By Selwyn Duke

It’s an all-too-common story. A teen I know currently has COVID-19 and is fairly sick. After an emergency-room examination yesterday, he was released from the hospital and he and his mother were simply told, “There’s no treatment protocol for COVID.”

Actually, there are effective treatments for COVID.

But they’re not officially sanctioned treatments — hence are doctors, hamstrung by labyrinthine regulations, refusing to administer them for fear of career destruction. In other words, bureaucracy is killing people on a massive scale.

The details of this story were recently revealed by a retired physician who provides a depressing, and seldom-heard, peek behind the curtain.

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By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a question: Given that you could be arrested and charged for showing minors certain images readily available in some school libraries, what should happen to the people responsible for their availability in those school libraries? One writer knows where she stands.

“It’s time to start arresting school board members for child pornography,” she unabashedly proclaims.

Raising this issue is a shocking story out of Fairfax, Virginia. 

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By Selwyn Duke

ESPN just had in July the lowest ratings ever in its 41-year history, but this hasn’t stopped the network from dealing with its woke-joke status by doubling down. Its latest fumble is to apply affirmative action to the gridiron and broadcast football games based on skin color.

This pigskin prejudice takes the form of a new partnership between ESPN and members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC); these entities comprise historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), and these schools will now get national coverage in more than 100 games this season. It’s a move that the Federalist states “is dividing the sport of football.”

Yet there’s an irony to forcing popular, nationally ranked teams to share the stage with affirmative-action (AA) choices.

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps a clue is that the politicians who insist on instituting mask mandates are shown, repeatedly, to not be too fond of actually wearing masks themselves. But whether they know better or just believe they are better, here’s reality: At best, mask mandates do nothing to reduce society-level coronavirus spread.

At worst, they lead to greater COVID-19 transmission and death.

The latest case in point is Oregon, where a month ago Democrat governor Kate Brown instituted a totalitarian mask mandate.

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By Selwyn Duke

Call “it Oceania in 1984 or the Soviet Union in 1965. It doesn't matter.”

“The one thing it isn't anymore is America 1776.”

So laments one writer talking about the story of a political prisoner. It’s a story most Americans haven’t heard and some Americans wouldn’t believe. But it’s all too true — and what it portends for our nation is terrifying.

If the United States now may have political prisoners as did the Soviets, it’s then not surprising that it also has a Soviet-like media. Hence the mischaracterization of the January 6 trespassing incident, which we’ve known from the beginning was just that. No “Stop the Steal” protesters were charged with “insurrection” or “sedition,” precisely because authorities realize that such charges are fanciful. No firearms were seized from those entering the Capitol building (one pistol was found on an arrestee on Capitol grounds), nor any other weapons to the best of my knowledge. And the only person violently killed was an unarmed, 5’2” woman named Ashli Babbitt, shot by a cop with a history of incompetence.

What’s more, recently released video — which the DOJ attempted to keep from the public — shows the protesters milling around inside the Capitol building looking not like terrorists but tourists, literally. Why, you might even say it was an “impressive show of democracy in action.”

That is, if you were like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

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By Selwyn Duke

Unlike Las Vegas, what happens in college doesn’t stay in college. In fact, contrary to the assurances of those once saying that “woke” students would change when hitting the “real world,” it has long been apparent that they actually change that world and make it more unreal. This is why, says one journalist, it’s terrifying that academia is now inuring students to full-bore COVID Ritual — and that many young people support the unscientific restrictions.  

In his article, Michael Tracey makes a couple of rarely heard points relating to why not just COVID, but COVID Ritual, may be here to stay. For starters and aside from more nefarious reasons to perpetuate coronavirus restrictions, changing course would require a “paradigm shift” in thinking on the disease. Second, the tremendous China virus “infrastructure” — a lot of money is being made off SARS-CoV-2 scientific obscurantism — won’t be dismantled anytime soon.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

“We like to think that we’re quite close to the ancient world, that they were really just like us,” said Oxford ancient history lecturer Josephine Quinn in 2014, talking about Carthaginian infant sacrifice. The “truth is,” she continued, “that they really weren’t.” 

While true that even some contemporary cultures (e.g., the Taliban) are alien to us, never mind B.C.-era, North African pagans, we may have a bit more in common with the Carthaginians than the academic thinks. Those ancients, after all, sacrificed babies because they wanted better lives. The common explanation for their bloody habit, said Quinn, was “that the gods ‘heard my voice and blessed me.’” Today’s infant sacrifice is likewise driven by a desire for “better lives,” though the god worshiped isn’t Ba’al Hammon but materialism, hedonism, and “self-ism.”

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By Selwyn Duke

The federal government’s violation of its border commitments “does in fact empower any border state to control their own sovereign territory.” So said Stephen Miller, ex-senior advisor to President Donald Trump, on Tuesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Miller was, of course, referencing the southern-border invasion being wink-and-nod facilitated by the Biden administration and was saying, in no uncertain terms, that the states need to do the job the feds won’t do.

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By Selwyn Duke

“Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die,” wrote poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in 1854. While the line implies that military men must do their duty and obey superiors regardless of cost, we know there are such things as illegal orders. There are also irrational, suicidal orders, such as the event inspiring Tennyson’s line: the disastrous charge of a Light Brigade during the Crimean War’s Battle of Balaclava. Yet while that tragedy resulted from innocent blunders, many wouldn’t say the same about another irrational order: the Biden administration’s directive that all American servicemen be “vaccinated” against SARS-CoV-2 despite soldiers being at greater risk of dying of suicide than COVID-19.

And now the administration wants the Pentagon to be able to court-martial any serviceman who resists.

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