By Selwyn Duke
Hatred is like darkness: The more there is, the less you can see. For this reason, the object of hatred is never perceived clearly, ever painted in a darker color than the most shadowy recesses of its soul. Anti-American wrath is no exception, either. Why, listening to the hate-America-first crowd, you’d think our country was Hell on Earth instead of the best land this side of Heaven.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. It sure worked, too, with a Colorado abortion clinic that planned to host a free “sex-ed” summer camp that would have, among other things, taught kids about “gender” ideology and auto-eroticism.
Geared toward fifth- through eighth-graders and hosted by the Boulder Valley Health Center (BVHC), the prurient endeavor was taxpayer-funded, too. But now it has been canceled, announced organizers, due “to safety concerns.”
Image credit: Adolf Knause/Wikimedia Commons
By Selwyn Duke
Sometime after WWII, rumors began circulating that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler didn’t commit suicide, but, clever man, escaped. It’s true, too, that Hitler lives. Sure, he’d be 136 today, just having had a birthday last Sunday. But he lives. Hitler lives in the hearts and minds and nightmares of those who see him in every political figure they, governed by their deified emotions, deeply detest.
The Hitler-label lovers’ favorite hated Hitler du jour is, of course, President Donald J. Trump. So it was that after comedian/commentator Bill Maher met with Trump March 31 in the White House, he became a Hitler-enabler. Apropos to this, making big news is Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s satirical New York Times essay, “My Dinner With Hitler.” Such a thing would be, he fancies, the equivalent of Maher’s dinner with Trump.
By Selwyn Duke
Say what you will about the “woke” Left’s recent fall from favor, there’s no denying their profound cultural victories. Just consider the results of a 2023 Gallup poll and a 2020 Democracy Fund voter study group:
My, the irredeemably paranoid could almost think they’ve been brainwashed — almost.
None of this is inexplicable. Psychologist Dr. Kenneth Higbee noted, “If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.” Since nations comprise people, this is true of them as well. And, boy, have historians, educators, and entertainers ever found the bad in America. They’ve made up a lot of it, too.
By Selwyn Duke
Is this Hawaii 5-No? Some could wonder given that all five Aloha State Supreme Court justices have said no to gun rights — and the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that they exist. That’s right: We incessantly hear about how President Trump is a Threat to Democracy™, that he’ll “ignore court rulings.” Ironically, though, it’s the leftists on Hawaii’s top court who’ve acted like kings and queens.
Moreover, the court cited the “spirit of Aloha,” a line from a TV show, and the alleged obsolescence of the “founding era’s … understanding of the Constitution” to justify its ruling.
By Selwyn Duke
The Roman arena, where Christians might be thrown to lions, is long gone. But though the tormentors and methods have changed, this doesn’t mean such persecution has ended. In fact, 100,000-150,000 Christians have been slaughtered worldwide by Muslims (often jihadists) during the last two decades. One of the worst killing fields is Nigeria, where approximately 52,250 Christians were killed from 2009 to 2023 alone, according to the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law. Holy Week hasn’t meant a break from this unholy phenomenon, either, with 51 Christians killed in Nigeria mere hours after Palm Sunday.
This is religious persecution — some would say genocide — the mainstream media generally don’t report, even though it’s savage and continual.
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The warning that “crime doesn’t pay” is surely true — in the spiritual sense, that is. Yet the material one may be a different matter, especially in this time in which villainy is confused with virtue. A recent example is healthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangione, whose crowdfunding donations have reached close to $1 million.
An even more recent example is Karmelo Anthony. Anthony is the 17-year-old who brutally stabbed to death fellow teen Austin Metcalf over what should’ve been a minor seating dispute. The incident occurred April 2 at a high-school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.
As with Mangione — whose crime was caught on video — there’s no disputing Anthony’s guilt. In fact, when the police labeled him the suspected perpetrator, he reportedly replied, “I’m not a suspect; I did it.” (He unabashedly claims self-defense, even though the case’s particulars say otherwise.) One difference between the killings, though, is that while Mangione had a political motive, Anthony’s case has a racial component. Anthony is black; Metcalf was white.
Another difference is that Anthony’s family is apparently quite shameless about parlaying their son’s crime into a payday. It’s not just using money donated for Karmelo’s legal defense for a new house, car, and other luxuries, either. This they have done.
(Note: The Anthonys have raised almost half as much as the Mangiones in approximately one-ninth the time. White privilege, anyone?)
It’s also that, unbelievably, the family is now reportedly marketing murderer merch.
By Selwyn Duke
It certainly is odd that the ideological set now claiming not to know what a woman is once claimed to know precisely what a woman’s role should be. But it did. And, boy, was it ever a coup, in league with convincing eagles they shouldn’t fly or sunfish they shouldn’t swim. In fact, generations of women have been sold the lie of careerism — to their own detriment (and our civilization’s).
By Selwyn Duke
Is one man’s radical another man’s reasoned voice? You might suppose that could be the thinking in this relativistic age. But this certainly wasn’t the perspective of British journalist Douglas Murray while appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Thursday.
In fact, Murray called Rogan out on the show, saying he was platforming fringe voices peddling anti-historical views.
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