By Selwyn Duke

It was only two years ago that Joe Biden answered a left-wing activist’s question about whether some police funds should be redirected elsewhere with “Yes, absolutely.” Also in 2020, his then-running mate, Kamala Harris, responded to the hundreds of violent Antifa/BLM riots by saying that “they should not” stop. Biden, Harris, and other liberals also never condemned the “Defund the Police” movement or left-wing district attorneys who’ve been putting dangerous criminals back on the streets. But now, with the midterm elections approaching and Democrat fortunes questionable, Biden sings a very different tune.

In fact, in what some have called ultimate gaslighting, on Tuesday he portrayed his MAGA opponents as the ones who are anti-law enforcement.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a sign of the times that people espousing traditional morality are now called rebels, or, maybe, reactionary. The Boy Scouts, for instance, went from mainstream to maligned to, after their moral collapse, part of the cultural effluent stream. Yet as risibility becomes de rigueur, traditionalism can become trendy. Hence the rise of a counter-cultural group that’s young, hip, intellectual — and traditionally Catholic — and alarming to the Left.

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By Selwyn Duke

"The stench of fascism is in the air." So said left-wing then-governor of California Pat Brown, in 1964, while opining on Republican Barry Goldwater’s presidential candidacy. According to commentator Christopher Tremoglie, this was the first time Democrats used the “fascist” pejorative against the GOP. It would not be the last.

On a personal note, there’s an irony here for me. My father was a Republican by 1964 and a staunch Goldwater supporter.

He also fought in WWII, was captured in battle, and spent time as a prisoner of war under the Nazi regime. So he might have known a bit more about fascism than Pat Brown (or, at least, would’ve been more honest about it).

Commenting on how the fascist label has become a reflexive Democrat propaganda tool….

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By Selwyn Duke

Imagine how different our nation would be if Republicans had long held a significant Senate majority. Left-wing, anti-constitutional justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wouldn’t occupy the Supreme Court. The misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, a destructive “Green New Deal” by another name, would not be law. ObamaCare wouldn’t exist; we wouldn’t be a vote or two away from federalized elections; and, in fact, our legislative landscape would be profoundly different overall. And such a GOP majority would be a reality, today, now — if we’d just retained the Founding Fathers’ formula for choosing senators.

Moreover, a recent analysis finds that this majority would be staggering: a 63-37 Republican advantage that would essentially make left-wing federal bills an endangered species.

Why isn’t this a reality?

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By Selwyn Duke

When blundering doctors removed one of Hurshell Ralls’ most private parts in 1999, unnecessarily as the story goes, he could never be “made whole” but did get a monetary settlement. Yet youth genitally mutilated in the name of doing the impossible — switching sexes — get nothing but broken bodies, broken promises, broken spirits, and broken dreams. This will change, however, if Governor Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) has anything to say about it.

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By Selwyn Duke

Years ago, when I worked with children, a parent told me that her daughter had just reached puberty.

The girl was seven.

Her brother was also “blossoming” — he was 10.

Far from being a family of outliers, these kids reflected a common phenomenon: Children today are entering puberty earlier than ever. Doctors aren’t sure why, either. (Yet I may have uncovered a major, though underappreciated, cause. I’ll get to that later.)

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By Selwyn Duke

In every mass shooting’s wake, there are understandable complaints about mentally ill people acquiring guns. Yet the U.S. military is apparently putting guns in mentally ill people’s hands, as it’s now recruiting individuals “with a history of ‘self-mutilation,’ bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse,” as USA Today has written. The reason why concerns a problem that has only worsened since this report, too.

To wit: Armed forces enlistments have been plummeting, with Americans either unqualified or unwilling to join, write Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North (ret.) and David Goetsch in a recent Town Hall piece. Worse still, they lament, the situation isn’t being remedied because the powers-that-be won’t even acknowledge the problem.

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By Selwyn Duke

The irony of emphasizing equality of outcome is that this state can only be achieved through unjust inequality of opportunity. This is only one problem, too, with what an outside-the-box thinker might call our favorite modern heresy, Equality Dogma. This phenomenon is still intensifying in America — and if you want a taste of things to come (unless we change course), just look at Great Britain….

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By Selwyn Duke

When hearing the term “fusion” today, many people may first think of Asian restaurants. Yet this is only because fusion power technology — which holds the promise of delivering clean, abundant energy forever — is ignored amid continual talk about wind and solar. This is a shame because while the latter two technologies are wholly unworkable, fusion’s practicality has a basis in science and, claim some, is fairly close to no longer being science fiction.

Aside from the fact that the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun ever shine (not to mention cloudy regions), a major problem with wind and solar is that they’re extreme low-intensity energy sources; meaning, they don’t produce many watts per square meter of land devoted to the technology. As an example, meeting the United States’ energy needs with wind would require an area three times the size of California.

This makes it not only unrealistic, but also environmentally perilous.

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By Selwyn Duke

Upset and disappointed, many felt betrayed when Senator Joe Manchin cut a deal with ultra-left-wing colleague Chuck Schumer and created the laughably named "Inflation Reduction Act." Yet anyone thus aggrieved should consider a simple fact: As of June 2 of last year, Manchin had voted with Joe Biden 100 percent of the time.

That’s 100 percent — as in voting with Nancy Pelosi every time.

And he has voted with the Democrats over his career’s course approximately 80 percent of the time.

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