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  • Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?

    Narrow street in a Puerto Rican neighborhood lined with colorful corrugated metal houses, littered with garbage and debris, showcasing urban conditions.

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Puerto Rico doesn’t have to be ‘American’ to be a friend of America. Let it be what it already is — a nation.”

    So editorializes Javier A. Hernández, a Puerto Rican author, linguist, educator, and former federal official. And Hernández is one more thing, too: a pro-Puerto Rico sovereignty advocate. So his passions are clear. Yet so is his point:

    Should Puerto Rico ever become a state, it would never, ever assimilate into the United States.

    Nor would it be reasonable to expect it to.

    Absorbing the island would be, in fact, a bit like accepting Spain as the 51st state and counting on assimilation. Far from this, however, the “Pearl of the Caribbean” would become what Quebec (French-speaking province) is to Canada — on steroids.

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  • “Woke Is Dead”? In Reality, the Monster Looms, Waiting to Deliver the West’s Coup de Grâce

    Close-up view of the definition of 'politically correct' in a dictionary, highlighting the term prominently.

    By Selwyn Duke

    Woke is Dead reads the title of journalist Piers Morgan’s recently rolled out book. President Donald Trump may subscribe to Morgan’s thesis, too; he said months ago that the U.S. is “woke no longer.”

    If only.

    The reality is that wokeness, asserts The Christian Post, “isn’t dead, dying, hospitalized or even hiding.” The Telegraph warns likewise, writing:

    Heralding the end of woke is like heralding the end of cancer. Sane people would love it to happen, and people are working hard on it, but it’s not even remotely the case now or soon.

    Good analogy, but here’s where it’s lacking: Some people are working on combating wokeness. But unlike with cancer, other people are working hard to spread it to all of us.

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  • Islam Is Growing in U.S. While Christianity Fades

    A golden crescent moon with a star, symbolizing Islam.

    By Selwyn Duke

    The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting,” G.K. Chesterton noted in 1910. “It has been found difficult; and left untried.” Perhaps this helps explain why Christian adherence is in decline in the United Sates. On the other hand, whether or not Islam is found difficult, one thing is for sure.

    It’s being tried — with zeal.

    The former reality has inspired glee among Christophobes; the latter, alarm among Christians (and others). An example of this alarm is the recent Daily Mail feature, “Experts: Islam will be the dominant religion in America.” There’s an issue, however:

    This isn’t really what “experts” are saying — not most of them, anyway.

    In question is the United States’ (and world’s) “religious” landscape in ~2070. It’s predicted that Islam will overtake Christianity around that date as the world’s largest religion. In the United States, however, it’s poised to remain a minority faith; that is, based on current projections.

    What worries many, though, are displays such as the below, in which Muslims “took over” NYC’s Union Square to pray.

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  • Hollywood Narcissism and Celebrities Numerous “Gender Nonconforming” Kids

    Graphic illustration of male and female gender symbols with a scalpel in between, representing gender transition or surgery.

    By Selwyn Duke

    If a person’s five-year-old daughter tells you she’s a unicorn, you may say “Aww, that’s cute.” It’s red-alert time, however, if she’s making the claim at 14. (Believing you’re an animal is a real phenomenon, associated with “species dysphoria.”) It would be even more alarming, too, if her parents boasted about how they “support” the girl and her intention to have horn-emplacement surgery. Strikingly, though, something analogous is common today in Hollywood — and no one calls the men in white coats.

    That is, Tinseltown celebrities have a striking number of MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “gender nonconforming”) children. They fall all over themselves publicly emphasizing how they support this “expression,” too. My, a cynic could almost believe it’s performative.

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  • “Woke” Culture Is Just Feminine Culture, Says Writer — and It’s Killing America

    A woman with long hair wearing a colorful headband and a graphic t-shirt, pointing assertively with a serious expression.

