By Selwyn Duke

In the wake of Roe being aborted, some liberal politicians, such as senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Susan Collins (R-Me.), are crying foul because they claim that SCOTUS justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch deceived them over stare decisis (respect for precedent) during confirmation hearings. What’s unsaid is that stare decisis is itself a deception. In fact, our Founders would be aghast at the standard. Why? It’s simple:

If a precedent clearly conforms to the Constitution, then regard for stare decisis is unnecessary for a precedent-aligned ruling; all a justice need do is reference the Constitution and he'll vote incidentally in accordance with the precedent.

If the precedent doesn't conform to the Constitution, it is then illegal and should be overturned, which a justice will vote to do if he, again, references the Constitution.

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By Selwyn Duke

With Friday’s historic overturning of Roe v Wade, leftists are again vacillating between claiming that constitutional rights are being eroded and averring that the Constitution should be irrelevant. One writer doing the latter is The Root’s Candace McDuffie, with a Sunday title reading “The Constitution Was Literally Written By Slaveowners. Why Is America Obsessed With Upholding It?”

Aside from observing that leftists have an odd affinity for the word “literally,” one could note that the writer’s question equates to asking: Why is America obsessed with upholding the law? For the Constitution is the supreme law of our land.

McDuffie’s commentary might not warrant mention had Microsoft Network not chosen to post her article to its homepage. This reflects a serious problem liberal psychologist Robert Epstein warned of in recent years: By controlling the flow of information, Big Tech can, uh, literally(!) shift 15 million votes toward a candidate and thus choose our leaders.

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By Selwyn Duke

For the record, I believe Fox News host Tucker Carlson is by far the best high-profile TV commentator of our time. I frequently cite him in my news-oriented articles, and his monologues are tours de force. Thus is it notable that I’ve never seen him stumble so badly as on his last Wednesday evening show.

Aside from taking at face value a rather portly Google engineer’s claim that a computer he’d been working with, which he calls a “person,” has become sentient (highly improbable at this time), Carlson launched an attack on the Republican Party that, while containing some truth, failed to see the forest for the trees.

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By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 9:50. We discussed the contents of Joe Biden's daughter's diary. 

Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

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By Selwyn Duke

“I’ll go through you to get the child!”? This could perhaps be the message being sent, with more than 20 pro-life pregnancy centers having been fire-bombed or vandalized and more than a dozen churches having been targeted since the May leaking of the Supreme Court draft Roe v. Wade decision. Now, with the official ruling striking Roe down having been issued Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has warned churches to prepare for “extreme violence” as left-wing radicals have planned a “Night of Rage.”

Such threats haven’t exactly seemed a priority to the authorities, however. In May, Alice-in-Wonderland-style, the DHS issued a memo warning against “far-right” violence against abortion clinics; meanwhile, the government sat on its hands while the churches were targeted and ne’er-do-wells, in apparent violation of the law, protested in front of SCOTUS judges’ homes.

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By Selwyn Duke

With the just-issued Supreme Court ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade decision, abortion supporters are exercised and pro-lifers exultant. Yet there’s a reality around which many from both sides could, conceivably, unite. It concerns something anyone who’s truly American should cheer:

Friday’s 5-4 decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, strikes a blow not just for those who could be born, but for what was born 235 years ago — the Constitution.

For the truth is that wherever one stands on abortion, standing behind the Constitution and not on it can quite reasonably be said to be a prerequisite for Americanism. And supporting the Constitution means trampling Roe.

This is not opinion, but a fact even abortion proponents have emphasized.

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By Selwyn Duke

I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20, and for the first 20 minutes we discussed the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

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By Selwyn Duke

A common way to put Made-up Sexual Status (MUSS, aka “transgender”) activists on the spot is to ask them “What is a woman?” They’ll hem and haw because their current emotion-based creed dictates that the only possible definition is “anyone who identifies as a woman.” Some sexual devolutionaries, however, may come back with what a YouTube commenter under a very clever, topic-related Babylon Bee video claimed. “Let's be real, conservatives do not have a tenable definition of woman,” he stated. “[C]onservatives don't talk about their definition of woman — they know it's not good enough.” Okay, then, challenge accepted. I’ll talk about it:

A woman is an adult member of the species homo sapiens; this means in principle that she has an XX chromosome configuration and is, consequently, genotypically and phenotypically female.

Yes, that’s a mouthful, because it’s precise. But the sexual devolutionaries would no doubt interject here, saying, “No, no! Some ‘women’ are not genotypically XX or wholly phenotypically [appearance-wise] female.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Are Mac ’n‘ Tosh too painfully posh? Is your hamster hoarding what should be redistributed? Does a polar bear have white privilege? While such questions, per se, aren’t being asked, they do epitomize a new phenomenon:

What Charles Darwin called “survival of the fittest” scholars and media are increasingly chalking up to “animal privilege” — and they’re couching the matter in “economic and sociological terms such as inequality and intergenerational wealth,” as the College Fix puts it.

Relating that science is now quite broken, the Fix continues, “‘Squirrel privilege is real.’ ‘Checking Privilege in the Animal Kingdom.’ ‘Even Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality.’”

No, you haven’t landed at the Babylon Bee. Rather, “These headlines hail from Salon and The New York Times, respectively, and represent a growing trend among scholars and the media to tackle animal ‘inequality’ — and also argue humans can learn important lessons about income inequality and privilege from such studies”….

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By Selwyn Duke

In 2020, voters aged 18 to 29 supported Joe Biden over President Trump by a wide margin, 61 percent to 36 percent. Yet there was one outlier subset among this group: young white men.

They supported Trump.

Striking this is when considering that other subsets, including young white women, backed Biden by robust margins ranging from, percentage-wise, 86-10 to 55-42. Adding yet more perspective, in 2020, news site Insider quoted an expert as saying that young white men and women were really “far apart” in voting — about 20 percentage points.

“Women and men of color are not showing that kind of departure from each other,” the expert added. So what’s going on?

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