Left-wing Site Admits: “Democrats Can’t Win the Gerrymander War”
By Selwyn Duke
Why is the GOP House majority so slim, despite the Democrats’ profound unpopularity? One reason is the same reason the Democrats can’t win the current gerrymandering war:
They’ve already expended their ammo.
(They also don’t control enough states.)
If you’d ask who originated gerrymandering, the Democrats or Republicans, know that the strategy is almost as old as the Republic itself. But also know it was named after Founding Father Elbridge Gerry, who facilitated it for the Democratic-Republicans in 1812. (The victims back then were the Federalists.) Today, though, the Democrats certainly have mastered the technique. This is why, for example, they hold 14 of Illinois’ 17 congressional seats — despite their winning just 55-60 percent of the statewide vote.
And now the Republicans are threatening to follow suit. In fact, should they choose the gerrymandering nuclear option, they could gain as many as 11 to 15 congressional seats. That’s just for starters, too.
Liberal Ex-college Professor: “We’ve Been Sold a Bill of Goods … Called Multiculturalism”
By Selwyn Duke
“I’ve come to the conclusion that we’ve been sold a bill of goods.”
“And the bill of goods was called multiculturalism.”
So said liberal evolutionary biologist, researcher, ex-academic, and now podcaster and commentator Brett Weinstein. He made his comments recently during a very intellectual discussion with famed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, part of which was posted Friday to the latter’s YouTube channel. And the two men essentially issued a warning, albeit in the most highbrow tone. To wit:
Multiculturalism threatens Western civilization itself by prioritizing differences (read: diversity) over unity. If it is not “canceled,” the West very well may be.
Is Wokeness Really Dying? Or Is It Just Undergoing a Luciferian Change in Form?
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By Selwyn Duke
Some things never change, not even the nature of the ever-changing. The mythological Norse god Loki, a malevolent shapeshifter, changed form to outwit those who’d begun to recognize his previous guises. As for the real world and today, are we witnessing this age-old strategy being repeated?
At issue is the notion that, with President Donald Trump’s election and a Sydney Sweeney-esque advertising revolution, “wokeness” is waning. This sentiment is widespread, too, reflected in recent books such as British satirist Andrew Doyle’s The End of Woke and Piers Morgan’s Woke Is Dead.
Well, yes, that’s what wokeness, if I may anthropomorphize it, wants you to think.
During a 2012 radio discussion, black economics professors Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell warned that the KKK couldn’t do as much to sabotage blacks as their “friends” could. Of course, the term “friends” was being used very loosely. At issue, in reality, were the wolves in sheep’s clothing who purport to be blacks’ saviors.
And now another prominent black figure is sounding the same alarm, blaming the once-mainstream media for harming the black community.
Lib-white-Karen Files: Why Are Leftists So “Crazy”?
By Selwyn Duke
“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child,” wrote late journalist P.J. O’Rourke in 1992. This creature is, he continued, “miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.” One could now think, “My, I wish O’Rourke would’ve stopped mincing words and told us how he really felt.” But, today, a generation later, many are posing the question he was attempting to answer.
For example, a Monday article headline asks, “Why Are Academics [generally hard-left] — and Others — So Nasty?” The author, Christopher Chantrill, wonders why leftists are so dogmatic and censorial. Another article headline, appearing the day before, queried, “Are they crazy? Or are they just leftist? With some women, it’s hard to tell.”
The latter focuses on that not-sideshow-worthy human oddity now called a “Karen.” This is, of course, a person, typically a middle-aged white woman, who’s entitled, demanding, and usually woke.
A Christian Resurgence in the U.S.? To Some “Elites” and Gen Z, Faith Is Now Cool
By Selwyn Duke
“At least five times” in history, Christianity “has to all appearance gone to the dogs,” G.K. Chesterton observed in 1925.
“In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.”
Now, just maybe, there is a sixth case. It was in 1882 that the sickly but self-deifying Friedrich Nietzsche announced that “God is dead.” And in 2016, hard-left Salon ran the headline, “This is the end of marriage, capitalism and God. Finally!” Its thesis was that millennials were rejecting organized religion, belief in God, marriage, and capitalism, and that this reflects enlightenment. It’s true, too, that “capitalism” (read: economic freedom) may be on the ropes. As for Christianity, though, the academic who wrote the Salon essay certainly was perceiving something real. But was it just another (devil) dog having its day?
You probably wouldn’t, while a guest at someone’s home, want your child acting rudely and badmouthing the person. You also likely wouldn’t move to another country, someone else’s national home, and want your kid agitating against it.
But in America, in 2025, we’re “strengthened” by people such as Jamie Han, who describes herself as a “first-generation immigrant” and “a now citizen.” Strengthened how?
“I say, f*** ICE and f*** the Trump administration,” she exclaimed during a recent speech.
The scene was the commencement ceremony at UCLA’s College of Letters and Science. Han is supposedly the institution’s best and brightest, too, with sources identifying her as the school’s valedictorian. (Note: I’ve not been able to confirm this.)
Han’s speech, delivered in June, just recently went viral and has inspired calls for her deportation. (Again, though, she’s a citizen; she’d have to be denaturalized first.) Yet while this reaction isn’t surprising, what Han’s behavior is reflective of is more troubling than the behavior itself.
Lawsuit: Obergefell Same-sex “Marriage” Opinion “Legal Fiction”; MUST Be Overturned
By Selwyn Duke
If you favor same-sex “marriage,” “by all means celebrate today’s decision,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in his Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) dissent.
