By Selwyn Duke

Value-signaling is all fun and games — until the vagrant sets up a tent on your sidewalk. Then it becomes real. And this kind of reality-delivered slap in the face is apparently what recently caused residents of Austin, Texas — a notoriously liberal city — to reject measures pushed by progressives.

The first case concerns how, in 2019, the left-wing Austin City Council allowed vagrant encampments on all city-owned land, except City Hall. (Just as with laws, apparently, social decay is only for the little people.) This led to all the usual problems and an attempt to gag police who warned of the policy’s perils.

The result was a rebellion by residents who sought to reinstate the camping ban via an initiative known as Proposition B.

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By Selwyn Duke

For “all intents and purposes, I am a woman,” said Bruce Jenner, who now calls himself Caitlyn, to journalist Diane Sawyer in 2015. But if one of those purposes is sports, a man claiming female status is apparently not a woman, the ex-Olympian and California gubernatorial contender tacitly admitted Saturday.

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps there’s something about the fraction a third. But that’s how many angels are said to have followed Lucifer into Hell.

It’s also the percentage of employees at a software company named Basecamp who recently quit after their boss told them they could no longer turn the workplace into a hell of political rancor.

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By Selwyn Duke 

Perhaps politicized “science,” which isn’t science at all, is inevitable when you don’t have a separation of science and state. But this increasingly is what we have, and the latest example is striking:

Instead of acting in children’s best interests, the Centers for Disease control followed teachers’ unions’ will on reopening schools.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s the Northeast’s last great forest — and it’s in the crosshairs of foreign energy companies that stand to make millions by cutting away a huge swath of it and irrevocably altering its character. So say critics of the Central Maine Power Corridor, a planned project that would enable the transfer of “clean” green energy from Quebec, Canada, to Massachusetts.

The tradeoff, though, is that thousands of acres of forest must be destroyed.

The handiwork of two foreign companies, Hydro-Quebec and Spanish-owned Central Maine Power (CMP), the project involves….

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By Selwyn Duke

“You fundamentally can’t change sex,” said Australian “transsexual” Alan Finch in 2004. “Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists.” Tragically, Finch has more and more company in learning this lesson the hard way. One of the latest is a girl who, after a double mastectomy, laments, “My scars are so large and I want to crawl out of my skin.… I wish I could go back.”

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By Selwyn Duke

You had to be at least 60 years old to become a member of ancient Greek city-state Sparta’s ruling body. Today, some Americans want 16-year-olds to vote. But now Democrats in Congress have conjured a perhaps equally bad idea:

They’ve launched “a backdoor effort to impose a de facto national curriculum,” as National Review’s Stanley Kurtz put it, to impose anti-white Critical Race Theory and “Action Civics” on classrooms nationwide. It’s called the “Civics Secures Democracy Act,” but it’s not your grandfather’s civics. “In fact,” writes Kurtz, “‘The very term ‘Action Civics’ is a euphemism for political protests for course credit, something close to the opposite of a proper civics course.”

Of course, this “protesting” would be on behalf of left-wing causes. So the act is essentially a way of catalyzing a massive youth army to advance a revolution. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Since time immemorial man has recognized two sexes, male and female, and accepted that boys should be raised as boys and girls as girls. But a small though increasing number of parents are departing from this historical norm. They refuse to divulge their children’s sex — even to the children themselves — with the idea that the kids should be allowed to decide for themselves how to “identify.” They call their offspring “theybies.”

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By Selwyn Duke

In his first address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday evening, Joe Biden launched some assault words at Second Amendment rights, renewing a push to ban AR-15-class weapons and “high-capacity” magazines.

But were they really “assault words”?

Well, they were — as much as the rifles Biden’s handlers are targeting are “assault weapons.”

Missing from Biden’s speech was relation of the fact that more people are killed every year with “personal weapons” — hands, fists, and feet — than are murdered with rifles of any kind, never mind the AR-15-class subcategory of them.

But not satisfied with omissions of Truth….

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By Selwyn Duke

It was back in 2013 that the Supreme Court of Canada stated, astoundingly, that the Truth was not a defense against “hate crime” charges. Now this philosophy may be manifesting itself in Spain, where a populist political party daring to claim that migrants get more government money than retirees is being investigated for “incitement to hatred.”

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