By Selwyn Duke

“Existential” has become a very popular word today, even among those who aren’t adherents of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. For example, people who want attention focused on some pet issue will often call it an “existential threat.”

We’ve heard that climate change is an existential threat (not likely), that ISIS is an existential threat (not really), that “structural racism” is an existential threat (not exactly), and that China is an existential threat (you bet). But a true existential threat, and the greatest one we face, is rarely understood well or discussed. But a voice from beyond the grave warned of it Monday — issuing words to the wise.

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By Selwyn Duke

We’ve heard many complaints over the years about banning books, whether at issue was past church proscriptions or a school library protecting children from sexual propaganda. But perhaps far more significant than this is that the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is trying to control what you can read via his corporate leviathan, Amazon — by labeling what you “shouldn’t” read “hate speech” and banning it.

There apparently was no announcement of this rule’s implementation, nor is there any consistent definition of “hate speech,” a designation that does not exist in American law. Amazon simply began banning books it doesn’t like.

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By Selwyn Duke

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Talkback-03-01-2021

By Selwyn Duke

Is a new film in the offing? Perhaps Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coronavirus? We could thus wonder after the World Economic Forum (WEF) posted a bizarre but revealing tweet, with an embedded video, and proclaimed that “lockdowns are quietly improving cities around the world.”

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By Selwyn Duke

When your policy proposal starts to sound like a Babylon Bee headline, you should probably check yourself. Then again, this requires a sense of the ridiculous. Bringing this to mind is news that Uncle Sam spent $787 million on “gender equality projects” in the land of burkas, bombings, and boy play (bacha bāzī).

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By Selwyn Duke

Children aren’t allowed to buy cigarettes, drive cars, enter into contracts, or even have an aspirin at school without parental consent. But according to “Rachel” Levine, Joe Biden’s choice for assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), so-called “transgender treatments” for children are a-okay.

Most people find this outrageous, of course. Among them is world famous pediatric neurosurgeon and ex-presidential candidate Ben Carson, who in a recent interview called such life-rending treatments “child abuse.”

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By Selwyn Duke

Both liberals and conservatives today are generally united in an often frantic desire to see schools, shut-down under a COVD pretext, reopen. Yet, given toxic new Illinois education rules that will be spread nationwide (which we first reported on here), are your children better off being raised like jungle boy Mowgli than being indoctrinated in modern schools?

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By Selwyn Duke

Coca-Cola’s recent instruction to employees to “be less white” may turn out to be good advice — if the current federal COVID-19 bill is any indication. For it’s chock full of blatant anti-white discrimination. It hurts many women, too, for a reason most wouldn’t guess.  

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By Selwyn Duke

Many in recent times have lamented the state of American Christianity, pointing out that nowadays a great many churches prioritize wokeness over holiness. But there’s no such issue in St. Henry’s Parish in Buckeye, Arizona — at least not when Father William Kosko is giving the sermon.

He proved this not long ago, delivering a homily in which he excoriated Joe Biden and his anti-Christian views, the voters who enable him, and the bishops whose ignorance and “cowardice” allowed this situation to develop. He also said that he was “tempted to ask” pro-prenatal-infanticide Catholics to leave his parish, but wouldn’t because it might jeopardize their salvation.

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By Selwyn Duke 

A major reason the D-Day invasion of Normandy succeeded is that, by cleverly getting the Germans to accept misinformation, the Allies fooled them into sending resources to unnecessary areas. This is common in warfare. Lacking accurate knowledge can cause you to commit troops to fronts where there’s no danger at all while leaving places where you’ll be attacked vulnerable.

So it is in political and cultural wars, too — except that it’s even worse in a way. For it’s not just that people can’t possibly know what policies and politicians to support if they get misinformation about those policies and politicians. It’s that with actual warfare, the adversary’s failure to appear causes you to eventually realize your error. But you can expend resources fighting an imaginary enemy in political and cultural wars almost indefinitely — as long as deception is maintained.

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