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By Selwyn Duke College campuses have become infamous for “safe spaces” where supposedly “offensive” viewpoints must be concealed. But now a concealed-carry gun law designed to make a whole campus a safer space is being protested in a truly offensive way, with, as New York’s Daily News put it, students “fighting firearms with phalluses.” Read…

By Selwyn Duke “Our intent is to limit student exposure to religious teachings, profanity and violent lyrics," said a government-schools spokesman recently. The statement speaks volumes, lumping all religious teaching in with “profanity,” whose original meaning pertains to treating sacred things irreverently. The reason for its utterance also speaks volumes. It was a defense of…

By Selwyn Duke Our sensibilities are shocked when we hear of China killing people and selling their organs. Yet the same occurs in our nation, with the Planned Parenthoodscandal being a prime example. And now a related case has come to the fore, with a New Mexico academic official admitting that high-school students were given…

By Selwyn Duke Imagine that your daughter goes on an overnight school field trip and you learn that a boy bunked with her because he claimed to be a girl. Well, if she attends school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, you may have to imagine. For while that very thing could happen, school teachers and…

By Selwyn Duke The signs are all there: bizarre coughing fits, falls, failure to return to a debate stage on time, requiring help up stairs, and what many describe as seizures and blackouts. Hillary Clinton is running what may be a truly historic campaign, as she is possibly the most unhealthy major party nominee to…

By Selwyn Duke “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” observed author George Orwell. And Princeton University is obviously replete with intellectuals, as evidenced by its new obsession: eliminating the word “man” from its Human Resources Department. Man, what will they think of next? It’s all outlined in a…

By Selwyn Duke "The elite are not the problem right now; the people are,” said German president Joachim Gauck, responding to the Brexit vote in June. His comment perhaps reflected an old division with a new twist. The division is the Elite vs. the Street. And the twist, writes columnist Peggy Noonan in a much-read…

By Selwyn Duke My, my, there those feminists go, complaining again. This time the whining concerns supposedly “sexist” Olympics coverage. Their problem? Many journalists are, we’re told, using different language when talking about female athletes than when speaking of male ones. Oh, the humanity!

By Selwyn Duke While the Iranians may demean us as “The Great Satan,” some Americans seem hell bent on living down to that pejorative. Case in point: a recent local assembly meeting in Alaska and its opening prayer — which happened to be to the Devil. Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke German chancellor Angela Merkel’s mini-pep-talk slogan, relating to the Muslim wave migration into her country, has long been, “We can do it!” And the Islamic State certainly agrees — and has done it — with a leading German spy chief confirming that the terrorist group-cum-caliphate has succeeded in sneaking hit squads and…