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Study: Most Americans Are “Unbiblical” Moral Relativists — and It Invites Tyranny

By Selwyn Duke

Addressing a large group of arrivals in Hell, the Devil said, reassuringly, “You’ll find there’s no right or wrong here. Just what works for you.” That scene, presented on a 1977 New Yorker magazine cover, well epitomizes our time, a new study has found. In fact, the research shows, most Americans reject moral absolutes — this is true even of most U.S. “Christians.”

As a consequence, to make what some call “moral decisions,” most Americans don’t actually seek to discern morality. Rather, 74 percent rely on their “feelings.”

Monumental DEI: Statues of Generic Black Women Being Erected — Replacing the West’s Greats

By Selwyn Duke

Does it matter when a society’s long-present statues are torn down and replaced with very different ones? Well, consider an analogy. Imagine that upon coming home each day, you noticed that more and more pictures of your family members, which had adorned your walls, mantels, and desktops, were disappearing and were being replaced with those of people you don’t even recognize.

Would it matter?

Well, this is essentially what has been happening with our national family. For many years now, statues have been continually torn down/removed, replaced with people of little accomplishment and/or poor character. One of late cocaine-using Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, erected in his city in 2018, is an example. Even further down the rabbit hole of risibility, statues and other monuments honoring criminal George Floyd appeared in 2020-2021.

This brings us to a new monument in Times Square of a black woman of, uh, let’s say, generous proportions. Oh, unlike Floyd, we can’t say she’s a criminal; she’s got that going for her. But that’s for an odd reason:

She’s not anybody.

Study Finds the Left Has Now Embraced “Assassination Culture”

By Selwyn Duke

“People will do what they do.” So said then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi in 2020, when asked about a Baltimore mob tearing down a Christopher Columbus statue. Her attitude may be her political set’s norm, too. After all, no one in the Democratic Party leadership has, for example, spoken out against the attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships. And this could make one wonder:

Are Democratic pols leading their base astray?

Or, are they being led by it (or is it both?)?

Whatever the case, it certainly seems that violence is now “a leftist enterprise.” This not only is what I wrote in 2020, do note, but is also essentially the finding of a recent academic study.

The “Trans” Empire Strikes Back, Attacks U.K. Court; J.K. Rowling Responds

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By Selwyn Duke

If Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the Harry Potter actors really could perform magic, maybe, just perhaps, they could turn a man into a woman. But it’s impossible beyond the world of Hollywood fantasy. This hasn’t stopped them, however, from embracing the fantasy that this sexual transformation can, somehow, occur in real life. Moreover, actors as a group have become defenders of this “faith,” reflexively attacking any expression of anti-“trans” sanity. Thus did many hundreds of actors and writers recently sign open letters opposing last month’s U.K. Supreme Court (UKSC) ruling. The issue?

The ruling found that 15-year-old British legislation really did mean “sex” when using the term “sex,” and not a misused term (“gender”) with twice as many letters and syllables.

(The UKSC puts our Supreme Court to shame on this, by the way. That is, a few years back the latter somehow couldn’t figure out that 1964 legislators didn’t mean “gender” when writing “sex.” This is even though “gender” was virtually never applied to humans at the time.)

But one writer that didn’t sign any protest letter is Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling. In fact, she posted a long rebuttal to the effort on X this past Saturday. She made some excellent points, too.

Black Americans in Africa Learn: The Grass Is Actually Meaner on the Other Side of the Fence

By Selwyn Duke

“Thank God our grandpappies caught that boat!” is a line generally attributed to late boxing great Muhammad Ali. It appears, however, that it might’ve actually been uttered by rival George Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, in 1974. Regardless, the meaning is the same. The man was happy his ancestors ended up in America — even if it was slavery that brought them here. (The issue arose because Ali and Foreman were at the time in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for their “Rumble in the Jungle” heavyweight title fight.)

Someone else who learned this is a black American woman who, distressed about the “racist” United States, moved to Ghana. How’d it go? Well, she didn’t exactly find her Wakanda.