    By Selwyn Duke

    What are the best indicators that a person will embrace left-wing authoritarianism? An interesting study, related by psychologist Jordan Peterson years ago, found that the best indicator was having low verbal intelligence.

    Number two was “being female.”

    None of this would surprise commentator Andrea Widburg. (I don’t think it did surprise her, either, when I recently related it to her.) This is likely ditto for PJ Media’s Megan Fox, who questioned women’s suffrage in 2016. And it certainly wouldn’t shock Helen Andrews, who recently wrote a very popular article titled “The Great Feminization.” As you may imagine, she doesn’t find it so great.

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  • Joe Rogan, Forgiveness, and Trump: Podcaster Calls President “a Nut”

    By Selwyn Duke

    Image created by Grok AI.

    One thing we can say about President Donald Trump is that he’s often nothing if not blunt. Sharing this quality is famed podcaster Joe Rogan, and examples of the two men’s bluntness were recently on full display.

    That is, bucking the affair’s spirit, Trump said at the Charlie Kirk memorial in September that he despises his adversaries. “I hate my opponent,” he emphasized at the time — “and I don’t want the best for them.”

    And responding to this when the comment was mentioned Friday, Rogan said, “I don’t agree with any of that.” He then added, speaking of Trump, “He’s a nut.”

    In fairness, Rogan, who boosted Trump’s 2024 candidacy, then explained his statement. He essentially said (in so many words) that the president was a nut for our time.

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  • Democrats’ Support for Jay Jones and America’s Descent Into Violence

    Image created by Grok AI.By Selwyn Duke

    Image created by Grok AI.

    African radio station RTLM is now infamous for having helped sparked the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Dubbed “Hate Radio,” it would broadcast messages in which the target group, the Tutsis, were regularly characterized as “cockroaches.” Is such mainstreamed rhetoric coming to America?

    Well, we’re getting closer, as many recent-years’ utterances attest. Said to be an example of this — though far from the best of the worst — is the recently unearthed text messages sent by Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones.

    Referencing then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R), Jones made a joke involving a violent hypothetical.

    “Three people, two bullets[;] Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot[;] Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones said. “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”

    “I would p*** on [their] graves,” he also reportedly stated.

    And why the animosity? “Gilbert and his wife [are] breeding little fascists,” he explained in a later text. “Fascists” — my, wherever did he get that from?

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  • More Than Being “Dumb,” Justice Jackson’s Argument Is Just Horribly Wrong

    By Selwyn Duke

    We don’t know if Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is disabled as a jurist, but she certainly has made it onto the Supreme Court. She apparently, though, believes that black Americans are essentially “disabled” within the context of our American system. In fact, she just said as much Wednesday during oral arguments in the current SCOTUS case of Louisiana v. Callais.

    Not surprisingly, Jackson’s argument has brought mockery, with critics calling her reasoning “insane” and “dumb.” In reality, however, she isn’t the first Supreme Court justice to make her disability argument. Even more significantly, the eye-rolling and guffaws can distract from the real, deeper issue. That is, Jackson embraces a flawed premise which, unlike her argument, too many Americans share with her.

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  • MASSIVE Retail Theft: The Unspoken Cause of High Prices and Economic Harm

    By Selwyn Duke

    There’s more than one reason for the high prices hurting average Americans. But one of them is seldom discussed: the massive retail theft now plaguing our country. How serious is it?

    The total annual 2022 losses (e.g., including security and insurance) associated with criminality amounted to approximately $112.1 billion. Theft alone was 65 percent of this “shrinkage,” totaling a $72.9 billion loss. Of course, good citizens are supporting these criminals, too.

    In fact, theft cost the average family more than $400 in 2022.

    This isn’t distributed equally, though. Families in high-crime areas — i.e., people generally poorer to begin with — bear a greater cost, perhaps $600 to $800.

    Citizens should ponder this the next time they contemplate supporting soft-on-crime politicians, whose inaction enables retail theft.

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  • 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.

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