By Selwyn Duke

On the heels of a condemned and canceled advertising effort by Spanish designer Balenciaga that featured little children in bondage gear, fashion house Benetton somehow fancied it a good idea to release an ad showing young girls posing inappropriately in underwear. The picture created an uproar, with one actress critic saying that it amounted to “sexualizing little kids.” But while many observers are shocked by such images, is it really shocking that society has reached this point given our long-standing cultural trajectory?

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By Selwyn Duke

A curious mutation in gun control activism occurred during the last few decades, whence began a fixation on something dubbed the “assault rifle.”

Never mind that an assault rifle, insofar as the designation was ever at all valid, had always referenced a weapon with a “select fire” feature allowing three types of operation: semi-automatic, fully-automatic or in three-shot bursts. This doesn’t, of course, describe the class of rifles (e.g., AR-15-style) now targeted, whose operation is semi-automatic only (one bullet released per trigger pull), just like 50 percent of all new guns sold. But whatever you call them, here are two facts:

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By Selwyn Duke

Lying certainly is nothing new, which is why millennia ago already we were given the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Yet in recent years prevarication has reached new heights (or depths, actually) in our society, with blatant falsehoods uttered with a brazenness that would make a disbarred lawyer-turned-used car salesman blush. But what was the worst lie of 2022? There’s a lot of competition, but what follows are 10 top contenders (not necessarily listed in order of egregiousness).

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I wish you a very happy and blessed New Year. For anyone who was around in the 1980s, you know that back then "2023" sounded like something out of a science fiction movie. But now here we are. 

God bless,

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By Selwyn Duke

Tupac Shakur is known by some as having been a criminal rapper who was murdered in 1996, at age 25, in what reportedly was gangland retaliation. But now he can be known as something else:

A “literary” figure whose work is taught in school.

This came to light after a father reported that his seventh-grade son’s class was asked to read one of Shakur’s poems and evaluate its meaning. The unnamed school is in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, reports Newsweek, and Shakur composed the poem, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” when he was 19.

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By Selwyn Duke

With some school systems reinstituting mask mandates, some wonder: Is the explanation stupidity or sociopathy? After all, even CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen, once a fierce advocate of socially penalizing the “unvaxxed” and of masking schoolchildren, changed her tune this summer on the latter — after the practice harmed her own little son’s “language development.”

But the house that fell on her hasn’t impressed Philadelphia’s city fathers. One might assume these officials would focus on fighting crime, since young men in the “City of Brotherly Love’s” most violent zip code are almost twice as likely to be shot to death as soldiers in Afghanistan were. Instead, they’ve busied themselves mandating that Philly’s schoolkids must wear masks for 10 days upon their Christmas break return. It brings to mind comedian W.C. Fields’s old crack about a Philadelphia existence being only slightly preferable to death.

Going one better (as in worse), Passaic County in New Jersey had a school mask mandate take effect last week, citing high levels of community China virus transmission. Interestingly, this “threat” didn’t seem to faze Passaic’s teachers at their holiday party just days before (image below).

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s not at all as with the Dutch government, which allows euthanasia for “terminally ill” children under 12. No, Canada’s not killing kids (yet) beyond the womb, but it is, some might say, further initiating them into the culture of death. And it’s doing it by the book.

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By Selwyn Duke

It wasn’t enough that upon taking her “elite” high school’s helm five years ago, Principal Ann Bonitatibus aggressively sought to change the institution’s racial composition in equity’s name. Now we learn that the politically correct Bonitatibus was in addition party to the withholding of top students’ academic awards — also in equity’s name.

What’s more, this hurt those scholars college-admissions chances because they weren’t able to cite the awards on university applications.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s a seemingly staggering statistic: Young men in two U.S. cities’ most violent zip codes are more likely to be shot to death there than were soldiers in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It raises a question, too:

What differentiates the two metropolises in question, Chicago and Philadelphia, from places such as New York City and Los Angeles, where murder rates are notably lower?

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