Category: Politics

  • By Selwyn Duke “You’re entitled to your own opinions,” late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) once famously said — “but not your own facts.” This, apparently, would be news to the Cable News Network (CNN). That is, after interviewing Trump supporters on Sunday, a CNN reporter claimed their observation that the United States is a…

  • By Selwyn Duke What are the fruits of propaganda, of playing the woke racial-grievance card? Here’s one consequence: Most black Americans today, a new study has found, believe in racial conspiracy theories — i.e., that U.S. institutions were designed to hold them back. What’s more, the entity conducting the study, the normally sober Pew Research Center,…

  • By Selwyn Duke Just as it’s “garbage in, garbage out” with a computer, feeding incorrect data (lies) to the population has serious consequences. After all, how can people make correct judgments about what politicians and policies to support — i.e., civilization-preserving decisions — if they’re being fed misinformation about those politicians and policies? And, boy,…

  • By Selwyn Duke The side that defines the vocabulary of a debate, wins the debate. So goes the theme of an old book I’ve often cited, The Tyranny of Words. Examples would be if the media routinely called pro-gun-control people “anti-freedom” or pro-abortion individuals “pro-death.” Mainstream journalists don’t do that, of course — but they do use…

  • By Selwyn Duke First we had Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg talking about “racist roads.” Then we had the city of Oakland, California, remove traffic lights because public officials were unwilling to stop thieves from stealing copper from them. Now there’s yet another indication of what many consider our descent into idiocracy and social decay:…

  • By Selwyn Duke Caitlin Clark would assuredly just like to play basketball. Unfortunately for the WNBA standout, however, focus on the game has been subordinated to racial games in an America in which everything is now about identity politics. Because of this, some may say the WNBA is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.…

  • By Selwyn Duke Projection is a fascinating phenomenon. Certain people, ascribing to others the darkness pervading their own souls, are just certain that everyone is hiding skeletons and some secret life — it just has to be uncovered, is all. So perhaps the disappointment was profound when, after a hacker stole then-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s…

  • By Selwyn Duke Westerners used to believe they were heirs to the greatest civilization to ever grace God’s green Earth. They then descended into a culturally relativistic mentality stating, “Who’s to say one civilization is better than another?” The next transition was a cynical, “Meh, we’re not so hot.” Then there was the full-bore hatred…

  • By Selwyn Duke “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,” the old saying goes, “than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” People should perhaps be mindful of this before publicly defending the indefensible — such as New York’s kangaroo-court conviction of President Trump. One person who might’ve learned this…

  • By Selwyn Duke If “American exceptionalism” now means leading the world in providing comic relief, then we’ve just increased our lead. This is perhaps indisputable with news of a grossly obese Alabama pageant winner and a man — yes, a man — being crowned Miss Maryland.