By Selwyn Duke

Jamie Reed didn’t want to speak up. After all, she understood the possible career ramifications for exposing the malpractice at the pediatric “transgender” clinic for which she once worked. She also knew that what gave her revelations added credibility wouldn’t protect her. To wit: Reed describes herself as a “queer,” 42-year-old woman who’s “married” to a “transman” (a female masquerading as male). But she finally felt compelled to blow the whistle because her former employer’s medical practices are, as she puts it, “morally and medically appalling.”

In fact, the doctors at the Washington University Transgender Center (WUTC) at St. Louis Children’s Hospital tacitly acknowledged that they were experimenting on kids, even as they admonished Reed to cease questioning the “medicine and the science.” As those physicians put it, frequently, “We are building the plane while we are flying it.”

Reed didn’t intend to fly by the seat of her pants, however, when taking her job at the WUTC, where she was a case manager for four years (2018-2022). She assumed the institution’s governing philosophy — the earlier “gender dysphoria” (GD) is treated, the less anguish patients experience later on — was correct. These were experts, after all, so she supposed their conclusions were evidence-based.

But Reed would come to learn differently through her position….

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By Selwyn Duke

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Talkback-02-15-2023

By Selwyn Duke

People have long lamented “bystander apathy,” as we make a motto of “See something, say something!” Yet it now appears the powers-that-be are demanding victim apathy.

Of course, couple this with defunding and handcuffing the police, and the population will be held hostage by criminals until people plead for security — and they may accept it even at the expense of liberty.

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By Selwyn Duke

Recently, an establishment called Nettie's House of Spaghetti in New Jersey announced they will no longer allow children under 10 to dine at their restaurant.

The move caused controversy, with some respondents applauding the policy and others accusing Nettie’s staff of being “child haters.” But the top commenter at MSN.com summed the issue up succinctly:

“We don't hate your kids,” she wrote. “We hate your parenting.”

Congratulations, madam, you won the Internet today.

If this seems a tempest in a teapot, know that it has implications for our entire society because it reflects a deadly modern problem:

Too many Americans are failing to civilize their children.

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By Selwyn Duke

Many points are made when discussing the green energy agenda’s infeasibility. It has been noted that wind and solar can’t provide our energy needs, that powering the United States with wind would require an area three times California’s size. It has further been asserted that electric-car production and use actually cause more pollution than the gasoline status quo. It’s not just that electric vehicles’ manufacture creates massive releases of CO₂ (not a pollutant, mind you), either; it’s also that the mining of the metals and minerals required for their production causes environmental damage. Yet there’s a kicker here, too, a point seldom made:

Even if we could more cleanly and efficiently mine the materials in question, there simply aren’t enough of them to make green energy a reality.

That’s the conclusion of a geological study that, not surprisingly, hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves. 

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By Selwyn Duke

Should the Constitution just be destroyed, with even the original document burned so that it may never, ever rear its head again? Nobody of note has yet suggested this, literally, but the people tearing down our statues, renaming buildings, and now occasionally even saying Mount Rushmore should be destroyed may as well do so. It would be more honest than the continual attacks on the Constitution’s meaning under the pretense of constitutional rectitude.

One of the latest examples of the latter is a Thursday Atlantic article asserting, “Originalism Is Going to Get Women Killed,” which is essentially no different than stating our Constitution is going to get women killed (in-depth explanation later).

For sure, writer Madiba Dennie, despite being a lawyer (with the Brennan Center), has a real problem with the supreme law of the land. She evidences this with lines such as….

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By Selwyn Duke

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Talkback-02-10-2023

By Selwyn Duke

Because radical Democrats had their way, a 9-year-old in New York State may not only take puberty blockers, but have them covered by the taxpayers through Medicaid. But there’s something preteens won’t be able to do if Empire State Democrats have their way again: play tackle football.

All this, mind you, is being done “for the children” in the name of health — even though research shows that tackle football is safe for kids when proper equipment and techniques are used.

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By Selwyn Duke

Liberals are not only more likely than conservatives to suppose that “emotion is a feature of rationality,” a series of three studies has shown, but also apparently believe it should be. In fact, they consider emotions more “functional” (utilitarian, essentially) than conservatives do despite reporting less emotional well-being.

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By Selwyn Duke

Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) has been a very, very bad boy. So naughty, in fact, that politicians and pundits left, right, and center have insisted he be removed from Congress. The issue, as has been well publicized, is that these critics are deeply offended — down to their very souls — that he’s the George Constanza (of Seinfeld fame) of politics and fabricated his résumé while seeking office. Yes, their great revelation is this:

A politician lied.

Why, one can just hear the ghost of Captain Renault (of Casablanca fame) exclaiming in the halls of Congress, “I’m shocked, shocked, to find that lying is going on in here!”

Will we ever recover?

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