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The Northeast Nanny-staters Who are and the Blizzard that Never Was

By Selwyn Duke

Call it the Blizzard of Oz. The “Snowstorm of the Century” Monday was supposed to be historic.

All we got was histrionics.

It turned out that the real blustery wind was hot air — and the worst accumulation was the knee-deep nanny-state politicians who think some snow warrants a travel ban.

In New York, the little man behind the curtain was Governor Andrew Cuomo, who, as usual, provided more bluster than any storm ever could.

I knew the blizzard would be a relative bust. How? Because they often are. Everything is over-hyped today, from the weather to entertainment to sports to hopey-changey politicians.

Crazy on Campus: U.S. Colleges — Where Truth Is Always Stranger Than Fiction

By Selwyn Duke

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” noted 1984 author George Orwell. Yet even he might be surprised at what passes for scholarship at today’s American colleges. And many parents certainly would be shocked to learn what their $35,000 to $120,000 — the current average public/private cost of four-years’ college tuition and fees — is buying.

A good example is a new course offering at Arizona State University concerning the “Problem of Whiteness.” While the class syllabus isn’t available online, Campus Reform’s Lauren Clark tells us, “According to the class description on ASU’s website, students will be reading The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, Critical Race Theory, Everyday Language of White Racism, Playing in the Dark, and The Alchemy of Race and Rights.”

Clark also appeared in a Friday segment of Fox and Friends, where she spoke to co-host Elizabeth Hasselback. As TalkingPointsMemo.com wrote of the exchange:

“All of these books have a disturbing trend and that's pointing to all white people as the root cause of social injustices for this country,” Clark said.

Hasselback then asked Clark whether ASU would dare offer a course called “The Problem With Blackness” or “The Problem With Being Female.”

“I don't think that would fly at the university,” Clark responded.… “Having a class that suggests an entire race is the problem is inappropriate, wrong, and quite frankly, counter productive.”

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Charge: Police “Steal” $100,000-worth of Legal Guns and Ammo From Citizen

By Selwyn Duke

Imagine you get into a loud argument in your home with an adult son. Though it’s resolved peacefully, the police had been called.

They then confiscate your legal firearms and ammunition — valued at $100,000.

Even though you’ve been convicted of nothing.

Even though you weren’t even charged.

And here’s the kicker: The police say they’re going to keep your property.

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N.Y. Times Practically Invented No-go-zone Story, but Fox Is Threatened With Suit

By Selwyn Duke

“Je ne suis pas Fox News!” seems to be the attitude of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. She threatened to sue the station last week over its reporting on her city’s “no-go zones,” areas where non-Muslims are wary to tread but that Hidalgo claims don’t exist. Said she, “When we're insulted, then I think we'll have to sue; I think we'll have to go to court in order to have these words removed.” But if this is going to be her course, a lot of litigation lies before her. And first on her list could be the periodical that, we’re told, practically started the no-go-zone story: the ultra-liberal “newspaper of record,” the New York Times.

Critics may wryly note that, unlike the two Muslim terrorists committing the Jan. 7 massacre at her city’s Charlie Hebdo offices, Hidalgo’s remedy for speech she dislikes would be, at least, a purely legal attack. But unlike the assault on Charlie — a magazine that disgorges truly vile material — the mayor’s efforts amount to an attack on truth.

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U.K. Christian School to be Shut Down After Gov't Brands Students “Bigots”

By Selwyn Duke

The government officials allegedly asked 10-year-old students what lesbians “did.”

Another bureaucrat queried a young boy on what a Muslim was.

And, apparently, they didn’t get the answers they wanted.

Because one Christian school is now being actively monitored by the state — and another is going to be shut down.

The latter is the Durham Free School in Gilesgate, County Durham, United Kingdom, where government inspectors labeled the pupils “bigots,” branded the institution “an educational failure, and said some children displayed ‘discriminatory views’ toward people of other faiths,” reports the Daily Mail. The school’s known “trespass”?

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State Persecuting 88-year-old Doctor Who Treats Poor From His Car

By Selwyn Duke

Doctors’ house calls are considered a thing of the past, but not in the appointment book of Dr. Carrol Frazier Landrum, an 88-year-old physician from Edwards, Mississippi. The good doctor will see you no matter who you are, where you are, or how much money you have — as long his 2007 Toyota Camry can deliver him to your location. But now his state’s medical board wants to see him gone.

Dr. Landrum, a WWII veteran, was forced to make a change after crime drove him from his Edwards, Mississippi, office two years ago, and he couldn’t find another space suited to his practice. "I had my car, and I realized I could do most everything out of it that I needed to be doing," said Landrum, according to the Clarion-Ledger. The paper continued, and “for many in [sic] the town of Edwards' 1,034 residents and others in the metro area, that car has become a lifeline — it's the makeshift office of the 88-year-old Dr. Landrum, who is the only practicing physician in the town.”

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Shut-up, White Boy! Professors: White Men Should Speak Last

By Selwyn Duke

We look to a day when people will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.

And the configuration of their chromosomes.

This seems the hope of a panel of professors and activists at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, assembled to improve campus race relations and tackle matriculator misogyny. And relating to this they put forth an idea:

Women and blacks should be called on first in classroom discussions.

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Punishing Success: Basketball Coach Suspended for Beating Opponents Too Badly

By Selwyn Duke

Athletic coaches have sometimes been fired for failing to forge winning teams. But now we hear about a high-school girls’ basketball coach who has been suspended for being victorious.

The victim of his own success is California resident Michael Anderson, now serving a two-game suspension because his team was too good. As CBS Los Angeles tells us:

Coach Michael Anderson, who coaches both the junior varsity and varsity squads of Arroyo Valley High School’s girls [sic] basketball, was handed the suspension after defeating Bloomington High School 161-2.

Anderson faced criticism over his decision not to take out his starters until the third quarter, and he was accused of running up the score.

This action is an outgrowth of the “self-esteem” movement, the idea that a thorough shellacking could bruise feelings and egos. And forget about frowning on scoring highly; there’s a growing trend today in children’s sports to not keep score at all lest some little snowflakes’ psyches should melt.

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State Seizes Seven Children — Because Parents Had Legal Mineral Supplement

By Selwyn Duke

The treatment is called Miracle Mineral Solution, and one couple that bought it learned that a miracle is necessary today — to keep the government out of your life. Because that couple, Hal and Michelle Stanley, have just had their children seized for owning that product, even though it is reported to be a legal mineral supplement. Natural News has the story:

Yesterday, government thugs in Hot Springs, Arkansas raided and searched the home of a couple who were in possession of a simple mineral supplement called Miracle Mineral Solution.

Law enforcement officers of Garland County, Arkansas served a search warrant on the Stanley home — yes, possession of a legal, medicinal mineral supplement is now grounds for being searched by the government — where they took the family's seven children by force.

The scene that Monday, January 12, was a frightening one.

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Duck and No Cover: Brit Media Scared to Show Charlie Hebdo Cover

By Selwyn Duke

Never in the field of human conflict have so many cowered so much before so few. That’s just what Winston Churchill might say were he around today observing the political correctness that reigns in his and other Western nations’ media. And a prime example occurred this past Wednesday when a British news outlet suddenly and, some would say, comically cut the video feed (shown below) of a journalist complaining about the media’s refusal to show the recent Charlie Hebdo cover. And why?

Because the journalist showed the Charlie Hebdo cover.

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