What Happened to the Democrats?

By Lee Duigon

October 24, 2024

At my first newspaper job—“associate editor”: starting almost at the top—our editor-in-chief was a self-styled socialist who always pumped the pedal for “major change.” He was never clear about what sort of “major change” that should be.

I wrote up a series of interviews with local office-holders, all Republicans, to explore what they believed in and how they differed from the Democrats. I was a registered Democrat at the time, but I tried to keep that out of my reporting. “Let them speak for themselves” was my motto.

My editor-in-chief objected. “You’re making them sound rational and decent!” he said. “Maybe that’s because they are,” I answered. That was back in the 1970s. A lot of the Democrats, back then, were rational and decent, too. The towns and counties that we covered were, on the whole, in pretty good hands.

How times have changed. Major change. Just like he wanted.

Only two of those public figures, with whom I worked every day, turned out to be bad apples: both Democrats, and both wound up in jail. I remember their perp walks. But two out of a dozen dozens wasn’t enough to make me lose faith in our government.

It took time, and lots and lots of major change that proved to be major mischief, to accomplish that.

Anyone who thinks we’re a better country than we were in 1980 is cotton-pickin’ crazy.

Wide-open borders, censorship run wild, “transgender” pushed like their lives depended on it, the fiasco in Afghanistan, people running the country who shouldn’t be trusted with a bait shop… and I blame it on Democrats—plus a fair number of notably useless Republicans.

We really do need to take care whom we elect to public office. Great Caesar’s ghost, we almost had John Kerry in the White House! And Kacklin’ Kamala and Tampon Tim Walz might be even worse, if such a thing is possible.

It must all be cleaned up from top to bottom. School board elections, town and city council memberships, colleges and universities—it won’t do much good to fix up Washington D.C. if the local governing bodies remain dominated by persons who are neither sane nor rational. Millions of us voted to put these rascals in positions of power and prestige.

And we have gotten what we deserved.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Fighting on Two Fronts

by Lee Duigon

October 17, 2024

I have been drafted into the battle against cancer. That means I have cancer. My doctors say they can cure it, but it’ll take a while. Meanwhile, it’s off to the hospital every weekday for radiation treatments. The chemotherapy pills I take at home.

(Turn seventy-five and the bottom drops out. Is that what’s supposed to happen?)

Now the only time I feel normal and healthy is when I’m intent on my writing: so I have every incentive to keep on working. Finding the energy for it isn’t as easy as it used to be; but here I am, writing this, so I’ve found some at least. And chemotherapy can bring on what my friends who’ve had it call brain fog. The reader will have to judge whether I have it or not.

Gee, I’d hate to drop out of the picture this close to Election Day. Every vote is needed to counterbalance Democrat cheating. At least make them work for New Jersey, New York, and California. Make them work for what they would otherwise get for the asking. Make the teachers’ unions spend money holding on to gimme states—while most of the country slips past them.

I don’t know whether to believe a lot of scuttlebutt about tens of millions of Christian voters planning to sit it out because Harris and Walz are devils and Donald Trump—who was a good president!—is not a saint. So they’ll vote for nobody, or else write in their hamsters… which amounts to voting for the bad guys. Their own self-righteousness means more to them than the survival of the American republic.

Great—now I have to fight on two fronts. Ask Germany how that works out. But I still think it’s probably good for me to keep working as best I can. God didn’t put us here just for ourselves. My work may not go down in history, but this is how I serve my country.

It looks like I’m coming up short of my word count this week, but I can’t help it, I do what I can.

I pray that my fellow Christians will set aside self-righteous fantasies and flood the polls to vote for Donald Trump.

We need a landslide victory.

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In Search of the Righteous Candidate

by Lee Duigon

October 10, 2024

Every time he makes a public appearance, Donald Trump puts his life on the line for America. Democrats still hate him. Nothing is going to change that.

Meanwhile, George Barna, dean of research at Arizona Christian University, is predicting that only 51 percent of Christians will vote in this year’s presidential election (https://leeduigon.com/2024/10/09/you-dont-feel-like-voting/). He estimates 73 million Christians won’t vote—maybe as many as 100 million.

Some say they won’t vote because you can’t beat the cheat. Our elections, they say, have been hopelessly corrupted—so why bother? The fix is in. And thus another self-fulfilling prophecy is born. Live and don’t learn.

But worst of all are those self-righteous noddies who won’t vote for any major party candidate—because no one’s good enough! Except for maybe some fringe party candidate you never heard of. “I’m voting for Ariadne Pfellf! She’s quit sixteen different churches because they weren’t holy enough. She’s already a saint!”

Yes, there are voters who can’t tell the difference between running for president and qualifying for sainthood.

I used to waste my vote when I was young. I’d march out to the polls and vote third-party, or even a write-in, every time. It made me feel so much smarter than everybody else!

Name a guaranteed loser, and I’ll bet I voted for him. Or her. Ross Perot. John Anderson. My high school lab partner, Janet Swink. But eventually I noticed that those 15 percent who voted for Perot gave us eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then I didn’t feel so smart and superior anymore.

Vote in haste, repent at leisure.

Now we have to choose between Donald Trump, a former president with a record to be proud of, and Kamala Harris, a Far Left doozy who specializes in word salad, vice president to one of the worst presidents in our history. Four years of senile Joe Biden, with Kamala egging him on—and the country is reeling from it. Inflation. War. Our total humiliation in Afghanistan. Pushing transgender and “gender reassignment” like their lives depended on it.

Do we really want to spot them 73 million votes? What have we been drinking, that’s dug this hole for us? And God only knows whom they’ve got behind the scenes, pulling Kamala’s strings.

I thought John Kerry was bad, which he is. We spared ourselves that tribulation, although Kerry is still out there, way out there, making mischief with his fellow globalists. But even he would be a step up from a cackle queen who’s espoused every political position in the book.

For the life of me, I can’t imagine how even the Democrats could have settled for Kacklin’ Kamala and Tampon Tim Walz. How did we ever sink to that?

I didn’t want to write about this election, it has such dreadful prospects. We know the Democrats will cheat. We know there’s nothing they won’t do to win. And by now—please, by now!—we ought to understand that eight more years of Democrats just might be something our republic won’t survive.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… while it’s still allowed. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Court Socks It to School Board

by Lee Duigon

October 2, 2024

Do you have an unquenchable desire to lord it over your fellow citizens? To enslave them and humiliate them? Do you find yourself burning with a lust for authority—any kind of authority—so you can control what other people say and do?

Wouldn’t you just love to be in government?

This is why our country’s founders wrote a Constitution that widely dispersed authority instead of concentrating it. They knew what mischief lurks in human souls.

Recent news from West Point, Virginia, shows how wise they were.

Here, the local school board freedom-eaters fired a teacher for “misgendering” a student. If a boy says he’s a girl—this was the school district’s policy—the teacher must pretend he really is one. If Harry demands you call him Ellie May from now on, that’s what the teacher was required to do.

Well, one teacher refused to go along with that—so of course they fired him. That was a year ago.

The teacher took them to court: I guess he doesn’t like being forced to say things that are patently untrue. The Virginia Supreme Court agreed with him and now the West Point school district has been ordered to pay him $575,000 in damages.

Well and good: our Constitution at work. Executive branch—here, a school board—tramples on a citizen’s rights and is shot down by the judiciary. The board has even agreed to change its policy—no more forcing people to say things they don’t believe. “Compelled speech,” as we call it, is a blatant violation of the First Amendment. It gets shot down a lot in courts throughout the land, but our wannabe masters keep trying to make it stick. If the courts ever let up on them, they’d have us all in gulags.

But hey! It’s no skin off their noses. They aren’t going to pay that $575,000. The West Point taxpayers are. It’s no good pointing out that the board members pay property taxes, too. The board members were the ones who did the wrong; the court has said so; shouldn’t they, personally, have to pony up the fine?

You can always blame the voters for electing these tinhorn tyrants in the first place. But if those school board elections were anything like the scores of school board elections I covered as a reporter, chances are the subject never came up during the campaign. The voters only find out afterward that they’ve elected a bunch of left-wing loons who want to push “gender” politics.

The persons who took away the teacher’s livelihood, because he refused to pay lip service to a thing that wasn’t true, should be the ones who have to pay the damages. Personally. Not “Everybody has to pay for what you did.”

School boards would be a lot more careful about embarking on societal experiments if the cost of misgovernment came out of their own pockets.

It would be good if parents simply abandoned “public education” altogether. That’s the ultimate solution to the problem. Failing that, it should at least be a given, everywhere, for school board members to be subject to recall elections whenever they stepped out of line.

Quite simply, and one way or another, this kind of mischief by the school boards has to be stopped.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘I’m Me, He’s Him’

by Lee Duigon

September 26, 2024

It seems a shame for Kacklin’ Kamala and Tampon Tim to waste their talents on governing this country. I mean, the poor old USA can run off the road and into a ditch without them. It won’t need much of a push.

There are any number of jobs suitable for this pair of einsteins. And remember, it’s all about joy!

Here are a few jobs in which the Harris/Walz variety act would really shine.

*How about them being pitch-persons for Acme Bottled Tap Water? “Fresh from the spigot”—and they mean that literally.

What makes Bill Gates so rich? What makes Taylor Swift so hot? Imagine Tim and Kamala grinning at you through the camera and declaring, “We don’t know what makes them so hot—but for us it’s Acme Bottled Tap every time! And the empty bottles make handy ballot drop boxes.”

*There’s always a demand for another sitcom to help define the country’s moral tone and keep the plebs from reading things they shouldn’t. If the Fung Empire had had sitcoms, it’d still be around today, four hundred years later.

Imagine, after a hard day’s sitting around waiting for a job, sitting down again to watch and enjoy America’s No. 1 sitcom—I’m Me, He’s Him, starring Kamala and Tim. Like, for instance: “When Tim’s in the doghouse, he really is in the doghouse and can’t find his way out. Can Kamala find her way in, so they can keep their date with Antifa?” And the beauty of it is, they don’t have to bow out after eight short years. TV is a better gig than the White House any day.

*And it’s not just entertainment that would be just up their street. Suppose Kamala and Tim could run a university. Now there’s a niche! It could even be a whole chain of universities, by popular demand. Imagine thousands of students going in one door and coming out another, four or five years later, with gender reassignments and a full set of Far Left shibboleths. Oh, it’s true that the colleges and universities we already have are doing the best they can to achieve this. But imagine how much better they’d be at it if we just added a patented Harris & Walz Joy Vibe! Imagine if all you ever had to do to get your point across was a high-pitched cackle or a thunderous belly laugh. Imagine a million grads a year with Joy Vibes.

*And imagine electing ten or twenty thousand of them to our local school boards. Now you’re talking Fundamental Transformation!

*And last, but by no means least, imagine Kamala and Tim, with half a dozen of their hand-picked cronies, with seats on the Supreme Court—for, like, forever. Think of all the new constitutional rights they could discover! Extending the vote to non-citizens. Requiring parents to pass an annual ideology test. A compulsory Pledge of Allegiance to the United Nations. The mind boggles at the possibilities.

Sure, it’d be nice to see these two elected president and vice president. But Supreme Court justices, college presidents, school board members, and TV celebrities, just to name a few, have no term limits.

And thanks to Artificial Intelligence, Kamala and Tim can sit in seats of power for as long as the sun keeps shining.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit—preferably before you take your ideology test. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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They’re Still Getting Away With It

by Lee Duigon

September 19, 2024

My wife once showed me a sample of her mother’s handwriting, produced by her mother, who left school in the third grade.

You never saw such beautiful penmanship. I’m old enough to remember being taught how to write, starting in the first grade. First you learned to print the alphabet, on lined paper with wide spaces to accommodate a child’s scrawl. Then we moved on to cursive, grown-up writing—and we were all expected to master it. I didn’t know anyone who didn’t.

We also had to learn reading, arithmetic, general science, basic geography—gee! Not much time left over for Gender Studies, Critical Race Theory, or Marxism Really Does Work (We Should At Least Try It!) studies. “How do you know you really are a girl? Have you at least thought about your gender?” No, we had no time for anything like that.

But what if they had tried to bring it in, back when I was in, say, seventh grade?

Ah! This doesn’t require a very vivid imagination; because, back around 1970, “educators” decided our children were in dire need of Sex Education. How they came to that conclusion was never made clear.

As if by magic, parents came out in throngs to tell the school board that they didn’t want Sex Education—especially the kind dreamed up by free-lance social engineering knot-heads and unelected bureaucrats in Trenton. Those board meetings were spectacularly well-attended. Our local school board got the message loud and clear—and out the window went Sex Education.

For the time being.

Toward the end of the 70’s they tried again. We had a shiny new State Dept. of Education—might as well make use of it. And now the local boards were off the hot seat, because this was being handed down from The State [cue in awed gasping sound effect].

Our town still didn’t want it, but who in Trenton cared for that? By the magic of government, local school boards were transformed into rubber stamps. Any time a government can do mischief, it will do mischief.

So that was that. Year after year the Far Left Creepy twaddle was pumped into our schools. Objections were in vain. Eventually the crowds stopped coming to the meetings. The local school board members whom we elected were on our side, but powerless. When the town council cut the school budget, the state simply restored the funds.

Please don’t get the idea that these things happened only in New Jersey. It was all over the country, everywhere you looked. With the creation of the federal Dept. of Education, the cage was locked. No escape.

You could still take your child out of “public education” that despised the public, and opt for home schooling or a private religious school. So far, for all their dreams of total supremacy, they haven’t yet been able to close off those escape routes. Then I guess we’ll have to teach our children to dig tunnels.

Indoctrination into thorough-going leftism begins in kindergarten and continues up and up right through college, teachers’ college, and grad school. The goal is—we quote Obama—a full and “fundamental transformation” of America into a socialist basket case.

And so far they continue to get away with it.

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“Our Democracy”

by Lee Duigon

September 12, 2024

We hear a lot of talk these days about “Our Democracy” and threats to Our Democracy. The “threats” are usually posed by Republicans and people who are not mentally ill.

The United States Constitution, the law of the land, guarantees to each and every state a republican form of government. You could look it up (Constitution, Article IV, Section 4).

So where does “democracy” come in? The word does not appear in the Constitution.

Let me illustrate it for you.

The town—any town—has a local school district governed by a local board of education. As the years go by, the townspeople grow more and more discontented with their schools and find that they object to what’s being taught, who’s teaching it, how much it costs, and the batty “school officials” running the show.

So the people that year vote down the annual school budget; and it goes to the town council to make cuts: they sort of have to, given the public’s deep discontent.

The council cuts the budget for Gender Studies, White People Stink Studies, and Socialism Is Great! Studies.

Well! The teachers’ union members aren’t going to stand for that, are they? They’ll go on strike. So the school board appeals the cuts to the State Dept. of Education, which does what it always does—restores the money cut from the school budget. Presto! No budget cuts after all.

And so much for “democracy.”

Here’s another example of “democracy” in action.

It’s a presidential election year, and the incumbent, President Weezle, has become widely unpopular. Part of it is his disastrous public policies (“All children under 16 are now 16 years old,” etc. None of the others is any better). Part of it is his mental and physical fitness for the job. (He goes to bed at 8 p.m. and gets up at 4 p.m. the next day, then goes to the beach and plays horseshoes without a stake.) He hasn’t got a prayer of being re-elected.

But he is the incumbent, and he’s already won the Democrat primaries with millions of Party faithful voting to re-nominate him and tens of millions of dollars already donated to his campaign. It’s a problem!

Once again, Our Democracy swings into action. First they have to pressure Weezle to step down. This is done behind the scenes: Democracy has a real gift for that. Then they have to plug in his vice-president to replace him… without a single vote being cast in public. Now you see him, now you don’t—although technically he’s still president until a new one can be inaugurated in January. He’s out, she’s in; and all those votes he got… don’t count. That leaves us in some confusion as to who’s running the country for the time being; but in Our Democracy we don’t worry about that.

Are you getting it now? Are you beginning to see why our country’s founders rejected “democracy” as a form of government?

Somehow we seem to have changed our form of government—without a vote. In Our Democracy, everything is done in shadows and all we ever see is the results.

Remember that when they get around to erasing the Bill of Rights. It’s an obstacle to Our Democracy and can be tolerated no more.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… before Democracy says you can’t. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Sinking Into Tyranny

by Lee Duigon

August 29, 2024

Hmm, let’s see… [Shuffles through a sheaf of news reports.] Oh, here’s something. Holy cow.

Solingen, Germany: To celebrate its 650^th anniversary, this mid-sized city—naturally!—held a Diversity Festival. I’m not quite sure what that might be, and I rather hope we never have one here.

Anyway, a “Syrian man” (they say) went on a rampage and stabbed nine people, three of whom died. Hint: He was shouting “Allahu akbar!” as he did it. I am ashamed if you think I mean a Presbyterian.

So they had this guy who got a little too diverse and kind of flew off the handle. We don’t know what triggered him, any more than we know why he chooses to live in not-yet Muslim (but getting there!) Western Europe.

Are we all still on board for unchecked Muslim immigration?

Here’s another one.

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, sugar daddy to dozens of Democrat candidates nationwide, now says he’s sorry he caved in to “relentless pressure” by the Biden-Harris regime to censor millions of Americans off his social media platform. He’s sorry, he admits he was wrong, and has promised not to do it anymore.

Silly rabbit. All those millions and millions of dollars, all those Zuckerbucks, that he poured into Democrat campaigns in 2022—what did he buy with it but his own subservience? No contrary word about the Regime’s handling of COVID… and hands off Hunter Biden. Watch what you say, boy: we’d better like it, or else.

Has he really had a change of heart (“My goal is to be neutral” from now on)? Or does he know something we don’t know that’s scared him straight?

Follow the Zuckerbucks. He might be playing possum.

Here’s another one.

The mayor of Surprise, Arizona, ordered the arrest of a woman for criticizing city employees at a city council meeting. Gee, I thought one of the purposes of such a meeting was for the council to hear those complaints and answer them. But according to the mayor, their city has a “rule” against that very thing. No complaints allowed! So she was ushered out of the hall and charged with “criminal trespass.”

How do you “trespass” by entering a public building that’s open for public business—including grievances presented to the government? Where else is a citizen supposed to go to voice a complaint?

Shut up! Or we’ll arrest you.

How is that even remotely compatible with the First Amendment?

Or, more to the point, why in heaven’s name do we elect these people who despise us?

There: put these three news items together and what have you got?

To me it looks like our Western civilization sinking into tyranny. Violence in the streets, as our namby-pamby leadership tries in vain to appease Muslims with a screw loose; the government reveling in unlawful censorship; and a trip to the cop shop for anyone who has a beef with a public employee—is this what passes for the Free World, nowadays?

I would say we have to un-elect these tin-pot tyrants, pronto…

But who has any faith in our elections anymore?

I really don’t want to see what Kamala and Tampon Tim have in store for us.

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Get In On the Joy!

By Lee Duigon

August 22, 2024

Opening Night at the Democrat National Convention: “women” parade around the scene costumed as abortion pills.

And across the water, Britain’s new Labour government (that’s “Off-the-Wall Far Left Crazy” in American English) has threatened a government crackdown on “harmful beliefs”. They’ve vowed to go all-out, no quarter asked or given, against “extremism.” If your beliefs ain’t right, the cops will bite.

In France last week, a 72-year-old man was sentenced to “re-education”—he got a break: it was originally going to be a prison sentence—for the, um, crime of showing disrespect for government officials. (That would explain why so many creepy individuals wind up in government. They’re welcome nowhere else.)

Has the whole Western world collectively lost its mind?

Because they have to conceal the fact that it’s us they’re laughing at, and that the prospect of devouring our liberties makes them positively giddy, Democrats have staked a claim to a soon-to-be legendary Politics of Joy. “We’re the happy, jolly ones, and that’s why you should vote for us! Trump and Vance are a couple of gloomy guses, really weird! And they’re gonna force women to have babies!”

Hence the abortion pill parade. Democrats believe women live in dread and fear of not being allowed to have an abortion for the asking. No joy for them.

But vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has the answer: tampons for boys. Because, you see, “gender” is 100 percent fluid, you really are whatever you say you are, and that whole male/female thing is so yesterday!

What? That doesn’t expand your lungs with joy? Well, then, how about this—wide-open borders, with Free Stuff for everyone who breaks our immigration laws? Hey, Kamala Harris is our Border Czar: she’s had oodles of practice, bringing in millions more Democrat hangers-on.

If that doesn’t do it for you, we’ve also got fabulously costly electric cars, puberty blockers for your kids in school, communal cooling centers for when we take away your air conditioners, and a foreign policy that no one in his right mind can ever hope to figure out.

What’s not to like? Heck, we like it—and we’re the Party of Joy!

Now you know why Kamala laughs so much. She’ll make a great president! Her joy is simply overflowing, punctuated by Mr. Walz’s belly laughs.

Don’t you want to be in on it, too? We’ve got tons of stuff to laugh about, and we don’t mind sharing it.

Oh! And getting back to those women masquerading as abortion pills—well, there’s no such thing as too many abortions, is there? Just as there isn’t really any such thing as a “woman.” There are only people who identify as women. That’s what makes Tim Walz laugh so hard. You’ll be laughing, too, once you embrace this truth.

So why not join us in our mirth? We offer you a top-to-bottom revision of America that makes the Chicoms look like amateurs. Look and see: Britain and France are leading the way. Surely we can overtake them—and create a new America where Harmful Beliefs can land you in a labor camp.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit: we promise not to rat you out for your beliefs. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘A Campaign of Joy’???

by Lee Duigon

August 15, 2024

I’ve never in my life seen anything quite like the nooze media’s current push for Kacklin’ Kamala’s presidential campaign. But of course the mission of the media is to make normal people downhearted and gin up “a clear momentum” and “enthusiasm” for the pair of neo-marxists at the top of the Democrat ticket.

“Ooh, look at that—she’s catchin’ up fast! No, no, wait a minute—she’s actually pulled ahead!” Blah-blah.

Meanwhile, the Cackle Queen has held no press conferences, sat for no interviews, and labored to give the impression that there’s really nothing that she has to do to win this. Instead, what we get is a ton of media drivel about her “campaign of joy.”

Has it come to this? A candidate who won not a single primary election, with mannerisms that border on the bizarre—she’s going to be our president?

Well, heck—there has to be some reason for them tearing down our southern border and letting several million illegal aliens stroll right in. Maybe they’ve figured out a way to let them vote. I wouldn’t put it past them. Plenty of opportunities there for electoral mischief.

But “joy”? Maybe it’s just a way of painting over Kamala’s crazy cackle—when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Or running mate Walz’s patented belly-laugh. These are people who yuck it up at funerals. We are probably better off not knowing what they think is so funny.

I know it’s been said before, of other candidates; but this time it does seem possible that we’re looking at an election that really could blot out our constitutional republic. They tossed their sitting president, SloJo Biden, under the bus and coronated this woman with the crazy cackle. And the media are running interference for her, big-time.

Not that Biden is a loss. But he was folding in the polls and it was time for him to go bye-bye.

Without a vote. If you—for some unimaginable reason—voted to re-nominate and then re-elect this dodo, as some 14 million of you did—well, you’re just out of luck. The party bigwigs picked Kamala, vote-schmote. They plugged her in like a toaster-oven.

And she plugged in Tampon Tim. Tampon dispensers in the boys’ bathroom, in case the lads start menstruating.

“Joy”? We’re about to turn the country over to border-busting, gender-swapping leftids… and that’s supposed to bring us “joy”? Maybe they can ban electricity, while they’re at it. Kiss your air conditioner goodbye: Saving The Planet, don’tcha know.

They still won’t tell us what’s so freakin’ funny.

Maybe it’s us, the American people—we’re the joke. As Walter Mondale once said, at his Democrat National Convention, “Look at them, down there on the floor. We’re going to tax their [censored] off, and they’re all celebrating.”

Maybe that’s what’s funny.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… before they can think of any more “joy” to throw at us. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘Educators’ Ban… the Bible

by Lee Duigon

August 8, 2024

Local “educators” and the state teachers’ union in Oklahoma have vowed to defy a move by the state superintendent of schools to install Bibles in every classroom, grades 5-12, to help children study “the core values and historical context of our country”.

You’d think some familiarity with the Bible would be indispensable to any meaningful study of history—especially when dealing with the development of modern Western civilization. But it seems quite a few school superintendents would disagree with you.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! This is public education! It’s dedicated to “neutrality and objectivity” (can I add a LOL to that?). And so we have an “intense backlash” from the usual suspects in the teachers’ union, the Oklahoma Teachers Assn. They’ve threatened to take the state to court. Like, who ever heard of a Bible in a classroom?

Well, I have. When I was a boy, we not only had the Bible in our classroom. We had a reading from it every day. I’m still at a loss to understand what harm that supposedly did us.

Somehow I missed this story, that came out last year: in 2023, Utah’s public schools—Utah?—banned the Bible… because the text includes “violence and vulgarity.” So they banned the Bible from elementary and middle school.

History is the study of things that happened. There’s this little thing called “war” that seems to crop up now and then in human history… and a fairly large portion of the Bible deals with it. Should war be excluded from the study of history? As for vulgarity, in all those years of Bible-reading in the classroom, we never came across “vulgarity.”

And here you were, thinking the Red states were somehow different. Nope. The same deep Blue, Far Left crazy teachers’ unions dominate “education” in all 50 states.

Getting back to neutrality and objectivity, when was the last time you saw anyone in public education displaying even a trace of neutrality and objectivity when it came to studying “gender” etc.? When was the last time you saw a public school district give equal time to any opinion that rejected that? “You can be a boy one day and a girl the next, depending on how you feel”: so said a California “educator” some fifteen or twenty years ago—and teachers’ unions have been pushing that, ever since, as if their very lives depended on it.

What mystifies me is why America’s Christian (and Jewish) parents continue to send their kids to public schools, where unionized teachers “teach” them that their families’ core values are outdated, hateful, and wrong. Not only that—their taxes have to pay for it.

Have we forgotten The Great COVID Pandemic, when they closed the schools and sentenced the children to “on-line education” at home? Several districts tried to get parents to sign a pledge not to listen in on, or “interfere” with, the instruction. Talk about adding insult to injury! What more could the educators have done to convince parents that they were committed to propagandizing their children? What more could they have done to prove it?

If America ever does go belly-up, public education will have had a starring role in it—and the lion’s share of the blame.

We are running out of time to rescue America’s children from public education.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘Let ‘Em Eat Bugs!’

by Lee Duigon

August 1, 2024

We are governed—perhaps I should say “ruled,” or “lorded over”—by people who despise us. “Useless eaters” is what the No. 2 pinhead at the World Economic Forum calls us. “Keep ‘em on drugs and video games till we decide what to do with ‘em.”

Now I don’t know how true it is that Marie Antoinette ended up on the guillotine because she dismissed the desperate complaints of her time’s useless eaters with “Let them eat cake.” But if that’s what finally pushed the plebs too far, our own elites might well take warning from it.

Bill Gates and his playmates at the Untied Nations (let the error stand) have recently ramped up their campaign to get The Common People to eat insects. It’ll Save The Planet—see? And it’s Sustainable! Science says so! And Science is always right—at least, for as long as scientists can tell which way the wind blows.

You could probably create a whole series of college courses, for budding scientists, on How to Stay on the Right Side of Public Opinion and Politics No Matter How It Shifts. You could get a Ph.D. in that.

