By Selwyn Duke

First there was the Taliban blowing up Buddhist statues. Now staff at a liberal camp have blown up 900 kids’ summer experience — quitting just six days prior to first-session commencement — because, in part, they were upset about pre-Nazi-era Buddhist swastika designs that adorned a camp building.

The resignations prompted Hidden Villa, in Los Altos Hills, California, to abruptly cancel all its summer camps, a move that will affect 28 seasonal staff in addition to the disappointed children.

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By Selwyn Duke

Word is that the Senate has the necessary votes for federal gun control legislation designed to, among other things, pressure states into instituting “red flag” laws. These measures are controversial because they involve suspending a person’s rights (i.e., seizing his weapons) without due process. Wherever you stand on them and federal firearms laws in principle, however, a simple fact is under-emphasized in this debate: Laws mean little if not enforced.

What’s more, they’re actually instruments of evil if only enforced to the degree where good people will comply.

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By Selwyn Duke

Actor Matthew McConaughey has become a powerful voice for gun control in the wake of the horrid school shooting in his birth city of Uvalde, Texas. In response, some conservatives have essentially accused him of hypocrisy because, as the argument goes, he glorifies firearm violence in movies. In response to this, some commentators have scoffed, with one calling the criticism “irrational.”

Yet now none other than liberal actor, comedian, and commentator Bill Maher has struck this allegedly irrational note. While not naming or focusing on McConaughey, the Real Time host lambasted Hollywood for the woke hypocrisy of getting “on the politically correct side of every issue” — except “gun violence.” What’s more, there is good but mostly ignored research indicating that, yes, violence in fantasy does help breed it in reality.

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By Selwyn Duke

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Talkback-06-10-2022

By Selwyn Duke

I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20.

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By Selwyn Duke

“It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt,” the saying goes. But, critics may note, Representative Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) might have registered a historical first: proving foolishness by keeping one’s mouth shut.

At issue is a Wednesday floor speech in which the far-left Lieu cited two articles about recent anti-sexual devolutionary GOP legislation that, as the mainstream media put it, affects “LGBTQ+” affairs.

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By Selwyn Duke

During a political discussion last week, a man told me that he knew abortion was murder, but couldn’t understand how there shouldn’t be exceptions for rape and incest. It was a statement that could remind one of G.K. Chesterton’s observation, “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”

But now fewer politicians are calling murder in this context excusable (or, at least, politically necessary). In fact, ever since Alabama enacted a 2019 prenatal infanticide ban without rape and incest exceptions, such laws have proliferated.

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By Selwyn Duke

On Tuesday, CNN published a video segment titled “Why gun owners say they love AR-15 style rifles.” Some may wonder, “How could you love such a thing?!” Perhaps to the surprise of many, CNN did provide a glimpse into the answer. But the outlet also interviewed one of its military analysts, a retired Army officer, who appeared a voice of reason but whose statements were without reason.

The segment opened with CNN reporter Randi Kaye visiting Eagle Gun Range in Farmers Branch, Texas, where she introduced us to AR-15 aficionado Anna Thomasson. Thomasson wasn’t taught to shoot as a girl, but adopted the hobby in 2015 after a bout with breast cancer sidelined her marathon-running endeavors. She so fell in love with the activity that she, along with her husband, became AR-15 instructors.

Expressing her affinity for the weapon, the petite Thomasson explained….

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By Selwyn Duke

“We just wanted to be able to be ourselves,” the sexual devolutionaries would once say. But now “being yourself” apparently sometimes means grooming young children at a homosexual bar, where they’ll slip dollar bills to drag queens performing in front of a pink neon sign reading “IT’S NOT GONNA LICK ITSELF!”

This is precisely what happened, too, on Saturday, June 4 at a “Drag the Kids to Pride” show at “gay” bar Mr. Misster in north Dallas, Texas.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a tale of two standards. One is represented by Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann walking out of a D.C. federal court, freed by a jury that included three Clinton campaign donors. Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers’s post-acquittal line “Guilty as sin, free as a bird” could come to mind.

The other standard is represented by elderly former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro being arrested at an airport, shock-and-awe style, for resisting a congressional subpoena, a “crime” that media generally shrug off when Democrats do it.

It’s justice, Venezuela-style, and it “sends an unmistakable message….”

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