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  • The Fakery That is the War on Fake News

    By Selwyn Duke Is it true that one man’s misinformation is another man’s salvation? Or is it actually true that what man censors is sometimes God’s sublimity? Author and university lecturer Nolan Higdon may not be pondering anything so ethereal. What he is sure of is that, as he wrote Sunday at Salon, the “war…

  • Elon Musk Busts British Muslim Grooming Gang Cover-up Wide Open

    By Selwyn Duke It was a shocking revelation. U.K. authorities ignored a child-trafficking ring — and the beating, terrorizing, and sexual abuse of native British girls — for 16 years. It was for a very troubling reason, too: The perpetrators were Muslim. In fact, one whistleblower was actually warned, “You must never [again] refer to Asian…

  • WARNING: “We Are Still at War”

    By Selwyn Duke The above claim, made just recently, is not about our Ukraine-proxy war with Russia. It’s not about our continuing military actions against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. It’s not about something as mundane as how the U.S. is, technically, still at war with North Korea. Rather, it’s about an ongoing, existential conflict…

  • Cell Phones Have Been Called “Digital Heroin.” So, Should We Ban Them in School?

    By Selwyn Duke “There was a time, not that many years ago, really, when we would actually get into an argument because we didn’t want to answer the phone,” quite funny and mostly clean comedian James Gregory once said during an act. “It’d be like, ‘You get it; I got it last time!’” Boy, the world sure…

  • Study: Conservatives’ Lies Cause Their Higher Social-media Suspension Rates — So Keep Censoring

    By Selwyn Duke Conservatives, let not your heart be troubled. You are being censored more on social media than liberals are, a new study has discovered. But the researchers can help you solve the problem because, they say, they have identified it. You. The study has “found,” you see, that conservatives endure social-media suspension more…