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  • Battle of the Sexes? Election Might Be “Boys vs. Girls”

    Arm-wrestling-Man vs. WomanBy Selwyn Duke

    If men are from Mars and women from Venus, as author John Gray put it, then something is for sure.

    Mars is MAGA territory.

    And Venus is Kamala Land.

    In fact, as polls consistently demonstrate, the intersex voting gap is perhaps now historically large. For example, the latest NBC poll finds that men favor President Trump in the upcoming election by 16 points (56-40). In contrast, women favor Kamala Harris by 14 (55-41). For those who don’t like NBC (and I can sympathize), it’s not just that nattering network. Polls from Gallup to Pew, from left to right to center, all show the same divide, with some variation in magnitude. And the ultimate poll — voting — also reveals the gap. For instance, men supported Republicans 51 to 47 percent in the 2018 midterms; women broke for the Democrats 59-40.

    This male-female chasm is evident as well among young people, ages 18 to 29. While both sexes break for Harris, young women’s support is shockingly one-sided. This isn’t surprising, as Gen Z is overall the least “traditional” generation in American history. In fact, its members are more likely to identify as “LGBTQ” than Republican. And as the Harvard Youth Poll reports on this age cohort’s current leanings:

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  • Is the Myth of Plastic Recycling Finally Being Exposed?

    Barge1By Selwyn Duke

    It was to be a routine voyage.

    It would become historic.

    On March 22, 1987, the barge Mobro 4000, loaded with six million pounds of garbage and towed by tugboat Break of Dawn, departed Islip, New York. It was bound for Morehead City, North Carolina — but never did dock there. Instead, it spent the next five months at sea, turned away by multiple states and three foreign countries. It became big news, with journalist Dan Rather calling it “the most watched load of garbage in the memory of man.” But another load of garbage was the story the media spun about it. In reality, no one would accept the Mobro because of a rumor that it was carrying medical waste. But that’s not the narrative the media pushed.

    It advanced the notion that the Mobro’s fate was a result of a lack of dump space.

    The “solution,” of course, was recycling. The timing was perfect, too, as there already was increasing public concern about waste. Oh, never mind that, as Reader’s Digest reported decades ago, 1,000 years’ of America’s trash could fit in an area 50 miles square (one m2 per state) and 200 feet high — the average modern dump’s height. “Never let a crisis go to waste,” and this one wasn’t wasted: The story helped catalyze the recycling movement. The Mobro 4000 might have been at sea, but recycling proponents’ ship had come in.

    Of particular concern, too, is plastic, with stories of the material polluting our oceans. But what if plastic recycling is a myth, if not a scam, that is not only wasteful but environmentally damaging?

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  • “Green Energy Transition” Is a Costly “Myth,” Says Expert, and “Isn’t Happening”

    Banana RepublicBy Selwyn Duke

    “The definition of insanity,” the apocryphal saying goes, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” This could come to mind now that yet another warning has been issued about “green” energy.

    A transition to it simply “isn’t happening,” says researcher Bjørn Lomborg, of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. The problem?

    Such a transition is, first, prohibitively expensive. In fact, Lomborg has estimated, lowering Earth’s temperature just 1/3 of one degree Fahrenheit by 2100 would cost $100 trillion. This makes the endeavor unfeasible.

    Second, and counterintuitively, creating “renewable” energy doesn’t replace coal, oil, and gas. It mainly just adds to energy consumption.

    Despite this, the world is proceeding with bull-in-a-china-shop energy ambitions, spending $2 trillion annually trying to “transition.” The bottom line, says Lomborg, is that we need a “major policy overhaul.”

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  • Warning: NY’s ERA Is a “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” That LEGALIZES Discrimination

    Scales of JusticeBy Selwyn Duke

    Any discriminating shopper knows that you can’t judge a product’s goodness based on its name or a manufacturer’s advertisement. Those are just superficial appeals designed to entice. Instead, you must examine the ingredients label. So it is, too, with government laws and propositions, a good example being New York’s Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On the ballot this coming Election Day as “Proposition One,” it sounds wonderful. Who’s against “equal rights”? But then there are the ingredients on the label.

    And they, warns a watchdog organization, are toxic.

