By Selwyn Duke

It is said that “people vote their pocketbook.” But when they aren’t allowed to vote, as in China, they may do something else: explode. This is especially true when their government, as in China, persists in imposing tyrannical Covid policy that is, in a word, irrational.

While China has been regarded as a model by Western pseudo-elites such as WEF founder Klaus Schwab, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it is essentially “a COVID lockdown hellscape,” as commentator Monica Showalter puts it. In fact, China’s 34,000 coronavirus cases, to use Showalter’s number — insignificant in a country 1.4 billion-strong — “have been enough to put the entire nation … into a lockdown prison,” she writes. This has led to economic distress and increased poverty.

Though China tries feverishly to control the information flow (à la the Biden-Big Tech Axis), the truth does leak out. For example, there are the quarantine-camp videos (below) from….

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By Selwyn Duke

Call it The Tale of Two Purple States. In the 2022 midterms, Florida experienced precisely what pundits and prognosticators said the whole country would: A historic, perhaps unprecedented “red” wave. In contrast, Arizona had a bit of a “blue” wave — but only in the high-profile, upper-echelon races. This raises a few questions, the first being:

Are Florida’s and Arizona’s voters really that much different?

A recent analysis of Arizona’s down-ballot races indicates that, well, maybe they’re not.

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By Selwyn Duke

Almost a decade ago, The New American published “The Slippery Slope to Pedophilia,” an essay about how even back then, longstanding efforts to legitimize adult-child sexual relations existed. Now there’s a clear and sickening sign that we’ve moved yet further down that slope:

A high-end clothing brand, Balenciaga, had recently promoted pedophilia in advertisements, which included a visible court document about a ruling striking down a child-porn ban. The company has since apologized, nixed the advertising campaign, and claims it’s “taking legal action against the parties responsible.” But with the message sent and the damage done, can this bell be un-rung?

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By Selwyn Duke

Leftism has been on the march for more than a century at least. Yet one aspect of it, the so-called “transgender” agenda, has been on its heels lately, with millions of Americans outraged that child genital mutilation is being justified in “gender identity’s” name. Now, however, the sexual devolutionaries believe they’ve found a way to flip the script:

Applying the “Emanuelian” principle “Never let a serious crisis go to waste,” they’re using Friday’s shooting at the Colorado Springs “LGBTQ” nightclub Club Q to try to silence the Sexual Devolution’s critics. The theory, of course, is that the latter’s virtue-oriented pushback against the mutilation and sexualization of minors is inspiring violence against “LGBTQ” individuals. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) put it Sunday, “MAGA Republicans are cruelly undermining the safety and well-being of our transgender community.” Never mind that based on information released thus far, there’s nothing indicating that the Club Q killer, Anderson Lee Aldrich, has any deep anti-sexual devolutionary passions.

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By Selwyn Duke

“What happens in Washington doesn’t always stay in Washington,” wrote The New York Times in a November 14 opinion piece. Author Natalia Viana, a Brazilian “investigative journalist,” could’ve been alluding to the 2000 election, after which some Democrats called President George W. Bush illegitimate; to Stacey Abrams, who repeatedly claimed she was the rightful governor of Georgia; or to the Trump-Russia-collusion hoax, whose orchestrators insisted that Putin stole the election for the 45th president. But she wasn’t.

Instead, she was claiming that supporters of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, were mirroring Donald Trump by claiming that their October 30 run-off election — which Bolsonaro “lost” to socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by less than two percent of the vote — might have been stolen.

But the mirroring would go far beyond that, according to Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo Bolsonaro. In fact, he says that the Brazilian election was stolen just the way the U.S.’s election was.

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By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a scenario: Some extremists don’t like the ideas that would be expressed at an event, so they issue threats of violence via social media. The mayor and police chief of the relevant jurisdiction then shut down the event on “public safety grounds.”

If this sounds like a recipe for easily squelching speech you dislike, know that it’s also another thing:

Something that just happened, according to Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson. In fact, this is the fifth time it has occurred in just the last few weeks, he says.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Everyone is racist regardless of skin color by definition,” wrote The Tennessean last year in a piece co-authored by an ex-Fisk University professor. Accepting this claim, often made by leftists, has been considered by many an intellectual, enlightened position. Yet a Texas middle-school teacher who made it has now been removed from his position.

It surely didn’t help — and, in fact, hurt immensely — that the unnamed educator tried cementing his point by saying, “Deep down in my heart, I am ethnocentric, which means I think my race is the superior one.”

The conversation took place at Bohls Middle School in Pflugerville, a suburb of Austin, and was caught on video, footage that later went viral.

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By Selwyn Duke

When the Supreme Court issued the Obergefell v. Hodges opinion in 2015, which claimed that states must recognize and perform same-sex “marriages,” then-Ohio governor John Kasich said that “the court has ruled and it’s time to move on.” This reflected how even many GOP politicians were no doubt happy that judges freed them from having to take a stand on a controversial issue. Now they could just say, “Well, we tried! But the courts have ruled! Let’s talk about nation-building — overseas!”

Seven years on and sinking ever further, 12 liberal Republican senators have joined all their Democrat colleagues to advance the misnamed Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA) to their chamber’s floor for formal debate. The bill, HR 8404, would “codify” Obergefell, giving it the imprimatur of law in a move that only makes sense as a tacit admission that a SCOTUS opinion isn’t law (and, of course, it isn’t). Yet there’s something else that isn’t law, at least in spirit: an unjust law.

For this reason, judges can judge and Congress can codify copiously, but it means nothing if states simply echo Augustine of Hippo and say, lex iniusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law at all) — and will be nullified.

There’s good reason to nullify the RFMA should it become law (most likely), too. Not only is it unconstitutional, but critics claim that it poses a threat to religious liberty.

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By Selwyn Duke

If, for argument’s sake, 90 percent of a certain crime’s perpetrators are of a given group and 90 percent of those arrested for the crime are of that group, you might call that probability. The New York Times calls it something else.

Racism.

At issue is a Wednesday Times essay titled “How Britain’s Crackdown on Gangs Disproportionately Targets Young Black Men.” It’s quite long — more than 5,000 words — yet, interestingly, it doesn’t actually explain “how” the crackdown “disproportionately” targets young black men. Rather, it focuses on the case of one particular young black man, an 18-year-old named Ademola Adedeji.

It’s a human-interest story, designed to manipulate people emotionally so that they not only believe Adedeji was targeted because of his race, but then assume likewise about all black men arrested on gang-related charges.

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