By Selwyn Duke
Can we say that Stormy lied and justice died? This question is especially relevant now that video has emerged, courtesy of comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher, showing that porn actress and ex-stripper Stormy Daniels’ testimony in President Donald Trump’s trial is completely contradicted by earlier statements she has made.
By Selwyn Duke
We discussed the upcoming election and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s impact on it. To fast-forward to my segment, right click on the player below, choose "Open link in new tab" on the drop-down menu, and then forward to 23:30.
By Selwyn Duke
Commentator Tucker Carlson took a lot of heat when, during a February trip to Russia, he said that Moscow’s Kievskaya Metro station was “perfectly clean and orderly” and “nicer than anything in our country.” Yet it turns out that Carlson has some company in his sentiments — American expats who claim they’ve found greener pastures in Putin’s realm.
One, 49-year-old ex-Floridian Joseph Rose, stated when asked about life in Russia, “I often say it feels like our positive vision of 1950s America.”
By Selwyn Duke
A long way from Braveheart days, Scotland now is a leader in secularism, replacing cries for freedom with enactment of “hate-speech” laws. So perhaps it’s not surprising that one of its famous sons, film star Brian Cox, has thrown serious shade on religion and has labeled people of faith “stupid.”
What’s more, Cox said on a recent episode of The Starting Line podcast, religion has led man into “all kinds of horror,” faith “is a conceit,” and the Bible is “one of the worst books ever.”
Whether he was told to stop mincing words and tell us how he really feels was not reported.
By Selwyn Duke
Oklahoma has, some sources say, the dubious distinction of having the greatest number of strong tornadoes per unit area in the U.S. One tornado that won’t hit the state, however, is a storm of satanic “ministers” in government schools, says Oklahoma’s top education official. The satanists are, though, announced Superintendent Ryan Walters, “welcome to go to Hell.”
Walters comments came after Satanic Temple representatives said they were prepared to put their ministers in public educational institutions if a proposed school-chaplain bill becomes law.
By Selwyn Duke
The USSR sent 200,000 troops into Hungary in 1956, and the same number into Czechoslovakia in 1968, to crush freedom-oriented movements. In neither case did we consider, even for a moment, dispatching NATO forces to those beleaguered nations to directly confront the Soviets.
Likewise, President Ronald Reagan was a staunch Cold Warrior, had famously dubbed the USSR the “evil empire,” and did covertly arm Afghanistan’s Mujahideen after the 1979 Soviet invasion of their land. Nonetheless, the prospect of having Western troops directly fight the USSR’s forces was inconceivable with the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over everyone’s head. It was a line you just didn’t cross.
Until now.
By Selwyn Duke
When the film The Passion of the Christ hit theaters in 2004, critics began wringing their hands (and the Truth) and claimed the work would stoke anti-semitism. In reality, an analysis found that viewers emerged from the movie not more, but less, anti-semitic (and one man was inspired to repent and confess to murder). This really isn’t surprising, either, as it reflects related research: A study of 45,000 youths in Germany, released in 2010, found that increasing religiosity made Christian youths less violent.
Note: This means less violent than today’s secular norm.
Then there’s the secular extreme. This brings us to the recently intensifying left-wing, college-campus hatred of (and violence against) Jews, which, being overt and odious, has shocked and befuddled many. What explains this phenomenon?
By Selwyn Duke
Perhaps it’s not surprising in an age where people and governments sue gun manufacturers because criminals misuse their well-designed products. But now there’s another example of selective targeting of a lawful industry based on political imperatives:
The Washington Post (WaPo), which has a history of peddling fake news and even had to pay a defamation settlement, is now calling companies that package their products in plastic “polluters.”
This is despite the fact that it is not the companies that sometimes incorrectly dispose of plastic containers, but end users, governments, and other entities.
By Selwyn Duke
Get woke, become a joke?
That ex-Harvard President Claudine Gay and four other Harvard figures have recently been charged with plagiarism, and that a “dishonesty researcher” at the school has been accused of dishonesty, probably doesn’t surprise Mike Rowe. After all, the award-winning host of shows such as Dirty Jobs and Somebody’s Gotta Do It has witnessed the recent goings-on at American college campuses — and he’s aghast.
By Selwyn Duke
When Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she couldn’t define “woman” during her confirmation hearings in 2022, it created quite a stir. The story only would’ve been better if Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who’d asked the then-judicial nominee to define the term, had followed up with, “Are you a woman, Judge Jackson?” The follow-up to that then should’ve been:
“How do you know?”
As Mark Twain noted, however, “A good answer is the one you think of later.” This is also true of good questions.
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