In our diet—Good heavens, not in theirs! What can you be thinking of?—Gates and Co.intend for bugs and worms to replace such staples as beef, pork, lamb, etc. We have their solemn assurance that Science says so. Remember the equation: Science + Politics = Politics.

Then they hop aboard a private jet or two and join the Obamas in a Kobe beef blowout. P.S.—We’re not invited.

Now when was the last time you saw John Kerry chow down on a bowl of live crickets, or even dead ones? Or Nancy Pelosi ordering tomato worm soup? Do we risk too much by saying “never”?

Because haute bug cuisine is not intended to feed you, keep you alive, please you, or anything else that normal food has always done.

It’s meant to put you in your place.

They want to be invisible to anyone who isn’t looking up to them as if they were the gods on Mount Olympus, partying on dishes that they’ve placed out of our reach forever—except for maybe black market White Castles, or contraband fried chicken. They’ll set up camps for those who need persuasion. After a week or two without any food at all, you might feel more receptive to the menu they’ve designed for you.

What better way to establish who does the ruling and who gets ruled, than to set up two radically different food regimes? Are you feeling uppity? Nothing will squash you back down into your place like a water-bug platter for you and rack of lamb for Them.

Because, you see, it’s all about power. What could be a more blatant assertion of power than to tell you what you can eat? Than to send you to bed without any supper at all, if you don’t feel like sautéed caterpillars? You’ll soon figure out who’s in charge!

How we ever wound up being governed by such people… Well, God knows; but we don’t seem to listen when He tells us.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit: we aren’t serving anything that the WEF would approve of. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Towering Insincerity

by Lee Duigon

July 25, 2024

I think the thing that turns people off in politics is the towering insincerity of it all. It’s always the honeyed tongue with the dagger poised to punctuate the praise with a damned good stabbing.

For three years they told us Joe Biden is the cat’s pajamas, sharp as a tack, the country couldn’t be in better hands. Name a single Democrat politician, a single lamestream noozie, who ever questioned that. Can’t do it, can you?

And then, when the polls went south and Slojo self-destructed on worldwide television, in his disastrous debate with Donald Trump—and then what happened?

They turned on him like wild dogs.

As I write this, only three days have gone by since we got a letter saying Joey won’t be playing anymore. And the same horde of office-holders, wannabes, talking heads and pole-climbers who were clamoring for his scalp on Sunday morning… now praise him as a great president who accomplished great things—although they can’t name one: not without telling a lie.

And somehow this same man, who was just denounced to us as too old, too sick, too feeble, and too far out to lunch to run for president, is perfectly fit to serve out the remainder of his term. Heck, what can happen in a mere six months? Piece of cake!

There’s a catch to this. If he were to resign his office, or be physically unable to continue, then Vice President Kamala Kackle (oh, say it ain’t so!) would automatically become our president. And every bad actor in the world would celebrate. “We will never have a better chance to stick it to America!”

You remember Kamala. In 2019 she dropped out of the Democrat primary because no one, not even Democrats, expressed any interest at all in voting for her. Now she’s Slojo’s “border czar.” The prosecution rests, your honor.

These next few months could easily prove calamitous. Do you think the Great Skedaddle out of Afghanistan was humiliating? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. And all because we somehow put our country in the hands of neo-Marxists, grifters, sociological experimenters, Doc Fauci and his crew, Climbit Change fanatics, and some fat guy who says he’s a woman. What could possibly go wrong?

Ah! But there’s one rumor, at least, that we can simply put to rest.

Kackle needs to choose a running mate. Well, there is no truth at all to the rumor that she plans to choose Hunter Biden, despite his many profitable connections. No way! It simply won’t happen. Forget about it.

Because it’s just plain impossible that our country would ever do a thing like that.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: hey, maybe it’s your turn to be the leader of the Free World! My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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The Silly Season

by Lee Duigon

July 18, 2024

It ran from Fourth of July to Labor Day weekend. Most people called it “summer.” But those of us who worked on newspapers called it “the Silly Season.”

Well, heck—the schools were closed, families went on vacation, public agencies slowed down their business… and the few TV networks that we used to have… showed reruns.

If you were a newspaper editor or reporter, as I was, once upon a time, you still had to fill up the pages of your newspaper, even if the regular flow of news slowed to a trickle. BROTHER, SISTER, FIND DEAD SHARK. Yee-hah. We had to call out our photographer for that one. You couldn’t tell from the pictures that the shark was less than 18 inches long. Meanwhile, other newshawks covered an “Indian burial” that had nobody in it, a local sewer authority director’s model trains, and a tourist who didn’t care much for the canned food in England and then was furious when we quoted her. Come to think of it, there was no sign that the “burial” had ever been anything but a hole in the ground. ARCHAEOLOGIST FINDS HOLE IN GROUND didn’t do much to excite the readers.

We local journalists kind of enjoyed the Silly Season. You could have a lot of fun trying to grind a news story out of those non-events. It was a challenge—and a welcome change from sitting in on rancorous town council meetings that went on till midnight.

But where is the Silly Season now?

For a while there it was replaced by Global Warming. HOTTEST SUMMER EVER! NEW YORK CITY TO BE UNDERWATER BY 2005! Ad nauseum. No one ever believed those stories but arch-liberals and globalist hacks. Give me a washed-up shark any day.

True, the nooze media still had to cover a presidential election every four years. They had to help Democrats win, so the political reporting was heavily spiced with “Climate Change,” Global Warming’s new, and much more elastic, a.k.a.

But then along came the 2024 election cycle, and all hell broke loose. SloJo’s disastrous debate non-performance, Democrats feuding ferociously over whether he should step down or not—and then the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump—and suddenly Climbit Change was blown clean off the front pages, all but entirely forgotten.

Oh, blazes, what to do! If Biden goes, what do they do with Kacklin’ Kamala? Buy her off with a federal judgeship? And then what? Nominate another Far Left Crazy—or someone whom the rest of the country never heard of? How do they keep their stranglehold on America?

Whatever they decide, Climate Change is last week’s moldy spinach. The national economy is reeling, wars are breaking out all over, millions of illegals violate our borders, and it’s all the Democrats’ fault. They did this to us—and they mean to do more.

A big part of me yearns for the good old Silly Season.

I don’t believe it’s going too far to say “Bring back the Silly Season!” It was fun. In its own small way, it was a sanity break.

The silliness we’re getting now just isn’t that amusing.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and join in the fun; maybe we can create our own Silly Season. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Schwab: We Won’t Need Elections Anymore

by Lee Duigon

July 11, 2024

Several commentators have likened “President” Joe Biden to a corpse. One even said she’d still vote for him if even he were dead. Maybe it shouldn’t count: this person is a celebrity.

Uh… What if he already is a corpse?

Let’s scoot over to the annual “New Champions” (of what?) conference in China, where Klaus Schwab, head honcho of the World Economic Forum, made some pertinent remarks… about taking over the world, I think it was.

Swab—I’m sorry; did I call him “Swab”? What got into me?—suggested, as meekly as only he can, that the whole human race must be “forced into collaboration” with his beloved globalists—although if we’re being forced, then it isn’t really collaboration, is it?

So he wants to force us. How? He’ll have to borrow an army somewhere. Well, they were going to depopulate the planet anyway. And suddenly we get an inkling of how useful a president, dead but still in office, might be.

Schwab suggested that no more elections would be held, because we wouldn’t need them anymore. Come on—ignorant plebs choosing their own governments? That’s how you wind up with Donald Trump in office, isn’t it? Better to just not have elections anymore. Everybody in office now can stay in office. Forever. Experts whom you never heard of, and never will, will run your country for you. It’s the best way. It’s Science!

Mr. Swab has also voiced his support for brain implants which will let the government monitor everyone’s brain waves. Here again, Joe Biden is the best kind of leader: no brain waves at all, no worries of him getting up to any mischief. They’ll just write his speeches for him and roll them out his mouth—rather like an old-fashioned player piano. He doesn’t have to know what he’s saying.

But the rest of you plebs—watch out! Your brain waves will rat you out every time you think an unauthorized dissenting thought. And then it’s off to camp for you! Someone will want to buy your organs… when China runs out of Uighurs.

All these innovations, says Whatsisname, will lead to a Fourth Industrial Revolution and paradise on earth for everyone deemed worthy to keep on living. No more Climate Change Denial! No more trying to weasel out of it when they want to change your gender. Welcome to Universal Obedience. Or should I say “Collaboration”?

STOP PRESS! I can hardly believe no one else has seen fit to praise SloJo’s greatest accomplishment as president.

Ever since the debate, and despite the fact that much of the country is sweltering in a brutal heat wave, the chatter about Biden’s fitness to remain in office has swept Climbit Change right off the Internet—a truly Herculean feat.

He’s stolen the show. Like, “What Climate Change? What Global Warming?” We’re talking about a guy who can hardly find his way off the stage having custody of the nuclear launch codes. He goes to bed at 8 p.m. and nothing important or scary had better happen in the world till he gets up whenever. Oh, he has a team standing by; but we don’t know who’s on it. No one that we voted for.

But what the heck? We aren’t going to need elections anymore, are we?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit; it’s not like you’ve got to find some time to vote. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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What We Didn’t See

by Lee Duigon

July 4, 2024

In last week’s debate the world saw the president of the United States as a doddering, confused old man.

What we didn’t see was whoever is pulling the old man’s strings behind the scenes: invisible, and therefor unaccountable. “Transparency in government” has become LOL material.

It’s not like Biden’s deficiencies have been a well-kept secret, by string-pullers and nooze media alike. Now assorted Democrat bigwigs are crying the blues—“We’ve been deceived! Sharp as a tack, they told us. Always on the ball. And it was all a lie!”

No—they wanted to be fooled, didn’t they? Anything to stay in power. Biden was only nominated because all the other candidates were so much worse. “Beto” O’Rourke. Kamala “Word Salad” Harris. Creepy little Peter Buttigig. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren. So it was Biden as the least indigestible choice.

And now he’s blown up in their faces.

I am reminded of a dark, early morning in 1989 when my wife came into the bedroom with a startling announcement: “No more Soviet Union! The Soviet Union has collapsed. I just heard it on the radio!”

I grew up in the midst of the Cold War, in the 1950s and 60s. Khrushchev vowing, “Your grandchildren will live under communism.” Sputnik. The SALT talks. The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall. The Cuban Missile Crisis. What—all over that was over? You wake up in the morning and all of that is over?

Thank you, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II.

And we were very much blessed, in that the end of the USSR didn’t dissolve into chaos: maybe even a third world war.

So much for gradual change. And to think it was only a few years earlier that Jimmy Carter was wondering how good a surrender deal we could get from Leonid Brezhnev.

But today is the Fourth of July. Independence Day. The birth of the greatest republic in the world. Where we don’t jail our political rivals. Freedom of speech, the right to public assembly, trial by jury—in 1776 those were all new things. And the armed might of the British Empire couldn’t make us give them back.

Until now. The slow strangulation of our republic, at the hands of Democrats and RINOs. This was the “fundamental change” they had in mind. Re-elect their puppet and seal the deal.

If only SloJo had ducked that first debate!

All those resources at their fingertips, to get him ready for the show. Plus they could’ve postponed it any time (“Sorry! Got a crisis to manage. Busy president, y’know”). Everything they could have wanted or needed—and staged in the friendly confines of CNN.

And yet with all of this at their disposal… they still blew it! Oh, their spin doctors are busy: you didn’t see what you saw, you didn’t hear what you heard. But we did see it and we did hear it; and it can no longer be denied, by anyone, that you Democrats have been lying to America every day for the past three years. Nor can it be denied that you don’t care what happens to our country, as long as you can stay in power. The rest of us—we’re all expendable.

Well, now they don’t know what to do. There was no reason for them to fail on Debate Nite, but fail they did. The whole thing went up in smoke.

It looks a lot like divine intervention. Let’s give thanks.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and try to figure out how the Biden Gang could’ve failed so utterly. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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One Debate, Three Movies

by Lee Duigon

June 27, 2024

Tonight’s the big “debate,” if you want to call it that: President Donald Trump takes on Zombie Joe Biden on the official Trump-bashing nooze network, CNN. Major-league Trump-basher Jake Tapper will (it only hurts when I laugh) “moderate.” The other moderator is actually named “Bash.” Tonight she’ll try to deserve it.

I offer three classic movies you can watch instead of the debate. All three have a bearing on it; all three might serve as parables to help us understand this event. And all three have happy endings—as if CNN, toward the end of the debate, were to be closed down for building code violations. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a happy ending.

First movie—Shane.

In this classic Western, gunfighter Alan Ladd gets drawn into a feud, humble settlers vs. rich bullying villain of a cattle magnate. Unable to get Shane to come over to his side, he invites the hero to peace talks at the saloon. But it’s really a trap: they mean to kill Shane.

At the last minute, one of the bad guys surrenders to his conscience and warns Shane he’ll be walking into “a stacked deck.” Thus forewarned, Shane has just the edge he needs to turn the tables on the would-be assassins.

Second—Yojimbo.

Toshiro Mifune plays a wandering samurai who decides to help a small town that’s been taken over by gamblers and sex traffickers. First he makes a show of wanting to work for one of the two gangs—and tricks them into wiping out the other gang. But they see through this and lock him up, to be tortured and killed later. One cannot help thinking of the various lawfare campaigns being waged against Trump.

Mifune escapes, recovers his strength, and goes up single-handed against the gang. It’s only one gang now, so he has only twenty or so bad guys to mow down with his sword.

I wonder if Donald Trump has ever seen this movie.

Third—The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Poor Jabez Stone! The Devil has come to collect his soul and pack him off to Hell. Ah! But he has Daniel Webster for his friend and neighbor, and the great orator will try to save him.

Webster demands a trial. Once again suckered in by his overweening pride—and maybe he can grab Daniel Webster’s soul while he’s at it—the Devil agrees… provided he can pick the jury. Webster must allow it, and the Devil summons twelve of the most infamous villains in American history for jury duty. Another stacked deck!

But Webster unstacks the deck—by appealing to a common humanity which the jurymen once had and which his eloquence re-awakens. “Not Guilty.” The Devil is defeated.

Could that happen in real life? Could Democrat satraps suddenly find themselves completely out of character, concerned with common decency, the preservation of our Constitutional republic (not “Democracy”!), the welfare of the nation, and simple, ordinary fair play? Will they follow the example of Jabez Stone’s jury?

Or will we first have to find another Daniel Webster?

Well, sometimes movies show us what ought to happen. And we have to take it from there.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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It’s Been a Hard Week

by Lee Duigon

June 20, 2024

How do you decide who ought to govern a great and famous city?

San Francisco is having a mayoral election, featuring five candidates; and they’ve been showing America how to answer this question.

They’re challenging each other to “name three drag queens” to “prove his/her/whatever’s loyalty” to the LGBTQetc cause. So it seems the candidate who knows the most drag queens should run the city. Why didn’t we think of that years ago? I mean, it seems so thumping obvious, doesn’t it?

There’s always room in the landfill of history for another failed civilization. Hittites, Babylonians, Etruscans et al will happily move over to make a place for us. Most of them, of course, lasted a lot longer than we, the Woke West, seem likely to. I’m sure that’ll make the Minoans feel better.

***

Our cat, Robbie, died last week, 18 years old, and we are mourning her.

You reach a point in life when you’ve been here long enough for the generation that raised you, your mother’s and father’s generation, to die out—all of them. No aunts or uncles left, to say nothing of dearly beloved grandparents. At the same time, those who survive of your own generation now live hundreds or even thousands of miles away: so forget about having Christmas dinner with them. The phone and email are much better than nothing; but even so…

It gets a bit lonely, as time goes by. For some of us, our pets are the only ones left living upon whom we can lavish love, and be loved by them. An animal’s love is unconditional; your pet is interested only in you, just as you are. Cats, dogs, bunnies—they are there for you. Good Lord, I had an iguana for 17 years. All his friends were mammals, he was convinced that he was a mammal, too, and behaved like one. I still miss him.

Poor Robbie! In her life she had almost every affliction known to veterinary medicine—and just kept on ticking to the end. It never affected her personality.

Now it’s just me and my wife, with a gaping cat-shaped hole in our lives. We’ll have to fill it somehow: love abhors a vacuum.

***

And then came the news that Willie Mays has died, at 93.

I can’t remember a time in my life when Willie wasn’t my hero. I do remember sitting on the floor and playing with my blocks while my mother did the ironing and watched the New York Giants on TV. We both stopped whatever we were doing, to root for Willie when he came to bat.

Damn! I wanted to be like him! As I learned to play baseball myself, coached by my mother and father, I tried to copy Willie’s stance, his swing, and his patented basket catch. When the Giants moved to San Francisco, I always grabbed the afternoon edition of the Daily Home News to see how Willie did last night. For two years we still had the Giants on the radio; afterward, I had to wait for the Giants to play the Mets to see Willie play. As long as it wasn’t on too late at night, I never missed a Mets and Giants game.

He finished his career with the Mets, culminating in the 1973 World Series, Mets and A’s. Then my hero retired.

It’s been a hard week.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit (especially if you were a Willie Mays fan, too). My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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They Never Saw It Coming

by Lee Duigon

June 13, 2024

Leftists like to present themselves to us as The Smartest Persons In The World. We’re just a lot of racist hicks—no wonder they run rings around us.

But some of those rings are only circles: round and round and round they go, to what purpose, no one knows.

Nevertheless, three times on the last few weeks, these geniuses have been caught napping by events they should’ve foreseen a mile off. No one but a “progressive” would have been the least surprised by any of it. But then most of us aren’t distracted by any need to build a pedestal and pose on top of it.

*After raising the minimum wage to $20/hr., California has lost 10,000 jobs in the fast food industry. Many of those were entry-level jobs—and who in his right mind will pay $20/hr. to high school and college kids flipping burgers and tossing trash bags into the dumpster? Who can afford to do that?

California Democrats were amazed, appalled, and dumbfounded by “unintended consequences” that they never saw coming. Really—did you have to be Nostradamus to predict that? Did no one even suggest to Gov. Noisome that if he signed that new minimum wage bill, it would gut the state’s fast food industry? It wasn’t one of those tricky oracles that were always getting Greeks and Romans into trouble.

So you have to wonder how “unintended” it was.

*Noozies at CBS were flabbergasted when a Gallup Poll reported that 62% (!) of America’s voters favored “massive deportations” of illegal aliens. I mean they just couldn’t believe it, you could’ve knocked ‘em over with a feather. Personally, I’m amazed they could find 38% who didn’t think it was a problem. Betcha they’re all Democrats.

Oh, it’s not all bad! You put ‘em on the dole, you have to find some place to house them, find the money to pay for it (you can always raise taxes), and learn to wink and chortle at their disproportionate contributions to the crime rate. But on the upside, as soon as you’ve done some of that, you can get busy transforming them into lifelong Democrat voters. And America gets that long-awaited Fundamental Transformation.

*Across the Atlantic, journalists, globalists, and pederasts were astonished when Team Global got massacred in last week’s European Parliament elections. Out of 27 votes in 27 countries, their side lost… all 27.

How could such things be? What? You mean people don’t want unchecked Muslim immigration into Europe? Say it ain’t so, Joe! They don’t want their countries’ sovereignty chipped away by a lot of socialist wackos in the World Economic Forum—who despise the plebs and call them “useless eaters”? All the while trying to get them to eat bugs and lab-grown “meat,” God knows what it’s made of. Do you mean to tell us that ordinary people in Europe do not want those things?

Obviously this was a freak occurrence! Better hold some more elections and try to get it right, this time.

Clearly there’s something wrong with reality and they have to get it fixed. But reality isn’t so easily fixed. It has a nasty habit of biting Utopia where it really hurts.

We must work with all our might to make our elections, this year, a sweeping and irreparable wipe-out of the Far Left Crazy.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and enjoy a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Make Way for Utopia

by Lee Duigon

June 6, 2024

New Jersey Democrats have finally shattered the glass ceiling that separates the living from the dead.

In their recent primary, they have elected a man who died in April.

“We have long agonized over how to secure voting rights for undocumented migrants,” said a man who prefers to remain anonymous: his neighbor’s children play tacky jokes on him. “But there is an even bigger underserved minority—the dead.”

Combine Artificial Intelligence (AI) with actual historical data, “And the next thing you know,” said our source, “for all practical purposes, we’re bringing people back—from the dead!

“It’ll be the greatest thing since those little boats in the old Tidy Bowl ads!” he continued. “Once we get that 18^th Amendment , or whatever it is, out of the way, there will be nothing to stop us from electing, over and over again, the best and the brightest.

“Franklin Roosevelt won four terms as president. Think what he could have done with eight, or twelve! Think what he could do if we brought him back today.”

But wait, there’s more!

“Think of the awesome spectacle of Mount Rushmore: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and that other Roosevelt,” our source went on. “Okay, they’re only big heads carved out of the rock—or are they? Are they really? Can’t they be much more than that?

“Where is it written that a massive AI system can’t be installed in each of those four heads? Why not take our country’s problems to its wisest leaders and let them guide us? Why should it always be up to us to solve problems? I don’t know about you, but that kind of thinking always makes my head hurt!”

America, he added, “must not fall into the trap of underestimating AI—and to think how, for years and years, you only saw ‘ai’ as the answer to a crossword puzzle clue! It was a two-toed sloth or something.”

Meanwhile, we have been trying to get the Washington Post to dig up the actual identity of the speaker, supposedly a major figure in the Biden White House (we don’t believe his only job is to feed the goldfish). Unfortunately, the WaPo is in a bit of a shambles just now. Sales are down 50 percent, the executive editor has been shown the door to the sidewalk, and various staffers are in a panic over rumors that the management plans to replace them with AI bots.

Well, why not? Surely a bunch of two-toed tree sloths couldn’t lose more money than they’ve lost already. Nay-sayers are blaming the loss of revenue on the paper’s predictably Woke stance on any public issue, which, they say, “turns off normal people.” The paper’s motto, “Democracy dies in darkness,” means more than just having the lights turned off for failure to pay the electric bill.

But think of the future. No more elections. No more scandals. Just a great big country safely humming along in the hands of AI robots, with no need for flesh-and-blood humans to do any thinking at all.

Utopia is knocking at our door.

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Music Transcends Race

by Lee Duigon

May 30, 2024

I spend a lot of time on YouTube, and lately I’ve been wondering: am I indulging wishful thinking, or are there suddenly a lot more black conservatives than there used to be? Or have they just found new ways to slip the censors?

We discovered them by accident. My wife got interested in the late Bobby Caldwell, a rhythm and blues star who was rather more heard than seen; and a lot of the people who enjoyed his music—black people—thought he was black, too. There are quite a few videos showing how black fans reacted when they learned that Bobby Caldwell was… white.

Amazement. Stunned surprise. And above all, delight.

Bobby Caldwell did more for race relations than any 2,000 politicians ever did—by bringing people together with his music and making them happy. And although he died in 2023, his music continues to do it. The music transcends race.

And we need a lot of that. Our country has never needed it more.

So suddenly there are all these black men and women on YouTube saying things that I might say, standing for ideals that are my ideals, too—and throwing verbal brickbats at the same left-wing dorks and culture vultures that I disparage in my daily writing (see http://www.leeduigon.com ).

We have so much in common. For years and years, Democrats have been stringing black voters along, promising them the moon but delivering nothing but the same old-same old. “You’re oppressed! White people oppress you. All your troubles are their fault! But vote for us—so we can protect you, avenge you, and hand out reparations—lots of other people’s money to go around, and we’re just itching to dole it out to you!” Etc., etc., etc. And nothing changes.

But it’s starting to look like the scam is wearing thin.

Imagine an America without Critical Race Theory exhorting people to detest and blame each other. You can already find it on YouTube. How to get it out of YouTube and into daily life is a quest well worth undertaking.

Here’s a glimpse of what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdKs5W97R4

Thank you, Bobby Caldwell.

Thank you, Bobby Caldwell’s fans.

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Different Strokes, Different Folks

by Lee Duigon

May 23, 2024

I’m looking at a face with wide gogggling eyes, a decidedly fishy mouth, a big round silver medallion hanging from one ear—shoot, it would look great on a certain kind of merry-go-round.

But it’s not a face, not at all. It’s a clear plastic trash bag filled with garbage, mostly soda cans. Damn! I could draw that face. I know exactly what it is—so why do I continue to see it as a face?

It’s an optical illusion. My eye, with help from my imagination, has played a trick on me. Nothing more to it than that.

Ah! But what if I were to insist the bag of soda cans really is a face? And that anyone who doesn’t see it is a Hater, and must be dealt with sternly? Maybe I could go a step farther and declare I recognize the face. “Look! It’s that Marvel Comics superhero, Fisho! Or it might be Bernie Sanders…”

[NOTE: As an experiment, I asked my wife to stand directly behind my chair and tell me what she sees. She replied at once, “A face! With big round eyes and a fishy mouth.” Exactly what I saw. But when I asked my next-door neighbor to take a look, she couldn’t see a face at all.]

Same information, for two different sets of eyes—but with entirely different results.

People see the same things differently. And that explains a lot. It’s why we have Republicans and Democrats, Hatfields and McCoys: same information, but totally different perceptions. It makes me wonder, as a political scientist, how we govern our country at all. Some see the face, some don’t. If it were a more important issue, we might wind up fighting over it.

It certainly explains elections, doesn’t it?

If we don’t want the fighting to get out of hand, we have to agree to disagree—and that’s harder than it looks. Once upon a time it plunged our country into civil war: individual states vs. federal government, and two vastly different takes on states’ rights… and slavery. Try to name a war that didn’t start over widely different perceptions of the same damned thing.

The one thing everyone has to agree on, in such a situation, is the desirability of peace and civil order. That has to be the commitment shared by all. To a degree, ordinary daily life would not be possible without it. In real life we rely on it every day. Otherwise the police would be a lot busier than they already are.

Can we keep that commitment? God help us: I’m afraid that’s what this year’s presidential election will decide. We break that commitment at our peril—the party in power deciding, for instance, that the other party’s candidate must be packed off to prison.

Playing with fire, that’s what it is. Watch out we don’t get burned.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit, always taking care not to start a civil war. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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It’s Getting Too Crazy

by Lee Duigon

May 16, 2024

I can’t decide which nooze to report today. It’s getting too crazy out there, one story’s goofier than another. Here are a few snippets.

The Chicago teachers’ union wants another 50 billion dollars. Well, they need it, don’t they? For abortions. For “LGBT training,” whatever that is (don’t ask!). And for “migrants.”

“Migrants”? Somehow, while we weren’t looking, illegal aliens got replaced by “migrants.” It’s a dishonest stupid buzzword. Birds migrate. You know—fly south for the winter. But they don’t just stay down there! They migrate northward in the summer. Our “migrants” don’t swim the Rio Grande with any intention of swimming back when the season changes. Anyway, the Chicago teachers’ union wants to give them money. Our money.

Three women in a car were visiting the back roads in Rumania. By “back roads” I mean “wilderness with skimpy little roads and no rest stops.” They stopped the car when they saw what they describe as “a group” of bears. What they saw was a mother bear with a couple of cubs. Once upon a time, everybody in the world knew this was a good time to stay in the car and keep the windows closed. These geniuses decided to roll down the window and take some selfies. Then the big bear approached the car. Quote of the day: “I thought he wanted to be friends.” He? You mean you didn’t know it was the mother bear, and that you never, never, never want to mess with a mother bear with cubs? Oh, boy, what a selfie! Hang farther out the window, get a better shot!

