By Selwyn Duke

One benefit of controlling the media, both standard and social, is that it becomes very easy to make an innovation appear an institution. Thus could our Left insert sexual devolutionary “gender” teaching into grade schools, something opposed by most Americans, and then instantly turn around and demonize opposition to it as a “Don’t say gay” attack on some kind of status quo. Metaphorically, it’s much like launching an unprovoked assault and then, when the hapless victim raises his arms to block your blows, asking him why he’s getting so violent.

This could come to mind when reading a Thursday USA Today piece whose title proclaims that “red America has declared war on corporate America” for being “woke,” and purports to be able to explain “why.”

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By Selwyn Duke

There has been much talk about Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s dramatic on-field collapse Monday night of a probable heart attack — at the tender age of 24. But he wasn’t the only NFL figure who just recently experienced what is likely an odd cardiac event. Another one occurred just three days before, when former Jacksonville Jaguars offensive lineman Uche Nwaneri, 38, died of what has been described as probable “acute heart failure.”

But while Hamlin’s misfortune made news because he collapsed in the middle of a football game, Nwaneri’s passing raised eyebrows for a different reason:

He’d previously called for the jailing of people who refuse the Covid gene-modification agents (GMAs, aka “vaccines”).

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By Selwyn Duke

President Donald Trump’s recent claim that the GOP’s underwhelming midterm showing wasn’t his fault, but was due to the “abortion issue,” has sparked great controversy. One commentator said Trump had poked “a hornet’s nest,” another called his comments “wise, effective, and prudent,” while yet another stated that avoiding a hypocrisy charge required that 45 take “a refresher in Anti-Abortion Apologetics 101” (and all three were at the same website on the same day!). But whatever one thinks of Trump’s remarks, for sure is that this is a teaching moment.

First, however, so that you can decide what you think, here’s what the Donald said (right below criticism of it):

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By Selwyn Duke

While we were told the Covid-19 “vaccines” were “safe and effective,” authorities long ago confessed that the drugs’ effectiveness was greatly overblown. But now a new Rasmussen poll finds that almost half of American adults aren’t so sure about the safe part, either — and more than a quarter believe they know someone whose death may be linked to the shots.

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By Selwyn Duke

Would you take investment advice from a broker whose stock picks had been consistently wrong for almost six decades straight? “News” show 60 Minutes just might — that is, if the guest they chose to present as master prognosticator-prophet of doom this past Sunday is any indication. And the world’s second richest man, Elon Musk, certainly took notice.

“If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” So said biologist Paul Ehrlich, Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of Stanford University and President of Stanford’s Center for Conservation Biology, decades ago.

Yet if Ehrlich were a gambler, he’d also be broke. In fact, he did lose a bet, a 1980, $1,000 wager with economist Julian Simon on whether the price of five precious metals would increase due to scarcity (Ehrlich’s prediction) or decrease/hold steady over the next decade.

But nothing was safer to bet on than the steadiness of Ehrlich’s bad prophet-of-doom prognostications.

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By Selwyn Duke

While responding to the controversy surrounding “transgender” men competing in women’s sports, many internet commenters have long opined, “They should just create a separate ‘transgender’ category.” Well, now it has finally happened — in the sport aficionados call “the sweet science.”

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By Selwyn Duke

On the heels of a condemned and canceled advertising effort by Spanish designer Balenciaga that featured little children in bondage gear, fashion house Benetton somehow fancied it a good idea to release an ad showing young girls posing inappropriately in underwear. The picture created an uproar, with one actress critic saying that it amounted to “sexualizing little kids.” But while many observers are shocked by such images, is it really shocking that society has reached this point given our long-standing cultural trajectory?

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By Selwyn Duke

A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.”

Never mind that an assault rifle, insofar as the designation was ever at all valid, had always referenced a weapon with a “select fire” feature allowing three types of operation: semi-automatic, fully-automatic or in three-shot bursts. This doesn’t, of course, describe the class of rifles (e.g., AR-15-style) now targeted, whose operation is semi-automatic only (one bullet released per trigger pull), just like 50 percent of all new guns sold. But whatever you call them, here are two facts:

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By Selwyn Duke

Lying certainly is nothing new, which is why millennia ago already we were given the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Yet in recent years prevarication has reached new heights (or depths, actually) in our society, with blatant falsehoods uttered with a brazenness that would make a disbarred lawyer-turned-used car salesman blush. But what was the worst lie of 2022? There’s a lot of competition, but what follows are 10 top contenders (not necessarily listed in order of egregiousness).

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I wish you a very happy and blessed New Year. For anyone who was around in the 1980s, you know that back then "2023" sounded like something out of a science fiction movie. But now here we are. 

God bless,

Selwyn Duke