By Selwyn Duke

It’s called the breakdown of civil society. It’s also called something else:

Having good people subsidize thieving miscreants through higher costs of goods and services.

Call it the Lowlife Tax.

Or the Irresponsibility Tax.

Or, perhaps even more fittingly, the Electing the Wrong Politicians Tax.

(Winner, winner, chicken dinner?)

The latest example — of many — is an apparently organized robbery at a Memphis, Tennessee, intersection in which several cars blocked in a FedEx truck, after which dozens of criminals pillaged the semi’s packages. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Jesse Ventura, who had the nickname “the body” during his professional wrestling days and wanted to be known as “the mind” when he was Minnesota governor, perhaps now should have the moniker “the green-eyed.” Some may thus conclude after the 72-year-old said that “nobody works hard enough to earn a billion dollars” and, consequently, that “there should not be one billionaire in America.”

Ventura said nothing, however, about whether there should be multi-millionaires.

Perhaps coincidentally, he happens to be a multi-millionaire.

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By Selwyn Duke

When visiting certain places, you’re only allowed to witness what the authorities want you to see. One of these places is North Korea.

Another is San Francisco — that is, if the visitor happens to be Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

After all, the City by the Bay — known in recent times for homeless encampments, drug use, feces and needles on the sidewalks, and crime — looked like it had gotten a full treatment by the Cat in the Hat and Felix Unger when Xi rolled into town for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this week. It was so clean, in fact, that California’s governor, hard-left Gavin Newsom, was asked about the transformation and confirmed that, yes, while cleanliness may not be next to godliness in today’s San Francisco, cleanliness is next to a godless pseudo-communist there (video below).

What’s more, reports hold that not only did Xi’s route look like a Chinese thoroughfare, lined with communist flags and American flags absent, but even the Left’s cherished rainbow flag was missing.

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By Selwyn Duke

In one old Get Smart episode, agent Maxwell Smart is being evaluated by a psychiatrist who’s administering a Rorschach test. After Smart proceeds to interpret every nondescript inkblot as people or animals engaging in sexual congress, the shrink exclaims in a stereotypical heavy German accent, “Mr. Shmaht, you zeem to be obzessed vith zex!” Smart’s defensive reply is, “Well, you’re the one showing me the dirty pictures!”

This comes to mind when pondering today’s dirty racial minds — which, sadly, too often rain their filth down upon children. A good example is a recent case in which a California middle schooler was punished for innocently enjoying himself at a football game. His offense?

Emulating NFL players, he applied “eye black” to his face.

This was interpreted as “blackface” by his woke school, which then leapt into action.

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By Selwyn Duke

After the spawning of Black Lives Matter, anti-white hate crimes surged. You wouldn’t know it from mainstream media reportage, though, a good example of which is the coverage of a recent heinous incident in Las Vegas. For while a 17-year-old white boy was beaten to death by approximately 15 black teens, the media are, predictably, mostly uninterested in the story.

In fairness, the murder of Jonathan Lewis has not been deemed a “hate crime” and may never be; authorities are far more reluctant to bring such charges in black-on-white incidents than when the races are reversed. But that doesn’t change the reality, say all those who haven’t been sleeping as long as Rip Van Winkle or lying as much as Pinocchio, that the crime’s national coverage would be wall-to-wall had it been a white-on-black assault.

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By Selwyn Duke

As with George Washington before him, new House Speaker Mike Johnson could be seen not long ago on bended knee, in his case on the House floor, praying for divine guidance. It reflects a dedication to and openness about his faith that has attracted much, and varied, attention. The New York Times wrote late last month that Johnson has “aligned himself with a newer cohort of conservative Christianity that some describe as Christian nationalism,” while a more recent American Thinker title states that the speaker’s faith “Calls Us to Greater Integrity.” It’s a pseudo-elite-vs.-street dichotomy that’s predictable today: The quintessential establishment outlet the Times carries the secularist banner while the revolutionary media supports a faith whose deposit of Truth is (when considered in its entirety), in most every time and place, revolutionary.

But what is the Truth? Should Johnson’s Christianity be feared or revered, suppressed or buttressed, flouted or touted?

Perhaps this matter can be made clear by understanding a simple truth, one most shocking to moderns’ ears: All just law has a basis in what we call “religion”….

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By Selwyn Duke

Britain, the once-proud land that made “knife control” a thing and seized children from parents for a lack of fork control (the kids were fat), is at it again. This time, King Charles III has confirmed, the plan is to prohibit anyone born in 2009 or later from ever buying tobacco. Don’t believe the fearmongers who say this portends the ultimate removal of all freedoms, however: You’ll still be able to recommend a “sex change” for the kids or kill one in the womb.

King Charles touted the anti-tobacco measure Tuesday while speaking to Parliament for the first time. 

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By Selwyn Duke

What would you say about a man who left his home’s back door open all night while going off to be a community watchman in other neighborhoods, but then nonetheless claimed he was being vigilant about his family’s safety?

Perhaps it’s the same thing you’d say about National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. After all, despite his Biden administration having allowed millions of unknown-quantity illegal aliens to cross our border and escape into our country’s interior, the White House official insisted, when asked about the threat this poses, “that we have remained vigilant.”

Kirby had also claimed that he “couldn’t” answer a question about whether it’s “possible” that a terrorist crossed our southern border during these dangerous times. But another government official will answer that question — and did just recently.

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By Selwyn Duke

First it was “global warming.” Then it was “climate change.” Next was “global climate disruption,” though this never caught on much. Now, needing to ratchet up the political heat, there’s a new doomsday phrase in town: “global boiling.”

As The Guardian put it this summer, quoting the UN’s secretary-general, António Guterres, “The era of global warming has ended and ‘the era of global boiling has arrived.’” Building on this, Guterres really got creative in September and warned that “humanity has opened the gates to hell.” (Funny, some said that happened already when we created the UN.) All this was, mind you, “after scientists confirmed [that] July was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record,” to quote The Guardian again.

Such frightening claims are inevitably followed by arguments about what caused the temperature change. Is it really man-caused — or naturally induced? Or is it a combination of the two? Yet few realize, as the claims are so bold and so jarring, that the debate itself is apparently based on a misconception:

In reality, temperature measurement is so flawed that we don’t really know how much the mercury has risen. The issue?

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By Selwyn Duke

Caster Semenya, the “woman” runner who made waves years ago dusting female competition while appearing very male, is back in the news. The athlete has just written a new book, The Race to Be Myself; the problem is that most media reporting on Semenya either don’t know, or won’t say, what the runner’s physical “self” actually is.

Reporters may focus on Semenya’s “struggle” to compete — in 2019, rules took effect barring high-testosterone “female” athletes from running in certain events without suppressing their testosterone levels — as if the issue here is the allegedly unjust persecution of a minority. This leaves many observers with the impression that the runner is just another MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) individual. But here’s what the media don’t relate:

Leaked results of medical tests performed years ago informed that while Semenya apparently has external female genitalia, the runner has no womb or ovaries; moreover, Semenya does have an XY (male) genotype, internal testes and, consequently, male-range testosterone levels.

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