By Selwyn Duke

My father, raised during the Great Depression, once told an interesting story about his childhood. He one day noticed that a couple of men were following him around. It turned out that there’d been a kidnapping threat against him — his father was a physician, making him a target in those desperate times — and the two fellows were government agents assigned to watch him.

Question: Were those agents “obsessed,” in some negative way, with my dad’s boyhood walks about town?

They certainly might have been — if we were to apply a certain kind of leftist thinking.

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By Selwyn Duke

It was said during our Mideast military adventures, and has been considered a truism of war, that you can’t really win a conflict without “boots on the ground.” For it’s difficult to completely subdue a people from afar. It may not be too different with battles for civilization.

I stated in 2012, addressing a long-developing reality, that the culture war was over as the Left had achieved social dominance. “What is occurring now is a pacification effort,” I wrote — one designed to stamp out the “conservative” guerrilla-group diehards.

Other than its intensification, the only thing that has changed about this effort in the last decade is that it has a new name: “cancel culture.” With GoogTwitFace (Big Tech) having upped its bias and dropped its mask and corporate America joining academia, the media and entertainment on the Dark Side, these entities act as a malevolent monolith silencing dissident voices from Maine to Maui. But it would be naïve to think the Left, which craves power and wants total control, will be satisfied with its current soft authoritarianism.

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By Selwyn Duke

California used to be the land of Ronald Reagan, the state’s pro-life, pro-school-prayer, small-government, two-term chief executive. Today, many Republicans pin their gubernatorial hopes on Bruce Jenner, a man who thinks he’s a woman, calls himself Caitlyn, and who advocates amnesty for illegal aliens. Yet both Reagan and Jenner are branded “conservative.”

What’s wrong with this picture?

Attorney and pastor Scott Lively has some idea: “‘Conservatism,’” he writes, “has always been a losers[’] game for those who forget what it is we’re supposed to be ‘conserving.’”

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By Selwyn Duke

“Something has gone off the rails in the world” with the treating of COVID-19. For one thing, despite our being more than a year into the pandemic, there’s still no “official treatment protocol” for the virus. This is a failure of the health establishment — and one that’s costing thousands of lives.

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By Selwyn Duke

“China is a sleeping giant,” French leader Napoleon Bonaparte once reportedly said. “Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.” While we’re “woke,” China finally is wide awake and she is moving the world. And she’s now also trying to move into the Atlantic, warns a top American general.

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By Selwyn Duke

As the statist-controlled federal government burgeons and blows money, opportunities abound for activists to turn their passions into programs and policy. And now one “civil rights” group wants “a cross agency/department national task force responsible for ending” what it calls “the epidemic of murders against the transgender community.”

This is despite the fact that according to a report, “transgenders” are more likely to kill than be killed. They’re also, the report stated, less likely to be murdered than the general population.

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By Selwyn Duke

China already produces 10 times as many scientists as the United States does despite having just about four times our population. Of course, quantity doesn’t speak to quality. But our woke federal overlords want to degrade the latter, too, as the White House is now waging a war on merit in the physical sciences.

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By Selwyn Duke

Should the opinions on COVID-19 of 40 doctors and a number of scientists and researchers who have investigated the matter be heard? Not according to a bunch of techies who wouldn’t know a virus from an iris unless the former comprised computer code. Thus did web platform Kartra “cut the cable” to an event called the “Truth Over Fear” summit after the latter had already begun streaming expert talks to its ~50,000 subscribers.

The good news is that the conference — originally slated for April 30 through May 2 — was successfully rescheduled after organizers found a “conservative friendly” hosting platform. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Having magnificent soldiers, small Finland’s claim to historical fame is having savaged Soviet forces during World War II. Now, however, the nation is turning its guns on Christian faith — at least, that is, insofar as it’s expressed authentically. If this seems an exaggeration, just consider what has befallen Päivi Räsänen, an ex-minister of the interior of Finland and currently a member of the nation’s parliament.

Taking cancel culture up more than a notch, the 61-year-old lawmaker has been criminally charged for expressing traditional views on marriage and sexuality.

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By Selwyn Duke

George Santayana’s famous saying “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” requires some delineation:

• Those who cannot remember the triumphs of the past are likely condemned not to repeat them, and
• Those who are told the mistakes of the past were triumphs will repeat them.

New York City parent Andrew Gutmann understands this well. Gutmann, who attracted national attention by issuing a now-viral letter addressed to Brearley School parents warning of the institution’s fatal race obsession, has sounded another alarm.

“We already do a horrific job in this country teaching history, and now we’re going to make that 10 times worse, we’re going to eradicate that,” the father told Fox News in a new interview.

“Our country doesn’t survive not teaching history and civics, and it sure as hell doesn’t survive teaching our children to hate their country and their history.” 

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