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May 12, 2015

Killing Pamela Geller in a Dying America

By Selwyn Duke

Hey, isn’t creating sacrilegious images brave? That’s what we heard years ago when at issue was “art” such as a crucifix immersed in a glass of urine or a Virgin Mary picture smeared with feces. But that wasn’t quite the response to pundit Pamela Geller’s Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, was it?

Instead, after her affair was attacked by two AK-47-wielding Muslim jihadists, everywhere was the implication that she brought it on herself. As The New American’s Charles Scaliger reported, “New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi tweeted, ‘Free speech aside, why would anyone do something as provocative as hosting a ‘Muhammad drawing contest’?’” Donald Trump was likewise befuddled, asking, “What are they doing drawing Muhammad? Isn’t there something else they can draw? … They have to be in the middle of Texas and on Muhammad? … I don’t know, maybe she likes risk. What the h— is she doing?”

Of course, a fellow smart enough to make and lose and make untold millions of dollars ought to be able to figure it out. Agree or disagree with her methods, Geller appears to have two goals: to illustrate the problem of violence in Islam and to send a message that First Amendment rights won’t be stifled in deference to what is essentially a foreign faith. And let’s be clear on something:

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May 8, 2015

Schools Using Millions in Tax Money to Teach “White Privilege” and Black Stereotypes

By Selwyn Duke

It was no surprise that Cedric the Entertainer, a black comedian, could get away with doing a comedy skit about “Colored People’s Time,” playing on the stereotype of tardiness in the black community. But in an example of life imitating art, a group helping to shape teaching in American schools is now actually instructing that tardiness is a legitimate part of certain “minority” cultures. It’s just one of many stereotype-related behaviors that the San Francisco-based Pacific Educational Group (PEG) says should be accepted and unquestioned — in teacher training paid for with millions of your tax dollars.

Plumbing the politically correct depths to explain why black and Hispanic students lag behind whites academically, the PEG identifies the supposed culprit: “white privilege.” The idea is that our educational system is based upon white culture and norms and thus is not conducive to minority success. And what are “white norms” according to the PEG? Qualities such as industriousness, punctuality, and civilized classroom behavior. Of course, it’s phrased a bit more euphemistically than that.

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May 7, 2015

The Real Racism in the Freddie Gray/Baltimore Affair

By Selwyn Duke

Did you hear about the white cops indicted in Freddie Gray’s death? You likely did.

Did my opening question cause you to take exception? It likely didn’t — but it should have.

Because half the officers (shown) charged in Baltimore drug dealer Freddie Gray’s April 12 death are black.

Yet in a case all about race — with the chant and hashtag “Black Lives Matter” and with vows to attack white police officers — this racial fact has been conspicuously absent from most reportage. But given that the Gray story has been a white/black thing, isn’t the knowledge that his arrest was actually a black/white/black thing relevant to it? Might this knowledge have quelled at least a bit of the racial unrest and perhaps saved some property and people from an ill fate in Baltimore? Could the omission of this fact be seen as an attempt to rub resentments raw?

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May 7, 2015

Drug Dealer Freddie Gray’s Business Was Hurting Black Kids

By Selwyn Duke

“Black Lives matter” they say — but perhaps not to Freddie Gray.

Gray’s April 12 death while in Baltimore police custody has sparked protests and been used as an excuse for rioting. Of course, it’s still not entirely clear what caused the criminal’s demise. A police report has been issued indicating that Gray injured himself, with a wound on his head matching a bolt in the police van in which he was transported. And the arrestee sharing that van with Gray, Donta Allen, reportedly says he didn’t see any harm done to the man, but heard him thrashing around “like he was banging his head.” On the other hand, it has just been announced that Baltimore’s top prosecutor is bringing criminal charges against the six police officers involved in the incident, alleging, among other things, that Gray was subject to a false arrest.

Whatever the case, something is clear. While Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake infamously has said “We don’t have thugs in Baltimore” (at least, maybe, not any more than they have homosexuals in Iran), they certainly did have at least one:

Freddie Gray.