The bear ate a big piece of the woman’s arm. Ignorance may be bliss, but it can also be fatal.

A high school teacher was fired for teaching “critical thinking.” You know—actually thinking about what you say before you say it, and not just repeating, mindlessly, what you’ve heard other people say. A student called J.K. Rowling (of Harry Potter fame) a bigot. The teacher engaged the student in a dialogue, examining the charge. He should have remembered what happened to Socrates when he did that. He convinced the student that the charge was not true, based on the facts of the case. But he made the mistake of filming the exchange and posting it on his blog. Adios, muchacho. Three months later he was fired, having served four years at the school. Silly rabbit! We don’t teaching thinking anymore.

And then we had New York City Mayor Eric Adams addressing the “migrant” crisis in his city. And it is a crisis, no mistake about it. Meanwhile, though, the mayor had noticed that the city needed more lifeguards for its swimming pools and beaches. The light bulb goes off overhead. Aha! If only the feds would release the funds for it, he said, the city could hire a lot of the migrants as lifeguards… because “they’re excellent swimmers,” he said. (Yeesh! Can you imagine the screams of outrage if George W. Bush had said this?) It seems swimming or wading across the Rio Grande to enter the country illegally is excellent preparation for a New York City lifeguard.

So that’s a few of them—stories I could’ve covered if the sheer volume of idiotic nooze hadn’t overwhelmed me this week. Next week I’ll try harder. Scouts’ honor…

And if you’ve been following the nooze yourself, you’ll know I probably shouldn’t have said “Scouts’ honor.”

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Two Big Changes in America

by Lee Duigon

May 9, 2024

What have been the biggest changes in America during my adult life?

For much of that time, I was either a news reporter or a writer of fantasy novels. Go ahead—say “What’s the difference?” And I reply, “That’s too unfair to fantasy novelists.”

Most of the towns covered by the old Bayshore Independent were run by Democrats: it was a largely Democrat county. So most of the people I worked with day by day were Democrats.

It didn’t seem to matter much. Almost all these public figures, minus a few bad apples who wound up in jail, were ordinary, decent, reasonably amiable individuals who tried to do their best for the people who elected them.

Most of them are gone from the scene by now. In their place we find the Far Left Crazy—like evil spirits called up from the 1960s. I was in college for that era, eyewitness to non-stop radical mischief. I don’t remember my professors as being much at fault: they seemed to be as much at sea as I was. But as they retired or moved on, they were replaced by a lot of nimrods who occasionally visited their classrooms, in between protests. The mischief of the Sixties became institutionalized; and more and more of the new professors dove onto the bandwagon.

The rot spread into the Democrat Party. They threw moderation out the window. Democrat politicians competed with the colleges to see who could go farthest Left in the least amount of time. The sane, decent, normal Democrats, one by one, disappeared from center stage. In their place we’ve got Soros-funded radicals.

The Republican Party, with the notable exception of President Ronald Reagan, slept through it. Somehow being No. 2 in a two-party system never seemed to trouble them.

The other major change: while the rest of us were looking elsewhere, working, raising families, Academic America fell head over heels in love with the arch-enemies of Israel.

This would have been unthinkable in the 1970s. Criticizing Israel was a sure-fire way to scuttle your political career. I’m a political scientist, I’m supposed to understand this stuff; but this eludes my understanding. Suddenly Palestinian terrorists are the Good Guys and our long-time ally, Israel, the Bad. How that happened is a mystery to me. All I can say for sure is that it was brewed up in the universities.

How did they do that? I don’t know. For years and years, American Jews loyally supported the Democrat Party; and now at least half the Party has turned against them. It leaves the Party leadership in a ticklish position. “Support Israel—but not too much, because we’ve got to support the Palestinians, too!” Like trying to ride two bicycles at once.

What will this lead to? I don’t know, and I’m afraid to find out.

You might ask me why I haven’t included the whole transgender movement in the list of major—can we say disastrous?—changes in America. It’s another Democrat caper, its purpose is all but inconceivable… and it deserves a column of its own.

A lot of bad people out there, doing a lot of bad stuff.

Wake up, America. Wake up.

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Free Speech in Canada: Bye-Bye

by Lee Duigon

May 2, 2024

British and Scottish prime ministers have a shelf life measured in months, these days. Here today, gone tomorrow. It’ll pose quite a challenge, someday, to schoolkids trying to learn their history.

But across the water, in Canada, where they have basically the same form of government as staggers on in the Mother Country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been in office—I don’t know anymore. For five years? Ten? It seems longer, but he’s only been P.M. since 2015 (I looked it up).

It’s bizarre that he’s still there. You’d have thought his COVID capers would’ve gotten him booted to the sidewalk toot-sweet. And yet he’s still there.

His latest project is the Online Harms Bill C-63 (Canada introduces blood curdling new thought police law that even Stalin would blush). It’s a beauty!

How would you like to be arrested, tried, and punished for something you said or did that was not against the law at that time—say twenty years ago. “We’ve got you, sucker! In 2004 you wrote a blog post which we now, in 2024, define as hate speech!”

Here in America this would be called an ex post facto law—a law that reaches back into the past to hammer someone for something that was not against the law when he said or did it.

Our Constitution (God bless our country’s founders) forbids the government from passing ex post facto laws: they can’t change the rules in the middle of the game. Sorry, not allowed.

And as if hunting you down in the past weren’t bad enough, Bill C-63 also lets the government put you under house arrest if they think you might say or do something they don’t like sometime in the future. Welcome to Pre-Crime!

What are these “online harms”? They might be defined as “robust free speech.” We are not talking about some absurd “freedom” to say only nice things that everyone agrees with—but that seems to be Canada’s version of it. You can also, always, say things that the government agrees with: that’s the Soviet Union/Communist China model. Heck, if you’re feeling adventurous, you can even write and publish your government-endorsed opinion: but boy are you cooked if there’s a change in government and suddenly the Party does not approve of things it once endorsed, ten years ago.

“Online harms” equals “hate speech” equals a trip to the gulag for you, for saying Wrong Things. For all practical purposes, Bill C-63 would effectively erase free speech in Canada. Even just shutting up and not saying anything at all won’t keep you safe—not if Trudeau & Co. decides, perhaps by clairvoyance, that you might say Something Bad someday.

And so they’ve got you, coming and going—past, present, and future. They don’t even have to define “hate”: they know it when they see it. That your guilt might come as a total surprise to you is not something that will trouble them.

That slurping noise you hear in the background is the Biden administration consumed with envy.

Damn that Constitution! We want our own ex post facto laws!

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Saving Kamala

by Lee Duigon

April 25, 2024

Democrat operatives are growing increasingly frantic about Vice President Kamala Harris’ popularity. Polls consistently show her mired somewhere in the 30s—34 percent here, 35 percent there, etc. They will not admit to any lower numbers.

The Save Kamala PAC—off the record, but not so far off that we have to pretend we never saw it—asserts that come hell or high water, Kamala will be SloJo Biden’s running mate. “Are you kiddin’? We’re stuck with her!” grants White House shaman Xia Jin Pow. “Just try dumping the first black woman v.p. and sees what happens to you!”

But not all White House staff go that far. Jia Ma-fu declares, “But this is easy! Sure, Kamala is dead weight on the ticket—well, so what? If you want to get rid of her, just appoint her to the Supreme Court: Justice Kamala Harris. End of problem!”

When reminded that there are currently no vacancies on the court, Mr. Jia smirked knowingly and remarked, “It ain’t just COVID that they brew up in the Wuhan lab, baby! There are ways of creating a vacancy, know what I mean?”

Even so, there are those in the administration who would prefer to keep Ms. Harris on board. “She takes boos and brickbats that would otherwise be thrown at our beloved president,” said Tan Bu-ting, in charge of what’s in the Oval Office broom closet (top secret). “Imagine if we had a vice president who was at all competent, and actually more popular than poison ivy. That leaves our glorious leader to take the heat. No way we can have that!”

According to incredibly confidential sources, “experts” are zeroing in on Ms. Harris’ notorious laugh—“her cackle”—that always seems to erupt at just the wrong moment.

“No doubt about it—it’s that creepy laugh that turns people off,” said consultant Wu Xiu. “We’ve tried all kinds of ways to break her of that habit. Sad stories don’t work; she laughs at those, too. We’ve even tried small electric shocks, and still come up empty. So far, we’re stumped!”

But what about some of the administration’s wildly unpopular public policies? Refusing to enforce our nation’s borders. Wiping out a trillion dollars’ worth of student loans. Trying to force people to buy electric cars that they don’t want. Using the schools to promote transgenderism. It’s a very long list.

“Policy, schmolicy!” said Mr. Wu. “We’ve got the news media, social media censorship, mail-in ballots, celebrities—so who cares what all those peasants out there think of any policy? Do you really think our policies will get us any votes? Fooey! Get rid of that laugh and we can let the World Economic Forum dictate America’s policy.”

But then there’s the looming specter, four years from now, of “President Kamala Harris,” cackle and all.

“You’re all assuming there will still be a United States of America four years from now,” Mr. Wu said. “Well, there will be, of course—but not in any shape that anyone over twenty would recognize.

“Remember: we are aiming for a fundamental transformation of America, and we will let nothing stand in our way.

“Not even Kamala Harris’ laugh.”

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‘I Identify As…’

by Lee Duigon

April 18, 2024

Get the picture. A 48-year-old man, six-foot-two, 245 pounds, slightly balding, with grey showing in his beard; and he says, “I am Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.” Or we can give the time machine a little nudge, and now he says, “I identify as Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.” His delusion is fully up to date. Sort of. [Note: The real Queen Juliana died in 2004; but we have long since parted company with facts.]

Once upon a time, if you were a doctor or a psychiatric nurse, you would have answered—gently, very gently!—“No, you’re not. You’re Alan Blatsky (or whatever).” But now…?

What if he had only said, “I am a woman?” Well, then we are expected to “affirm” him. What he has is a delusion, but we are told to cater to it. In any number of jurisdictions, The Authorities might punish us for failing to affirm the man’s delusion. Failure to affirm is… “hate.”

“Gender-affirming care.” It’s all the rage! If you can catch the seeds of this in kindergarten—or even plant the seeds yourself, if you’re a unionized public school “teacher”–you can have this person shot up with puberty-blocking drugs: it makes the delusion more convincing. But even if it’s too late to head off puberty at the pass, we are still expected to “affirm” his delusion. We have to let him use the women’s rest room at Target. We have to let him play on his college’s women’s basketball team and just hope he doesn’t seriously injure any of the real women on the court.

But where is it written that we must only affirm delusions about gender? Are these extra-special delusions, entitled to extra-special treatment? Where’s the democracy in that? Aren’t all delusions created equal? (“Created” by whom is another story, and I’m afraid to go into it.)

Suppose I say, “I identify as President Joe Biden.” Must that be affirmed? Does that mean I get to live in the White House and issue executive orders? (“From now on, all motor vehicles must be powered by wind-up rubber bands!”) And what if I’m not the only one? What if we could fill a whole ballroom with persons claiming to be Joe Biden?

You’re gonna say of course not—but on what grounds? Are we only going to affirm some delusions? How do we decide which ones? Beats me!

“Yeahbut, yeahbut! You can’t affirm everyone’s delusion! Where does that leave us? What about that girl in Norway who insists she’s a cat? Do we have to affirm that, too? It’s gonna drive us all crazy!”

Now we’re getting somewhere.

Meanwhile, we’re using the most costly and intrusive “education” system the world has ever known to feed and coddle some delusions. Someday there will be some pretty nasty fights over who gets to choose which delusions must be affirmed.

Whichever fringe group wins that fight, the rest of us lose.

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So Much for Our Civilization

by Lee Duigon

April 11, 2024

We have, for all practical purposes, history’s first global civilization. There’s nowhere you can go where it can’t reach out and bite you.

Once upon a time it was different. When the whole Bronze Age collapsed in the 12^th century B.C., who in North or South America even noticed? The Indus Valley civilization went extinct without leaving the smallest hint of a cause.

Civilizations come and go. But ours is the whole world’s. If it goes belly-up, everybody goes.

What destroys a civilization?

Massive outbreaks of disease: bubonic plague very nearly wiped out Europe.

Invasions by people who won’t co-exist with the natives.

A series of natural disasters: earthquakes, droughts, the whole country turning into a desert.

Some unhappy combination of All of the Above.

Our civilization does a lot of things wrong—always a war or two going on somewhere, industrial pollution, new diseases escaping from the laboratory, and so on. But civilizations have always done those things, and some managed to keep on doing them for centuries on end. China’s still here. So is India. They are exceptions to the rule of history. Search in vain for Hittites, Babylonians, or Olmecs.

So what will do us in? Having the whole world in which to spread the effects of our worst ideas and most destructive mischief, what will it take to knock us over?

I’ve voting for gender insanity.

This is new. Our evil age invented it.

What would the, um, medical industry do, to corral vast multitudes of people as lifelong medical patients? “Gender-affirming care” has become an immensely profitable business. Okay, the Vatican has finally, and without much pleasure in it, cried “Enough!” But who’s listening?

Politicians like it because it’s a wedge issue that pits blocs of voters against each other: divide and rule, with abundant opportunity to manipulate public opinion. And they aren’t too particular about what they have to do to keep on ruling.

Teachers’ unions like it because it gives them leverage over families. Start the kiddies on puberty blockers in kindergarten, and they’re yours for life.

The entertainment industry likes it because they’re all a bunch of perverts anyway.

The nooze media like it because it’s new and exciting and it gets people all stirred up. Good ratings always spring from controversy.

Do any of these people honestly believe they’re providing “care”? Can it be that highly-credentialed Experts can actually say, without a ghost of hypocrisy or mendacity, “This boy is now a girl”? I find that very hard to swallow.

How many children can be irreversibly neutered before you crash the population? Why would we want to even risk that? How deranged does our very language have to get, before we lose the ability to communicate? How many preposterous lies do we have to pretend to believe, before we have to find some way to live without truth?

Under the pretense of “care,” whatever that means anymore, we are inching toward genocide. A whole new way to destroy a civilization!

This is evil and perverse, and it has to be stopped.

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How Crazy Is This Going to Get?

By Lee Duigon

April 4, 2024

Three nooze stories, in the past few days, have made me question the sanity of our governing class.

Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the year for Christians: our (ahem!) “president” formally, and with great fanfare, proclaimed it “Transgender Day of Visibility.” He signed his name to it.

And now he says he didn’t do it.

What is the point of such a lie? Everybody knows it isn’t true. Easter Sunday, for Filthy Joe, was a day to celebrate “transgender,” which is in itself a lie. Generally when we lie, we hope to be believed. But there wasn’t even a sliver of hope that this lie would pass muster.

They tried to walk it back, but nobody’s dull enough to fall for that. Oops! That’s a backlash, Joe. You can’t pretend you never said it. You don’t really expect anyone to believe that, do you?

Meanwhile, Thailand national TV has launched a news program anchored by someone who isn’t real: “she” (if we can apply the pronoun to such a travesty) is a phantom generated by “Artificial Intelligence”. Soon she will be joined by a “male” phantom, and together they will present the news.

Oh, boy. Fake news reported by fake newscasters.

Is there any reason for this? Okay, you don’t have to pay people who do not exist, so you’re saving money by replacing the real people with phantoms. And look how powerful the phantom vote is, in America’s national elections! Robots can only do what they’ve been programmed to do. Maybe that’s the reason.

Will we someday have an AI-generated president? Or an AI-generated Congress? I know, I know—how much worse can it be than the way it is now? But optimism evaporates when one considers that the robots are no better than the programmers.

And then there’s Canada, where the Supreme Court of Canada finds the word “woman” to be “problematic” and says it ought to be replaced by the term “person with a vagina”.

Again we are compelled to ask: Why? Is there some doubt among the justices that women actually exist? Does it trouble them that there are men and women? In what conceivable way does society benefit from this whirlwind of idiocy? Here at home we have Kitanji Whatsername sitting on our Supreme Court and saying she doesn’t know what a woman is.

Why are these bizarre statements being made by women who’ve been appointed to high courts? True, there are male justices who are just as daft. And they’ve all been appointed by high-ranking politicians who seem to be mentally ill.

If you kicked every nut-job out of government, and out of the media, who would be left? And we haven’t even mentioned what is laughingly described as “education.” It would be too depressing, too alarming, to discuss that here.

But we’ll have to face it someday, won’t we?

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We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Hell

by Lee Duigon

March 28, 2024

Our global ruling class—people who despise us—is working overtime to create a fake reality, and turn America into a Third World hell-hole with themselves on top forever and ever.

Here are the two biggest bombs they’ve dropped on us.

Administration sock-puppets look right into the TV camera’s eye and assert that our country’s southern border is A-OK, tickety-boo, just fine, etc. Nothing could possibly be farther from the truth, and everybody knows it. You would have to be seriously delusional to believe these lies.

They are trying to manufacture and sell us a completely false reality. We’re expected to eat that up while they allow tens of thousands of illegals to sashay across the border—and someday they’ll be given the vote, and our republic will be finished. They will create a permanent under-class dependent on handouts from the government. Naturally, they’ll vote to keep that government in power. Forever.

Who knew, in 1945, that the kind of government typified by the Third Reich and the Soviet Union would come roaring back in the next century? These villains do it with votes instead of tanks and bombers. Once they get the illegals voting, they’re in the driver’s seat. Forever. (I refuse to call them “migrants.” The old term, “illegals,” is descriptive. “Migrants” is a euphemism.)

At the same time, Our Beloved Rulers push transgender as if their lives depended on it. “President” SloJo babbles about transgenders being the spirit of America. Why? Give a child a lifetime’s worth of “gender-affirming care” and presto! No one’s having babies anymore! And if they are, there’s always abortion.

Are they trying to wipe us out altogether? Or just addle our brains by forcing us to call men “women” and women “men”? “He” is now “she” and “she” is now “he.” Do people who go along with this actually believe what they’re saying? How can that be? A mutilated man is named “Woman of the Year.” We all know that’s a load of twaddle, don’t we? And if we don’t… Well, we’re going to need a bigger Hell, aren’t we? God help us, we are murdering our own posterity.

The World Economic Forum calls us “useless eaters.” They recommend keeping us anesthetized with drugs and video games until they can figure out what to do with us. Meanwhile, keep that border open, keep those puberty blockers flowing. They’ll get rid of our nations and set up their cherished world government. And everything will be incandescently wonderful… for them. Not us.

There is, of course, plenty of other mischief afoot. They wouldn’t be ruining women’s sports, for instance, if they weren’t sure it would hurt us somehow. And using the “education” industry to foment racial discord, that’s another item in their DeLuxe Rule-the-World Fun-Pack.

These people are totally evil and God sees what they’re doing. They will be judged for it, that’s certain. If we don’t get around to judging them, God will.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, while it’s still allowed: freedom of speech is looking a little shaky, lately. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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America 2.0

by Lee Duigon

March 21, 2024

Keep your eye on this Supreme Court case, being argued as we speak. Our (ahem!) government claims there are times when the First Amendment has to be ignored. [Link]

At issue is The Regime’s reaction to the “Once-in-a-lifetime Pandemic,” a dire emergency, yatta-yatta, that called for massive censorship and justified all sorts of violations of the First Amendment (“You’re all gonna die if you don’t let us do this!”). They went so far as to set up CISA, the “Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—“set up to ban and throttle election-related speech Democrats dislike.”

Yeahbut, yeahbut! It was an emergency, don’tcha know—a once-in-a-lifetime Pandemic that had to be dealt with by any means necessary.

Can you say “slippery slope”? Ice greased with lard.

And as for “once-in-a-lifetime,” they also imposed “overt censorship” of news concerning irregularities (understatement of the year!) in the 2020 election… and the flap over Hunter Biden’s laptop. By “once” I guess they mean “as often as we feel like it.”

They argue that COVID-19 was the kind of emergency that excuses government’s violations of the First Amendment. It would seem Freedom of Speech is only in force when everything is hunky-dory and we don’t have any emergencies. By Jove, it’s a luxury! All these times when government must demand overt censorship… And guess who gets to decide what is an emergency.

What is our Bill of Rights worth, if at any time it can be superseded by some hacks in the White House who think everybody should just shut up? What happens to our republic if we have to wake up wondering if the First Amendment is still good today?

All over the world, governments are working to shut down free speech. Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, New Zealand… And here at home, the party in power is trying to jail the opposition party’s presidential candidate. What is this—America 2.0? It doesn’t look much like the United States that I grew up in. Lately the excuse was COVID. What’ll it be tomorrow—Joe Biden’s poll numbers? I’m guessing “Women’s Health”: they’re desperate to establish abortion on demand as one of those things that makes America America. Or maybe they’ll shut you down for criticizing your local school board’s transgender policy. Like, “Millions will die!” if they don’t.

Would this have surprised the signers of our Constitution? Probably not—although surely it would have disappointed them. They created for us “a republic—if you can keep it!” as Benjamin Franklin said.

We have a chance, in this election, to put things right. For that to happen, the Democrat Party must suffer a defeat of biblical proportions—and a lot of deep state plotters and schemers will have to be fired, never to return to public office. Naturally, they’ll do everything they can to steer the vote their way; and no considerations of right or wrong, lawful or unlawful, will inhibit them.

Can we keep our republic? Or will we only have one on days without emergencies?

Pray harder, and for the sake of our liberties, we must do the best we can.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit—while it’s still allowed, pending the next emergency. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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How Would You Sell the USA?

By Lee Duigon

March 14, 2024

Let’s pretend the United States was a single property–its people, its culture, its economy: everything–and it was your job to find a buyer for it. How would you advertise it? And let’s further suppose your sales pitch had to be as honest as possible, without being suicidal.

What would you say? “A Great Fixer-Upper”? “Needs Work”? “Invest in Hope”? (I like that one; I must find a use for it.)

Uh-oh. Here are two factors that might drive down the market value.

Political Corruption. As reported by The Federalist, our current administration has been laundering tax dollars, paid by everyone regardless of party, to recruit college students for a massive “get out the vote” project–in reality, a scheme to get out the vote for Democrats, Republicans need not apply.

You’d think there’d be some kind of law against this–using tax dollars for partisan political shenanigans. Maybe no one ever thought we’d need such a law. So we have “Biden bucks” for SloJo’s re-election, enthusiastically backed by teachers’ unions who want it to reach all the way down into freakin’ kindergarten–“teaching kids about disinformation.” For those who haven’t paid attention, “disinformation” is any information that doesn’t jibe with Far Left politics.

Corruption in the Churches. What do you get when you mix religion with pop culture? Look and see.

Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, a megachurch boasting 34,000 weekly congregants, this year held a “Super Sunday Super Bowl Service (!),” featuring an alleged pastor kicking the Bible off the stage. (Yeahbut, yeahbut! The Bible was decorated with football stitches!) They also reveled in what another pastor called “middle school humor”… from the pulpit. It was all supposed to make church “fun.” And be spiritually beneficial, too!

Once upon a time, men and women would rather be martyred–and in many cases, were martyred–than lend themselves to such a spectacle. St. Paul wrote, “Let all things be done decently and in good order” (1 Corinthians 14:40). What do you think he would have thought of this?

We have many broken churches in this country. What do you get when you mix religion with pop culture? You get pseudo-religious garbage.

It’s not going to be easy to clean up this mess. Corrupt politics and fake religion won’t simply depart if we show them the door. They’ll fight us tooth and nail, and not according to any rules you ever heard of.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, Click the link and drop in for a visit: we promise not to show you any football. My articles can also be found at http://www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Have We Dodged a Bullet?

By Lee Duigon

March 7, 2024

Let’s play the game of “What If?” It’s foolish but it’s fun. And we just might have to do some serious thinking about this scenario, if only to make sure it never happens.

What if the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled “Well, yeah, sure—of course the state of Colorado can kick Donald Trump off the ballot for this year’s presidential election”? I mean, instead of ruling unanimously, 9-0, that states can’t do that. But let’s imagine that they can.

The first thing that happens is that various Blue states hop on board to erase Trump from the ballot. With each state that does so, pressure mounts on other states to do the same. Sooner or later the Red states retaliate by kicking Jobydin off their presidential ballots—say, for refusing to enforce our immigration laws and using his office for his family’s corrupt financial gain.

Suddenly all 50 states are involved and the two major party candidates are not to be found sharing space on any single state’s ballot. How do you even hold a presidential election under such chaotic circumstances? But we try anyhow because we don’t know what else to do.

In all the confusion, voter turnout hits new lows. And we have news items like this:

FLASH! Retired paper-hanger Billy Bob Socko, write-in candidate for the Jidrool Party, secures New Mexico’s five electoral votes with a total of 97 popular votes (and he had to knock on who knows how many doors just to get that!)

Ferocious political infighting within the states results in no candidate getting anything remotely near a majority vote for president. (FLASH! Tour guide Alice LaFong, with 138 popular votes, is the leading candidate to corral California’s 54 electoral votes. The fact that she passed away in 2022 made no impression on her voters.)

Chaos! Remember 1981, when President Reagan was felled by an assassin? And Alexander Haig, secretary of state, proclaimed “I am in control here, in the White House.” He wasn’t, of course: he wasn’t the vice president, and probably couldn’t have passed a course in civics. But for a moment there, he almost brought on a Constitutional crisis. What if he had tried to make it stick?

What if, what if… Who winds up being president, in our disastrous (and hopefully fantastic) scenario? “Guess I’d just better stay where I am until we solve this”—would Biden say that? Or would General Silly Milly step up to the plate? “I chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff, somebody has to be in charge and it looks like it’s gotta be me!” Presto! A military coup. Third World, here we come.

The Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling, we fervently hope, has spared us a national pie fight. But we’re not out of the woods yet. We do not know how far Democrats will go, to stay in power. Pray we never find out. We have drifted into murky waters, a fog has descended on us, and we don’t know where we’ll come out.

Pray harder.

I have discussed this and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Take time out from counting however many votes you’ve received for president, click the link, and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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You Are What You Tweet?

by Lee Duigon

February 29, 2024

“Damn the torpedoes—full speed ahead!” —Adm. Farragut

I don’t know what Admiral Farragut would have thought of Artificial Intelligence (AI), but he would’ve known “Full speed ahead!” when he saw it. And that’s precisely what we’re doing with Artificial Intelligence: full speed ahead, what could possibly go wrong?

Just last week Google had to “pause” its AI Image Generation program—“pause” means “take it off-line”—while they tried to correct a wee “mistake” in the program. What mistake was that? Oh, nothing major. All they did was erase white people from history and make ‘em all black. Presidents (even George Washington!), popes, scientists, everyone who ever made a name in history—all black. This, they admitted, was “an inaccuracy.” Ya think?

But they’re not done yet, no, precious—plenty of capers left in that box.

This week’s plunge into AI featured a plan to “digitally” re-create your loved ones when they pass on. Well, hey, as long as it’s “digital”…! All they’ve got to do is create talking images that parrot the loved one’s collected tweets, emails, blog posts, etc. You are what you tweet.

Critics have warned that interfering with the grieving process—maybe even skipping it altogether—is something less than a ticket to robust mental health. They have even suggested that it might give rise to a new religion. We could call it “Full Speed Ahead-ism.” We could call the tweet-spouting images “ghosts.” O brave new world, that hath such people in it! (Shakespeare had a line for everything.)

