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  • Michelle Obama in 1954

    By Selwyn Duke Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco — and Michelle Obama left her brain in 1954. Addressing graduating high-school students the other day in the Topeka, Kansas, school district, the federal lunch lady said, referring to the Brown v. Board of Education decision, “[Y]our experience here in Topeka would have been…

  • Pentagon Spending Tax Money Preparing for “Climate Change”

    By Selwyn Duke The phrase “fighting climate change” has taken on new meaning, with the Department of Defense factoring consensus-based forecasts of a warmer planet into its military preparedness models. Writes NBC News’ Bill Briggs: US military and intelligence agencies are increasingly monitoring and preparing for how, when and where the consequences of a warmer…

  • The Happy Executioner Who Filmed Her Own Abortion

    By Selwyn Duke Women who have abortions usually want to put the experience behind them, tucking the memory away in the recesses of their minds. But not Emily Letts. Instead, the 25-year-old former actress filmed her surgical abortion — and then posted the video on the Internet. She says she wanted to present “a positive…

  • How Demagogues Con People

    By Selwyn Duke How do you know you’re being had by a slick politician? Writing in Mein Kampf about how to manipulate people and win power, Adolf Hitler said that since the average person had a very limited memory and a “slowness of understanding,” it was necessary to use only short, catchy slogans and repeat…

  • Hate Speech: U.K. Political Leader Arrested for Quoting Winston Churchill

    By Selwyn Duke A 2009 poll found that more than a third of British teenagers couldn’t identify some of Winston Churchill’s most famous words. Now it turns out that this deficit just might save them from jail. In a shocking application of hate-speech law, Paul Weston (shown), co-founder and leader of the Liberty GB party…

  • The New York Times Discovers the Rule of Law

    By Selwyn Duke Leave it to The Gay Lady to be a day late and a few brain cells short. The New York Times recently published an article by some journalism-school retread about the Cliven Bundy situation, a piece containing all the usual talking points about how the “racist” rancher’s reasoning is really risible. Rinse,…

  • Secularists Are Denying Schooling to Christians

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine you apply for a college program, only to be denied entry because you believe in God. And the kicker is how school administrators knew about your faith. They asked. This is precisely what happened to Brandon Jenkins when he applied for the Radiation Therapy Program at the Community College of Baltimore…

  • Vladimir Putin Caesar and Our Great Geo-political Turning Point

    By Selwyn Duke We are witnessing, I believe, a turning point in geopolitical history, one future historians may analyze as we have the Roman Empire’s fall. Vladimir Putin is making a move — and it’s not just against Ukraine. It may not be just a move against Eastern Europe. It’s not even, perhaps, just a…

  • Affirmative-action Baby Sotomayor’s Conflict of Interest

    By Selwyn Duke One day while serving as a fill-in host for radio giant Rush Limbaugh, black economist Dr. Walter Williams related an interesting personal story about affirmative action. He said that as a young man he declined an offer of a professorship at a prestigious Ivy League university, explaining to the institution that, since…

  • New Swedish Law Criminalizes Anti-immigration Internet Speech

    By Selwyn Duke You’re free in Sweden to be critical of immigration, those in power, or people identifying as “LBGT” — at least within the confines of your mind. But dare express those views, even on the Internet, and you can now be more easily prosecuted under a new law taking full effect after Christmas.…