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To MAGA, We Must Restore Historical Truth, Our Monuments, and Patriotism

By Selwyn Duke

Say what you will about the “woke” Left’s recent fall from favor, there’s no denying their profound cultural victories. Just consider the results of a 2023 Gallup poll and a 2020 Democracy Fund voter study group:

• While “four in 10 American adults overall say they are extremely proud to be an American, just a measly 18% of those aged 18 to 34 say the same,” reported the New York Post last year.
• “Three quarters of Gen Z say that the nation requires ‘significant change,’ while two in three agree that ‘America is an unfair society,’” the paper also related.
• “Perhaps worst of all,” the Post continued, “four in 10 Zoomers say that America’s Founding Fathers are better described as villains than heroes.”

My, the irredeemably paranoid could almost think they’ve been brainwashed — almost.

None of this is inexplicable. Psychologist Dr. Kenneth Higbee noted, “If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.” Since nations comprise people, this is true of them as well. And, boy, have historians, educators, and entertainers ever found the bad in America. They’ve made up a lot of it, too.

Hawaii Supreme Court: “Spirit of Aloha” Trumps 2nd Amendment — and U.S. Supreme Court

By Selwyn Duke

Is this Hawaii 5-No? Some could wonder given that all five Aloha State Supreme Court justices have said no to gun rights — and the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that they exist. That’s right: We incessantly hear about how President Trump is a Threat to Democracy™, that he’ll “ignore court rulings.” Ironically, though, it’s the leftists on Hawaii’s top court who’ve acted like kings and queens.

Moreover, the court cited the “spirit of Aloha,” a line from a TV show, and the alleged obsolescence of the “founding era’s … understanding of the Constitution” to justify its ruling.

150,000 Dead and Counting: Christians Killed for Their Faith EVERY Week

By Selwyn Duke

The Roman arena, where Christians might be thrown to lions, is long gone. But though the tormentors and methods have changed, this doesn’t mean such persecution has ended. In fact, 100,000-150,000 Christians have been slaughtered worldwide by Muslims (often jihadists) during the last two decades. One of the worst killing fields is Nigeria, where approximately 52,250 Christians were killed from 2009 to 2023 alone, according to the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law. Holy Week hasn’t meant a break from this unholy phenomenon, either, with 51 Christians killed in Nigeria mere hours after Palm Sunday.

This is religious persecution — some would say genocide — the mainstream media generally don’t report, even though it’s savage and continual.

Happy Easter!

I wish you a very happy and blessed Easter. He is risen. 

God bless,

Selwyn Duke

Killer Karmelo Cashes in: Family Parlaying Knifing of White Boy Into Bling Lifestyle

Image: YouTube

By Selwyn Duke

The warning that “crime doesn’t pay” is surely true — in the spiritual sense, that is. Yet the material one may be a different matter, especially in this time in which villainy is confused with virtue. A recent example is healthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangione, whose crowdfunding donations have reached close to $1 million.

An even more recent example is Karmelo Anthony. Anthony is the 17-year-old who brutally stabbed to death fellow teen Austin Metcalf over what should’ve been a minor seating dispute. The incident occurred April 2 at a high-school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.

As with Mangione — whose crime was caught on video — there’s no disputing Anthony’s guilt. In fact, when the police labeled him the suspected perpetrator, he reportedly replied, “I’m not a suspect; I did it.” (He unabashedly claims self-defense, even though the case’s particulars say otherwise.) One difference between the killings, though, is that while Mangione had a political motive, Anthony’s case has a racial component. Anthony is black; Metcalf was white.

Another difference is that Anthony’s family is apparently quite shameless about parlaying their son’s crime into a payday. It’s not just using money donated for Karmelo’s legal defense for a new house, car, and other luxuries, either. This they have done.

(Note: The Anthonys have raised almost half as much as the Mangiones in approximately one-ninth the time. White privilege, anyone?)

It’s also that, unbelievably, the family is now reportedly marketing murderer merch.

MABA: Make America Birth Again? Women Putting Babies Over Careers

By Selwyn Duke

It certainly is odd that the ideological set now claiming not to know what a woman is once claimed to know precisely what a woman’s role should be. But it did. And, boy, was it ever a coup, in league with convincing eagles they shouldn’t fly or sunfish they shouldn’t swim. In fact, generations of women have been sold the lie of careerism — to their own detriment (and our civilization’s).

Douglas Murray to Joe Rogan: You’re Platforming RADICALS Who Mislead

By Selwyn Duke

Is one man’s radical another man’s reasoned voice? You might suppose that could be the thinking in this relativistic age. But this certainly wasn’t the perspective of British journalist Douglas Murray while appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast last Thursday.

In fact, Murray called Rogan out on the show, saying he was platforming fringe voices peddling anti-historical views.

The Autism Explosion: Is It Vaccines, Fluoride — or Modern Society?

By Selwyn Duke

Common sense is “that forgotten branch of psychology,” observed philosopher G.K. Chesterton in the early 1900s. One could wonder what he’d say today, with “psychology” — which means “study of the soul” — being both soulless and ubiquitous.

And it being so widespread is a reason, it’s said, that autism diagnoses are so common today. We’re more “aware” of the problem and “the screening is better” is the idea. But then there are other theories. Some have implicated vaccines in autism manifestation, while others have cited fluoride as a possible cause. For his part, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has vowed to investigate the matter and says that by “September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic.”

But will we? What if the cause is cultural as much as, or more than, environmental (or genetic)? What if, as one writer put it Sunday, “society is the problem”?

Deadly Marriage? The Dems’ Disastrous Refusal to Divorce the “Trans” Lobby

By Selwyn Duke

When the history of our time is finally written, assuming there’s someone around to write it (AI?), one can imagine how the historians may interpret the Democrats’ obsession with pseudo-sex-switching.

“They believed boys could become girls merely by wishing it, and they persecuted those deviating from this orthodoxy.”

“It’s why the Democratic Party died.”

Wokeness as Bold as Trump: Arrested for a Meme, Dead-naming Punishment, Black Bird-watcher Bias

By Selwyn Duke

Legendary president Ronald Reagan authored a “revolution,” seeking to shrink government, lower taxes, reduce regulations, and defeat the Soviet menace. He accomplished much governmentally, too, earning the ire of leftists who dubbed him “Ronald Ray-gun.” Yet in truth, he could do little about our cultural trajectory, and American society was notably more “politically correct” (i.e., Woke 1.0) when he left office in 1989 than when he’d entered it in ’81. It’s an old story: You can change who’s at the government’s helm, but who’s at the cultural “government’s” helm — that of academia, the media, and entertainment — remains the same.

(That is, unless you have an autocratic state playing cultural puppeteer.)

This said, one difference between the Reagan and Trump revolutions is that MAGA apparently has greater cultural focus. Despite this, though, and as during Reagan’s time, wokeness marches on. This is illustrated, too, by some recent stories, ones that in the ’80s would’ve been unheard of — or satire.