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By Selwyn Duke It’s easy to get wrapped up in men and moments. In the current election season, for instance, we may see a candidate appearing to embody all our hopes and dreams (or at least many) and come to assign him country-savior status. Even the great Thomas Sowell — a man for whom I…

By Selwyn Duke “The duties of the Senate are set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote. It says appointments shall be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. That is very different than saying every nominee receives…

By Selwyn Duke “I once tried to light a joint with a fire ant, but what did I know? I was high on glue and in the third grade, just like grandpa.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE Pot is now hot, with many viewing it as just the Millennial Martini, no…

By Selwyn Duke Gun-control laws have been killed off in the Missouri legislature in recent years, and more residents are being killed in the streets. That’s the story, anyway. One of the storytellers is Jonathan M. Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt…

By Selwyn Duke "Muslims and Christians worship the same God," we so often hear. It's one of those Kumbaya people just love repeating. But is it anything more than self-delusion? In the excellent article below, William Kilpatrick absolutely eviscerates the same-God thesis, pointing out that the Koran specifically condemns the central tenet of Christianity: the…

By Selwyn Duke How severe is vote fraud in America? Some critics say that electoral sleight-of-hand has resulted in stolen elections, while others shrug the problem off as negligible at worst. But a new analysis of 2016 primary voting trends indicates, many analysts insist, that ballot fraud’s magnitude may be quite staggering. A big story…

By Selwyn Duke The battle goes to the passionate, is so often the case. Culture wars are no exception, and a handful of stories from the past week — involving the Islamization of the West — illustrate this point well. “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding…

By Selwyn Duke Thomas Jefferson once said that judicial supremacy would reduce our Constitution to a “suicide pact.” Now the Supreme Court is once again vindicating that assessment: On Friday it blocked a Louisiana law that would have saved babies’ lives by reducing the number of facilities licensed to commit pre-natal infanticide. At issue is…

By Selwyn Duke It’s just a paper about the hand. It bears the not-very-titillating title “Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping activities of daily living.” But now its authors could use a helping hand after receiving the back of someone else’s. Written by three researchers from China’s Huazhong University and one from Worcester Polytechnic…

By Selwyn Duke Things must be made unequal to compensate for America’s inherent “racism,” states Critical Race Theory. The organizers of the Cinder Block Comedy Festival (CBCF) in New York City are taking this principle to heart — and are expanding on it. They’re charging an increased submissions fee for only one group: white men.…