FBI Fudging? Armed Citizens Stop More Shootings Than Bureau Admits
By Selwyn Duke
It’s called proportionate force: The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, generally, is with a good guy with a gun. This doesn’t actually happen too much, though, if you ask the FBI and legacy media. But you perhaps shouldn’t ask them.
Because in reality, a study finds, armed citizens stop active shootings at least 10 times more than the FBI claims. That’s not exactly a rounding error.
Moreover, this is true of crime in general: Good citizens with guns thwart significantly more of it than is widely known.
White “Ghetto Girl” Reflects Why MAGA Won’t be Easy
By Selwyn Duke
If politics is downstream from culture, and it is, we have a lot to worry about. This is frankly because American culture has long been rotting like a 10-day-old avocado in the sun. A good example, appearing in my X notifications yesterday, is a video of a white girl sporting corn-woven hair and speaking “Ebonics”-style while giving a cop a hard time. “Why is she talking like that?” asks the original poster of the 54-second clip (below).
X users reacting to the video were unsparing, with no small number attributing her behavior to low IQ. And one seemingly incredulous respondent asked, “Seriously, how does a white person become like this? How do you turn into the most degenerate stereotype of another race?”
Want Slavery Reparations? Go Ask Muslim Countries, Says Scholar
By Selwyn Duke
It’s arguable that the people who complain about slavery most actually may love it, in a perverse way. After all, it provides so many with excuses for failure, anti-Western talking points, and opportunities to extract hand-outs. Just consider “reparations,” which are now continually demanded (by people enslaved only by their own indoctrination). Why, California Governor Gavin Newsom, panderer-in-chief, just signed a bill Friday to create a reparations-administration agency. Never mind that California was never a slave state.
But to African-descent people who want reparations, a British-Bangladeshi scholar has a message: You’re barking up the wrong tree.
You need to seek your booty elsewhere — from Muslim countries.
Afghan Rapes Elderly Woman. Aftermath: Her SON May be Charged for Unintentionally Videoing the Crime
By Selwyn Duke
In today’s upside-down world, we’ve all heard stories about “blaming the victim.” Bullied kids at government schools come to mind. But whatever you’ve heard in this regard, nothing can compare to an incident out of Austria that just beggars belief.
Manipulation: Media’s Illegal-alien Sob Stories Are Meant to Deceive
By Selwyn Duke
There’s a certain technique often used by journalists, one designed to get you not thinking, but feeling. It involves opening an article with a human-interest story, and it’s figuring prominently right now in the illegal-migration controversy. It may go something like this:
Lupe entered the United States as a wide-eyed child from Mexico, having high hopes and dreaming bold dreams. Growing up in Arizona, she toiled as a maid to support her family. But using a false document to land a job resulted in a felony conviction, making Lupe ineligible for DACA; any path to legalization was closed to her. Now in her 30s, Lupe must endure the continuous fear of deportation. She has been robbed of opportunities her peers take for granted, such as driver’s licenses or college aid. Once a hard-working immigrant, Lupe is now an outcast, one of America’s modern-day lepers.
Heart Over Head
Of course, the idea is to engage your emotions and not your intellect. You’re supposed to identify with Lupe and not identify policy-specific imperatives. It’s not supposed to occur to you that Lupe isn’t an “immigrant,” as stated above, but a “migrant” at best. (The former term implies entry via a legal process.) You’re not supposed to think about illegal-alien crime and its many American victims. You’re not supposed to contemplate the strain on resources and infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals. You’re not supposed to wonder about how the billions of dollars illegals cost our system affect our ability to help fellow citizens, such as veterans. It’s not supposed to dawn on you that deportation isn’t punishment. As with children who’ve run away from home, it’s merely the returning of people to where they’re meant to be.
You’re not supposed to trouble over the cultural and political implications of absorbing millions of sometimes unassimilable aliens. No, you’re not supposed to consider facts, figures, realities, or statistics at all. You’re not to realize that making policy for 343 million people based on one person’s situation ignores that the “good of the many outweighs the good of the few.” You’re only supposed to identify with Lupe. You’re to be governed by your tears, not Truth; by what momentarily feels good, not what is good.
