By Selwyn Duke
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” goes the notorious feminist proclamation. Yet revelation, reason, and science inform that this isn’t true for those very little women, and little men, known as children. Nor is it true of the grown women who raise children. Moreover, research illustrates dads’ importance with a finding that will seem counterintuitive to many: Single fathers actually have better parenting outcomes than do single mothers. (More on that later.)
By Selwyn Duke
It was just six years ago that then-German chancellor Angela Merkel, a main author of 2015’s Third World migration wave into Europe, admitted that “no-go zones” do exist on her continent. It was just last year, at age 100, that late intellectual Henry Kissinger confessed that allowing such immigration into Germany was “a grave mistake.” Whether or not occurring to one now is the apropos saying “We grow too soon old and too late smart,” for sure is that Kissinger’s observation is vindicated by a story currently being reported:
Immigrants, mainly Muslim, are overwhelming and disrupting German schools.
By Selwyn Duke
“A government big enough to give you everything you want,” goes a paraphrase of an apocryphal saying, “is big enough to take everything you’ve got.”
This includes too many free minutes.
As to this, we’ve all probably had the kind of experience commentator Kevin R. Kosar describes in an article recently featured on MSN.com. In “Our nanny state and the loss of everyday freedom,” Kosar details how he spent hours trying to help his teen son obtain a learner’s permit; this ordeal included being told, upon arrival at the DMV, that a passport was not acceptable identification. You can read all the excruciating minutiae here if interested, but his larger point is this:
It’s not hard to understand why Caitlin Clark, the record-setting white ex-NCAA women’s basketball standout, is enjoying attention and endorsements like no WNBA player before her. And, no, it’s not because of (mythical) “white privilege.”
By Selwyn Duke
Beauty and the beast…. We invariably know which is which.
But should we be able to?
And if we will always be capable of discerning the difference (hard to imagine otherwise), will we ever value ugliness as much as beauty?
Some activists apparently want us to. Yet just as with the fat-liberation movement and so many other social phenomena today, is this just another attack on objective reality, or at least on ideals?
By Selwyn Duke
Five years ago already, in 2019, Joe Biden appeared to forget Barack Obama’s name during a campaign town hall meeting. That would be the Barack Obama whom Biden worked under for eight years, the Obama he once famously said was the “first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Yet a half a decade later Joe is still out there, functioning — sort of.
Oh, he’s mumbling and stumbling and fumbling for facts, but he’s out there. It’s just amazing what you can accomplish, many may conclude, with the absolute best medical care. And now ex-White House physician Ronny Jackson, M.D., who served under three presidents, has weighed in on how this medical miracle is worked.
By Selwyn Duke
That senior citizens support Republicans while young Americans vote for Democrats by wide margins is one of those old truisms in politics.
Or is it?
Shockingly to many, polls show that Joe Biden is bleeding support among Gen Z (those born after 1996). What’s more, they also find that he’s doing better among seniors than most Democrats do.
In addition, if a couple of Gen Zers interviewed recently by Fox News are any indication, some of these young people are getting “red-pilled”: They’re waking up to and are disgusted by the left-wing propaganda they’ve been fed.
By Selwyn Duke
“With LEGO you can build buses and houses and bridges and helicopters — even the new safety rail on the Sunnydale Bridge,” went a 1973 TV commercial for the popular building blocks. Fast-forward a half century, and the appeals are a bit different. To wit:
“These dazzling minifigures are ready for Pride with their very own spectacular Pride celebration!” LEGO stated on its social-media accounts last week.
This celebration, do note, features drag queens and “furries,” among other deviant identities. This isn’t the first time LEGO has encouraged sexual devolutionary behavior, either.
Two years ago the toy maker ran a commercial titled “The A-Z of Awesome” in which a man masquerading as a woman proudly stated, “What I built here was a transgender garden, so all these different aspects of gender have their place in that garden.”
Whether there was a clever snake in that garden was not reported.
By Selwyn Duke
“Clarence Thomas has a bump-stock death wish for Americans,” reads a Raw Story title.
“Clarence Thomas’ signature will be on death certificates,” goes an overwrought quotation from an MSNBC Reidout segment.
“The Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Decision Will Prove Fatal,” The New York Times chimes in.
This seems like an awfully frenzied response over a device that’s hardly ever used in crime. In fact, given that illegal aliens pose a greater threat to Americans than people with bump stocks do, you might think the bump-stock batty should be laser focused on the “death wish” that is our open border.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s that old chasm between the pseudo-elite and the street. More than three-quarters of Americans believe that crime has gotten worse in recent times, according to a November 2023 Gallup poll. In contrast, mainstream media and other pseudo-elites tell us that crime is down, citing FBI statistics to make their case. But here’s what they don’t tell you (often out of ignorance):
We can’t really know if crime up, down, or the same — not based on FBI data, anyway.
Why? Because FBI statistics appear highly suspect, to say the least.
