By Selwyn Duke

Given that researchers have discovered a correlation between funniness and high IQ, it’s not surprising that liberals have long portrayed conservatives as humorless. But now some liberals are sounding an alarm:

Conservatives not only own a large share of the political humor market, they warn their leftist brethren, but are besting them. And because ridicule “is man’s most potent weapon,” as socialist Saul Alinsky averred — and because kinder forms of humor can endear people to you and win converts — these inroads should be taken seriously.

Introducing us to some liberals thus counseling is Politico’s Ian Ward, who recently wrote that for “the past three years, Matt Sienkiewicz, an associate professor of communication and international studies at Boston College, and Nick Marx, an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University, have immersed themselves in the world of conservative comedy.” They found that conservatives are winning the humor war and detail their findings in their new book, That’s Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them.

Yet some may say that what’s funny is that libs ever thought they had a monopoly on being funny — or that they ever even led that competition.

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By Selwyn Duke

The mainstream media never miss a chance to portray Christianity as deficient, and a recent WaPo article touting “Jewish” girls’ academic superiority over their Christian peers may be a good example.

Labeling Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as models of “Jewish” female success, The Washington Post cites a study finding that “raised Jewish” girls “have ambitious career goals and prioritize their professional success over marriage and motherhood,” as the paper puts it.

In contrast, WaPo quotes a non-Jewish girl named Mandy as saying, “I think the biggest thing that a mother can do is to be with her kids. That’s the greatest thing over her career.” 

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By Selwyn Duke

CNN’s Don Lemon once comically defended Antifa, stating that they had to be anti-fascist because it “says it right in the name: Antifa, anti-fascism.” But if the actions of a pro-Antifa “journalist” (along with 2020’s 600+ riots) are any indication, the abbreviation certainly doesn’t stand for “anti-fire and arson.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Can we have even a chance of electing honest politicians when saddled with a dishonest media? This question could come to mind in light of a recent controversy surrounding GOP Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters.

Video obtained by NBC news, footage that has since gone viral, shows Masters explaining his opposition to the ill-conceived Equal Rights Amendment and fielding a question about a left-wing talking point that just won’t die: The male-female wage gap.

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By Selwyn Duke

The 1984 film The Terminator frightened audiences with a nightmare scenario: being methodically hunted by a powerful, artificially intelligent, definitionally psychopathic robot that never rests and won’t stop until you’re dead. But truth isn’t just stranger than fiction, but also sometimes scarier. And perhaps proving this is that Chinese scientists are developing small autonomous drones that can operate as a swarm, avoiding obstacles and performing various life-saving functions — and, warn some, also a terrifying life-taking function:

Hunting humans, using facial-recognition technology to identify their hapless targets.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

We’ve seen the weaponization of childhood, with 2018’s Greta Thunberg and other minors being used to advance political agendas. We’ve seen the weaponization of anti-motherhood, with feminists’ impugning of feminine domesticity and the reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Roe v. Wade draft opinion.

And some may find it ironic that a media outlet that’s party to both these phenomena is now complaining of a weaponization it alleges is occurring — of motherhood.

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By Selwyn Duke

The “Democrat establishment has been doing an end run around the First Amendment, using Big Tech as a proxy to stifle dissenting views.” This sentiment, which I expressed last year and on other occasions, is now the basis of a lawsuit filed against Joe Biden and other administration officials by two states’ attorneys general.

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By Selwyn Duke

If you really want to destroy something, you pull it up by its roots. This explains why today’s cultural revolutionaries attack what is foundational to the West, such as the Founding Fathers; Christianity; and, as author and commentator Douglas Murray mentioned recently, even ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Yet while “dead white males” are the focus of this civilization-rending ire, there is one long-gone white man who gets a pass, even though he was a “racist” who used the “n-word” and defended black slavery in America.

That man was Karl Marx.

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By Selwyn Duke

It has been odd and alarming watching the powers-that-be relentlessly escalate the proxy war our government is waging against Russia. It’s not just that we’re sending billions of dollars of weapons into Ukraine, are calling Vladimir Putin a war criminal and issuing other fightin’ words, are training Ukrainian troops and are trying to effect Moscow’s economic destruction. It’s also, senior American officials have now revealed, that via intelligence aid the U.S. has helped to:

• kill Moscow’s generals;
• down a plane carrying Russian soldiers; and
• sink one of Putin’s warships.

The kicker: By revealing this publicly — perhaps as strikingly inappropriate as leaking a Supreme Court draft opinion — Biden administration officials appear to be bragging about these “exploits” and rubbing the Russians’ noses in them. If you wanted to provoke a hot war, this is exactly how you’d do it.

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