By Selwyn Duke

“The worst form of impoliteness is insincerity in discourse.” It’s unknown if writer Gabe Kaminsky would agree with this line, which I coined many years ago, but a piece he recently penned at the Federalist certainly reflects its spirit.

Titled “Conservatives Who Call Caitlyn Jenner ‘She’ Forfeit the Truth,” the article’s subhead states, “If you know a man is a man and a woman is a woman, then referring to Jenner in the feminine sense violates your moral compass and prescription to the truth.”

Jenner, of course, is the famed ex-Olympian whose given name is “Bruce” and who now claims to be a woman. A longtime Republican, he’s also now running for the California governorship, which has made conservatives even more sympathetic to his cause (even if a big part of it isn’t, ostensibly, theirs).

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By Selwyn Duke

Leftists are “trying to destroy the American military” and “turn it … into a bunch of pansies.” So warned Senate Foreign Affairs Committee member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday, responding to a new, outrageously politically correct U.S. Army recruitment ad. Featuring an animated portrayal of a true story of a “little girl, raised by two moms,” the ad signals how the military has thoroughly transitioned from sexual rectitude to “Don’t ask, don’t tell” to, finally, “Will tell — you better approve.”

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By Selwyn Duke

“The Hips On the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish.” No, that’s not a bad joke, but the title of a new book intended for, and read to, young children — on a kids’ TV show.

The reading was the result of a partnership between PBS station WNET and the New York City Department of Education, taxpayer-supported entities both. 

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By Selwyn Duke

I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:24.

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Talkback-05-21-2021

By Selwyn Duke

It’s right up there, or down there, with how a British politician got charged with “hate speech” for reading an excerpt from a Winston Churchill book:

A professor at St. John’s University in New York City was recently fired — after a complaint from just one student — for reading a Mark Twain book that lampoons racism.

What was the problem?

The work, Pudd’nhead Wilson, includes the N-word, as part of an authentic relation of the language and dialects of the time and place in which the story is set.

Meanwhile, many secondary schools now expose students to intellectually degraded books containing lewd sexuality and vulgarity. Moreover, CNN retains a contributor who openly admires history’s most notorious racist: Adolf Hitler.

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By Selwyn Duke

“It’s like Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” said a quite astute friend a long, long time ago. He was describing how people and institutions would be “snatched” by leftism and start operating as a bizarre collective with alien ideas. Enter (or maybe it’s “exit”?) the Boy Scouts of America.

It was only in the 1990s and into 2000 that the BSA went to court to defend its policies against accepting girls and openly homosexual members and its policy of having God in its pledge. It won those battles. But the dam broke in the 20-teens, with the organization first accepting openly homosexual youth, then likewise disposed leaders, then girls who think they’re boys and, finally, girls who know they’re girls. And if there was any doubt before, the BSA has now come full circle, with an anti-white “diversity and inclusion” badge Eagle Scout requirement.

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By Selwyn Duke

As virtue declines in our land, we more and more become a nation not of laws but men. This has been called the “Third Worlding” of America, a phenomenon whereby, for one thing, power is increasingly used to destroy political opponents by any means necessary. This reality is well illustrated by a very troubling story that has gotten precious little exposure.

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By Selwyn Duke

If you still don’t think there are now at least two standards for “justice” in our country, consider American Idol finalist Caleb Kennedy.

That is, ex-American Idol finalist. 

You see, Kennedy has now had to leave the show because of a three-second video in which he’s seated next to a child wearing a white hood “resembling Ku Klux Klan apparel.”

Not actual KKK wear, I’ll emphasize, but something resembling it.

Oh, the singer was reportedly 12 years old when the video was shot, too. Now his music career may be shot, all due to “cancel culture,” which many leftists swear doesn’t even exist.

They’re half right, too: It sure doesn’t exist for leftists.

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By Selwyn Duke

At Social Security’s birth, it was promised that workers would never be taxed for the program at more than six percent of their income. Today SS takes 12.4 percent. The government had long said there were “only” 11 million illegal aliens in our nation, but academic studies place the actual number at two to three times higher. The Centers for Disease Control had maintained that the risk of contracting the coronavirus outdoors was “less than 10 percent,” but it turns out the agency made a bush-league mistake: The actual number may be less than 0.1 percent.

Even though the above well reflects the government’s track record, there could certainly be an exception to the apparent rule that government numbers are as accurate as a blind archer with vertigo. I’m not aware of one, though. This brings us to the claim that “500,000 Americans have died of COVID.” Is this really a possible first, that elusive exception to the state errancy norm?

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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-05-12-2021