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  • City to Fine Residents for Putting Too Much Food in Garbage

    By Selwyn Duke Your refrigerator fails and you dump a large amount of spoiled food in the garbage? That could mean a fine under a new ordinance in Seattle. The measure is designed to encourage composting, and it empowers garbage collectors to conduct a “cursory” inspection of residents’ trash in an effort to find violators.…

  • Equal Work? Government Has No Idea What That is

    By Selwyn Duke “Equal pay for equal work!” the mantra goes. “Women get only 73 cents on a man’s dollar!” These are oft-heard slogans, and we may well hear them again during the fall campaign with the War on Women afoot. Now, going beyond the rhetoric, it’s not widely known but nonetheless true that the…

  • Michelle Obama Criticizes America at UN for Treatment of Women

    By Selwyn Duke In a recent address to a United Nations education event, First Lady Michelle Obama decided to shine the light on a certain nation’s treatment of women. No, it wasn’t Saudi Arabia where females aren’t allowed to drive, or the Congo where rape is brutal and systematic. It was the United States. Here’s…

  • Obama Prohibits FBI From Scrutinizing Muslims When Seeking Domestic Terrorists

    By Selwyn Duke Could you imagine if the government had prohibited consideration of ideology (Nazi leanings) in identifying possible internal threats during WWII? That’s exactly how many critics might analogize new rules handed down by Attorney General Eric Holder that hamstring the FBI, rules disallowing the use of religious factors in the pursuit of terrorist…

  • Black-on-white Violence Rampant, Ignored by Authorities and Media

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine you’re walking down the street and someone sucker punches you, breaking your glasses and swelling your lip. Your attacker then continues raining down blows upon you, spits on you, and pejoratively refers to your religious orientation while provoking you to fight. Imagine this happens in front of tens of witnesses who…

  • If You Want to Get into a Really Big War, Elect a Liberal

    By Selwyn Duke If I pointed out that involvement in every major 20th-century conflict the US was part of occurred on liberals’ watch, it might not be entirely fair. True, there was WWI under Wilson, WWII under FDR, Korea under Truman, and Vietnam under Kennedy and Johnson. But the second Great War needed to be…

  • Scottish Independence and the Failure of Multiculturalism

    By Selwyn Duke We’re supposed to be living in the era of consolidation of power. There’s the European Union and the euro, NAFTA and ambitions for a North American Union, and former Israeli president Shimon Peres even floated the idea of a UN-style Organization of United Religions. And isn’t this the tide of history? Just…

  • Barack Obama Is Bringing Disease to America

    By Selwyn Duke With a southern border so unguarded that even a federal bulletin has warned that it may be the source of an imminent terrorist attack, there is strong suspicion that another threat has crossed it: disease. News stories have appeared recently about a strange outbreak across the Midwest of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), which…

  • Eric Holder’s DOJ Suing Police for Treating Women Equally

    By Selwyn Duke If you thought discriminating against women could get you in trouble today, try treating them equally. The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) is learning this the hard way. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in late July to end the PSP’s practice of requiring that all state-police applicants, be they male…

  • UK Woman Who Reported Muslim Pedophilia Forced Into “Diversity Training”

    By Selwyn Duke “You must never [again] refer to Asian men,” and your “awareness of ethnic issues” needs to be raised. This chastisement was given to a UK Home Office researcher who, apparently, was thought guilty of “racism.” Her offense? She blew the whistle on a pedophilia ring in the English town of Rotherham. One…