By Selwyn Duke

What do you call someone who wants guns for his group but not for everyone else? Lenin? Any fearful and fear-inspiring dictator? Here’s another: Hollywood actor. After all, Tinseltown’s turpitudinous titillators love guns — just not in your hands.

In fact, People magazine just wrote of 113 stars who penned a letter to the president thanking him for issuing his unconstitutional executive orders on firearms and saying he was protecting their “rights” to “be safe” and “not to be afraid.” Perhaps they’re like actress Daniele Watts, who, after resisting a policeman’s lawful commands, screamed, "I know my rights…. I played a cop on TV!" Moreover, they must know just as much about guns, because they use them on TV.

And, boy, do they ever use them — just as their bodyguards carry them.

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By Selwyn Duke

Eleven-point-three males for every female — that’s not a disastrous business model for a nightclub but the boy/girl ratio of 16 to 17-year-old Muslim migrants entering Sweden. It’s a sex imbalance so great it has actually altered, radically, that age group’s male/female ratio for the country as a whole. Sweden now has 123 boys in that cohort for every 100 girls; note that China’s corresponding imbalance of 117 boys for every girl was part of the reason that nation abandoned its “one-child policy.”

Overall, 71 percent of all 2015 “asylum seekers” entering Sweden were male, yet this isn’t just a Swedish phenomenon. As the Daily Mail writes, “More than 66 per cent of adult migrants arriving through Italy and Greece in the past year were male, according to the International Organization of Migration — along with 90 per cent of unaccompanied under-18s.”

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By Selwyn Duke

If late radio legend Paul Harvey were around to update his famous commentary “If I were the Devil,” he might include on his demonic to-do list, “portray Satan as a nice fellow.” Because this is precisely what the Fox network is doing in its new series Lucifer, set to premiere January 25.

Starring actor Tom Ellis as Lucifer, reviewer Valerie David writes that he is a “Brit-accented rogue helping humans while being harassed by angels” and that the show is “redemption for the Devil.” Deadline.com presents the storyline, reporting, “The series follow the story of the original fallen angel. Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) has abandoned his throne and retired to LA, where he owns Lux, an upscale nightclub. Charming, charismatic and devilishly handsome, Lucifer is enjoying his retirement, indulging in a few of his favorite things — wine, women and song — when a beautiful pop star is brutally murdered outside of Lux.” One thing leads to another, and Lucifer ends up helping the police solve crimes and working on the side of justice.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s no wonder climate alarmists are getting hot under the collar, proposing measures such as imprisoning climate realists. Because, increasingly, the facts are not intersecting with their agenda. And 2016 is providing no respite, with,reports Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), three more global-warming stories that no doubt put a chill on alarmists’ New Year’s revelry.

First up: Would you take a “hot stock tip” from a broker who’d been consistently wrong for more than a generation? That’s analogous to what alarmists are asking us to do, with scholars at the Cato Institute confirming “that climate models that warn of warming have been wrong for decades,” writes IBD. In fact and contrary to those models, temperatures have reportedly been stable now for approximately 18 years. And as Cato puts it stating the obvious, “If the known climate behavior cannot be well-captured by the models, no case can be made for the veracity of projections, from the same models, of the future evolution of our climate — the projections which underlie current climate/energy policy.” In other words, the best predictor of future predictions’ accuracy is past predictions’ accuracy.

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By Selwyn Duke

One of today’s popular boogeymen, along with “climate change,” is overpopulation. It was a boogeyman centuries ago, too. The English cleric and scholar Thomas Malthus warned in 1798, “The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.” Since then, the 1800 world population of one billion has risen to seven billion. And not surprisingly, the notion of an ever-burgeoning population as a clear and present danger has become a basic supposition, one creating perturbation and shaping policy.

On November 13, for instance, some celebrated “World Vasectomy Day” and held a “vasectomy-athon” in which men, many Western, trumpeted their newfound sterility. Precisely two weeks before, Bowdoin College associate professor of philosophy Sarah Conley, though doubtless a relativist, was quite absolutist in a Boston Globe op-ed entitled “Here’s why China’s one-child policy was a good thing.” Insisting “there is no moral right to have more than one child,” Conley wrings her hands as she warns that the “most recent estimate from the United Nations says we’ll reach a population of 9.7 billion by 2050” and justifies elimination of reproductive freedom by likening it to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded movie theater. It seems the rallying cry “My body, my choice!” only applies to killing children in the womb, not birthing them.

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By Selwyn Duke

If you walk down the street in N.Y.C. or travel its subways, rest assured you’re being watched. This is unavoidable with the Big Apple’s untold thousands of security cameras, more than 17,000 of which are available for police scrutiny. Yet this is nothing. London’s notorious “Ring of Steel” comprises 1 camera for every 16 people, approximately half a million peering electronic eyes altogether. And while this may not seem a concern to many Americans, note that there are those who want to use London “as a model” for N.Y.C. — and perhaps beyond.

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By Selwyn Duke

“To every survivor of sexual assault…You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed,” said Hillary Clinton.

Unless, apparently, the matter is “bimbo eruptions.”

That’s exactly what a female Bill Clinton fixer called the phenomenon of women who are coming forward and saying they had affairs with Bill, whose political career was not only marked by serial adultery but also accusations of sexual assault and rape. And Hillary helped ensure the “bimbos” wouldn’t be believed.

One person who hasn’t forgotten this is Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Responding to a recent Hillary accusation that he was “sexist,” the GOP frontrunner recently dared the Clintons to play the war-on-women card, tweeting January 2, “I hope Bill Clinton starts talking about women's issues so that voters can see what a hypocrite he is and how Hillary abused those women!”

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By Selwyn Duke

Here’s some brief audio commentary on Obama’s unconstitutional gun-control executive actions. Just click on the link; a new window will open and the audio will begin playing. 

Obama’s Gun-control Executive Orders

By Selwyn Duke

It wasn’t exactly wisdom from the mouths of babes. Then again, say critics, the remarks didn’t originate in any babe’s mind. Hillary Clinton is well known for staging events (as well as personalities), and “staged” is precisely what many are calling a question on the intersex pay gap the presidential candidate fielded last Tuesday at a New Hampshire town hall-style campaign stop (shown).

The question came from nine-year-old Relic Reilly, twin brother of “River” and son of Massachusetts residents Michael and Bita Reilly (video below). Reports the Daily Mail:

“My mother, over there, is complaining that she does not get much more money than my father,” young Relic Reilly asked the former secretary of state. 

“My mother is an engineer, I meant, teacher. My father is the engineer. And I think that my mother is working more harder than my … I think my mother is working much harder, is working more harder than my father and she deserves to have more money, like, get more money, than my father. Because she's taking care of children and I just don't think it's fair.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Time magazine named Angela Merkel its “Person of the Year.” With her flooding of Europe with Muslim migrants, the German chancellor may, after all, go down in history as a primary destroyer of Western civilization. Yet there’s no question in my mind who is Man of the Year: Donald Trump.

After underestimating the businessman early on, some are starting to understand Trump’s ascendancy and staying power. Yet, even now, few truly appreciate what Trump represents: a political and cultural phenomenon heretofore unseen in America. His rise is historic, amounting to something even more astounding than the Reagan Revolution. This is true, and will be true, whether he ultimately wins or loses, whether you love him or hate him, or whether it turns out he’s driven by principle or personal ambition.

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