By Selwyn Duke
My appearance begins at 29:31. I was on with guest host Karen Kataline, and we discussed whether or not the midterm polls are underestimating Republican support.
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By Selwyn Duke
If you think our country is politically polarized today, just wait some years.
It’s poised to get far worse.
Last month, The New American reported on the College Pulse’s Future of Politics (CPFP) study, which found that not only are college students the most politicized they’ve been since the late ’60s, but that the male/female voting gap (i.e., men support the GOP; women the Democrats) among them is wider than in the general population. Now another survey has found the same phenomenon — and more.
At issue is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) campus study, which surveyed tens of thousands of students. Among it’s most striking findings is that 23 percent of them — a figure rising to 28 percent among female undergraduates — claim “LGBT” status. What’s more, as many as half the students at liberal arts colleges such as Smith and Wesleyan “identify” as non-heterosexual.
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By Selwyn Duke
Our leftist social “engineers have not redefined marriage,” I wrote in 2012, repeating a warning I’ve often issued. “They have undefined it.” And “while they scoff at the claim that legalizing faux marriage paves the way for polygamy and everything else, an ‘undefinition’ excludes nothing,” I had pointed out in 2010. Of course, such observations were sloughed off with the oh-so intellectual argument “That won’t happen!” — except now it has, with a judge saying that perhaps “the time has arrived.”
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By Selwyn Duke
The tagline “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” shouldn’t apply to our nation’s absolute worst mass shooting. Yet five years after millionaire and avid gambler Stephen Paddock murdered 60 people and wounded 850, raining down terror from a Las Vegas high-rise window, we still don’t know his motive. This reality has, of course, given rise to conspiracy theories. But what if what drove Paddock is actually hiding in plain sight, caused by a phenomenon so common that it would never be suspected?
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By Selwyn Duke
Sooner or later you must pay for every good deed? This may be the message one hapless boy got after he received a lecture from his woke mother — for getting an award for 100-percent school attendance. It was one incident, but it reflects a wider rot affecting our society.
At issue is a Tuesday piece written by mom Lauren Crosby at The Independent. She begins by telling us that her son came home “beaming with pride” last week because he’d won a pencil case for his impeccable attendance. Now, Crosby doesn’t mention her lad’s age or grade, but given his delight in the pencil case, it sounds as if he’s a fairly young grade-school child.
Most all mothers, of course, would give their boy a pat on the head and congratulate him. But not Crosby. She did manage to say that the pencil case was “lovely,” but then, she writes, she “quickly delivered a monologue to him about how attendance does not make a child good or bad.” And, oh, what a monologue it was.
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By Selwyn Duke
With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an “irregular presence” of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus casually saying NATO would likely sink Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea fleet if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it’s perhaps time for a few questions:
First, can we discuss a situation that could very well result in thermonuclear war — and the end of life as we know it — intelligently and rationally? Or must all questions about our Dr. Strangelove policy be met with childish name-calling (e.g., “stooge of Putin!”) designed to silence debate?
Second, is it a good idea to essentially tell a man who controls 6,200 nuclear weapons, and who our pseudo-elites may label “crazy,” you want to kill him? This is what Joe Biden’s and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for Russian “regime change” really amounts to, mind you.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s a course that “weeds out the doctors from the wannabes,” wrote FastWeb last year about notoriously difficult organic chemistry. This hasn’t stopped a group of Big Apple wannabes, however, from getting an organic chemistry professor fired because his class is “too hard.” The kicker is that the professor, Maitland Jones Jr., is highly accomplished in his field — in fact, he wrote the book on it.
(Or, at least, a book on it.)
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By Selwyn Duke
“The business of progressives is to go on making mistakes,” noted G.K. Chesterton ages ago. Well, for one Pennsylvania woman, they just made one mistake too many. In fact, says family attorney Nicole Levitt, it’s to the point where “political liberalism seems to have passed me by.”
At issue is that as part of employer-mandated “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) training, she was asked to sign a contract stating that “all white people are racist,” as Levitt put it in a July video. She refused and now has filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against her employer.
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By Selwyn Duke
“What is truth?” This well-known question is what Roman governor Pontius Pilate, infamously and perhaps cynically, asked of Jesus. Yet Truth is still under attack 2,000 years later, and, warns an Ivy League professor, one front in this war is Critical Race Theory (CRT).
In fact, says Randy Wayne, associate professor at Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, CRT curricula are being used to eliminate the concept of Objective Truth from classrooms.
“We're supposed to be training people like biologists that will become doctors to make us healthier. Mechanical engineers that will build bridges or skyscrapers," he told Fox News Digital in a telephone interview this month. “And if they are trained on a foundation that there is no truth, nobody wants to be operated on by such a surgeon, or drive over a bridge made by such an engineer.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Swedish medical authorities have just done a u-turn, recommending restraint on prescribing children “trans” drugs. In England, a major clinic providing such (Tavistock) is poised for closure and is the target of a class-action lawsuit. And people in general are leery of the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda. But this hasn’t stopped Virgin Atlantic from going all in on that agenda in “inclusivity’s” name — and boasting about it.
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