It appears that Gray’s business, you see, was hurting black kids.

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May 1, 2015

Supreme Fallacy: Courts Have No Business Even Considering Marriage

By Selwyn Duke

Would you want a panel of five judges deciding what is a proper diet, car, or military weapon for our nation? To echo what the lawyer in the White House once said about himself when responding to an abortion question, such things are above lawyers’ pay grade. Yet with the Supreme Court considering the issue of faux marriage, we face a similar prospect:

Five lawyers in black robes may — extra-constitutionally — decide what marriage is for 317 million people.

Some have pointed out that the courts should never have taken faux marriage cases in the first place.

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May 1, 2015

Ex-DOJ Official: Obama Using Amnesty to Win Elections for Democrats

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not enough that American academia has been indoctrinating native-born youth with leftism, reinforced by the media and entertainment. Nor is it sufficient that our immigration regime has, since 1965, ensured that 85 percent of our immigrants would come from the Third World and Asia, bringing us people who vote overwhelmingly Democrat upon being naturalized. Barack Obama promised “fundamental change.”

And fundamental change he will deliver — fast — by hook or by crook.

So says J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice attorney and whistleblower, claiming that the effort to fast-track illegal aliens to voter status is already underway.

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April 29, 2015

U.K.’s Most Likely New Leader Pledges to Outlaw “Islamophobia”

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps he just wants to show he’s doubleplusgood, but the man who may be Britain’s next prime minister has pledged to stop at nothing to stamp out “Islamophobia.” Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (shown) — who now enjoys a slight lead in election polls — made the promise during an interview in which he also said he’d support the creation of a Palestinian state. As for his Islamophobia remarks, the Muslim News reports:

“We are going to make it an aggravated crime. We are going to make sure it is marked on people’s records with the police to make sure they root out Islamophobia as a hate crime,” Miliband told the Editor of The Muslim News, Ahmed J Versi in a wide ranging exclusive interview.

“We are going to change the law on this so we make it absolutely clear of our abhorrence of hate crime and Islamophobia. It will be the first time that the police will record Islamophobic attacks right across the country,” he said.

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April 27, 2015

Shocking Revelation: Baltimore Mayor Allowed Rioters to Destroy Property

By Selwyn Duke

Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has a unique (one would hope) method for dealing with rioters: Let them destroy property.

The mayor made this shocking admission on Sunday, saying at a press conference that during her city’s weekend riots, she wanted to “give those who wished to destroy, space to do that.”

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April 27, 2015

Media Group That Showed 13-year-old Boys Kissing Now Considering Sitcom Involving Anti-Christian Bigot

By Selwyn Duke

He has been called “one of the cruelest, most vile political activists in America.”

And now he may have his own television show.

It was a first when ABC Family aired an episode of The Fosters in which it showed two 13-year-old boys kissing. Now Disney-ABC Television Group is considering another first: a sitcom produced and inspired by homosexual activist Dan Savage (shown), a profane anti-Christian bigot who once said he wished his political opponents “were all f***[**]g dead.”

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April 24, 2015

Are Nationalized Police on the Horizon?

By Selwyn Duke

“Dawn of National Police Force,” read the Tuesday Drudge headline. The story in question, in New York’s Daily News, concerns proposed federal guidelines for the New York Police Department — overseen by a central-government-appointed “monitor” — and formulated in the wake of the 2013 ruling that the department’s stop-and-frisk practices are “unconstitutional.” What concerns many, however, is that this intrusion represents movement toward something certainly unconstitutional: federal control of local police.

As the News reported, the guidelines range from the innocuous to the perhaps insidious, from a reminder that “most people are good, law-abiding citizens” to injunctions such as “Don’t be racist” and “Do not engage in racial profiling,” though sex and age profiling are apparently okay (The New American treated this in-depth yesterday). And while one could imagine that “Bolshevik” Bill de Blasio’s NYC needed little help crafting politically correct police standards, “help” they are certainly getting.

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