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  • Looking for Unicorns: The Search for a “Joe Rogan of the Left”

    Joe RoganBy Selwyn Duke

    My, the worm truly has turned — at least halfway. It wasn’t that long ago, really, that conservatives lamented how “mainstream” media “controlled the narrative.” Back in 2011, in fact, Professor Tim Groseclose estimated that “media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election.” Now, though, the erstwhile “mainstream” media isn’t so mainstream anymore. New media, epitomized by podcaster king Joe Rogan and English comedian Russel Brand, currently boast audiences dwarfing those of the alphabet network shows. So now the lament is different:

    “The Right is controlling the narrative!” warn so many leftists.

    But are they right? Perhaps even more significantly, are they right about what’s “right” (as opposed to left)?

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  • Is the Blue-state Model on the USSR’s Path — and Poised to Collapse?

    Banana RepublicBy Selwyn Duke

    “If something can’t go on, it won’t,” goes the paraphrase of economist Herb Stein. Speaking of which, we often hear about America’s below-replacement-level birth rate. What we don’t hear much about, however, is which Americans aren’t reproducing. And if you guessed that the biggest offenders are our land’s liberals, go to the head of the class.

    In fact, the most ardent Republicans apparently have a fertility rate at or above replacement level (2.1 children per woman).

    The staunchest Democrats’ rate is down in the demographic-death-spiral range of 1.2.

    (The abortion mentality will do that.)

    This isn’t the only reason why the liberal-state model would be collapsing. But it is collapsing, says history professor Victor Davis Hanson. In fact, while the mainstream media and Democratic Party are apoplectic over the Trumpian counter-revolution, Hanson states, “they are missing some of the most revolutionary and insidious changes in American society of the last century.”

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  • The West Is Slowly Being Islamized. Does This Matter?

    MuslimStarandCrescentBy Selwyn Duke

    Paterson, New Jersey, has quite a history. Founded as a planned industrial city in 1792, it was named after William Paterson, a signatory to the Constitution and a Garden State governor. Like so many American municipalities, it had a Main Street, too.

    Had, that is, because it’s now “Palestine Way” — thus officially renamed in 2022.

    If it seems odd that the street is officially named after a place that doesn’t officially exist, perhaps Mayor Andre Sayegh can explain. After all, Sayegh, Paterson’s first Arab head, declared the city the “capital of Palestine” earlier this month.

    But is this surprising? Paterson reportedly has one of the highest per capita Muslim populations among American cities, and politicians play to their audience.

    And does any of this matter?

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  • Is Secession Nigh? Many Young Voters, Blacks, and Hispanics Believe National Breakup Likely

    America DissolvingBy Selwyn Duke

    In the early 1900s, philosopher G.K. Chesterton said he longed for one aspect of a time few pine after. In the Middle Ages, he wrote, people agreed on the things that “really mattered” (in Europe, anyway). Just two or three decades ago, psychologist John Rosemond contrasted his time with Chesterton’s and said that during the latter, “people’s values were explicitly the same” (in the U.S., anyway). Both were essentially correct, too. Just as medieval Europeans were more philosophically united than early-1900s Europeans, so were early-1900s Americans more united than today’s Americans.

    And, in fact, some would say the division is reaching critical mass. Just recently, while advocating an immigration moratorium, commentator Tucker Carlson warned that we must “figure out what it is that holds us all together as a nation” so that “50 states [do] not become 50 countries.” Carlson isn’t alone in this sentiment, either, according to a new survey conducted by John Zogby Strategies. It found that not only are many Americans concerned about secession, but also something perhaps unexpected. To wit:

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  • Not Just Fauci: The Scientific Establishment Peddles Lies Continually

    Scientific Fraud2By Selwyn Duke

    It was just revealed that the Biden administration intentionally buried an “inconvenient” study in order to justify an energy crackdown. Of course, we’re seldom shocked to hear that politics is, well, political. But what about when study authors themselves bury, or otherwise obscure, inconvenient data? This not only happens, says a Ph.D. scientist with more than 20 years experience, but is actually common in research. In fact, the picture painted by Dr. Lorene Leiter reveals, the mainstream science establishment is much like our mainstream media establishment: a realm where lies may reign supreme.

