Category: The Enemy Within

  • By Selwyn Duke If your three children all got sick the day after a new kid came over to play, you’d have a decent clue about who the vector of disease was. This comes to mind with the reintroduction in California of an ancient killer: tuberculosis (TB). The world’s deadliest infectious disease, TB caused an…

  • By Selwyn Duke It raised eyebrows when Michelle Obama said at a 2008 campaign rally, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” (And all it took was her husband becoming a probable presidential nominee.) But she’s not alone in lacking pride. In fact, a 2025 Gallup poll found that…

  • Image created with Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke In 2018-2019, Democrats lifted a ban on head coverings in the House so that newly-sworn-in Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could wear her hijab. Democrats have also generally defended the “right” to sport Muslim headwear in schools, workplaces, and in interactions with government. But Democrats in former President…

  • By Selwyn Duke There’s a popular meme circulating online that relates the evolution of cultural devolutionary talking points. It goes like this: We see this pattern repeated with many issues, Second Amendment rights included. In fact, say some, we’re already at Stage 3 with respect to firearm seizure. As one commentator puts it, leftists have…

  • By Selwyn Duke What happens when you raise generations not with virtue but with “situational values”? What’s the result when kids are pandered to, coddled, never told “No!” and get participation trophies? One result just may be wealthy, spoiled adults who believe its okay for them to steal and even, sometimes, murder. Oh, they have their rationalizations…

  • By Selwyn Duke “Government is not the solution to our problem,” late GOP president Ronald Reagan famously said in 1981 — “government is the problem.” We don’t hear this much from today’s Republicans, however. On the other hand, then-Democratic President Bill Clinton proclaimed in January 1996, “The era of big government is over.” And we…

  • By Selwyn Duke If pure-hearted laughter is divine, the suppression of it is demonic. This could come to mind with our Left’s war on comedy, which really is happening. It also really is a campaign common to leftists. Just ask USSR-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff, a man popular during the late Cold War period (the 1980s).…

  • By Selwyn Duke As soon as Democrats “can figure out a way to eliminate elections, they will do it,” warned late radio giant Rush Limbaugh in 2020. This is for a simple reason, he explained: “’cause they resent the hell out of [having to campaign].” Now, six years later, political strategist James Carville (aka “Serpent Head”)…

  • By Selwyn Duke “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism,” goes the apocryphal saying generally attributed to six-time presidential candidate Norman Thomas. “But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

  • By Selwyn Duke “The Ku Klux Klan couldn’t sabotage chances for black academic excellence more effectively than the public school system in most cities,” noted the late Professor Walter E. Williams. Apropos to this, Williams also stated that whatever you say about “civil-rights” activist Malcolm X, he was right about something. To wit: The greatest enemy black…