Killing Deadly Anti-Americanism

By Selwyn Duke

Hatred is like darkness: The more there is, the less you can see. For this reason, the object of hatred is never perceived clearly, ever painted in a darker color than the most shadowy recesses of its soul. Anti-American wrath is no exception, either. Why, listening to the hate-America-first crowd, you’d think our country was Hell on Earth instead of the best land this side of Heaven.

Bowing to Public Pressure, Tax-funded Colorado Sex Camp for Kids Is CANCELED

By Selwyn Duke

It’s said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. It sure worked, too, with a Colorado abortion clinic that planned to host a free “sex-ed” summer camp that would have, among other things, taught kids about “gender” ideology and auto-eroticism.

Geared toward fifth- through eighth-graders and hosted by the Boulder Valley Health Center (BVHC), the prurient endeavor was taxpayer-funded, too. But now it has been canceled, announced organizers, due “to safety concerns.”

David vs. Maher vs. Truth: Who Really Is “Hitler”?

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By Selwyn Duke

Sometime after WWII, rumors began circulating that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler didn’t commit suicide, but, clever man, escaped. It’s true, too, that Hitler lives. Sure, he’d be 136 today, just having had a birthday last Sunday. But he lives. Hitler lives in the hearts and minds and nightmares of those who see him in every political figure they, governed by their deified emotions, deeply detest.

The Hitler-label lovers’ favorite hated Hitler du jour is, of course, President Donald J. Trump. So it was that after comedian/commentator Bill Maher met with Trump March 31 in the White House, he became a Hitler-enabler. Apropos to this, making big news is Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s satirical New York Times essay, “My Dinner With Hitler.” Such a thing would be, he fancies, the equivalent of Maher’s dinner with Trump.

To MAGA, We Must Restore Historical Truth, Our Monuments, and Patriotism

By Selwyn Duke

Say what you will about the “woke” Left’s recent fall from favor, there’s no denying their profound cultural victories. Just consider the results of a 2023 Gallup poll and a 2020 Democracy Fund voter study group:

• While “four in 10 American adults overall say they are extremely proud to be an American, just a measly 18% of those aged 18 to 34 say the same,” reported the New York Post last year.
• “Three quarters of Gen Z say that the nation requires ‘significant change,’ while two in three agree that ‘America is an unfair society,’” the paper also related.
• “Perhaps worst of all,” the Post continued, “four in 10 Zoomers say that America’s Founding Fathers are better described as villains than heroes.”

My, the irredeemably paranoid could almost think they’ve been brainwashed — almost.

None of this is inexplicable. Psychologist Dr. Kenneth Higbee noted, “If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.” Since nations comprise people, this is true of them as well. And, boy, have historians, educators, and entertainers ever found the bad in America. They’ve made up a lot of it, too.

Killer Karmelo Cashes in: Family Parlaying Knifing of White Boy Into Bling Lifestyle

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By Selwyn Duke

The warning that “crime doesn’t pay” is surely true — in the spiritual sense, that is. Yet the material one may be a different matter, especially in this time in which villainy is confused with virtue. A recent example is healthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangione, whose crowdfunding donations have reached close to $1 million.

An even more recent example is Karmelo Anthony. Anthony is the 17-year-old who brutally stabbed to death fellow teen Austin Metcalf over what should’ve been a minor seating dispute. The incident occurred April 2 at a high-school track meet at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas.

As with Mangione — whose crime was caught on video — there’s no disputing Anthony’s guilt. In fact, when the police labeled him the suspected perpetrator, he reportedly replied, “I’m not a suspect; I did it.” (He unabashedly claims self-defense, even though the case’s particulars say otherwise.) One difference between the killings, though, is that while Mangione had a political motive, Anthony’s case has a racial component. Anthony is black; Metcalf was white.

Another difference is that Anthony’s family is apparently quite shameless about parlaying their son’s crime into a payday. It’s not just using money donated for Karmelo’s legal defense for a new house, car, and other luxuries, either. This they have done.

(Note: The Anthonys have raised almost half as much as the Mangiones in approximately one-ninth the time. White privilege, anyone?)

It’s also that, unbelievably, the family is now reportedly marketing murderer merch.