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March 5, 2015

Gender Distender: Facebook’s 58+Infinity “Gender” Options
By Selwyn Duke

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality,” wrote Lewis Carroll. And in recent times, reality has been losing that war. It used to be that you’d be asked what your “sex” was, and even flipping a coin yielded a 50 percent chance of being right. Now “sex” has been replaced with “gender,” and then the category expansion of “gender” became, well, a never-ender. And so it is at Facebook, where they’ve added to their 58 “gender” options the following:____________.

That’s right, just fill in the blank.

What was insufficient about the original expanded selection? You can take a gander at the 58 options here and try to figure it out, but what follows is a small sampling:
- Agender
- Androgyne
- Cisgender Man
- Cisgender Woman
- Gender Variant
- MTF
- Trans Female
- Trans* Female
- Transfeminine
- Two-Spirit
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March 5, 2015

CNN Liberal Wants Daughter to Be Lesbian — and Admits It’s a Choice

By Selwyn Duke

We used to hear parents say they want their children to have it better than they did. But that was back before today’s relativism made “better” an incomprehensible term (at least, to the uncomprehending). Now there are dwarves who want to use genetic engineering to design dwarf babies for themselves. And then there’s Sally Kohn, who recently penned an article entitled “I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too.”

No, she doesn’t mean happy. Kohn, a CNN political commentator and lesbian who lives with another woman, presents her rationale, writing:

More often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. If we went to college, we want our kids to go to college. If we like sports, we want our kids to like sports. If we vote Democrat, of course we want our kids to vote Democrat.

I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too.

Read the rest here.
February 26, 2015

Scott Walker Confused About Obama’s Religion — As Is Everyone Else

By Selwyn Duke

Americans have very little faith in Obama’s faith. In fact, accepting that he’s “Christian” seems a leap of faith many citizens are unwilling to take, say polls. And Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin (shown) appears no exception.

Asked recently by two Washington Post reporters if Obama is a Christian, Walker replied, “I don’t know.” As the paper reports, when then told “that Obama has frequently spoken publicly about his Christian faith, Walker maintained that he was not aware of the president’s religion. ‘I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that,’ Walker said, his voice calm and firm. ‘I’ve never asked him that,’ he added."

Later, writes the paper, “Walker spokeswoman Jocelyn Webster telephoned the Washington Post to say the governor was trying to make a point of principle by not answering such kinds of questions, not trying to cast doubt on Obama’s faith.”

Obviously, this was an attempt at damage control necessary with hit-man reporters who continually put Republicans in callow and craven crosshairs. And what’s happening, in part, is that the media is trying to “Quayle” Walker. Referencing former Vice President Dan Quayle and the silly and misunderstood 1992 potato affair, this is when the media attempts to characterize an intelligent conservative candidate as a dolt, either through inordinate focus on a normal gaffe or via the use of gotcha questions.

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February 26, 2015

Money-grubber Sharpton? Eric Garner’s Daughter Slams Rev. Al

By Selwyn Duke

He may be a “reverend,” but it seems Al Sharpton (shown) hasn’t absorbed the biblical admonition “The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.” So says Erica Snipes, a daughter of Eric Garner, the 400-pound Staten Island, New York, man who died after resisting arrest on July 17, 2014.

The accusation was made during a conversation secretly recorded (video below) by an investigator for conservative activist James O’Keefe’s group Project Veritas (PV). Posing as a Garner supporter at a protest last month, the investigator had the following exchange with Snipes…

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February 25, 2015

Giuliani and Communist Obama? Unclothed Emperors and Unfashionable Truths

By Selwyn Duke

In the tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a vain emperor is swindled by two men who claim they can make him a special suit of garments invisible to the stupid or incompetent. When he later parades around naked in public, no one wants to state the obvious for fear of appearing the only “stupid” person who can’t see what the “competent” presumably do. That is, until a little child cries out, “But he doesn't have anything on!”

Ex-NYC mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s statement that Barack Obama was influenced by communists in his youth and doesn’t love his country isn’t nearly as fascinating as the reaction to it.

Usually when a person is labeled a “communist” or a “fascist,” it’s a pejorative applied to someone who, whether or not actually fitting the description, doesn’t apply the label to himself.

This wasn’t the case with Frank Marshall Davis.

The late journalist and activist was one of those rare things:

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February 25, 2015

How to Win the Christian Baker/Same-Sex “Wedding” Cake Debate

By Selwyn Duke

A homosexual couple goes into a known Christian bakery and asks for a wedding cake for a same-sex “marriage,” is refused and then files a government complaint or sues. “Intolerance! Bigotry! Equal access!” is the cry. Many Americans have read of such stories in the news. Often the attempted purchase is a set-up, with activist-minded individuals targeting bakers whom they know will decline the request and then be vulnerable to state persecution by zealous bureaucrats.