Messing around with artificial “ghosts” is probably not such a hot idea, either. But we are galloping, stampeding, racing full-tilt into an AI universe—and torpedoes be damned.

What would a new religion, centered on AI, teach us? Besides how to be as crazy as a bedbug. Would it merge with Transgender Mania, or compete with it for what’s left of our souls? What are we to make of a “religion” that appoints each and every one of us his or her own creator, inhabiting his or her own made-up-as-you-go-along reality? Inquiring black female popes want to know! After all, they might wind up in charge of it.

I remember a few years ago when they tried to do this with holograms. That scheme fell through—too far ahead of its time, I suppose.

But hey now! Grandma isn’t really dead! Just park the monitor on the table, turn it on, and there she is for Thanksgiving dinner: artificial resurrection (AR)! So much handier than whatever you might find in the Bible. And no asking tricky questions, like “What does she do with herself when the monitor’s not on? Is Grandpa there, too? He never made any tweets or sent any emails while he was alive—but can he do it now, in cyberspace?”

That’ll be the next step, won’t it? Messages from anyone who ever lived—or didn’t live. You want to talk with the Cat in the Hat? AI will make it happen. Just ignore the torpedoes and enjoy the ride.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and maybe this time stumble into a totally new reality. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Headed for the Rocks?

By Lee Duigon

February 22, 2024

Where are we headed, as a country? Two of this week’s nooze stories suggest the ship is headed for the rocks.

I’m sure that when we created the Dept. of Homeland Security (looking more and more like one of the all-time bad ideas), we never thought it would wind up slithering its tentacles into our neighborhood schools. Oh, but they are!

As if it weren’t more than bad enough to have the FBI “investigating” parents who complain about their local school board’s Far Left sex-grooming policies, now the DHS is getting involved. Simply put, they are training teachers and students to spy on one another and rat each other out for “disinformation” and “violent extremism.” They are setting up a “K-12 surveillance program” (“K!” As in kindergarten? Really?) with a 12-week training course. Kids will spy on teachers, and each other, and teachers will spy on kids… and each other. Presumably DHS will do the rest. (“Ve haff vays of making you talk, comrade!”)

Of course we have no idea what the kooks in the Biden administration define as “disinformation” or “extremism.” These are apt to be exceeding broad definitions. Climate Change Denial! Election Results Denial! Gender Fluidity Denial! Anything that bucks The Narrative. Somewhere out there must be a first-grader who can’t name all the genders. Get him!

(Sorry for all the capital letters. I had to find some way to stress the sheer hypocrisy of the entire public education enterprise. Especially now that it’s so solidly welded to the Democrat Party.)

And what are many of the rest of us keeping busy with, as Rome burns? Another news item suggests: not much.

A Washington, D.C., man is suing Powerball for leading him to believe, all too briefly, that he had won $450 million in the lottery… When in fact he hadn’t.

They made a “mistake,” you see, when they posted the winning numbers on line one night in 2023—and kept them up there for six hours—while the real winning numbers, totally different, were announced on the live broadcast. So for a little while, this poor guy was deliriously happy, convinced he had just acquired fabulous wealth without having had to do a lick of work for it—not that you’d ever get $450 million just by working for it. All he had to do was buy a lottery ticket: didn’t have to earn it.

Whoops. Sorry about that, dude. You had the wrong numbers.

So he’s suing them. Honk if you think he has any better chance of winning the lawsuit than he had of winning the Powerball.

We all really do have to work harder if we don’t want our country going belly-up. All we have to do to save it is overcome the Democrat Party, the deep state, teachers’ unions, Hollywood, The Global Elite, a zillion illegal aliens, a running-dog nooze media that never tells the truth, and the kind of mind-set that gets seduced by Powerball. Smack them down and we’re home-free.

Pray harder.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit; it’s cheaper than a ticket for the Powerball. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Dems to Gullible Citizens: Open your Homes to Illegals

by Lee Duigon

February 15, 2024

I’m trying to decide which is the most inane nooze story I’ve covered this week. I’ve got it down to just two leading candidates. Pick one!

First we have a member of the Boston City Council suggesting that suburban residents “open their homes” to illegal aliens, now called “Migrants”. It seems the sanctuary city is running out of sanctuary; so you folks out there—“the wealthy,” as she calls you—ought to find it in your hearts to provide it.

These people, who waltz across our border, thousands per day, illegally, need a place to stay. The government doesn’t even try to vet them. Gang members, terrorists, drug pushers, sex offenders, people with highly contagious diseases… the government doesn’t care, just let ‘em in. Someday we can turn them into Democrat voters! Just bring ‘em into your home with your twelve-year-old daughter; she’ll think their tattoos are really cool. What could possibly go wrong?

Now it practically goes without saying that this council member is not going to open her home. No-no-no! She wants to share your home with them. And, she says, you’ll be “setting them up for success.” Surely that’s worth a little tiny itsy-bitsy risk!

Our second news item takes us to the United Kingdom, where they’re fixing to arrest people for wearing masks, especially to, um, “political protests”. Wait a minute, though. Two years ago they ended their “mask mandate,” which required people to wear masks. Almost 4,000 people were arrested and fined for not wearing masks. Would you believe it? Holy cow, masks can be used to conceal your identity! Like, when you commit a crime.

Confusing, isn’t it? First it’s against the law not to wear a mask. Now it’ll be against the law to wear one. If they keep the old law, they’ll have you coming and going.

Dishonorable Mention: Faced with seven out of their last eight movies bombing at the box office, Disney Corp hired a “crisis management expert” to advise them, promptly decided to ignore the advice because it wasn’t what they wanted to hear, and announced plans to take one of their most successful film series, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and replace the star, Johnny Depp, with some black woman to play a gorgeous sexy pirate captain. Now is that Woke or what?

Well, heck, they’ve got to check off all those boxes, don’t they? Actually, the gorgeous sexy female pirate captain has for decades been a standard cliché of unbearably schlocky romance writing. It’s not a new idea at all. Yeahbut, yeahbut! You’re gonna say “No!” to a gorgeous sexy female pirate captain who’s black? Tell us another one! Not in Disneyland you’re not. Could they also work it out so she’s a “Migrant”? That’d give them more Woke points.Yeah, they’ll be lined up around the block to see that one.

Everything is getting so flaming stupid! Is Disney trying to go bankrupt? Does anybody want MS13 gangsters holed up in their living rooms? And how do you decide, anymore, whether to wear a mask or not? Maybe only on even-numbered days? What the devil is happening to our civilization?

Maybe it’s the devil himself that’s happening. That would explain it.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and come sigh with us. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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The Food Fight Over Richard III

by Lee Duigon

February 8, 2024

Who’s the biggest villain in the history of Western drama? So very many candidates—but certainly one of the all-time bad guys has to be King Richard III… as depicted by William Shakespeare. The monster who murdered the little princes in the Tower of London. Or so they say.

The Globe Theater has announced plans to stage a production of Richard III—with a woman in the title role. The production has already been hit with a wave of protest by an assortment of “disabled activists” who say you have to “live the experience” before you can play the part: only disabled actors need apply.

King Richard’s problem is that the history of his reign was written by his bitterest enemies. Shakespeare was a man of his time: the Tudor dynasty had cast Richard as a villain, and Shakespeare was not about to risk getting beheaded for bucking that narrative. So he wrote up Richard as a scheming, murder-happy hunchback who got what was coming to him.

Some 2,000 years earlier, the Greek historian Thucydides confessed that it was almost impossible for any historian to get down to the absolute truth. He could only do the best he could—because not only are people addicted to self-serving lies, but honestly believe “facts” that aren’t true.

So history is full of fairy tales. Richard did not murder the little princes. He did not betray his brother, King Edward IV. His remains—recovered from burial under what is now a parking lot—show that he did suffer from curvature of the spine. But he was not, in fact, disabled. He lived a rigorous life, taking part in hand-to-hand battles and riding on horseback up and down England in all kinds of weather. And he died fighting.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! He was Richard Crookback, traitor and murderer! Shakespeare said so! Shakespeare’s Tudor propaganda came down to us as “history.” But such evidence as we have strongly indicates the story was not true.

They’re still fighting over it today.

Imagine, if you can, trying to write an accurate history of the time we’re living in today, here and now. Sorting out the truth from all the lies. How do you think Donald Trump would fare, at the hands of Democrat historians? Richard was presented as a deformed monster. Trump would be lucky if that were all they did to him.

But does it matter if “history” simply isn’t true? If it’s nothing but rehashed politics? Some of us still think so! Our beloved leaders argue, “We have to do this now because that happened then!” And then they do exactly as they please and insist they’re on the right side of history.

Another ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, said the Persians became a great nation, builders of an empire, because they taught their children only two things: to shoot straight, and to tell the truth. Some call him “the Father of History.” Others, “the Father of Lies.” Both he and Thucydides would feel at home in today’s melee over “mis-“ and “dis-.”

History can guide us, but only if we let it—and only if it’s true. It can tell us what kinds of policy succeed and what kinds of policy fail. And why, and how. The career of Kaiser Wilhelm II, for instance, can tell us exactly how NOT to stumble into a world war. But it’s up to us to learn the lesson, isn’t it?

Poor Richard. His reputation is almost surely not deserved. We know more about this now than Shakespeare ever did… but you can’t fight The Bard.

Even so, I agree with the ancient Persians: the truth is always better than a lie.

I have discussed this and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit, before we all wind up in the Tower. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Did a Typo Teach Us Wisdom?

by Lee Duigon

February 1, 2024

I happened to be reading an Amazon customer review of one of my Bell Mountain books. The reader gave it five stars, so I knew what came next was only an accident. To wit:

“This story is about the battle of Goof vs. Evil.”

“Goof”? But wait—was there wisdom hidden in this typo? What does the Bible say about it?

“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God… For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe… Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men… But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty” (I Corinthians 1:18-27).

When St. Paul wrote this, what could have seemed more foolish, more ridiculous, to the intellectuals of those days than a little fringe group of Jewish fools worshiping a crucified nobody whom they claimed to by the Son of God—and claiming that He had risen from the dead as the Savior of the entire human race? Where were their armed legions? Where was their war chest? These people were crazy!

Can “goof” defeat evil?

Are you kidding? Times without number, Goof has indeed defeated Evil. How many would-be rulers of the world were destroyed by their own foolishness—which at the time was hailed as wisdom? Surely the Third Reich was as rich and powerful, in our time, as the Roman Empire was in Paul’s. And what ever did Hitler more damage than his own folly in invading Russia?

The acclaimed wisdom of this world devours itself. Don’t tell me you expect anything good and lasting to come out of our 21^st Century bogus wisdom.

Really, now—where is transgender mania going to take us? Anywhere good? An even bigger howler, if such a thing were possible, is the pipe-dream of global government, administered by sinners, megalomaniacs, and fools. Yeah, sure—surgery that makes us sterile, the World Economic Forum calling the shots, erasing national borders, gain of function research to create new and deadlier diseases—what could go wrong? This is the wisdom of this fallen world.

“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?” (v. 20)

Someday the whole Far Left globalist enterprise is going to come crashing down, after putting the whole world through the wringer.

Will we have learned our lesson then? Or will notions equally stupid arise to replace our current follies?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit—but check your worldly wisdom at the door. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Things Aren’t Working As They Should

by Lee Duigon

January 18, 2024

Just before bed-time the other night, around 11 p.m., all our lights went out—zap, just like that. Power outage. If it hadn’t been snowing, it would’ve been too dark to find my flashlight.

“Beep! Beep! Carbon monoxide alert! Beep!” That was the alarm in our foyer. I didn’t know how to make it stop. Eventually it stopped of its own accord.

By and by I called the police, hoping for some information. The dispatcher didn’t want to hear it. “That’s Public Service Electric & Gas, their problem—nothing to do with us.” So much for the police knowing what’s going on within a few blocks of their station.

Midnight. Call PSE&G. I’m holding the flashlight in one hand, a note with the telephone number on it in the other, and trying to dial the number: a juggling act, very difficult. I dialed, and got this:

“Hello! Welcome to The Hot Line, where hot and sexy women are waiting to talk to you!” I cried out: “What???” My wife thought it quite funny. Ha, ha. I dialed again and this time I got the PSE&G robot. They’re working on it. Do I want a something-or-other ticket? “No, no! I don’t know what that is. I just want the flamin’ lights back on!” They’re working on it.

At 1 a.m. I put on my coat and went outside to see if any progress was being made, anywhere. Toward the south, two blocks from where I stood, downtown Metuchen was lit up like the Fourth of July. You could read legal notices by it. Who the devil was shopping at one in the morning?

So I went north, into the darkness, homing in on some distant lights flashing on and off. A few blocks down, through the slush, I found four or five PSE&G trucks parked along the street, including two with cherry-pickers. But! No one was in the trucks. Where were the repair crew? I finally found a van with a driver in it, napping. He told me they’re working on it. That was all he knew.

I hiked back home. We lit candles. My wife has an oxygen generator; it doesn’t work without electricity: something to worry about. She fell asleep on the couch. I thought I’d better stay up, but by 3 a.m. I was nodding over the candles and it struck me as a dangerous position. I had to go to bed. I blew out the candles, left the flashlight for my wife in case she woke up, and plodded up to bed, assisted only by a very small penlight. Couldn’t stay awake, had to go to bed. By and by I could hear men and machines working in the street.

Our power came back on around five in the morning. By then the bedroom was uncomfortably cold, but I got out of bed to make sure my wife had her oxygen. Once that was taken care of, I went back to bed and somehow wangled a few hours’ sleep.

The point of all this is, things don’t seem to be working as they should. It doesn’t take much to screw up modern life.

We need to do better than this.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit… if your computer is working. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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The Dinosaurs That We Deserve

by Lee Duigon

January 11, 2024

Does each generation get the dinosaurs that it deserves?

Consider Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the most famous dinosaur of them all. In the 1940s we had Rudolph Zallinger’s epic dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum. His T. rex was a hulking brute with a colossal beer-belly. So when Marx Toys came out with plastic dinosaurs in the 1950s, their T. rex was patterned after Zallinger’s, belly and all.

Meanwhile, the American Museum of Natural History mounted a more or less complete T. rex skeleton. For various logistic reasons, they mounted it standing bolt upright like a human being, with its tail dragging on the ground. They knew this probably wasn’t accurate, but it made a great exhibit. So for years artists depicted T. rex standing tall and straight. They also shrank the beer belly. Marx came out with a new Tyrannosaurus reflecting this change.

In 1968 Bob Bakker revolutionized dinosaur studies by arguing that far from being lumbering monsters buoyed up by swamp-water, these were active, war-blooded animals, like birds and mammals. By late in the 1980s his argument had mostly carried the day—and the toy manufacturers, and popular book publishers, followed suit. (I had the privilege of interviewing Bakker for an hour and a half—wow for me!) No more flabby belly, no more dragging tail.

The Jurassic Park movies, starting in the 1990s, gave us a Tyrannosaur that really scared us. Balanced fore and aft at the hip, the new T. rex ran like the wind, turned on a dime, and could only be challenged, eventually, by imaginary dinosaurs cooked up in movie studios. But that was not the end of it.

In our time scientists and artists sprouted a penchant for slapping feathers onto dinosaurs, with or without evidence. By and by they wound up with a T. rex festooned with dirty, greasy-looking feathers—I mean, it looks like a fugitive from Skid Row, all it needs is a bottle of Thunderbird.

Now each and every one of these wildly diverging Tyrannosaurs was hailed, in its time, as Settled Science. Each was the authoritative version. Each strutted its hour upon the stage and then was heard no more. Because settled science doesn’t stay settled. Heck, in the 1800s, when they first started creating dinosaur statues for world’s fairs and public parks, all the dinosaurs were sculpted as stocky, chunky, four-legged behemoths that probably couldn’t have run much faster than their statues. That, too, was settled science.

Given our current fascinations with COVID, transgender, Climbit Chainge and electric cars that no one can afford and which burst into flame when you least expect it, I think we’re getting exactly the Tyrannosaurus we deserve: a giant wino.

No wonder they went extinct.

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A Scent of Pushback in the Air

by Lee Duigon

January 4, 2024

Consider, briefly, three recent nooze stories.

*London government employs goons in skull masks—“outside contractors, highly professional,” LOL—to combat citizens who have stolen or damaged some 1,000 spy-cams in “Ultra-Low Emissions Zones”. They’ve been charging special fees to drive “non-compliant vehicles” in those neighborhoods—they want you driving an electric car that you can’t afford. People are quite ticked off about it. But of course if a couple of masked thugs put you in the hospital, how are you going to identify them?

*Argentina elects Javier Millei, “the Donald Trump of South America,” in a landslide; and the new president immediately sacks 5,000 deep state bureaucrats and 12 out of 21 cabinet members. Noozies lament.

*Geert Wilders—they’ve been trying to bury him for years!—has been elected prime minister of the Netherlands. Wilders has embarked on an anti-globalist campaign and they haven’t found a way to stop him. For the time being, at least, the fun’s over: back to sanity.

2024 in America will be make-or-break for all concerned. Either we will save our republic by kicking Democrats out of office, or damage it beyond repair by allowing them to stay in power. Will they come up with another pandemic? More lockdowns? Vote-by-mail, again? “Well dog my cats—400 million votes for Biden! Looks like we’ve got another Mandate!” It worked in 2020. Honk if you think that election was on the level.

There is a scent of pushback in the air. Pushback—against what? How about, for starters, masses of illegal aliens swarming across our border, public schools pushing “transgender” like their lives depended on it, universities rooting for Hamas, wars popping up all over the place and us plebs called upon to pay for them, government colluding with social media platforms to suppress and censor all opposition… little things like that.

And let’s not forget what we saw in Sri Lanka in 2022: angry mobs forcing their way into the presidential palace, with the hated president fleeing for his life: the government’s crazy economic policies to blame.

As Plutarch once said, the tyrant has a nice high perch, but there’s no safe way down from it.

Our country’s Far Left Crazy leadership has labored tirelessly for years to turn America into a pyramid with themselves up there on the pinnacle and the rest of us down there at the bottom, barely able to breathe for the weight on top of us. They want a global government, with themselves as gods and kings. It’s so close now, they can just about taste it. “Push, push! One more push and we’ve got it! Power and wealth beyond our wildest dreams!”

But they’re also acting like they’re afraid. Do they smell pushback, too? Is it beginning to dawn on them that we hate them and reject their program? Do they have some doubt that they can win this year’s presidential election—that all the tricks that worked for them in 2020 won’t work again? Look at the massive lawfare they’re waging against President Trump. Would they be doing that if they didn’t fear him winning back the White House? We can’t blame them for worrying about payback: they certainly deserve it. If Argentina and the Netherlands can elect Javier Millei and Geert Wilders, surely we can bring home a win for Donald Trump.

They’ve been sitting on that nice high perch for going on four years—and it’s a long way down from there. They might not be able to recover from such a fall. Say goodbye to global government. Give up hope of creating a new electorate who will obey them in return for free stuff. Teachers’ unions, homeschooling’s going to make you obsolete; and you won’t have the FBI spying on your critics anymore.

It won’t be easy to bring down the Woke pyramid; they’ll fight for their privileges with everything they’ve got, and they won’t fight clean.

But it simply has to be done.

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We Can Beat the Woke!

by Lee Duigon

December 21, 2023

A friend has distressed me by saying we don’t have anything left but our votes. Heaven forbid.

We can beat the Woke. And here’s how.

More Boycotts. Why should we patronize Woke businesses? Haven’t we learned, from the example of Bud Light, that we don’t have to take this guff? Pour it on! They’ll give up before we do.

Pull Our Children Out of Public Schools. That might do it right there. Wokies are so busy aborting their babies, and making their children sterile through “gender reassignment,” that the only hope for them is to use the schools—that we pay for!—to turn children against their families, against their country, and against God. That’s what public schools are for.

Home schooling is now more affordable and more effective than ever. Teachers’ unions want to groom your kids for sex. But they can’t do it if the kids stay home.

Above all, stop fighting among ourselves! Now is the time for all hands on deck. Our grievances amongst ourselves are nothing, compared to what the Wokies and the globalists have in mind for us. The enemy is out there, everybody! Out there in the schools and universities, Hollywood, inane celebrities—and in the Democrat Party. Yes, our votes ought to count for something. We certainly can’t afford to stay away from the polls. We have to reform our election laws, after the travesty that was the 2020 national elections. Getting into pissing contests with each other will only help to sink us. President Trump and Governor DeSantis, this means you. Stop fighting! The fight’s out there.

Stop Being Afraid. There’s a whole world out there waiting for the pushback flare to go up. Very few people actually like the woke DeLuxe Fun Pack! Those characters we’re up against are not what they claim to be. They are not Smart. They are not Righteous. Their program doesn’t work—never has, never will. They are idiots, with a hefty sprinkling of villains. John Kerry—are we going to be afraid of John Kerry? The World Economic Forum?

Give them mockery, not fear.

It should hardly be necessary to say these things. I have kept this essay short because its point is self-evident.

We are many more than they are, we are stronger—we are better. Let’s prove it.

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No Borders? No Country

by Lee Duigon

December 21, 2023

Italy and the UK are beginning to talk seriously about limiting immigration—especially illegal immigration from Muslim countries—and France and Germany had better follow suit if they know what’s good for them. Can’t have all these jihad johnnies on the loose.

The problem, as stated by Giorgia Meloni, prime minister of Italy, is that certain varieties of Islam are simply “not compatible” with European values—surely the understatement of the year. Shari’a law, Islamic law, she says, is “impossible” for Europe. It has certain features—the death penalty for homosexuals, for instance—that just won’t fly in Europe. This just won’t do, she concludes.

Not that she knows, yet, what to do about it. She admits that. But she doesn’t want to float any policy that’s only so much window-dressing: that sounds good, looks good, but doesn’t solve the problem.

Immigration law has a long history. In ancient Israel, “strangers” (as they called them) could live and work in Israel as long as they obeyed the laws. They could convert to Judaism: King David himself was descended from Ruth, a woman of Moab. Later kings grew rather careless about this and imported foreign gods and religious practices leading eventually to the loss of both their kingdoms.

Solon the Lawgiver made immigration laws for Athens. To become an Athenian, you had to publicly renounce all ties to your mother country. If you weren’t a woman or a slave, the way was clear for you to become a full-fledged citizen. His policies were generally successful.

Roman legions guarded Rome’s borders along the Rhine and Danube rivers; but over the years, Rome extended citizenship rights to many people throughout the Empire. St. Paul himself, and other apostles, was a Roman citizen with full legal rights—up to a point. That point was passed by many early Christians, who died for it.

As long as Rome could enforce her borders, she prospered. But when those borders failed, the western half of the Empire collapsed, overrun by Huns, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Alans, etc., etc. The eastern half, by dint of military force and dodgy diplomacy, hung on for another thousand years.

Where is it written that national borders are only there for laughs? That anyone who feels like it can just waltz into your country and get free stuff? And that, once there, they can agitate, protest, and make demands to their hearts’ content—and let the host country bear the consequences?

It can be stated simply: a country without borders is not a country. Furthermore, a country with a plethora of cultures within its borders can only survive if either all those competing grounds are kept in line by their fear of the state’s overwhelming force—Roman legions, for instance—or, much less common, a shared commitment to the peace and order of the host country—which was Solon’s model… and, until recently, our own.

“Yeahbut, yeahbut! Without borders, we can have a world government! It’ll be ever so much nicer!” [Readers may provide their own rude noises. I’m going with a long, loud raspberry.]

Are America and Europe prepared to keep their states in being by applying overwhelming force? Ms. Meloni doesn’t think it’s possible to get radical Islamists to make a commitment to Italy as it is: they don’t want it as it is. How can it possibly be argued that she’s wrong?

Wishful thinking and pious lip-service to “diversity” will not serve us any better than it did the Western Roman Empire.

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Teaching Children to Lie

by Lee Duigon

December 14, 2023

I’ll never understand why people continue to send their kids to public schools run by far-left teachers’ unions. Like, for instance, the Chicago teachers’ union, which a few years ago sent a delegation to Venezuela to (ahem!) “learn” from smirking tyrant Hugo Chavez.

Recently a 10^th-grade student in Washington failed a quiz… by telling the truth. It was a “world history” quiz (please feel free to honk if you understand how this has anything to do with world history), true/false, in which the student didn’t come up with the answers that the “teacher” wanted. He was flunked for labeling “false” two preposterous statements: “some women have penises,” and “men can get pregnant.” He was supposed to describe them as “true.”

Those are not true statements. Period.

And so Compelled Speech has seeped down into our grade schools, and children are being taught to tell lies because that’s what “Teacher” demands of them. They are taught to pretend that they agree with statements that they know to be false.

They are taught to be idiots.

Herodotus said the Persians became a great nation by teaching their children to tell the truth: they prized it very highly. But we prize lies. It would be hard to calculate what will be the price we pay for this; but I think it fair to say that the price will only go higher and higher as we keep on doing it.

You pay for it with your school tax dollars. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the “teacher” to be fired. The union will never let that happen.

Why do we put up with this? In what way will we benefit? The “educators” who dream up these capers defend it as “promoting inclusion”—whatever the deuce that means. I don’t think it means anything: do you?

Once upon a time, local boards of education represented the communities they served. The board members were our neighbors: in my home town, years ago, our school board consisted of small business owners and employees, a police sergeant, a retiree or two—ordinary people who shared our values.

But now? In Pennsylvania recently, a school district called Bucks Center, the Democrat Party poured heaps of money into the local school board election to capture a Far Left majority on the board. Back when I was a reporter who covered several local school boards, this would have been unthinkable. Unheard of. Board candidates didn’t have campaign funds. You could win election with no more than a dozen votes. People expected to be able to trust their school boards; and for the most part they weren’t disappointed.

Lulled into a false sense of security, you might say.

So the school boards were taken over by ideologues and apparatchiks financed by out-of-town political interests: that’s whom they represent. The plebs out there can go soak their heads—we’re gonna teach the kids what we want! All aboard for the socialist-transgender express! And be warned, parents—we’ll sic the FBI on you if you complain.

The only way out of this is a massive movement to homeschooling. “Public education” has deserted the public.

It has deserted you.

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The Valley of the Dry Bones

by Lee Duigon

December 7, 2023

As a wave of virulent antisemitism sweeps the Western world, my Bible-reading has brought me back to Ezekiel 37—the prophet’s vision of the valley of dry bones.

The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And He said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? (Ezekiel 37: 1-3)

What could be more desolate then a valley full of dry, dead bones? Yet as Ezekiel watched, God clothed the bones with flesh and sinew, put skin on them, brought up a wind to breathe life into them, and stood them on their feet, fully restored.

There followed the prophecy: Thus saith the LORD God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live… (verses 12-14).

I’m not a theologian, but I think we err if we try to interpret this vision literally: it’s bigger than that. Much bigger.

A valley full of dry bones seems like a vivid metaphor for spiritual death, spiritual desolation. There are more than a few such valleys in our world today. Our public schools and colleges, our corrupt politics, what we laughingly call our “entertainment” media, and on and on. Can these bones live again? Ezekiel said, “O Lord God, thou knowest” (v. 3).

