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By Selwyn Duke “We hold these truths to be self-evident; all men and women created by…go…you know, you know the thing,” said Joe Biden in 2020. We don’t know if his inability to remember the famous Declaration of Independence line means he isn’t a “Christian nationalist” or if the fact he tried to means he…

By Selwyn Duke “Would you rather have a living son or dead daughter?” This question, often asked marketing-style of parents whose child desires so-called gender reassignment procedures, is not just unethical, says the leader of a groundbreaking new study on sexually confused youths. It is also, says psychiatrist Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, “not based on facts.”…

By Selwyn Duke About a quarter century ago, there was a feel-good story about Colorado schoolchildren who’d raised approximately $35,000 to “buy the freedom” of 601 Sudanese slaves. The intentions were surely good. Yet even if those slaves actually were freed, what was to stop the African slavers from seizing more slaves to replenish their…

By Selwyn Duke We don’t know if, as late black economist Professor Walter Williams would occasionally quip, he’s “black by popular demand,” but Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson (R-N.C.) sure is getting attention. This will happen when you do things such as calling for reparations — from blacks. Robinson, who’s running for North Carolina’s governorship and appears a…

By Selwyn Duke We discussed the political scene and the 2024 election. You're going to want to listen — I spoke better than even Joe Biden! (Now, that's something to hang your hat on.) My appearance begins at 22:58. 

By Selwyn Duke “GOP extremism is marring the soul of the American people,” wrote Representative Katherine Clark of Massachusetts in a Wednesday tweet. Clark, Congress’ Democratic whip, was announcing that she’d visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School earlier this year and had just shared “thoughts” at Newsweek about how nothing has changed since the 2018 Parkland massacre:…

By Selwyn Duke We discussed the proposal for a $50 minimum wage by Rep. Barbara Lee, who, rumor has it, will star in a remake of the film A Beautiful Mind. (Uh, you may not want to take the last part there seriously.) If you want to listen to just my segment, right click on…

By Selwyn Duke “Consensus is the business of politics,” said late author Michael Crichton in 2003. “Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right.” While true, being right and doing actual science may get you arrested under a bill that just passed in France’s National Assembly — if your activities…

By Selwyn Duke It’s quite timely that after writing on article yesterday on media bias, the following headline popped up on my MSN homepage: “Donald Trump’s cognitive decline worse than Joe Biden’s due to 2 signs, professor says.” Notice what’s assumed (and what’s assumed is learned best) in the above headline: We’re to take it…

By Selwyn Duke Much as our esteemed psychological profession defines “gender dysphoria,” there’s also a phenomenon known as “species dysphoria.” I do understand that among mental-health practitioners it’s known as “Species Identity Disorder” (or “clinical lycanthropy”), but give it time. “Gender dysphoria” used to be “Gender Identity Disorder” (and should be “Sexual Identity Disorder”) until…