By Selwyn Duke

For quite some years now, the term “narrative” has been common in political circles. It generally has a negative connotation as it’s used to reference a story line — an often largely fictional one — advanced by some ideologically driven entity for political gain.

This is why I saw a red flag Friday when, while writing an article on how leftist indoctrination permeates even conservative states’ schools, I read a line about what a common modern pedagogy dictates was necessary to be a “culturally responsive educator” (read: an educator responsible for cultural revolution). Two prerequisites for it, related the Federalist, are “the rejection of colorblindness and replacing instruction about facts with narrative stories.”

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The American legal system is based on due process, a speedy trial, and humane treatment while awaiting trial. But in the case of the January 6 prisoners, a radically different and inhumane approach holds sway.

By Selwyn Duke

As you’ve probably heard, all of us rightward of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are insurrectionists now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) even went so far as to say last month, about election-integrity efforts, that what “Republicans are doing across the country is really a legislative continuation of what they did on January 6.” Because, of course, voter ID policies — one of which the Barack Obama administration essentially touted in 2013, because it was instituted in Kenya — are just like a political riot, which itself can be just like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. The latter comparison to January 6 (J6) actually was made, mind you, by Vice President Kamala Harris when recounting events during which “our democracy came under assault,” as she put it. “Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars,” she explained in early January, “but a place in our collective memory: December 7, 1941, September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021.”

This is ridiculous, but also entirely necessary if power by any means necessary is the aim. For just as there are so few actual “hate crimes” committed by conservatives against so-called “victim” groups that they must be fabricated (paging Jussie Smollett), the same can be said of “insurrections.” Oh, there was CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where left-wing George Floyd protesters seized Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood for three weeks in 2020. But though CHAZ “warlord” Raz Simone was videoed next to his Tesla giving followers AR-15s, and the “protesters” perpetrated theft, rape, and murder, Mayor Jenny Durkan reassured us the occupation could breed “a summer of love.” Then there was the two-day, May 2020 attack on the White House, where hundreds of leftists gathered, Secret Service agents were injured, and President Trump had to be moved to an underground bunker. Perhaps that was just part of a spring of love; the media didn’t say. But no one called it an insurrection.

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By Selwyn Duke

"The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes,” wrote G.K. Chesterton in 1924. “The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” This could come to mind when pondering a new report about how even in states that are conservative, schooling is anything but. In fact, report authors Dr. Scott Yenor and Anna Miller found when evaluating Republican-controlled Idaho, Critical Race Theory, sexual depravity, and anti-American propaganda infect its schools.

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By Selwyn Duke

Our society’s social engineers are all in on exposing young children to sex in classrooms, which is why they’re currently up in arms over a Florida bill that would prohibit just that. But the same social engineers are also quite definite about what they don’t want in schools — faith in God, for instance.

Perhaps the latest battle on this front concerns a West Virginia school that recently held an evangelical Christian revival assembly.

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By Selwyn Duke

It used to be that talking to other people’s young children about sex aroused suspicion — or worse. Now refusing to let other people talk to your kids about sex can arouse political opposition. This is the case in Florida, where a bill that would limit children’s exposure in school to conversations about so-called gender and sexual orientation is getting intense push-back from Democrats in and out of the media.

In fact, Joe Biden (or his handlers, most likely) called it a “hateful bill” on Twitter.

The legislation, HB 1557, passed by the Florida House’s GOP-controlled Education and Employment Committee last month and more recently by the state’s Senate Education Committee, has been almost universally and demagogically dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by mainstream media. Yet here’s what it actually states….

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By Selwyn Duke

“The worst thing to be in many Democratic primaries? A white male candidate,” declared a June 2018 Washington Post headline. Yet with the march of identity politics and demographic change, the same can now be said of many Republican primaries.

In fact, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and top GOP strategists have been actively courting non-white and female candidates for the 2022 midterms.

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By Selwyn Duke

Being young and energetic, former Democrat presidential contender Andrew Yang was hailed as a breath of fresh air. But some (erstwhile?) fans are now saying he seems more like the ill wind of politics as usual. The issue? Yang has caved to the mob regarding assailed podcaster Joe Rogan.

As 1010 WINS radio reported Monday, “Andrew Yang, a former New York City mayoral [candidate], has apologized after tweeting…comments defending Joe Rogan, claiming [on Sunday that] the podcast host isn't racist.”

“‘I don't think Joe Rogan is a racist — the man interacts with and works with black people literally all of the time,’” 1010 WINS continued, quoting Yang.

“‘Do I know black friends of Joe's who would swear by him? Yes I do,’” Yang had added.

Then he subtracted — deleting the tweets — and, say critics, detracted from his own reputation. That is, Yang issued the following early Monday apology….

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By Selwyn Duke

Telling the truth about COVID-19 can get you canceled. But criticizing Islam can get you convicted or your head cut off — in France, anyway.

It is there, after all, that some people must live under police protection because they apparently ran afoul of Sharia law dictates. Meanwhile, France’s authorities are also busy protecting Islam from criticism, with a Gallic politician becoming just the latest prominent person to be charged with a crime for warning about Islamization.

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By Selwyn Duke

Having trees dating back to before America’s discovery, it’s known as “Grimm’s fairy tale forest.” But it now faces a grim fate, being slated for denudation to make room for a wind farm.

The place that will become, ironically, less green in going green’s name is the Reinhardswald State Forest in Germany, home to 600-year-old oaks and beech trees that have seen four centuries.

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By Selwyn Duke

Throughout 2021, we witnessed rancorous school-board meetings in which parents pushed back against Critical Race Theory-defending, child-masking officials. Not only were these patriots often met with a let-’em-eat-cake attitude, but, conspiring with others, Attorney General Merrick Garland actually characterized them as domestic terrorists. But, being more like freedom fighters, this didn’t stop these parents from winning school-board seats last year. And now one reformed board in Colorado has struck back against the Establishment, firing their district’s woke school superintendent.

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