By Selwyn Duke

It’s a seductive appeal: “Soak the rich!”

“Make them pay their fair share!”

“Get your piece of the pie!”

As Norway is proving with its “wealth tax,” however, there’s a simple reason why this doesn’t work:

The rich will simply take their pie to greener (and less meaner) pastures.

In fact, ever since Norway’s Labor Party won power in 2021 and kept its promise to increase the nation’s wealth tax, the Scandinavian country’s rich have been leaving — taking tens of billions of dollars with them. The result?

While the raised wealth tax was projected to increase revenue steeply, it’s now on track to generate 40 percent less revenue than it has in recent years.

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By Selwyn Duke

All other things being equal, should black Americans be given more Social Security (SS) benefits? A college dean may think so, claiming that the program’s “structural inequities” shortchange blacks. And what is the problem, according to Thomas LaVeist, the dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine?

White people live longer, which allows them to collect benefits for a greater period of time.

LaVeist concluded that we have to “intervene” in how the “system operates” as a remedy but provided no specificity, such as whether we should strive to lengthen blacks’ lifespans, shorten whites’, or calculate SS benefits based on quota.

Oddly, the dean also neglected to mention if any possible remedy would address the phenomena whereby women, Asian-descent Americans, and Latinos live longer than, respectively, men and whites.

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By Selwyn Duke

About two decades ago, ex-Vice President Al Gore famously proclaimed that on climate change, the “debate is over” (“in the scientific community,” he added). It wasn’t that many years later that former head of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit Phil Jones confessed, in the Climategate scandal’s wake, that the debate among scientists is not over. But something else isn’t only not over, but is now all over the place: a Gore-esque, pseudo-elite tendency to claim an issue is beyond debate — and then take your ball and, well, flee to MSNBC.

This is witnessed perhaps most prominently with the dispute over Covid “vaccines.” On Sunday, for example, Stanford University School of Medicine Professor Dr. Thomas Lew stated in a USA Today headline, “Joe Rogan, RFK Jr. don’t get it: Vaccine science isn’t up for debate.” Lew was responding to an offer Rogan, the famous podcaster, made in which he offered to donate $100,000 to vaccine proponent Dr. Peter Hotez’ favorite charity if the virologist would debate vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on his show.

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By Selwyn Duke

Many American statists have long desired European-like “hate speech” law, which can be used to stifle anti-establishment dissent. A bill that recently passed the Michigan House of Representatives could deliver just that, too, as it would punish threatening actions — and determine what’s “threatening” based on the “victim’s” feelings, according to The Epoch Times. In an age in which are heard complaints about “microaggressions” and that even “silence is violence,” you can only imagine how such a law could be (ab)used.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

You might think it would be a major story when six men, some in drag, are busted having a “party” in which are found drugs, sex toys, and a dead body — and four children being hidden in a back room. But it’s much as with the 1999 murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising by two homosexuals “who confessed to using the boy as a sex toy while torturing him to death,” as WND put it, a crime occurring just a year after the “high profile” killing of homosexual Matthew Shepard. While Shepard got a federal “hate crime” act named after him, the Dirkhising story got buried even before the poor lad was. The reason for the double standard is simple, too:

Give these incidents enough press and people just might, for example, get the crazy idea that mentally disturbed people (e.g., men insisting they’re women) shouldn’t have custody of children.

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By Selwyn Duke

Cancel cultists have made many inane name-change and language-innovation demands in pursuit of an agenda appearing to be a hybrid between the Khmer Rouge’s “Year Zero” and a Saturday Night Live skit. The Redskins and Indians football team names, Aunt Jemima, and Uncle Ben have been sent to the cornfield, as have Cream of Wheat’s black chef and Land O’Lakes’ Indian woman. We’ve also been told that “black hole,” “angel food cake,” “master bedroom,” and “picnic” are offensive terms and that a woman — excuse me, it’s “womxn” now — is actually a “birthing person.” Now the word police are at it again, this time with a complaint that really takes the angel food cake, at least as far as gripes about sports team names go. To wit:

An activist group has kvetched about a baseball team called the Macon Bacon.

I had to double-check this story to ensure it wasn’t satire, and, sure enough, it’s another product of our truth-is-stranger-than-fiction time. But there’s good news, too….

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By Selwyn Duke

Anti-white value-signaling can be expensive. Starbucks, famous for overpriced coffee and overwrought woke attitudes, just discovered this after the company was ordered to pay $25.6 million in damages to a white employee it fired because of her race.

The woman, ex-regional manager Shannon Phillips, was scapegoated after a high-profile 2018 incident in which two black men were arrested for loitering at a Philadelphia Starbucks and refusing to leave when asked. But while commentator Christopher Tremoglie writes that the company now “learns that anti-white discrimination doesn’t pay,” will Starbucks really change its ways? Will corporate America in general?

Recent history is not encouraging. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Increasing worldwide sports competition over the last 60 years has made it harder for Westerners to dominate the rankings in athletics. Likewise, points out a former World Bank research economist, increased competition in wealth creation — which he frames as diminishing inequality — means it will become harder for Westerners to dominate the wealth rankings as their relative purchasing power decreases.

Moreover, says City University of New York professor Branko Milanović, he sees this as “a rather good outcome.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Infamous sexual deviate the Marquis de Sade, from whose name we get “sadism,” was imprisoned 250 years ago for carnal debauchery. Today he just might be formulating educational curricula. Some could draw this conclusion with news that schools across Britain have been imposing on students sex (mis)education that would absolutely make de Sade jump for joy.

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