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  • Lindsay Clancy Et Al.: Are Women “Children of a Larger Growth”?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “How do you write women so well?” novelist Melvin Udall was asked in the 1997 film As Good as It Gets. “I think of a man,” he replied, “and I take away reason and accountability.” This comes to mind while pondering the Lindsay Clancy situation.

    Oh, I’m not currently editorializing on whether she had a psychotic break when brutally killing her three little ones. What I find more interesting, as I often do, is a bigger picture. It relates to a line from a letter Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, wrote to his son in 1748. To wit:

    “Women … are only children of a larger growth…”

    I know, he was a “dead white male” opining when America was still a colony. But here’s the thing:

    This is precisely how many men and women treat females today: as “children of a larger growth.”

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  • Sweden Has Been Moving From Immigration to Remigration. Will Sunday’s Election Restart the Deluge?

    By Selwyn Duke

    In 2015, Sweden had the highest (im)migration rate in Europe relative to population. The country became infamous, with stories about failed assimilation, Muslim-controlled “no-go zones,” and immigrationist persecution of nationalists. But then the worm began turning. For almost the first half of 2024 (through May), the nation actually had more emigration than immigration. This resulted from an attitudinal change that had vaulted the anti-immigrationist Sweden Democrats (SD) to influence in 2022.

    But there was just another election on Sunday — and, for the first time, the SD lost ground. And why?

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  • “Trans” Molestation in Girls’ Wrestling. Can We Thank the Feminists?

    By Selwyn Duke

    “The end goal of feminist revolution must be … not just the elimination of male privilege,” wrote feminist Shulamith Firestone in 1970, “but of the sex distinction itself.”

    “Genital differences between human beings,” she added, “would no longer matter culturally.”

    Firestone doesn’t get much credit for it, but her standard became feminist dogma for decades. Beginning in the 1980s and continuing a bit beyond 2010 perhaps, the doctrine was this:

    The sexes are the same except for the superficial physical differences; therefore, if you raise boys and girls identically, they will end up identical in inclination and capacity.

    This dogma’s intensity was related well by a story contrarian feminist Camille Paglia once related. Other feminists would corner her on college campuses in the ’70s, she said, glaring at her over her dissenter status. They’d then insist that hormones didn’t even exist — and, even if they did, they couldn’t possibly influence human behavior.

    From this sameness doctrine grew the idea, “A woman can do anything a man can — and maybe better!” Why, this was even applied to sports. The feminists claimed that females lagged behind males only because they hadn’t had “as much chance to develop themselves athletically.” Give them time, they insisted, and women would equal or even surpass men. Exaggeration?

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  • Matt Walsh: “Feminism … Is the Most Destructive Movement in Human History”

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment,” wrote infamous communism co-founder Karl Marx in 1868. Interestingly, too, it was a convention in 1848, the same exact year Marx’s Communist Manifesto was published, that’s often cited as marking “first-wave” American feminism’s birth. So the ideology has been around a long time — some would say, too long.

    Enter commentator Matt Walsh. “Feminism,” he told interviewer Benny Johnson Tuesday, “is the most destructive movement in human history.”

    “And I don’t say that as hyperbole,” he added.

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  • Musk Warns of Dem “Trans” Threat — and Is Opening a $100 Million Midterm Fight by Exposing It

    By Selwyn Duke

    Have the Democrats really transitioned from the radical party of just a few years ago to sanity? That’s certainly what the current marketing holds. Why, we’re supposed to believe Senate candidate James Talarico (D-Texas) has made that transition just during the last few months. But, warns billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, don’t be fooled: The Democrats haven’t changed their product — just the packaging.

    In fact, they’re still as bent on changing children’s sexual packaging as they ever were, he says. And Musk is now going to spend $100-$120 million this election cycle, partly to sound that alarm. The bet is that while the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “trans”) issue isn’t a voter priority currently, campaign ads can raise awareness and drive virtue-oriented Americans to the polls.

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  • It’s Called “Leftism” — but Is It Actually Something Far Darker Than Politics?

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” early-20th-century occultist Aleister Crowley infamously said. He was dubbed “the wickedest man in the world” at the time, but he had much competition. Communist Vladimir Lenin was an example, popularizing the formula “Who Whom?” This meant that politics is all about which class dominates which. Policies, treaties, and slogans were mere tactics inside that war; compromises were pauses, not principle or peace.

    The New Criterion called this “Leninthink” in 2019. Others would say it’s something far more fundamental: pure evil. Whatever you label it, one thing is certain.

    It lives on — and its ideological descendants are metastasizing like a cancer in our midst.

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  • Many Young Democratic Women Hate Men. Not All the Reasons Why Are Obvious

    By Selwyn Duke

    “I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act,” said Robin Morgan, a Ms. magazine editor and prominent “second-wave” feminist, in a 1973 speech. Morgan passed away just days ago, but her spirit not only lives on; it has metastasized. The evidence?

    A new survey has found that a striking majority of young Democratic women blame men for their woes. Only a minority of Republican women feel likewise, however. Moreover, the percentage of young men who view women negatively is even lower. This all illustrates a reality, too:

    There’s much talk today about how misogyny is supposedly rife in contemporary America.

    Yet misandry is actually far more common.

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  • CDC Fires a Shot — Hits Gun-grabbers’ Agenda Right Between the Eyes

    By Selwyn Duke

    It may be the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), but what it isn’t, at least not anymore, is the Centers for Gun Control. While the CDC did once fund anti-Second Amendment “research,” a 1996 law put an end to such advocacy. In later years the worm fully turned, with the agency actually telling the truth about American firearm use. And what truth is it telling currently?

    It’s that, contrary to legacy-media myth, defensive firearm use is much more common than many suppose.

    In fact, good Americans use guns for legitimate defensive purposes up to 2.5 million times per year.

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  • GOP Midterm Surge? Polls Inflate the Democrats, but Underplayed Republican Support May Deflate Them

    By Selwyn Duke

    Back in 2016, late Democratic consultant Pat Caddell accused Reuters of rigging polls to turn a Donald Trump lead over Hillary Clinton into the reverse. “I suppose you can get away with it in polling because there are no laws,” an incredulous Caddell remarked. “But, if this was accounting, they would put them in jail.”

    And little has changed since then. So says another political consultant, ex-Democrat Dick Morris. Referencing an analysis of hundreds of polls taken over many years, Morris states that they routinely inflate Democrats’ numbers.

    That is, they do this over summer months. But then, to avoid embarrassment, they become more accurate in September and October, the politics wonk asserts.

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  • Is AI Creating a “Society of Cheats” — and Incompetents?

    By Selwyn Duke

    It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective.

    The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.”

    Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The tree itself, and the fruits and leaves, will be healthy.

    Our moral crisis has only worsened since Keyes’ pronouncement. It’s apparent in the massive support for killers Tyler Robinson, Luigi Mangione, Karmelo Anthony, and now Lindsay Clancy. And it’s evident in how, warns an academic who has taught ethics at both Harvard and the University of Chicago, we’re becoming a “society of cheats.”

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