By Selwyn Duke

In Tuesday's State of the Union speech, President Trump called for unity. But the Democrats' responses (plural) only demonstrated how disunited we are — and how the Left only intends to balkanize us further.

Also, do you know about Antonio Gramsci and how his prescriptions relate to the decline of the U.S.? This is explained toward the end of the video below.

On a more trivial note, if you want to know why I called ex-senator John Edwards Little Boy Sue, read the following, click here. 

By Selwyn Duke

The highly political Grammys all-time low ratings are why presidents don’t sing the State of the Union address: It makes your endeavor an example of rising to the level of your own incompetence. This straying-from-the-script phenomenon was well epitomized by Hillary Clinton’s pre-taped appearance at the music awards, where she joined others in reading excerpts from Fire and Fury, the Trump tell-all book that’s so much of a tell-all it even tells lies.   

The failed ex-presidential candidate, ex-secretary of state, ex-senator, and ex-first lady — the only ex Hillary is not, ironically, given her husband’s continual infidelities, is an ex-wife — read a book passage about how President Trump liked eating at McDonald’s because he feared being poisoned. This evoked laughter from the audience, and not, presumably, because the tofu-and-tiara attendees fancy fast-food poison itself.

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By Selwyn Duke

In the race into race madness, California may lead the pack. A case in point is the state’s Proposition 47, which seeks to address black Americans’ “overrepresentation” (a propaganda term) in the court system and jails.

Instituted in 2014, the proposition's effect is now apparent. As Liberty Nation’s Tess Lynne reported Friday, referencing a study on San Francisco, “Black Americans only account for 6% of the city’s population, yet prior to Prop. 47, they represented 43% of those jailed. After the measure’s passage, that number dropped to 38%.”

Lynne then quoted the San Francisco Chronicle: “The study also found that black defendants had been given sentences averaging 3.4 months longer than white defendants — a disparity caused by factors that include pretrial detention and criminal history, which disproportionately affect African Americans. However, since Prop. 47, that discrepancy in sentence lengths has dropped by half, according to the report.”

How was this accomplished? Lynne explains, “Prop. 47 reduced some nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors and allowed for those previously convicted of said felonies to be resentenced. How does this relate to racial discrepancies, you might ask? It was designed to target a specific race.”

In other words, instead of having punishment fit the crime — an imperative of justice — Golden State punishment now fits a racial agenda.

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By Selwyn Duke

Professor Jordan Peterson recently locked horns with British journalist Cathy Newman, who expressed the idea that there's a "right" to not be offended. But is there such a thing? Could there be?

The reality is that most everything offends someone and most everyone is offended by something — and the Truth offends those married to lies.

By Selwyn Duke

The “separation of church and state” is certainly upheld in today’s government schools. As for the separation of mosque and state, well, not so much.

A case in point is Chatham Middle School (CMS) in Chatham, New Jersey, where students were shown Islamic propaganda videos that included an explicit call to convert to Islam.

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By Selwyn Duke

You can have your faith — or you can have a job.

But you can’t have both.

This increasingly is the position of secular Western elites, and it’s well epitomized by the Canadian government, say critics, who complain that the Justin Trudeau regime is discriminating against Christian organizations and students in its Canada Summer Jobs (CSJ) program.

At issue is that applicants for the CSJ, which offers $200 million a year to hire 70,000 students seasonally, must now essentially attest that they’ll accept the prenatal infanticide and “transgender” agendas. Moreover, Dr. Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College and School of Graduate Theological Studies and the Evangelical Association, told The New American in an interview that it isn’t just religious employers that would have to sign the “attestation.” Students desiring summer jobs would have to as well, he says.

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By Selwyn Duke

If the government shut down and no one reported it, would most of us notice? The current government “shutdown” is the 19th in American history, yet the Earth still turns on its axis, the seas still rise and fall, the seasons still come and go — and Uncle Sam still owns possibly the largest government in world history.

Shutdowns, of course, result when Congress doesn’t approve a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, or when the president and Congress cannot agree on a budget and the latter doesn’t have enough votes to override a presidential veto. The consequences are that “nonessential services” are suspended and nonessential employees furloughed. “Nonessential,” mind you, is the category into which most federal employees fall.

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By Selwyn Duke

Our strength lies in our diversity! This has become a mantra, repeated so frequently that people reflexively believe it. But is it true? We perhaps should’ve had a national discussion about that long ago, because our immigration regime is designed to increase diversity. Why, we even have an immigration program called a “diversity lottery,” a term certainly reflecting how we’re rolling the dice on our future.

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The male-female wage gap doesn't matter any more than does the Jewish-gentile pay gap. Equality tells us nothing about quality.

By Selwyn Duke

The latest conspiracy theory, over which the media was aflutter, concerns alleged secret cells in the White House — fat cells. Dubbed the “Girther” movement, the suspicion is that President Trump is lying about his height and/or weight, said to be 6’3” and 239 lbs. The idea is that if he were an inch shorter, he’d qualify as medically obese. And, surely, that’s grounds for impeachment. That’s what the Cult of the Body would aver, anyway.   

Firing up the troops, New York’s Daily News reported on the president’s excellent medical evaluation with the headline, “President Trump is overweight, doesn’t exercise or eat well, physical exam reveals.” The chatterboxes on The View claimed that since Trump’s New York driver’s license listed him at 6’2”, he must have grown an inch as a senior citizen (video below). And NBC producer Ken Dilanian tweeted, “Seeing a lot of skepticism over the idea that @realDonaldTrump weighs only 239 pounds. Would he step on a scale in public to prove it?”

Of course, you could just imagine the uproar if Hillary Clinton became president and were subjected to such demands.

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