Does the NFL-Bad Bunny Brouhaha Reflect a Meltdown of MAGA — or of America?
By Selwyn Duke
There are some people who don’t know, or claim to not know, why there’s controversy over artist “Bad Bunny’s” planned Super Bowl LX halftime performance. There’s story after story, too, about how MAGA is “melting down” over it. But are they? Or is America, once a melting pot, melting down culturally?
To review, the performance by Bunny, actual name Benito Martinez Ocasio, at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, in February will be entirely in Spanish. Ocasio can sing in English and has done so (though approximately 95 percent of his songs are in Spanish). But the Puerto Rican native has decided that his Super Bowl offerings will be delivered only in his native tongue. You won’t even be able to “press 1” for English.
Yet this alone probably wouldn’t have been enough to spark the current controversy. Rather, Ocasio has also waded into politics. In fact, just last month he said that he didn’t want to perform in the U.S. He was concerned about his fans’ safety, he claimed, because of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown. “[T]here was the issue of — like, f****** ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] could be outside [my concert],” said the rabbit.
In 2014, the Obama administration sued the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) for treating women equally.
Yes, you read that right.
The problem: Female applicants were failing the PSP physical fitness test at a higher rate than did their male counterparts. It didn’t matter, either, that the standards had already been laughably dumbed down. (Example: Candidates only had to complete 13 pushups — with no time limit.)
This is a now old story, too. In the name of Equality™, police departments have for decades been lowering standards to grease the skids for female cops. But, says one commentator, this must end. We should apply the “Hegseth doctrine” to not just the military, but female police candidates as well.
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary,” quipped Irish writer and activist Brendan Behan. Yet the no-bad-publicity notion certainly isn’t true for politicians, who must win not only fame but elections. Hence an old pattern: Republicans would be condemned by a monolithic mainstream media.
They’d then fold like a cheap camera and apologize for their “trespass” — whether it reflected turpitude or Truth.
Blue State Bust: The Migration That’s Killing the Democrats
By Selwyn Duke
Politics wonks have long known that our modern (im)migration regime helps Democrats gain power. The reason is simple: 85-90 percent of our (im)migrants hail from the Third World. And upon naturalization, a majority of that portion of them vote Democratic. Yet there’s another type of migration, one that, say some observers, may deep-six the Democrats’ near-term political fortunes.
That is, American citizens have been fleeing “blue” (liberal) states like 40 going north.
In fact, five “liberal bastion” states alone have seen a net loss of 13 million residents in recent decades. The trend reflects why economic activity has been migrating southward in recent times — and ensures that this shift will continue. This greater economic power is attended by greater political power, too, as higher populations mean more electoral clout. The end result is, if the analyses are correct, that Democratic states will become relatively poorer and politically impotent.
Godlessness Matters: Charlie Kirk and the “Nihilistic Violent Extremist”
By Selwyn Duke
From the Charlie Kirk assassination to the Minneapolis Catholic Church shooting and beyond, Americans today are taken aback by how mindlessly violent society has become. Many, of course, seek to identify the causes, too, with the Democrats blaming guns and the Republicans mental illness. And both these claims do capture headlines. But what if the main cause is something so “non-sexy” — so, excuse my tongue, philosophical — that few care to even discuss it?
In the 19th century, very odd philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously proclaimed that “God is dead.” And though an atheist himself, he warned that this secularization “is already beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.” Nietzsche, often wrong but no dummy, realized atheism could breed nihilism and that this, in turn, could create societal upheaval.
Fast-forward to 2025, and we hear that the FBI has a new criminal category: “Nihilistic Violent Extremist.” What’s more, some writers are finally picking up on the nihilism-violence connection. It’s about time, too.
By Selwyn Duke
By Selwyn Duke
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