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Is Secession Fanciful? It’s Already Underway, Says Professor

By Selwyn Duke

Secession goes periodically in and out of pseudo-elite fashion. When a Republican is elected president, as in 2016 with Donald Trump, liberals in blue (mood) areas sometimes talk about leaving the Union to form their own republics. The media may call this understandable frustration. When leftists control the executive branch and start trampling the Constitution, as in now with the Biden administration, conservatives opine likewise. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has done this, warning that civil war is inevitable unless there’s a national divorce. Of course, when rightists do it, the media may call secession appeals “dangerous radicalism.”

But there’s another way we can label secession: as something already happening.

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Ben Stein is Right (Sort of): Black Americans Have “Never Had it So Good”

By Selwyn Duke

Recently, actor-cum-commentator Ben Stein was condemned in media for touting the “progress” the U.S. has made and saying that black Americans “never had it so good.” One website called his remarks a “racist rant” even though he was, in keeping with his personality, just calmly expressing his opinion. The worst thing about this story, though, isn’t that Stein may become a cancel-culture casualty.

In fact, the matter reminds me of philosopher G.K. Chesterton’s observation that the worst aspect of duels wasn’t that someone might die, but that they settled nothing about who was right or wrong. For as is always the case with these matters, Stein is criticized only for making a politically incorrect assertion involving race — and could suffer reputational and career death because of it — when the real issue is this:

Was he correct or not?

China’s Thought Police in America? It May Already Be a Reality

By Selwyn Duke

Making totalitarianism truly total, China’s government is becoming the world’s first all-seeing state. But at issue aren’t just Beijing’s 200 million surveillance cameras — one for every seven citizens — which it uses to watch its people. Now the Chinese autocrats want to monitor another realm, one we’d always considered safe from intrusion: your mind.

What’s more, with so-called “brain wearables” currently being sold in our nation, China’s thought police may already be at work in the U.S.

Beijing has long been trying to control Americans’ thinking through what it calls the projection of “soft power.” It has bribed our schools and colleges into accepting its “Confucius Institutes,” which pump Chinese propaganda into young American minds. It has succeeded in censoring our movies — to ensure China is portrayed as its autocrats would prefer — by threatening to deny noncompliant filmmakers access to its huge market. Beijing has also bullied our businesses into doing its bidding (for example, into not portraying Taiwan as a country).

Furthermore, China has been improving its abilities to engage in cyberspying without detection

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The “Experts” Have Been Killing Us — and Their Reputations

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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My Latest Appearance on Talkback with Chuck Wilder — 3/17/2023

By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 52:20. 

Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

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Dem Politician Says DEI Is “God.” So Who Is Satan?

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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My Appearance on The Bill Martinez Show — 3/16/2023

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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My Appearance on The Andrea Kaye Show — 3/15/2023

By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 23:34. We discussed my royal-friend status and much, much more. 

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Einstein They’re Not: City’s Officials Conned Into Signing Agreement With Fake Country

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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A Western Gov Now Says That Statues of “Old White Men” May Need to be Destroyed

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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