By Selwyn Duke

Referencing how our powers that be are all implicated in mandating the Covid “vaccines” and thus will never expose their sometimes deadly side effects, I wrote last month that my “only hope is that a nation with a less compromised medical establishment (perhaps Sweden or Japan?) will investigate and expose the truth about the [drugs].” This may now happen, but it turns out that the place shining the light of truth will be the Sunshine State, where Governor Ron DeSantis has vowed to hold Big Pharma’s feet to the fire for false claims about its Covid gene-modification agents (GMAs, aka “vaccines”).

DeSantis made his “comments at a private Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) event at the Florida Governor’s Mansion…. He resolved to work with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo ‘to hold these manufacturers accountable,’” Florida Jolt reports.

“I have Surgeon General in Florida Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who’s been really, really strong of just fighting back the narrative and the phony things that people are trying to do and focus on the evidence and so we are gonna work to hold these manufacturers accountable for this mRNA because they said there was [sic] no side effects and we know that there have been a lot,” Jolt relates DeSantis as saying.

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By Selwyn Duke

Canceling a scheduled event at the very last minute simply because you don’t like the group that booked it doesn’t sound like a display of dignity. Nonetheless, protecting “dignity” was one of the reasons a Richmond, Virginia, restaurant cited when doing just that after learning that it would be serving a pro-life Christian organization that opposes same-sex “marriage.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Not too many Americans want to see their land become more like China, but it is doing so in at least one particular way: The United States is secularizing — and rapidly. In fact, more than a third of Americans under 30 and 23 percent of adults overall now claim no religious affiliation. This still pales in comparison to China’s corresponding 91 percent figure, but such people constituted only about seven percent of the U.S. population in the early 1990s.

This phenomenon has serious implications. For one thing, church attendance is an excellent predictor of voting patterns, with those attending services regularly breaking Republican (being conservative) and atheists largely supporting Democrats (being liberal). The ideological aspect of this pattern is witnessed throughout the Western world, mind you. For example, Sweden, considered by many the Occident’s most “liberal” country, is also its most secular, with 73 percent of the population claiming atheist or non-religious status.

In this Sweden exemplifies Europe’s longstanding secularization, a process the U.S. had once resisted.

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By Selwyn Duke

It was already the case that certain conservative websites have had to eliminate their comment sections under threat from Big Tech, which has the ability to take those sites offline (as it did with Parler). Now the New York state government has gotten in on the act, instituting a “hate speech” law that compels any site allowing comments to police its users’ speech — or face punishment. As law professor Eugene Volokh puts it, the state wants to “conscript” us to “violate the Constitution.”

The law, which took effect Saturday, sparked an 11th-hour lawsuit filed by the nonprofit group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) on behalf of three plaintiffs: Volokh, who runs the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog; Peter Thiel-backed video site Rumble; and the crowdfunding entity Locals.

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By Selwyn Duke

“What, are they a married couple — or maybe divorced under California law?” That was one incredulous reaction to an incredible situation:

When the U.S. men’s national soccer team beat Iran on Tuesday to advance to the World Cup’s knockout stage, they earned a guaranteed $13 million. But they’re only going to receive $6.5 million. No, the issue isn’t taxes, unless you want to call it the Feminism Tax.

Because the U.S. women’s soccer team is going to get half the men’s money — for doing nothing.

Actually, that’s not entirely accurate because they did do something: complain and agitate and sue for years until capitulation was achieved.

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By Selwyn Duke

“It is a brand new day,” said Sheriff Wayne Ivey, “where school discipline is gonna’ be put back in place in Brevard public schools.”

On Thursday, The New American published a piece on how even young children are sometimes now attacking teachers in school, emboldened by the handcuffing of teachers who, afraid to enforce rules, then “outsource” discipline to the police. But that’s about to change in his jurisdiction, said Sheriff Ivey, of Brevard County, Florida. It’s not clear precisely what the new discipline standards will entail and how much of the new “stick” will be wielded by teachers and how much by cops, but Ivey seemed to be implying it would be a collaborative effort.

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By Selwyn Duke

In a certain book for the ages, there’s something about millstones and children and sin and sea. It seems that too many today have forgotten this, and a recent story is a good example.

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By Selwyn Duke

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Talkback-12-02-2022

By Selwyn Duke

Did you hear about the 60 localities “swallowed by the salt sea”? If their woes can be chalked up to global warming, perhaps implicated is all that medieval industry and auto use. They can’t get climate-relief aid, though, because these localities were engulfed during the Grote Mandrenke (Great Drowning of Men) flood in Denmark in 1362. But though coastal flooding has ever plagued man, the political climate is different in 2022. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Two weeks ago, The New American reported on a New York Times essay titled “How Britain’s Crackdown on Gangs Disproportionately Targets Young Black Men” that didn’t even attempt to explain “how.” Instead, the paper provided a case study in media propaganda, presenting only human-interest stories designed to manipulate emotions. Now USA Today has followed suit. Asking in a headline, “Why do kids as young as 5 or 6 still get arrested at schools?” you guessed it — the paper never tried explaining why. (Well, at least the media still have the “who, what, where, and when” of journalism.)

Predictably, USA Today also joined the Times in playing the race card, claiming that punishments are “often applied unfairly to Black children.” It was not reported whether this disparate treatment could have anything at all to do with disparate behavior.

Now, many surely agree (I’m one of them) that it’s ridiculous that our society has reached a point where cops are sometimes summoned to deal with young grade-schoolers. But the reason “why” this happens, left unmentioned in USA Today’s 7,000-word(!) essay, should be stated right off the bat: It’s the same reason why parents now sometimes call the police on their young kids.

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