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  • Can We MAGA Unless We MAMA — Make America Moral Again?

    By Selwyn Duke “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” So said George Washington during his Farewell Address on September 17, 1796. They’re powerful parting words, but also, today, controversial ones. They’re met now with protestations such as “Whose God?!” and “You can be moral without God!” Well,…

  • Divided America: Leftists are Dumping MAGA Family Members — for Good

    By Selwyn Duke It seems as if July 4, Thanksgiving, and Christmas celebrations are poised to become far more peaceful. The issue? In another example of America’s intensifying bifurcation, there are yet more stories of leftists cutting ties with MAGA relatives.

  • Charles Murray’s Budding Faith: Is Science Finally Finding God?

    By Selwyn Duke “Sometimes smart people have a hard time believing stuff that everybody else knows.” So said the condemned (and possessed) convict in the “religious” film Nefarious (2023) to his self-assured atheist psychiatrist. Charles Murray, the famed political scientist and successful author, can certainly relate to this. Quoting his wife on religion, he stated…

  • Digital Stepford Wives? Men Are Falling in Love With AI-generated Female Influencers

    By Selwyn Duke In the “old” days of the internet, you perhaps had to be wary of some creep in a chat masquerading as an appealing romantic interest. But that was small ball. Today some men are falling for gorgeous female “influencers” — who happen to be generated via artificial intelligence (AI). The kicker: Some…

  • Most “Mentally Ill” People Are Leftists, Says Writer; “Transgenderism” Is One Example

    By Selwyn Duke Most “mentally ill” people are on the political left, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks explained last year. In 2016, the American Journal of Political Science reported that liberal political beliefs are linked to psychoticism. A decade earlier, radio legend Dr. Michael Savage released his eyebrow-raising book Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder. But could it really be that there’s an association between…

  • Population Collapse: Is (Western) Human Extinction Near?

    By Selwyn Duke Dating back to the Middle Ages, the town of Semestene in Sardinia, Italy, has quite a history — one that could come to an end within a decade. With a population that has dwindled rapidly in recent years, 54 of its 126 residents are aged 65 or over. The town has just four children under…

  • Long Live Tradition — The Democracy of the Dead

    By Selwyn Duke We hear much talk today about an “attack on democracy,” and, actually, there has long been one. That is, an attack on that “democracy extended through time,” that “democracy of the dead,” to quote G.K. Chesterton, that we call tradition. Tradition, it could be said, is the glue that binds society together.…

  • Anti-Christianity? “Black” Church Attendance Actually INCREASES Support for Kamala

    By Selwyn Duke Church-attendance habits have long been one of the best predictors of voting patterns. That is, regular attendees support Republicans by a significant margin, while those never or seldom attending break solidly Democrat. But a new study has revealed a striking exception to this rule: black American churchgoers. In fact, just the opposite as…

  • Charity Disparity: The Virtue That Can Only Be Practiced Privately

    By Selwyn Duke “We make a living by what we get,” said Winston Churchill, “but we make a life by what we give.” Well more than 2,000 years before, ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu also sang charity’s praises. “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures,” he averred. “The more he gives to…

  • The Necessity of Intolerance

    By Selwyn Duke If “tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions,” as G.K. Chesterton put it, a question suggests itself: Is intolerance the virtue of the principled man? Literally speaking, neither tolerance nor intolerance is a “virtue”; that is, one of those defined “objectively good moral habits.” Exhibiting each, however, in its proper…