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  • Soviet Europe? Trump BANS Euro Officials From U.S. in Free-speech War

    Close-up of yellow police tape marked 'POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS,' placed in a shadowy area.

    By Selwyn Duke

    My, how the worm has turned. It was in 2009 that talk-show giant Michael Savage, along with others, was banned from Britain for exercising speech. Now, 16 years later, certain European officials are being banned from the United States for banning people for exercising speech. It’s just the latest in an unprecedented development: a war over liberty between an increasingly authoritarian Europe and a U.S. that under Donald Trump’s administration is championing Americanism.

    At issue, too, isn’t merely certain European countries closing their borders to a few Americans. Nor is the problem just that European Union (EU) nations suppress their own citizens’ tongues via tendentious “hate speech”-law application. It’s also that, reflecting China’s efforts to censor the U.S.’s movies, the EU’s online restrictions could suppress Americans’ online expression. This is because Big Tech companies often apply EU-compliant changes worldwide.

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  • Climate-change Change: “Global Warming” Can Cause an Ice Age

    A scenic view of a glacier surrounded by mountains under a partly cloudy sky, showcasing snow and ice formations.

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s always nice when your theory covers most every possible outcome. Just consider the matter of anthropogenic (man-caused) climate change. We have, of course, heard that if the weather warms, the thesis is correct. If the weather merely becomes more volatile, we’re told, it’s also correct, with the “excess” atmospheric CO2 causing climatic upheaval. Then, too, we’ve heard as well that the theory is correct if the weather cools.

    (Not to mention that we’re never told what the Earth’s ideal average temperature would be. This precludes our knowing if any warming, whether naturally occurring or man-caused, is good or bad. For we then can’t know if it’s taking us closer to or farther from that ideal temperature.)

    The latest warming-begets-cooling theory comes from scientists at the University of California — Riverside (UCR). Reported last week by ScienceDaily, the website’s article is actually titled, “Global warming could trigger the next ice age.”

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  • University Writing Center Rejected Proper English, Calling It “Linguistic White Supremacy”

    Close-up of a dictionary page with the words 'politically correct' prominently displayed, highlighting discussions around language and social constructs.

    By Selwyn Duke

    There was a time when being a white supremacist meant something (for starters, that you were one in a million). Today, though, it appears that anyone can be a white supremacist. Why, all journalist Larry Elder had to do to become “the black face of white supremacy” was seek California’s governorship. And now all you need to do to become the linguistic face of white supremacy is uphold Standard American English (SAE).

    That is, according to certain “intellectuals” — such as those at the Metropolitan State University of Denver’s (MSUD’s) Writing Center.

    Yes, that’s right. Don’t dare tell students not to speak like a cross between Snoop Dogg and the rapist in the film Deliverance. Otherwise, you could be guilty of “anti-black linguistic racism.”

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  • Merry Christmas!

    I wish you a very merry and blessed Christmas. May your Christmas season be filled with love, joy and the grace of God.

    And here’s some food for thought:

    “Holidays” is a contraction of “Holy Days.” So if someone says to you, “Happy Holidays,” you can respond, “And Happy Holy Days to you!”

    (“Merry Christmas” works, too.)

    God bless,

    Selwyn Duke

  • Post-Bondi, a Woman Applauds Male Courage

    By Selwyn Duke

    “‘Guns don’t kill people; men and boys kill people,’ experts say,” read an October 2017 USA Today headline. The next month, Democrat Dana Nessel, running for Michigan attorney general, told state residents to support her, not a man. She meant any man because, her reasoning went, a woman won’t likely commit sexual harassment. (Nessel won her race; now, in 2025, she’s being investigated for ethics violations.)

    Yet these sentiments by Americans, issued in a time of perhaps peak misandry, had nothing on the Swedes’ anti-male machinations. Ahead of the curve in 2004, their country’s Left Party (its actual name) proposed a “Man Tax” (its actual name). As you may guess, this was a special levy on men designed to compensate society for male violence’s cost.

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  • Pandering to Illegal Aliens, Police Chief Plays the “Joseph, Mary, and Jesus Were Refugees” Card

    A depiction of the Nativity scene featuring Mary and Joseph with baby Jesus in a manger, surrounded by angels and worshipers in a peaceful setting under a starry sky.

    ‘Tis the season to…use the Christmas story for political gain?

    We’ve heard the line repeatedly. Somehow, we’re not supposed to secure our borders in 2025 and deport invaders because 2,000 years ago the Holy Family were “refugees.” Just today, for example, Newspeak Newsweek wrote that “it’s worth remembering that Jesus began life as a refugee.” (And, apparently then, it’s worth forgetting that we have immigration laws.)

