By Selwyn Duke

Men in business should be willing to be alone with women — even if it threatens their careers. This apparently is the message of Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg.

Commenting on the deluge of sexual-misconduct allegations in the news, Sandberg applauds the new focus on intra-workplace propriety but then laments how this could rob women of opportunities, writing, “The percentage of men who will be afraid to be alone with a female colleague has to be sky high right now.” No doubt — but not as high as the screeching of feminist propaganda.

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By Selwyn Duke

What do you get when you spend thousands of pounds sending a reporter to Australia to dig up dirt on GOP Senate hopeful Roy Moore? If you’re the left-wing Guardian newspaper, not much apparently.

The story is not uninteresting. In 1982, Moore lost a bid to become an Etowah County circuit judge after having made enemies in the local legal community, which he’d accused of corruption. The failure was personally devastating, as he’d resigned his prosecutor position to run for the judgeship and now was “broke, bitter and directionless,” as the Guardian puts it, citing the judge’s biography. So the then-35-year-old Moore, perhaps in the midst of a mid-life crisis, sought to pursue some old dreams — which ultimately took him to the Australian outback.  

First, however, he traveled down to Texas to train as a martial artist. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Leftists created the concept of “protected classes,” groups covered under “hate crime” law and which social media may shield from certain derisive comments. Apparently, however, liberals aren’t happy when this concept is used against them, to stop their attacks on groups they don’t much like. Such is the case with some comediennes suspended by Facebook for posting “men are scum” and other anti-male messages.

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By Selwyn Duke

In the commentary on the recent sex scandals, which seem to claim a new scalp every week, a certain disclaimer is often issued. It’s something even conservatives such as Tucker Carlson have uttered: “Of course, it happens on both sides.”

Well, technically, yeah.  

At perhaps a 10-to-1 ratio.

Liberal to conservative.

No, that’s not a scientific number. But it’s likely far more astute than the reflexive “happens on both sides” effort at equivalence, which is much like the water-muddying diversionary pronouncement “There are Christian terrorists, too!”

Just consider some of the men recently revealed as guilty of sexual misconduct: 

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By Selwyn Duke

Much has been said about the acquittal of felonious invader Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the killer of young Kate Steinle, who died in her father’s arms. Yet while most of the focus has been on “sanctuary cities” — a euphemism for treasonous, lawless cities — there perhaps has been no scrutiny of the people whose minds are too often a sanctuary from knowledge and reality: modern jurors.

The problem stems from “The Error of Impartiality,” which is the title of an essay on this very subject. For what is often perceived in jurors as fairness is just fecklessness, of the moral variety.

When choosing jurors, pains are taken to dismiss people with preconceived notions about the case. But consider: If in question is a high-profile matter such as the O.J. Simpson or Steinle case, what kind of person would know nothing about it and/or have formed no opinions? Does this reflect impartiality or just indifference?

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By Selwyn Duke

“Stop me if you've heard this one before,” writes columnist Paul Mulshine.

“Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore walked into a brothel …

… and then he walked right back out.”

“That's the account I got from Bill Staehle, a lawyer living in Asbury Park [N.J.] who served in Vietnam with Moore in the early 1970s,” Mulshine continued.

Mulshine spoke to Staehle after the attorney wrote a recent open letter to Alabama voters relating his knowledge of Moore’s character. Staehle, now 70, knew Moore from a base just outside Da Nang. Both men were captains in the 504th Military Police Battalion at the time. 

Staehle considers Moore a man of sterling integrity, writing, “I served with Roy Moore in Vietnam in 1971-72, where I knew him to be an altogether honorable, decent, respectable, and patriotic commander and soldier.” One incident in particular, however, stands out in his mind. As he related in his open letter:

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By Selwyn Duke

“Big strong boys for farm work,” says the auctioneer of the young black men on the block. They go for approximately $400 a piece — a bargain. This isn’t the “legacy of slavery,” but the real thing, occurring here, now, today, on the African continent in Libya.

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By Selwyn Duke

“The white race is the cancer of human history,” wrote novelist Susan Sontag in 1967. Her position was no surprise. She was merely expressing the common leftist lament that white people birthed the civilization they hate, Western civilization. Precisely two decades later, for instance, race hustler Jesse Jackson, characterizing Stanford University’s Western culture course as too white and male, led the campus chant, “Hey hey, ho ho, Western culture’s got to go.” Yet this is nothing compared to more recent times, as the demonization of whites has reached a fever pitch with a phenomenon I have dubbed “caucaphobia.”

Sontag made no bones about why she was indicting whites, as the context of her statement makes clear. To wit: “If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization.… The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.”

Sontag cut her teeth as a fiction writer, and her attempts at commentary were clearly her worst fiction.

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By Selwyn Duke

Few witnesses could be more damning against a purported sexual abuser of four decades ago than an ex-cop from that era. That is, unless the ex-cop has a hidden agenda. Like the former Gadsden, Alabama cop who claims police were told in the 1970s to ensure that now-GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore stayed away from teen cheerleaders — and who actually turns out to be a left-wing Moore opponent.

Faye Gary created quite a stir last week with her comments, though she confessed to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that the claims about Judge Moore were “just rumors” and that “we never got a complaint on it.” What didn’t come out during her media interview — in which she appeared sober and non-partisan — is that she has an ideological axe to grind with the judge.

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By Selwyn Duke

Fair or not, people have long made jokes about the French surrendering at a conflict’s very start. Now a French author proposes surrender before a conflict has even begun — to avoid civil war with Muslims.

Writing at Causeur.fr, intellectual Christian de Moliner makes the following points (auto-translated from French and edited slightly for style):

• “The war in France is just beginning…. Many murderous Islamist attacks have just taken place and a few aftershocks from the other side are appearing.”

• “We can never put the toothpaste back in the tube and convert the 30 percent of Muslims who demand the introduction of sharia to … our democracy.”

• “We will never be able to eradicate radical Islamism.”

• “The faithful of the Prophet are already united in areas sometimes governed by special rules” (no-go-zones). 

De Moliner proposes what essentially is a quasi-Sharia state within France, where Muslims who so choose could live by the Koran. 

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