Category: Politics
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By Selwyn Duke Vaccinated people “do not carry the virus, [and] don’t get sick” said then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in 2021. She also implied that they couldn’t transmit Covid. The CDC had to walk her “expert” claims back mere days later. As we now know, “vaccinated” people could contract and spread the virus. Of course, you could…
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By Selwyn Duke For years we’ve heard from a certain population segment and ideological set that we should, essentially, be “more like Europe.” We should have Europe’s nationalized healthcare. We should have Europe’s gun-control laws. We should have Europe’s taxation. We should have Europe’s environmental regulations. But the one way in which we could be…
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By Selwyn Duke A huge study out of Germany, released in 2010 but now mostly forgotten, provided a serious point to ponder. After researching 45,000 youths, it found that with increasing religiosity Christian young people became less violent. But Muslim youths became, with increasing religiosity, more violent. My, even a relativist could get the nagging and nauseating…
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By Selwyn Duke Tradition is, noted philosopher G.K. Chesterton, “democracy extended through time.” It also is something else: under assault in the West. And Britain, in particular, is going nuclear on its time-honored and -dictated traditions. In fact, it seems every week there’s another story about how the U.K. is trashing its culture. This is,…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s unbelievable though apparently true (I quadruple-checked it) that the United States’ murder rate for 2025 may be the lowest it has been since perhaps 1900. Given this, even those fancying gun control a remedy may think more firearms restrictions would currently be a solution in search of a problem. Not today’s Democratic…
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By Selwyn Duke The first man who staked out a piece of ground and said “This is mine” was a liar, goes a paraphrase of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Yet that man also, the philosopher stated, “was the real founder of civil society.” Rousseau was no fan of our Western civil society, but perhaps that makes his statement even…
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By Selwyn Duke See if you can finish this thought: If tea drinkers are more likely to vote for a given political party, that party will encourage tea drinking. If bicycle riders are more likely to vote for a given party, that party will encourage bicycle riding. If newly naturalized immigrants are more likely to…
