By Selwyn Duke

In the 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man, philosopher Francis Fukuyama posited that “liberal democracy” would become the world’s unassailable, default norm. Since then, many would argue, we’ve gotten much liberalism and the appearance of democracy, but the substance doesn’t match the style. And a recent study of liberty in the world vindicates that claim.

In fact, finds the Cato Institute’s latest edition of the Human Freedom Index, after reaching a high point in 2007 (just before the Obama years, do note), worldwide freedom had been in steady decline. But that has changed:

It entered steep decline with the Covid-19 situation in 2020.

Yet even in this world of diminished liberty in which capturing a good freedom ranking is easier, the United States has lost ground relative to other nations. It now ranks only 23rd, behind countries such as Germany, Canada, and Britain, and former communist lands such as Latvia and Estonia. America had been sixth in the world in the year 2000.

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By Selwyn Duke

Anger is like darkness: The more there is, the less you can see.

This is a good reason why angry people shouldn’t helm social-change movements and, to the point here, why they shouldn’t devise school history curricula.

A good example of such a person might be one complaining about “legislation that seeks to shield white children from facing the facts of white supremacy — mandating that a ‘person should not be instructed that he or she must feel guilt, anguish, or other forms of psychological distress for actions, in which he or she played no part, committed in the past by other members of the same race.’”

The above is, of course, not hypothetical, but was written by a social activist and Guardian columnist….

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By Selwyn Duke

The pilot had a history of acting “impulsively” during training and “an inability to remain calm during stressful situations,” an investigator said. These deficits would prove deadly, too, one fateful February day.

That’s right, Conrad Aska’s checkered flying past didn’t prevent him from being at the helm of Atlas Air Flight 3591, a cargo-carrying Boeing 767-375ER(BCF) traveling from Miami to Houston. But this wasn’t training, and when Aska hit the wrong switch as a result of turbulence and then became disoriented when the plane accelerated, he inadvertently plunged the craft into an unrecoverable dive.

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By Selwyn Duke

How can you know the “transgender” narrative is perhaps starting to collapse?

Answer: when even hardcore liberals begin questioning it. And, well, that’s finally happening.

First there was a February 9 piece by ex-pediatric “gender” clinic worker Jamie Reed, who describes herself as “left of Bernie Sanders,” in which she warned that what such facilities visit upon kids is “morally and medically appalling.” Now a left-wing San Francisco-based filmmaker is singing a similar tune, stating that she was all in on sexual distortion treatments (SDTs, my terminology, not hers) — that is, until her own son said he wanted them.

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While it has become fashionable to find fault with Western civilization, a world without the West would not be a pleasant place for anyone accustomed to peace, prosperity, and personal liberty.

By Selwyn Duke

Coming out of his sociology class, Jayson was stoked. Wading into current events, his instructor, Professor Berger, had mentioned that not only did Joe Biden offer developing nations “climate reparations” at the recent COP27 climate summit, but that their university had agreed to drop its Western Civ. requirement. “Finally,” he thought, “progress!” as he got into his car to make the 50-minute trip to his girlfriend’s house to meet her parents. Jayson was still mad, though. “I hate this @#$^&*! Western society,” he said to himself, “with its structural racism, patriarchal and heteronormative oppression — and Christian fundies. We’ve gotta' end it!” Yet he was risking ending himself. Fiddling with his electronics while trying to play some music and, again, quite exercised, he didn’t notice he was taking the approaching curve a bit too fast and that, after the day’s rains, some mud was slickening the road. Fear coursed through him as he lost control of the car — and spun down into a gully.

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By Selwyn Duke

Increasingly, Americans are learning that there’s no valid science behind so-called transgenderism, and that the term is not a scientific designation but a political one. What’s more, despite modern-day Lysenkoists’ best efforts at convincing us that “gender identity disorder” (GID) has a biological basis and thus requires a biological (physical) fix, people may be more likely than ever to accept the truth that it’s a psychological disorder.

Yet Americans do generally believe that the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda is driven by people with GID and their enablers, and/or by men seeking to advantage themselves by masquerading as women. While the latter motivation is, in fairness, rare except in cases of male prison inmates, there is another ill wind under the MUSS agenda’s wings, one of which few are aware.

It’s called autogynephilia.

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By Selwyn Duke

It was 26 years ago, as Tiger Woods was poised to win the 1997 Masters tournament, that he was the object of a joke by fellow golfer Fuzzy Zoeller about not serving soul food when he returned to defend his title. Zoeller was crucified in the ensuing uproar, which Woods could’ve helped diffuse by telling people to lighten up. But he didn’t. Now, though, Woods is the target of wokester ire himself after indulging in his own politically incorrect humor.

It all began at the recently concluded Genesis Invitational tournament when the 47-year-old Woods out-drove his much younger playing partner and friend Justin Thomas, 29, by 20 yards. The golfing great then decided to give his buddy a little dig, in an obviously pre-planned gag, by discreetly handing him a tampon (video below).

This greatly displeased the wokesters, “with many stating it [the prank] was disrespectful to women….

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By Selwyn Duke

Did you hear about the new Chinese and Russian military doctrine stating that they will not, under any circumstances, attack a diverse opposing force?

Me neither.

Despite this, the Department of Defense (DoD) appears to be focusing more on making our side diverse than on making it devastating.

Just consider a video the DoD recently tweeted from its Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion’s annual DEI Summit, held February 15-17. The department proclaims in its tweet (below) that “[d]iversity is a strategic imperative critical to mission readiness and accomplishment.” How this is so was not explained — and never is.

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By Selwyn Duke

When even your archrival praises you, with nothing to gain, you know it means something. So it’s most notable what “The Last King of America,” George III, said about George Washington’s refusal to become the first king of these United States.

“If he does that,” said the monarch, upon hearing that Washington would relinquish power and return to his farm post-Revolutionary War, “he will be the greatest man in the world.”

Washington did do that, too — twice. Though the story about him being offered the kingship of America is exaggerated, that sentiment did exist, and Washington rejected the proposal unreservedly. He also not only resigned his military commission after the war, but also resisted entreaties to seek a third term as his second one as president was concluding. In the process, he helped forge the greatest civilization history has ever known.

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By Selwyn Duke

It was always there, just beneath the surface. Late radio giant Rush Limbaugh called it get-even-with-’em-ism. It’s that hostility that ever underlay racial quotas and that now, being more overt, is manifesting itself in “the largest racial tracking bureaucracy since the fall of Nazi Germany.”

That’s how Fox News host Tucker Carlson characterized Joe Biden’s new “equity”-oriented executive order (number 13985), signed Thursday and mostly ignored every day. It protects and elevates all conceivable groups in the United States — except one.

If you guessed “Straight white men,” go to the head of the class.

That is, unless you’re a straight white man. Then you can sit in the back of the of the electric, carbon-neutral bus to East Palestine.

One more thing….

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