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  • Death of the West: Britain Is Now Attacking Its Most Legendary Writer

    Politically CorrectBy Selwyn Duke

    “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” This remark, made by the mischievous sprite Puck in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was directed at the absurdity of man’s love affairs. And while such folly is timeless, the comment is also relevant to a rather odd love affair perhaps unique to our time.

    That is, the West’s affair with an ideology dictating its own culture’s destruction.

    Perhaps the latest example of this toxic relationship comes from, ironically, the land that once perhaps did more than any other to spread Western culture: the United Kingdom. And its current effort at grinding itself down is an attack on its greatest writer, Shakespeare himself.

    That’s right, it’s not enough that Britain now reportedly has a lower GDP than our poorest state, Mississippi. The country also apparently wants its cultural fortunes to mirror its economic ones.

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  • Climatecrats Aim to Save the Planet — by Bulldozing Rainforest

    Bulldozing JungleBy Selwyn Duke

    There’s a somewhat old saying: “If you want to preserve forest,” it goes, “don’t build a road through it. And if you do, make sure it’s a bad one.” But, hey, preserving trees is so yesterday; climate is the cool kids’ kick now. So it is, too, that in preparation for the upcoming COP(Conference of the Parties)30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, the greentopian climatecrats are bulldozing a swath of the Amazon rainforest to build a new four-lane highway. They have their reasons, though. I mean, we wouldn’t want the swells inconvenienced by traffic while they’re trying to save the world.

    This said, the Amazonian destruction is just the latest example of today’s greentopians’ apparent vendetta against trees.

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  • On XY in XX’s Sports, Whoopi G. Opens Her Mouth—and Removes All Doubt

    Back to School DuncecapBy Selwyn Duke

    “It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool,” goes the amusing saying, “than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Despite this well known warning, there nonetheless is a show that specializes in removing such doubt—it’s called The View. A case in point is a recent episode in which co-host Caryn Johnson (aka Whoopi Goldberg) essentially claimed that people opposed to having female-identifying men in women’s sports are ignorant. She further defended the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda with the now quite stale argument that “God doesn’t make mistakes.”

    Now, while I don’t blame God, it could occur to one that if mistakes didn’t somehow manifest themselves in the human population, how could you explain Whoopi’s reasoning ability?

    Moreover, Goldberg’s theory does not support her MUSS agenda but refutes it. For if all is ordained by God and is thus without flaw, then no one could possibly “be born in the wrong body,” right?  (Not to mention that babies afflicted with spina bifida must not actually exist. Well, darn it, the fake news sure fooled me there!)

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  • Wokeness Lives: A “Trans-turtle” Sits on Mental Health Board — and Other PC Madness

    Turtle WomanBy Selwyn Duke

    “Woke is dead,” declared the New York Post December 30. And, my, that would’ve been a fine Christmas present. Unfortunately, while an election changes who’s at the USS Government’s helm, as with all large ships, it can take ages to turn about. (Hence the Titanic’s inability to avoid the iceberg.) What’s more, that’s just the ship of state. But politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around. And in our culture, wokeness — that killer of souls and civilizations — may, it’s true, now have the sniffles. Yet it’s still alive and all too well.

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  • Trump Must Scrap Discriminatory, Anti-white Obama/Biden School Discipline Policies, Says Parents Group

    Prejudice SignBy Selwyn Duke

    White students can be suspended and expelled from school at higher rates than Asian-descent students, and they are. Yet no one calls it discriminatory; in fact, almost nobody even mentions it.

    Boys can be suspended and expelled from school at higher rates than girls, and they are. Yet no one calls it discriminatory; in fact, almost nobody even mentions it.

    When black and Hispanic students are suspended and expelled from school at higher rates than white students, however, it’s a different story. Then not only is it called discriminatory, but the government will pressure schools to “equalize” the numbers. Yet as Professor Thomas Sowell put it in 2014, “Unless you believe that black boys cannot possibly be misbehaving more often than Asian American girls, what does this political numbers game accomplish?”

    The answer: the implementation of social engineering.

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