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By Selwyn Duke Call it Woke Side Story. Because there’s woke, really woke, über woke, and then there’s this: not including subtitles for a movie’s Spanish dialogue because you don’t want to give “English the power over the Spanish.” That’s exactly what director Steven Spielberg did, and why, in his recently released West Side Story…

By Selwyn Duke As we ponder how our day’s Dr. Strangeloves want Ukraine to join NATO so that we’ll be obligated to war against Russia if it attacks its western, kleptocratic neighbor, we should consider a certain point. It isn’t just, as some have pointed out, that Cold War relic NATO has outlived its usefulness.…

By Selwyn Duke New York may be our country’s least-free state according to research, but even its residents have their limits. Governor Kathy Hochul, the Empire State’s would-be empress and unelected and uninspiring chief executive, may be learning this the hard way, too. For after issuing her state’s toughest mask mandate yet, countless New Yorkers…

By Selwyn Duke “Officially” is a funny word. Officially, China’s constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion. Officially, homosexuality is outlawed under Islam (but loopholes exist). Here’s another example: Officially, our Consumer Price Index (CPI — what’s informally called “inflation”) rose 7.3 percent this year — or 6.9 percent, depending on whom you believe. This…

By Selwyn Duke “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere,” noted GK Chesterton in 1928. As to this, critics of a new statue erected outside UN Headquarters in New York City say it crosses the line. In fact, they claim the work crosses up the Cross, in that it depicts a demonic End…

By Selwyn Duke The authorities are Johnny on the spot when someone puts bacon on a mosque’s door handles or a paranoid race-car driver claims a garage-door pull rope is a noose. But a spate of Christmas tree burnings isn’t attracting much attention and generally gets sloughed off as mischief. In fact, after a Christmas…

By Selwyn Duke Where is the brave little boy to say, “But the Emperor has no clothes!”? This famous Hans Christian Andersen line could come to mind when pondering the case of University of Pennsylvania athlete “Lia” Thomas, the man claiming to be female who has been smashing women’s swimming records. After all, it has…

By Selwyn Duke “Do you know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action?” So said Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) while outlining what measures the U.S. could take against Russia over Ukraine, at whose border Moscow has been massing troops. The senator’s office later clarified that this comment related to American policy in general and not…

By Selwyn Duke It’s a sign of the times that everything has become “political” — even drugs. But all that had to happen to poor hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was for President Trump to tout him, and he automatically became a MAGA-hatted Republican targeted for cancellation. The same is true of ivermectin (IVM), which was branded “horse…

By Selwyn Duke While our southern-border invasion continues not just unabated but with the act-of-omission aid and abetment of the Biden administration, foreign borders are often considered sacrosanct. One example is Ukraine’s border with Russia — in fact, establishment Democrats and Republicans claim they may be willing to go to war with Moscow over it.…