By Selwyn Duke

It’s always interesting when the media make someone or something a cause. A few may remember, for instance, golf prodigy Michelle Wie. In the early 2000s when she was about 14, the media relentlessly promoted the six-foot lass after she showed promise and boasted of how she was going to beat the men, including then-world number one Tiger Woods. For the media love feminism-buttressing, girl-power stories, and Wie wasn’t complaining: Much like Barack Obama getting a Nobel Peace Prize based on perceived potential, the positive press eventually won the golfer a $50 million Nike contract.

Oh, today, at age 33, Wie just retired, never having come close to being number one on even the women’s tour and having captured only one major tournament. Media hype met reality.

Another girl-power press darling is the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), the soccer ladies who’ve been protesting our National Anthem and who, until recently, were led by purple-haired lesbian Megan Rapinoe. As such, the pseudo-elites and the team’s few fans are crestfallen that the squad just registered its worst World Cup showing yet, falling to Sweden’s gals in the tournament’s round of 16. They’re also upset that the loss has pleased millions of Americans who don’t cotton to the USWNT’s unpatriotic displays.

Of course, the pseudo-elites can’t understand (or pretend they can’t) why anyone dislikes the team and, what’s more, they may even claim it’s unpatriotic to not support it.

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By Selwyn Duke

West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, the “conservative” Democratic senator who votes with hard-left Joe Biden 88 percent of the time, said in 2021 that he has “never considered” switching parties. Now, some may say, he has switched his position on switching, with Manchin stating that he’s thinking “‘very seriously’ about switching party affiliation,” as Newser puts it. Yet while the senator would claim this is all about principle, is it really all about his conservative leanings?

That is, his desire to win the next election and conserve his power.

Manchin hasn’t officially thrown his hat into the ring, but if he does, he may be thrown out. While different polls do paint different pictures, and while the senator is more popular now than he was last year, a recent Morning Consult survey found that 55 percent of W.V. voters disapprove of his job performance; only 39 percent approve. What’s more, Manchin is far less popular than the man who’d be his probable Republican opponent, current governor Jim Justice. So, how can he make sure Justice isn’t served?

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By Selwyn Duke

We discussed the burgeoning anti-white hatred and discrimination that is the Left's obsession. My appearance begins at 28:07. 

By Selwyn Duke

It has become so obvious that even the less astute among us have noted leftists’ reflexive habit of projection: They tend to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty of. They’d say Covid realists were “science deniers” even as they insisted a boy could will himself into being a girl. They’d say the Right is violent even while winking and nodding at 2020’s 600-plus left-wing riots. They’ll say conservatives are “racist,” but turn around and demonize white people. Then there’s their love for hurling the pejorative “fascist.”

An interesting example is….

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By Selwyn Duke

Leftists often accuse conservatives of wanting to return to the past — but leftists don’t have to.

They’re already there.

In a sort of racial version of Groundhog Day, to them it’s ever and always 1963, with Bull Connor siccing dogs on civil-rights protesters and Governor George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door. Thus are they shocked — shocked, I tell you — that some Americans actually live in 2023.

The latest example is the mainstream media’s outrage that Trump voters and self-identified Republicans say that anti-white racism is a bigger problem in today’s America than is the anti-black variety. What’s more, Yahoo News complains that this belief is “one major roadblock” standing in the way of reparations.

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By Selwyn Duke

We discussed the rapid decline in Christian belief in the U.S., what's causing it, and some of the phenomenon's implications. 

By Selwyn Duke

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon,” counseled leftist icon Saul Alinsky. “It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.” This advice might’ve been vindicated by the recent behavior of some politically correct university researchers who reacted to student mockery of their “gender” survey by going into full-melting-snowflake mode.

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By Selwyn Duke

When global-warming alarmists, or anyone else, say “The debate is over,” it usually means they’re out of arguments. But now some climate-change activists want to make sure they’ll be out of opponents, too — by throwing them in prison.

The latest individual to suggest such is European politician Angelo Bonelli, an MP who is co-leader of Italy’s Green Europe party. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Is the Biden administration trying to make the U.S. armed forces the Bud Light of world militaries? Some may thus wonder given recent developments. After all, first the administration intensified military wokeness with its focus on sexual devolutionary (“LGBTQ+”) agendas, which some blame for the Army’s and other branches’ recruitment shortfalls. Apropos to this, there later was news that the Army was exempting “trans” members from fitness standards (because, of course, what does not looking like Jabba the Hut’s little brother have to do with effective soldiering?) Now there’s this:

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who cut her teeth as a Clinton intern, worries that relying too much on military families for new recruits could create a “warrior caste.”

Instead, “The Army is strategically deploying recruiters to communities across the country based on demographics, ethnicity, race, and gender,” Wormuth recently wrote.

My, it’s now clear why Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) once said that “the Biden Administration, I’ve observed, never makes the same mistake twice.”

“They make it five or six times just to be sure.”

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By Selwyn Duke

In 2020, a Black Lives Matter organizer characterized looting as “reparations” and claimed that labeling someone a criminal was “based on racism.” Now a writer has echoed this, insisting in a recent piece that the only solution to “white supremacism” is to “take things from white people.” Worse still, Yahoo! News decided to republish the article, thus giving it vast exposure.

The piece, bluntly titled “Take things from white people,” was authored by an angry man named Michael Harriot and originally published at the grio. It’s essentially a very long rant that opens with the question, “What is the opposite of backlash?” The author then complains about the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action decision and writes….

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