By Selwyn Duke
“Liberals claim to want to do good while also claiming to not know what the good is.” This was said, I believe, by late journalist Joseph Sobran. Whatever the authorship, however, it addresses a real phenomenon — one whose existence was just acknowledged, in so many words, by a liberal.
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By Selwyn Duke
“You know, you really don’t look well.” It’s so often the case that by the time a great number of people notice a man’s ill health, the disease ailing him is already quite advanced — perhaps even terminal. So it is with nations.
Thus should it be alarming that it’s now common for even “sober” pundits to warn of what once was considered tinfoil-hat wackos’ domain: a tyranny about to descend on the “Land of the Free.”
Three of these warnings have appeared in just the past week: Soul-of-serenity historian Victor Davis Hanson penned an April 6 piece titled “Our French Revolution.” Three days earlier, American Thinker ran the headline “Democrats moving in for the kill.” And commentator Dennis Prager of PragerU fame wrote in a Friday title, “Could it happen here? It is happening here.”
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By Selwyn Duke
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By Selwyn Duke
“Grease is the word”? Woke is the word, is the word that you heard — now — with a new Grease prequel so politically correct that, remarked one observer, “I’d rather watch my own autopsy.”
Set in 1954, the work nonetheless channels 2024….
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By Selwyn Duke
Is basketball great Charles Barkley a socialist? He certainly talked a bit like one recently, though it wouldn’t really be fair to thus label him.
It’s more accurate to say he’s not very bright.
Complaining Sunday on something called The Bird and Taurasi Show that Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players shouldn’t have to resort to offseason, international-league competition to supplement their incomes, Barkley criticized American business for not recognizing the WNBA’s supposed value.
By Selwyn Duke
“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the public square,” said then-archbishop of Chicago Francis George in 2010. Whether his successor, Archbishop Blase Cupich, 74, will die in prison may depend on whether he’s blessed (cursed?) with longevity. What’s for certain, however, is that 13 years after George’s statement, hatred of Christianity and attacks on its adherents have increased. So has tolerance for these dark phenomena and, sometimes, even tacit endorsement of them.
This is not surprising. Among the findings of the recent headline-grabbing Wall Street Journal poll revealing that the importance of “traditional American values” has plummeted among citizens is that just 39 percent of our people now say religious faith is very important to them. Just a bit more than a generation ago, in 1998, this figure was 62 percent. This is significant because secular societies have, as a rule, persecuted the church.
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By Selwyn Duke
With schools often portraying America negatively today, critics of this indoctrination may warn that young children just aren’t capable of properly processing such information. And now a real-life example of this has been caught on video — one in which a little white boy is seen vowing to take vengeance upon “the white” for the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination.
The boy’s attitude changed when his mother pointed out that he was mostly white, with the lad then apparently dealing with guilt. But this raises an obvious question: Is this healthy — for either the kids or our civilization?
And what does it bode for the future?
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By Selwyn Duke
Not long ago, footage surfaced of Minnesota lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan lecturing kindly instructing parents on how to raise their children. Seeming very cult-member-like passionate, Flanagan insisted that we “listen” to youngsters and “believe them” when they have a fantasy about tell us who they are. So since she’s clearly delusional an expert, I concluded, “Who better to go to for further parenting advice?” and sent her a letter via computer. It follows.
By Selwyn Duke
It’s a now old story: Man will so often tackle a radical mistake with another radical mistake and, in so doing, sometimes administer a “cure” worse than the disease. This appears to be the case again, too, with a proposal to make so-called gender apartheid illegal under international law.
The issue: Aghast at how women’s treatment is worsening in Afghanistan and Iran, some want to shackle the whole world with laws that would ban, as writer Akanksha Khullar puts it, “the social, economic or sexual discrimination of individuals based on their gender identities or sex.”
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By Selwyn Duke
There’s no bones about it: The University of Pittsburgh (UoP) is not getting its money’s worth from at least one of its academics. It’s hard escaping this conclusion after Professor Gabby Yearwood insisted, during a recent UoP event, that an expert cannot determine a person’s sex by examining the individual’s bones.
Of course, this is regularly done when examining murder victims’ skeletal remains.
One might now assume Yearwood’s specialty is education or “gender” studies. But, no, it’s anthropology. In fact, he has a Ph.D. in the subject — as he reminded everyone after event attendees understandably met his claim with laughter.
The fanciful statement was made during….
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