In Houston, an armed robbery didn't exactly go as the criminal had intended. Thankfully, this guy had never heard the concept of a "back door" (good chance the store had one). Anyway, at least he was smart enough to not pull a Michael Brown when the police arrived.
By Selwyn Duke
Should you need a license to pump gas? Some people seem to think so, which is perhaps why Oregon had a 56-year-old law prohibiting you from dispensing your own petrol. Now the state has finally modified the proscription, allowing people in rural areas to pump their own gas — and some Oregonians are getting the vapors.
Self-serve gas pumps are virtually everywhere; the only other state to prohibit them is New Jersey (no surprise: It’s ranked the fourth least free state). Oregon’s legislature outlawed the practice a half century ago ostensibly to protect its subjects residents. And now some are acting like children — minus the adventurous spirit.
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By Selwyn Duke
It’s a shocking claim made by a political insider: The Deep State is so opposed to draining the swamp that it will, if necessary, kill President Trump to prevent it.
By Selwyn Duke
A University of Knoxville student recently said it was okay to kill young children who can’t communicate. He’s not alone. Two “philosophers” justified “after-birth abortion” in 2012. The next year students at George Mason University signed a petition to legalize the practice. Also in 2013, an MSNBC host opined that when life begins “depends an awful lot on the feeling of the parents.” Welcome to the intellectual vanguard of the culture of death.
The Tennessee student’s opinion was captured on video by Students for Life’s Appalachian Regional Coordinator Brenna Lewis. As Liberty Nation reports, “The interviewee concurs with colleagues that two-year-olds unable to speak due to muteness, autism, learning infirmities, and other difficulties should be put to death” (hat tip: Whatfinger.com).
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By Selwyn Duke
Did you ever wish you could buy liberals for what you know they’re worth and sell them for what they think they’re worth? A common theme among progressives is that conservatives aren’t just wrong, they’re dumb. Reagan was dumb. G.W. Bush was dumb. Trump is dumb. “Knuckle-dragger,” “mouth-breather,” “stupid” and “uncultured” are typical pejoratives hurled at conservatives, who apparently tend to live in trailer parks, require dental care, handle snakes and marry first cousins. Why, I had a liberal actor (excuse the redundancy) tell me once that I wasn’t necessarily bad, just not as “evolved” as he was. (I had a great retort at the ready, but decided to just lash him with my tail instead.)
The reason for this arrogance isn’t as simple as many may think, as it relates to a deep psychological phenomenon that makes it difficult for those afflicted to evolve out of the leftist primordial soup.
By Selwyn Duke
I present the video below, which I found via Whatfinger News, because it's short and interesting. Bear in mind, however, that futurists have a terrible track record (predicting that England would likely be gone by the year 2000 and what not); in fact, I can't think of one of them who has been largely correct in his predictions.
One assumption made in this video is that robots will become self-aware, which is something even certain scientists say is impossible. So take much of what's contained below with a grain of salt.
By Selwyn Duke
If our truth-stranger-than-fiction culture persists, parody sites such as the Onion may be put out of business. Case in point: After Oprah Winfrey’s Sunday speech at the Golden Globe awards, there’s serious talk about her running for the White House. NBC even tweeted during the event, “Nothing but respect for OUR future president.” Although the network later deleted and disowned the tweet, stating it was sent by “a third party agency for NBC Entertainment,” Winfrey may in fact be poised for a major-party run.
The BBC writes that “her speech sounded an awful lot like a presidential candidate on the campaign stump,” and CNN quotes two of Winfrey’s friends as saying she was “actively thinking” about a White House run.
Winfrey certainly has two prerequisites for presidential ambitions: Money and name recognition. Worth $3 billion, she could self-fund a political campaign. And having hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show for a quarter century, she’s a household name. Then she has that one prerequisite for running on the Democrat ticket: radical politics.
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By Selwyn Duke
In our through-the-looking-glass world, we so often view matters backwards without even realizing it. Take DACA (actually, leave it), where even many conservatives consider it a given that the individuals covered under it must somehow be granted amnesty. Overlooked is that they’ve already been granted amnesty.
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