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July 16, 2013

Holder and Zimmerman: Will Blackness Trump Fairness?

By Selwyn Duke

While George Zimmerman has been acquitted, his troubles are hardly
behind him. It’s not just that no small number of thugs want his head on a
platter, but that the baddest of them all is the highest law-enforcement
official in the land.

The question of whether Eric Holder’s Department of Justice will
file a civil-rights-violation suit against Zimmerman is especially salient now.
This is because of his acquittal, of course, but also because it must be
considered against the backdrop of an open
investigation of him that the department’s Civil Rights Division is currently
conducting.

An investigation that was proceeding even before Zimmerman’s trial was concluded.

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July 14, 2013

Women vs. Men: Who Governs Better?

By Selwyn Duke

Every so often there’s that obligatory article asking “Are
Women Superior at_____?” or “Do Women Make Better ______?” with politicians often
being the focus. Of course, it’s always asked rhetorically. No matter the facts
of the case, you’ll never hear, “We examined the issue exhaustively from all perspectives,
consulted with premier authorities in the discipline, collated the data and
have determined that in this endeavor, women, to employ the official
nomenclature, really suck.” In fact, I haven’t heard any kind of dismissal of
feminine abilities in any area — of the kind routinely made with men — since a
1993 Golf Magazine piece
titled “Women can’t chip.”

So it’s no surprise that National
Journal is running a painfully long and vapid article
by one Jill Lawrence titled “Do Women Make Better Senators Than [sic] Men?” The
answer is a foregone conclusion, so you needn’t imbibe Lawrence’s 4000-plus-word
screed (I may pen a piece, “Do Women Make Wordier Journalists than Men?”), which
bears the self-revelatory subtitle “They [women] make up one-fifth of the body
[the Senate]. It doesn’t look anything like parity (or America), but they
believe they can do what the men can’t — namely, get things done.”

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July 13, 2013

Former Electric-car Engineer: Electric Cars Pollute More Than Gas

By Selwyn Duke

Is the only “green” aspect of electric cars the money some companies
make off them? If former plug-in advocate and General Motors engineer
Ozzie Zehner (shown) is correct, this is exactly the case.

Author of the book Green Illusions, Zehner once built his own hybrid car that could run on electricity or natural gas. And, he writes
in a recent article entitled “Unclean at Any Speed,” he was convinced
cars such as his “would help reduce both pollution and fossil-fuel
dependence.”

But he now says, “I was wrong.”

Read the rest here.
July 13, 2013

Claim: Justice Department Stoked Fires of Anti-Zimmerman Protests

By Selwyn Duke

If there’s racial violence following the George Zimmerman verdict,
will it bear Department of Justice fingerprints? According to public
advocacy group Judicial Watch, the answer is yes.

At issue are the actions of the DOJ’s “Community Relations Service”
(CRS), a little-known branch of the department whose operatives were
initially sent to Sanford, Florida, in the wake of the George
Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting incident. The CRS’ ostensible mission
is to engage in “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution.”
Based on documents obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request,
however, Judicial Watch claims that the CRS agitated on behalf of
anti-Zimmerman forces. The documents reveal the following, reports Judicial Watch:

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July 12, 2013

Obama: Forcing Christians to Eat the Pork

By Selwyn Duke

While Barack Obama has often been compared to leaders of the
past, it’s unlikely anyone has yet associated him with Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
Ruler of the Seleucid Empire between 175 and 164 B.C., King Antiochus is best
known for the persecution of Jews, and one story from the second book of
Maccabees is particularly relevant here. As the passage tells us, the king was
bent on forcing a Jewish woman and her seven sons to, of all things, eat pork.
The boys resisted and were tortured and killed one by one as their mother, who
ultimately was also murdered, looked on. What’s interesting, though, is that
while the victims were being faithful to what they believed was divine dietary injunction,
there was no Seleucid commandment stating “Thou shalt compel others to dine on
swine.” The act of eating such meat was but a trivial matter to Antiochus, yet
he nonetheless insisted on imposing his will.

Why would a person do this? It would be for one — or, more
likely, a combination — of the following reasons:

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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.

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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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