By Selwyn Duke

“You’re a fascist!” Today this is a label as commonly hurled as it is poorly understood. President Donald Trump, that progressive New York guy, is a fascist, we’re told. Then there’s the Antifa (“anti-fascist action”) movement, which “fights” the F-threat by committing violence in the streets like Brownshirts. Well played.

The Online Etymology Dictionary, generally sober in its rendering of information, amusingly writes of “fascism” that it was applied to certain groups’ ideology from 1923 and has been “applied to everyone since the internet.”

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By Selwyn Duke

If you read only the mainstream media, you probably don’t know that anti-jihadism crusader Robert Spencer was recently poisoned by an Icelandic leftist. But you likely have heard about how Montana Republican Greg Gianforte allegedly body-slammed a Guardian reporter early today. Welcome, again, to media double standards.

Though Spencer survived, his targeting was chilling. The proprietor of Jihad Watch, a prominent anti-jihadism website, he often gives speeches on the threat posed by Muslim jihadism and sharia law. After a May 11 talk at the Grand Hotel in Reykjavik, Iceland, he went to a local restaurant with event organizers, his security chief and a fellow speaker and — well, I’ll let Spencer tell the story:

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By Selwyn Duke

It has long been noted that disagreements can be won by massaging the definition of words. Liberals repeatedly apply this lesson to influence the culture.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.” This passage, from Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking-Glass (1872), has been cited in at least 250 U.S. judicial decisions (with our judges, one wonders if it was in condemnation of lawyers’ arguments or in justification of their own). But what about when language engineers use words to master us?

Pining after the good ol’ days, Archie Bunker sang of the time when “girls were girls and men were men”; now using the word “girls” can be deemed offensive, and a University of Florida student had his grade lowered for using “man” in an essay. “Girls” are supposed to be women, except when feminists call them “womyn” as they try to purge men. Then there were the training documents at a Lincoln, Nebraska, middle school advising teachers not to call “students ‘boys and girls’ or ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ but to instead use more generic expressions like campers, readers, athletes or even purple penguins,” reported NebraskaWatchdog.org in 2014. Because boys and girls are, you know, so yesterday.

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By Selwyn Duke

You might have heard about social-media and search engine censorship of conservative news sources: Twitter’s “shadowbanning,” Facebook’s news “curators,” and Google’s nine different blacklists. I’ve not only heard and written about it but experienced its effects — and it has happened yet again.

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By Selwyn Duke

Is #BrownSquirrelsMatter in the offing? Perhaps, if Teresa Lloro-Bidart has her way. An assistant professor at California State Polytechnic University, Lloro-Bidart has a theory: Eastern fox squirrels are subject to “racialized” media bias, not to mention “gendered” and “speciesist” thinking.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Build that wall” does not refer to cordoning off the Truth from hungry eyes. This should be noted by some North Carolina educators, who seized every copy of a high-school yearbook because it contained President Trump’s quoted slogan.

Meanwhile, a Florida senior who chose the yearbook quotation “Anything is possible when you sound Caucasian on the phone,” is being applauded.

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By Selwyn Duke

Apparently scientific “consensus” isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. First we hear that, contrary to global-warming theory, life on Earth may end because of too little CO2. Now we learn that the accepted “science” on salt may be all wrong, with studies showing it doesn’t have the effects on fluid retention previously thought and that it may help you lose weight.

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By Selwyn Duke

Is constitutionalism realistic? How can we be handcuffed by a 200-year-old document? There's a right way and a wrong way to make the Constitution "live." Social engineers who want to destroy your civilization want you to do it the wrong way. I explain the difference below. 

By Selwyn Duke

The Girl Scouts are un-Christian. This essentially is the conclusion of the Archdiocese of Kansas City (AKC), Kansas, which announced Monday that it’s finally severing ties with the increasingly secular, left-wing group.

Kansas City archbishop Joseph F. Naumann announced the decision in a statement in which he wrote that the Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) is “no longer a compatible partner” for the Catholic Church and that it elevates role models who “stand in stark opposition to what we believe.” Consequently, AKC parishes will now be chartering troops of the American Heritage Girls, a Christ-centered scouting alternative.

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