By Selwyn Duke
It’s unbelievable though apparently true (I quadruple-checked it) that the United States’ murder rate for 2025 may be the lowest it has been since perhaps 1900. Given this, even those fancying gun control a remedy may think more firearms restrictions would currently be a solution in search of a problem.
Not today’s Democratic politicians, though. They’re proving it, too, pushing policies that further strip Second Amendment rights.
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By Selwyn Duke
The first man who staked out a piece of ground and said “This is mine” was a liar, goes a paraphrase of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Yet that man also, the philosopher stated, “was the real founder of civil society.”
Rousseau was no fan of our Western civil society, but perhaps that makes his statement even more noteworthy. In addition, with the claim that the United States sits on “stolen land” gaining currency, his assertion raises a question.
Is this yet another woke claim that could move us toward being a very uncivil society?
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By Selwyn Duke
See if you can finish this thought:
If tea drinkers are more likely to vote for a given political party, that party will encourage tea drinking.
If bicycle riders are more likely to vote for a given party, that party will encourage bicycle riding.
If newly naturalized immigrants are more likely to vote for a given party, that party will encourage immigration.
Now, if unmarried people are more likely to vote for a given party, that party will encourage ____________.
Given this, is it worth noting that while traditionally married people tend to vote Republican, the unmarried generally support Democrats?
And can we thus draw conclusions about which party is more likely to support what Pope John Paul II called “the basic cell of society” — the family?
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By Selwyn Duke
If you think wokeness is dead, one Mr. Barry Neufeld might like a word. After all, the Canadian ex-education official has been ordered to pay $750,000 to sexual devolutionary (“LGBTQ”) teachers in his district. The reason?
It’s for “injury to their dignity, feelings and self-respect.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Here’s a story for you from what could be called the Warmth of Collectivism Files. A 97-year-old woman in Britain is diagnosed by a paramedic as having a broken hip. A serious injury such as that means you’re going straight to the hospital, stat, right?
Well, instead, the elderly woman is nonetheless told that she’s going to have to wait 10 days for an ambulance. In the interim, she suffers a fall.
She’s later found on her floor, struggling to breathe, and dies the same day.
So much for “to each according to his needs.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Dropping the mask, some Western leftists are admitting they want to replace many of their countrymen with ideologically compliant “immigrants.” We just heard this stated unabashedly by a Spanish politician last month.
There actually was a time, though, when left-wingers might at least mouth the belief that “replacement” is a bad thing. And the Media Research Center (MRC), a conservative watchdog group, has uncovered just such a media clip.
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By Selwyn Duke
In 1968, British politician Enoch Powell warned that the U.K.’s immigration policies were akin to “watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.” They would ensure the demographic transformation of British cities, he predicted. He later warned of “civil war,” too.
In reaction, Powell was expelled from the Conservative Shadow Cabinet and condemned as a “racist.” Yet almost 60 years later, demographic transformation is obvious, with indigenous Brits now a minority in multiple U.K. cities. Civil war hasn’t erupted yet, of course, but something else has: predictions of it.
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By Selwyn Duke
Here’s a point to ponder: Silicon Valley tech executives, including those from Apple and Google, have sometimes opted to send their own children to explicitly low-tech schools. Some also have raised their kids tech-free or with strictly limited screen time. These are people, too, who know technology as a baker does bread. Given this, a question is raised.
Wouldn’t it have been wise ascertaining why these experts insulated their own children from tech before inundating American schoolkids with it?
Instead, we spent $30 billion ensuring that every schoolchild could trade a textbook for a laptop. Why, it’s a bit like hearing about food manufacturers who will never, ever let their own kids eat their factories’ products.
And then turning around and saying, “Hey, my children just love these snacks. All the kids should be enjoying them — to their hearts’ content!”
In education’s case, though, we have gotten something unprecedented for that $30 billion.
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By Selwyn Duke
“Plato is my friend,” ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle reputedly said, “but truth is a greater friend.” This was echoed two millennia later by English scientist Isaac Newton. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend,” he said, “but truth is a greater friend.” And today many might say “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, Newton is my friend, but … my values are a greater friend.”
This attitude, too, is precisely why Western civilization is disintegrating, warned commentator Laura Hollis Thursday.
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By Selwyn Duke
“The dog is man’s best friend” the saying goes. Why, we humans argue about most everything, notes website History and Headlines. “If there is one thing most people agree on, though, it is dogs,” it continues. “How can you not love them?”
Maybe one Nerdeen Kiswani can answer that question. After all, Kiswani, a Palestinian activist, recently agitated against the American norm of keeping dogs as indoor pets.
As she put it in a tweet last Thursday, “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”
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