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February 25, 2025

As a Matter of Fact, I DO Care What People Do in Their Bedroom

By Selwyn Duke

Some years ago, during a brief social/political discussion with an older woman I ran into in a store, she said something to the effect of, “I don’t care what people do in their bedroom.” She made the statement reflexively, clearly confident I’d agree. Doesn’t everyone today?

Imagine her shock when I replied passionately and without missing a beat, “Well, I do!”

That pretty much ended the conversation. Really, though, it also can be a good conversation starter — for the truly inquisitive.

As to my meaning, no, I’m not Enid Strict The Church Lady (I don’t look good in a dress and I tend more toward Paul Harvey than Dana Carvey). Nor would I, as emperor, put CCTV cameras in everybody’s home; I’ve no interest in uber-intrusiveness. But I do have a strong interest in preserving civilization — and in restoring it in the first place.

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February 21, 2025

Newer World Order? Is Trump’s U.S. Now Closer to Russia Than “Soviet” Europe?

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By Selwyn Duke

It was more than a decade ago now that I wrote about “Soviet Sweden.” The focus was that nation’s suicidal multicultural and immigrationist policies and suppression of free speech. Even if Sweden then “led” its continent in this regard, however, all of Western Europe exhibited the same cultural trajectory. And now, 11 years later, another writer notes, “The European Union is fast becoming the ‘politically correct’ reformulation of the old Soviet Union.”

Of course, many have made a similar observation — notably Vice President J.D. Vance. In his now legendary Munich speech last Friday, he criticized European governments for enforcing woke standards via free-speech suppression. In contrast, President Donald Trump is negotiating with Russia, whose leader, Vladimir Putin, the Biden administration wouldn’t even talk to. It’s a striking turnaround, one that raises some questions.

With Russia being nationalism-oriented and Western Europe largely internationalist, are we now more culturally aligned with Moscow than the EU?

And how much can the U.S. (at least its MAGA portion) have in common with today’s uber-woke Western Europe?

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February 20, 2025

Post Roe v. Wade, Will Same-sex “Marriage” Be Back on the Ballot?

By Selwyn Duke

Though an ardent leftist, late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once conceded that Roe v. Wade (1973) was a badly settled decision. But settled it was. Then the abortion ruling finally was “unsettled” and “resettled” in 2022 with the Dobbs decision. Will the same process unfold with the Obergefell v. Hodges same-sex “marriage” opinion (2015) — only, with greater speed?

Pro-family group MassResistance (MR) apparently thinks so. The organization is optimistic because a same-sex “marriage” resolution it’s pushing has now been advanced in two state legislatures. The resolution — recognizing that, as with abortion, marriage is a state issue — requests that the Supreme Court overturn Obergefell.

MR certainly has support in this regard. For example, Justice Clarence Thomas has said that the 2015 opinion should be revisited. Chief Justice John Roberts also disagreed with the opinion — vehemently. It was so bad, he said in his dissent against Obergefell, that the Constitution actually “had nothing to do with it.” Late Justice Antonin Scalia concurred. He said the decision was egregious enough to move the Court “one step closer to being reminded of [its] impotence.”

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February 19, 2025

“Lemon” Called a Lemon: Will Religion Fully Return to the Public Square — Where it Belongs?

By Selwyn Duke

The very first Congress, in 1789, was opened with Christian prayers. Congress continued opening with Christian prayers in following years, and it opens with prayers today — and they’re still usually Christian. Despite this, somehow, some way, somebody at some point got the idea that it was unconstitutional for a public-school football coach to do what Congress does, even if he does it privately. With the Supreme Court finally having put this notion to bed in 2022, however, a question arises.

Are we beginning to restore a proper understanding of religion’s place in the American Republic?

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February 18, 2025

Hanson: Germany, Poster Boy for the West’s Decline, Is Committing “Slow-motion Suicide”

By Selwyn Duke

While summering in Germany at the age of 12, a person I was visiting mentioned something about his countrymen. “Germans are always 100 percent,” he said. He was referencing how, by his lights, they were a monolithic lot. This isn’t literally true. But what is surely correct is that Germans can be “100 percent” in applying themselves to endeavors — and to beliefs. Thus did they pioneer modern educational developments. Thus were they ground breakers in optics, brewing, and industrial engineering. Thus do the Germanic Amish likely lead the world in pacifism, with their 100-percent devotion to it.

