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July 5, 2013

Study: Too Little Carbon Dioxide Will Destroy Earth

By Selwyn Duke

Do you want to save the planet? Fire up the SUV this holiday weekend
and go for a pleasure ride; burn some more coal in your barbecue grill;
crank up the house’s AC; and, generally, aspire to a Paul Bunyan-size
carbon footprint. Because according to astrobiologist Jack
O’Malley-James speaking at the National Astronomy meeting at the
University of St. Andrews in Scotland, life on Earth will suffer a
carbon-dioxide-related extinction. But contrary to popular-culture
belief, the problem will be too little of the naturally occurring gas.

It probably won’t ruin any of your plans, as this fate awaits us
nearly billion years down the geological road, but the process by which
life may end is rather simple. The Daily Mail reports:

[A]s the Sun ages and grows hotter,
greater evaporation and chemical reactions with rainwater will take away
more and more carbon dioxide.

In less than a billion years, its levels
will be too low for photosynthesising plants to survive, say scientists.
When that happens, life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist.

With the loss of plants, herbivorous animals will also die out, as well as the carnivores that prey on them.

At this point microbes will rule the Earth, though their days in the
sun — pun intended — will likewise end. As the sun grows even hotter,
the oceans will evaporate, making the planet inhospitable to all but the
sturdiest micro-organisms. “Any remaining life will be restricted to
pockets of liquid water, perhaps at cooler, higher altitudes or in caves
underground,” says O’Malley-James.

While it’s probably hard to forecast weather for 1,000,002,013 A.D., many experts have pointed out that CO₂
needs to hire a PR team, misunderstood and maligned as it is by
global-warming proponents. For instance, Mike Adams of Natural News asks, “If CO₂ is so bad for the planet, why do greenhouses pay to produce it?” He then offers the answer:

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July 4, 2013

“Gay Pride” Parades, Nudity, and Nihilism

By Selwyn Duke

Bolstered by the Supreme Court’s recent DOMA decision, it is reported
that two million people attended this past Sunday’s homosexual “Pride”
parade in New York City. This mirrors increased attendance in such
parades nationwide, with participants eager to celebrate what is viewed
as a milestone in the advancement of the homosexual agenda.

As per usual, the “Pride” events were supported by liberal politicians and celebrities. Writes CBS New York:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Gov. Andrew
Cuomo and other political leaders marched in the [NYC] parade. Mayoral
candidate Anthony Weiner also courted support in the crowd speaking to
spectators through a bullhorn, and Public Advocate and candidate Bill de
Blasio also marched.

… Serving as this year’s grand marshal is musician and activist Harry Belafonte.

… Lady Gaga kicked off the weekend of celebrations with an appearance and performance at the pride rally in TriBeCa.

… Gov. Cuomo also launched the “I Love NY LGBT” tourism website.

In attendance as well was City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who hopes to become NYC’s first openly homosexual mayor.

Read the rest here.
July 3, 2013

Trayvon, Rachel and White Privilege

By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps I’m just a creepy-a** cracka’ who doesn’t get it. But
it always seems that when it comes to standards, the left gives you two for the
price of one. And the idea that white people “can’t” understand black folks — a
similar point to which was made in a recent article
about the George Zimmerman trial — is a good example.

But before getting to that particular piece, I have a
question: is the issue here that one race simply cannot understand another, or
is this really just restricted to white people? Are whites uniquely defective
in this regard? To claim the latter seems an awfully bigoted position.

If this problem can afflict any race, however, it brings us
to an irony: if black racial theoreticians consider inter-racial understanding
so elusive, how can they be so sure they understand whites well enough to be
sure that whites can’t understand blacks? Maybe this lack of understanding just
afflicts blacks and projection is at issue here — or maybe it’s a problem
unique to these black racial theoreticians.

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July 2, 2013

Teen Faces Eight Years in Prison for Making Joke

By Selwyn Duke

We’ve all heard the stories about little boys punished for shaping
their fingers like or drawing a gun, or even just uttering the word
“gun.” But out of Austin, Texas, comes a story that makes those
incidents look like case studies in common sense. The Daily Caller reports:

In February, Justin Carter was playing
“League of Legends” — an online, multiplayer fantasy game — when another
player wrote a comment calling him insane. Carter’s response, which he
now deeply regrets, was intended as joke.

“He replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up
in the head, I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat
their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were lol and jk,” said Jack Carter, Justin’s father, in a statement to a local news channel.

What happened next was that a Canadian woman saw the quip and called
the police, after she found Carter’s address and determined it was near
an elementary school. (It’s real unusual for people in urban areas to
live near schools, and men bent on committing violent massacres will
never drive to their target. You know, the carbon footprint deterrent
and all.) What then transpired? Did the police actually go and question
Carter? They sure did.

Read the rest here.
July 1, 2013

Treasonous Immigrationists and the Death of America

By Selwyn Duke

Let’s do a little thought exercise here. Imagine that some
force was flooding an indigenous people’s lands with millions of unassimilable foreigners,
and it was understood that this influx would irretrievably change that land’s
culture and replace the population. What would anthropologists call this
phenomenon? Cultural genocide comes to mind.

