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Equality, That Bold Lie? Or Inequality, That Beautiful Default?

November 8, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “Equality is unfair!” proclaimed TV curmudgeon Archie Bunker in a 1974 All in the Family episode. “What’s the point of a man working hard all of his life trying to get someplace,” he bellowed, gesticulating wildly, “if all he’s going to do is wind up equal?!” It was a hilarious scene and line and,…
In Power, Will Mamdani Be Socialist — or Sly?

November 7, 2025

By Selwyn Duke Escape from New York is the name of a 1981 film. Now it’s also, many fear, going to be a reality with Mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s impending socialist makeover of NYC. Why, commentator Bill O’Reilly has predicted that his ascendancy will spark an exodus of 765,000-one million Big Apple residents. This, of course,…
Stopping the Bleeding: Time for a Moratorium on Immigration?

November 6, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “The definition of insanity,” the apocryphal saying goes, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Is there an exception to this rule? Or does it apply to everything, including immigration? Writing at Fox News, Nate Morris has his answer: There must be a moratorium on…
Migrant-Youth Crime Exploding in Various European Countries (Yet Some Won’t Prosecute Under-15s)

November 5, 2025

By Selwyn Duke After evaluating 45,000 youths, an interesting study out of Germany found that with increasing religiosity, Christian teens became less violent. The research also found, however, that with increasing religiosity, Muslim teens became more violent. That was back in 2010. Now, 15 years later, another study in Germany finds that violence among migrant children is exploding.…
Almost a Republican Sweep Last Night—if Only Men Voted

November 5, 2025

By Selwyn Duke It’s called the “gender gap” (should be “sex gap,” really) in voting, and, boy, did it ever manifest itself last night. In fact, Tuesday, November 4 was a great day for the GOP. That is, in an alternate universe in which only men vote. Let’s go down the list. In Virginia there…
Beyond the Cotton Field: How “Racist” Was Pre-Civil-Rights-Era America, Really?

November 4, 2025

By Selwyn Duke The story of George Franklin Grant, a dentist, academic and recreational golfer, is interesting. This isn’t just because he, a Harvard professor, invented a wood-composite golf tee in 1899. It’s that under many Americans’ conception of history, he shouldn’t even have existed. You see, Grant was a successful black man in the…
That Delicate Thing, the Rule of Law, Is Dying. Who Is Killing It?

November 2, 2025

By Selwyn Duke As with representative government, the “rule of law” has been an anomaly on the world scene, historically speaking. The Romans had it; in fact, they essentially gave us the concept of the rule of law. It is the norm today, too, in the lands they most influenced, those of the modern West.…
Etiology of an Ideology: An Examination of Trump Hatred

November 1, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” This paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton could come to mind when pondering now notorious TDS — Trump Derangement Syndrome. A bizarre phenomenon affecting millions, it yields an irrational hatred for the…
Radical Atheists (and Others) Sue Over Religious Statues — in State Founded by Puritans

October 31, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion,” observed G.K. Chesterton in 1935. “In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.” This could come to mind hearing about yet another “separation of church and state” lawsuit. This time the issue involves Catholic…
Professor: SCOTUS Saying “Bye-bye, Living Constitution; Hello, Originalism”

October 30, 2025

By Selwyn Duke It has essentially been said that you can have a living Constitution or a surviving Republic. But you can’t have both. And, a University of Tennessee civics expert states in so many words, today’s Supreme Court will increasingly choose civilizational survival. This means that a majority of the Court rejects the “living…

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