By Selwyn Duke
Along with “Follow the science!” a common demand today is “Listen to the experts!” Of course, one doesn’t actually follow “science” but scientists, who ostensibly are experts to whom one should listen.
In reality, though, the above demands are only issued when the “science” and “experts” happen to agree with the powers-that-be. Yet, for the last few years especially, many “experts” haven’t displayed much expertise.
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By Selwyn Duke
My appearance begins at 52:20.
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By Selwyn Duke
It could be said that if you don’t let God make your agenda, you just may make your agenda God. And it has been said that everyone has a religion, even if it’s just an ideology deified by zealots. There’s a good recent example of this phenomenon, too: a Democrat Oklahoma state representative who literally referred to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as “God.”
What’s more, said Representative Regina Goodwin at a March 2 meeting, those opposing DEI should be silenced.
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By Selwyn Duke
My appearance begins at 5:56. We solved all the problems of the Universe.
Well, not exactly. But it was a good discussion.
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By Selwyn Duke
My appearance begins at 23:34. We discussed my royal-friend status and much, much more.
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By Selwyn Duke
As in the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in which a con man poses as a fake prince hailing from a presumably fake country, it’s the stuff of movies:
City officials in Newark, New Jersey, got scammed into signing a sister-city agreement with a country that doesn’t exist by a self-proclaimed “god-man” who’s on the run from the law.
The fellow who oversaw this stroke of genius is Newark mayor Ras Baraka, the “son of the infamous anti-Semitic playwright and poet Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones),” informs American Thinker’s Thomas Lifson. He also has…ahem…a Master of Arts degree in “Education Supervision.”
But Baraka didn’t demonstrate much education or proper supervision in the embarrassing incident in question.
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By Selwyn Duke
Imagine you invite a couple of people to stay at your home, which has been in your family for generations. Now imagine that because they find pictures of great-grandpa and some other ancestors adorning your walls offensive, a few of your family members consider destroying the works.
How would you describe those family members’ mentality? Self-image problem? Lack of self-respect? A desire for approval overwhelming enough to make one prostrate himself before others?
Whatever you call it, this is precisely what’s happening in the Welsh national family. In fact, states a new government guidance in Wales, statues of “‘old white men’ such as the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Lord Nelson could be hidden or destroyed to create the ‘right historical narrative,’” related The Telegraph Saturday.
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By Selwyn Duke
Sports network ESPN is notorious for its steroids-level wokeness. That’s why something occurring on its airwaves last week was so shocking:
A white sports analyst criticized a black colleague for racism — and didn’t back down.
Is this, perhaps, another indicator of a budding rebellion against political correctness?
Whatever the case, the focus on “racism” ensured there would be the usual casualty: Truth.
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By Selwyn Duke
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By Selwyn Duke
“Libertarians and conservatives talk a lot about freedom,” writes Jacobin magazine, “but the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination — and if you take that seriously, you should oppose capitalism.” This article, running Friday and titled “Socialism Is All About Expanding Freedom,” might hardly warrant mention, except that MSN.com saw fit to publicize it on its homepage.
The “freedom” bit is all about a rebranding. One might think that 200 years of abject failure, punctuated with 100 million dead bodies in socialism’s wake, would be enough to bury the misbegotten ideology. Not at all. In fact, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is helping lead its latest reincarnation, with a new book titled It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.
According to historian and sociologist Rainer Zitelmann, Sanders’ new effort reads like Marx and Engels, except that they actually had some positive words about “capitalism” — the senator has not a one.
Sanders “calls for a political revolution in which working people come together,” which, of course, is just a rephrasing of Marx’s “Workers of the world, unite!” He also, Zitelmann informs, demonizes the rich, stoking envy by infusing his book with numerous tales of the wealthy’s opulent lifestyles. Yet he doesn’t mention that they generally made their money by, as late economist Dr. Walter Williams would put it, “serving their fellow man” through the market system.
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