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  • Feds Investigating Cecil the Lion’s Killer — but Planned Parenthood Still in Clear

    By Selwyn Duke Walter Palmer the hunter is now the hunted, with worldwide reprobation making him a social pariah and social-media threats driving him into hiding. And now a federal investigation into the Minnesota dentist who allegedly poached famed Cecil the Zimbabwean lion has been launched. Yet Planned Parenthood, revealed on video to have been…

  • Climate Change: Is a Deadly Ice Age on the Horizon?

    By Selwyn Duke The last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago, and since then we’ve been enjoying a pleasantly warm “interglacial period.” But given that an interglacial may last only 12,000 years, we’re confronted with a scary prospect: Another ice age may be nigh. And this could have devastating effects on mankind. So says…

  • Eminent Scientist: Humans Will Be Extinct in a Century

    By Selwyn Duke Our “Anthropocene” epoch may be named after man, but it will also see man’s demise, says a prominent scientist. And, he avers, our end times are nigh — a mere 100 years off. This warning was issued by Frank Fenner, an eminent Australian researcher credited with helping to eliminate smallpox. But now…

  • Greenpeace Founding Member: Climate Alarmism “Preposterous,” CO2 Emissions Saving Lives

    By Selwyn Duke While Al Gore is suggesting that climate-change realists be punished and schoolchildren braved a snowstorm to hear a rapper give a “happy” climate-alarmism message, an environmentalist presented a truly happy message on the subject: Climate change isn’t caused by man, there’s been no significant warming for nearly two decades, and, even if…

  • Real War of the Worlds? Scientists: Sending Messages into Outer Space Could Spell Doom

    By Selwyn Duke When Orson Welles gave his suspenseful 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, it caused a perhaps overblown but nonetheless real panic among Americans who mistook it for news reportage. And while “invaders from Mars” laying waste to the world now seems fanciful, scientists are worried that a similar broadcast in the…

  • Global Conning: Temperature Data Cooked in “Biggest Science Scandal Ever”

    By Selwyn Duke What do you get when you combine copious amounts of government grant money, layers of dishonesty, the heat of environmental activism, a few dollops of ambition, and a glaze of science in a political pressure cooker? It’s a recipe for enriching a few, impoverishing most, and serving up bad policy all around.…

  • Scientists: Huge Life-ending, Gravity-defying Asteroid Hurtling toward Earth

    By Selwyn Duke No, this is not a drill. A huge asteroid is heading for our planet, and with a diameter of one kilometer, a strike by it could wipe out human life. Don’t cancel any plans, give contemporary doomsayers a pat on the back, or descend into ’roid rage just yet, though. Despite a…

  • Global-warming Hoax Unraveling — Someone Tell Obama

    By Selwyn Duke There’s one kind of disaster that will most assuredly never happen: The one everybody is worried about. History teaches this. While Winston Churchill warned of Adolf Hitler’s dangerousness, others pooh-poohed the matter and few foresaw WWII. Prior to then, how many expected the Great Depression? Did any Pompeians predict the eruption of…

  • 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…

  • Are “Killer Robots” in Our Future?

    By Selwyn Duke “‘Killer robots’ to be debated at UN,” reads the headline. For the anti-UN folks, no, this doesn’t mean that UN officials, becoming overly abrasive during argumentation, could spark a reaction that would move us a step further away from world government. Killer robots don’t currently exist, but whether they should be developed…