And thus are the Germans perhaps now also at the forefront of a darker development: the decline of the West.

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February 17, 2025

Democrats’ “Man” Problem: Trump Is an Alpha, and Liberal Beta Males Can’t Compete

By Selwyn Duke

Democrats have a man problem. And it’s not just because, as Judge Jeanine Pirro informed recently, only 12 percent of liberal women “claim to be completely satisfied with their lives — and it is because all the manly men have flocked to President Trump.” It’s also, on a related note, this:

Democrats have long relied on young voters as part of a winning coalition. They delivered in 2020, too, as Joe Biden won the 18-29 vote by 24 points (59 percent to 35 percent). They broke Democratic in 2024 as well, albeit by a much narrower margin: six points. (Fifty-two percent supported Kamala Harris, 46 percent Donald Trump.)

To the point here, however, the shift among young men — and some other male demographics — was striking. Men 18-29 voted for Biden over Trump in 2020 56 to 41 percent. Yet this was almost precisely reversed in 2024: 56 percent of young men supported Trump; only 42 percent went Harris.

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February 15, 2025

Universities Get Rich Off Illegal Migrants; 408,000 Currently Enrolled

By Selwyn Duke

If you want to know why academia is foursquare behind illegal migration, yes, follow the ideology.

But you can also, perhaps, even more easily follow the money.

In fact, there are currently a staggering 408,000 illegal aliens enrolled in American higher-ed institutions, according to The College Fix. And lest you think academia is doing this out of the goodness of its woke little heart, think again. Colleges and universities cash in, collecting taxpayer money for enrolling the foreigners.

Just as outrageously, 25 states offer these aliens in-state tuition benefits while denying them to out-of-state citizens. This practice is illegal, too, based on a 1996 law signed by then-president Bill Clinton. But that law has never been enforced. (This is something else the Trump administration can get busy on.)

Worse still, 20 of those states offer illegals government financial aid. Meanwhile, American students — whose parents have funded the system for years with their tax dollars — often must pay full freight.

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February 14, 2025

The Left’s Violence Inc.? Preacher Accused of Calling for Anti-Trump Violence

By Selwyn Duke

“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called children of God,” famously says Matthew 5:9. Perhaps not saying it, however, is Pastor Steve Caudle of Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

After all, “No one likes violence, but sometimes violence is necessary,” he told a congregation Sunday, indulging anti-Trump-administration rhetoric. And such talk has, not surprisingly, sparked a flurry of criticism. For example, commentator Todd Starnes accused the pastor of “using his pulpit to raise up an insurrectionist army.” Starnes later elaborated, writing Tuesday:

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February 13, 2025

With Trump in Office, the Income-inequality Lie Is Again Being Pushed

By Selwyn Duke

Ah, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. Starbucks-drinking, video-game-playing, iPhone-pecking non-workers of the world unite!

Or something like that, anyway.

This may just, essentially, be the message delivered by Scott Galloway, podcaster and professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. In a Morning Joe appearance in which he called President Donald Trump “an insurrectionist and a rapist,” Galloway claimed that “income inequality” was bringing us closer to revolution. But is it?

Or is a perception of it doing so?

Related to this, are the typical presentations of income-inequality statistics enlightening or deceptive?

And most significantly, does “inequality” really matter? What does it actually tell us in and of itself?

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February 12, 2025

No, Trump Does NOT Have to Abide by Mythical “Judicial Supremacy”

By Selwyn Duke

It’s an old story: When people are allowed to get their way for too long, when they’re never told “No!” they may get too big for their britches. They may develop a sense of entitlement and even become narcissistic. And proving that judges are no exception are a number of recent court “opinions” designed to scuttle President Trump’s agenda.

One disallows DOGE from scrutinizing Treasury Department data.

Another states that the Trump administration must unfreeze funding on grants and loans.

A different opinion puts a freeze on Trump’s buyout offer for federal employees.

And yet another ordered the administration to restore sexual devolutionary (on “gender” and “sex changes”) government web pages Trump’s team had rightly deleted. So Biden could create those pages but, somehow, the current president may not remove them. Yes, it’s insane.

There’s a little known reason, however, why the rogue judges in question could so confidently engage in such insane judicial overreach. To wit:

We long ago accepted the overreach known as “judicial supremacy.”

This brings us to the simple remedy. Trump could just paraphrase the paraphrase of Andrew Jackson and say, “The courts have made their decisions — now let the judges enforce them.”

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