By Selwyn Duke

In the very tiresome battles over whether one religious element can be in the public realm without being accompanied by other “religious” elements that someone, somewhere, claims to value, a simple point is missed:

We do have the right to freedom of religion.

But this does not equate to the right to equal government showcasing of religion.

The issue at hand is that cultural devolutionaries have for years now applied a religion-focused Cloward-Piven strategy, through which they seek to eliminate all public-square religious expression by inundating the system with equal-time requests for “religious” expression ranging from the evil to the asinine.

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By Selwyn Duke

The Sooner State could have done it sooner — but better late than never.

Following a story yesterday about English authorities pushing back against “trans” radicalism in their schools comes another example of reasonableness rising against risible radicalism:

Oklahoma is saying no to sexual devolutionary ideas and racialism in their schools — and yes to what has always been in them: faith.

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By Selwyn Duke

The mainstream media love talking about polls, especially those showing support for their favored candidates and agendas. We hear about who’s up, who’s down, what’s hip, what brings a frown. But there’s a blockbuster new poll they may want to memory-hole, for a simple reason:

It vindicates the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump.

In fact, The Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll finds, one in five mail-in voters (20 percent) admit to having committed some type of vote fraud during that contest.

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By Selwyn Duke

“If something can’t go on, it won’t,” the paraphrase of economist Herb Stein goes. And thus did mass hysteriae such as the Salem witch trials, medieval dancing plagues, and Tanganyika laughter epidemic inevitably end. So it will be with the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda. The only question is when.

Perhaps providing a clue is a new guidance for English schools, scheduled to be published Tuesday, that reportedly will dial back on the imposition of some of the MUSS agenda’s most radical dictates.

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By Selwyn Duke

“I’d describe it as catastrophic.” So said Food and Drug Administration commissioner Robert Califf in a recent series of tweets about a troubling but ignored problem: the major decline in life expectancy among young, working age people.

In fact, the number of “unexpected or, ‘excess,’ deaths, which claimed 158,000 more Americans in the first nine months of 2023 than in the same period in 2019 … exceeds America’s combined losses from every war since Vietnam,” wrote The Hill last week.

Some people want this problem to remain ignored, too. Just consider that “America’s chief health manager, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opted in September to archive its excess deaths webpage with a note stating, “these datasets will no longer be updated”….

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By Selwyn Duke

“Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday.

It must be a rhetorical question. Professor Carol Swain, who was ripped off by Gay and complains “I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work,” has some idea.

“A white male would probably already be gone,” Swain, a black woman herself, told journalist Christopher Rufo recently.

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By Selwyn Duke

Is Santa Claus soon only going to be safe at the North Pole — that is, unless that icy region, too, is strengthened with diversity? One could draw this conclusion after an attack on a middle-aged man dressed as St. Nick, by Muslim youths who, obviously, didn’t care that Santa was making a list and checking it twice. What’s more, the victim states that during the assault the teens shouted “This is our country!”

The kicker: This didn’t happen in Iraq, Bangladesh, Indonesia, or even Nigeria — but in Germany.

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By Selwyn Duke

Vladimir Lenin, author of the Russian Revolution, once told a colleague that “yes, we are contradicting what we said before” — as The New Criterion paraphrased it in 2019 — “and when it is useful to reverse positions again, we will.” This could come to mind when pondering a complaint from liberal law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.

“Some of the same hard leftists who have been on the forefront in denying free speech rights to those deemed politically incorrect,” notes the famed octogenarian, “have now begun to champion the First Amendment in defense of those who advocate the killing of Jews.”

In particular, Dershowitz trains his sights on Harvard University and its now-infamous president, Claudine Gay, an affirmative-action hire who’s being retained and defended by her institution despite revelations that she’s guilty of repeated acts of plagiarism. It’s her copying of Lenin, however, that has raised Dershowitz’s ire.

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By Selwyn Duke

We’ve heard stories about children “canceling” their conservative parents, cutting all ties with them over objections to their politics. But they should actually be thankful for their traditionalist elders because, a new study informs, the typical “rightist” parenting style can keep kids right in the head. In contrast, “leftist” parenting is more associated with youths who’ve left sanity.

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By Selwyn Duke

We discussed the usual light issues: life, the Universe and everything (hat tip: Douglas Adams). My appearance begins at 36:10. Watch at your own risk.