By Selwyn Duke

There was a time, not really all that long ago, when leftists still claimed they wanted abortion “safe, legal — and rare.” Now they’re raring to go and destroy unborn human life and, in particular, those who help it enter and flourish in this world.

A prime example is Senator Elizabeth Warren’s fevered attack on crisis pregnancy centers in which she accused them of “torturing” women and demanded they be “shut down” nationwide. She said this, mind you, about facilities that do the good works of helping mothers who want to keep their babies deliver them safely and negotiate post-birth maternal life.

We’ve seen this phenomenon before. There was a time when, Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, people appreciated….

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By Selwyn Duke

Weakness invites aggression. Foreign nations have certainly been feeling their oats the last 18 months, too, with Russia’s Ukraine invasion and China threatening the United States and Taiwan. Now Iran is also roaring, saying it could create nuclear missiles that would turn New York City into “hellish ruins” — and will do so if the United States or Israel “makes any stupid mistakes.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Some call it a conflict of interest. But it turns out that 13 Democrats who support some degree of student loan cancellation have themselves $1.5 million in educational loan debt. One of these congress members, Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), claims that her aim in advocating the relief is “to address racial and economic equity issues.” In reality, however, since most low-income Americans don’t have college degrees, student loan forgiveness represents a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Study: Lockdowns Save NO Lives. Are Politicians Destroying the Economy for NOTHING?” So wrote The New American (TNA) on April 23, 2020 — in the “pandemic’s” early days. It was one of many examples of TNA and other individuals and entities warning over and over again, early on, that the Covid lockdowns were ineffective at halting disease spread and actually deadly.

Yet the establishment “experts,” the same kind of people who last year said inflation was “transitory” and 20 years ago that the world would end in 12 years because of climate change, didn’t listen. They were following the science — the political science. Death and destruction ensued.

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By Selwyn Duke

Approximately 20 years ago, then-prominent commentator Bill O’Reilly remarked on his erstwhile Fox News show that Americans would “never” accept faux (same-sex) marriage. As recently as 13 years ago, all 32 states that had voted on the matter rejected government faux marriage recognition. A year later, in 2010, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton still pretended to believe that marriage was between “a man and a woman.” They later “evolved,” as politicians like to put it, and now the public has largely followed suit, with a May Gallup poll showing that 71 percent of Americans and 55 percent of Republicans believe these unions should be governmentally recognized. There’s a word for this: inurement.

Thus is it not surprising that, as ABC News puts it, some “Republicans see good politics in [the] same-sex marriage bill.”

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By Selwyn Duke

How much of the air we breathe is carbon dioxide? A typical answer, one writer states he hears, is 20 percent.

The actual figure is four one-hundredths of one percent (or 400 parts per million).

“How can such a small magnitude of CO2 be dooming humanity?” ex-professor Ron Ross, Ph.D., then asks, posing what he says is the “one point that can get people off the global warming obsession train.”

The gas’ atmospheric concentration isn’t readily divulged because, if it were, CO₂ couldn’t be a global-warming bugaboo….

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By Selwyn Duke

“Indiana’s legal fight highlights the absurdity of the transgender movement,” reads the headline. The MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda certainly is absurd. But did it come out of nowhere?

Or is it an outgrowth of absurdities accepted long ago?

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By Selwyn Duke

Are some doctors abusing children for money? The answer may be yes if the case of Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, co-founder and director of a clinic that facilitates children’s “sex change” attempts, is any indication. The issue:

The physician received payments from two pharmaceutical companies that are being investigated for advertising puberty blockers — drugs that ravage children’s bodies and can cause irreparable damage.

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By Selwyn Duke

Big Tech now has the capacity to shift up to 15 million votes in an American election. This isn’t the judgment of some far-right watchdog group but of Dr. Robert Epstein, a liberal and the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. He has long been studying GoogTwitFace’s ability to manipulate public opinion and hence voting and, despite being of the Left, is disturbed by the prospect of a high-tech oligarchy choosing our leaders.

Epstein hasn’t been prominent in the news of late. But his warning must be placed front and center because, as The Washington Post’s ironic motto warns, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” And darkness is precisely what GoogTwitFace (Big Tech) prefers operating in — especially when, for example, trying to sway elections, such as our upcoming midterms.

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By Selwyn Duke

While the Islamic threat has receded from American public consciousness, with domestic woes and Ukraine’s conflict sucking up the media oxygen, it hasn’t receded as a world stage force. One place long bedeviled by it is Nigeria, where Boko Haram and other Muslim entities have long been waging war against Christians, native religious groups, and the government itself. Yet the situation is now so bad that the nation is “devolving toward chaos,” as one observer puts it, and the jihadists have made such headway that the Nigerian government has ordered schools in Abuja, the capital, closed and the students evacuated.

Oil rich and, with its 218 million people, Africa’s most populous country and the planet’s sixth most, Nigeria would be quite the prize for any caliphatist. Christian persecution is the norm there now, too, with this site indicating that more than 100,000 of Jesus’s followers have been murdered by jihadists in the last 22 years.

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