By Selwyn Duke
It has been said that more suffering is caused by ignorance than intended iniquity. One of the best examples of this, too, may be in economics. And with socialism gaining currency in our society, economics warrants serious discussion.
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By Selwyn Duke
A lawsuit last year called then-Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) majority opinion “legal fiction.” This is for good reason, too. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it at the time, the Constitution “had nothing to do with it.” But then there’s what had a lot to do with it. That is, growing public support for faux (same-sex) marriage.
In fact, U.S. majority support for faux marriage (FM) — 53 percent — was reached in 2011. It was approximately 60 percent at Obergefell’s issuance in 2015.
What had much to do with this was a “conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.” (Related to this, declining religiosity was a major factor, too.) This line, do note, is from the 1989 book After the Ball, which laid out sexual devolutionary (homosexual) advocacy strategies.
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By Selwyn Duke
“‘Transgender’ is not a legitimate medical status, but an ideological one,” I wrote in 2019. “Yet this truth won’t stop our time’s Lysenkoists from performing our age’s version of lobotomies. What will is being sued into irrelevancy.”
Now something approximating this is finally happening, too. The latest example comes out of Texas, where state attorney general Ken Paxton just settled a major lawsuit with Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH). And, boy, is it a doozy.
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By Selwyn Duke
“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy.” This is then “always followed by a dictatorship.”
The warning also holds that the “average age of the world’s greatest civilizations” has historically “been about 200 years.” Given that the United States is now 250 years old and $39-trillion fiscally loose, what should be said about her?
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By Selwyn Duke
“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper,” humorist Mark Twain once quipped. Of course, newspapers’ circulation these past decades has declined like that of someone gaining 50 years and 60 pounds. Yet their influence and that of other left-wing media sources is magnified — by social media and Big Tech generally. In fact, the bias is so intense, warns one observer, that it may win Democrats the midterms.
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By Selwyn Duke
“When Will They Blow Up Mount Rushmore?” I asked that rhetorically in 2017, alluding to the continual left-wing efforts to clear cut our American cultural landscape. And it was not three years later, in 2020, that a leftist did propose doing essentially that. In fairness, though, Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wanted to be civilized about it.
Mt. Rushmore should be “removed,” he said, “but not blown up.”
That monument is still with us, of course (for now). And you may assume that statue-toppling was left behind with the heady George Floyd-sensitivity days of the early 2020s. Well, tell that to one Charles Collins, San Francisco Arts Commission president at large.
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By Selwyn Duke
Some would call it “progress.” Others would say it’s poetic justice or being hoist with your own petard. Whatever you call it, it certainly is ironic.
First, a liberal Canadian politician pushes mass Third World migration because, well, Diversity™. Then guess what just happened this past Saturday?
That man, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the favorite to win what essentially was a primary, got diversified right out of a political-office opportunity by an immigrant.
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By Selwyn Duke
Here’s a point to ponder: Despite being 31-33 percent Republican, New Hampshire has no GOP congressman. What would a Republican congressional district look like were the state forced to create one?
Then, imagine Massachusetts had to forge a district for its gun owners, who comprise just 14.7 percent of the state’s population. Would it or the New Hampshire district look anything like this?
By Selwyn Duke
For decades, there would be much talk among politicians about United States budget deficits (and the national debt). Yet this faded sometime after 2010, at the latest, after which our debt achieved elephant-in-the-room status. It’s perhaps just too scary or inconvenient — when you want or are promising free stuff — to discuss. Regardless, what just happened is discussion-worthy. To wit:
U.S. public debt has reached 100 percent of GDP for just the second time (first was during the Covid pandemic) since the WWII-era. We’re now in league with debtor nations such as Greece, Italy, France, and Canada.
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My time working with kids, decades ago, left me with some interesting stories. One of them involved a boy of about 10 — I’ll call him Joe (not his real name) — who’d been diagnosed with “ADHD.” His mother told me a mental-health professional gave them a book for him to read on children thus diagnosed. She ended up taking it away from Joe, however. Why?
He began, she explained, copying the bad behavior of the archetypal ADHD child in the book.
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