By Selwyn Duke

What does it say about a civilization when it feels compelled to place a satanic display next to baby Jesus at Christmastime? As a general question, you can answer that for yourself. But among other things, in our case it means too many Americans — including judges — wouldn’t know the Constitution from the Communist Manifesto.

The story here is that the baby Baphomet, a goat-like creature worshiped by satanists, has been placed alongside a Christmas tree, a Nativity and a menorah in Springfield, Illinois State Capitol Rotunda. This isn’t just a one-off, either, but reflects now common insanity. It also isn’t just limited to “liberal” states.

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I wish you a very merry and blessed Christmas. Let us remember the true spirit of the Holy Day and that today is just the beginning of the Christmas observance. 

God bless,

Selwyn Duke

Here's a nice article on a miracle in the WWI trenches. I wrote a piece on this topic in 2008, but it appears that it's no longer on the Internet. So I present the following.

By Kurt Hyde

In 1914, when the bulk of the soldiers on both sides of World War I were Christian and Christmastime rolled around, fighting ceased, despite orders from superiors.

The fighting came to a halt for many of the troops along the Western Front on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1914. Most historians refer to this event as the Christmas Truce of 1914. But it wasn’t a single truce negotiated by diplomats at the highest levels of the governments involved. The Christmas Truces of 1914 were negotiated informally by the troops themselves, most of whom were Christians who sincerely believed they were fighting for a just cause, regardless of which side they were on. But no matter how noble they viewed their cause, they did not want to engage in the slaughter of their fellow human beings on the Holy Day.

Some of the truces were just a head nod in agreement not to fight for a day, while many involved fraternization, meaning the troops visited with each other. There were hundreds of these individual truces, perhaps even a thousand.

There were reliable reports of Christmas Truces along the Western Front from Messines, Belgium, passing east of Armentières to Richebourg, France, a distance of about 20 miles. There were also sporadic reports of similar truces in other locations. Estimates of participation run as high as tens of thousands of soldiers. It was the largest informal truce in recorded history.

Read the rest here.

And here's a good video about the incident.

By Selwyn Duke

No one really knows the exact number of rats living in New York City (unless one means Gotham politicians). In fact, estimates range anywhere from two million to 72 million — which breaks down to roughly four people for every one rat to eight rats for every one person — proving that the rodents aren’t big on answering the census. But one thing may be certain, say many Big Apple residents:

The rat population has been exploding in recent times.

And while some may claim this is another gift from outgoing mayor Bill de Blasio (and he is complicit), the direct blame, say many, lies with the COVID-19-inspired al fresco dining that has become a fixture of city life.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

It’s ironic now, but years ago CNN did a segment entitled “Tracking America’s Pedophiles.”

Apparently, the network should have started with its own production team.

Some are drawing this conclusion with news that, as Fox News host Tucker Carlson put it this week, there’s a “pedo outbreak” at CNN. It’s yet another shot in the gut for a network that has been hit by numerous scandals in recent years, among them the revelation that it has peddled fake news.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

The people putting men in women’s sports, boys in girls’ locker rooms, and the Grinch in Christmas are also pushing “gender”-neutral toys. But if they’re dreaming of woke Yuletide gift-giving, they may be disappointed with a new survey finding that most shoppers aren’t neutral on “gender”-neutral toys — they’re wholly uninterested in them.

Polling 2,458 American adults, research entity CivicScience finds that just 15 percent are at all interested in buying what are properly known as “sex-neutral” toys (words have “gender”; people exhibit the biological distinction called “sex”).

Breaking it down further, 74 percent are “not at all likely” to purchase sexually confused toys; 12 percent are confused about whether they’d buy sexually confused toys, saying “I’m not sure”; nine percent are “somewhat likely”; and only six percent are “very likely.”

The numbers for sexually confused toys improve when considering only likely Christmas-season toy buyers, but still aren’t encouraging for the androgyny crew, with the “not at all likely” figure dropping to 60 percent and the “very likely” one rising to just 10 (chart below).

Read the rest here. 

By Selwyn Duke

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” For decades liberals and others would self-righteously repeat this quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr. The line is true, too. But given the Establishment and mainstream media reaction to the January 6 defendants’ persecution, it’s clear that if any within the American “Left” ever believed it, few do today.

In fact, “This is how totalitarianism looks,” writes The American Spectator’s George Parry while describing the J6ers’ treatment in his piece “A Visit to the DC Gulag” — and he’s not exaggerating. It’s also what will befall all those defying Establishment power if our radical leftists can continue cementing their control.

Equally tragic is why this is occurring: While The Washington Post’s slogan is “Democracy dies in darkness,” it and the rest of the mainstream media refuse to shine any light at all on the J6ers’ plight. Complicit as well is the entire Democrat Party and most Republicans, who either tacitly approve of the abuse or would rather play politics than take a politically incorrect stand.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

He had no idea, he says, that he was speaking at a ceremony hosted by representatives of history’s most prolifically mass-murdering ideologists. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is only 75 years old with approximately four decades spent in politics, after all, and maybe he was sleepwalking when the woman introducing him spoke of how important the Communist Party was to their movement.

The day was December 11, and the scene was the annual Amistad Awards ceremony hosted by the Connecticut People’s World Committee, an affiliate of the Communist Party USA. Blumenthal spoke for approximately seven minutes, according to the Hartford Courant, which also reports that the event took place at a New Haven church and that three friends were being honored.

Afterwards, Blumenthal was “blasted on national websites and television, as well as by state and national Republicans,” the paper further informs. The senator’s response has been to pull a Sergeant Schultz (“I know nothing!).

“‘My understanding was that this ceremony was strictly a labor event,’ Blumenthal said Friday in a telephone interview,” the Courant also related. “If I had known the details, I wouldn’t have gone…. Let me just say very emphatically, I’m a Democrat and a strong believer in American capitalism. I have been consistently a Democrat and a strong supporter and believer in American capitalism.”

Of course, pointing out that he’s been consistently a Democrat may not help convince many today that he believes in “capitalism” (i.e., economic freedom; the term “capitalism” was originated by socialists). Regardless, many aver that his plea of ignorance is laughable.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

While a Gallic “intellectual” did propose in 2017 the creation of a quasi-Sharia state within France in order to avoid civil war with its Muslims, not all his countrymen are quite ready to throw in the towel. In fact, the French government has just shut down 21 mosques for “extremist” preaching.

This isn’t the first time the nation has targeted jihadist-oriented Islamic entities. France closed approximately 20 mosques and prayer halls in 2016 and last year shuttered 73 “places of radicalization,” which included mosques, schools, shops, and drinking establishments. The Gallic country is host to approximately 2,500 mosques and prayer halls in total.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

“Lia” Thomas, the “transgender” University of Pennsylvania swimmer who has become famous, and infamous, for making women in the pool seem like manatees racing a barracuda, recently said that he just tries to tune out the negativity directed his way. After all, not only do many people say it’s unfair he’s competing with females, but his recent boast that winning was “so easy, I was cruising” truly raised hackles. But even though he’s not really a damsel in distress, I’m here to help as his knight in shining armor.

No, as my above paragraph indicates, Mr. Thomas, I won’t play the pronoun game. I won’t stop mentioning that your birth name is “Will.” I also can’t in good conscience call you “transgender” as opposed to the more accurate acronym I originated, MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status). No, those things I can’t, or won’t, do. But there’s something I will, Will.

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