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  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    I wish you a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving. 

    "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." — G.K. Chesterton

    God bless,

    Selwyn Duke

  • The Tapper-CNN/Maddow Lawsuits and the Dying Mainstream Media

    By Selwyn Duke

    The mainstream media may, collectively, be the most dangerous single worldly enemy our country faces. After all, it once was virtually all Americans’ only conduit of information and still serves that function for many. It’s as with a computer, too: garbage in, garbage out. And this lamentation is, essentially, what commentator Mike McDaniel issued in a recent article — in different words.

    “To be sure, the media isn’t entirely responsible for the sad state of our representative republic,” he wrote. But “their contribution to our current tribulations is enormous and destructive.”

    Oh, and garbage, masquerading as news, is at issue. As Elon Musk put it on X Monday:

    Very common mistake to believe that the legacy media only lies about areas that you understand well.

    No, they lie about everything.

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  • Let’s Say Man IS Changing the Climate. So What?

    Ice AgeBy Selwyn Duke

    “The temperature is rising!” “The temperature is dropping.” The temperature is staying the same.”

    We argue the “facts” of climate change (even as parts of New Jersey were just buried under 11 inches of global warming). One side wants the facts to show that man is disrupting the climate, while the other wants them to show that he’s not. But an almost never posed question should be asked:

    Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that our industry is causing global warming. So what?

    No, I’m not a guy who “just wants to see the world burn” (and that would be literally). Rather, if anthropogenic climate change were occurring, why should we assume it wouldn’t be beneficial?

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  • Jaguar Jumps Off Clown-car Cliff While Bud Light Does About-face and “Mocks” Wokeness

    Jaguar-ad-2-11.23.24-YouTube-1080x720By Selwyn Duke

    It’s a tale of two companies. One went woke, began to go broke, and now embraces the macho bloke. The other, slow on the uptake, just stepped on the woke rake and now has a real headache.

    The latter is British auto manufacturer Jaguar, whose most recent commercial looks like the bar scene in Star Wars. The company attempting to mend fences is Bud Light, which, after a series of failures trying to repair its image, has made a very effective un-woke ad. Whether it can put the politically correct toothpaste back in the tube, however, is a different matter.

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  • AMERICAN Kids Train to Be Like PLA Soldiers and Police Officers at Hitler Youth-style Chinese Camps

    AmeriChinese FlagBy Selwyn Duke

    It’s a shocking story. Thousands of American kids have, over time, been attending camps in China run by a Beijing intelligence and influence agency. Once there, the youths are indoctrinated with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. Some are even given military training and may be taught to act like “Little Overseas Chinese Police.”

    This information, revealed in a report released Monday by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), is par for Beijing’s course. The Chinese regime has long been injecting its propaganda into American schools via its “Confucius Institutes.” It has been using Chinese-market-access-denial threats to bully U.S. businesses into doing its bidding and to, incredibly, censor our movies. Beijing even has operatives on American soil who harass Chinese-descent dissidents and try to forcibly return them to China.

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  • Anti-Trump Artifice: Does the Woke Pentagon Have Sedition on Its Mind?

    Military CoupBy Selwyn Duke

    It’s not quite like the 1964 movie Seven Days in May, which concerns a military plot to overthrow a U.S. president. Nonetheless, there does appear to be an anti-Trump cabal in the Pentagon with seditious leanings. What’s more, this information doesn’t come via social media rumor or some random source, but from left-wing CNN. This suggests, states commentator Andrea Widburg,

    that something is deeply wrong in the Pentagon — the same Pentagon that “forgot” to send absentee ballots to U.S. troops serving overseas, a gross violation of their civil rights, and one that ought to result in courts-martial all the way up to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

    The issue? Pentagon officials are conspiring to finds ways to circumvent orders Donald Trump might issue to have the military secure the southern border or help expel illegal aliens from our country. Apparently, the Pentagon believes its role is only to protect other nations’ borders; e.g., Ukraine’s.

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  • Britain, Land of Magna Carta, Is Slowly Becoming a Soviet State

    Communist FlagBy Selwyn Duke

    “But there’s no England now” is a famous lyric composed by songwriter and Kinks band member Dave Davies. One could wonder if he was aware of a certain irony, or if the given connection is actually by design. That is, the song containing the lyric was released in “1984,” which also is the title of the famous George Orwell story, set in Britain, that, sadly, well describes what the U.K. is becoming: a dystopian state where the police punish people for contradicting the regime’s ideology and de facto land seizures are on the table.

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  • Downright Fruity: Swedish Official Demands Banana-free Rooms Due to Phobia

    BananasBy Selwyn Duke

    “Yes, We Have No Bananas” is the name of a famous old song. It’s also apparently what Sweden’s “gender equality minister,” Paulina Brandberg, wants to hear.

    What’s that?

    Well, here’s the story: The official actually demands that her staff clear rooms of all bananas before her arrival — owing, reportedly, to a phobia.

    I know, I know, while some may crack, “You can’t make this stuff up,” someone must have. When I first heard the story, on social media, I thought the same: “Okay, this really could be satire.” So I did a bit of research and, well, hell’s bells, it’s as real as a monkey’s love for, uh…bananas.

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  • Gaetz of Heaven, Gaetz of Hell: Is Trump Playing 3-D Chess With His Oddest Nomination?

    Question MarkBy Selwyn Duke

    Perhaps President-elect Donald Trump’s most shocking Cabinet nomination thus far is ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general. Both loved and hated by many, Trump’s naming of him Wednesday ignited a firestorm of speculation on the president-elect’s motives. Is there method to what some would call his madness?

    Theorizing about this Friday, commentator Bill Hansmann put forth several possibilities. And one of them, if the real explanation, would mean Trump is playing 3-D chess. Let’s examine the theories.

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  • Following Trump Win, Leftists’ Meltdowns and Murders of Family Reflect “Mental Illness”

    Enraged WomanBy Selwyn Duke

    "Liberalism is a mental disorder," commentator and ex-radio host Michael Savage would say, uttering a line that became one of his book titles. Critics might label this assertion polemics designed to boost entertainment value, but it may be vindicated by research. Just consider the 2021 study finding that more than 50 percent of young, liberal, white women have been diagnosed with some form of “mental health” problem. And, now, there’s this as evidence, too: Leftists melting down like snowflakes in an oven over Donald Trump’s election victory. In fact, it’s worse than that.

    One liberal female scribe is actually “canceling” Thanksgiving and Christmas. She won’t be “celebrating the birth of Jesus,” she writes, with people who won’t rubber-stamp baby murder. (Ironic since Christmas celebrates a baby’s birth.)

    Okay, she didn’t quite phrase it that way, but murder is a theme here. After all, there are also the leftists who, finding themselves unbalanced after Trump’s triumph, actually killed family members.

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