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  • My Problem with Sarah Palin

    By Selwyn Duke With Sarah Palin once again hinting at a presidential run, pundits and politics wonks are all the more aflutter with 2016 talk. The predictable slings and arrows of the surly left are coming her way, while her excited fans are firing up the troops. Then there are those who say that while…

  • The Northeast Nanny-staters Who are and the Blizzard that Never Was

    By Selwyn Duke Call it the Blizzard of Oz. The “Snowstorm of the Century” Monday was supposed to be historic. All we got was histrionics. It turned out that the real blustery wind was hot air — and the worst accumulation was the knee-deep nanny-state politicians who think some snow warrants a travel ban. In…

  • Crazy on Campus: U.S. Colleges — Where Truth Is Always Stranger Than Fiction

    By Selwyn Duke “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” noted 1984 author George Orwell. Yet even he might be surprised at what passes for scholarship at today’s American colleges. And many parents certainly would be shocked to learn what their $35,000 to $120,000 — the current average public/private…

  • N.Y. Times Practically Invented No-go-zone Story, but Fox Is Threatened With Suit

    By Selwyn Duke “Je ne suis pas Fox News!” seems to be the attitude of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. She threatened to sue the station last week over its reporting on her city’s “no-go zones,” areas where non-Muslims are wary to tread but that Hidalgo claims don’t exist. Said she, “When we're insulted, then I…

  • U.K. Christian School to be Shut Down After Gov’t Brands Students “Bigots”

    By Selwyn Duke The government officials allegedly asked 10-year-old students what lesbians “did.” Another bureaucrat queried a young boy on what a Muslim was. And, apparently, they didn’t get the answers they wanted. Because one Christian school is now being actively monitored by the state — and another is going to be shut down. The…

  • State Persecuting 88-year-old Doctor Who Treats Poor From His Car

    By Selwyn Duke Doctors’ house calls are considered a thing of the past, but not in the appointment book of Dr. Carrol Frazier Landrum, an 88-year-old physician from Edwards, Mississippi. The good doctor will see you no matter who you are, where you are, or how much money you have — as long his 2007 Toyota…

  • Shut-up, White Boy! Professors: White Men Should Speak Last

    By Selwyn Duke We look to a day when people will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin. And the configuration of their chromosomes. This seems the hope of a panel of professors and activists at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, assembled to improve…

  • Duck and No Cover: Brit Media Scared to Show Charlie Hebdo Cover

    By Selwyn Duke Never in the field of human conflict have so many cowered so much before so few. That’s just what Winston Churchill might say were he around today observing the political correctness that reigns in his and other Western nations’ media. And a prime example occurred this past Wednesday when a British news…

  • PEGIDA, Le Pen, Fascism, and Media Ignorance

    By Selwyn Duke “You’re a fascist!” “You’re a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe!” Media bias often leads to the thoughtless hurling of names, but reporters can’t help but exhibit a negative bias when they don’t know what the names mean in the first place. A good example is the reportage on Europe’s burgeoning anti-Islamization movements, such…

  • Ex-FBI Agent Calls Eric Holder “Coward” and “Hypocrite” in Stunning Letter

    By Selwyn Duke “There’s a common cause that bonds the black United States attorney with the black criminal.” These words, according to Department of Justice whistleblower J. Christian Adams, were uttered by none other than Attorney General Eric Holder. And now another former government official is blowing the whistle — and blowing off some righteous…