By Selwyn Duke

Andrew and Chris Cuomo certainly have issues — that is, aside from the political positions you’d expect from a governor and a news commentator. This became apparent Tuesday when journalist Chris interviewed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on the Wuhan virus, and the discussion devolved into a juvenile sibling-rivalry spat over who was their mother’s favorite child.

The puerile display occurred on the journalist’s CNN show Cuomo Prime Time and began when Chris asked if, among other things, curfews might be necessary to halt the Wuhan virus’s spread. This prompted the governor to say toward the end of his answer, “Curfew, I don’t like the word curfew. Dad tried to have a curfew for me; I never got past the resentment. But I do believe you’ll see more tightening if the numbers don’t slow.”

Perhaps feeling compelled to defend his father or possibly driven by some childhood-born resentment, Chris then responded to his older brother, “The least of your problems, by the way. Your problems with the curfew were the least of your problems, just so you know.”

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By Selwyn Duke

If one didn’t know better, he could think that China unleashed the Wuhan virus upon the world purposely to get their man, Joe Biden, elected president. Jumblin’ Joe is their man, too.

It’s not just that the disease will assuredly cause economic distress as people’s lives and commerce are disrupted; it’s not just that no matter what President Trump does, the EneMedia will portray his response to the disease as lacking. (Never mind that Barack Obama apparently spread disease throughout our nation by shipping sick illegal-alien minors throughout the country. Enterovirus D68, anyone?)

It’s also that the Wuhan virus has now become a handy excuse to limit debates and Jumblin’s Joe’s personal appearances. Health is the concern, you see (Biden’s mental health, that is).

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By Selwyn Duke

If you thought our immigrationist leaders would let a virus impede their demographic-change endeavors, think again. For while the San Francisco Bay area is under a shelter-in-place order, government-mandated curfews and business closings are increasingly common, and civilian life grinds to a halt, refugee resettlement has been continuing (at least as of last week) — this includes resettlement from Wuhan virus-stricken countries.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s not exactly the Battle of Thermopylae. But Greece is again under siege, this time by Mideast migrants given free rein by the Turkish government. The main prize isn’t Greece, though, but wealthy, welfare-state nations such as Germany. And contrary to immigrationist spin, sources say the migrants aren’t desperate Syrian war refugees but are mainly (96 percent) economic opportunists seeking Western handouts.

While people are preoccupied with Wuhan virus sickness, largely ignored is that Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who has called Europe a “sick man” — has been trying to make it a bit sicker in his own way. Not only has he been following through on a threat to allow Mideast migrants to flood toward Europe, but his troops have actually fired tear gas at Greek police defending their own land. Meanwhile, Greece isn’t backing down, but is doubling down and fortifying its border all the more.

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By Selwyn Duke

New Rochelle, N.Y. — Living right next to New Rochelle, I was certainly struck when I heard it was the epicenter of Wuhan-virus infection in the United States. More than 100 of our nation’s at least 1,663 cases are in the small city of almost 80,000 people, the result of a congregant inadvertently infecting others at the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue earlier this month. That man, a lawyer who works near Grand Central Station in Manhattan, is currently hospitalized.

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By Selwyn Duke

You might think that after unleashing the Wuhanvirus upon the world, China would strike a conciliatory tone. Instead, the nation’s official news service and government mouthpiece has not only asked everyone else for an apology, but has threatened to “ban exports to the United States” of medical products, which it said would cause us to “fall into the hell of a new coronavirus epidemic.” This should be taken seriously because we’ve long been dependent on China for pharmaceuticals, including for an estimated 95 percent of our antibiotics.

How does the world’s greatest nation (us…still) find itself at the mercy of another power for medicine? It’s the result of decades of naïve, internationalist, faux free trade policies that have decimated our manufacturing base, including in areas vital for national security.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s bad enough that Big Tech is swaying our elections and shifting votes, but it’s also shifting American jobs — to foreigners. There’s salt in this wound, too: The displaced American workers are sometimes forced to train their replacements.

Worse still, this isn’t a new story, but was occurring under the Obama administration. Yet the outrage continues even now with President Trump in office.

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By Selwyn Duke

The Democratic Party is now confronted with a dilemma. Its two possible presidential nominees are perhaps equally unpalatable, though for different reasons. Socialist Bernie Sanders is, the establishment believes from a practical standpoint, ideologically unfit; Joe Biden is a garrulous gaffe machine who is mentally unfit. Yet what if, contrary to popular belief, neither man ends up being the nominee? There are other possibilities.

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By Selwyn Duke

If prominent journalists can’t do simple math, how can they do complex political science? Some may thus wonder after MSNBC host Brian Williams and New York Times editor Mara Gay claimed on live television that ex-presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s $500 million in ad buys equates to $1 million per American. In reality, it only amounts to enough to buy a cup of coffee (and not at Starbucks, either).

“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million,” said Williams, quoting a tweet by journalist Mekita Rivas on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour Thursday night. “He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over, [sic] I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for people. Yet he wasted it all on ads and STILL LOST.”

“It’s an incredible way of putting it,” Williams summed up, addressing Gay, whom he was interviewing.

“It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true,” Gay responded. “It’s disturbing.”

Incredibly and disturbingly stupid, maybe. In reality, the United States’s current population of approximately 331 million people, divided into $500 million, is about $1.51 per person (not counting illegal aliens).

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By Selwyn Duke

Sixty years ago we had the film Where the Boys Are. Now some people aren’t sure what the boys are, and the latest example is a California bill that would punish large stores for maintaining separate boys’ and girls’ departments.

Designated AB 2826, the legislation’s header reads “Introduced by Assembly Member Low,” which doesn’t pertain to IQ but Silicon Valley’s Democrat politician Evan Low. Mandating “Gender neutral retail departments,” the bill reads, in part, that it requires….

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