By Selwyn Duke
“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?!” asked (sang, actually) Professor Henry Higgins in the old play My Fair Lady. Today we could wonder likewise about our culture:
Why can’t Americans teach their children how to speak — or write?
One reason is that not only do few among even the “intellectual” class really care about proper English usage, many are working feverishly to undermine standards.
By Selwyn Duke
On one side, we hear about “white privilege” and “white supremacism.” On the other, we hear that you hear about those things only because whites are one of the few groups you can impugn with impunity, inclusive of calling them privileged while treating them prejudicially. And one man who’d agree with the latter sentiment is political commentator and Claremont Institute fellow Jeremy Carl.
In fact, says Carl, America is “systemically racist” against whites.
By Selwyn Duke
“My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri in March, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” This comment virally raised eyebrows, and for good reason: The Constitution’s whole purpose when crafted was, and still is, to hamstring government. After all, when we don’t hamstring government, government will hamstring the people.
This comes to mind with a warning issued by Brian Knight, director of Innovation and Governance and a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In a recent piece titled “We can’t be a republic only when it’s convenient,” he discusses another case, National Rifle Association of America v. Vullo, in which the defense essentially argues that abiding by the Constitution would hamstring government.
By Selwyn Duke
People “in Africa and the Middle East will start thinking they might be better off elsewhere.” So said the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) leads a coalition that will soon helm Holland’s government. The coalition has vowed to opt out of European Union rules and adopt the “strictest-ever” asylum policy.
“The sun will shine again in the Netherlands… The Netherlands will be ours again,” Wilders also stated, after enduring a five-month struggle to form a government comprising the PVV and three other parties. It’s still a baby step, perhaps, but it does strike a blow against that uniquely Western affliction, immigrationism.
By Selwyn Duke
Oklahoma has, some sources say, the dubious distinction of having the greatest number of strong tornadoes per unit area in the United States. One tornado that won’t hit the state, however, is a storm of satanic “ministers” in government schools, says Oklahoma’s top education official. The satanists are, though, announced Superintendent Ryan Walters, “welcome to go to Hell.”
Whether or not he sticks to his holy guns, government schools long ago went to hell in a handbasket. Enabled by favorable court rulings and craven local officials, there already are After School Satan Club “programs” in schools in at least four states, The New York Times reported December 15, 2023 — California, Ohio, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
By Selwyn Duke
A judge found, back in 2021 already, that government officials violated a January 6 defendant’s civil rights by impeding his access to medical care. That hapless man isn’t alone, either. Other incarcerated 2020 Capitol protesters have alleged likewise, and now, reports hold, there are two more examples of what many would interpret as government attempts to kill imprisoned political opponents.
By Selwyn Duke
You probably haven’t heard the name Joshua Cobb. This is even though he was planning a major mass shooting, with a 10-plus body count.
It’s even though he seethed with hatred, posting social-media messages about how he intended to target a specific racial group.
It’s even though mainstream media and other pseudo-elites claim to care, deeply, about the mass shooting phenomenon.
But the issue, you see, is that Mr. Cobb’s case departs from the “narrative” in more than one way.
That is, Cobb is black, and his targets were whites. There’s a kicker, too:
The miscreant said of a possible site he might choose for his mayhem, “I am certain nobody there is armed,” thus illustrating “gun-free zone” folly.
Oh, there’s a second kicker: Cobb now faces less punishment than many January 6 political prisoners endure.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s ironic. Missionaries from Britain and other Western nations once struck out into the largely unknown, uncivilized world to spread Christianity.
Now, says a Scottish-born writer, Christians are “the most despised minority in Britain.”
Moreover, this Christophobia permeates the entire Western world — including the United States.
By Selwyn Duke
If creations do often reflect their creators, at least in some way, perhaps it’s not surprising that artificial intelligence has reportedly developed a troubling new skill: lying.
In fact, writes the AFP, forget about fears of AI potentially “going rogue” — because it already has.
By Selwyn Duke
Can we say that Stormy lied and justice died? This question is especially relevant now that video has emerged, courtesy of comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher, showing that porn actress and ex-stripper Stormy Daniels’ testimony in President Donald Trump’s trial is completely contradicted by earlier statements she has made.
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