How many times has this fallen world tried to wipe out God’s people Israel? The Assyrians, Babylonians, and Romans uprooted them from their homeland and scattered them over the world: the image of sowing seeds comes immediately to mind. The Jews returned to their homeland—after yet another attempt to exterminate them, this time by Nazi Germany– and established a new state of Israel in 1947. Today they fight to keep it.

But aside from the enduring importance of Israel—is our reach wide enough and long enough to grasp the full sense of this prophecy?

Something tells me that it isn’t.

The Son of God came in the flesh, did His Father’s works on earth, was crucified, dead, and buried. Dead bones in a stone tomb. And then, as He said He would, He rose.

He is the means by which all the dry bones shall be given life. Even those that don’t realize that they’re dead. God created the world for life, not death. His sovereign power will restore that life—life where human sin and hubris has planted only death.

We have entered our current Christmas season. It’s fitting that we celebrate. We ought to be overcome with joy. “Joy to the world, the Lord has come!” The hymn gets it right.

Those desolate valleys are waiting to be watered, planted, and restored to life.

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Unembraceable You

by Lee Duigon

November 30, 2023

Even if they could be done “safely”—which they can’t—and without creating chaos and driving everybody crazy—which they can’t—some things would still be just plain wrong.

Here are two examples.

New York City has just made it a crime (!) to “discriminate” against anyone too fat, too tall, or too short. This is not surprising. All over the doddering Western world, liberals are embracing corpulence as something to “celebrate.”

New York Mayor Eric Adams, with his plant-based brain, refuses to believe there’s any connection between your weight and general state of health. There are a zillion insurance actuarial tables to prove him wrong; but the beauty of Far Left kookism is, all the facts are B.Y.O. You get to bring your own. Remember “your truth” and “my truth.”

Even better: now that it’s a law, if you’re as fat as a house and you go to community college and can’t fit into those little desks they have—calloo, callay, O frabjous day! For you can sue the school! For failing to accommodate you.

I don’t know what would happen if they said you were too short, too old, or too slow to play on your college basketball team, let alone the pros. Play it safe and sue them, too. We’ll never run out of lawyers!

Rumor has it that the Democrats in the New York State legislature are getting ready to enact a similar law on the state level. By all means encourage obesity! Celebrate it!

And while you’re at it, here’s another thing they want you to embrace and celebrate.

Recently a bunch of men who “identified as women” crashed a women’s tech job fair in Florida—the fair’s organizers described it as being “overrun” and “invaded” by men. When the men got physical, a lot of the women just up and left.

But see—we are supposed to embrace and celebrate “gender fluid”—it’s like lighter fluid, only useless—and dagnab it, any man who says he’s a woman must be a woman!

Feminists, you started this. No distinction between the sexes, you said. In fact, you got rid of “the sexes,” claiming it was a “construct,” and replaced it by “genders”—which is indeed a construct, but it’s your own construct so that makes it… I dunno. Sacred? You are, you said, whatever the devil you say you are! And everybody else is supposed to embrace and celebrate it, or else! Hence “pregnant people,” men with periods, “people with penises,” the whole line of liberation loopiness. You asked for it, ladies.

“Give me a job because I say I’m a woman!” This is what our civilization has become. Men elbowing their way into women’s sports and winning all the medals: again, you asked for it.

What are we headed for? Some grotesque unisex world where there really is no male or female anymore, anyone can be plugged in to anyone else. Or, what’s more likely, a world wherein the human race is dying out because “gender reassignment” leaves you unable to reproduce. (But it would still be wrong even if it didn’t make you sterile.” If you need to ask “But why?,” you won’t understand the answer.)

How about we stop embracing and celebrating things that are demonstrably bad for us? We could do worse than simply reject anything and everything pitched to us by Far Left politicians and our babbling horde of overpaid academics.

When you see them point, just turn around and go the other way.

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Free Speech—Sayonara?

By Lee Duigon

November 23, 2023

In a forum which I visit regularly, yesterday a commenter exulted, “The days of unfettered free speech are coming to an end!”

So who’s going to wear those fetters, champ; and who’s going to put them on? Oh, wait, I know! Everybody on your side, Far Left Crazy, is going to clap on the cuffs; and everybody who’s not you is going to wear them. Have I got that right? I think I do.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! All the wrong people are using it! Why should people who are not you be allowed to dish out misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and online hate? Why should we be free to speak as we please? Shouldn’t there be some kind of authority—you, for instance– to decide who gets to say what?

Meanwhile, the governor of New York has announced what amounts to a regular jihad against non-leftist speech. Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants a Domestic Terrorism Prevention Unit Threat Assessment Management team on every single college campus in New York. She’s also asking for $3 million to set up a regime that would cover all children in grades K-12—get ‘em while they’re young. Honk if you can still think of defensible reasons to send any children to public school.

Oh! But it’s not going to be oppressive or anything! Heck no. According to Hochul, even with her Ministry of Truth in place, you plebs will still be allowed “sunset posts” (whatever they are) and “tweets about your favorite football team.” It’s only “hate” that’ll be forbidden. Although if you “hate” some leftids’ favorite football team… watch out. Crikey, she’s almost a libertarian—eh? Except when it comes to conspiracy theories. Only the Far Left’s conspiracy theories will be permitted: because those are all true, don’tcha know.

Higher up the ladder, we’ve got a senile dishrag of a “president” who thinks everyone who didn’t vote for him is a White Supremacist from whom “Our Democracy” needs to be rescued.

Notice how finicky these characters are about what constitutes “hate.” It’s never hate when they do it. It isn’t even hate when Hamas does it. Riots are “mostly peaceful protests”: our Free and Independent Democrat Nooze Media say so.

The questions float to the surface. Are they serious about forging fetters for free speech? Who will decide what’s permitted and what’s not? (Well, they will, of course! That’s an easy one.) What kind of enforcement apparatus will they set up to make sure everyone’s mind is right—and punish you if it isn’t? And above all… do they really, truly, want this? Really?

The historian Plutarch, going on 2,000 years ago, said that tyranny is a grand and lofty perch—but that there’s no safe way down from it. How many of Lenin’s friends and followers did Stalin have shot? Those victims thought they’d be the ones to decide who got shot. More fool them.

Obviously there is tons of “misinformation” on the Internet. Being misinformed, or just plain being wrong, is not against the law. It’s part of life. “I don’t eat strawberries because I saw a video of a guy saying it gives you shingles.” Who’s going to bother to censor that? No—they’re after you if they don’t like your politics. Unless you’re a Democrat, they want to prosecute you for suggesting that the 2020 presidential election was something less than honest. You have to understand the nuance: “Trump won by cheating” is permitted; “Biden cheated” is not. I’m glad I’ve cleared that up for you.

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Decent Democrats (Holy Cow!)

by Lee Duigon

November 16, 2023

As a reporter and managing editor of The Bayshore Independent, in the 1970s, I covered lots and lots of politics. Most of the politicians—and voters—in our circulation area were Democrats. And for more than a few of them, that didn’t matter. Let me cite a few of those to show you a vast difference between then and now.

*Frank S. was chairman of his township’s Democrat organization. Over a highly-qualified candidate, Frank was appointed director of their regional sewerage authority. We journalists provided the sardonic laughter. Another no-show job handed out as a reward to a political hack!

We were amazed when Frank fell in love with that job and put in a full day, every day, in his office at the plant. He studied hard and learned fast: the authority never served its public better. All these years later, it still seems like a miracle.

*Hyman G’s day job was as an executive with Standard & Poor’s. His sole interest lay in putting his skills and experience to work for the community, which elected him to the township council.

This township was famous for its cut-throat politics, mostly within the Democrat Party itself: it had too few Republicans to make any kind of impact. Two Democrat factions slugged it out, day after day. It was great sport. But Hyman had no politics to speak of, and somehow succeeded in remaining aloof from the blood-bath. He accomplished good things for the township’s finances, even if the perpetual politics confused him. I like to think his township appreciated his efforts.

*Assemblyman Walter K. was just an all-around good guy who knew how to laugh at himself. He was well-known as a good listener. He used to stop at my office to bring me up to speed on developments in the State House. He was an easy interview: you didn’t have to keep asking yourself “What does he mean by that? What’s his game?” But Walter had no game—unless you wanted to count honest answers as a game.

*Congressman Jim H. was re-elected in a landslide every two years. Why? Because he served all his constituents, helping them in any way he could, regardless of their politics. When he wasn’t there because he had to be in Washington, his office staff was voter-friendly. Whatever they could do for you, they did. It was almost impossible to find anyone who ever voted against him. He made it his business to do his level best to represent everyone in his district.

Oh, sure, there were some rotters, a couple of whom wound up in jail. As the years went by, there seemed to be more and more of those—and fewer and fewer of the good guys. It seems amazing to me now to think that most of the mayors and committee members I knew deserved the votes they got. I’m reasonably sure I didn’t dream that. I was a reporter, after all—supposedly a member of an audience that had a notoriously critical eye.

What happened to our politics? And to our politicians? The long-time mayor of my own home town, a pharmacist by trade, used to be the only Democrat on the town council. Heck, my mother knew him from their childhood. He could have remained our mayor for as long as he kept living—because by and large, he earned the voters’ loyalty. His own politics, whatever they were, never came into it.

Some say we get the politics that we deserve. If so, Heaven help us.

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Hippos and Trannies

by Lee Duigon

November 9, 2023

We hear a lot about “invasive species”—that is, plants and animals that now live in places where they don’t belong: usually because humans brought them there. Pythons in Florida, walking catfish, “murder hornets” out West—and buildings and hills festooned with creeping kudzu.

Usually it’s insect pests. Remember “Japanese beetles”? My mother used to pay kids a dime for every quart jar they could fill with Japanese beetles plucked from her floribunda rose hedge, which the insects were devouring.

But it’s not always insects. Colombia has an invasive species problem on quite another level.

Colombia has… hippos.

A drug lord, shot to death by police 30 years ago, bought four hippopotami to show off his wealth. He got erased and the hippos got away. Finding the nearby wetlands to be fully up to hippo standards, there are now 160 of them.

What to do? It costs $10,000 apiece of sterilize a hippo, apart from the risk of being killed. Hippos in Africa kill more people per year than any other animal. What if you only think you used a powerful enough sedative?

They could capture the hippos (not as easy as it sounds) and ship them to other countries. But what if no one wants them?

Or they could just shoot all the hippos and then find out what makes the rest of the world hopping mad. Murdering Israeli families, this fallen world will tolerate—even applaud. Shooting down 160 hippos—you’d never get away with it.

Doesn’t look like this invasive species is going anywhere soon. But there is another one that makes hippos look like stuffed toys. This species has invaded the world of competitive martial arts, especially judo and jiu-jitsu, and has come very near to wiping out women’s judo altogether.

The North American Grappling Assn. created a women’s division, and women liked it. But this year there was an invasive species in it: “trans women,” aka “men.” The matches weren’t fair, and women quit the sport in droves.

NAGA had to act quickly, and did: no more men allowed in women’s judo tournaments. “Trans women” would have to go back to competing with other men. It remains to be seen whether the women will come back.

Trannies and their fanatical sponsors and supporters are at war with God’s Word. “Male and female created He them” (Genesis 1: 27). Far Left Crazy hates that verse. Their delusion has spread around the world like kudzu. They start on children’s minds in kindergarten and keep it up through college and beyond.

We are not just talking about a failure to produce a next generation of human beings if everybody gets sucked into “gender affirming care.” Better we should take our chances with the hippos. We are also talking here and now: turning children and teenagers into lifelong medical patients, to say nothing of the permanent damage to their psyches.

And dare I say “souls”?

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We Need More Victories

by Lee Duigon

November 2, 2023

Should the state force a Christian school to embrace and promote heathen garbage in order to receive state funds available to all the other schools? A case like that has come up in Colorado.

The Darren Patterson Christian Academy had to go to court to secure its First Amendment rights, and a federal judge obliged them. It’s too bad anyone has to file a lawsuit to affirm their portion of the Bill of Rights: you never know when you’ll run afoul of a Democrat judge who’s in the mood for a little social engineering. But sometimes you have no other choice.

Here, the judge ruled that the Christian school could indeed receive state funds “without giving up its religious beliefs,” decisively rejecting the state’s “suggestion” that the school must “change its faith-based rules concerning sexuality and gender.” Amazing! Christian schools can remain Christian schools—as opposed to “Christian schools” that push transgender and are Christian schools in name only. Which of course deceives the children’s parents. Which goes on all the time in public schools.

This court case was a much-needed win for the cause of sanity, and we need more like it. Why? Because government action—I should say Democrat government action—is wearing down the spirit of America.

How do we know that?

Look at what they’ve done to Halloween.

During the last year or two of the Obama regime, I couldn’t help noticing that Halloween decorations in my home town had gotten very skimpy, compared to earlier years. At the time I put it down to weather; but it wasn’t the weather, was it?

Two years into Donald Trump’s term, the decorations were back in all their glory. It was fun! We were having fun on Halloween.

But now, with Democrats back in the White House, we’re back to skimpy. Many houses had no decorations at all. It looks like a national malaise. People are down-hearted. Given our current spiral of inflation, maybe there’s no extra money for gaudy decorations.

Yeahbut! They tell us things are going great! What’s not to love? Oh, little things. War. The threat of wider war. Crime on a scale we haven’t seen before. Non-existent borders. A senile president who can’t stop calling us racists, biggits, anti-science nut jobs, etc. Censorship. The FBI “investigating” parents who don’t like their local school boards’ policies. It all goes to brew a national malaise, pessimism, fear of the future, a deep sense of futility. It’s what Democrats do best.

And this, perversely, is what our Far Left Crazy celebrates. They like it! They like Hamas. They like riots. They like mad-scientist “gender-affirming medical care” that sterilizes children and turns them into lifelong patients.

Here’s their scheme, simplified. They get into office somehow, embark on policies that have negative results—in short, they make a mess and then demand we give them greater powers so they can clean it up. They revel in “mandates,” lockdowns, censorship, and the weaponization of government offices, to be used against the people. And tell us it’s all for our own good, Big Brother knows best.

But there are more of us than there are of them; and if we stood up to them, as the Darren Patterson Christian Academy stood up to them, we might discover something that surprises us: we might discover we are strong. We might discover we can win.

May God grant us the strength and spirit that we need to take our country back.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com /. Click the link and drop in for a visit: teachers’ unions will hate it if you do. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Government: The Problem, Not the Solution

by Lee Duigon

October 26, 2023

George Washington called government “a fearful master” and an untrustworthy servant. Then he became our first president. He set an example by stepping down after two terms. The world marveled at it.

For all his misgivings about government, Washington also understood that some form of it was indispensable. He helped craft our country’s model of government, the Constitution. But even reined in by the Constitution, government inevitably hungered for more power, always seeking to expand. That’s how it was, then. That’s how it is, now. Human nature being what it is.

In recent years, government has tugged harder and harder against the reins of law and custom. COVID “mandates” strained the limits almost to the breaking point. Could George Washington have lived to see how government today muscles up against the people, he might feel called to go to war again.

We are seeing government go mad with lust for power—always more and more. There was little resistance to the COVID “mandates”—people were told there would be mass deaths unless the government had its way. This took many forms: lockdowns, churches forced shut, mass censorship on social media—and before you knew it, the FBI was “investigating” parents who didn’t like their local school boards’ policies. And some rather prominent citizens fell under criminal indictment for questioning the results of an election! Since when was it against the law to be… wrong? Somehow only Republicans get indicted for protesting an election. Democrats are allowed to do it to their hearts’ content.

Government seeks to wipe out all limits on itself and impose them on the people. It goes back a long, long way. The prophet Samuel warned the tribes of Israel what a king would do to them if they insisted on having one. How, he cried, had God’s laws proved insufficient? Israel wound up with a good king from time to time; but also with enough bad ones to get their Holy City sacked and its people carried off to captivity in Babylon.

Rome had a republic. They never succeeded in resolving the conflicts inherent in their system, and eventually the Caesars took it over and the republic died. They killed it.

When the state honors God’s laws, it secures—as Thomas Jefferson said—domestic tranquility and the blessings of liberty “to ourselves and our posterity.” There are righteous laws that the civil government dare not break. In return, the people give their obedience to the state. It’s only when the state succumbs to lust for power that the people lose their liberty; and with it, justice.

Today this is happening all over the world. They’ve got Lady Liberty in their crosshairs and they intend to bring her down. Yes, globalists, that means you.

How many mandates, how many executive orders, how much political infighting and chicanery, how much of a two-tiered justice system can we absorb before our Bill of Rights becomes a dead letter, and the Declaration of Independence a forbidden document?

We are perilously close to finding out.

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Down From the Top, Up From the Bottom

by Lee Duigon

October 19, 2023

I’m not going to write about the war in Israel or the war in Ukraine. Not that they’re unimportant: they are crises. And they could get worse. But they’re drowning out stories that are also important—maybe equally important.

Our civilization is being crushed between folly coming down from the top and folly rising up from the bottom. And that’s serious.

Down from the top: the Labour Party expects to win big in the UK’s next elections, and they’re already getting plans in order: plotting mischief. The Conservative Party is expected to lose big, which is nothing less than what they deserve. They may not win enough seats in Parliament to put the brakes on any of Labour’s Far Left Crazy schemes.

Among Labour’s pet projects is a “law” that would make “misgendering” punishable by up to two years in prison. Oh, those Wrong Pronouns! If a deluded man declares himself a woman, and you still refer to him as “he” or “him,” it’ll be an “aggravated offense” and you’ll be packed off to prison.

Jailing normal people for not embracing some kook’s delusion is government gone mad. Free speech? Kiss it goodbye. Open the door to compelled speech. They won’t only tell you what you can’t say; now they want to tell you what you must say. Do they still have the Magna Carta over there? They never had a First Amendment, and it shows. Well, at least they won’t have to repeal it. America’s Democrats are green with envy!

And up from the bottom—well, brace yourself. This is really weird.

“Fictosexual.” It’s a brand-new lifestyle! Fictosexuals do not fall in love with real people—no. They only love fictional characters. They find them in video games, movies, TV shows, and, um, “music.”

This is very big in Japan and could easily spread elsewhere. Like COVID. Fictosexuals seal themselves off from real people and obsess over fictional characters who—need we say it?—don’t exist. One dindle made a big splash in the news when he “married” a hologram.

Has it occurred to you that if we were to do all the things that Far Left Crazy thinks we should do, the human race would go extinct? “Gender reassignment.” Censor and silence every voice of reason. Reserve those intimate moments for fictional characters only. Sterilize children and turn them into lifelong hospital patients. Butcher the language so that nothing can be said without “offending” someone, anyone. To say nothing of abortion, assisted suicide, experimental drugs that kill you… the whole culture-killing fun-pack.

[See Lee Duigon’s latest book “The Glass Bridge“]

If you kill your culture, it’ll kill you back.

Our only hope of coming out the other side of this madness is, as the Bible teaches us, to turn back to God, confess our sins, sincerely repent and change our ways. I don’t believe the Lord will allow us to wipe ourselves out; but we can create a powerful amount of misery and still fall short of that.

I’d just as soon not have to experience the chaos.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… while it’s still allowed. Just make sure the Labour Party doesn’t catch you. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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“Whoa! You Missed a Step!”

by Lee Duigon

October 12, 2023

When I was a boy, all the pictures of all the cavemen in all my books showed them as being white, Caucasian. This seems unlikely; but one way or another, we had no evidence.

Our ancestors painted realistic pictures of Ice Age animals now extinct. Much of what we know about those animals is thanks to ancient paintings on the walls of caves—including their colors and markings on their hides.

But one thing our ancestors didn’t leave us was detailed pictures of themselves. When they included human figures in their art, those were invariably stick figures. No help there.

The scientific study of our remote past began in Europe and for a long time stayed there. Not surprisingly, European and American artists depicted prehistoric people as having white skins like themselves. Again, there was no evidence for it or against it. To that extent, the illustrations in the books were art, not science.

Oh! But now we’re thoroughly scientific!

So all the new illustrations of prehistoric men and women now show them as having dark skin, brown or black. Yes—all of them.

Hello! Is there a missing step here? Why did the published pictures suddenly shift from one stereotype to another? And when? How was that decision made? You find somebody’s thumb-bone from a hundred thousand years ago, and you know the color of his skin?

Anyone who says “Science” is free of politics knows neither science nor politics.

Shift to September, 2023, and the Socialist Conference in Chicago—a gathering of self-anointed utopia-seekers.

Here a panel—they had enough jidrools on hand to make a panel—raised the issue of “children’s liberation,” and a children’s “right” to be sex workers.

And there was no debate as to whether children should be sex workers—prostitutes, in honest English—or involved with any kind of sex at all. They just skipped right over that, presuming, without discussion or dispute, that their socialist utopia would surely have child prostitutes. They took it for granted. Like, who would even think of questioning it?

Is that how we do both “science” and public policy these days? Just state the goal, without a word of how to get there—let alone any consideration as to whether that should be a goal at all? And never mind collecting evidence, either—that only slows down your Long March to Utopia.

Apparently, however hard it is to believe, we have whole gaggles of college-educated nincompoops, many of them teachers and professors in their own right, who think their earthly paradise should include their having sex with children—especially if they’re willing to pay money for it.

This is a grievous wound to our civilization, and it will fester and get worse if we don’t cure it.

Cut off the funding. No one should be paid for teaching and preaching this wickedness.

Cut off their access to our children. The best way to do that is to pull the children out of public schools. These schools are jam-packed with prating fools trained in our Far Left Crazy teachers’ colleges, encouraged and cosseted by Far Left teachers’ unions.

End what we have come to know as “public education,” and Far Left Crazy starves to death.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit: cavemen of all colors welcome. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Science (with Government!) Marches On

by Lee Duigon

October 5, 2023

You have to respect Science for its uncanny ability to discover what it wants to discover. Oh, sure, there are incentives—zillion-dollar grants, enrollment in the ruling elite—maybe even a TV series on PBS. Find out who’s important, who’s writing the checks—and discover what they want you to discover. As easy as falling out of a canoe.

For long, lean years Science tried to discover “the gay gene.” Gee, how would that help any organism to reproduce? Shut up! Today’s politics is tomorrow’s science.

Well, they haven’t yet come through with the highly sought-after Gay Gene, but a few years ago they came up with the next best thing—the ancient grave of a man buried as a woman (so there!). Obviously it could only mean one thing: that once upon a long time ago, the whole human race was fantastically tolerant of every imaginable form of sexual expression. If that’s not what this find says to you, you’re off the team.

So that’s settled, and we can move on to some of today’s burning scientific issues.

What makes people get fat?

You were going to say “Too much food and not enough exercise,” weren’t you? Do you honestly think 21^st-century Science would ever be satisfied with an answer like that? Sheesh! Get with it!

According to a study made by I don’t know who, a major contributing factor to the risk of obesity is… wait for it…

“Experiencing discrimination”!

A hundred people filling out questionnaires and looking at slides of tasty snacks can’t be wrong.

And don’t even bother to say what you were gonna say next: “Gee whiz, when people are feeling stressed-out and demoralized, don’t they just naturally reach for comfort foods or sweets? Hasn’t that always been true?”

Shut up, he explained.

At the same time as our wealthy progressive political sponsors anoint “plus-sized activists” as their high priests among the hefty, all the while trying to ban large sodas, they look for a way for you—please excuse the expression—to have your cake and eat it, too. A solution wasn’t long in dawning on them.

Simple! Just initiate some action by government, some “policy,” that will reduce (oops!) or wipe out discrimination against the morbidly obese.

You knew it all along, didn’t you? What is the answer to every woe that flesh is heir to? Put ‘em together, Science and Government, and what have you got? You’ve got Policy! Mandates! Rules and regulations, new ones every day. And this is such an easy one—abolish, through cunningly crafted Policy, all forms of Discrimination against excessive corpulence. Just redesign and rebuild all things to accommodate the plus-sized, censor and punish any contrary opinions, and we’re home free.

Sure, it’ll cost trillions and trillions of dollars to replace hallways, doorways, seats, beds, car interiors [temporary: the long-range plan is to do away with private car ownership altogether] and everything else—but since when has Congress shown even the least aversion to spending public money?

There’s even a slogan ready to hand: “Our jumbo jets are really Jumbo jets!”

It’s big, I tell you. Bigger even than the Green New Deal! Social justice on steroids.

Not a single Democrat will vote against it.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit, with or without popcorn. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Why Are These Kindergarten Children Still in Diapers?

By Lee Duigon

September 28, 2023

Sometimes incredibly stupid societal innovations are sown as seeds without our noticing. They put down roots in schools, movie and TV scripts, and in commentary by “experts” whom most of us have never read.

And next thing you know, an asinine idea is all over the place like kudzu; and it’s probably too late to cut it back.

We never noticed until it was too late.

For the first time ever, just the other day, I read of public school kindergarten teachers complaining that “most” of their pupils are not—brace yourself—potty-trained. These five-year-olds come to school in diapers, which the teachers have to change from time to time.

A teachers’ group states that 15 to 20 percent of their kindergarteners have not been potty-trained. Poopy-plops all around. Valuable time lost, changing diapers, when they could be grooming the kids for gender reassignment.

Why are so many of these children still in diapers?

Well! It seems there’s a Thing out there, one of those seeds that got planted without too many people noticing, called “Gentle Parenting.” It used to be known as “spoiling your children rotten.” According to the article in Your Tango, it’s a means by which “parents hope to foster a healthy relationship (?) with their children by validating their emotions (??) and educating instead of punishing [oh, super!] and respecting their individuality and feelings…”

(Stop it! Stop! I’ll talk, I’ll tell you what you want to know, I’ll tell you where the artillery is posted—just don’t make me have to listen to any more of this!)

What? Do they think it’s being too rough on a child, to teach him to stop doing biggies in his pants? Like maybe if you just leave him alone, he’ll grow out of it by the time he’s seventeen? With a heartfelt “Good job!” or two to help him on his way?

How is this not stupid?

Doubtless this unsanitary foolery was cooked-up by ivory-tower village idiots who still want Hillary Clinton to be president (but I digress, I think). Heaven only knows how they raise their own children, if they have any. Most of them don’t have the sense God gave an ashtray. You’ll find scads of ‘em at any teachers’ college.

And how about that tripe of validating their emotions? What does that mean? Any emotions? All emotions? The Roman Emperor Caligula had his feelings validated to the extent of declaring himself a god. Senators finally invalidated his emotions by chopping him up like firewood—but not till after he’d done tons of damage to his subjects.

The only upside to this is that if teachers are kept busy changing diapers, they won’t have time for teaching Critical Race Theory and transgender garbage.

Again we must ask: Why do parents keep sending their children to public school? Because it’s there? Might as well just keep on doing it, no sense having the building stand empty. I suppose it’s possible for a few homeschooling parents to do just as miserable a job of teaching their children as the public schools are doing—but worse? Not likely!

And we have a U.S. Secretary of Education who says—yes, he said this—that he doesn’t “respect” parents “thinking they know what’s right for kids”. Hear that, plebs? You don’t know how to raise your own children, and the head honcho of public education admits he doesn’t respect you.

How about that? We finally get an honest statement from our education establishment, and it’s just another insult.

But at least it’s honest.

Pull your kids out now.

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Democrats to Abolish Meat, Dairy Products and Private Car Ownership

by Lee Duigon

September 21, 2023

Erasing Our Whole Way of Life

I know someone who, fearing the onset of old age, sold her house and moved into an assisted living facility. The deal is, they take care of you for the rest of your life; and in return, you give them… everything.