    Another example is Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara. Bothered that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is enforcing immigration law in the Mini Apple, he likened Somali criminals’ plight to the Holy Family’s. Whether or not the chief believes that President Donald Trump is now a Herod targeting all Minneapolis Somali boys two years old and younger was not reported.

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  • Should We Be Defending Left-wing Europe From Right-wing Russia?

    A 3D figure looking dejected with words like 'failure' and 'loser' surrounding it, representing feelings of defeat and disappointment.

    By Selwyn Duke

    While it was contrary to our Founders’ warning to avoid entangling alliances and European wars, we certainly can understand why NATO was created in 1949. The USSR, which President Ronald Reagan would later rightly call an “evil empire,” appeared a burgeoning force. Ensuring his post-WWII domination of Eastern Europe, Soviet despot Joseph Stalin saw to it that communist governments rose to power, by hook or by crook, in seven nations west of his own between 1945 and ’48. And Stalin’s armies became this domination’s guarantor.

    The USSR was also attempting to spread its dark creed worldwide. In fact, Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov estimated that 85 percent of the KGB’s resources were devoted not to espionage, but subversion. So stopping this aggressive leftism was a priority.

    In contrast, Western Europe still shared much with the U.S. back then. Though its faith was waning, it was still Christendom, as opposed to the “atheistic communist” persecutors of the Church. It was, to use our provisional political terminology, a classic right-left dichotomy.

    (Note: The right-left model is a poor way of defining reality; it reflects the relativism pervading our time. Yet if I speak of being orthodox vs. heterodox, few will know what I’m talking about. So our common political lexicon must suffice for the moment.)

    But that time is long past. Approximately a generation and a half ago now, the Berlin Wall fell. The USSR is Russia again and, whatever its faults, the Bear is not spreading communism or any brand of leftism. In fact, the “union” now thus guilty is the EU. This brings us to certain questions:

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  • Aspiring Hollywood Writer Rejected for Being White — but Still Doesn’t Blame Leftists

    A close-up of a chessboard with two white kings in the foreground and a lineup of black pieces in the background.

    By Selwyn Duke

    There’s a storm brewing, quite understandably, among millennial and Gen Z white men. Denied jobs over their race, they’re looking for remedy and reparation. Given this, it’s not surprising that a long essay documenting the problem with stories and stats has gained much traction. Appearing at the website Compact on Monday and penned by once-aspiring Hollywood writer Jacob Savage, it is informationally savage. It, as is said, brings the receipts. But does it bring the deeper reality?

    After all, the essay, titled “The Lost Generation,” seeks to put an onus on diversity, equity, and inclusion’s (DEI’s) authors and abettors. Yet many touting the essay identify the culprits as certain generations, not as who they are: those advocating ideological degeneration. These critics bemoan the identity politics that denies people jobs over an immutable, birth-determined group identity. Yet they, and Savage to an extent, are blaming that discrimination on people based on an immutable, birth-determined group identity.

    That is, the onus for DEI’s cultural depredations is being put on boomers and, in a measure, on Gen X. There is little if any mention of the fact that it is leftists, of all generations, who’ve enabled this rot. This is for an obvious reason:

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  • Does the West Lack That Prerequisite for Survival: A Reason to Get Up in the Morning?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” noted Austrian psychiatrist/philosopher Viktor Frankl.

    Much has been written about the need for meaning, in recent years especially. Without it, a person can descend into a morass of addiction, degradation, and self-destruction. The same, however, is true of those large collections of people called civilizations. And of ours an apropos question can be asked.

    Does waning Western Civilization have a reason to get up in the morning?

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  • Just in Time for the Holidays: Islamic Terrorism Under the Tree (and Next to the Menorah)

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s becoming a new Christmastime tradition: Islamic jihadist attacks on non-Muslim celebrations. We all now know of Bondi Beach, Australia, after two jihadists murdered 15 Hanukkah celebration attendees there on Sunday. The perps, father-son duo Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24, were reportedly inspired by the Islamic State. (Apparently, dad and lad had rather unique ideas about a “bonding” experience.)

    Don’t expect such people to be deported, though, before actually doing violence. This is despite the fact that Australia did deport pro-Western journalist Katie Hopkins — for “Islamophobia.”

    Meanwhile, German police just detained five men in connection with a plot to replicate last year’s Magdeburg Christmas market attack. An “Islamist motive” is “suspected,” and one of the arrestees, an Egyptian man, is an imam (a Muslim religious leader).

    The authorities detained another man as well, also in Magdeburg, for plotting a separate Christmas attack on large crowds. The suspect, a 21-year-old Tajik, entered Germany last year on a visa for an au pair(!) stay. He was training to be a nursing specialist. In other words, he’s another “hard-working” immigrant who we’re told enriches your country — except for the whole killing-people thing.

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