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  • Democrats’ Support for Jay Jones and America’s Descent Into Violence

    Image created by Grok AI.By Selwyn Duke

    Image created by Grok AI.

    African radio station RTLM is now infamous for having helped sparked the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Dubbed “Hate Radio,” it would broadcast messages in which the target group, the Tutsis, were regularly characterized as “cockroaches.” Is such mainstreamed rhetoric coming to America?

    Well, we’re getting closer, as many recent-years’ utterances attest. Said to be an example of this — though far from the best of the worst — is the recently unearthed text messages sent by Democratic Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones.

    Referencing then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R), Jones made a joke involving a violent hypothetical.

    “Three people, two bullets[;] Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot[;] Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” Jones said. “Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”

    “I would p*** on [their] graves,” he also reportedly stated.

    And why the animosity? “Gilbert and his wife [are] breeding little fascists,” he explained in a later text. “Fascists” — my, wherever did he get that from?

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  • More Than Being “Dumb,” Justice Jackson’s Argument Is Just Horribly Wrong

    By Selwyn Duke

    We don’t know if Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is disabled as a jurist, but she certainly has made it onto the Supreme Court. She apparently, though, believes that black Americans are essentially “disabled” within the context of our American system. In fact, she just said as much Wednesday during oral arguments in the current SCOTUS case of Louisiana v. Callais.

    Not surprisingly, Jackson’s argument has brought mockery, with critics calling her reasoning “insane” and “dumb.” In reality, however, she isn’t the first Supreme Court justice to make her disability argument. Even more significantly, the eye-rolling and guffaws can distract from the real, deeper issue. That is, Jackson embraces a flawed premise which, unlike her argument, too many Americans share with her.

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  • MASSIVE Retail Theft: The Unspoken Cause of High Prices and Economic Harm

    By Selwyn Duke

    There’s more than one reason for the high prices hurting average Americans. But one of them is seldom discussed: the massive retail theft now plaguing our country. How serious is it?

    The total annual 2022 losses (e.g., including security and insurance) associated with criminality amounted to approximately $112.1 billion. Theft alone was 65 percent of this “shrinkage,” totaling a $72.9 billion loss. Of course, good citizens are supporting these criminals, too.

    In fact, theft cost the average family more than $400 in 2022.

    This isn’t distributed equally, though. Families in high-crime areas — i.e., people generally poorer to begin with — bear a greater cost, perhaps $600 to $800.

    Citizens should ponder this the next time they contemplate supporting soft-on-crime politicians, whose inaction enables retail theft.

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  • FBI Fudging? Armed Citizens Stop More Shootings Than Bureau Admits

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s called proportionate force: The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, generally, is with a good guy with a gun. This doesn’t actually happen too much, though, if you ask the FBI and legacy media. But you perhaps shouldn’t ask them.

    Because in reality, a study finds, armed citizens stop active shootings at least 10 times more than the FBI claims. That’s not exactly a rounding error.

    Moreover, this is true of crime in general: Good citizens with guns thwart significantly more of it than is widely known.

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  • White “Ghetto Girl” Reflects Why MAGA Won’t be Easy

    By Selwyn Duke

    If politics is downstream from culture, and it is, we have a lot to worry about. This is frankly because American culture has long been rotting like a 10-day-old avocado in the sun. A good example, appearing in my X notifications yesterday, is a video of a white girl sporting corn-woven hair and speaking “Ebonics”-style while giving a cop a hard time. “Why is she talking like that?” asks the original poster of the 54-second clip (below).

    X users reacting to the video were unsparing, with no small number attributing her behavior to low IQ. And one seemingly incredulous respondent asked, “Seriously, how does a white person become like this? How do you turn into the most degenerate stereotype of another race?”

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  • Want Slavery Reparations? Go Ask Muslim Countries, Says Scholar

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s arguable that the people who complain about slavery most actually may love it, in a perverse way. After all, it provides so many with excuses for failure, anti-Western talking points, and opportunities to extract hand-outs. Just consider “reparations,” which are now continually demanded (by people enslaved only by their own indoctrination). Why, California Governor Gavin Newsom, panderer-in-chief, just signed a bill Friday to create a reparations-administration agency. Never mind that California was never a slave state.

    But to African-descent people who want reparations, a British-Bangladeshi scholar has a message: You’re barking up the wrong tree.