Why does that make me think of Yul Brynner’s gunslinger in “The Magnificent Seven” telling the peasants, “I’ve been offered a lot for my work, but this is the first time I’ve ever been offered all.”

But the price turned out to be higher than anything they told you up front. The food is served their way, not yours. You eat it in a kind of mess hall.

And you’re surrounded all day by Far Left crazies who snarl and gnash their teeth whenever Donald Trump is mentioned—most frequently by themselves, they just can’t stop—and act like they’d like to run you over with a tricycle… because who can afford an electric car?

Meanwhile, the Democrat mayor of Phoenix, AZ, says she wants her city to ban, abolish, and outlaw meat, dairy, and private car ownership by 2030. Thirteen other U.S. cities are on board. Gee, I didn’t know a mayor had that kind of power. Or a council, or a state, or a Congress, or a president, or anybody else for that matter.

And watch out for your air conditioner and your gas stove; they’ll take those, too, if no one stops them. Us lowly plebs don’t need those things! At least the gunslinger in “The Magnificent Seven” didn’t just walk up to the peasants and take “all.” (“It’s to Save The Planet from you grubby campesinos! Who said you could eat tamales? Chow down on those insects!”) But even the most bullying gunslinger is a minor league nobody, compared to the nanny state.

And while they’re at it, they might as well censor us, too—shut down any speech that ticks ‘em off. Who said we could speak our minds? You certainly didn’t learn that in your teachers’ union public school.

Just imagine the America that they have planned for us. If you can’t, read Solzhenitsyn: he lived in a place like that. “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” would not have been one of his favorite songs.

No steak, no hamburgers, no lamb chops—no meat at all. Maybe some fake meat cooked up in a lab somewhere. And no milk, no eggs, no ice cream.

No going anywhere unless the bus is going, too. Forget about going where you want to go: they’ll tell you where you can go, and when.

And if your tiny little Environmentally Sustainable apartment is too hot for you to sleep at night—well, there’s always that nice little cot at the communal cooling center, with the guy in the next cot farting out the beans he had for supper. And two cots over, somebody’s weeping because the Environmental Soviet took away her cat.

Does anybody really want to live like this?

What? You thought they were going to give you one of those palatial oceanfront estates like the Obamas have? Oh, no, precious—you’re the common people, the ones the World Economic Forum calls “useless eaters.” The luxuries are not for you. Just be glad your betters, your rulers, can enjoy them.

It’s the least they can expect for Saving The Planet for us all.

I’d rather take my chances with the gunslinger.

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Something Is Wrong With Our Leaders

by Lee Duigon

September 14, 2023

Have you a nose for nooze? Can you tell the chaff from the wheat?

We call our leaders “newsmakers” (not “noisemakers”—be polite) because most news stories are about them: they’re always on center stage.

Let’s see how well we understand them. I will provide a sample of three nooze stories—one of which, or maybe two, will be untrue. I have provided no links, so you’ll be on your own.

Which of the following news items is false, unfair, or exaggerated? Can you tell?

“School officials” in Jefferson County, Alabama, suspended a six-year-old child for running around the playground pointing his finger at his friends and yelling “Bang, bang!” The assistant principal, who is getting blamed for this, acted promptly. Because, you see—or maybe you don’t see, because you’re not crazy—the six-year-old with his finger constituted “a threat of serious bodily harm” to children, staff, and anyone else who happened to be passing by. “School officials” intervened before anyone was shot by an imaginary bullet.
The mayor of Burbank, California, took part last week in a Democrat fund raiser. The mayor, who describes himself as “a Marxist,” volunteered to receive a public spanking by a drag queen (an intensely perverted man done up as a caricature of a woman). With a wooden paddle, no less. The mayor and the event’s organizers said the display was perfectly acceptable because there were no children present. Which means… uh, that we should be content to be governed or represented by jidrools who do such things—as long as there were no children there? Like that makes it okay? But the mayor only grinned and snickered. “Jealous?” he quipped. No, Charlie, we are not jealous of you.
A school district in Oklahoma—this happened in Oklahoma?—needed a new principal for one of its elementary schools; so they went out and hired some “educator” who moonlights as a drag queen… “when he’s not molding young minds,” says the advertisement. He also has a child pornography problem in his resume; but it seems the only thing a unionized public school teacher can do to lose his job is die. The community supposedly served by this school board was very much upset. Responding to the public outrage, the State Superintendent of Schools called the hiring “completely insane” and demanded that the new principal be terminated at once. We’ll have to wait and see whether “school officials” take this seriously.

There you have it—three news stories. Which one of them is fake news—a mean-spirited concoction brewed up solely to make our public officials look like imbeciles? Take your time deciding.

Question: Which is these items isn’t true?

Answer: None of them. They’re all true.

As for the schools, there are only two things that can be done to solve the problem.

One, abolish state and federal departments of education and return control of the schools to the communities they serve. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen. Democrats would never, in a thousand years, permit it.

Two, and this is one they can’t prevent, persuade millions of sane parents to pull their children out of public school. Ten million, twenty million—however many it takes to empty the classrooms and send the teachers’ unions packing.

As for Spanky the Mayor, recall him from office so fast, it makes his head spin.

Otherwise, we have another question, maybe the last one.

Where does this stuff finally stop—and what will be left of our country when these people get everything they want?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit; I won’t tell Teacher on you. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Sing Louder!

By Lee Duigon

September 7, 2023

Years ago there used to be a Christian radio talk show, just 15 minutes, with a panel of three. I can’t remember the name of the show, nor the panelists’ names; but one single spoken line I have remembered very well indeed. I’ll never forget it.

They were talking about the state of our fallen world, and how outrages pile up faster than you can keep track of them, and you can hardly put two coherent thoughts together… and it seems like nothing you can say or do makes any difference…

When you reach that point, said the lady on the radio—

“Sing louder!”

They say the early Christian martyrs sang hymns as they were marched into the Coliseum to face the lions. One might certainly ask, “Well, what good did that do?” But think a little farther. Whose empire is still here, Christ’s or Rome’s?

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. All right, the teachers’ unions aren’t going to kill and eat us. But they are doing everything they can to estrange us from our children and destroy the family. Can any sane person even imagine the kind of world the Far Left wants to build? Or what it would be like, to try to live in such a world?

Sing louder.

“Are you crazy? What good will that do?” cries the parent who has so far resisted every exhortation, every provocation: her kids are still in public schools… being groomed for aberrant sex lives… starting very soon.

The Left will laugh at your hymns and make fun of your prayers. The Romans in the stands mocked the Christians being slaughtered down below. But God heard the hymns and prayers. He also heard the mockery. And judged it.

Sing louder.

We don’t have to sing loud because the Lord is hard of hearing. He hears our whispers.

We are the ones who need to hear. We can give each other courage: we all need to feel we’re doing right. Parents should be outraged, scandalized, that state governments (California, for one), the teachers’ unions, and Democrat politicians mean to sue school districts for “outing” children—to their parents!—if a child, groomed accordingly, shows an interest in “gender reassignment.” And the FBI will “investigate” any parents who object.

How is this not intolerable?

Maybe if enough of us sing loud enough, the government might back off—before millions of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim parents get up the courage to pull their children out of there. Far Left teachers’ unions can’t thrive in empty classrooms.

Yes, there are surely a few unspeakably weird parents who want their children going to Drag Queen Story Hour and reading pornographic books in their elementary school libraries. If that’s what they want, that’s what they’re getting.

But for the rest of us, we need to find the courage to take the only step that means business—to withdraw their children from the public schools. This is the exodus we need. Parents must learn to find that courage in themselves—and in each other.

That’s why we all need to sing louder.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… while we still have free speech in this country. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Is It Still ‘Our’ Government?

By Lee Duigon

August 31, 2023

The short answer to the title question is No, it isn’t. Not by any shape or form.

We used to call them “public servants.” That’s a laugh. Now they’re public masters.

I am no longer alone in predicting another Great Pandemic, just in time to screw up the 2024 elections. We all know what’s coming, don’t we? They’ve already started to bring back the masks, and before long, the rest of it will follow—lockdowns, social distancing, shortages of just about everything… and of course, of course, the mail-in ballots. It worked for Them in 2020, so why not do it again?

Meanwhile, a California school district has been fined $100,000 for trying to “push” an 11-year-old girl to “change her gender”.

Do you see? They think they can do to us, and to our families, anything they please. They might even try—again—to close the schools and demand that parents pledge themselves not to “interfere” in their children’s so-called education. That one didn’t fly in 2020, but they have nothing to lose in trying it again.

When I was preparing to enter college, back in 1967, they had a mandatory summer reading program. Each and every one of those required reading books extolled “dissent” as the supreme civic virtue. We were also, um, “taught” that unjust, unreasonable, absurd “laws” deserved a hefty dose of civil disobedience. What they really meant was for us to oppose the Vietnam War and obediently follow the instructions of each and every Protest Movement. Except for any protests aimed at Far Left Crazy. If you tried that, it was no longer “dissent.” It was just being bad and stupid.

Do we know of any way to deter Them from locking us down again? We have to find some way, or it’s goodbye forever to our freedom.

How about melting down the D.C. switchboards, every day, with angry phone calls to our (ahem!) elected representatives who don’t seem to represent us anymore? That tactic used to work when they tried to lumber us with (oh, please!) “immigration reform.” True, that was before They got control of the voting machines and had some reasonable chance of being voted out of office. But it won’t hurt us to do it again; we won’t be any worse off than we’d be for not doing it.

How about some massive civil disobedience, like they exhorted us to do when Richard Nixon was in the White House? What if members of Congress couldn’t get into their offices because of angry troops of protesters? What if shoppers, once they got inside the store, all tore off their masks and threw them to the floor? What if mayors and town councils, responding to public pressure, refused to enforce the latest Mandates? Civil disobedience is not for everybody; but there are millions of us who just might be exasperated enough to try it.

How about pulling millions of our children out of public schools? If all they’re going to learn is Sex-Sex-Sex, that’s a strong indication that we don’t need those schools anymore. Break up the teachers’ unions and starve the Democrat Party of their dues.

There must be something we can do to get our country back. If we have millions of minds pondering the problem, then sooner or later a solution must emerge.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… before they start setting up the gulags. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Who’s Afraid of Bloomberg?

By Lee Duigon

August 24, 2023

Now that he walks the earth, seeking whom he might devour, I’m more afraid of zillionaire Michael Bloomberg than I ever was before.

Bloomberg had twelve years as mayor of New York City, running as a Republican (LOL) because the Dems didn’t want to make room on their slate for an outsider. By comparison with the Democrats who came after him, Bloomberg is the Father of His Country.

Standing alone, he’s a bully who wants to ban everything.

I know, I know—who’s afraid of Michael Bloomberg? When he ran for president a few years ago, he spent three-quarters of a billion (!) dollars and all he had to show for it was three delegates from Guam. But I can’t forget that as mayor he displayed flashes of competence and badly-needed leadership. So I view Bloomberg mischief as dangerous mischief.

Currently he’s put together some kind of “climate group” whose aim is to ban meat, dairy, and private ownership of cars by 2030. Supposedly he’s got 14 major U.S. cities—all of them run by Democrats—already signed up for this, with another hundred cities world-wide.

What the hell? Once upon a time Americans fought a war against the greatest power in the earth, the British Empire—and all King George wanted was a stamp tax! Enormous, painful sacrifices had to be made to secure our liberty.

And now some puffball of a Bloomberg’s going to come along and tell us we can’t eat meat anymore? Or dairy products? And we can’t own a car? Yes, there’s that “pro-choice” mob once again trying to erase our choices. King George was mad, they say; but he never came within a country mile of this kind of lunacy.

Where does anyone in any branch of government get the authority to tell us that we can’t eat meat? Oh, no problem! It’s a “global climate emergency,” see—and such luxuries as our basic civil liberties will just have to be indefinitely suspended. All it’ll take is a few more Mandates. Actual legislation is so time-consuming, so messy! Mandates, that’s what we need.

Go ahead, tell me you don’t see another Pandemic coming down the pike, just in time to screw up the 2024 election. Mail-in ballots, drop boxes, crates full of Democrat votes brought in after the polls close for the day—they’ve got that down to a science. And for good measure, we’ll have lockdowns, masks, social distancing, and shortages galore. It worked in 2020, it’ll work again in 2024.

We hope and pray that Bloomberg’s inborn arrogance and heavy-handedness will scuttle his scheme, even as his presidential run came up snake-eyes. But he’s not alone. Our Blue cities are chock-full of Bloomberg clones at every level of administration, all of them lusting for power over us defenseless plebs.

Self-government? That’s a laugh. We can’t even be trusted to eat our vegetables. Besides, they’re champing at the bit to force us to eat bugs—and maybe a bit of tree-bark for dessert. And no cars, so you won’t be able to pack up and leave.

What can we do? Donald Trump’s the only big-name politician on our side, and you see what they’re trying to do to him. We need a massive clean-up of our government—a government that’s turned against us in so many ways. (Liberals like it!)

Can they do it to us again—that whole Pandemic caper? Can they really, truly, do it again?

Pray hard. This coming election is for all the marbles. The survival of our republic is at stake.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, before Bloomberg shuts us down. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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The New Tower of Babel

by Lee Duigon

August 17, 2023

CNN—didn’t that use to be a news network?—is going to teach us plebs how to use “neo-pronouns,” avoiding the utterance of such fighting words as “he” or “she”. We have to learn to say “ze” and “zyr” and anything else Our Betters have dreamed up lately.

The pro-choice mob demands we choose to obey. You have to give them credit for being generous with their delusions—they certainly don’t want to keep them to themselves.

CNN’s “lessons” will be provided by the Human Rights Campaign, “HRC” for short. Wait a minute—doesn’t that stand for “Hillary Rodham Clinton,” too? I find this darkly sinister, way too on-target to be a coincidence. But which is the head and which is the tail?

Now long ago, the Bible tells us, the whole human race spoke just one language, and consequently was able to take on highly ambitious projects. Their inflated sense of self-importance drove them to try to build a tower that would reach up into heaven and be as high as God’s own throne; and having achieved this, they would be as gods themselves.

God frustrated this plan by confounding man’s language. Suddenly instead of just one language, there were hundreds of them, mutually unintelligible. Forget about finishing the Tower: what we have here is a failure to communicate. Unable to understand each other, the now numerous linguistic tribes abandoned their project and dispersed themselves throughout the earth.

God’s action has long been called a punishment; but I see it as a decisive measure to prevent something worse from happening. Had we kept our universal language, who knows what further mischief our ruling sinners might have devised? But God knew, and nipped it in the bud. And even so, human wickedness so tainted all Creation that God drowned civilization in the Flood.

But now, millennia later, it’s our ruling sinners who are confounding the language. Our universities and teachers’ colleges are great for this. They are awash in brand-new words and terminologies that no one in his right mind can understand. Have you ever tried to talk to them? The pronouns alone are a bar to communication—never mind such whoppers as “intersectional,” “non-binary,” and “environmental justice.” Very few of us can get by, as Kamala Harris does, on a diet of word salad. And cackling.

Here the purpose of confounding the language is to snow us under. Making themselves incomprehensible to the plebs is supposed to make us think they’re “smart”—way smarter than us, at any rate. How can we see through their schemes if we cannot understand their language? We can’t even keep up with all the changes.

And we’re paying for it! That’s the most unkindest cut of all. A college education, which befuddles those who receive it, costs a fortune. Graduates are saddled with a mountain of debt—and what do they have to show for it? A degree in Multi-intersectional Gender Studies? Critical Race Theory—I almost typed “theology,” which would not have been far wrong—as applied to chemistry or calculus?

You could just scream.

This new Tower of Babel is certainly a punishment: we will be enslaved to stupidity.

And if you think that is something to be strived for, they’ve got you where they want you.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: it’s all in English. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Disney’s Debacle

by Lee Duigon

August 10, 2023

I’m fascinated by what looks like the slow self-destruction of our movie industry.

For my generation, movies were huge. Every town had a movie-house or two. Circa 1973, if my friends and I felt like going to a movie, we had a breathtaking number of choices. I can remember some fifteen theaters we had within easy driving distance. Two full pages of movie listings in the newspapers—take your pick.

Today we have only one movie theater still open. It’s a multiplex, showing several films at once. But the big screen is a lot smaller than it used to be. In more ways than one.

The last time I went to the movies was some ten years ago: $20—and that was with a senior citizen’s discount. Don’t even think about popcorn or Good & Plenties. And on top of all that, they showed commercials!

Ach! I remember when Grandma took me to the old Forum Theater to see the first Godzilla movie, and we had to wait in a line that stretched all around the block. Certainly we never see that anymore.

What fascinates me the most is the way Disney Corp just keeps churning out box-office bombs, one after another. It’s as if they really don’t care if they lose money. Counting the latest fiasco, “The Haunted Mansion”—a movie based on a Disney theme park ride, for pete’s sake—they’ve had ten losers in a row, totaling not quite a billion dollars.

But those cock-ups are dwarfed (ha-ha!) by Disney’s newest and ongoing debacle, the new “Snow White.” They were going to spring it on us in 2024, if they can ever find their way out of the chaos they’ve created for themselves.

Leaks have sprung all over the project, amply reported on the Internet. The latest, just the other night, was a scheme to remove the Seven Dwarfs from the story: they’d already turned the Dwarfs into “Seven Magical Creatures.” That didn’t fly; so the new brainstorm is to make all the “magical creatures” female. And tall.

If you don’t like it, don’t worry—they’re sure to come up with something else by the weekend. But a movie do-over on this scale will surely cost another $100 million—and finally deciding which do-over to do, heaven only knows how much they’ve spent already.

There are certain features which all these Disney debacles, including “Snow White 2024,” have in common.

They’re all pumped so full of preachy, arrogant Wokeness that they can’t help but alienate normal people who just want to see a freakin’ movie. If they want a sermon, they can go to church. But for the Disney crew, this is church! Gender-bending is a sacred ritual. They are powerless to change their weird theology: it’s a cult.

There’s not an original thought to be found, it’s all live-action remakes of Disney’s feature-length cartoons. And they bought out Marvel Comics, so we’re bored silly by a mob of rubber-stamp superheroes. One after another after another…

Finally, as “Snow White” abundantly shows, the projects are just too big: there’s no hope of creative control. It’s as if all they want to do is crank out an endless series of Wokeness sermonizing, box-office be damned. We can’t imagine how many costly do-overs they’ll have before the release of a finished film—if that ever happens at all.

“Woke” is a bottomless pit. The Disney cult will never be able to satisfy itself, let alone the movie-going public that keeps rejecting their message.

What they need, and probably want, is a government **Mandate** forcing people to attend these movies—something to tide us over through the next lockdown.

You can bet that’s in the works, too.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: guaranteed free of magical creatures. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Survey Results ‘Shock’ The State Of Oregon

by Lee Duigon

August 3, 2023

You learn this in law school: “Never ask a witness a question whose answer you don’t already know.” One “surprise” can blow your case to kingdom come.

With that maxim firmly not in mind, Oregon State University blithely embarked on a survey of engineering and computer science students. The object of the survey was to see what was the students’ attitude toward that great sacred cow, LGBTQetc.

Then horror struck.

Out of 349 students surveyed, 50 submitted “mocking responses” that astonished the surveyors. Oh, the humanity… Students “identified” as attack helicopters, called the questions “stupid” and “pointless” (which they were), and generally displayed a deplorable lack of reverence toward the idol, LGBTQetc. “Slurs” and “hate speech” galore.

Looniversity officials concluded that the science and technology departments were breeding grounds for “fascist ideologues.” They’re thinking they’d better add some compulsory Make-Your-Mind-Right courses before allowing students to sign up for the STEM curriculum. You have no business fiddling with a computer if you can’t name 50 genders—and pledge allegiance to them all.

Officials called the survey results “shocking”—for crying out loud, how can you hope to achieve True Diversity with all those wrong opinions flapping in the wind? One, um, “researcher,” they reported, already more than just a little woozy, had to be checked into “therapy.” He/she/it had suffered “harmful trauma” from seeing those “malicious” responses to the survey. (Check: is there any such thing as “harmless trauma”?)

I’m sorry for all the quotation marks. It’s unavoidable when one is writing about such poppycock.

The transgender movement is a cult. Its devotees cannot imagine why anyone wouldn’t buy into it. They must be fascists! Haters! At best, they must be poor ignorant science nerds who can’t see an inch beyond their test tubes and computers. It’s up to the looniversity to lead them out of darkness into glorious gender-fluid light—and kick ‘em out of school if they won’t be led.

Besides which, exposure to all that vicious mockery is bound to cause severe mental breakdowns among the faculty.

What if a Christian university—presuming we could find one—were to insist that all its science students must be Christians? What if they were forced to sign a pledge of disbelief in Evolution and Man-Made Climate Change? Holy moly, the potato salad would hit the fan! It goes without saying there’d be riots. And a national scandal—Joe Biden’s “devout Catholic” knickers in a twist. CNN commentators would have to be given Play-Doh and stuffed toys to keep them out of straitjackets.

They could, of course, decide that all this gender gobbledygook has no relevance for engineering and computer science and just let it go at that—but where’s the fun in that? Hey, we’re tryin’ to create a utopia here! And it simply can’t be done if everybody’s entitled to his own opinions on such matters. But that’s not what they mean by Diversity, is it?

When will the people run out of patience with this and stop forking over boxcar loads of money to be subjected to it? We work hard to send our children to these looniversities. For this?

When do we decide enough is enough?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit; I promise you it’s nicer than college. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Chicoms to Rewrite the Bible

by Lee Duigon

July 27, 2023

The Chinese Communist Party has a ten-year-plan to completely rewrite the Bible. We are unable to confirm or refute reports that “devout Catholics” Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi have already signed up to receive their copies.

There are several hundred millions of Christians in China, and Comrade Xi Jin-Ping wants to make sure they behave themselves. It’s still very much a minority, compared to the rest of China’s billions—but the Chicoms worry about minorities and would much rather there were no Christians at all in China.

The next best thing, as communists and Democrats (excuse the tautology) see it, is a counterfeit Christianity subservient to the state—obedient, compliant, and captivated by a bogus theology cooked up by The Party.

The Chicoms say the Bible is only Job One, they’re going to rewrite the holy books of several world religions. Well, that’ll show how serious the Muslims are about that jihad thing. It’s so much easier to impose false faiths on Christians.

Hey! Remember that 2016 presidential campaign, in which Hillary Clinton (D-Mordor) said “religious beliefs must change” to accommodate abortion? And then the New York Times said “religious beliefs must change” to accommodate same-sex parodies of marriage. And it was only months ago that “devout Catholic” Biden said “transgendered people” are “the soul of America.”

Comrade Xi, you’re racing neck-and-neck with our country’s Democrats. Who will be the first to turn the real Bible, as the Holy Spirit gave it to us, into a mere misty memory? “In 55 genders created He them—and it took all week!” “Render unto The Party that which is The Party’s, and unto God… nothing.” “Chairman Mao’s word is a lamp unto my feet.” And so on: you get the idea. Can you imagine the horror of a Book of Beto?

Western liberal homunculi have for years been denouncing the Bible as “hate speech” and calling for its ouster from the public square. But lately they seem to be crafting another tune to sing: the Bible, as we have received it down through the centuries, is wrong. “But not to worry—we can fix it!” All those so-called “laws” about whom (or what) you can have sex with, and whom (or what) you can’t—really, how could you have believed that for a minute? And by the way, there is no God. Our Bible tells us so!

It’s a showdown. Who are you gonna believe, God or The Party? Hint: God can’t pack you off to a forced labor camp—but The Party can. And will, if your mind’s not right. The COVID-19 lockdowns were only tyranny taking its warmups.

Oh, they’ll have to repeal or rewrite the Constitution, too, when all is said and done. But what price, socialist utopia?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit, before we call get packed off to the gulag. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Millenials: ‘Misgendering’ Is a Crime

by Lee Duigon

July 20, 2023

We are told, by (ahem!) “a poll” that almost half of our Millenials (ages 25-34) think “misgendering” ought to be a crime punishable by jail time.

The poll was conducted by Redfield & Wilson Strategies (never heard of ‘em) and, um, “reported” by Newsweek. We are also told that 19% of all Americans agree—and 65% don’t. And, lest we forget, some 250 celebrities say we really need government to censor “wrong” opinions.

Do we believe this? Not me, pal. I’m not into compelled speech. If some guy with a beard insists he’s Sonie Henie, why in the world should I have to, on pain of imprisonment, pretend that I, too, think he’s a woman? What kind of asinine excuse for a civilization is that?

Puzzled, we turn to Dr. Peabo Bunkum, professor of Nothing Studies at Fimbo University, to explain it for us.

“Free speech is quite simply a threat to democracy,” Professor Bunkum says. “And why is that? What’s wrong with free speech? It’s wrong because the wrong people use it! They use it to say wrong things! Some of them are so stupid, they don’t even know they’re wrong! Christians and conservatives, every word they speak, every word they write, is just plain wrong! You can’t have a democracy when three-quarters of the people have the wrong ideas.”

Public education, he continues, “has done a good job of weeding out wrongness, but you can’t expect the teachers’ unions and the colleges to do it on their own. Government has to step in! Those stupid evil peasants who insist on misgendering people—and hurting their feelings!—will never stop until we lock them up and throw away the key.”

As we speak, the Biden Administration is fighting tooth and nail in court to assert and protect their claim that government agencies and officials have every “right” and “authority” to lean on Internet providers and force them to censor anyone who disagrees with the prevailing narrative. (That’s a new word that replaces “lie.”) Sorry about all those quotation marks. We are dealing with babbling idiots for whom ordinary words like “truth” and “justice” and “freedom” take on weird and esoteric meanings.

Then again, how can 250 celebrities be wrong? And Millenials who’ve been to college and earned degrees in Gender Studies—who are you gonna believe? Them, or that dopey old Constitution that we really don’t need anymore?

“Free speech,” declares Dr. Bunkum, “should be reserved only to those persons whose opinions are proper and correct. And government officials, college professors, and teachers’ unions know which opinions are proper and correct! Together we should be able to decide who speaks and who doesn’t.”

Getting back to the poll, we cannot help but wonder whom they polled, and where. I’m guessing the faculty lounge at Che Guevara Community College. It would be distressing to believe our education establishment has succeeded so brilliantly in turning half a generation into a pack of Red Guards.

Don’t we want our free republic anymore? Are we so tired of our liberty? “Red for Ed,” the teachers’ union T-shirts say.

If we don’t have our First Amendment, guaranteeing free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to demand of our government redress of grievances… well, then, we don’t have much of anything, do we?

It seems a high price to pay just to help intensely disturbed people act out their fantasies.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit—before they start building new prisons for all of us who have wrong ideas. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/

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The Silly Season

by Lee Duigon

July 13, 2023

Newspaper editors, including me, used to call it “the silly season,” that stretch of time between Fourth of July and Labor Day. People went on vacation, the politics simmered down, and most of our material was goofy stories that wouldn’t have been reported during the rest of the year.

We still have a silly season, only now it seems to be year-round. A lot of people are saying and doing things that are just plain silly. For instance:

A group in Oregon wants to set up segregated hiking trails in the state forests so that Cherished Minority hikers won’t have to face the risk of running into “prejudiced” people while shambling around in the deep woods. They want hiking trails reserved for—I quote—“underrepresented adventurers who are plus-sized and fat, Black, Indigenous, persons of color, queer, trans, non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent [whatever the dickens that means], and beyond…” Beyond what? Sanity? Coherence?

