By Selwyn Duke

Thomas Jefferson once said that judicial supremacy would reduce our Constitution to a “suicide pact.” Now the Supreme Court is once again vindicating that assessment: On Friday it blocked a Louisiana law that would have saved babies’ lives by reducing the number of facilities licensed to commit pre-natal infanticide.

At issue is 2014 legislation that — mirroring laws in Texas and seven other states — requires “doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Lawmakers said this rule would help ensure consistent care for a patient who has a medical emergency that sends her to a hospital,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Admitting privileges enable a physician to admit a patient to a hospital and personally provide him with care at the facility (as opposed to the hospital’s doctors on staff assuming that responsibility).

Only Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the Friday stay of the Louisiana law…

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s just a paper about the hand. It bears the not-very-titillating title “Biomechanical characteristics of hand coordination in grasping activities of daily living.” But now its authors could use a helping hand after receiving the back of someone else’s.

Written by three researchers from China’s Huazhong University and one from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, the paper was published January 5 in the PLOS ONE journal. And what was its supposed trespass?

It referenced the Creator numerous times.

This created intense controversy, with some scientists and even PLOS ONE editors calling for a retraction and other scientists threatening a boycott. And the journal did ultimately print a retraction on March 4, apologizing to readers for the “inappropriate language.” 

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By Selwyn Duke

Things must be made unequal to compensate for America’s inherent “racism,” states Critical Race Theory. The organizers of the Cinder Block Comedy Festival (CBCF) in New York City are taking this principle to heart — and are expanding on it. They’re charging an increased submissions fee for only one group: white men. And there’s more.

Until March 15, it’ll be “No white males need apply.”

The festival, taking place September 15-18 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is limiting early-bird-submission opportunities (February 15- March 14) to women, non-whites, and those “identifying” as “LGBT”; in addition, members of these groups can apply at the discounted rate of $19.25. Submissions from what festival organizers call “token bearded white dudes” will only be accepted between March 15 through April 15, and they will have to pay $25.

The organizers claim to be doing this because, as they put it in a website video, “We think comedy shows should be as diverse as f***.

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By Selwyn Duke

In the wake of a Dutch citizen being arrested for wearing a cute, furry pig hat at an anti-Muslim-migration protest comes another example of politically correct law enforcement: a man in Florida facing life in prison for vandalizing a mosque, an act that included leaving a slab of bacon at the front door. Meanwhile, as Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer points out, "In Portland, Mohamed Mohamud attempted to commit jihad mass murder at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony. He got thirty years in prison, and his lawyers are claiming that sentence was draconian and should be reduced." Spencer continues, "This indicates yet again that Muslims in the U.S. are rapidly becoming a protected class, of whom authorities are particularly solicitous." Michael Wolfe, the Florida bacon bad boy, "deserves punishment. The punishment should fit the crime," he concludes.

For sure. And let's be clear on something: The crime here was vandalism and criminal mischief. Period. Full stop. End of discussion. I've long inveighed against "hate-crime" laws, which, serving to punish thought (at least within a certain context), are as un-American as legislation comes. 

Of course, it's entirely possible Wolfe won't get the maximum sentence. But the very fact that you can face life in this country for vandalism and criminal mischief is yet another sign that we're becoming an Orwellian dystopia. 

By Selwyn Duke

When Governor John Kasich said recently that he probably should be running in the Democrat Party, he wasn’t kidding. Although seeking office in Cuba might be even more fitting.

Taking a break from lecturing us on how we must accept amnesty, the presidential contender recently weighed in on the case of the Oregon bakers fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a faux wedding. Mentioned briefly in Thursday’s GOP presidential debate, here are his comments, made on Monday at the University of Virginia:

I think, frankly, our churches should not be forced to do anything that’s not consistent with them. But if you’re a cupcake maker and somebody wants a cupcake, make them a cupcake. Let’s not have a big lawsuit or argument over all this stuff — move on. The next thing, you know, they might be saying, if you’re divorced you shouldn’t get a cupcake.

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By Selwyn Duke

Got privilege? Because if you’ve got the rap, rationalizations, and rhetoric to bloviate about “white privilege,” you can make millions. Glenn Singleton (shown) sure has.

Singleton, a black man, is the founder of Pacific Educational Group (PEG), which has made millions of dollars teaching “white privilege” peppered with Marxist dogma to America’s schoolteachers. PEG’s ostensible goal is to improve the education of blacks and other minorities. But central to its program is that blacks are held down by “white privilege,” the notion that the educational system and wider society are infused with white-supremacy-spawned “white norms” and thus handicap black and Hispanic kids. And what are these norms? Hard work, planning for the future, and punctuality are among them. And black norms? PEG cites one as being “collectivism.”

And PEG has been collecting cash for quite a while.

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By Selwyn Duke

“About 80 percent of the people who are given amnesty, when they’re registered to vote, will vote Democratic,” notedTexas congressman Lamar Smith in 2014. While his number could be a bit low, he was shining a light on a poorly hidden agenda: Today’s im/migration, illegal and legal, amounts to a Democrat get-in-the-vote scheme. And now it’s apparent that the Obama administration is attempting to cut to the chase and enable illegal aliens themselves to cast ballots.

In fact, the federal government’s current actions are so outrageous that just yesterday a federal judge called them “unprecedented” and “extraordinary.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Arrested for wearing a cute, furry pig hat? That's what happened to a man in the Netherlands while participating in a protest against the destructive Muslim migration into his country (video below). No Muslim were around, mind you, and, presumably, no one complained. But the politically correct cops still thought it could be "insulting." 

By the way, whose country is the Netherlands now, anyway? 

I should mention that I find the police's actions insulting; political correctness is insulting, period — especially to one's intelligence. 

And what are the prohibitions here? Can you wear a fluffy dog hat? I mean, dogs are considered unclean in Islam, too. Can you say "oink" or "woof"? And as Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer points out, what will be forbidden in 5 or 10 years? Just today 100 Muslim rioted in Belgium because a woman refused to wear a headscarf. "Tolerance" is not a big word with these folks. But, hey, ain't diversity grand? Remember, our strength lies in it. 

By Selwyn Duke

Americans have increasingly come to believe that the Fourth Estate is a fifth column, with polls showing that only about 20 percent of the public trusts the media. Yet there’s a type of information-entity manipulation that’s probably more insidious but perhaps less well known: social-media bias.

This type of bias is about suppression as much as expression. And a good example is the recent revelation by a source inside Twitter that the company is stifling conservative users by blacklisting them and employing a process known as “shadowbanning.” Speaking exclusively to Breitbart Tech, the source also disclosed that Twitter places favored users (generally liberals) on a “whitelist,” which gives them a higher profile in search results than their popularity warrants.

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By Selwyn Duke

The Left sure likes rights; so much so that it even invents them. The latest example is presidential contender Bernie Sanders’ (shown) claim that Barack Obama has a “constitutional right” to appoint the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s successor. Of course, governmental branches don’t have “rights” — they havepowers. Obama certainly has the power to nominate a Supreme Court justice. And the Senate has the power to confirm that individual or not do so.

Senator Sanders made the comment in an interview with Face the Nation’s John Dickerson on Sunday (video below). Addressing a Republican intention to not consider any of Obama’s nominees so close to the November election, the avowed socialist said, “The idea that Republicans want to deny the president of the United States his basic constitutional right is beyond my comprehension.” Sanders repeated this mistaken notion just one answer later, insisting that “we cannot allow the Republican majority in the Senate to deny the president his basic constitutional right.”

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