    You need to seek your booty elsewhere — from Muslim countries.

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  • Afghan Rapes Elderly Woman. Aftermath: Her SON May be Charged for Unintentionally Videoing the Crime

    By Selwyn Duke

    In today’s upside-down world, we’ve all heard stories about “blaming the victim.” Bullied kids at government schools come to mind. But whatever you’ve heard in this regard, nothing can compare to an incident out of Austria that just beggars belief.

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  • Manipulation: Media’s Illegal-alien Sob Stories Are Meant to Deceive

    By Selwyn Duke

    A large group of people walking along a dirt path, surrounded by fields and trees, suggesting a migration or movement.

    There’s a certain technique often used by journalists, one designed to get you not thinking, but feeling. It involves opening an article with a human-interest story, and it’s figuring prominently right now in the illegal-migration controversy. It may go something like this:

    Lupe entered the United States as a wide-eyed child from Mexico, having high hopes and dreaming bold dreams. Growing up in Arizona, she toiled as a maid to support her family. But using a false document to land a job resulted in a felony conviction, making Lupe ineligible for DACA; any path to legalization was closed to her. Now in her 30s, Lupe must endure the continuous fear of deportation. She has been robbed of opportunities her peers take for granted, such as driver’s licenses or college aid. Once a hard-working immigrant, Lupe is now an outcast, one of America’s modern-day lepers.

    Heart Over Head

    Of course, the idea is to engage your emotions and not your intellect. You’re supposed to identify with Lupe and not identify policy-specific imperatives. It’s not supposed to occur to you that Lupe isn’t an “immigrant,” as stated above, but a “migrant” at best. (The former term implies entry via a legal process.) You’re not supposed to think about illegal-alien crime and its many American victims. You’re not supposed to contemplate the strain on resources and infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals. You’re not supposed to wonder about how the billions of dollars illegals cost our system affect our ability to help fellow citizens, such as veterans. It’s not supposed to dawn on you that deportation isn’t punishment. As with children who’ve run away from home, it’s merely the returning of people to where they’re meant to be.

    You’re not supposed to trouble over the cultural and political implications of absorbing millions of sometimes unassimilable aliens. No, you’re not supposed to consider facts, figures, realities, or statistics at all. You’re not to realize that making policy for 343 million people based on one person’s situation ignores that the “good of the many outweighs the good of the few.” You’re only supposed to identify with Lupe. You’re to be governed by your tears, not Truth; by what momentarily feels good, not what is good.

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  • Does the NFL-Bad Bunny Brouhaha Reflect a Meltdown of MAGA — or of America?

    By Selwyn Duke

    A male performer holding a microphone, dressed in a black and white patterned jacket, passionately singing on stage with bright lights in the background.

    There are some people who don’t know, or claim to not know, why there’s controversy over artist “Bad Bunny’s” planned Super Bowl LX halftime performance. There’s story after story, too, about how MAGA is “melting down” over it. But are they? Or is America, once a melting pot, melting down culturally?

    To review, the performance by Bunny, actual name Benito Martinez Ocasio, at the Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, in February will be entirely in Spanish. Ocasio can sing in English and has done so (though approximately 95 percent of his songs are in Spanish). But the Puerto Rican native has decided that his Super Bowl offerings will be delivered only in his native tongue. You won’t even be able to “press 1” for English.

    Yet this alone probably wouldn’t have been enough to spark the current controversy. Rather, Ocasio has also waded into politics. In fact, just last month he said that he didn’t want to perform in the U.S. He was concerned about his fans’ safety, he claimed, because of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown. “[T]here was the issue of — like, f****** ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] could be outside [my concert],” said the rabbit.

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  • Canceling Feminism: Apply Hegseth Doctrine to Police Women, Too, Says Writer

    By Selwyn Duke

    In 2014, the Obama administration sued the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) for treating women equally.

    Yes, you read that right.

    The problem: Female applicants were failing the PSP physical fitness test at a higher rate than did their male counterparts. It didn’t matter, either, that the standards had already been laughably dumbed down. (Example: Candidates only had to complete 13 pushups — with no time limit.)

    This is a now old story, too. In the name of Equality™, police departments have for decades been lowering standards to grease the skids for female cops. But, says one commentator, this must end. We should apply the “Hegseth doctrine” to not just the military, but female police candidates as well.

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