Of course, in America we call it “immigration policy.”

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June 24, 2013

Socially Engineering Racial Conflict

By Selwyn Duke

Addressing a large panel of black conservatives on Hannity Friday night, host Sean Hannity
asked whether “African-American” was the correct label for black people.
Thankfully, a vast majority of the panelists quite passionately agreed it was
not, mainly making the point that we shouldn’t hyphenate ourselves. This is
true, but it still doesn’t get at the heart of the matter.

I said many years ago that I didn’t use the term
“African-American” and that I never would. It is part of the Lexicon of the
Left, and, as the old book the Tyranny of
Words points out, the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins
the debate. But what really is the problem with the term in question?

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June 23, 2013

Where Serena Williams is Right about Rape

By Selwyn Duke

If you want to know why lies seem increasingly common, it’s
because we persecute people for honesty.

A good example is the recent statements tennis star Serena
Williams made about the Steubenville rape
case. Commenting on the matter in a Rolling
Stone interview, the Wimbledon champion opined:

Do you think it was fair, what they
[the assailants] got? They did something stupid, but I don’t know. I’m not
blaming the girl, but if you’re a 16-year-old and you’re drunk like that, your
parents should teach you — don’t take drinks from other people. She’s 16, why
was she that drunk where she doesn’t remember? It could have been much worse.
She’s lucky. Obviously I don’t know, maybe she wasn’t a virgin, but she
shouldn’t have put herself in that position, unless they slipped her something,
then that’s different.

Now, where Williams went wrong was in questioning the
fairness of the sentence. The two assailants, high-school football players Trent
Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, received, respectively, two years and one year in
juvenile detention for the extreme sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl, abuse
punctuated by disgusting, evil attitudes and commentary. In my view, they got
off easy. But isn’t Williams correct in saying that the girl also made it easy?

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June 22, 2013

Obama, Maybe Catholicism is “Divisive” — and Maybe That’s Good

By Selwyn Duke

It isn’t always true that “united we stand.” United in the wrong
things we can fall, and sometimes, for some to stand on principle, we
must stand divided.

Barack Obama is currently taking some heat for what has been
characterized as a shot at Catholic education. While in Northern Ireland
for the G8 summit recently, Obama spoke to an audience of approximately
2,000 students at Belfast's Waterfront hall and said, “If towns remain
divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants
have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or
resentment are allowed to harden — that too encourages division and
discourages cooperation.” Now, it should be mentioned here why this is
considered an attack on Catholic education. While there are Protestant
schools in NI, the government school system is mainly Protestant while
most Catholic children attend schools run by the Catholic Church. And
you can bet that if Obama were authoring an end to school segregation in
NI, his solution would not be to eliminate the government schools and
have everyone attend the Catholic ones.

Yet I won’t criticize Obama here the way some have. After all, there is a controversy
in the U.K. over NI’s school “segregation,” a situation that sees more
than 90 percent of children in NI attending separate schools. So, in
fairness, Obama’s writers were likely just echoing the politically
correct, Kumbaya sentiments of the U.K. press. Instead, I’d like to pose
a question that gets at a deeper issue:

What is the real source and nature of division?

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June 20, 2013

People Die — Live With It

By Selwyn Duke

If there is one overlooked aspect of the current
federal-government surveillance scandal, it’s modernist America’s
attitude toward death. What do I mean? Well, if I said that the number
of children who die in school shootings every year was statistically
insignificant in a nation of 311 million people or that there is an
acceptable level of death through terrorism, many would accuse me of
being a cold, soulless bean counter. But don’t we in essence live this
attitude all the time? Every year approximately 175,000 children die
through drowning, but we haven’t yet outlawed swimming pools or called
for exhaustive government surveillance of them; and about 42,000 people
die yearly in traffic accidents — 115 a day and 1 person every 13
minutes— but we haven’t yet mandated a five-mile-per-hour speed limit.
Death is often accepted as the cost of doing business, and in this case
the business is living.

That is, we accept death within certain contexts. But the context
here isn’t “avoidable” deaths — it’s deaths that manage to avoid the
news.

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June 19, 2013

ESPN’s Random Act of Feminism

By Selwyn Duke

It’s really hard to know today where the stupidity ends and
the propaganda begins. MSNBC recently made
news by labeling infamous segregationist George Wallace a Republican during
a recent television broadcast. Now ESPN has followed suit, with a random act of
feminism.

On the sports network’s Friday US Open golf telecast, there
was a short retrospective piece on golf great Lee Trevino’s gag at the 1971
Open at Merion, where he tossed
a rubber snake at opponent Jack Nicklaus right before their playoff. The
piece’s narrator mentioned that it was history’s second most famous serpent
story, next to that of the Garden of Eden. This was accompanied by Eden
imagery, which certainly enhanced the work’s artistic quality, so the
association made sense. But then the piece took an interesting twist:

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