By Selwyn Duke
“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” This observation, by English philosopher G.K. Chesterton, is ideal to confront progressives with because they invariably won’t be able to refute it (partially because they won’t know what it means!). What it means, however, is quite profound, and one man who certainly would agree is another Englishman, Anglican minister and prominent commentator Deacon Calvin Robinson.
In fact, speaking recently with FOX News Digital, Robinson averred “that the term ‘progressive Christian’ is an ‘oxymoron,’ and stated that the liberal, ‘neo-Marxist’ thought that has infected the minds of some leaders and congregants in both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches is ‘one of the devil’s tools’ being used to destroy Christianity from within...."
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By Selwyn Duke
CNN may never be able to top its now infamous 2020 chyron, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests…” — but that doesn’t mean the network isn’t still trying. It’s latest effort is an eyebrows-and-ire-raising attack on America’s foundation reading, “SCHOLARS WARN OUTDATED CONSTITUTION HAS PUT DEMOCRACY AT RISK.”
Of course, perspective is needed. If the “scholars” — Harvard government professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt — mean “democracy” as in the people or our congressmen get whatever they want at the moment based on majority vote no matter how rash, they have a point. The Constitution certainly is an impediment to glorified mob rule. This is for a good reason, too, one that happens to be the precise reason cultural revolutionaries hate the document:
It is conservative by its very nature.
(This doesn’t mean what you may think, but more on that later.)
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By Selwyn Duke
“Only one to two percent” of deaths officially labeled as caused by COVID actually were induced by the disease. The rest were labeled as COVID but actually had other causes.
So said an individual I spoke to recently, who I’ll keep anonymous, about the deceased people processed by this individual’s medical examiner’s office. I won’t reveal much about this person, who I’ll call “ME,” except to say that ME is highly trained and qualified and works at a major medical examiner’s office in New York State.
By Selwyn Duke
Just as some quip that there are politicians who fancy the book 1984 an instruction manual, it appears many Americans today consider the film Idiocracy a video tutorial. A recent example is the dropping of the Senate dress code in deference to one John Fetterman (D-Penn.), a member of that august body who’s determined to dress for distress.
It’s not clear why Fetterman — a physically fettered man as a result of a 2022 stroke — feels compelled to attend Senate sessions wearing a hoodie and shorts. Perhaps his cognitive impairment means he can no longer make a tie knot; maybe he has been trying to conceal a large lump on his neck (though recent reports indicate it’s gone). Then again, he possibly is just another cultural devolutionary who revels in destroying tradition. Whatever the case, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decided just days ago that the sergeant-at-arms should cease enforcing the Senate’s long-standing dress code.
So, show up in that bathing attire. Just as they say “What’s in a name?” what’s in a suit, after all?
Apparently not much of substance, judging from the politicians who wear them.
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By Selwyn Duke
If the recent actions of a British parliamentary committee head are any indication, there’s now a new standard for justice:
Mere allegations of sexual assault are enough to get a man canceled and prevented from making a living.
Of course, applying this across the board and beyond Britain would mean removing Joe Biden from office, since he has long been accused of a rather brutal sexual assault (by Tara Reade). But such consequences are rarely visited on leftists. But this standard is being applied to entertainer-turned-commentator Russel Brand, which indicates that it’s not a standard at all.
It’s a double one.
Apropos to this, these allegations were never made when Brand was an out and proud left-winger — which he not long ago was — but only now that he’s an increasingly red-pilled right-winger. Coincidence?
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By Selwyn Duke
“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time,” goes a saying attributed to medieval English poet John Lydgate. If society minded this truth, perhaps the mistakes made by listening to fringe social-media mobs would be fewer and farther between. A case in point is a story about an American-Indian group that’s angry and wants a National Football League team’s name changed.
But it’s not what you think.
Rather, the Native American Guardian’s Association (NAGA) demands that the Washington Commanders change their name back to the “Redskins.”
Yes, you read that right. In fact, the organization is threatening....
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By Selwyn Duke
More Muslims have entered the United States since 9/11 than during our whole history prior to that dark day. This, along with the last few decades’ massive, nation-rending (im)migration in general, is all good said the immigrationists, whose rallying cry was, “Our strength lies in our diversity!” Of course, the Democrats among them (in other words, most of them) had an ulterior motive:
As modern history teaches, 70 to 90 percent of our Third World (im)migrants will vote Democratic upon naturalization. So import enough of them and “Voila!” — our power and agenda will be cemented, said the statists.
Yet “the best laid plans of mice and men” (and mouse-like men) sometimes go awry, as is said. The Democrats are learning this, too, with events in Hamtramck, Michigan, where the following has transpired....
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By Selwyn Duke
The sun set on the British Empire long ago.
Now China is setting on it, too.
For while poet Rudyard Kipling famously observed that “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” Beijing and Britain are meeting — on U.K. soil — with the Chinese as conquerors.
So laments The Telegraph’s Sherelle Jacobs, who warned in a September 11 title that “Britain has already surrendered to China’s war on Western civilisation.” But here’s the kicker:
Much the same can be said about the United States.
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