By Selwyn Duke

It’s one of the biggest underreported stories of our time. While our nation is distracted with a Senate impeachment trial, our main geo-political rival is busy not just harvesting organs on its own shores but harvesting American technology and national secrets on ours. The latest on this front concerns charges brought Tuesday against an esteemed Harvard professor, and two Chinese nationals who’d been researchers at American institutions, for lying about alleged links to the Beijing government.

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By Selwyn Duke

Did the Russians hack David Hogg’s brain? Some observers may thus wonder after a tweet the anti-Second Amendment activist and now Harvard freshman sent on Sunday.

“This is a tweet for for [sic] the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books,” wrote Hogg, 19, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland mass shooting. “We may not know all your names but thank you.”

It’s tempting to say here, “Babylon Bee or Onion, is that you?” No satirist could have made an anti-gunner look more ridiculous, and we do have to consider the remote possibility that Hogg is trolling (though he has no history whatsoever of exhibiting humor). Hogg’s comments are presented as a screen shot below, as there’s always a chance he could delete his tweet (I would).

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By Selwyn Duke

China sometimes calls itself the Middle Kingdom, but it’s paving a way to the netherworld with a new effort: rewriting the Bible to make it compatible with socialism. Moreover, it’s doing the same with the Koran.

In fact, Beijing is instituting new religious rules, set to take effect February 1, that may essentially make the state the church. 

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s bad enough when a presidential candidate won’t fire staffers who talk about killing political opponents or putting them in gulags. But when that man then promises to immediately issue dozens of executive orders upon taking office because we “cannot accept delays from Congress,” it perhaps should give you more than pause.

This is exactly what socialist senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to do, too, to circumvent congressional Republicans and Democrats who oppose his radical agenda. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Could you imagine getting 15 years in prison for relating true but politically incorrect ideas online? This could happen if a British think tank and government agency have their way.

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By Selwyn Duke

A common belief among conservatives is that Democrats have blundered in their impeachment trial argumentation, that they’ve shot themselves in the foot. Perhaps so. But we should remember that their goal cannot, logically, be to win over the Senate so President Trump can be ousted from office before November.

It would have to be that they want to win the Senate for Democrats in November.

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By Selwyn Duke

“I can’t believe they let me out,” Gerod Woodberry told a detective. Woodberry was right to be surprised. He’d already been charged in four bank robbery cases and now had just been charged with collecting $1,000 from a fifth bank. At least he’d learned a lesson, though — that he could do it again.

And four days later the 42-year-old allegedly hit a sixth bank. That’s when he was finally held.

Enabling this crime spree were New York State’s new bail laws, says critics. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Barack Obama certainly isn’t feeling the Bern, unless it’s indigestion. Concerned that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders — perhaps the new Democrat front-runner — won’t be able to trump Trump, the ex-president is considering a public rebuke of the Vermont senator designed to kill his momentum.

Obama isn’t alone in experiencing the Bernie blues. The Democrat establishment clearly doesn’t want Sanders, who’s not even a Democrat but an independent (and avowed socialist), as its party’s nominee; this was evidenced in the recent failed effort to tar Sanders as “sexist.”

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By Selwyn Duke

China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But recently discovered viruses locked in its Guliya ice cap on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau are far older than the Middle Kingdom is, dating back 15 millennia. Of course, while scientists are rightly curious about these ancient and unknown quantities, they’re also concerned — about what could happen if these viruses are unleashed by an ice melt-off.

The discovery was made via recent examinations of two ice cores, approximately 520 and 15,000 years old respectively, taken from the glacier in 1992 and 2015. The analysis “revealed 33 viral populations,” wrote the authors — 28 of which are unknown.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s “the criminalization of political differences” said Democrat law professor Alan Dershowitz, long ago, about the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump. And now 21 Republican state attorneys general are echoing Dershowitz’s warning that the action “endangers” the Republic. Stating in a letter submitted to the Senate Wednesday morning that the effort “establishes a dangerous historical precedent,” they urged the chamber to roundly “reject” the impeachment articles.

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