By Selwyn Duke

“Many of the great disasters of our time have been committed by experts,” Professor Thomas Sowell has observed. And the way was paved for this when we began preferring experts to wise men and forgot that being an “expert” should first mean being expert — not just being credentialed.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

“Wokeness” is for the birds, critics might say. Except that this apparently isn’t true. For while we’ve heard of birds carrying messages and birds carrying diseases, our avian friends also allegedly carry something else: a “racist legacy.”

That’s according to the Washington Post, anyway. No, the problem isn’t that Tweety  gave half-black Sylvester fits or that the Roadrunner ever brought notably brown Wile E. Coyote to ruin (although the issue in both cases was furry-on-feathered crime). Rather, bird-brained white ornithologists are wringing their pasty hands red over “whether to change as many as 150 eponyms, names of birds that honor people with connections to slavery and supremacy,” writes WaPo.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

A well-informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny,” noted Thomas Jefferson. It follows from this that if you want to visit tyranny upon a people, you can start by dumbing them down.

Ergo, 21st-century America.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

What do you call a person who won’t help a supposedly beloved relative, her grandmother, who’s in material need? While you could probably think of a number of names, there’s one thing we can certainly call a particular person thus guilty: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It was a fairly big story some days ago when the Democrat New York congresswoman claimed that her grandmother, her “abuela,” in Puerto Rico was living in a broken-down home because President Trump failed to deliver the necessary aid. Following this announcement, conservative commentator Matt Walsh launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the grandmother and collected $110,000 in mere hours. Strikingly, AOC refused the money.

If this isn’t bad “optics,” what is? But it got even worse for the politician. The added attention inspired the Daily Mail to send a reporter to Puerto Rico on a fact-finding mission. The conclusion?

Grandma AOC does have problems; there’s a tarp over her house. But Trump had nothing to do with it.

In fact, a woman identified as AOC’s aunt said that the aid was given to Puerto Rico — it’s just not getting to the people.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

I was on for a hour on Sunday. My appearance begins at 1:01:27.

By Selwyn Duke

Maybe they should rename it Social Justice High School. After all, Justice High School (JHS) in Falls Church, Virginia — known until 2018 as J.E.B. Stuart High School, in honor of a Confederate general — is now a wokester’s dream. While the institution is 50.3 percent Hispanic, 23.4 percent white, 13.6 percent Asian-descent, and 10.1 percent black, its homepage’s “big image shows 11 students, none of them White, holding myriad flags, none of them American,” writes commentator Andrea Widburg.

Yes, because “diversity” obviously means no white people, and multiculturalism means every culture but the West’s.

“One young woman in a hijab holds a Somalia Mogadishu flag,” Widburg continues. “Another holds the flag of Libya. And yet another has the flag of Eritrea in his hands. The school’s mascot is a wolf, and the students are wearing sweatshirts that play on that name: ‘Woke Pack,’ they say.”

Well, it doesn’t get more in-your-face than that, does it? Or maybe it does. Try this on for size….

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

Call it “regression to type.” Since tribalism-born prejudice has ever plagued man, it’s no surprise that, with the emphasis on Christian brotherhood waning in the West, race hatred is back in style. It has returned with a vengeance, too, and with pseudo-intellectual approval in the form of “Critical Race Theory” (CRT). It’s a “pernicious” idea that “could easily lead to and justify all manner of oppression and violence,” writes one commentator — and that is in fact a “heresy” that should be condemned by the church.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

It’s ironic, but “progressives” so often progress toward Truth only long after ridiculing their opponents for espousing it. The COVID-19 lab-leak theory is no exception. It now is graduating — in the University of Leftist Thought, anyway — from tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory to striking possibility.

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

“Have it your way,” Burger King’s slogan goes. So if you country’s pseudo-elites pander to sexual devolutionaries, the restaurant chain is all in and will boast of donating to an “LGBTQ” group.

But if your nation kills homosexuals, well, hey, have it your way. Far be it from Burger King (BK) to complain.

Meanwhile, the chain is also fine with mocking Christians.

All these realities could come to mind when considering BK’s latest politically correct, value-signaling marketing campaign. 

Read the rest here.

By Selwyn Duke

So the rule is that white people can never, ever use the n-word under any circumstances, not even as a greeting or for illustrative purposes. It’s only for black people’s usage and rap songs.

That is, unless you’re the president’s son and a connected liberal — such as Hunter Biden.

Read the rest here.