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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.

Be Like Sweden? Actually, America Beats Europe — Hands Down

By Selwyn Duke

“There oughta be a law!” goes the old frustration-born refrain. Or if not a law, maybe another regulation or mandate — one making us, perhaps, more like Europe. After all, they have “free” healthcare, maternity leave, better quality of life, and more vacation time. In a nutshell, “Europe is better,” as multimillionaire director Oliver Stone has put it.

But not so fast, says investigative reporter John Stossel. In fact, while this or that economically hobbled nation may sometimes be called “the sick man of Europe,” the reality is now different.

The sick man is Europe.

USAID Is History’s “Largest Criminal Fraud Operation,” and Here’s a SHOCKING List of Abuses

By Selwyn Duke

Ponder the following examples of your tax money at work. USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development, paid almost $2 million to empower “transgender” organizations in Guatemala. It spent about $1.5 million to promote the “LGBTQ+ diversity” agenda in Serbia. It also reportedly allowed at least $151 million in aid money to go to terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank. Here’s what’s even worse, too:

Far from being anomalies, this reflects long-standing USAID abuses.

Moreover, if you want to know why the Left has been so politically and culturally powerful for so long, part of the reason is that entities such as USAID have been funding hard-left causes for decades — again, with money extracted from Americans at, metaphorically speaking, the end of a gun. And wait till you see the short list, farther down below, of the organization’s malevolent use of those funds.

The Beast Lives On: DEI Is ALREADY Being Rebranded

By Selwyn Duke

Just two weeks ago I warned, to echo Mark Twain, that rumors of DEI’s death are greatly exaggerated. While “the label ‘DEI’ is new, the product it identifies is more than half a century old,” I stated. … And make no mistake, its predicates are still embedded in our culture.”

For this reason, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) will “live on under a different guise,” I later added. For “it’s as much a symptom as a cause.” This brings us to a headline the New York Post ran just this weekend.

“No ‘death’ for diversity,” it reads: “How DEI is being rebranded — not disbanded.”

Well, that didn’t take long.

In fact, perhaps the social-engineering leviathan deserves credit. It turns out that by the time I’d written my piece, January 21, DEI had already been busy shape-shifting.

The Fakery That is the War on Fake News

By Selwyn Duke

Is it true that one man’s misinformation is another man’s salvation?

Or is it actually true that what man censors is sometimes God’s sublimity?

Author and university lecturer Nolan Higdon may not be pondering anything so ethereal. What he is sure of is that, as he wrote Sunday at Salon, the “war on fake news has backfired.” As to his meaning, his subtitle tells the tale and the Truth. To wit:

“Content moderation was never about eradicating fake news.”

Can We MAGA Without Making the Fed Bureaucracy SMALL Again?

By Selwyn Duke

Texan Michael Cargill had to endure what you might call, well, a bureaucratic colonoscopy. It was a Deep State experience he wouldn’t have had in, let’s say, 1971. That’s because his tormentor was the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which didn’t exist till 1972. The issue?

They aimed to revoke his Federal Firearms License (FFL). The problem?

Will the Red-hot California Fires Red-pill Americans?

By Selwyn Duke

When all is said and done, the wildfires raging in and around Los Angeles may be the worst natural disaster in American history in terms of scope and cost. But did it have to be this way? For sure, there are factors beyond man’s control, such as the fierce Santa Ana winds and Southern California’s dry environment. Then, however, there are the controllable factors: Having quota (DEI) hires in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s upper echelons, failure to be proactive (authorities did have advance warning of extreme fire danger), poor forest management, not maintaining water stocks, and vagrancy’s normalization. (Approximately 50 percent of all Los Angeles fires are set by vagrants, according to reporter Michael Shellenberger.) But then, though it’s the hardest of ways to learn a lesson, there may be one silver lining in this very tragic cloud: More Americans may be waking up to the wages of woke governance.

Biden Warns of Tech “Oligarchs” — Now That Tech ISN’T Censoring for Dems Anymore

By Selwyn Duke

As I had on many other occasions, in 2020 I warned of a “dystopia-delivering tech oligarchy.” I cited Dr. Robert Epstein, a liberal who’s the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, and his studies on Big Tech influence. His findings were alarming, too. Big Tech, he warned, could shift 15 million votes toward a given presidential candidate at election time. That’s more than sufficient to swing a White House race, do note, especially given how close our elections now are.

Oddly enough, though, neither Joe Biden nor any other Democratic office holder complained about this tech “oligarchy” back then. Yet lo and behold, Biden has changed his tune. In fact, in his farewell speech Wednesday evening, he warned that a “tech” oligarchy was seizing control of America.

What explains this epiphany?

Well, an inveterate cynic might suppose he’s just upset that much of Big Tech has stopped censoring for Democrats.

Ex-CBS Reporter: We Colluded With Dems in Faking Negative Impact of Gov’t Shutdowns

By Selwyn Duke

It could be Exhibit A for why people don’t trust government and the legacy media. Only, well, there are so many damning exhibits to choose from. The story?

We’ve heard much about “collusion,” such as the Trump/Russia-collusion hoax. But here’s a story of real collusion, from the people who gave us that hoax:

Years ago, CBS couldn’t find real-life negative impacts of a government “shutdown” that was taking place and which the Democrats were blaming on the Republicans. The solution?

Be party to the Democrats’ faking of a negative impact.

This bombshell was revealed, too, by a reporter who was with CBS at the time: Sharyl Attkisson.

Government Spends Billions of YOUR Money to Build … NOTHING

By Selwyn Duke

“The best government is that which governs least,” goes the old saying. And if ever there were evidence for this proposition, it’s our federal government’s efforts at creating infrastructure. In fact, I built more as a child playing with Lincoln Logs and LEGO blocks than the feds do via some of its billion-dollar projects.

Consider, for example, a plan the government hatched three years ago to lay thousands of miles of fiber-optic cable. Costing $65 billion, this effort’s goal was to bring high-speed internet to all of America. (So everyone can watch online porn.) And how many are connected today, three years later?

Zero.

In fact, “Not a single project is underway,” relates investigative journalist John Stossel in a new video report.