By Selwyn Duke

“Now, where do I go to get my reputation back?” So reads a famous paraphrase of public official Raymond Donovan, who expressed the sentiment after his high-profile 1980s acquittal on fraud and grand larceny charges. As is virtually always the case, it’s easier to be cleared in a court of law than in the court of public opinion.

This is especially true when the media are intensely interested in covering damning charges against you, but almost totally uninterested in covering your exoneration.

This could come to mind with the further debunking of a vicious anti-Christian racial hoax, one that led to “retaliatory” 2021 church burnings in Canada: The claim that “mass child graves” were discovered at Catholic and Protestant residential schools for Indian students.

Even at the time, as I related in my essay “Churches Burn in Canada Based on Blood-libel Myth,” those with eyes to see knew there was no actual evidence of mass child graves. This didn’t stop The New York Times from writing in June 2021, in what commentator Andrea Widburg calls a “representative article,” the following:

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By Selwyn Duke

We discussed America's moral decay and how to remedy it. My appearance begins at 34:07. 

By Selwyn Duke

Once again, I discussed Joe Manchin's maneuvering and what constitutes smart voting. I appear in its opening segment. 

By Selwyn Duke

As late singer Charlie Daniels might’ve said, “The Devil went down to Georgia.” What, though, is he looking to steal?

Health?

Confidence?

Security?

Common sense?

Or, is it an election?

One commentator wonders about the latter with news that a Georgia institution, Morris Brown College in Atlanta, has just re-instituted a restrictive Covid-19 mask mandate. And here’s the kicker:

It’s “a precautionary move for the next 14 days,” reports WSB-TV. My, “14 days.” … Where have we heard that before?

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By Selwyn Duke

Approximately 100 years ago, G.K. Chesterton called common sense “that forgotten branch of psychology.”

Psychologists have been proving him right ever since, too.

The latest example is a California hospital chief psychologist who claims that children can identify as the “gender” version of a mythical creature and that such kids love mermaids.

Moreover, the practitioner often gets her guidance from small children, saying they know more than adults do about “being gender expansive.”

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By Selwyn Duke

We discussed President Trump's absence from the upcoming GOP debate and Joe Manchin's machinations. To listen, please click on the Saturday, August 19 episode and then fast-forward; my appearance begins at 22:20. 

By Selwyn Duke

In these mixed-up, misandrist times, there’s no shortage of articles claiming men are “broken” or lacking. And, surprise of surprises, the solution is always for the fellows to listen to feminization-prescribing social engineers and become more, well, like women. The latest example is “James” Barnes, a woman masquerading as a man who writes, “I’m a Trans Man. I Didn’t Realize How Broken Men Are.”

Now, what follows should be prefaced with: If you look for the brokenness in people, you’re sure to find it. Since we’re all part of a “broken” (i.e., fallen) race, anyone accusing others of brokenness will surely, in principle, be correct. The problem is that Barnes does not critique man, but men; and she doesn’t prescribe God, but gobbledygook.

Barnes begins with her “story.” This is a common literary technique — employed by women more than men — that’s designed to make the reader connect emotionally with the writer so that he’ll then be more likely to accept the former’s assertions regardless of their validity. In Barnes’ case, this includes asserting that she always felt like a boy “on the inside.”

After making her case that she really is male, deep down, Barnes writes at Newsweek, “When I enthusiastically started the transition process at 26 years old, I thought I had prepared for all the significant side effects: Acne, sweating, having an enormous appetite, and everything else that comes from testosterone” (note: the most horrible ones she perhaps omits).

She then continues, “The one thing I didn’t prepare for was how lonely it is to be a man.”

In reality, of course, Barnes could only have prepared for how lonely it is to be a woman pretending to be a man.

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By Selwyn Duke

The program is ostensibly designed to eliminate “implicit bias.” Yet it promotes a very explicit one — a real doozy, too.

In fact, states a lawsuit filed by a coalition of California doctors against their state’s medical board, training now compulsory for Golden State physicians teaches that “white individuals are naturally racist.”

Of course, anti-white “anti-bias” training is common today. Yet one could wonder about the above. Since “racism” is our most obsessed-upon modern “sin” (the actual Seven Deadly Sins are passé), what are the implications of saying that whites alone carry with regard to it the stain of original sin? Must they be subjected to genetic engineering to purge this defect from them?

Or must we go even further and, as the racialists say, “erase whiteness,” which has become a euphemism for erasing white people?

Whatever the case….

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By Selwyn Duke

“The Aborigines must be integrated into the new Australia; the old Australia is never coming back.” This statement is the antithesis of a referendum soon to be before the Australian people, the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.” The question on the ballot later this year will be, “A Proposed Law: To alter the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”

Regardless of whether the referendum passes, anyone dismissing the effort with the “integrated into the new Australia” comment would be immediately canceled. This won’t happen, though, for a simple reason: No one actually uttered that line. But here’s what was said, by Swedish politician and multiculturalist Mona Sahlin in 2001:

“The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden; the old Sweden is never coming back.”

Sahlin was talking about how newcomers — Muslim immigrants, in particular — were irrevocably changing Sweden and there wasn’t a darn thing “indigenous” Swedes could do about it. Suck it up, Sven!

Funny thing, though, she was never canceled; in fact, she went on to have a successful political career.

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By Selwyn Duke

Back in the 1970s, when trees became almost a protected class, we heard that we had to ditch paper supermarket bags (and move to plastic) because we were decimating too many forests. Now, 50 years later, with more tree cover in the U.S. than a century ago, the greentopians have another complaint:

American forests will become CO₂ emitters by 2070, they aver, joining 10 protected forests worldwide that already are net spewers of the gas.

Reflecting the complaints many misanthropic leftists have about people, the issue is that as trees age they become takers: Their growth slows and they use less CO₂. In fact, the amount metabolized is lower than that produced by wildfires and dead-tree decomposition.

True to form, some scientists have suggested as “remedy” what is already applied to people: euthanasia — with the arboreal version involving destroying senior-citizen trees and replacing them with young whippersnapper ones. Whether such a great replacement would involve foreign-tree imports was not revealed.

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