By Selwyn Duke
“I think there is a lot of voter fraud,” said one Alan Schulkin, caught on hidden video in 2016. Schulkin should know, too: A Democrat, he was at the time New York City’s commissioner of the Board of Elections.
Unfortunately, little has changed for the better since 2016. A case in point is a recent investigation by two experts that has found massive voter-database irregularities in another Democrat-run state: Illinois.
By Selwyn Duke
What has so often struck me, and irked me, about the embrace of “diversity” dogma is how profoundly unintellectual it is. A wiseguy might say it’s really a simple IQ test, though a wise guy understands it’s a soul and sagacity test. To wit:
To the extent that a person accepts as imperative diversity, DEI, CRT, wokeness in general — or whatever the latest shiny anti-Truth thing is — he is a vacuous know-nothing, not just unqualified, but dangerously ignorant.
By Selwyn Duke
Another week, another case of a woke figure imposing PC lunacy, another rage storm.
Another fizzle, another memory-holing of the story — and another absence of consequences.
And the woke monster lives to fight another day.
This time the issue is a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) “hit list” circulated at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHM) in Baltimore. As GB News wrote on the story late last week:
By Selwyn Duke
Maybe you’ll be able to call the physician who treats you in the future the DoubleplusGood Doctor. Oh, he perhaps won’t know much about human anatomical structure, but everything about structural racism. And if you’re sick and he renders the diagnosis “white and privileged,” you just may be able to know he’s a graduate of UCLA med school.
By Selwyn Duke
The history of presidential campaigns is replete with dirty tricks, from 1856 claims that James Buchanan’s palsy-induced head tilt was the result of his trying to hang himself to the 2004 Killian documents fraud and beyond. But the advent of artificial intelligence and “deepfake” video and audio can take dirty tricks to a whole new level — and even, perhaps, sway an election.
By Selwyn Duke
“It’s more complicated when it’s about your own children,” said a NYC liberal in 2015 about a diversity plan affecting his kids’ school. Now a Democratic legislator in the Big Apple perhaps could echo that sentiment after her daughter was kicked out of school — to make room for Joe Biden’s migrants.
In fact, states Assemblywoman Jaime Williams, who has complained that the migrant maneuver is “not fair to us,” she wants Biden to close the border.
(Now, there’s a novel idea. Anyone ever thought of that before?)
By Selwyn Duke
One reason the USSR had so much trouble subduing tiny Finland during the Winter War (1939-’40), and took staggering casualties, was that the Soviets had elevated officers based not on ability but on ideological priorities. The lesson is that anytime merit is subordinated to anything, the casualties are quality and competence.
Fast-forward 84 years and we still haven’t learned this lesson. An affirmative-action mentality reigns today, with its latest and most aggressive incarnation being “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI). And, warns billionaire industrialist and visionary Elon Musk, “People will die due to DEI.”
While DEI infects most everything, Musk was addressing air travel in particular. The issue currently? It’s not the dumbing down of the air-traffic-controller corps; that already happened under the Obama administration. Nor is it United Airlines’ plan to ensure that 50 percent of the 5,000 pilots they train in the next decade will be women or people of color (I guess those people of no color can’t be seen in the cockpit); that was announced already in 2021.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s now well known that disgraced ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay scammed her way into higher education’s upper echelons, engaging in plagiarism and benefiting from prejudice. But far from an anomaly, says one observer, Gay merely reflects an academia so morally and intellectually bankrupt that it is itself a scam.
Making his case today at American Thinker, commentator Mike McDaniel takes us on a trip back in time, starting with something called “the Sokal Hoax.”
By Selwyn Duke
More shocking than what makes news, sometimes, is what doesn’t make news. So it is with the striking admission from Hungary’s president, made during a New Year’s address, that in “many families, there is almost constant sickness, as if our immune systems have been weakened.”
When hearing such an eye-popping claim from only one non-mainstream English outlet — in this case, website Gates of Vienna (GoV) — one of course wonders, “Is this legit?” But it absolutely appears to be, which means that an equally big story is how it’s being ignored.
By Selwyn Duke
Soviet-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff used to tell a joke about choice in the USSR. “In Soviet Union, there are two television stations,” he said (I’m paraphrasing). “Channel One is government propaganda.”
Channel Two is a man wagging his finger and sternly saying, “Turn back to Channel One!”
With respect to elections, Western pseudo-elites today do aim to offer more choice: numerous “Channel Ones” — that is, any establishment candidate your heart desires.
Here in the United States, for example, there’s the effort to ban President Trump from the ballot. And in Germany, the establishment is thinking really big: They want to ban a whole party — the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany).
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