If they want to see someone with a load of “prejudice,” any mirror can show them a perfectly adequate specimen.

Meanwhile, Far Left Crazy is up in arms against a movie, “The Sound of Freedom,” starring Jim Caviezel as a federal agent who resigns his post to devote himself to combating child sex trafficking. Hollywood and Disney didn’t want this film, they sat on it for five years, so the producers went out there on their own and behold—“Sound of Freedom” is a smash hit.

Why do leftids object to a movie attacking child sex trafficking? Does it hit too close to home? Is there some key difference between sex trafficking and the sexual grooming practiced by “educators” in our public schools, with the enthusiastic blessing of the teachers’ unions? I mean, they’re acting awfully guilty, aren’t they?

I don’t believe the current rumor that theater owners are turning off their air conditioning to suppress this movie’s box office. But it’s not that unbelievable. Who knows what kind of pressure that groups like the monstrously misnamed “Human Rights Campaign” is putting on the theater owners? That’s the part that’s not at all hard to believe.

Finally, in a towering display of silliness, the Obamas have been cranking out tweets about how oppressed they are. They were seen doing this aboard a luxury yacht in Greece—with Tom Hanks aboard as their tame celebrity, and later at a five-star restaurant.

If this is oppression, where can we sign up for it?

Finally, these past two days have seen several reports of President (sic) SloJo yelling and cursing at his staff behind closed doors. Ordinarily our Free & Independent Nooze Media wouldn’t report this story: wouldn’t want to make Uncle Joe look bad. The fact that they’re reporting it now makes one wonder how anyone this silly could be elected to any kind of public office. This, of course, is a silly season that started in 2020 and has been running ever since.

So you can’t escape the Woke crowd by hiking into the heart of a dense forest, or going to a movie, or just noodling around on social media: these kooks are everywhere. [Honorable mention to Boston’s first openly socialist councilwoman, who a few days ago crashed her car into a house for no reason known to anyone. She survived to continue her role in governing the city.] They have infested our government at every level, local, county, state, and federal.

None of this, by the way, can happen without our leaving our children in the clutches of (ahem!) “public education.”

Pull all the kids out of those schools, and watch the Woke just up and die.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… maybe while you’re hiking in the woods. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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So What’s With the Movies?

By Lee Duigon

July 6, 2023

For most of my life, going to the movies was a treat. Go with a date, go with your friends, or just go alone: you’d always enjoy it.

My wife and I still watch movies on the Internet, but it’s been—what? A dozen years, at least, since I went to a theater and paid to get in.

In our area most of the movie houses are no more. They were palaces, once upon a time. My grandmother took me to the RKO Theater in New Brunswick, and the magnificence of the place just blew my mind.

But it’s not just the theaters going out of business, one by one. There have not been many movies lately that I’d want to see.

Take, for instance, Indiana Jones 5: The Dial of Destiny (and if I ever proposed such a title to my editors, they’d think there was something seriously wrong with me). This must be the worst movie ever made. Every day there are two or three more blistering reviews posted on the Internet. They’re saying it’s a total wipeout.

Yeahbut, yeahbut… Meanwhile, Disney Corp. has cranked out eight (!) box-office bombs in a row, losing almost a billion dollars on them, and Warner Bros., five in a row, just over a billion dollars up the spout. And these figures, mind you, presuppose a world-wide market. Yeesh, what if they couldn’t show these films in China? What if they were forced to show them only in America? One, two, three, it’s off to bankruptcy.

It’s not that people don’t watch movies anymore. They’re still watching them online, and family-friendly, faith-friendly movies—like Jim Caviezel’s Sound of Freedom—are doing just fine at the box office. People still want movies. They just don’t want lousy movies.

Movies are a form of story-telling, which is part of being human. However far back you go in the history of human culture, you find storytellers.

What you don’t find is storytellers who insult and berate their audience. “Once upon a time in this no-good stinkin’ tribe of ours, where nothing’s fair and even the woolly mammoths despise us for our systemic racism, two serial killers had sex and begat three babies before they had a chance to abort them. One was a thief, another was an idiot who would’ve voted for Donald Trump if he were alive today, and the third was a villain who invented a gas stove…”

Gee—add a little dash of transgender, and you’ve got another Disney movie. And another bomb.

Why do they make movies like this, sure-fire failures? Who wants to see them, except for people who take their kids to drag queen story hours and can’t wait to re-elect Joe Biden? And what kind of fan base is that? Has Hollywood gone altogether suicidal?

They must know they’re competing with movies on the Internet—movies that people choose to see. So the studios make their movies available for home screening and still come up short. Even to the most rudimentary intellect, it must be obvious that the problem with today’s big-studio movies is the content. How can Disney executives fail to see that?

Well, never mind! If they want to tear down their own house, the public should just step aside and let them do it. Companies that make movies that don’t condescend to us, that don’t club us over the head with political preaching, will surely capture a bigger and bigger share of the market.

If Walt Disney could ever come back to take control again… heads would roll.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and enjoy a visit. It’ll be better than The Dial of Destiny. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Fatal Folly

by Lee Duigon

June 29, 2023

Are the people who govern us really all that wise? That belly-laugh in the background is from History.

In 1856-57 there arose a prophetess among the Xhosa nation of South Africa. She told them that if they slaughtered all their cattle and burned all their crops, the gods would run the European settlers out of Africa.

Most of the people believed her and did as she advised. The result was a famine that reduced the Xhosa population from 105,000 to 27,000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongqawuse). If not for a small minority who refused to go along with the plan—for which they were denounced as “the stingy ones”—the entire nation would have perished.

But the Europeans themselves committed equally disastrous follies.

The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian imperial throne, by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, is widely viewed as the spark that ignited World War I—until the Second World War, the most ruinous and deadly war in human history. Austria issued an ultimatum, to which the Serbs, at the last possible minute, acceded.

When that news was delivered to Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany, he rejoiced. “But this is wonderful!” he cried. “We will have peace!”

The chief of his general staff, Von Moltke, quickly put a damper on the celebrations. It was too late to draw back from war, he said: the timetables of the troop trains were already carved in stone. We do not know who died and left him Kaiser. The real Kaiser, Wilhelm, who had the authority to stop the war, let Von Moltke talk him out of it. With results too well-known to require description here.

Folly. The Kaiser could have stopped it and he didn’t.

In 1905 Russia went to war with Japan. The Russians had no Pacific Ocean fleet, so their Baltic Sea fleet would have to sail around the world to get there. When the Russian fleet entered the North Sea, the admiral mistook British fishing boats for Japanese naval vessels and opened fire. The fact that they sank so few of these unarmed ships didn’t register. The British retaliated by closing to the Russians all the coaling bases they would need to visit on their way to Japan.

No problem! The Russian ships would simply carry all the coal they needed. To make room for it, they left much of their ammunition behind.

When they finally arrived at Tsushima Strait, the Japanese Navy annihilated them.

What are we to make of such gross incompetence? You don’t get to be a prophetess, a Kaiser, or an admiral by being well-known as an idiot. Is it possible these leaders become idiots once they reach a high enough level of authority to do real damage?

No nation is immune to folly. Let’s not forget how Athens lost the Peloponnesian War, which they were winning at the time. Against all good advice, they widened the war by invading Sicily and losing their army and their fleet in a vain and totally unnecessary attempt to capture Syracuse. That was almost 2,500 years ago. You’d think an example like that would make world leaders just a bit more cautious.

Knowing history as they did, our country’s founders devised a government of checks and balances: no single branch of government would have the power to drag the whole country into self-destructive policies. Even with that in place, America blundered into the Civil War… and if you think we’ve learned that lesson, remember Afghanistan. And while we’re at it, the current insanity between Ukraine and Russia.

We need to shore up our checks and balances, don’t we?

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How I Became a Nooze Reporter

by Lee Duigon

June 22, 2023

I don’t know what they’re teaching in journalism school these days. You see a headline that provokes your curiosity—“Woman Carried Off by Pet Gorilla,” say. But when you read the story, you find no abduction and no trace of a gorilla. At best it’ll be an insignificant detail tacked onto the last paragraph, just in case there’s anyone who read that far.

Reporters and headline writers—they write like monkeys anymore.

Years ago, as I scrambled for a job in a market saturated with recent college grads like me, I had the good luck to stumble upon a brand-new weekly newspaper in need of editors and reporters. I got in the door first and was hired as associate editor. The editor on loan from the parent paper liked my way with words. Next thing you know, I was at my own desk interviewing and hiring reporters. Was that cool or what!

Well, gee. I’d only been reading newspapers every day since I got out of diapers. And most nights I watched “news” on TV. I knew perfectly well what news was supposed to look like—hardly unknown territory. It wasn’t like I was guessing how to do heart surgery.

With just a little guidance from the boss, who couldn’t wait to get back to his own paper, I learned how to do my job by doing it. In ten or fifteen minutes he taught me to write in the “inverted pyramid” style—important stuff at the top of the article, minor details at the bottom. Why do it that way? Because many of our readers would be scanning the newspaper as they’re having breakfast, or riding on a train to work, taking a lunch break, or giving it a few minutes after supper until they turn on the TV. They had no time for lengthy articles. After a week or so of practice, I had it down pat. Really, just about anyone could learn this.

I learned how to do interviews by doing interviews, imitating what I saw on television. I already knew what kinds of information constituted news; and once I knew my way around the towns I covered, I knew who had that information. Meanwhile, I kept an eye out for unusual or humorous events that would make good feature stories.

All oft his without a single day in J-school.

At one paper where I was the managing editor, the publisher demanded I hire a recent grad from the publisher’s own alma mater. The guy came highly recommended. But he couldn’t write or report his way out of a paper bag. He covered a meeting of a support group for people with terminal diseases, and came back saying, “They didn’t do anything.” He covered a meeting in which the school board voted to spend $10 million for an extension of the high school, but he missed that little detail: “They didn’t do anything.” Finally the publisher ordered me to fire him. Him and his saucy little handbag.

What do newsies do anymore, besides carry water for the Democrat Party? What do they do in journalism school for four or five years—bet on cockroach races? Every day I encounter poorly-written stories with misleading headlines. And sheesh, the job is not that hard!

Well, if they don’t read—and I find no evidence that they do—how can they be expected to know how to write?

Our schools at every grade are failing us.

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World Economic Forum Marxists Want to Rewrite the Bible

by Lee Duigon

June 15, 2023

So now the World Economic Forum (“Global Government ‘R’ Us”) wants to rewrite the Bible to make it “correct,” whatever that means. And it’s bound to turn out just peachy-keen because they’re going to use AI, “Artificial Intelligence,” to do the job. What could possibly go wrong?

Apparently God and His prophets through the ages got everything wrong and what the world needs now is a new Bible that’s transgender, transhumanist, and a bubbling mix of all the world’s religions—except, of course, for all those teachings that we won’t be allowed to hear anymore and all those things we won’t be allowed to say. The only way to Save Democracy and Save The Planet is for a massive global government to decide what is a permitted religious doctrine… and what isn’t.

To those who think this is a sign that we have truly entered the End Times—well, what can I say?

Meanwhile, amazon.com completely shut down a customer’s “smart home” because a delivery man, while grooving on the tunes with his headphones on, **thought he heard some kind of Racist remark from the automated robot doorbell. He reported it to amazon, and amazon responded by locking the poor sucker out of his home for a week. They also turned off his lights, his electricity, and everything else—which they could do because it was a “smart home” with everything hooked up to amazon. O brave new world, that has such dindles in it!

But see, this is the way we’re headed, giving power, power, and more power to inaccessible persons who will do with it anything they please. Right down to what they’ll include in a new “Bible” that isn’t the Bible anymore.

Ye shall be as gods—still the greatest con Satan ever pulled on us.

Some of our inalienable rights just got alienated.

How do they propose to “correct” our religion? Their primary target, of course, is the Christian religion; but please don’t think they’ll stop there. Mix ‘em all up—Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, the Jedi religion for science fiction movie buffs—and what have you got?

You’ve got whatever the globalist nabobs say you’ve got from day to day, depending on which side of the bed they got up on in the morning. Which is just another way of saying you’ve got nothing at all.

Yeahbut! Isn’t it worth it, to get a smart home? And a smart car that they can turn off whenever they please… if you’re still allowed to have a car at all. And maybe private home ownership will have to go, too: cram all the plebs together into high-rise cubbyholes. Again, it will all be managed by AI, so it’ll be great. And the big boys can always lock us down again if things get gnarly: their Science will see to it that there’s always a new Pandemic just around the corner.

It all sounds pretty hopeless; but the Bible, the real Bible, reminds us, “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the LORD shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure” (Psalm 2: 4-5).

Examine the landfill of history to see what that displeasure means.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, before they decide we use too much electricity and cut us all off. My work can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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D-Day, 1944: Did We Fight and Die For This?

By Lee Duigon

June 8, 2023

Four thousand Allied soldiers died on this date, 79 years ago, seizing the Normandy beaches from the Germans. Thousands more would die as we fought our way through France and finally into Germany itself. It was a high price, but it ended World War II.

Jumping ahead to here and now, a poll by the Cato Institute finds that one in three Americans aged 30 or under supports the idea of government installing cameras in private homes. For “protection and security,” don’t you know.

The past cries out: “We fought for this?” Think Hitler would’ve liked having the power to spy on people in their homes? He lost the war. We’re in danger of losing our liberty. We didn’t need the German army to take it from us. Our own government will do the job.

Think of the money it’d save the FBI, though. I mean, it’s so clumsy and heavy-handed to send FBI agents all over the country to spy on school board meetings. And what if Enemies Of The People don’t go to the meetings? Who knows what they’re saying over dinner? Big Brother needs to know that. Put up a camera in the dining room.

But this is by no means the only crazy thing we didn’t know that we were fighting for in 1944.

We fought for men to say they’re women so they can dominate women’s sports.

We fought for the right of Educators to subject America’s children to “gender reassignment”—lifelong careers as medical patients, plus lifelong sterility. Charge that German pillbox, boys! In another two generations we’ll catch up to them. We’ll do things that they could only dream of.

How about the power of government to shut down small businesses, coast to coast, force us to wear masks that don’t actually protect us from anything, threaten us with loss of jobs unless we allow them to shoot us up with experimental “vaccines,” and put us under virtual house arrest? I’ll bet no one on D-Day thought he was fighting for that.

Oh—and censorship! We develop the most advanced means of mass communication the world has ever seen, and then stifle anyone who wants to use it to criticize government policies and sociological vandalism. What—you didn’t like that last election? Sorry, bro, but that’s “misinformation”! Our algorithms will make short work of you.

We fought for this?

One could go on all day listing today’s outrages against liberty, against the Constitution, even against mere sanity. These are not imposed on us by foreign conquerors. They come seeping out of our overfunded universities, dreamed up in teachers’ colleges, invented for us by a worldwide mob of globalists who think their time has come.

But if we could win on D-Day, surely we can win now. Our enemies are home-grown, and subject to defunding. Kill the money, and the ideology dies. Far Left Crazy can’t survive without the universities, the teachers’ unions, fake cable nooze, and the Democrat Party. Even if we can’t elect a true cost-cutting Congress, we can at the very least pull our children out of public schools, stop sending them to Far Left universities, and simply not watch, not rent, not buy Woke movies and TV. Let them all have a good, stiff dose of what we’ve given Bud Light.

They can only go as far as we let them go. Stop paying. Just stop. Put some teeth in the slogan “Go Woke, go broke.”

They can’t do these things to us without our money.

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‘I Now Pronounce You…’ What?

By Lee Duigon

June 1, 2023

At first I was sure it was another one of those “man bites dog” stories that annually tide the nooze media over the summer. CNN makes a big deal of it, focusing in on four women who have married… themselves. CNN calls it “a symbolic expression of self-love.” (Sorry, we’re out of barf bags.)

This practice, if that’s the word for it, is called “sologamy.” Although it has no legal status anywhere, it has already been featured on several TV shows that I don’t watch.

It always starts that way, though, doesn’t it? And by and by we wind up with yet another wacky Lifestyle that we’re all supposed to “celebrate” or else be branded as “haters” and “terrorists.” Get the FBI busy on this!

Hint: Put a few of these sham weddings on YouTube, especially the splashy ones that look like real weddings until you realize it’s only one person, and watch it take off—because everybody wants to be on YouTube. You could be the next Dylan Mulvaney if you play your cards right. Or wrong. Who knows? We’re entering uncharted territory here.

First it was “living together,” which used to be called “living in sin.” When that controversy ran out of gas, we moved on to “gay marriage.” Many of us laughed at that, when it first started; but we’re not laughing now.

There have always been gimmicky pseudo-marriages that had their little hour upon the stage. Man marries dog. Woman marries toaster-oven. Three guys “marry” two gals. I was pinning these clippings on my “Mondo Bizarro” board back in the 1970s. I never guessed, back then—and neither did anybody else—what a shambles Far Left Crazy would make of marriage.

Marriage is a God-given institution, the union of a man and a woman. (Have I just lapsed into “terrorism” by saying this?) It is the foundation of the family. But we know what leftids think of families, don’t we? And if the foundation be destroyed (see Psalm 11), what can the righteous do? What can anybody do?

For those people who get deeply into stuff like this, there is no stopping point. We knew they’d never be content with “gay marriage.” The transgender explosion followed in its tracks. God only knows what they’ll come up with next, once the novelty wears off.

We are not convinced that these innovations are as popular as the nooze media and its Democrat tribal elders make them out to be. Alexandria O’Crazy-O Cortez was dumbfounded when she went to a town hall in Queens last week and normal people booed and cursed her. We are beginning to suspect that what we see and hear on our TV and computer screens is not what’s really out there. And none of these children who’ve been subjected to “gender reassignment” will ever bear children of their own. Think about what that bodes for the future.

If they can get rid of marriage—by trivializing it, mocking it, discouraging it—they will have taken a giant step toward their statist utopia in which we have nothing to hang on to but Big Brother and whatever he decides we need. There are only so many lunatic variations that can be plugged into marriage before the whole institution collapses into chaos.

Which is what they want.

I have discussed this and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link, stop in for a visit; it would just frustrate the hell out of Chuck Schumer if you did. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘Emergency!’ for the Woke

by Lee Duigon

May 25, 2023

As Bud Lite sales continue to bottom out, thanks to the company’s decision to be the transgender beer of choice, you’d think the woke crowd would at least suspect they might have gone a bridge too far. Assorted polls report that most Americans, by a landslide, oppose the woke agenda.

Is it finally sinking in?

In North Carolina a few days ago, the state legislature prepared to enact a school choice bill, making education vouchers available to all residents regardless of income level. The Democrat governor swung into action, declaring a “state of emergency” to stop the bill.

Emergency? How is school choice an “emergency” for anyone except the Far Left teachers’ unions and their brigade of groomers? Who in his right mind would leave his kids in public school, with vouchers available for a school of his choice? But no—“Stop the damage,” Gov. Roy Cooper says. He, by the way, sends his own children to a private school. But that’s not for us plebs, is it?

Anyway, he expects the legislature to override his veto, so that’s the “emergency” that must be stopped.

Meanwhile, nationwide, the higher-ups at Target frantically phoned their stores to give the managers 36 hours to move all their LGBT-themed children’s clothes and toys to the back of the store, hopefully out of sight of normal people: they want to “avoid a Bud Lite situation,” the kind of massive rejection by normal people that’s pushing Bud Lite underwater. Yes, it’s another “emergency.” Sources say Target’s “terrified” of becoming the next Bud Lite.

How’s this for a better idea? Move all the groomer goods to the parking lot and have a bonfire. That would at least demonstrate sincerity.

What are these people thinking? If multitudes of parents suddenly pull their kids out of North Carolina’s public schools, whose fault is that? The parents don’t want what you’re selling them, chuckles—transgender mania, Critical Race Theory, “gender” mischief kept a secret from the affected children’s families, etc. Stop doing those things, and you won’t have a mad rush out the doors.

And imagine a retail store that has to hide its merchandise. What kind of business is that? I thought stores were supposed to offer goods that people want to buy. Target has got it all backwards.

Far Left Crazy is very slow on the uptake. Why do they suppose people want school choice? Hint: it isn’t because the teachers’ unions’ public schools aren’t woke enough. Why do they suppose people are thronging school board meetings all over the country to object to school board policies? (Oh, wait, I know! It’s because they’re racists—right? And transphobes. Or is that only what the school board numbskulls are saying when they beg the FBI to send agents to the board meetings to spy on parents?)

But it’s simple, really. We don’t like the crapola you’re loading onto our kids in the guise of “education.” We don’t like the stores we shop in catering to groomers. We don’t like being lorded over by Far Left jidrools who hate us, hate the very concept of the family, despise our way of life, and want to transform the country into Venezuela North. And if we have to stop shopping at Target to get our point across… we will.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… before the FBI comes banging on our doors in the middle of the night. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’

by Lee Duigon

May 18, 2023

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)

My judo teacher told me that I could take a headlong fall without getting hurt, provided my palms and forearms hit the mat first—at the same time!—and I turned my head away. Because I believed him, and followed his instructions, I took the fall and it was just fine. I didn’t get hurt.

Other students couldn’t quite believe the teacher, so they had to fall from a kneeling position, not standing up. A few couldn’t believe at all; and rather than risk the fall, they just gave up on judo.

It was a matter of faith. I had faith in the teacher, so I took the fall. I didn’t let a little bit of fear stop me.

Hebrews 11, “the faith chapter,” recites great deeds done by heroic men and heroic women throughout history. They were able to do them because they were motivated and sustained by faith. Noah, Abraham, Moses, Rahab—the things they did were dangerous and risky. Most people wouldn’t have dared to do them. These heroes did them because they believed God’s word; somehow God would get them through their trials. Esther, daring to speak up for her people to the all-powerful (and not entirely stable) king of Persia, said, “And if I die, I die.” It came right down to that. She would accept death, if that was the cost of saving God’s people from genocide.

And many of the saints did die—for doing what was right. Hebrews 11 doesn’t back away from that.

But faith can be misplaced… and often is.

Why do leftists believe in socialism, communism, public education, Climate Change, gender reassignment, college, etc.? By misplaced faith they believe such things. They may insist they don’t need faith, they’ve worked it all out by Reason—but that only means their faith is in Reason, which is only a disguise: what they really believe in is themselves—their own judgment of their intelligence, their own perception of what they accept as fact… or simply what they’ve been taught and what they’ve believed in all their lives and aren’t about to change.

It doesn’t matter where you put it; it’s still faith.

This being so, what we have is not a debate but a clash of faith. There won’t be any adding-up of points to find the winner. Either God and His enscriptured word are the ultimate authority, or He is not and something else is. “Science.” The majority. The enlightened minority. The Party. Or some guy with a gun.

Neither side can surrender.

Our faith demands that we believe God and take the fall, trusting in Him—all-righteous, all-wise—to see it through. It may not turn out as we would most passionately hope; but it will turn out as He intends. If God is God, then no false faith can prevail against Him.

If we can’t believe that, we might as well quit the judo school because we’re never going to get beyond those first hard falls.

There have always been false faiths. One after another, they come and go. Communism is considered a timeless faith, and it’s barely two hundred years old. The others are much younger, and already creaking and groaning with age.

There will come a time when those particular errors don’t exist anymore. We may even live to see it.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week at my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… before we’re all censored out of the picture. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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When the News Is ‘Hate Speech’

by Lee Duigon

May 11, 2023

Yesterday Facebook banned two of my blog posts, declaring them to be “hate speech.” I could’ve sworn they were news reports.

You can find them on my blog, posted yesterday, and decide for yourself. The two stories are:

*Oklahoma governor defunds Oklahoma PBS on the grounds that it indoctrinates and sexualizes children.

*Dept. of Homeland Security (we needed a FOIA lawsuit to find out about this) is recruiting people and training them to inform on their neighbors and anyone else whose political opinions might not match Big Brother’s.

According to Facebook, those two news reports are “hate speech” and must therefore be censored out of sight. No explanation is offered. They don’t have to explain themselves to uppity plebs like you and me.

For that matter, what the devil is “hate speech”? Bill Nye the BS Guy says anyone who doubts “Man-Made Climate Change” should be locked up in jail—that’s not “hate”? Any criticism of Transgender amounts to “genocide” and you’re all Nazis, blah-blah-blah—and that’s not “hate”? And SloJo Biden gets up in front of the camera and calls some 75 million of us (!) “fascists” and “a threat to democracy”—and that, too, is not “hate”? There must be something wrong with my dictionary.

How are we to discuss or debate public policy, as citizens of a republic are supposedly allowed to do, if the side opposed to The Regime is automatically tarred as “hate”? (And just for the record, I hate that! Make of it what you will, commissar.) I don’t like your stupid pronoun fetish—but I’m not allowed to say it in the social media? How is that in any way “social”? I’m convinced that if they ever found a way to get inside our heads and tear out all the thoughts that they don’t like, they’d do it in a New York minute. Oops. Have I slipped again?

Who ever thought we’d ever have a country where children’s TV programs feature drag queens and “celebrate” drugs and surgery that sterilize, lifelong, eight-year-old children, and government agencies that train us to spy on one another? We are right to hate such things. We are right to try to stop them. But Facebook says “Shut up!”

All King George III wanted was a stamp tax and a tea tax, and we took his American colonies away from him for that. Is that independent spirit dead? Are we so far removed from our country’s roots and heritage that we tacitly, tamely submit to being bullied by self-anointed censors?

God forbid.

I’ll have to see if my webmaster can move me to a social media platform that doesn’t censor us for our political opinions. It won’t be easy: viewpoint censorship is very much in style these days. Our current government is intolerant, imperious, and drunk with self-importance. Maybe Elon Musk can find a place for us on Twitter.

We’ve already lost big chunks of our freedom, and stand in clear and present danger of losing what’s left of it. The Romans lost their republic; and we could very well lose ours.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, before they censor any more of my posts. My work can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Good News—About Science

by Lee Duigon

May 4, 2023

I was amazed when I read that “a thousand scientists” signed a petition warning the public against the “zealotry” of radical “veganism” and reminding their audience that meat is “crucial to human health”. I mean, gee, scientists? Aren’t they all lined up for a totally plant-based diet—to Save The Planet from Man-Made Climate Change? (They’d also like us to eat bugs.) Where did they find a thousand scientists to say otherwise?

Meanwhile, I was reading “Is Atheism Dead?” by Eric Metaxas, in which he reported—again, to my amazement—that there are thousands, multitudes of scientists out there quietly working in their respective fields and in no imminent danger of coming out as atheists. They observe, collect evidence, test their theories, exchange their thoughts with others, and strive to come up with science that’s both accurate and beneficial. Metaxas names quite a few of them; and yet I’d never heard of any one of them. Why was that?

Honk if you’ve already guessed the answer: our so-called news media.

I was approaching a conviction of deep skepticism where “science” is concerned, and beginning to think of “scientists” in general as nothing more than the Far Left’s water boys. And that was when I was feeling charitable.

Science news paints a picture of prominent scientists as a brigade of atheists, socialists, and frauds. They’re the ones who get the PBS specials on TV—remember “Cosmos,” starring Carl Sagan? Teaching us that matter is all there is. Neil DeGrasse Tyson got a series, too. And we were always hearing from Bill Nye the Science Guy, who never met a Far Left shibboleth he didn’t like.