    What’s more, the ERA’s advocates are guilty of a type of false advertising. That is, some of the most poisonous amendment ingredients won’t even be mentioned in the ballot language in polling places. They’re hiding them for good reason, too.

    These provisions would reportedly make discrimination for the alleged purposes of preventing discrimination a N.Y. constitutional right. For example, according to the Equal Protection Project (EPP), white employees denied promotions in order to achieve workplace “diversity” would no longer be able to sue in court (state court, anyway).

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  • Cell Phones Have Been Called “Digital Heroin.” So, Should We Ban Them in School?

    SmartphoneBy Selwyn Duke

    “There was a time, not that many years ago, really, when we would actually get into an argument because we didn’t want to answer the phone,” quite funny and mostly clean comedian James Gregory once said during an act. “It’d be like, ‘You get it; I got it last time!’”

    Boy, the world sure has changed. Back then, Gregory continued, the phone was an interruption, taking time away from what you really wanted to do. Now it is what people want to do.

    In fact, “screen addiction” is a real phenomenon, so much so that researchers have called electronic devices “digital heroin.” As a result, a movement to ban cell phones in schools is gaining momentum. There’s also been pushback, however. Many are reluctant to live life without that continual digital fix.

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  • Obama Stumping for Kamala: Hating and Race-baiting

    Prejudice SignBy Selwyn Duke

    “Leave this world a little better than you found it,” advised the creator of the Scouting movement, Robert Baden-Powell. Critics might say, and are saying in so many words, that ex-President Barack Obama has failed on this score. He still is failing, too, and his recent campaigning for Kamala Harris is a case in point.

    In fact, writes one observer, Obama this week had his “racism on full display.”

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  • Cultural Decay: Now, Even Many “Elite” College Students “Can’t Read Books”

    BooksBy Selwyn Duke

    When hearing that many “elite” undergraduates “can’t” read books, first coming to mind could be that they’re not actually elite. (The term “pseudo-elite” suggests itself.) As for the word “can’t,” no, it’s not that these college students, often Ivy Leaguers, are illiterate. The issue is something different: conditioning.

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  • The Necessity of Intolerance

    Bullets on ConstitutionBy Selwyn Duke

    If “tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions,” as G.K. Chesterton put it, a question suggests itself:

    Is intolerance the virtue of the principled man?

    Literally speaking, neither tolerance nor intolerance is a “virtue”; that is, one of those defined “objectively good moral habits.” Exhibiting each, however, in its proper context, can be virtuous. Even more significantly, wisely applied intolerance is certainly this: necessary for the preservation of virtue in civilization. This task is of the utmost importance, too, as the Founders well understood, Benjamin Franklin among them. “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” he observed. “As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Thus do we need “A Plea for Intolerance” — and, thankfully, we have one, in the form of a book chapter by that very title penned by legendary Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in 1931.

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  • FBI Charges 5 Chinese With Spying on U.S. Military — AFTER They’re Out of Custody

    Spy SilhouetteBy Selwyn Duke

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation certainly appears to know how to target Trump supporters in the run-up to November’s election. It’s also adept at launching shock-and-awe, pre-dawn raids on the residences of harmless, wizened, elderly men (Roger Stone). But what of protecting the homeland from spies working for our main geopolitical adversary?

    Not so much, critics may say.

    A case in point is a story about how the FBI has brought charges against five Chinese nationals who were apparently spying near a U.S. military base in Michigan. The problem?

    They waited until the quintet was out of custody before taking action.

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  • Food Pantry Bans Whites. Left Happy as Long as “Everyone Drowns Equitably” in N.C.

    Prejudice SignBy Selwyn Duke

    From each according to his skin color and, well, to each according to his skin color? That’s right, forget the old Marxist formula. Now, in our diversity-über-alles society, calls to equity from the morally bent have a racial bent. This would explain, too, a couple of recent stories.

    The first is about a food pantry in Minneapolis that won’t serve white people. (Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate and Minnesota governor, is going to get busy on this posthaste, right?)

    The second concerns the disaster in western North Carolina. Some leftists are essentially saying that the deaths of the area’s rural whites and “MAGA voters” are karma. Meanwhile, critics suspect that federal disaster aid is lacking because of the Harris-Biden administration’s emphasis on FEMA “equity.”

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