By Selwyn Duke

The Wisconsin GOP has finally stopped being conservative — at least in one area. And that’s a good thing.

That is, “conservative” in the sense of conserving leftists’ mistakes. At issue is that State Assembly Republicans have blocked a freedom-squelching bureaucratic ban on reparative therapy (RT) for so-called LBGTQ individuals.

RT, generally referred to pejoratively as “conversion therapy” by mainstream media, seeks to rid people of unwanted homosexual or “transgender” feelings or those relating to other types of disordered sexuality. It has been outlawed in 20 states and D.C. — by the same type of activists who busy themselves trying to convert children into sexual devolutionaries in passions and practice.

The ban’s suspension was effected by the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules, which passed the measure Thursday on a 6-4 party-line vote, with the GOP in the majority.

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By Selwyn Duke

We are making progress “in the movement toward reparations” for the descendants of black slaves, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) last week. The week before, a Duke University economist estimated that reparations sufficient to end black Americans’ “claims for race-specific restitution” would cost up to $14 trillion. (The U.S. economy’s total size was $25.72 trillion in the third quarter.) In this vein, San Francisco’s “reparations committee” just proposed that each longtime black resident be granted $5 million and total debt forgiveness. And across the Atlantic, a specific human target for reparations extraction has been identified.

No, it’s not Kamala Harris, whose own father conceded that their ancestors were slaveholders.

It’s British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, whose distant ancestors owned a Barbados slave plantation.

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a thought exercise: Ask yourself whether historians 100 years hence might write the following lines about a late, great United States:

“The U.S. was a society obsessed with racial identity. Racial categories influenced whether a person could get or retain a job in the civil service, become a member or a leader in certain organizations, or an officer in the army.”

Now consider that this line was written by a historian, at Oxford Academic — while talking about Nazi Germany. I just altered it somewhat, substituting “The U.S.” for “Nazi Germany,” “identity” for “purity,” “influenced” for “determined,” and “certain organizations” for “Nazi organizations.”

If that doesn’t give you pause about the identity-politics road we now tread, ponder a Friday article titled “What happens when mixed-race people don’t have the right mix.” 

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By Selwyn Duke

Sometimes, as is said, if you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. It’s also true that, as with British writer Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” humor can often be an excellent way to change minds. In this vein, there’s a new parody for the “Kaufman Institute for Coincidence” (KIC) that deals with a certain type of high-tech snake oil ostensibly designed to ward off a certain type of boogeyman infectious disease. It’s that snake oil you’re never, ever supposed to mention in a negative light lest you be censored by social media (thus do I often call it the “Voldemort Agent”), a squelching of freedom which, we can be sure, is just another coincidence.

The video packs a lot into its two minutes, and opens with a runner suddenly clutching his heart and the narrator asking, “Are you or a loved one suffering from a medical coincidence? You want proper medical care but you don’t want people sniffing around asking a whole bunch of questions about what might be causing your problem. At the Kaufman Institute for Coincidence, we won’t look into the cause of your heart or other problem. We’ll just fix it.”

The parody is funny and professionally done, but to relate more would be to issue spoilers. So without further ado, here’s the video….

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By Selwyn Duke

“Allahu akbar!” — an often misinterpreted exclamation meaning “Allah is the Greatest!” — has been heard quite a bit recently. It was shouted by an American teen convert to Islam who rang in the New Year by stabbing three police officers near Times Square. It was screamed by a Tunisian man in France when he threatened cops with a gun during a Saturday arrest for allegedly having killed his wife. It was also exclaimed Saturday by a Muslim man who fired a pellet gun into the air in a Jewish NYC neighborhood, by a Libyan national who stabbed five people in Paris Wednesday, and during New Year’s Eve violence in Vienna, Austria.

Whether it was uttered when an American locality’s Muslim city council recently voted to legalize animal sacrifice was not reported.

But, of course, our strength lies in our diversity — and Joe Biden is thus strengthening us continually. Why, he has released more illegals into our interior in the last 100 days than the whole population of Montana. Perhaps he has his reasons, too: Biden equivocated when asked recently if entering the U.S. was a “right.” Where any such right might be in the Constitution also was not reported.

Going from rights to wrongs, “white supremacy” is the greatest domestic threat we face, our authorities tell us.

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By Selwyn Duke

The Biden administration has a message for scientists: Get woke or go broke.

At issue is a new policy by the Department of Energy (DoE), America’s chief physical sciences’ funder, that demands grant applicants demonstrate adherence to social-justice orthodoxy.

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By Selwyn Duke

More than 72,000 restaurants were destroyed by misguided pandemic lockdowns. Thousands of these were in New York State, and many of those in the Big Apple, where restaurateurs must also contend with high rents and business-damaging “woke complaints.” Yet now they face another threat: a proposed ban on gas stoves that would reportedly cut their productivity 40 percent.

Along with the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC’s) consideration of a nationwide gas-stove prohibition, New York governor Kathy Hochul is proposing to make her state our country’s first to ban natural gas heating and appliances in all new buildings.

Unlike the CPSC, however, which justifies its unconstitutional desire as a public health matter — while also likely having global-warming-thesis-oriented motives — Hochul wears her greentopian climate banner openly.

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By Selwyn Duke

“In junior high they’d come home saying they wouldn’t say the Pledge of Allegiance anymore,” one mother related. “They told me boy and girl bathrooms were wrong and they should all be gender neutral. That’s how it started.” How it ended was with estrangement from her own children.

Another mother told a similar story, with her daughter once refusing to attend Thanksgiving dinner because it celebrated “Columbus’ genocide.” That all started after the young lady had “an awakening” in her sophomore year of college.

Welcome to the world of kids who trade their parental relationships for cult-like ideology.

Last November, The New American reported on Annabella Rockwell, whose brainwashing in academia turned her into an unhappy, anti-male social-justice warrior bent on “reforming” her mother and fighting the “patriarchy,” all while wallowing in victimhood and battling a campus-acquired alcohol problem. Her mom finally had to pay a deprogrammer $300 a day to restore her sanity.

Now, after reading about Rockwell’s story in the New York Post, other parents have come forward to reveal they also have lost children to this cultural revolution — and that they seek deprogramming for them, too.

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By Selwyn Duke

Teachers in the United Kingdom are upset. Many of their young adolescent boy students, rebelling against feminism, are listening to the Manosphere’s Andrew Tate and are espousing his hyper-masculine views. These teachers say the lads are being “brainwashed” and find this most troubling, which is understandable.

They no doubt feel that’s their job.

Tate, an ex-kick boxer, former reality TV star, and British “influencer” reportedly worth $100 million, figures prominently in the news at present because of a December 30 arrest in Romania on sex-trafficking and rape charges. Tate, who was taken into custody after a high-profile Twitter dust-up with teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg, denies the allegations.

Undeniable is that the 36-year-old Tate has great influence.

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