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  • Should Once-colonized Lands Thank God for Their Colonizers?

    Map of NigeriaBy Selwyn Duke

    Years ago I had an African friend, from Zambia, who mentioned his participation in a school debate on colonialism. He took the position that it was a net positive for his land.

    Then there was the Indian man I knew who despised Mohandas Gandhi (whose image is far different from the reality). He said, spewing a tad of venom, that Gandhi’s expulsion of the British left India denuded of expertise.

    Of course, these two individuals’ views probably didn’t represent consensus opinion in their countries. They might, however, represent something else: reality.

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  • The Yawning Electorate: “Black Fatigue” in America Is Real — and Intensifying

    Two Black Men ArguingBy Selwyn Duke

    In case you missed it, and the most blessed among us did, Sunday was the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Activists who didn’t succeed in getting police defunded, and others, gathered to mark the event and have a complaint-fest. Race hustler “Reverend” Al Sharpton, for example, compared Floyd’s plight to that of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till.

    “What Emmett Till was in his time,” Sharpton said in Houston, “George Floyd has been for this time in history.”

    Mind you, Floyd was a criminal strung out on drugs, who was resisting arrest, when he died in Minneapolis. Till was at worst a cheeky adolescent boy who ran into the wrong people while visiting relatives in Mississippi. But, yes, Sharpton is right: There are similarities (i.e., both individuals are rumored to have drunk water at some point in their lives).

    To such racial agitation, though, there’s increasingly a certain profound reaction.

    Yawn.

    This phenomenon has a name, too: “black fatigue.”

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  • Trump, His New MAGA Critics, and the “Art of the Possible”

    MAGA Elephant Boxing TrumpImage created by Grok AI.

    By Selwyn Duke

    When Grandma Sarah was saved from Comanchero thugs by the eponymous main character in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), she wasn’t entirely happy. “This Mr. Wales is a cold-blooded killer,” she told the Indian Lone Watie, who’d been abducted with her. “He’s from Missouri, where they’re all known to be killers of innocent men, women, and children.”

    “Would you rather be riding with Comancheros, Granny?” Lone Watie responded, waxing rhetorical.

    “No, I wouldn’t,” Grandma Sarah confessed, seemingly having to almost pry open her own mouth to utter the words.

    Ah, prejudice and expectations. Wales wasn’t the savior Granny wanted; he also wasn’t the savior she feared. But he was the only savior she was going to get — and he got the job done.

    This comes to mind when pondering recent MAGA criticism of President Donald Trump over his perceived failures. You’ve likely heard the complaints. Maybe you’ve even leveled some. Where are the pre-dawn raids on the homes of swamp creatures such as James Comey (as happened with Roger Stone)? What’s Attorney General Pam Bondi doing? Is she just another Establishment plant? What of the FBI’s Kash Patel and Dan Bongino and the Jeffrey Epstein conclusion? Have “they” gotten to these guys? While I doubt this, there’s a better question:

    What has gotten to the critics? What spirit, that is.

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  • Study: In Germany, Foreign-born Muslim Women Are MORE Violent Than German Men

    Muslim Holding SwordBy Selwyn Duke

    We’ve been told by our “betters,” in a variety of ways, that the (actually long-extinct) thing called the Western “patriarchy” imperils women. Why, the miniseries Adolescence instructs that what you really must fear, Karen, are cute little 13-year-old English boys. But new data out of Germany, relating to a recent-years crime spike, tell a different tale.

    In fact, a reports finds, it’s not just that the crime increase isn’t the fault of native German men. Nor is it just that the country’s recent male imports are inordinately violent (though they are).

    It’s that even foreign-born Muslim women (and some other female groups) are more violent than indigenous German men.

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  • Goodbye, De-policing? Trump DOJ Takes Biden’s Knee Off Police Departments’ Necks

    Police CruiserBy Selwyn Duke

    Call it, maybe, an example of Making Policing Great Again. A troubling step toward the federalization of local law enforcement taken by the Biden administration has just been reversed by the Trump administration. The issue concerns “consent degrees,” court-enforced agreements that allow the Washington leviathan to monitor and control local police. Such control is contrary to the Constitution, of course. It’s quite necessary, though, if the feds are to have complete societal control.

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  • Red Meat and Hot Cars: Men, Not Women, Most Responsible for “Climate Change,” Study Claims

    Angry BusinesswomanBy Selwyn Duke

    Man, oh man, is there any woe a toxically masculine man isn’t responsible for today? The recent miniseries Adolescence, for instance, put the onus for much anti-female violence on the “manosphere.” And now we learn that, supposedly, the manosphere also mucks up the atmosphere, with a new study linking men to higher CO2 emissions.

    Strangely enough, too, news outlets say “higher CO2 emissions” like it’s a bad thing.

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  • Study: Most Americans Are “Unbiblical” Moral Relativists — and It Invites Tyranny

    Truth vs. RelativismBy Selwyn Duke

    Addressing a large group of arrivals in Hell, the Devil said, reassuringly, “You’ll find there’s no right or wrong here. Just what works for you.” That scene, presented on a 1977 New Yorker magazine cover, well epitomizes our time, a new study has found. In fact, the research shows, most Americans reject moral absolutes — this is true even of most U.S. “Christians.”

    As a consequence, to make what some call “moral decisions,” most Americans don’t actually seek to discern morality. Rather, 74 percent rely on their “feelings.”

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  • As the Democratic Civil War Continues, Are Some Libs Suggesting Adopting GOP Economics?

    Donkeys Having a Boxing MatchBy Selwyn Duke

    There’s currently a war raging for the soul of the Democrats. Having been repudiated in the 2024 election, the party appears rudderless and leaderless, with two of its most prominent current faces being an ex-bartender and a career-politician lawyer, both from New York. (Yes, that would be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Chuck Schumer.) And learning wokeness doesn’t play with Americans raised on realness — i.e., most everyone — Dem policy wonks seek a new agenda. Some believe they’ve found it, too:

    Embrace Republican economics.

    Or, at least, something approximating it.

    You might not have heard about this policy proposal, but it’s called the “Abundance Agenda.” What’s that?

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  • Church vs. State: Catholic Bishops Vow to Defy Blue-state “Reveal-confessions” Law

    Church-MajesticBy Selwyn Duke

    “‘We must obey God rather than men.’” So said Seattle Archbishop Paul Etienne, quoting the Bible, while explaining why priests will go to prison before complying with a new Washington state law. The issue?

    The law requires clergymen to report acts of child abuse revealed during Confession. The problem?

    Among other things, Catholic Church Canon Law forbids a priest from breaking the “seal of Confession.” The penalty for doing so is excommunication, which a sincere priest would fear more than any worldly punishment. It is such a serious matter, too, because Confession is one of seven Sacraments in Catholic belief. And the Sacraments are believed to have been established by God. They are thus nonnegotiable.

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  • De Facto “Hate Speech” Law in America? Woman Falsely Arrested for Using Racial Slur

    Silenced ManBy Selwyn Duke

    Founded by Puritans in 1638 as a safe harbor against religious persecution, New Haven, Connecticut, is, ironically, now no safe haven from the dark religion of wokeness’ speech suppression. A shocking example is a conservative woman who was put through the city’s criminal-justice crucible for an entire year. Her trespass?

    She allegedly used a racial slur.

    Videos would ultimately exonerate her, but not before she incurred heavy legal fees and suffered intense, life-rending stress. An added irony is that the woman, First Amendment advocate Lauren Noble, is the founder of the Buckley Institute. This is an entity that exists to promote “freedom of speech at Yale University,” which is located in New Haven.

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