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June 8, 2024

Minnesota Vice: Juror Was Offered 120K to Acquit Thieving Somali Migrants

By Selwyn Duke

If you thought your tax money was just used to fly illegal aliens into our nation’s interior and house them in pricey hotels, think again. Some of it is also now being used, apparently, to attempt to buy migrants acquittals in our justice system.

This is the obvious conclusion after at least one Minnesota juror was offered $120,000 to acquit Somali migrants on trial for stealing Covid relief funds intended for needy children.

Since the story broke, verdicts have been rendered, and the media have run titles such as “Bag of cash doesn’t stop jurors from convicting 5 of 7 defendants in $40 million food fraud scheme.” This does seem a bit cavalier, though. For is it possible that the efforts did stop jurors from convicting the other two?

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June 7, 2024

FBI Agents Fear Jail If Trump Is Elected, Says Ex-FBI Official McCabe

By Selwyn Duke

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his bureau paramour, Lisa Page, used their positions to try to defeat Donald Trump in 2016’s presidential election. Now, though, dishonest FBI agents may have an even greater incentive to undermine Trump’s White House efforts — if ex-deputy FBI director and “dirty cop” Andrew McCabe is to be believed.

After all, he claims, FBI agents fear they’ll go to prison if Trump is reelected — and some are even contemplating fleeing the country.

My, some can now just hear that old law-enforcement refrain, “You’ve got nothing to fear if you haven’t done anything wrong….”

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June 6, 2024

Trad Wives vs. Sad Wives?

By Selwyn Duke

It’s a sign of the times that “trad wives” are a growing phenomenon on the internet. Oh, it’s not just that this movement — of traditional women content tending to hearth and home — represents a rebellion against feminism-driven female careerism. It’s that this special status reflects how society has been completely transformed. After all, not long ago in history the term “trad wife” didn’t exist because the role was the default.

Something close to it still might be if American women had their way. A 2015 Gallup poll found that 56 percent of women with children would rather stay home than go to work and that 39 percent of childless women under 18 said they wanted to be homemakers. (This is interesting given how intense careerist conditioning has been.) In light of this, perhaps it’s not surprising that trad-wife influencers are gaining in popularity and sparking conversation.

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June 5, 2024

Left-wing Violence: Abortion Radicals Attack Churches; Biden Turns Blind Eye

By Selwyn Duke

There are sins of commission, things you shouldn’t have done, but did; and sins of omission, things you should have done, but didn’t. When the two come together, you can have evildoers and enablers, such as when miscreants commit crimes and authorities ignore the crimes.

Enter the Biden administration.

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June 5, 2024

Constitutional Law Professor: Americans Must STOP “Worshiping” the Constitution

By Selwyn Duke

Years ago, comedian/commentator Bill Maher complained that too many Americans think the Ten Amendments are the Ten Commandments. (In reality, people such as Maher think the Ten Commandments are the Ten Amendments.) Yet now this sentiment is coming from someone who, one might hope, should know better: A constitutional law professor who insists that we must stop “worshiping” the Constitution.

The call is in a new book titled The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them, written by one Aziz Rana, a professor at Boston College Law School.

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June 4, 2024

“When Did Dems Transition to Becoming the War Party?”

By Selwyn Duke

“Imagine all the people, living life in peace,” sang the late John Lennon in 1971. The line was in his song “Imagine,” in which, among other things, he theorizes about a world with “no countries” and “nothing to kill or die for.” In this vein, however, his son may now be imagining an America without the Democratic Party.

This could occur to an observer, anyway, after Seán Ono Lennon asked rhetorically on X recently, “When did Dems transition to becoming the War Party?”

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May 28, 2024

Are We Making Language “Funner” Because We’re Getting Dumber?

By Selwyn Duke

“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?!” asked (sang, actually) Professor Henry Higgins in the old play My Fair Lady. Today we could wonder likewise about our culture:

Why can’t Americans teach their children how to speak — or write?

One reason is that not only do few among even the “intellectual” class really care about proper English usage, many are working feverishly to undermine standards.

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May 27, 2024

Non-white Privilege? Anti-white Racism Reigns in U.S., Says Jeremy Carl

By Selwyn Duke

On one side, we hear about “white privilege” and “white supremacism.” On the other, we hear that you hear about those things only because whites are one of the few groups you can impugn with impunity, inclusive of calling them privileged while treating them prejudicially. And one man who’d agree with the latter sentiment is political commentator and Claremont Institute fellow Jeremy Carl.

In fact, says Carl, America is “systemically racist” against whites.

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May 25, 2024

Is the Constitution Now an “Inconvenient Document”?

By Selwyn Duke

“My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri in March, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” This comment virally raised eyebrows, and for good reason: The Constitution’s whole purpose when crafted was, and still is, to hamstring government. After all, when we don’t hamstring government, government will hamstring the people.

This comes to mind with a warning issued by Brian Knight, director of Innovation and Governance and a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In a recent piece titled “We can’t be a republic only when it’s convenient,” he discusses another case, National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, in which the defense essentially argues that abiding by the Constitution would hamstring government.

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May 23, 2024

Finally, a Western Nation Is Starting to Say “NO!” to Immigration

By Selwyn Duke

People “in Africa and the Middle East will start thinking they might be better off elsewhere.” So said the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) leads a coalition that will soon helm Holland’s government. The coalition has vowed to opt out of European Union rules and adopt the “strictest-ever” asylum policy.

“The sun will shine again in the Netherlands… The Netherlands will be ours again,” Wilders also stated, after enduring a five-month struggle to form a government comprising the PVV and three other parties. It’s still a baby step, perhaps, but it does strike a blow against that uniquely Western affliction, immigrationism.

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