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Christian Revival: Is (Once?) Woke Silicon Valley Coming to Jesus?

By Selwyn Duke

When it was alleged in 2023 that the message “Jesus died so you could live” was labeled “hate speech” by Facebook, it perhaps was not surprising. Two years later, however, something else surely is.

Christian code has entered Silicon Valley, we hear, and may be supplanting its notoriously secular programming. Apparently, man does not live by bits and bytes alone.

Yet how sincere is this movement? And will it really eradicate the woke mind virus? Or will it reflect what Barna Group research company president David Kinnaman lamented a decade ago? To wit: “Americans’ dedication to Jesus is, in most cases,” he said, “a mile wide and an inch deep.”

Does Teaching Bible in Schools Make Kids More Moral and Mentally Healthy?

By Selwyn Duke

While talking about “raising and training children” and “implanting” the proper “moral code,” a prominent politician had an interesting prescription. “The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount,” he said. “The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days.”

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state education superintendent, certainly must believe the above, too. Last year, in fact, he mandated that the Bible should be taught in all his state’s K-12 schools. Only, truth in advertising, while Walters certainly would embrace the quoted words, he didn’t utter them.

Rather, they were spoken by Democratic president Harry S. Truman in 1950. And, no, this wasn’t while speaking to the Southern Baptist Convention, either. He was instead giving an address before the Attorney General’s Conference on Law Enforcement Problems.

Well, pop goes another stereotype.

Looking for Unicorns: The Search for a “Joe Rogan of the Left”

By Selwyn Duke

My, the worm truly has turned — at least halfway. It wasn’t that long ago, really, that conservatives lamented how “mainstream” media “controlled the narrative.” Back in 2011, in fact, Professor Tim Groseclose estimated that “media bias aids Democratic candidates by about 8 to 10 percentage points in a typical election.” Now, though, the erstwhile “mainstream” media isn’t so mainstream anymore. New media, epitomized by podcaster king Joe Rogan and English comedian Russel Brand, currently boast audiences dwarfing those of the alphabet network shows. So now the lament is different:

“The Right is controlling the narrative!” warn so many leftists.

But are they right? Perhaps even more significantly, are they right about what’s “right” (as opposed to left)?

Is the Blue-state Model on the USSR’s Path — and Poised to Collapse?

By Selwyn Duke

“If something can’t go on, it won’t,” goes the paraphrase of economist Herb Stein. Speaking of which, we often hear about America’s below-replacement-level birth rate. What we don’t hear much about, however, is which Americans aren’t reproducing. And if you guessed that the biggest offenders are our land’s liberals, go to the head of the class.

In fact, the most ardent Republicans apparently have a fertility rate at or above replacement level (2.1 children per woman).

The staunchest Democrats’ rate is down in the demographic-death-spiral range of 1.2.

(The abortion mentality will do that.)

This isn’t the only reason why the liberal-state model would be collapsing. But it is collapsing, says history professor Victor Davis Hanson. In fact, while the mainstream media and Democratic Party are apoplectic over the Trumpian counter-revolution, Hanson states, “they are missing some of the most revolutionary and insidious changes in American society of the last century.”

The West Is Slowly Being Islamized. Does This Matter?

By Selwyn Duke

Paterson, New Jersey, has quite a history. Founded as a planned industrial city in 1792, it was named after William Paterson, a signatory to the Constitution and a Garden State governor. Like so many American municipalities, it had a Main Street, too.

Had, that is, because it’s now “Palestine Way” — thus officially renamed in 2022.

If it seems odd that the street is officially named after a place that doesn’t officially exist, perhaps Mayor Andre Sayegh can explain. After all, Sayegh, Paterson’s first Arab head, declared the city the “capital of Palestine” earlier this month.

But is this surprising? Paterson reportedly has one of the highest per capita Muslim populations among American cities, and politicians play to their audience.

And does any of this matter?