“But do not celebrate the Constitution,” he continued. “It had nothing to do with it.”
The Constitution may, though, have everything to do with the reversing of Obergefell. That is, if a new lawsuit identifying the 2015 opinion as “legal fiction” is successful.
To Nix a Classic or Not? Cancel Culture Just Can’t Make Up Its Mind
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By Selwyn Duke
It’s ironic, but the same people who often don’t even know what boys and girls are may seem to be cocksure about what should be canceled. Then again, awash in their characteristic relativism, some of them aren’t even sure about that. Consider one Charlotte Gordon, “distinguished professor of humanities” at Endicott College in Massachusetts.
“Silent Genocide”: African ISIS Beheading Christians — While U.S. Funds Christian Destruction Elsewhere
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By Selwyn Duke
It’s like 20 9/11s — or 50 October 7s. That’s approximately how many Christians have been murdered by Islamic jihadists in Africa just during the past decade. This “silent genocide,” as one ex-U.S. diplomat puts it, is still ongoing, too. It’s all part of an Islamic State (ISIS) effort to establish a new caliphate. And progress is being made on this front, as jihadist groups are poised to take over several African countries.
That’s not all there is on the Christian persecution front, either. Another report holds that Eurasian Christian communities are being destroyed with Israeli arms — funded by the U.S.
Taking North Africa South
Regarding the Africa story, history is perhaps repeating itself. Unbeknownst to most, Christianity was the dominant religion in North Africa by the 400s A.D. In fact, the region at the time had more Christians than Europe did.
That is, until the jihadists arrived.
Shortly after Islam’s 622 birth, Muslim armies swept across North Africa, and the rest is history. Today, less than one percent of the region’s population is Christian.
This will be sub-Saharan Africa’s fate, too, if the jihadists have their way. As website Global Fight Against Terrorism Funding reports:
ISIS terrorists are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa, according to international observers. Military groups linked to Islamic terrorists have been held responsible for a swathe of attacks in the area in recent months.
According to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), attacks on Christians are increasing in the region…. Photos released recently by the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) show four attacks on Christian villages in Mozambique, with churches burned down, corpses of what the jihadists call “infidels” left strewn on the ground. MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital: “What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community.
“That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa — take over the whole country or most of several countries — is dangerous.”
Dark Ambitions
These terrorists play for keeps, too. As radio station WFIW informed Thursday, Fernandez, who’s also a former U.S. diplomat, explained
that the goal of these jihadist groups is “eliminating Christian communities,” as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are “given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’”
“Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.”
The United Nations migration agency said Monday that attacks by insurgents in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the span of eight days last month.
The International Organization for Migration said nearly 60% of those forced from their homes were children.
In a separate report, the U.N.’s humanitarian office said the wave of attacks between July 20 and July 28 across three districts in Cabo Delgado caused the surge in displacements.
While the United Nations references attacks, its reporting has not detailed deaths or specified the targets. At least nine Christians in the Cabo Delgado province were reportedly killed in separate attacks by Islamic insurgents during that timeframe.
“I’m no fan of the United Nations in general, but I think what they’re doing is kind of the lowest common denominator,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “It’s kind of easy to be vague like that. The fact that some of this and some of the worst of it is happening because of a deep anti-Christian animus, hatred of Christians, religiously-based hatred of Christians is something that the UN usually doesn’t like to talk about.”
For sure, especially since anti-Christian hatred has a home at the UN itself.
As to the brutality, the following recent videos illustrate it, putting images to the words.
A Worldwide Phenomenon
Unfortunately, the war on Christianity isn’t unique to Africa. Below, for instance, is a recent news piece about a massacre of Christians (and Druze) in Syria.
Then there’s the aforementioned story about the U.S.’s funding of anti-Christian activity. At issue is a politics-makes-strange-bedfellows partnership between Israel and Azerbaijan (Iran, their mutual enemy, unites them). According to The American Conservative, reporting Wednesday:
Recently, political commentator Ana Kasparian [asserted] that Israel armed Azerbaijan to erase the Armenian people from Karabakh. She referenced the decades-long conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian region legally part of Azerbaijan. After Azerbaijan’s decisive 2023 victory, the world witnessed scenes of mass exodus: Armenian Christians choosing to burn their own homes rather than surrender them, ancient churches being desecrated, and over 100,000 people fleeing under military pressure. Freedom House confirmed this as ethnic cleansing — enabled by Israeli-supplied drones and surveillance tech.
Here’s where U.S. policy becomes complicit: America sends Israel $3.8 billion annually in military aid…, and spent $17.9 billion on aid to Israel in the year following October 2023.
Azerbaijan is such a bad actor, do note, that U.S. law actually prohibits us from selling arms to it. Israel, however, is not thus constrained.
Of course, the blind eye turned to Christian persecution won’t surprise anyone acquainted with the now very militantly secular West. Just consider Britain, which once spread Christianity to the very corners of the Earth. Police there recently threatened to arrest a pastor after he was attacked by a Muslim mob. His sin?
He expounded upon the differences between Christianity and Islam while holding a Koran.
U.K. cops also recently arrested activist Tommy Robinson (again), this time for posting social-media messages such as “F___ Hamas.”
But, hey, don’t be surprised. Western authorities well know that they have to protect the religion of peace.
By Selwyn Duke
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