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By Selwyn Duke Not long ago, France made abortion a “constitutional right.” Britain hasn’t followed suit, but it can’t because it doesn’t have a constitution. In a way, however, it’s going France one better (read: worse). Its government has just convicted a veteran and father of two for praying silently near an abortion “clinic.” The…
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By Selwyn Duke A startling political phenomenon exists, and it has never been more profound than during this election cycle. That is, if only women voted, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris would win in a landslide. If only men voted, Republican presidential nominee President Donald Trump would win in a landslide. And one issue that…
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(Image credit: Beatchoose/Wikimedia Commons) By Selwyn Duke We hear continual warnings from the Establishment and the Left (and the overlap there is profound) about “attacks on democracy.” Donald Trump, of course, is supposed to be a “threat to democracy.” Yet it all appears like projection. Why? Because the self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy” are now aiming…
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By Selwyn Duke “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party,” late President Ronald Reagan famously said, “the Democratic Party left me.” While Reagan’s departure was in 1962, more and more Americans today could echo his sentiments. For example, the #WalkAway (from the Democrats) campaign was founded by disaffected liberal Brandon Straka in 2018. Six years later,…
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By Selwyn Duke “We make a living by what we get,” said Winston Churchill, “but we make a life by what we give.” Well more than 2,000 years before, ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu also sang charity’s praises. “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures,” he averred. “The more he gives to…
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By Selwyn Duke When even The New York Times complains about your leftism, you know that you not only jumped the shark with wokism, but that the shark you jumped is a megalodon. This is the case, too, with a new report on how the University of Michigan squandered megabucks on DEI indoctrination. The result of these…
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By Selwyn Duke The Oregon Department of Forestry’s second-in-command has been put on administrative leave for committing what is now, apparently, considered misfeasance. His sin? The official, one Mike Shaw, resolved to hire at his bureau the “candidates most qualified for the job.” That’s what Megan Donecker — a purple-haired, tattooed DEI trainer who filed…
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By Selwyn Duke There was a time, not long ago, when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance was standard in schools — and uncontroversial. Then it became an issue — and optional. Now it’s not even an option at one Vermont school, say local parents.
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By Selwyn Duke If men are from Mars and women from Venus, as author John Gray put it, then something is for sure. Mars is MAGA territory. And Venus is Kamala Land. In fact, as polls consistently demonstrate, the intersex voting gap is perhaps now historically large. For example, the latest NBC poll finds that men favor…
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By Selwyn Duke Any discriminating shopper knows that you can’t judge a product’s goodness based on its name or a manufacturer’s advertisement. Those are just superficial appeals designed to entice. Instead, you must examine the ingredients label. So it is, too, with government laws and propositions, a good example being New York’s Equal Rights Amendment…
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