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By Selwyn Duke As in the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which a con man poses as a fake prince hailing from a presumably fake country, it’s the stuff of movies: City officials in Newark, New Jersey, got scammed into signing a sister-city agreement with a country that doesn’t exist by a self-proclaimed “god-man”…

By Selwyn Duke Imagine you invite a couple of people to stay at your home, which has been in your family for generations. Now imagine that because they find pictures of great-grandpa and some other ancestors adorning your walls offensive, a few of your family members consider destroying the works. How would you describe those…

By Selwyn Duke Sports network ESPN is notorious for its steroids-level wokeness. That’s why something occurring on its airwaves last week was so shocking: A white sports analyst criticized a black colleague for racism — and didn’t back down. Is this, perhaps, another indicator of a budding rebellion against political correctness? Whatever the case, the…

By Selwyn Duke My appearance begins at 52:20.  Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab." Talkback-03-10-2023

By Selwyn Duke “Libertarians and conservatives talk a lot about freedom,” writes Jacobin magazine, “but the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination — and if you take that seriously, you should oppose capitalism.” This article, running Friday and titled “Socialism Is All About Expanding Freedom,” might hardly warrant mention, except that MSN.com saw fit…

By Selwyn Duke “A pox on both their houses,” we may say, when wishing both sides in a contest could lose. I surely feel this way, too, with the “transgender” vs. feminist debate over men masquerading as female entering women’s sports and private spaces. Oh, I don’t fence-sit. Not only have I likely written more…

By Selwyn Duke Gen Z and Millennials may be known for their leftist passions; some may not even be able to answer the question, “What is a woman?” Nonetheless, a majority are taking at least one very “conservative” position: They say that “women’s rights” have gone too far, according to a recent study. Read the…

By Selwyn Duke The standard liberal line, smacking of arrogance but also projection, is that conservatives are dark, dorky, and, most significantly, dumb. Yet one somewhat-disheartened liberal has learned through personal experience as a Bill Moyers staffer that the last notion may be dumb itself. For our younger friends unacquainted with Moyers, know that he’s a…

By Selwyn Duke The face masks many Covid ritualists still wear may not filter out viruses too well, but they do stop authorities from filtering out different pathogens: criminals. So warned New York City mayor Eric Adams recently when, in perhaps the ultimate Captain Obvious moment, he told Big Apple shop owners Monday that they…

By Selwyn Duke Fevered and fearful, or perhaps fearsome, media claimed that Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles said in a CPAC speech that “transgender” people should be “eradicated.” While he made no such remark, there’s not even the slightest possibility such a quasi-genocide could occur, for a simple reason: You can’t eradicate people who…