By Selwyn Duke
A quarter-century ago, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy wrote the jarring essay, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” He warned that new technologies threatened to make humans obsolete (if not endangered). Now that future is nigh.
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By Selwyn Duke
There may be a reason why, according to an AI analysis, approximately 40 percent of global-warming girl Greta Thunberg’s recent activism has involved anything but global warming. And it could just be because, as a commentator recently noted, the “climate alarmists are not ‘alarming’ anymore.”
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By Selwyn Duke
“I know what the law is, but I think…” This statement, which an ex-litigator actually heard from a judge, epitomized a phenomenon she observed repeatedly.
That is, she saw, as she puts it, “left-leaning judges make up the law as they went along.”
As a litigator in the hard-left San Francisco Bay Area for 30 years, Andrea Widburg certainly was in the right place to observe such judicial fauna. Yet this is a gross violation of their duty, she also points out, while quoting late SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia.
“The judge who always likes the results he reaches,” he once noted, “is a bad judge.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank, the Scottsboro Boys, Stefan Kiszko — legion are the cases of men being wrongly convicted, then exonerated. And now a question arises:
Will the case of ex-cop Derek Chauvin, found guilty in 2021 of killing criminal George Floyd, someday be among them?
The answer will be yes if attorney Greg Joseph, who’s now representing Chauvin, has his way. Joseph filed a “Memorandum in support of petition for postconviction relief” on November 20 for the former officer. He’s seeking to vacate Chauvin’s conviction and obtain a new trial.
Joseph’s filing “challenges what he describes as abusive prosecutorial conduct and the presentation of misleading or false testimony during Chauvin’s trial,” reported commentator John Dale Dunn, M.D. on Sunday. Among the bombshells, reported Alpha News recently, is that
50 former and current officers provided sworn declarations stating that the technique used by Derek Chauvin was part of MPD [Minneapolis Police Department] training.
This is significant because central to the case against the officer is that he used an illegal restraint on Floyd.
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By Selwyn Duke
“Everybody, in all mainstream political parties and media … would laugh — laugh — about the word assimilation,” lamented journalist Mikael Jalving in 2014. It “is a Nazi word in Sweden [now]”
What kind of people was Danish journalist Jalving talking about? A good example is Swedish multiculturalist Mona Sahlin. Commenting on her land’s Islamization in 2001, she actually said that “the Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden.” The “old Sweden is never coming back.”
And, warns a top immigration expert, like-minded, powerful pseudo-elites in America have the same attitude today. “Citizens of the world,” they dislike their country and culture, eschew Americanization, and thus discourage assimilation. Only, they’re not as forthcoming as Sahlin about their aims.
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By Selwyn Duke
Shortly after Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral victory, I asked in a headline, “In Power, Will Mamdani Be Socialist — or Sly.” Now it appears we may have the answer in an actions-speak-louder-than-words way.
That is, the “democratic socialist” mayor-elect is appointing one far-left radical after another to his administration. Among his picks are a car-hating zealot who wants to build playgrounds in the middle of city streets and an “anti-cop extremist” who has called for ICE abolishment and tarred border policing as “inhumane.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Reacting to invasion (im)migration trends years ago, Ambassador Alan Keyes put it bluntly.
“We’re being colonized,” he said.
And if ever there was proof of this, and the low quality of many post-1965 newcomers—and of the lie of “diversity”—it’s a viral video posted by one Wajahat Ali.
Mr. Ali is a Pakistani-descent Muslim whose parents came to the U.S. in 1965 and lived the American dream—and an un-American scheme. That is, they served prison time in the mid-2000s for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering for defrauding Microsoft out of millions of dollars.
Some say Ali weaponized this experience, playing the victim.
What’s for sure is that it didn’t stop him from becoming a Daily Beast columnist and New York Times op-ed writer. And that status didn’t stop him from something else:
He went on a bigoted anti-white tirade on social media in which he made clear that he’s an enemy within who hates the Western people who founded our country. As he said in his video, which is making the rounds:
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By Selwyn Duke
In “a school to-day the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself,” observed philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1910. “The flopping infant of four actually has more experience, and has weathered the world longer, than the dogma to which he is made to submit.” Just imagine what Chesterton would say about college students today. In this case, the undergraduate has to submit to a system that’s younger than his baby brother.
Try telling this, however, to the college professors — 1,000 of them, allegedly — now “fleeing” Southern universities. Many cite “policies that limit academic freedom,” states a summary by Copilot artificial intelligence. But some humans possessing natural intelligence might put it differently: The policies are “separating the weeds from the wheat.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Pontius Pilate has a unique place in history; every even quasi-serious Christian knows his name. Pilate was, of course, the Roman governor who condemned Jesus to death despite acknowledging His innocence. It was easier, you see, and more expedient to publicly wash his hands and declare, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves” — and therefore avoid Jewish leaders’ agitation and maintain political stability and “neutrality.” It was easier to, instead of taking an unpopular stand and an underappreciated side, choose a third way.
Thus is it intensely and sadly ironic that many Christians today are, with a like motivation, using a similar rationalization to avoid taking unpopular stands. Why, they even call it “a third way.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “history is a series of agreed-upon myths.” Famed documentarian Ken Burns may agree, too, to the point where he has reportedly become one of the myth makers.
At issue is a new six-part, 12-hour-long series titled The American Revolution (TAR) which, say critics, strays into anti-American fiction. It’s apparently another example of the revisionist history responsible for spawning millions of “Americans” who take no pride in their country or who, worse still, despise it.
What’s more, the work is the result of almost eight years of toil. That’s more than long enough to get things right; instead, Burns got things left.
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