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Can You Identify the Worst Lie of 2022? Here’s a List of 10

By Selwyn Duke

Lying certainly is nothing new, which is why millennia ago already we were given the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” Yet in recent years prevarication has reached new heights (or depths, actually) in our society, with blatant falsehoods uttered with a brazenness that would make a disbarred lawyer-turned-used car salesman blush. But what was the worst lie of 2022? There’s a lot of competition, but what follows are 10 top contenders (not necessarily listed in order of egregiousness).

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Happy New Year!

I wish you a very happy and blessed New Year. For anyone who was around in the 1980s, you know that back then "2023" sounded like something out of a science fiction movie. But now here we are. 

God bless,

Selwyn Duke

Bad: Father Learns Son Is Being Taught Tupac Shakur in Class. Worse: Dad Is “Excited"

By Selwyn Duke

Tupac Shakur is known by some as having been a criminal rapper who was murdered in 1996, at age 25, in what reportedly was gangland retaliation. But now he can be known as something else:

A “literary” figure whose work is taught in school.

This came to light after a father reported that his seventh-grade son’s class was asked to read one of Shakur’s poems and evaluate its meaning. The unnamed school is in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, reports Newsweek, and Shakur composed the poem, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” when he was 19.

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COVID Child Abusers, With Their School Mask Mandates, Are Back

By Selwyn Duke

With some school systems reinstituting mask mandates, some wonder: Is the explanation stupidity or sociopathy? After all, even CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen, once a fierce advocate of socially penalizing the “unvaxxed” and of masking schoolchildren, changed her tune this summer on the latter — after the practice harmed her own little son’s “language development.”

But the house that fell on her hasn’t impressed Philadelphia’s city fathers. One might assume these officials would focus on fighting crime, since young men in the “City of Brotherly Love’s” most violent zip code are almost twice as likely to be shot to death as soldiers in Afghanistan were. Instead, they’ve busied themselves mandating that Philly’s schoolkids must wear masks for 10 days upon their Christmas break return. It brings to mind comedian W.C. Fields’s old crack about a Philadelphia existence being only slightly preferable to death.

Going one better (as in worse), Passaic County in New Jersey had a school mask mandate take effect last week, citing high levels of community China virus transmission. Interestingly, this “threat” didn’t seem to faze Passaic’s teachers at their holiday party just days before (image below).

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My Latest Appearance on Talkback with Chuck Wilder — 12/29/2022

By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 52:20. 

Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

Talkback-12-29-2022

Kiddie Culture of Death? Canada Funds Assisted Suicide ‘Activity Book’ for Children

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not at all as with the Dutch government, which allows euthanasia for “terminally ill” children under 12. No, Canada’s not killing kids (yet) beyond the womb, but it is, some might say, further initiating them into the culture of death. And it’s doing it by the book.

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In ‘Equity’s’ Name, ‘Top School’ Hides Academic Awards From Students, Hurting College Chances

By Selwyn Duke

It wasn’t enough that upon taking her “elite” high school’s helm five years ago, Principal Ann Bonitatibus aggressively sought to change the institution’s racial composition in equity’s name. Now we learn that the politically correct Bonitatibus was in addition party to the withholding of top students’ academic awards — also in equity’s name.

What’s more, this hurt those scholars college-admissions chances because they weren’t able to cite the awards on university applications.

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Guns, Morality, or Policy? In Two U.S. Zip Codes, Young Men Are More Likely to Be Shot Dead Than Were Soldiers in Afghanistan

By Selwyn Duke

It’s a seemingly staggering statistic: Young men in two U.S. cities’ most violent zip codes are more likely to be shot to death there than were soldiers in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. It raises a question, too:

What differentiates the two metropolises in question, Chicago and Philadelphia, from places such as New York City and Los Angeles, where murder rates are notably lower?

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Merry Christmas!

I wish you a very merry and blessed Christmas. And apropos to the Holy Day, I present you with 16th-century clergyman Robert Southwell's poem "The Burning Babe": 

As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,

Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;

And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,

A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;

Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed

As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed.

“Alas!” quoth he, “but newly born, in fiery heats I fry,

Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I!

My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,

Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;

The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals,

The metal in this furnace wrought are men’s defiled souls,

For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good,

      So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.”

      With this he vanish’d out of sight and swiftly shrunk away,

      And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day.

My Latest Appearance on Talkback with Chuck Wilder — 12/23/2022

By Selwyn Duke

My appearance begins at 52:20. 

Note: If you want to fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab."

Talkback-12-23-2022