By Selwyn Duke
In the United States, DEI has received pushback, and many hope DEI will DIE. In Britain, though, the phenomenon may be alive and well and poised to intensify what’s already a two-tiered justice system. A case in point is new sentencing guidelines that would give Muslims and other “minorities” shorter sentences than whites for the same crimes.
By Selwyn Duke
“There oughta be a law!” goes the old frustration-born refrain. Or if not a law, maybe another regulation or mandate — one making us, perhaps, more like Europe. After all, they have “free” healthcare, maternity leave, better quality of life, and more vacation time. In a nutshell, “Europe is better,” as multimillionaire director Oliver Stone has put it.
But not so fast, says investigative reporter John Stossel. In fact, while this or that economically hobbled nation may sometimes be called “the sick man of Europe,” the reality is now different.
The sick man is Europe.
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By Selwyn Duke
Is it time to retire the donkey and make an angry old man waving a cane the Democratic Party’s new symbol? Such a display, of course, was precisely what got Representative Al Green (D-Texas) expelled from President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. It well reflects the Democrats’ general antics last night, too, behavior which went over like a lead balloon.
Meanwhile, Trump soared like an eagle, with most Americans giving his speech a resounding thumbs-up.
By Selwyn Duke
What’s the very definition of chutzpah? Try the following on for size.
Narco state Mexico is suing American firearms manufacturers for $10 billion — over it’s own cartel violence.
That’s right, the land long known for banditos, where the police and criminals may be one and the same (a man I knew of traveled to Mexico and was mugged by the cops), has a government that’s trying to put our gun manufacturers out of business instead of its own violent drug kingpins.
By Selwyn Duke
To reference the iconic 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, have the Europeans “Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”? One could wonder. After all, in 1956, the USSR sent 200,000 soldiers into Hungary. The West did not send arms to the Hungarians, call for Soviet regime change, or consider sending troops. In 1968, the USSR sent forces into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization movement. The West did not send arms to the Czechoslovakians, call for Soviet regime change, or consider sending troops. (In fact, the U.S. actually stated it would not get involved.)
A very compelling reason for this, of course, was the atomic sword of Damocles hanging over all and sundry. Why, then-president Ike Eisenhower explicitly said regarding Hungary that he was concerned about sparking nuclear conflict. Now, though, with Russia no longer being the USSR, Moscow has given up all its nuclear weapons.
Or, so one might think given Western European chest-thumping.
They want to MASA: Make socialism great again. Or, so they would say, claiming to their millions of social-media followers that it actually did and does work. Really, truly — you just missed it, somehow.
At issue are socialist/communist “influencers,” who, ironically, earn big money via “capitalism” influencing people to embrace socialism. Mounting their arguments, they make many seductive claims. Not surprisingly, however, says investigative journalist John Stossel in a new report, their claims are all smoke and mirrors.
In reality, these leftists are just riding an already existing socialist wave. Back in 2010, I wrote about how the Communist Party in Japan was rapidly winning converts and Karl Marx’s birthplace in Germany had become a tourist attraction. In 2017, MIT Press actually released a “Communism for Kids” book. And then there was the 2021 survey finding that 41 percent of Americans overall, and 51 percent of young adults, view socialism positively. It all could bring to mind, too, an observation by German philosopher Georg Hegel. “The only thing that we learn from history,” a paraphrase of him goes, “is that we learn nothing from history.”
By Selwyn Duke
People trying to find common ground between groups sometimes may say, “We’re more alike than we’re different.” Yet this may not be true of Republicans and Democrats — especially not today. Oh, sure, we all have the same tolerances for heat and cold, require oxygen, have survival needs, and are mortal. We also all have beliefs, but this is where profound differences emerge. Just consider a striking example.
Ninety-six percent of Republicans agree with President Donald Trump’s executive order affirming that there are just two sexes.
Among Democrats, however, only 14 percent support the measure. Seventy-seven percent oppose it, leaving some observers aghast that upwards of three-quarters of Democrats believe there are more than two sexes.
By Selwyn Duke
Do you know that, based on court rulings, members of so-called privileged groups who claim employment bias must meet a higher bar than “minorities”? Ironically, of course, this means that the latter are privileged by law. It’s a standard akin to the notion that “only whites can be ‘racist.’” But now, one woman’s discrimination case may change all this.
By Selwyn Duke
It used to be said that the Democrats were the “party of the common man.”
Now they’re the party of the uncommon man.
Very uncommon.
If you want men in women’s sports, criminal aliens not deported, a 24/7 fixation on race, or a stance in favor of government waste, the Democrats have a champion for you.
By Selwyn Duke
“My first wife was ’tarded,” said the low-IQ “Doctor Lexus” while reassuring his patient in the 2006 film Idiocracy. “She’s a pilot now.” A bit later in the movie, a plane is seen crashing in the distance while everyone goes about his business cavalierly, completely inured to such gross incompetence. Now, some may say it’s a bit frivolous opening an article on a serious topic with a popular-culture reference. It’s not, however, any more frivolous than a girl-power commercial produced by the airline involved in last Monday’s Toronto crash. What’s more, the commercial perhaps offers insight into why the mishap occurred. It’s also a commentary on our decaying meritocracy — and brings us closer to “idiocracy.”
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