Is Secession Nigh? Many Young Voters, Blacks, and Hispanics Believe National Breakup Likely

By Selwyn Duke

In the early 1900s, philosopher G.K. Chesterton said he longed for one aspect of a time few pine after. In the Middle Ages, he wrote, people agreed on the things that “really mattered” (in Europe, anyway). Just two or three decades ago, psychologist John Rosemond contrasted his time with Chesterton’s and said that during the latter, “people’s values were explicitly the same” (in the U.S., anyway). Both were essentially correct, too. Just as medieval Europeans were more philosophically united than early-1900s Europeans, so were early-1900s Americans more united than today’s Americans.

And, in fact, some would say the division is reaching critical mass. Just recently, while advocating an immigration moratorium, commentator Tucker Carlson warned that we must “figure out what it is that holds us all together as a nation” so that “50 states [do] not become 50 countries.” Carlson isn’t alone in this sentiment, either, according to a new survey conducted by John Zogby Strategies. It found that not only are many Americans concerned about secession, but also something perhaps unexpected. To wit:

Not Just Fauci: The Scientific Establishment Peddles Lies Continually

By Selwyn Duke

It was just revealed that the Biden administration intentionally buried an “inconvenient” study in order to justify an energy crackdown. Of course, we’re seldom shocked to hear that politics is, well, political. But what about when study authors themselves bury, or otherwise obscure, inconvenient data? This not only happens, says a Ph.D. scientist with more than 20 years experience, but is actually common in research. In fact, the picture painted by Dr. Lorene Leiter reveals, the mainstream science establishment is much like our mainstream media establishment: a realm where lies may reign supreme.

Death of the West: Britain Is Now Attacking Its Most Legendary Writer

By Selwyn Duke

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” This remark, made by the mischievous sprite Puck in William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was directed at the absurdity of man’s love affairs. And while such folly is timeless, the comment is also relevant to a rather odd love affair perhaps unique to our time.

That is, the West’s affair with an ideology dictating its own culture’s destruction.

Perhaps the latest example of this toxic relationship comes from, ironically, the land that once perhaps did more than any other to spread Western culture: the United Kingdom. And its current effort at grinding itself down is an attack on its greatest writer, Shakespeare himself.

That’s right, it’s not enough that Britain now reportedly has a lower GDP than our poorest state, Mississippi. The country also apparently wants its cultural fortunes to mirror its economic ones.

Climatecrats Aim to Save the Planet — by Bulldozing Rainforest

By Selwyn Duke

There’s a somewhat old saying: “If you want to preserve forest,” it goes, “don’t build a road through it. And if you do, make sure it’s a bad one.” But, hey, preserving trees is so yesterday; climate is the cool kids’ kick now. So it is, too, that in preparation for the upcoming COP(Conference of the Parties)30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, the greentopian climatecrats are bulldozing a swath of the Amazon rainforest to build a new four-lane highway. They have their reasons, though. I mean, we wouldn’t want the swells inconvenienced by traffic while they’re trying to save the world.

This said, the Amazonian destruction is just the latest example of today’s greentopians’ apparent vendetta against trees.

On XY in XX’s Sports, Whoopi G. Opens Her Mouth—and Removes All Doubt

By Selwyn Duke

“It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool,” goes the amusing saying, “than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Despite this well known warning, there nonetheless is a show that specializes in removing such doubt—it’s called The View. A case in point is a recent episode in which co-host Caryn Johnson (aka Whoopi Goldberg) essentially claimed that people opposed to having female-identifying men in women’s sports are ignorant. She further defended the MUSS (Made-up Sexual Status, aka “transgender”) agenda with the now quite stale argument that “God doesn’t make mistakes.”

Now, while I don’t blame God, it could occur to one that if mistakes didn’t somehow manifest themselves in the human population, how could you explain Whoopi’s reasoning ability?

Moreover, Goldberg’s theory does not support her MUSS agenda but refutes it. For if all is ordained by God and is thus without flaw, then no one could possibly “be born in the wrong body,” right?  (Not to mention that babies afflicted with spina bifida must not actually exist. Well, darn it, the fake news sure fooled me there!)