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By Selwyn Duke Perhaps it’s not surprising in an age where people and governments sue gun manufacturers because criminals misuse their well-designed products. But now there’s another example of selective targeting of a lawful industry based on political imperatives: The Washington Post (WaPo), which has a history of peddling fake news and even had to pay a defamation settlement,…

By Selwyn Duke Get woke, become a joke? That ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay and four other Harvard figures have recently been charged with plagiarism, and that a “dishonesty researcher” at the school has been accused of dishonesty, probably doesn’t surprise Mike Rowe. After all, the award-winning host of shows such as Dirty Jobs and Somebody’s Gotta Do It has witnessed…

By Selwyn Duke When Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she couldn’t define “woman” during her confirmation hearings in 2022, it created quite a stir. The story only would’ve been better if Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who’d asked the then-judicial nominee to define the term, had followed up with, “Are you a woman, Judge…

By Selwyn Duke In the past, some German primary schools and daycare centers renamed a traditional Christian festival to avoid “offending” Islamic newcomers. Around the same time, a Protestant German church removed its Christian crosses to accommodate Muslim migrants it was housing. But such concessions won’t be nearly enough to please the “new Germans,” according to a new study.…

By Selwyn Duke When Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender after WWII, saw pamphlets dropped by the United States stating the war was over, he thought it was a trick by the enemy and continued fighting, hiding, and killing in the Philippine jungle — for 29 years. It was only when his wartime…

By Selwyn Duke We heard it with the female tennis players. We heard it with our women’s national soccer team (even though they’d lost to 14-year-old boys). Now we hear it with lady basketball sensation Caitlin Clark. “Look at how much the male players receive,” is the complaint. “She’s not getting the money she deserves!”…

By Selwyn Duke “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” This truth was expressed by G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News in 1909 — and was illustrated perfectly by comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher just the other night. Friday’s episode of Real Time…

By Selwyn Duke It was generations ago that C.S. Lewis warned of “omnipotent moral busybodies … who torment us for our own good.” Such people are more dangerous than robber barons, he explained, because they “will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” Enter Lindsey Smith Taillie, “nutrition…

By Selwyn Duke “A man capable of deceiving only others,” instructs a sage old saying, “is not as dangerous as a man capable of deceiving himself.” Bringing this to mind are comments Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made recently, talking about an interaction he had with CNN news anchor Erin Burnett two weeks…

By Selwyn Duke Here we go again. We heard leftists trumpet the “browning of America” (see MSNBC et al.) via Third World immigration. We also heard them, contradictorily, complain about the “whitewashing” of San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood when Caucasian dot-commers moved in. Now we’re told that New York City’s famed Lincoln Center for the…