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China Owns and Bemoans Hollywood — Slams Tinseltown as a Woke Joke

By Selwyn Duke

If “Hollywood continues down this road” toward political correctness, writes China’s Global Times, “it will dig its own grave and destroy its reputation one day.”

One day? Many might say that that the destruction of Hollywood’s current reputation would be an improvement. But China’s admonishment, published Monday, speaks volumes about many things — woke culture’s and the Western Left’s (short) future among them.

Unbeknownst to many, and in the sense in which kids would sometimes use the word, Beijing “owns” Hollywood. That is, Beijing’s powerful State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) actually succeeds in censoring many of our movies, using the threat that if producers don’t make their flicks China-friendly, they’ll be denied access to the nation’s lucrative market. It’s the NBA phenomenon — “No Boldness Anywhere” (except Beijing).

As for the current chastisement....

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Kennedy Ravages Roe: 1973 Opinion Should be OVERTURNED; Abortion Is a State Matter

By Selwyn Duke

“Moral issues are always complex matters — for people who have no principles.” When pondering this apocryphal saying, it could come to mind that the same is true of legal issues, in particular, constitutional ones. This was essentially the point Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) made Tuesday on the Senate floor. Criticizing the flawed Roe v. Wade (1973) opinion, Kennedy encouraged the Supreme Court to overturn its predecessors’ folly in the current Dobbs v. Jackson case, which concerns the matter of whether pre-viability restrictions on prenatal infanticide are constitutional. 

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The Government’s COVID Response: American History’s Greatest Blunder

By Selwyn Duke

Bumbling and stumbling is what we flawed humans do. During WWII, Admiral William Halsey sailed his fleet into a typhoon. In 1979, the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor melted down largely because of, apparently, poorly trained plant operators. In 1999, NASA lost its $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter due to a metric-Imperial system mix-up.

But the COVID-19 response is assuredly the greatest blunder in American history. This is especially true since, a bit like Halsey having engaged the typhoon repeatedly to see if he could get even, our “health” authorities never make the same mistake twice.

They make it five or six times, just to be sure.

(Joke hat tip: Senator John Kennedy, R-La.)

The reality is that despite the coronavirus response’s abject failure, Dr. Anthony Fauci and his fellow travelers refuse to change course. They just love immersion in the typhoon, despite their policy ship having already sailed — and sunk. 

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Video: The COVID Con is the ’76 Swine Flu Fiasco on Steroids

By Selwyn Duke

In a social media feed Monday, I came across a 1979 60 Minutes segment on the propaganda surrounding the 1976 swine flu panic. Many of us had already heard about how the event was reminiscent of today’s COVID-1984 con, but actually watching the segment drives home how striking the parallels between the two disease scares are. Exaggerations of the bugs’ severity, media propaganda and fear-mongering, an effort to vaccinate the whole nation, serious vaccine-coincident side-effects, and an apparent government cover-up of the latter were all elements of the ’76 fiasco just as they epitomize what’s occurring today.

The segment opened with late 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace saying:

ALARMING Study: COVID Regulations, Masking May be DRASTICALLY Lowering Kids’ IQs

By Selwyn Duke

 

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Studies have shown that abused children end up with impaired cognitive functioning. Now consider that kids born shortly before the COVID-19 situation and enduring its regulations also, according to new research, have impaired cognitive functioning.

Perhaps this makes clear why a prominent commentator, and others, said long ago that COVID regulations — masking included — are “child abuse.”

The research in question, out of Brown University in Rhode Island, does in fact identify masking as a possible cause of the cognitive decline, which is severe. 

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Report: “Trans” Children are Being SEVERELY Injured by Puberty Blockers

By Selwyn Duke

One of the reasons anabolic steroids are illegal in sports is that they greatly increase users’ chances of developing health problems and premature death. Thus have we long known that manipulating your body’s hormones is to play with fire. Nonetheless, children who believe they’re “stuck in the body of the wrong sex” have often been treated with puberty blockers. But now, a report out of Sweden indicates that such kids are often being severely and permanently damaged by this radical intervention.

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Kamala for Supreme Court? It COULD Happen

By Selwyn Duke

How do you solve a problem like Kama-la♫?

Unlike the nun in the Sound of Music, Democrats won’t be singing about their troublesome lady. But they may wish they could just send Kamala Harris to a convent. Since they can’t, however, they may instead send her to the Supreme Court. This is one writer’s suspicion, anyway.

The issue? “DEMOCRAT strategists are said to be mightily alarmed by recent polls showing that Kamala Harris is the most unpopular US Vice-President six months into an administration since the 1970s, according to YouGov....

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Global Warmist Buzzkill: Arctic Ice Is Poised to be Its THICKEST in a Generation

By Selwyn Duke

The “Arctic is screaming,” a U.S. government warming-alarmist scientist famously stated in 2010. It turns out this may be true, but what it’s saying is, “I’m freezing!”

In fact, in yet another refutation of the man-caused global-warming (AGW) narrative — and contrary to alarmist predictions — Arctic ice is poised to be its thickest in a generation.

It was in 1975 that Newsweek, reflecting contemporary reportage, ran the story “The Cooling World.” As a young child at the time, I remember the coming-ice-age warnings and, frankly, they were scary. Sure, I loved sledding and snowball fights, but the prospect of living on Snowball Earth wasn’t too appealing.

But sometime later the climate diviners transitioned to doomsayer predictions about global warming. 

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Mis(Thanks)givings: Mourning in America to the Holiday Haters

By Selwyn Duke

How did you enjoy your Thursday mourning? No, that’s not a typo, but exactly how some people today characterize our Thanksgiving observance.

At a website called Common Dreams, one Krissy Stroop, a real party poop, wrote on Thanksgiving Day itself that in “a period of rising nationalism, teaching American schoolchildren to play parts in an imperialist and whitewashed pageantry is deeply troubling”; she further complained that the holiday “is also inescapably associated with capitalism.” Even more blunt is the title “THANKSGIVING: A Day of Mourning,” found at AmericanIndianSource.com and penned by a man called Roy Cook (one would think his name should be Talking Bull). It’s all part of a larger effort by woke-wet-blanket holiday haters to effect a “Year Zero” erasure of American observances and Holy Days.

Now, never mind that all this is a bit like waiting for a special day honoring an octogenarian’s lifetime devotion to a certain field to give a speech about how crummy he is. The timing itself could be considered a hostile act; in fairness, though, the occasion of events does inspire talk about them. If only these wet blankets knew what they were talking about.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. And a thought for the day: 

G.K. Chesterton observed, "Thanks are the highest form of thought." This should place Thanksgiving, if we celebrate it rightly, among the highest form of events. 

God bless,

Selwyn Duke