By Selwyn Duke

While Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling specializes in fiction, she has learned the hard way that disputing fashionable fiction posing as reality can be costly — even when you’re willing to accept half the tall tale.

At issue is, of course, Rowling’s opposition to the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status or “transgender”) agenda, a stance that has perhaps earned her almost as much publicity as her novels. The issue has recently landed her back in the news, too, with an accusation that she has caved to the MUSS mob.

In reality, though, her weakness here isn’t in her wrists but her reasoning, which, tragically, she shares with millions.

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps they’d feel differently about the game if, like fellow socialist Kim Jong-Il, they’d once carded a 34 (ahem) on a regulation-length golf course, which beats Tiger Woods’ lowest-ever score by 27 shots (ahem!). Instead, California Democrats are channeling late socialist Hugo Chavez, who would spitefully destroy golf courses in Venezuela, calling the game an “obnoxious bourgeois sport” whose privileged participants “should all be exterminated.”

Yes, some Golden State Democrats are leading an effort to plow municipal golf courses under, using the same pretext Chavez did: to make way for affordable housing. Except that their proposal is in one sense even worse than ol’ Hugo’s.

As in Third World countries generally, golf in Venezuela truly is a game for the champagne set. But the California bill targets public golf courses, which were created for the very purpose of giving the common man access to recreation that had previously been reserved for the rich.

What’s more, what underlies this issue goes far beyond golf.

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I wish you a very happy, healthy and blessed new year. 

Selwyn Duke

By Selwyn Duke 

My appearance on Brannon Howse Live on Tuesday. We discussed the perils of a Constitutional (a.k.a. an Article V) Convention. 

By Selwyn Duke

Owing to media characterizations, just hearing “Omicron” can provoke fear and trembling. But the good news is that the latest coronavirus variant is, in contrast to the original Alpha, a real beta. In fact, not only is it apparently less virulent than previous strains but, says an Oxford immunologist, it’s not even “the same disease we were seeing a year ago.”

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By Selwyn Duke

I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20.

Note: To fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

Talkback-12-30-2021

By Selwyn Duke

We may argue about what authors meant to say through works they’ve written, but we don’t argue about whether they meant what they meant. So it’s rather interesting that the men who put the First Amendment in the Constitution opened the inaugural Congress, in 1789, with Christian prayers. This tradition continued (and does to this day), with the prayers remaining exclusively Christian for as long as the Founding generation endured and beyond.

Oddly, it never occurred to these men who gave us the Establishment Clause that government involvement in religion could be a violation of it; we’d have to wait more than 150 years for that great revelation to be delivered by epiphanic, black-robed lawyers who, somehow, apparently knew more about the Constitution than the giants who actually wrote it. Funny that.

As for the Founders’ vision, question: Why didn’t they open one of the early congresses, or some other government affair in the nascent United States, with a prayer to King George III?

“Because he’s not only just a man, but the monarch against whom they rebelled!” is the answer. “That’s a silly question!”

Alright, but would showing such reverence to America’s then-mortal enemy have been any sillier than insisting that a representation of God’s enemy, Satan, must accompany a Nativity at a state capitol at Christmastime?

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By Selwyn Duke

A “great man knows he is not God,” observed the great and greater G. K. Chesterton — “and the greater he is the better he knows it.” This came to mind when hearing something President Trump said recently — and brought to mind something Barack Obama said many years ago, something a bit odd.

“Our country needs a savior right now,” said Trump while preaching for Pastor Robert Jeffress at Dallas’s First Baptist Church the Sunday before last. “And our country has a savior,” he continued. “And it’s not me. It’s somebody much higher up than me. Much higher.”

Of course, such an admission doesn’t require a heck of a lot of humility. What do you have to be, after all, to not realize you’re not God?

Answer: Maybe a Barack Obama.

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By Selwyn Duke

Much has been made in recent years of how “divided” the U.S. is, and it is a reality. Yet it’s also true, new research has found, that rank-and-file liberals and conservatives aren’t as far apart on the issues as they themselves think. Rather, each group believes the other is more radical than it actually is — because of media misrepresentation.

Put differently, bombardment with pseudo-elite opinion has made conservatives think average liberals reflect pseudo-elites more than they do and has made liberals think average conservatives reflect the pseudo-elite’s negative portrayals of them more than they do.

As another testimonial to pseudo-elite power, liberals and conservatives are also more united in embracing certain Establishment lies than many would think.

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By Selwyn Duke

Pascal Robert cannot be confused with a conservative: He favors socialized medicine and socialized education. He cannot be mistaken for colorblind: He has characterized whites as blacks’ “oppressors.” Robert also cannot be considered American in spirit: His parents emigrated from Haiti and he blames the United States for the poor country’s woes. But on one issue, at least, the attorney and journalist agrees with robust conservatives such as Tucker Carlson:

The obsession with racial politics, the current black/white wealth gap fixation being a prime example, is a sort of con — it “protects” the pseudo-elites.

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