By Selwyn Duke

Education today has moved so far left that, in many cases, it has even left liberals — in shock. A good example are the parents who’ve made news protesting the racial policies at their children’s ritzy, high-end New York City private schools. What’s more, as education watchers know painfully well, even math and other basic subjects have too often been reduced to a woke joke. In fact, a recent “letter” from a liberal mother attests to this very fact — and it’s eye-opening.

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By Selwyn Duke

Call it Woke Side Story. Because there’s woke, really woke, über woke, and then there’s this: not including subtitles for a movie’s Spanish dialogue because you don’t want to give “English the power over the Spanish.”

That’s exactly what director Steven Spielberg did, and why, in his recently released West Side Story (WSS), a “remake” of the iconic 1961 film of the same name. Spielberg says, however, that it’s not a remake but a “reimagining.” But no matter one’s imagination, it’s hard to conceive of the flick’s debut this past weekend as anything but a flop — and expensive one, too.

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By Selwyn Duke

As we ponder how our day’s Dr. Strangeloves want Ukraine to join NATO so that we’ll be obligated to war against Russia if it attacks its western, kleptocratic neighbor, we should consider a certain point. It isn’t just, as some have pointed out, that Cold War relic NATO has outlived its usefulness. It’s not just that Russia, no longer being the Soviet Union, has no intention of invading Western Europe and couldn’t pull off a Julius-Caesar-in-Gaul even if it did. It’s also this:

Troubling over such a thing is a bit like fearing that Bill Gates’s bucks will invade your bank account.

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By Selwyn Duke

New York may be our country’s least-free state according to research, but even its residents have their limits. Governor Kathy Hochul, the Empire State’s would-be empress and unelected and uninspiring chief executive, may be learning this the hard way, too. For after issuing her state’s toughest mask mandate yet, countless New Yorkers and various counties are vowing not to comply.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Officially” is a funny word. Officially, China’s constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion. Officially, homosexuality is outlawed under Islam (but loopholes exist). Here’s another example:

Officially, our Consumer Price Index (CPI — what’s informally called “inflation”) rose 7.3 percent this year — or 6.9 percent, depending on whom you believe. This would make it the highest in 39 years. Banking on this, however, would be a bit like assuming you could mount a soapbox in Shanghai, call Xi Jinping a traitor and not end up “re-educated.”

For in fact, says one analyst, the real 2021 CPI is 15 percent — the highest in American history.

Indications are that it’s going to get worse, too.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere,” noted GK Chesterton in 1928. As to this, critics of a new statue erected outside UN Headquarters in New York City say it crosses the line. In fact, they claim the work crosses up the Cross, in that it depicts a demonic End Times beast.

“When I first heard about this, I could hardly believe that the global elite would be so brazen,” remarked blogger Michael Snyder, who says the statue “appears to very closely resemble a ‘beast’ that is described in the Book of Revelation.”

The work, which is named the “Guardian for International Peace and Security” (GIPS) and is a gift from the Government of Oaxaca, Mexico (and, apparently, entered our country legally), “is a fusion of jaguar and eagle,” according to this website. It also “has been painted in LGBT colors"….

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By Selwyn Duke

The authorities are Johnny on the spot when someone puts bacon on a mosque’s door handles or a paranoid race-car driver claims a garage-door pull rope is a noose. But a spate of Christmas tree burnings isn’t attracting much attention and generally gets sloughed off as mischief. In fact, after a Christmas display was vandalized at a Chicago park recently for the third year running, a media outlet sloughed the act off as the work of a “Grinch.”

So while leftists have often been called “tree-huggers,” it appears that reflecting their usual standard, some trees are more equal than others. Reporting on this Wednesday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson cited the case of a non-profit Chicago group called My Block, My Hood, My City, which aims to encourage virtue and responsibility in youth. Last Saturday afternoon, four members from this group went to the Windy City’s dangerous Bronzeville neighborhood to hang Christmas lights and were robbed by four hooligans; mere hours later, someone torched a Christmas tree they’d erected in a nearby park.

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By Selwyn Duke

Where is the brave little boy to say, “But the Emperor has no clothes!”? This famous Hans Christian Andersen line could come to mind when pondering the case of University of Pennsylvania athlete “Lia” Thomas, the man claiming to be female who has been smashing women’s swimming records. After all, it has just been learned that his teammates’ publicized “support” for him is a façade erected because the female swimmers fear criticism and being “canceled.”

In fact, says one teammate speaking under the condition of anonymity about Thomas’s competing against women, “everyone just knows it's the wrong thing.”

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By Selwyn Duke

“Do you know we don’t rule out first-use nuclear action?” So said Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) while outlining what measures the U.S. could take against Russia over Ukraine, at whose border Moscow has been massing troops. The senator’s office later clarified that this comment related to American policy in general and not specifically to Russia. While this is actually believable (Wicker made a loose comment), what’s unbelievable is that we’re even considering a military confrontation with Moscow over something that does not at all involve a U.S. national interest.

Moreover, what else Wicker said, during a recent interview with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, is not reassuring. To wit: “Well, military action could mean that we stand off with our ships in the Black Sea and we rain destruction … on Russia military capability,” the Independent related him as stating. “It could mean that we participate, and I would not rule that out, I would not rule out American troops on the ground.”

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a sign of the times that everything has become “political” — even drugs. But all that had to happen to poor hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was for President Trump to tout him, and he automatically became a MAGA-hatted Republican targeted for cancellation. The same is true of ivermectin (IVM), which was branded “horse medicine” even though it has long been used to treat people and our CDC fairly recently recommended it for Afghan “refugees” as an anti-parasitic.

Speaking of woke mentalities, however, applying politically correct thinking to the anti-ivermectin set would get them deemed racists who are calling black Africans horses — animals, in other words — as this drug and HCQ are used widely by people in sub-Saharan countries. Notably, these nations also happen to have low rates of COVID-19-induced death, a phenomenon that should interest anyone concerned about tackling the disease.

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