It’s a new front in the war on faith, legitimate freedom and private property rights. Many point out that it constitutes an unprecedented trampling of religious liberty, and this is true. It also violates the principle of freedom of association, which isn’t explicitly mentioned in the Constitution but should be upheld. But neither of these arguments should be the centerpiece of the fight against the tyranny in question. There is another, far more powerful argument:

Freedom of speech.

Usually missed in the commentary on this subject is that the bakers in question are not refusing service to a type of people — they are refusing to be party to a type of message. This is not debatable. When you put writing on a same-sex “wedding” cake, you’re crafting a message; if you place figurines (of two men, for instance) on that cake, you’re erecting symbols relating that message. Note here that the Supreme Court has already ruled that “Symbolic Speech” — a legal term in U.S. law — is protected under the First Amendment; examples of such rulings would be that pertaining to flag-burning and the Tinker v. Des Moines case.

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February 23, 2015

Obama’s History ?01: “Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding”

By Selwyn Duke

You’ve probably never heard of Founding Fathers named Gamal bin Washington and Thamar Jefferson, and neither has Barack Obama. But this didn’t stop him from making the claim that “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”

While speaking in the White House’s South Court Auditorium during a conference on “countering violent extremism” last week, Obama said that we need to “stay true to the values that define us” and “show that we welcome people of all faiths.” The president then made the following claim:

Here in America, Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding. Generations of Muslim immigrants came here and went to work as farmers and merchants and factory workers, helped to lay railroads and build up America. The first Islamic center in New York City was founded in the 1890s. America’s first mosque [founded in 1929] — this was an interesting fact — was in North Dakota.

Of course, both these events occurred long after our country’s founding; in fact, 1890 was the year of the 11^th U.S. census, which led to official recognition that there was no longer even a Western frontier in the nation. And there were no sheikhs or mullahs at the Constitutional Convention more than a century before.

Read the rest here.
February 23, 2015

Harfing Heartily: Obama’s and the Left’s Everyone Is the Same Doctrine

By Selwyn Duke

It doesn’t require stupid people for the utterance of stupid things — just smart people embracing stupid ideology.

In the wake of advocating a counter-terrorism plan mercilessly mocked by critics as a jobs-for-jihadists program, State Department spokesman Marie Harf has provided more comedic-commentary gold. Downplaying the threat posed by Islamic jihad while a guest on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday, she said we faced “a lot of different extremist threats.” And she finally had an answer for critics wondering where the supposed Christian terrorists are:

Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.

“Who’s that?” you ask?

You’re not alone. Harf said on Wednesday, “I don't remember people talking about that as much anymore.” And there’s good reason for this. The group is “almost defunct,” as American Thinker’s Rick Moran put it, and Kony himself is said to be extremely ill.

And how Christian is Kony, anyway?

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February 21, 2015

The Modern Crusaders Fighting ISIS

By Selwyn Duke

You might have heard about those people hailing from Western countries going off to fight where ISIS reigns.

Or maybe not.

No, these aren’t the jihadists who speak flawless French or English and leave the comfort of their Occidental cocoon to aid the Islamic State terrorists. Rather, they’re driven by a desire to be defenders of the innocent who, like Lawrence of Arabia fighting the last great caliphate (the Ottomans) a century ago, are waging war against a savage force aiming to be the next great caliphate.

Twenty-eight-year-old Jordan Matson (shown) is a long way from his home town of Sturtevant, Wisconsin. Sporting a tactical vest bearing the words “Christ is Lord,” the ex-US Army serviceman is now in Iraq helping the Syria-based Kurdish “Popular Protection Units” (YPG) in their fight against ISIS. And he’s determined to prevail.

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February 20, 2015

Why Not One Governor is Qualified to be President

By Selwyn Duke

Our Constitution has become a suicide pact.

That’s the view of Thomas Jefferson, expressed in an 1819 letter to jurist Spencer Roane, when he said “If this opinion be sound, then indeed is our constitution a complete felo de se”(suicide pact). The opinion Jefferson referred to is the legitimacy of judicial review, the idea, as he put it, that “gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres.” He warned that accepting such a doctrine makes “the Judiciary a despotic branch” that acts as “an oligarchy.”

That “opinion” has been accepted. The despotism has befallen us. The oligarchy reigns.

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