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By Selwyn Duke There has been much talk about Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s dramatic on-field collapse Monday night of a probable heart attack — at the tender age of 24. But he wasn’t the only NFL figure who just recently experienced what is likely an odd cardiac event. Another one occurred just three days…

By Selwyn Duke President Donald Trump’s recent claim that the GOP’s underwhelming midterm showing wasn’t his fault, but was due to the “abortion issue,” has sparked great controversy. One commentator said Trump had poked “a hornet’s nest,” another called his comments “wise, effective, and prudent,” while yet another stated that avoiding a hypocrisy charge required…

By Selwyn Duke While we were told the Covid-19 “vaccines” were “safe and effective,” authorities long ago confessed that the drugs’ effectiveness was greatly overblown. But now a new Rasmussen poll finds that almost half of American adults aren’t so sure about the safe part, either — and more than a quarter believe they know…

By Selwyn Duke Would you take investment advice from a broker whose stock picks had been consistently wrong for almost six decades straight? “News” show 60 Minutes just might — that is, if the guest they chose to present as master prognosticator-prophet of doom this past Sunday is any indication. And the world’s second richest man, Elon…

By Selwyn Duke While responding to the controversy surrounding “transgender” men competing in women’s sports, many internet commenters have long opined, “They should just create a separate ‘transgender’ category.” Well, now it has finally happened — in the sport aficionados call “the sweet science.” Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke On the heels of a condemned and canceled advertising effort by Spanish designer Balenciaga that featured little children in bondage gear, fashion house Benetton somehow fancied it a good idea to release an ad showing young girls posing inappropriately in underwear. The picture created an uproar, with one actress critic saying that it…

By Selwyn Duke A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.” Never mind that an assault rifle, insofar as the designation was ever at all valid, had always referenced a weapon with a “select fire” feature allowing three types of…

By Selwyn Duke Lying certainly is nothing new, which is why millennia ago already we were given the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Yet in recent years prevarication has reached new heights (or depths, actually) in our society, with blatant falsehoods uttered with a brazenness that would make a disbarred lawyer-turned-used car salesman…

I wish you a very happy and blessed New Year. For anyone who was around in the 1980s, you know that back then "2023" sounded like something out of a science fiction movie. But now here we are.  God bless, Selwyn Duke

By Selwyn Duke Tupac Shakur is known by some as having been a criminal rapper who was murdered in 1996, at age 25, in what reportedly was gangland retaliation. But now he can be known as something else: A “literary” figure whose work is taught in school. This came to light after a father reported…