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  • Minimal Thinking Kills: California’s Minimum Wage Continues to Destroy Restaurants

    E2971a86-835f-402e-90ba-e7de211ae7d6By Selwyn Duke

    Would you rather have some jobs available at $12 an hour or no jobs available at $20 an hour? The answer may vary depending on whether you’re a business owner or job seeker — or politician or bureaucrat.

    Regardless, the opening question, which is of the kind late economist Walter E. Williams often asked, should be pondered with news that California’s new $20 minimum wage is continually claiming victims. The latest is a San Francisco McDonald’s franchisee who’d been in business for 30 years.

    This pales in comparison, though, to one of the new minimum wage’s first victims: Rubio’s Coastal Grill. That chain is closing 48 Golden State locations — more than a third of its 134 remaining restaurants across California, Arizona, and Nevada.

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  • Nuclear War: Risk Has Perhaps NEVER Been Greater, Harvard Expert Says

    Nuclear BlastBy Selwyn Duke

    As a child of the ’70s and ’80s, I, along with my age mates, remember Cold War nuclear annihilation fears well. Oh, I was born after “duck and cover” days, but we did, for example, have the post-apocalyptic 1983 film The Day After, which portrayed a nuclear war’s consequences. Watched by 100 million-plus Americans — more than half our adult population at the time — it’s credited for creating impetus for policies that reduced the atomic threat. Even then-president Ronald Reagan was “greatly depressed” by the movie, as he wrote in his diary, and it stiffened his resolve to, as he put it, ensure “there is never a nuclear war.”

    That was then. Judging from people’s concerns today, you could think nuclear weapons had gone the way of the dodo. Americans are focused elsewhere, with young people worried about “climate change” and many doomsayers sounding an alarm over artificial intelligence (which may be problematic). But the atomic threat still very much looms. In fact, says a Harvard academic, nuclear war may be closer than ever.

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  • Microaggressions: Will Oregon Revoke Doctors’ Licenses for Telling Non-whites to Lose Weight?

    6a83530c-3321-441d-b490-ddd223ada91aBy Selwyn Duke

    “A person’s healthcare is not the government’s business!” we hear. “That’s between him and his doctor!” Funny thing, though:

    Unless the issue is abortion, this philosophy goes right out the medical office window.

    It’s not just the Covid shots, either. In fact, the latest example is that the Oregon Medical Board (OMB), reports hold, is poised to make physicians’ commission of “microaggressions” possible grounds for medical license revocation.

    What’s more, get a load of what’s reportedly an example of a such a career-ending trespass: telling a non-white patient he needs to shed pounds.

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  • Louisiana, Law, and Lies: Is Displaying the Ten Commandments in Classrooms Constitutional?

    728092a1-7d8b-4b44-9982-51e9553d7b2aBy Selwyn Duke

    “The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount,” said a famed American figure. “The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.”

    Which evangelist said the above? Billy Graham? Pat Robertson? Jerry Falwell?

    Actually, it was Democratic president Harry Truman.

    “Give ’Em Hell Harry” wasn’t alone. In 1935, fellow Democrat and New Deal author President Franklin Roosevelt said in a statement, “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a Nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.”

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  • Cultural Appropriation: Is THIS Why Some People Think Cleopatra Was Black?

    CleopatraBy Selwyn Duke

    It’s ironic that in this time of hand-wringing over “cultural appropriation,” where a white person may be criticized for wearing cornrow braids or portraying a non-white TV character, we hear indignant insistence that Egypt’s most famous Greek queen, Cleopatra, was black. Of course, given that there’s also a musical (Hamilton) portraying the Founding Fathers as non-white and claims that even some British kings were black, this fancy is not surprising.

    But how did the idea originate? Is it merely a function of some people’s misconception that the ancient Egyptians were black? Well, one writer theorizes that there could be another source for the idea: a late 19th-century erotic French novel.

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  • CNN: Calling U.S. a “Republic” Is “an Attack on Democracy”

    Back to School DuncecapBy Selwyn Duke

    “You’re entitled to your own opinions,” late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) once famously said — “but not your own facts.” This, apparently, would be news to the Cable News Network (CNN).

    That is, after interviewing Trump supporters on Sunday, a CNN reporter claimed their observation that the United States is a “republic” is “an attack on democracy.”

    This isn’t the first time CNN — an unreliable news source that had to pay a huge settlement some years back to a Catholic school student it defamed with false “racism” claims — has attacked our republican form of government. Last year, for example, the network ran a chyron stating, “SCHOLARS WARN OUTDATED CONSTITUTION HAS PUT DEMOCRACY AT RISK.”

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  • Poll: MOST Black Americans Believe in Anti-American Racial Conspiracy Theories

    Confusion-Traffic SignsBy Selwyn Duke

    What are the fruits of propaganda, of playing the woke racial-grievance card? Here’s one consequence:

    Most black Americans today, a new study has found, believe in racial conspiracy theories — i.e., that U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back.

    What’s more, the entity conducting the study, the normally sober Pew Research Center, descended into wokeness when reporting the results.

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  • Billionaire Finally Realizes 7-year-old Tale About Trump Is a Lie

    Donkey-ElephantBy Selwyn Duke

    Just as it’s “garbage in, garbage out” with a computer, feeding incorrect data (lies) to the population has serious consequences. After all, how can people make correct judgments about what politicians and policies to support — i.e., civilization-preserving decisions — if they’re being fed misinformation about those politicians and policies?

    And, boy, the lies do fly fast and furious, too. A good example is how a prominent billionaire, a Ph.D. physicist, and a Substack investment writer confess that they’ve just discovered the truth about the anti-President Trump “very fine people” hoax.

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  • Heard About the European “Far Right”? How About Unicorns?

    Shell GameBy Selwyn Duke

    The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So goes the theme of an old book I’ve often cited, The Tyranny of Words. Examples would be if the media routinely called pro-gun-control people “anti-freedom” or pro-abortion individuals “pro-death.”

    Mainstream journalists don’t do that, of course — but they do use corresponding language to describe conservatives. Just consider headlines about the recent European parliamentary elections:

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  • Seriously? L.A. Removes “Homophobic” “No U-turn” Signs

    Linked Male SymbolsBy Selwyn Duke

    First we had Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg talking about “racist roads.” Then we had the city of Oakland, California, remove traffic lights because public officials were unwilling to stop thieves from stealing copper from them. Now there’s yet another indication of what many consider our descent into idiocracy and social decay:

    Los Angeles has removed “homophobic” “no u-turn” signs.

    Well, it’s good to see elected representatives being about the people’s business.

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