By Selwyn Duke
“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence,” stated Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson recently.
Actually, we can.
So might say a retired police detective who has witnessed the phenomenon firsthand.
And, no, this doesn’t require locking up 15 million Americans. All that’s necessary, says Mike McDaniel, that ex-cop-turned commentator, is delivering a surgical strike.
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By Selwyn Duke
“The trouble with socialism,” said late British leader Margaret Thatcher, “is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Socialism also, one might add, can make the people with money run out.
This is a concern, too, with proposed and already-instituted “wealth taxes” on millionaires and billionaires. Yet there’s a reason leftists aren’t backing off from these measures.
That is, from their perspective, they appear to be “working.”
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By Selwyn Duke
The Merced City School District isn’t exactly killing it — unless, that is, what it’s killing are its students’ academic fortunes. Only about 22 percent of its pupils are proficient at math, just 35 percent at reading. Black kids in the majority Hispanic California district are doing considerably worse still, too. So in response, you might expect its education officials to emphasize discipline and the three R’s.
Instead, they’ve spent $610,000 teaching black students how to rap.
Moreover, while the program is supposedly designed to eradicate “hate and ignorance,” its rap “take[s] direct aim at white patriarchy.”
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By Selwyn Duke
Vaccinated people “do not carry the virus, [and] don’t get sick” said then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in 2021. She also implied that they couldn’t transmit Covid. The CDC had to walk her “expert” claims back mere days later. As we now know, “vaccinated” people could contract and spread the virus.
Of course, you could always mask up, a preventative recommended even for children by CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen. But then she changed her tune — after she stunted her own little son’s “language development” by masking him.
This was nothing, though, compared to prominent psychologist Dr. John Money, who boasted a Ph.D. from Harvard. He originated “gender neutrality” theory, which held that newborns could be raised successfully as either sex (with proper medical interventions). Unfortunately for a Canadian family named the Reimers, they listened to this “expert” — and both their sons’ lives were destroyed.
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By Selwyn Duke
For years we’ve heard from a certain population segment and ideological set that we should, essentially, be “more like Europe.” We should have Europe’s nationalized healthcare. We should have Europe’s gun-control laws. We should have Europe’s taxation. We should have Europe’s environmental regulations. But the one way in which we could be and should be like Europe, the very same people recoil at.
That is, requiring voter ID.
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By Selwyn Duke
Will Texas have its own Zohran Mamdani or AOC in the Senate in less than a year? It’s possible — if early polls are any guide.
Whatever the case, the man in question, Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, is the Mamdani west of the Pecos. He’s young, attractive, has an easy smile, and is oh-so smooth a speaker who can talk chicken off the bone.
He also has claimed that whites spread the “virus” of racism, there are “six sexes,” God is “nonbinary,” “our ‘trans’ community needs abortion care,” we should have a “world without prisons,” our southern border should be “like our front porch” with a “giant welcome mat,” and we should eat less meat to fight climate change.
Well, they do say “Everything is bigger in Texas” — even the woke extremism, apparently.
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By Selwyn Duke
A huge study out of Germany, released in 2010 but now mostly forgotten, provided a serious point to ponder. After researching 45,000 youths, it found that with increasing religiosity Christian young people became less violent. But Muslim youths became, with increasing religiosity, more violent.
My, even a relativist could get the nagging and nauseating feeling that maybe, just perhaps, not all religions are the same, after all.
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By Selwyn Duke
Tradition is, noted philosopher G.K. Chesterton, “democracy extended through time.” It also is something else: under assault in the West. And Britain, in particular, is going nuclear on its time-honored and -dictated traditions.
In fact, it seems every week there’s another story about how the U.K. is trashing its culture. This is, too, say critics, a result of an unholy alliance between leftists and a foreign culture: the Islamic one.
Consider, for example, the Bank of England’s recent announcement that it will be removing Winston Churchill from its £5 note. Churchill, of course, is arguably one of Britain’s greatest statesmen, credited with helping defeat the Nazis during WWII.
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By Selwyn Duke
For years now, article after article has been written about how young men are struggling. They fare worse in school than young women and are less likely to graduate college, we hear. Young men have mental-health issues and are more apt to commit suicide. They are socially isolated and lack motivation and direction. All these things are true, too, either in whole or to a degree. But what if it’s not young men, but young women, who actually are struggling more?
And what if this is ignored — not because of “patriarchy,” but because of feminism-aligned values that confuse good with bad?
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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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