By Selwyn Duke

“We’re just following orders.” So was told frontline nurse Nicole Sirotek, she reports, when asking her colleagues in 2020 why Covid-19 patients were being denied lifesaving treatment. The quoted statement has, of course, an eerie ring to it, one that anybody possessing even a passing acquaintance with history will recognize as having been uttered before — in the past tense.

“Tense,” in a different sense, describes Western civilization’s state for the past two years, as people have wrestled with a disease emergency largely self-imposed. It’s not just that the Dr. Anthony Fauci-affiliated National Institutes of Health helped fund gain-of-function research that apparently visited the “novel coronavirus” on the world. It’s also that the entire establishment — no doubt enticed by Big Pharma money — demonizes ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine protocols known to be effective against Covid-19 in favor of a “V”-for-vaccine-victory fantasy that will supposedly deliver us from China virus oblivion. 

Never mind that the liberal Atlantic magazine quoted a Yale public-health professor as saying in early 2020 that if “we’re putting all our hopes in a vaccine as being the answer, we’re in trouble.” Never mind that when Operation Warp Speed gave us the mRNA therapy agents (aka “vaccines”) supposedly ahead of schedule, establishment leftists scoffed at what they called the “Trump vaccine.” When these statists took power in January 2021, it nonetheless was “vaccines” über alles. If you didn’t take the jab, you were an unpatriotic disease vector who needed to be compelled via scorn, ostracism, mandates, and career-destruction threats into taking the needle. Why, so extreme was the zealotry that an acquaintance told me last year that if he had his way (I’m paraphrasing), all those refusing the so-called vaccines “would be lined up and shot.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Is it a coincidence that it was the liberal Los Angeles Times that, in 2013, suggested pedophilia is an inborn “sexual orientation as immutable as heterosexuality”? Is it a coincidence that, also in 2013, it was left-wing British health expert Professor John Ashton who suggested lowering the age of consent to perhaps 14? Commentators Todd and Erik Gregory surely wouldn’t think so — in fact, they assert, “progressives have a pedophilia problem.”

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By Selwyn Duke

A new study claims that the COVID-19 situation “exacerbated” children’s “exposure” to firearm violence and that the increase was more significant among non-white kids. Yet what it claims is not what it found, as it doesn’t even suggest how the “pandemic” might have caused this phenomenon.

What’s more, it uses white children as the “reference” group — despite admitting that American Indian kids’ outcomes were at least as good if not better.

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By Selwyn Duke

In an operating room after being shot in 1981, President Ronald Reagan pulled down his mask and said to the medical staff, “I hope you are all Republicans!” He was joking, of course, but such a concern may be more warranted in today’s politically charged America — especially if the worst interpretation of a recent story is any guide.

Kychelle Del Rosario, a fourth-year medical student at Wake Forest School of Medicine, posted a Tuesday tweet that many interpret as meaning that she intentionally mistreated a patient — all because he poked fun at her “pronoun pin.”

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

Society is undergoing a “transgenderism” transition. Where not long ago authorities insisted that men claiming womanhood be allowed to use females’ locker rooms and compete in their sports, we’re now starting to see reversals. States such as Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee have banned MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka transgender) males from competing in women’s sports. It’s also increasingly common now to question MUSS men’s presence in them. Yet there’s still a tendency (including on conservatives’ part) to seek on this issue a middle ground that, somehow, will make everyone happy. But perhaps a question should be asked:

Is this debate about MUSS men in women’s sports really, at bottom, about sports?

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By Selwyn Duke

“What does Vladimir Putin have to do to convince Washington that the Ukraine crisis is a preliminary skirmish in what might be a nuclear war?” So asks astute commentator David Goldman (a.k.a. Spengler) and fellow writer Uwe Parpart, sounding an alarm that should make everyone take notice. In an Asia Times piece titled “N-war risk real; Biden’s living a dangerous fantasy,” they warn that after threatening to use nuclear weapons, “Putin and his high command reportedly have [now] decamped to secret bunkers.”

Meanwhile, barely noticed is that while explaining away his statement that American troops were heading for Ukraine, Joe Biden revealed on Monday something else troubling: What he meant was, he said, those American soldiers would be training Ukrainian troops in Poland — a NATO country.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” This comment, reportedly made by Barack Obama, could now come to mind. Less than a year and a half into Joe Biden’s presidency, after all, conflict and civilization-ending nuclear war with Russia have become a chilling possibility. Despite this, Biden has done nothing but exacerbate tensions with his words. Over just the course of three days recently, in fact, the president went off-script and indicated that 1) the U.S. might use chemical weapons (i.e., against Russia) if Moscow employs them; 2) American troops were heading for Ukraine; and 3) the administration seeks to oust Vladimir Putin from power.

All three comments were later repudiated by the administration — while Biden essentially claimed they were never made — but some damage had been done. Add to this that Biden also has called Putin a “pure thug,” a “murderous dictator,” and a “war criminal,” and a question arises:

Is this the best way to deal with a volatile situation and a man with 6,000 nuclear weapons at his fingertips?

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By Selwyn Duke

Disney’s claim to fame is creating entertaining fiction. Yet critics might now say the company is living a very unentertaining fiction: that Florida’s parental rights bill is “hateful,” as Joe Biden once put it — but Chinese Uyghur genocide isn’t even worthy of mention.

Fox News recently asked Disney “why it appears they are more vocal in speaking out on the DeSantis-backed bill than the literal genocide going on in China, and if the company would condemn the ethnic cleansing.”

The corporation was silent on that, too, not responding to Fox at all.

The Florida bill, HB 1557, which was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis Monday, has been widely misrepresented. All it dictates, essentially, is that schools “may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students,” as it states on pages 3 and 4.

But while opponents almost universally epitomized the bill’s meaning as “Don’t Say Gay,” Disney’s attitude on China has been “Don’t say nay.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Children learn to differentiate between the sexes by two years of age.

Or, at least, that’s what we were told.

Now even Supreme Court nominees are confused about, for example, what a woman is — or so it appears. Journalists are, too, ostensibly.

At issue is, of course, the answer Joe Biden’s SCOTUS nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, gave when Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked during confirmation hearings if she could define the term “woman.” She couldn’t within the given context, said Jackson, because “I’m not a biologist.”

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