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By Selwyn Duke While CNN president Jeff Zucker saysthat viewers trust his network “more than ever,” now there’s even less reason to do so. In the wake of CNN’s recent scandal, in which it was caught knowingly peddling fake news, it now has done it again, presenting on air a fake National Enquirer cover as real. The embarrassing…

By Selwyn Duke Could you imagine lightweight boxers complaining they don’t get the money and exposure of the heavyweights, calling the different treatment “staturism”? This is essentially the situation at the Wimbledon tennis championships this week, with, for example, Hannah Wilks at the Guardian writing, “A new analysis of matches scheduled on Centre and No 1 courts…

By Selwyn Duke A temporary travel ban on people from six terrorist-spawning nations took effect Thursday evening — with a few asterisks. It was the result of a 9-0 Monday Supreme Court ruling in which the justices knocked down lower-court stays on the ban, the first version of which was created via executive order by…

By Selwyn Duke It’s a sad time when simple truths cause serious trouble. But that time is now, and a good example is how former number-one tennis player John McEnroe is being excoriated for stating that Serena Williams, widely regarded as history’s best women’s player, would be “like number 700 in the world” on the…

By Selwyn Duke Far-right” terrorism is a vastly bigger threat than the jihadist variety, claims a recent study. Yet under its methodology, founders George Washington and Thomas Jefferson could be considered “terrorists.” Moreover, researchers included in the right-wing-acts category a black nationalist; a rampaging, mentally ill young man distraught over romantic failures; and a Colin…

By Selwyn Duke “The Russians hacked the election!” is the cry—and the media and Democratic Party hacked half of Americans’ brains.  And Vladimir Putin could be sitting somewhere rubbing his hands together with glee. The story here isn’t that, as recently reported, alleged Russian intrusion was more extensive than originally thought, involving election systems and voter…

By Selwyn Duke The Democrats went down to Georgia, looking for a seat to steal. It sounds like a Charlie Daniels song, but instead of Johnny they ran into Republican Karen Handel, who defeated Democrat hopeful Jon Ossoff (shown) in yesterday’s special election in the Peach State. The Democrats had hoped to flip the seat,…

By Selwyn Duke // <![CDATA[ let inDapIF = true; // ]]> // <![CDATA[ let inDapIF = true; // ]]> // <![CDATA[ let inDapIF = true; // ]]> “One man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric” wrote the Supreme Court in a 1971 free-speech case. While astute philosophers could complain of the relativism this statement implies, we certainly should…

By Selwyn Duke When baseball-field shooter James Hodgkinson tried to kill as many Republicans “as possible” on Wednesday, he didn’t act alone. Oh, in a de jure sense he did, but the de-facto reality is that there were many accessories before the fact: the media, academia, and Hollywood — Kathy Griffin and President Trump-killing Shakespeare in the…

By Selwyn Duke “I’ve seen cats being played football [soccer] with. I have seen cats with their legs torn off and their eyes gouged out. We see cats that have had their heads torn off, and ones that had skin ripped away, or had their legs and back broken.” The above is the testimonial of…