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?
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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Arguably the biggest story leading up to Election Day has been the plight of Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon. As many know, both these tame rescue animals were seized from their owners in a shock-and-awe raid last Wednesday and killed by New York State authorities. Making the story far bigger is that Peanut, sometimes spelled P’Nut or PNUT, was a social-media star. (His Instagram account has 540,000 followers. This means he has more political influence in death than I do in life!)
Of course, some may say this is overblown. How many human beings, after all, are murdered on any given day due to bad government policy? In reality, though, the outrage is not only understandable from a human standpoint, but is justified by deeper issues involved.
(Image credit: Beatchoose/Wikimedia Commons)
By Selwyn Duke
We hear continual warnings from the Establishment and the Left (and the overlap there is profound) about “attacks on democracy.” Donald Trump, of course, is supposed to be a “threat to democracy.” Yet it all appears like projection. Why?
Because the self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy” are now aiming to destroy the only major extant social-media democracy: X (formerly Twitter).
Two recent stories epitomize this. The first involves an actual UK government plot to destroy X. The second revolves around a study blaming Elon Musk, X’s owner, for causing college professors’ departure from the platform. An article at The Independent on the matter actually calls it the “Twitter brain drain.” It’s yet another attack based on the supposition that it is freedom of speech that’s the social-media perversion. It’s inversion — of reality.
By Selwyn Duke
“We make a living by what we get,” said Winston Churchill, “but we make a life by what we give.”
Well more than 2,000 years before, ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu also sang charity’s praises.
“The wise man does not lay up his own treasures,” he averred. “The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.” There’s also the saying, “Charity is the lifeblood of a compassionate society.” This raises a question, too:
If we were to “outsource” all our good works to government — and even assuming they then remained “good” — would society’s compassion not die like a blood-starved limb?
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By Selwyn Duke
The Oregon Department of Forestry’s second-in-command has been put on administrative leave for committing what is now, apparently, considered misfeasance. His sin?
The official, one Mike Shaw, resolved to hire at his bureau the “candidates most qualified for the job.”
That’s what Megan Donecker — a purple-haired, tattooed DEI trainer who filed a complaint against him — said he told her, anyway.
By Selwyn Duke
You probably have never heard the name Reiner Fuellmich. In fact, not many news sources are covering his story. But Fuellmich, a successful and respected attorney, has been imprisoned in Germany for almost a year. This is despite having been convicted of nothing. But according to the government, he’s guilty of financial crimes; embezzlement appears to be the charge. His defenders, however, say his “trespass” is different.
Fuellmich attempted to hold the powerful responsible for their Covid misdeeds, spearheading a “Nuremberg 2.0” movement. He thereby threatened their power and purse.
So, to paraphrase Stalin right-hand man Lavrentiy Beria, they were shown the man — and the found the crime.
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