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Cell Phones Have Been Called “Digital Heroin.” So, Should We Ban Them in School?

By Selwyn Duke

“There was a time, not that many years ago, really, when we would actually get into an argument because we didn’t want to answer the phone,” quite funny and mostly clean comedian James Gregory once said during an act. “It’d be like, ‘You get it; I got it last time!’”

Boy, the world sure has changed. Back then, Gregory continued, the phone was an interruption, taking time away from what you really wanted to do. Now it is what people want to do.

In fact, “screen addiction” is a real phenomenon, so much so that researchers have called electronic devices “digital heroin.” As a result, a movement to ban cell phones in schools is gaining momentum. There’s also been pushback, however. Many are reluctant to live life without that continual digital fix.

Cultural Decay: Now, Even Many “Elite” College Students “Can’t Read Books”

By Selwyn Duke

When hearing that many “elite” undergraduates “can’t” read books, first coming to mind could be that they’re not actually elite. (The term “pseudo-elite” suggests itself.) As for the word “can’t,” no, it’s not that these college students, often Ivy Leaguers, are illiterate. The issue is something different: conditioning.

The Necessity of Intolerance

By Selwyn Duke

If “tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions,” as G.K. Chesterton put it, a question suggests itself:

Is intolerance the virtue of the principled man?

Literally speaking, neither tolerance nor intolerance is a “virtue”; that is, one of those defined “objectively good moral habits.” Exhibiting each, however, in its proper context, can be virtuous. Even more significantly, wisely applied intolerance is certainly this: necessary for the preservation of virtue in civilization. This task is of the utmost importance, too, as the Founders well understood, Benjamin Franklin among them. “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” he observed. “As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” Thus do we need “A Plea for Intolerance” — and, thankfully, we have one, in the form of a book chapter by that very title penned by legendary Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in 1931.

Food Pantry Bans Whites. Left Happy as Long as “Everyone Drowns Equitably” in N.C.

By Selwyn Duke

From each according to his skin color and, well, to each according to his skin color? That’s right, forget the old Marxist formula. Now, in our diversity-über-alles society, calls to equity from the morally bent have a racial bent. This would explain, too, a couple of recent stories.

The first is about a food pantry in Minneapolis that won’t serve white people. (Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate and Minnesota governor, is going to get busy on this posthaste, right?)

The second concerns the disaster in western North Carolina. Some leftists are essentially saying that the deaths of the area’s rural whites and “MAGA voters” are karma. Meanwhile, critics suspect that federal disaster aid is lacking because of the Harris-Biden administration’s emphasis on FEMA “equity.”

CNN Discovers: Democrats’ Kids Are Far MORE Intolerant Than Republicans’ Kids

By Selwyn Duke

There’s “wisdom from the mouths of babes” and then there’s, well, what CNN found in a recent study. That is, despite liberals’ chest-thumping about their “tolerance,” they’re not the ones raising tolerant kids. Oh, it isn’t just that “Democrat-leaning” children are far more negative about Donald Trump than “Republican-leaning” children are about Kamala Harris. It’s also this:

Liberals’ kids are five times as likely as conservatives’ children to say they wouldn’t visit a pro-“other” candidate home.

Motherhood: A Higher Calling

By Selwyn Duke

What is the most important job in the world? Is it being the president of the United States? Is it being a scientist working on cold fusion, now considered the “holy grail” of energy innovation? Is it toiling away as a researcher seeking a cure for cancer? Is it being a military general, protecting the homefront from external enemies? While all these jobs matter, a lot, they all pale in comparison to another job: That of the person who gives birth to and helps raise the presidents, scientists, researchers, and generals: mother.

This is because motherhood isn’t just a job, or even just an adventure. It’s a calling.

Coca-Cola’s New Diversity Goals Would Force It to REDUCE Its Black Workers by 30%

By Selwyn Duke

With 2021 diversity training, Coca-Cola earned the moniker “Woka-Cola” by advising employees to “try to be less white.” But now the company may become more white. That will be the result, anyway, if Coke follows through on a pledge to enforce new diversity goals.

That is, to align their employee racial, ethnic, and sexual demographics with U.S. census data.

Meeting these goals would require the company to cut its black-employee representation by 31 percent. Asian-descent hires would also be reduced — by 33 percent.

Claim: Democrats Are the ENEMIES of Women and Girls

By Selwyn Duke

In 2020, women voted for Joe Biden over President Trump by a percentage margin of 55-44. This “sex gap” was even greater in the 2018 midterms, where women supported Democrats over Republicans 59-40. So it’s not surprising that this campaign season the Democrats are, as always, trying to marshal female support. They do this by claiming that while their GOP opponents are “anti-woman,” they are pros at being pro-woman. (Even if they can’t define what one is.) But this is pure projection, says one commentator.

In fact, observes Jack Hellner, “Democrats don’t support women and girls.” (The Republicans do. More on that later.)

They sure want everyone to think they do, though, is his point.

Democrats are so desperate to frighten women into supporting them, in fact, that they sometimes even assert that the GOP wants to outlaw contraception and in vitro fertilization. (Of course, no such proposal exists — anywhere.) But their main claim to female-defender fame is abortion, points out Hellner.

On Migrant Cat-eating, Are Media Eating the Truth and Spitting Out Lies?

By Selwyn Duke

“Blaming Immigrants For Eating Pets Is An Old American Urban Legend,” reads a Sunday Forbes headline. We hear, too, that all the current stories about Haitians dining on cats and dogs is driven by “racism.” (Unsaid is that this accusation itself is driven, in part, by immigrationism.) But amidst all the cute cat memes, political imperatives, and ad hominem attacks, something is missing: intelligent conversation. And here’s reality:

Many cultures do have dog and/or cat on the menu. Would it be so surprising if at least a few immigrants from those cultures, at least for a time, continued this behavior?

In point of fact, there have been verified mainstream media news stories — out of California and Germany, for instance — of immigrants eating, respectively, a dog and a cat.

Moreover, it is a fact that animal sacrifice has become a growing problem in places such as New York City. In other words, there is a problem, however limited or widespread, involving some immigrants and animals.

Teacher Who Wouldn’t be Part of “Trans” Child Abuse of Boy Jailed for THIRD Time

By Selwyn Duke

It’s said that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland. It appears, however, that he might’ve missed a bunch. That is, if a recent story out of the Emerald Isle is any guide. To wit:

In a testimonial to our upside-down world, an Irish Christian teacher has been imprisoned for the third time. His trespass?

The educator, Enoch Burke, wouldn’t socially facilitate a student’s “gender transition,” as it’s euphemistically called, and then refused to abide by an order from a judge who sided with his school.