Justice Look Good, the Media Bad

    By Selwyn Duke Projection is a fascinating phenomenon. Certain people, ascribing to others the darkness pervading their own souls, are just certain that everyone is hiding skeletons and some secret life — it just has to be uncovered, is all. So perhaps the disappointment was profound when, after a hacker stole then-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s…