Charles Murray’s Budding Faith: Is Science Finally Finding God?
By Selwyn Duke
“Sometimes smart people have a hard time believing stuff that everybody else knows.” So said the condemned (and possessed) convict in the “religious” film Nefarious (2023) to his self-assured atheist psychiatrist. Charles Murray, the famed political scientist and successful author, can certainly relate to this. Quoting his wife on religion, he stated last year, “We learned that smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore.”
While this was never actually true, the perception that it is may finally be changing. It certainly has for Murray. Late last year he published his new book, Taking Religion Seriously, in which he discusses his journey toward theism. He says, too, that modern science may be pointing man back toward God.
Cultural Revolution? GOP Support for Same-sex “Marriage,” and “LGBT” Generally, Collapses
By Selwyn Duke
“Sex is not messed up because it was put in the closet,” goes a paraphrase of philosopher C.S. Lewis. “It was put in the closet because it was messed up.” Some Americans may be rediscovering this truth, too, if the latest Gallup poll is any guide. It finds that Republican support for faux (i.e., same-sex) marriage has fallen almost 20 points since 2021-’22. Even more strikingly perhaps, the percentage of Republicans who consider homosexual relations morally acceptable has declined 21 points.
And it’s hard chalking this up to now-infamous polling incompetence. After all, 20 points is well beyond what any margin of error or sampling-bias phenomenon would explain.
It isn’t just Republicans who’ve shifted on sexual devolutionary (“LGBTQ+”) matters, either. Registered Independents also exhibit declining support, though to a lesser degree. Democrats remain unchanged on these issues, though, which reflects the growing ideological chasm between the American Left and Right.
New Oregon Measure Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing — and Even Standard Mouse Traps
By Selwyn Duke
Got a rat problem on your property? Don’t worry, under Oregon’s new animal-rights act, you’d still be able to deal with it. You’d just have to eliminate the 20, 30, or 40 rats in your yard using live-catch traps. You can then deliver the rodents to, well, whoever’s itching to have dozens of pet wild rats.
Alternatively, you could use birth-control bait and wait up to two years for the rodents to pass away from old age.
No, this isn’t satire, but what is dictated by Oregon’s Initiative 28 (I-28), also known as the “Peace Act.” (I.e., People for Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions.) It would, writes its main sponsor, “extend the same legal protections our companion animals currently have to…other animals.” And, yes, this would disallow hunting and fishing — and more. As Ballotpedia relates:
The Candidate Some Call “Tala-freako” Tries Transitioning to Sanity
By Selwyn Duke
James Talarico, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Texas, is a new man. Gone, in fact, is the James Talarico of only three weeks ago.
Just consider his 2021 claim that there are “six” “biological sexes.” He now says, “I know there are two sexes, men and women.” My, someone tell Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
He also has an explanation for asserting that “God is nonbinary.” He was just being “intentionally provocative,” he says. Well, pro tip: Provocations can outlive primaries.
There has been much talk in recent years about “misinformation” on social media. There’s relatively little focus, however, on the misinformation pumped directly into the most damaging place of all: young people’s minds. Moreover, this misinformation — or “brainwashing,” as a critic puts it — has supplanted real learning to the point where youths now lack basic skills. A major reason why, too, is that while some proclaim “wokeness’” death, it’s alive and well. And this is because, says that critic, independent journalist Emil Hasle, wokeness-mind-virus carriers pervade American education.
“Democratic Socialism” Is In, but Is It an Oxymoron?
By Selwyn Duke
Marketing is an interesting thing. The buyer always has to beware because labels and packaging don’t always reflect ingredients. Consider the following list, for example, asking: What’s the most common word among its elements?
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Democratic Kampuchea
People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen
Democratic Socialism
“Democratic,” obviously. Now note that 1 and 2 are communist countries, with the first (North Korea) being particularly brutal. Three through 7 were also communist countries. Number 5 (Khmer Rouge Cambodia) exterminated one-quarter to one-third of its population in just 4.5 years. They all love(d) that label “democratic,” though, even if the only democratic thing about them is/was, well…nothing.
Then there’s number 8, which is all the rage in the United States. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) now have, in fact, more than 250 affiliated or endorsed public officeholders nationwide.
The DSA, mind you, has called for the public ownership of key economic sectors and the “means of production” — a communist tenet. It wants to replace capitalism with socialism.
The DSA also aims to abolish or radically reform institutions such as the Senate and Electoral College. Furthermore, it would reduce Supreme Court power.
You needn’t worry, however, because all this really will be done democratically this time, they say. Heck, “democratic” is in their name.
What Have You Heard About the White, Non-criminal George Floyd? Probably Crickets
Image credit: U.K. police handout
By Selwyn Duke
“I can’t breathe.” These were some of the final words of Henry Nowak, 18, a victim of a knifing — and British authorities’ wokeness. Nowak had repeatedly told police “I’ve been stabbed,” to which one cop replied, “I don’t think so, mate.” How’d they draw this conclusion?
They took the word of Vickrum Digwa, 23, the man who knifed Nowak with a Sikh “ceremonial” blade. Digwa, you see, had claimed he was a victim of a “racial attack.” And his mother, 53-year-old Kiran Kaur, had spirited the ceremonial knife away from the scene. So when Nowak said “I am dying” and Digwa replied “You’re not dying, bro,” the police knew whom to believe. They handcuffed Nowak instead of getting medical assistance.
The Unmentionable Race? WNBA Avoids Marketing Golden Goose Caitlin Clark
By Selwyn Duke
“The white race is the cancer of human history…,” wrote feminist author Susan Sontag in 1967. Now, almost 60 years later, some may wonder:
Has the white race become the cancer of marketing?
Many have long noted that black Americans are overrepresented in commercials and ads. At the same time, others complain, whites in commercials are often portrayed unflatteringly. But this may seem mild compared to what the unprofitable Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has done in recent marketing.
Spanberger Advances Anti-Electoral College “Soft Coup Against America”
By Selwyn Duke
One of the nation-shattering issues hardly ever discussed, distracted as we are with frivolity, is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This is the state-led scheme to circumvent the Electoral College and force presidential elections to be decided by popular vote. It’s dangerous not just because it would essentially enable densely populated cities to determine the president for the whole country. It also would profoundly magnify vote fraud’s effect, allowing those localities to steal any and every election.
And now Governor Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) has given the NPVIC another shot in the arm. She has just signed a bill making Virginia part of the compact. This places the NPVIC a mere 48 votes away from national implementation.
Pundit Bill O’Reilly recently said he was “surprised” that ex-NY governor Andrew Cuomo lost to Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 NYC mayoral race.
“I thought,” he told Cuomo during a May 14 discussion, “you were going to wax them [your competitors].”
Do you know when I realized Mamdani would win?
The very first time I saw him on TV.
No, it wasn’t that Mamdani was promising to rob Peter blind to pay Paul and then send both home to rent-frozen apartments on a free bus. It was that I understand the Luciferian Beauty Principle.
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