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By Selwyn Duke “I can’t believe they let me out,” Gerod Woodberry told a detective. Woodberry was right to be surprised. He’d already been charged in four bank robbery cases and now had just been charged with collecting $1,000 from a fifth bank. At least he’d learned a lesson, though — that he could do it…

By Selwyn Duke Barack Obama certainly isn’t feeling the Bern, unless it’s indigestion. Concerned that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — perhaps the new Democrat front-runner — won’t be able to trump Trump, the ex-president is considering a public rebuke of the Vermont senator designed to kill his momentum. Obama isn’t alone in experiencing the Bernie blues. The…

By Selwyn Duke China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But recently discovered viruses locked in its Guliya ice cap on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau are far older than the Middle Kingdom is, dating back 15 millennia. Of course, while scientists are rightly curious about these ancient and unknown quantities, they’re also concerned — about what…

By Selwyn Duke It’s “the criminalization of political differences” said Democrat law professor Alan Dershowitz, long ago, about the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. And now 21 Republican state attorneys general are echoing Dershowitz’s warning that the action “endangers” the Republic. Stating in a letter submitted to the Senate Wednesday morning that the effort “establishes a…

By Selwyn Duke The Sanders Surge that saw the Vermont senator’s stock rise in Iowa has continued, with a new poll showing the socialist presidential contender leading all his rivals nationally — including longtime front-runner Joe Biden. Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the economics major who once said that “unemployment is low because everyone has two jobs,” used this past Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to attack the rich. Perhaps believing that a person is not judged by the content of his character but the corpulence of his wallet, she said in…

By Selwyn Duke High fashion used to be about battling bad taste, not trumping testosterone. But this has changed further with fashion leader Gucci’s 2020 men’s clothing line, whose goal is to battle “patriarchy” and “macho virility” while advancing a “childhood theme” that some view as uncomfortably pedophilic. Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke The New York Times, the “paper of record” that was once Stalin’s mouthpiece, has just made news by giving us all the presidential endorsements fit to print. In a first not just for the paper but, perhaps, for any paper, it has chosen two candidates: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).…

By Selwyn Duke France’s hate-speech laws have been used to arrest people such as actress Brigitte Bardot, in her case for criticizing Islamic animal slaughter practices. But they didn’t stop public radio broadcaster France Inter from playing a song entitled “Jésus est pédé” (“Jesus Is a Faggot”). And while such charges are unlikely forthcoming, the…

By Selwyn Duke She didn’t exactly do the West proud. A Canadian English teacher working in South Korea apparently has a very odd conception of “age appropriate”: She showed a BBC documentary entitled “What does human flesh taste like?” — to a class of children as young as six. Now she faces child-abuse charges and…