Vast amounts of air time have been showered on “the New Atheists”—Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris & Co.—spitting venom at “religion” (‘cause all religions are alike, don’t you know) and blaming “religion,” by which they usually mean Christians, for everything that’s ever gone wrong in our world. You could easily form the impression that all “science” is adamantly opposed to Christianity.

I was drifting into that point of view; and I’m happy to admit I was wrong. The media push for Far Left science was so powerful, so insistent, so lacking in coverage of any other point of view, that it successfully deceived me.

How could I have forgotten Mary Schweitzer, just to name one? It was Dr. Schweitzer who first discovered soft tissue in a fossil Tyrannosaurus leg bone. And boy, howdy, how the “science news” establishment came down on her! They even accused her of mistaking bathub-ring bacteria for T. rex soft tissue. Not only had she just upset the apple cart; but here was a scientist who was a practicing Christian (collective gasp) actually getting coverage in the news media. Not allowed! But she stuck to her guns, and now that they knew where to look, other scientists, honest scientists, also found soft tissue in many different dinosaur fossils. It was no longer a conjecture, but a fact. Cry me a river.

By and large they get no coverage, we never hear much about them or their work, their words are drowned out by the media megaphone in the hands of atheists and statists—but there they are. They have not given up belief in God. For many of them, in fact, their work in science strengthens their religious faith. What a calamity.

There they are in every field of science—astronomy, physics, mathematics, archaeology, paleontology, you name it—working every day toward a deeper understanding of the universe that God created. It would be good for us all to know them better.

They may not win much fame, but they’re after something much more valuable—

Truth.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit. My work can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Why Do They Want These Things?

By Lee Duigon

April 27, 2023

I’ve been asking this question for quite a while, and I’m still waiting for an answer. All these crazy, self-destructive public policies—why does anybody want them?

Okay—let’s bring drag queens into public schools, libraries, YMCAs, and everywhere else we can get into, and have them interact with, oh, five and six-year-old kiddies. We are talking about men who feel compelled to pose as bizarre caricatures of women. And we’re holding them up to children as… role models? As what?

Why do you “progressives” want this? In what way is it desirable?

Let’s use the public schools to encourage children to clamor for “gender reassignment”—‘cause they’re born into the wrong bodies, don’t you know—but we can fix that with puberty-blocking drugs and irreversible surgery—and let’s try real hard to conceal this caper from the children’s parents. We don’t really expect the parents not to notice, and they’ll probably object—but that’s why we have the FBI, isn’t it? With any luck, every kid we touch will become a lifelong medical patient (millions and millions of dollars for their (ahem!) doctors)… and sterile, too. They’ll never be able to have children of their own.

Why do you want this?

And by all means, let’s have lots and lots of censorship! Why should anyone who disagrees with us be allowed to say things in the social media? They think they can bad-mouth the government, the universities, the woke corporations—well, maybe they’d better think again. After all, anyone who’s not a Democrat, an atheist, or queer is, like, totally wrong and shouldn’t be heard from anymore. Why even have an Internet, if people are going to go there just to say wrong things?

Why do you want this?

One of the truly great things about China is that there’s only one political party. How great is that? Imagine how simple our politics would be if anyone who stood up to The Regime got tossed into a prison camp. We’re making progress in that direction, indicting Donald Trump and all, but there’s still a long way to go. Shouldn’t a politician who stands for wrong and evil things, like conservatism, wind up in jail if he loses an election? But if there was only one party, the Democrat Party, that you could vote for—well, then, the right people would win: all the time.

Why do you want this?

And why shouldn’t the FBI spy on and intimidate parents who don’t like some of their local school board’s policies? Who do they think they are? School board members are infinitely smarter and better and cooler than all those stupid parents. Aren’t they entitled to a silent compliance? And while we’re on the subject of school boards, of course we should let them—encourage them, even—stir up racial animosities! Why even be an educator, if you can’t make people hate and fear each other? How else is The Party supposed to stay in power? Divide and rule, baby!

Why in the world do you want this?

We’ve only mentioned five of these wonderful policies that people should just shut up about and obey the government, and there are so many more—letting men compete in women’s sports, refusing to prosecute criminals, banning gas stoves, lockdowns, wiping out our nation’s borders, handing out college degrees in ridiculous pseudo-subjects, etc., etc. This is what Fundamental Transformation’s all about! This is why we have a Democrat Party. This is the legacy of the Obama presidency, and the mission of Joe Biden’s.

(Why, why, why would you ever want any of it?)

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week at my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Drop in for a visit—while it’s still alive. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Look Who Wants to Run the World

by Lee Duigon

April 20, 2023

When I was in grade school, our local police force used to send Sgt. Rieder into the classroom once a year to remind us to steer clear of strangers. If an adult you didn’t know offered you candy, or a ride in his car, whatever, you should bolt on out of there and tell your parents; and they should call the police. I had to do that, once: and an officer came to our house to get whatever information I could give him. I never heard anything more about it, but at least I’d done what I was supposed to do.

We all knew, because we’d been told by our parents, our teachers, and the police, that there were bad people out there who meant to do us harm. To the best of my knowledge, that was never allowed to happen in our town.

But times have changed.

Recently the United Nations formally proposed that all sexual activity—yes, all—should be “decriminalized”. This would include sex with “minors”—children, that is. But only, of course, if a child “consented” to it. That would make it OK. Well, OK with the UN, at least.

Wasn’t this the very thing that Sgt. Rieder warned us about? Suddenly we’re in a world where the kind of people the police used to warn us against are now almost to the point of running a global government. “Want some candy, little boy?” We were taught to run away from that! But now the United Nations is promoting it.

As for our teachers warning us off—have you heard of public schools offering “After-school Satan Clubs”? They’ve even got a commercial for it. Catchy tune, “Satan’s Not an Evil Guy.” Satan stands for… “Science”! And “truth.” And “fun.” These clubs have been popping up in public schools throughout the country. “And by the way,” says the jingle, “there is no Hell.” What a relief. Just do as thou wilt, and there’s no eternal punishment. If your neighborhood school doesn’t have this yet, just wait—they’ll get around to you someday.

Defund the police and fund the After-school Satan Club. How did we ever wind up here? With the people we were taught to run away from now running the store. It happened right before our eyes and no one stopped it. Now we don’t know if it can be stopped. Now it’s the teachers encouraging little children to clamor for “gender reassignment.” Our school tax dollars pay for it. And if you’ve heard of schools keeping this little caper with the children a secret from their parents—well, that’s another thing that seems to be happening a lot.

The teachers’ unions are not going to change their minds about this. Neither is the UN. The only thing we can do, to the extent that we can do anything at all, is to pull the children out of the public schools –take them away from the groomers.

Because now the predators who used to offer children candy if they’d only climb into the car have wealth, power, and a hankering for other people’s kiddies.

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A Peek Into 2100

by Lee Duigon

April 13, 2023

Time to peer into our crystal ball again! Okay, it’s a mostly-empty jar of Miracle Whip—who can afford a genuine crystal ball, these days? But if you know the right incantations, all you need is a Miracle Whip jar.

So let’s take a peek at what awaits us in the year 2100.

Ooh! This looks bad!

If you’re not familiar with cryptozoology, well, it’s just the search for animals that have either gone extinct or never existed in the first place—Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, the dinosaur that lives in that big swamp in the Congo, etc., etc. Of course, the moment a cryptid-hunter actually discovers a cryptic animal, it’s no longer cryptozoology but just plain zoology. It takes a special kind of determination to track down cryptic creatures.

And in 2100, we have the most frantic search for a cryptid that’s ever been seen. Never mind the Loch Ness Monster! In 2100, cryptozoologists the world over are trying to track down a creature that, throughout all of human history, and in all human societies everywhere, was universally recognized as real but which seems to have disappeared sometime in the first half of our current century.

You guessed it! The cryptozoologists in 2100 will be searching for…

Grandchildren!

Once upon a time, grandchildren were as plentiful as the passenger pigeon. You could look it up. What family didn’t have them?

But that was before the 21^st-century Transgender Mania inspired the global ruling class to “reassign the gender” of children all over the world—largely, I am sorry to say, through the public schools. “Reassignment” drugs and surgery, totally irreversible, rendered an entire generation of children permanently sterile.

Oops. Should’ve thought of that, shouldn’t they? Children emerged from public schooling without the capacity to reproduce. Their parents would never have grandchildren. This was hailed as a triumph of “transgender rights.” That generation of children would never have children themselves.

Oh! But there must be children, somewhere, who were not made sterile, whose “gender” was never “reassigned.” The world’s a big place. Somewhere in the tropical rain forests—the ones that haven’t been cut down and paved over to make space for nail salons—or the vast Siberian steppe, or the high and little-traveled mountains of the Caucusus… Somewhere, anywhere, there must be grandchildren.

Cryptozoologist Farfel Meshugga has been searching high and low for grandchildren. “It’s kind of urgent,” he explains, “what with the human race going extinct and all. Against all expectation, Transgender turned out to be a bad idea.”

Last year, in the unmapped wilderness of the Likouala Swamp in the Congo People’s Republic, Meshugga’s camera failed him at the very moment in which a fabulous discovery would have made him world-famous.

“I saw a grandson!” he recalls. “I know I did! The little fellow was riding on one of those dinosaurs. I know, I know—skeptics insist it was only a Bigfoot. And when he saw me, he slid down the tail of the dinosaur and disappeared among the trees. He’s somewhere in that swamp today! And he must have parents, and even grandparents, somewhere out there. Remember families? That kid almost certainly had one!” He sighs deeply. “I’ll just keep looking,” he vows. “And then there’s that sighting, last month, in the Badlands of Alberta, Canada. A prospector swears he saw a little girl. And I’m inclined to believe him.”

So we’re looking at a future in which the survival of the human species depends on the success of cryptozoology! Who would have thought it?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… with your grandchildren, if you’ve got some. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Throwing Away the Steering Wheel

by Lee Duigon

April 6, 2023

Let’s dust off my Political Science degree and see if I learned anything, back then, that helps me understand events today.

In studying “game theory,” we envisioned two cars racing toward a head-on collision: “playing chicken.” How do you win a game of “chicken”?

Simple! Just throw your steering wheel out the window. When the other driver sees it, he will realize that you can’t change course—it’s entirely up to him whether there is a collision or not. He will have to swerve out of the way: otherwise, it’s a head-on crash. He can’t throw out his steering wheel. So you win.

Unless, of course, the other driver has the same idea, at the same time, and he throws away his steering wheel, too. But then the crash becomes inevitable, so he doesn’t dare do that.

Which brings us to the politically motivated “indictment” of President Donald Trump and the weaponization of the Justice Dept. against conservatives. And if Republicans retaliate in kind, Victor Davis Hansen warns, down the tubes goes our republic. That was the fate of ancient Rome’s republic. That’s how they lost it.

Democrats, liberals, progressives are all pursuing policies which can hardly lead to any good result. To cite just one example: a “transgender” invades a school and murders half a dozen people, including three little children—and what does the shambling jidrool in the White House say? “Transgendered people shape the soul of our country.” (Oh! So that’s what’s wrong? Well, we knew it had to be something serious.) So they use our public schools to “reassign gender” of children, subjecting them to drugs and surgeries that will render them incapable of having children themselves. If everyone did this, obviously it would lead to the extinction of the human race.

They thumb their noses at us, convinced that their political opponents wouldn’t dare retaliate in kind. They put the FBI to work spying on parents who complain about their local school boards’ insane racial doctrines. If Republicans were to come to power, what would happen to America if they used that power to sic the Justice Dept. on their own political rivals? Presto! No “justice” at all! Just a lot of people playing tit-for-tat while our cities burn. Plutarch gives us a chilling description of the waning of Rome’s republic: armed bands wandering the streets on election days, looking for “wrong” voters to be kept from the polls by… violence.

They, too, both sides, threw the steering wheel out the window.

The reason it’s a guaranteed win is that the other side dares not do the same things. You can’t win at “chicken” if the other driver is just as determined as you are, not to swerve out of the way of the collision. Our “game theory” offered no solution to the problem. The only hope would be to vote the opposing party out of office—forever—and then try to undo the insane policies that brought us all here in the first place. And that’s hard to do when the other side controls the voting machines.

The Left does not care if it trashes our constitutional republic. They speak as if they welcomed it. Then, on the ruins, and without any meaningful opposition, they could build their socialist “gender-fluid” utopia. I mean, who wants to run for president if losing the election means the winner gets to jail you? “Not caring” is the same as throwing out the steering wheel in a game of chicken.

Rome’s solution was to keep the republic in name only and surrender all power to strong leaders who re-made the state as an empire, with an emperor in charge, a rubber-stamp Senate, and a populace kept politically anesthetized with free bread and circuses.

This is where we’re headed if we don’t change our ways.

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Confessions of a Blindfolded Newsman

by Lee Duigon

March 30, 2023

In the 1970s the U.S. Dept. of Education was founded, and various states set up their own departments of education or else greatly expanded the powers of those already in existence. These steps drastically altered the state of public education in America… not that it was ever all that good an idea in the first place.

I was a weekly newspaper reporter and editor in those days. Among many other duties, I covered three local school boards and had part-timers covering the rest. When a major story came along, we worked on it together.

Very series changes were put in place back then. These happened right before my eyes; and I am ashamed to tell you that I didn’t see them. They were right out there in front of me, and I might as well have been wearing a blindfold. I can only say I couldn’t see the forest for the trees—lots and lots of trees, and every one of them a distraction that kept me from seeing the big picture.

I saw the state education bureaucracy gnaw away and eventually swallow the authority of the local school boards—and didn’t realize what I was seeing. The local boards lost their power to make decisions for the communities that elected them and that they were supposed to represent.

I remember now a meeting of the Matawan Board of Education, in which a nerd from the state came up from Trenton and told the local board members what the state of New Jersey would be expecting of them from now on.

One board member objected. “What is this?” he said. “It sounds like one of those old Soviet five-year plans!” The response was a coy “Tee-hee! Once you buy into the program—“ don’t you love that phrase?—“you’ll have a clearer understanding.” What I didn’t realize was that he already had a very clear understanding of exactly what the state was doing! And how. But he wound up resigning, and it never occurred to me to sit down with him for an in-depth interview. I was too busy with all those little trees.

Dammit all! I was a newsman, and this was news! I had it in my power to inform the public that they were being taken for a ride. That these nabobs in Trenton were growing the government at the community’s expense. That the teachers’ union had the state wrapped around its little finger. And that the union would use that power to impose a Far Left turn.

So the people who paid for the schools, and sent their children there, would no longer be getting what they thought they paid their taxes for. From now on, they’d be getting whatever the unions and quasi-Marxist grey ponytail “educators” thought they ought to get. Local board members either resigned or towed the line as laid down by the state. The boards now represented Trenton, not their own communities that had elected them. The remaining board members, most of them, came to think of themselves as “educators” ruling from on high. All for the people’s own good, of course.

By and by the newspaper workload became too heavy a burden for me and I resigned, too. I left in a state of ignorance, unable to see that from now on the only role of the public in public education was to shut up and pay for it.

People who don’t much like us, and who want to change our way of life, have been working on our schools for fifty years.

Pull your children out of there. That’s all that’s left for us to do.

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When ‘Dissent’ Was a Thing

by Lee Duigon

It was the summer of 1967, and come September, I would start college—four years of it, at least.

To prepare me for the college experience, Rutgers University provided me with a summer reading list, gotta read ‘em all or you won’t be ready for college (although they never did check to see if I’d read any of them—if only I’d known they were bluffing).

Every last one of those books celebrated “dissent” as the crown of civic virtue. I don’t remember the titles. And then, as Day One drew near, I had to go there for “freshman orientation” and a passel of lectures which, again, lauded “dissent.” You’d think I was going for a degree in dissent. It was all they talked about.

Soon enough I learned that “dissent” really meant some kind of duty to oppose the Viet Nam War, attach myself to the Democrat Party, take part in “protests” against the presence of ROTC on campus (awkward for me: I was in ROTC, hoping to become an Army officer after graduation), and nod my head sagely as a gaggle of professors babbled about the wonderfulness of Chairman Mao and Fidel Castro—big names on campus. And we were all supposed to love President Lyndon Johnson until they turned around and declared that we must hate him.

We were all expected to “dissent” from the same things. They didn’t like it if you dissented from the dissenters.

Fifty-six years later, you’re asking for it if you “dissent” from Far Left dogma. You don’t want to get shoved into sensitivity training, do you? All that exhortation to “dissent” has either vanished or become just another nosedive into political conformity. Go ahead, walk around the campus wearing a MAGA hat and see what happens. And that’d be only one of dozens of daredevil actions you could take. So many ways to go wrong!

Oh, I remember all those lofty words and slogans from my college days. Academic freedom! Free and open inquiry! John Stuart Mill “On Liberty”! The marketplace of ideas! Doesn’t look like they meant a single word of it. Our academic freedom—not yours. We can question and inquire—you can’t. John Stuart who? Never heard of him. A marketplace of our ideas, not yours. And you’d better have your mind right about Transgender Rights and Climate Change… we know where you live.

The same people who kept clubbing you over the head with “dissent” in 1967 are now the gatekeepers who won’t let you in or out unless you know the magic words. The same university which used to claim the mission of expanding your mind… now seeks to shrink it. They seem to be doing a very good job of that.

It doesn’t stop when you get out of college, either. Government colludes with Big Tech to censor you, to silence your opinions if you… dissent! So much for the highest civic virtue. The same political party that used to glamorize, promote, and glorify dissent… now seeks to stifle it. And they can always find another pandemic if they need one—it’s so good for teaching the public a habit of obedience.

Are we citizens or sheep?

Liberty is not the natural state of a fallen human race. It has to be prized, protected, constantly worked for, constantly defended. Because there are ogres out there who’ll take it from us every chance they get.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: we can dissent together. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Far Left Monument: ‘Mount Blushmore’

by Lee Duigon

March 16, 2023

Hi-Times Amusements Inc. has landed a $300 billion contract to create a “Mount Rushmore-type” monument to America’s progressive movement. Disgruntled plebs are already calling it “Mount Blushmore.”

Undaunted by nearly universal mockery, company commissar Willie Makit says “The sheer excitement of this project makes me oogy all over!”

Naturally, the big question is “Where is this thing gonna go?” and “Whose portraits will we use?” What? That’s two questions? Well, whatever.

“You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to decide which four progressive icons we should use,” Makit said. “I mean, there are so many of them! Hundreds! And you really hate to leave anybody out—but, y’know, we only have so many mountains in this country. Our friends in China have offered to lease us a couple hundred miles of the Himalayas, but the logistics of doing that come out to some $980 trillion and we just can’t raise that much—even with a special tax. Regrettably, we’ll just have to settle for the Rockies.”

Mr. Makit said he’s been up all night for several weeks in a row, trying to decide which portraits are to be carved into the mountains. “We can’t possibly use everyone who deserves recognition for fundamentally transforming America into what it is today! How do you say ‘no’ to President Obama? To say nothing of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff—gee, I really wanted to do him! With those eyes of his!—Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, that guy Swalwell or whatever his name is… But we can only use four. Oh, my head is spinning!”

But wait, there’s more. “We’re not crazy American nationalists, you know,” he said. “We are well aware that without vital contributions from other countries, other times, there would be no American progressive movement! So our board has decided that only one of the four portraits should be of an American. Because—wait for it!—there’s just no way we can leave out Comrade Fidel Castro, Chairman Mao, and the very father of progressivism, Karl Marx.”

Mount Rushmore has Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. (“White supremacists!” snorts Makin.) So far, Mount Blushmore has decided on Castro, Mao, and Marx. But that’s only three. Who will be the lone American up there?

“We’ve tried everything, hoping it’ll lead us to the right decision—ouija board, tarot cards, dowsing, extreme fasting, lots and lots of weed: you name it, we’ve tried it!”

One more try–ironically, the solution Makin thought least likely to bear fruit—was a secret public opinion poll conducted by lemurs.

“We were shocked when the winner emerged… and who was that but President Joe Biden? Yes, Biden!” He shook his head in wonder. “President Biden got 100 million votes,” he said. “And we only sent out 5 million ballots! Well, he ain’t president for nothin’! And he’s sure to feel at home, once he’s up there with the other three.”

Construction will begin, Makin said, as soon as Climate Change allows.

I have discussed these (well, maybe not these!) and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit: maybe we’ll get a monument, too. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Lords of Misrule

by Lee Duigon

March 9, 2023

Our government is coming to resemble a year-round Roman festival of Saturnalia—a holiday in which everything was turned upside-down—for fun. Slaves giving orders to masters, everybody making whoopee in the streets: it was the way they let off steam.

Ours is just corruption.

Think of the plethora of Biden family scandals. To mention just one of many, there was Hunter Biden, son of the vice president who is now, uh, president, occupying a seat on a Ukrainian gas board with a salary of $50,000 a month—for what? He doesn’t speak Ukrainian and doesn’t know beans about energy policy. And he’s still out there, free as a bird, enriched by ill-gotten gains, with his old man in the White House. He can even sell his alleged artwork… to people seeking favors from Papa Biden.

How is this even remotely tolerable? How is this anything but corrupt? Oh, there’ll be a Congressional investigation, for what it’s worth—not much. As long as “the big guy” gets his ten percent—right? And we’re supposed to be cool with it.

Then there’s the governor of California, Noisome Newsom. With his state getting battered by blizzards (of all things!), what does he do? Well, of course! He takes off for Baja to catch some rays. Some deaths have been caused by these freakish blizzards, but the boss needed some down-time on the beach.

This guy missed his calling. He should’ve been President For Life of some Third World hell-hole. He has the right attitude for it.

And closer to home, we’ve got our ever-lovin’ school boards. Once upon a time, when the poor plebs actually owned the schools they paid for, local boards of education were a grass-roots enterprise. That changed in the Seventies, big-time: the local boards’ autonomy was gobbled up by state and federal departments of education. The local boards have become Deep State camp followers, grooming kids for sex and sic’ing the FBI on parents who don’t like it. A lot of these jidrools have been voted out of office since they did this, but it remains to be seen whether their replacements can stop the bleeding. If America dies, it’ll be our “education” establishment that did the most to kill our republic. Teachers’ unions and teachers’ colleges have been the baddest of the bad guys.

We are governed by modern lords of misrule. Every day, for them, is Saturnalia. Is there any member of this administration who is not a fool, a freak, or a grifter? They had to fire one of them for going to the airport and stealing women’s luggage. Betcha they don’t teach that in any civics class. If you can even find a civics class.

It’s a dangerous world out there, with Chicoms and Russkies and Islamic weirdos and, maybe worst of the lot, the World Economic Forum, all scrambling to take down America so they can parasitize the rest of the human race. Is it too much to ask the American government not to help them do it?

We used to have recourse to elections: we could throw the bums out. But our elections aren’t what they used to be, are they? Now the Democrat candidate can hide out in his cellar, emerging now and then to spout a few more gaffes and hold rallies with, oh, dozens of people in attendance—and still wind up with 80 million votes.

President Trump says we have to learn to beat them at their own game: ballot harvesting, mail-in voting, and all the other tricks. Maybe he’s right. The risk is that with both parties making a havoc of the elections, the game will never be straight again. But what else can we do? Someday we’ll have an election in which twice as many votes are cast as there are voters to cast them.

Rome’s republic reached that point.

And died.

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Corrupting America

by Lee Duigon

March 2, 2023

What if the government were to offer you five million dollars? Not for anything you did, not for anything that anybody did to you… but just for being you? “You” being any “long-term black resident” of San Francisco?

Wow! That’s a lot of money! Knowing that a multitude of people whom you don’t know, and probably never will, had to work for that money… would you take it?

I’m afraid to find out the answer to that question.

Heck, you don’t know any of those people. Why not take the money? You’ll be a millionaire!

This is the idiocy being contemplated by officials in San Francisco. No one knows exactly how much it would cost, but it’s got to be at least several times greater than the city’s regular municipal budget. But think of how great it’ll make rich white liberals feel about themselves!

The $5 million a head is intended to be “reparations” for slavery—which was formally abolished during the Civil War, which ended 158 years ago and slavery never existed in the state of California anyhow. So people who never kept slaves, never even saw a slave, are to pay this colossal sum of money to people who have never been slaves.

They don’t know where the money’s coming from, it’s profoundly unfair—punishing people for something that they never did—and worse than that, it will corrupt anyone who receives that money. Who has the integrity not to accept it?

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, British publishers are busily rewriting famous best-selling novels to make them acceptable and inoffensive to persons saturated by PC ideology. To that end, they’re rewriting Ian Fleming’s spy novels featuring 007, James Bond. They were also going to rewrite Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books, but energetic public protests scuttled the ploy. So they’ll offer two editions: the original, and the Far Left Stupid rewrites.

The Bond books are B-A-D because they’re full of “sexism, racism, and imperialism” (thank you, Commissar Khrushchev). All the B-A-D stuff has to be taken out… leaving, I suppose, not much of anything.

But you shouldn’t be allowed to read them as written! Some would call that censorship, but these dindles call it Social Justice. Somehow the pro-choice crowd never does anything but take away your choices. We’ve abolished the old-fashioned kind of slavery (except in certain Muslim countries), only to replace it with another kind.

What do these two news bits have in common? Liberals getting in your face and telling you what you can and cannot do—and making you pay for their utopia.

There’s no end to this. Have you noticed we’re now expected to say “they” for “he” or “she,” even though it’s absurdly bad English? Libs the world over are diving head-first onto that bandwagon, and they’ll give you what-for if you don’t join them. Every new silliness that they invent, in their deep idleness, they expect the rest of us to lap it up. If you don’t, you’re a Hater, etc. You cisnormative binary non-intersectional stinker, you!

Why do we let them do this to us? Why have we failed to laugh and razz them out of business? They erase our history and sabotage our future.

How far do they have to go before we’ve had enough?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, before they take away that choice, too. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Non-Presidents’ Day

by Lee Duigon

February 23, 2023

Presidents Day seemed unusually muted this year. Why?

Some commentators, “Politico” for instance, say it’s because America is sick of presidents. Maybe. I wouldn’t challenge it.

But I think we should be uproariously thankful to Providence that certain people never got to be president. It could be a new holiday: “Non-Presidents Day.” We can rejoice in sorrows that we never had to bear.

Three non-presidents spring to mind, in recent memory.

*Al Gore ran for president after he invented the Internet (so he said) and before he became a zillionaire leading the Global Warming jihad. He has said and done nothing since 2000 to indicate that putting him in the White House as president wouldn’t have been a catastrophe. He never heard of any government whose power he wouldn’t want to expand: he is both a statist and a globalist—a juggling act requiring an enormous amount of insincerity. I really don’t want to speculate on how he would have handled 9/11—do you?

Having muffed it with Gore, Democrats in 2004 resorted to *John Kerry, one of history’s most successful gigolos (how he ever managed that, don’t ask). He has since enjoyed stints as secretary of state and “climate czar,” a position not mentioned in the Constitution. There he has labored tirelessly to erode American sovereignty and put our country under the heel of the World Economic Forum. George W. Bush had his faults, but he did have one thing going for him: he wasn’t John Kerry.

Where did we ever get the idea that a deep disdain for America is something we should look for in a president? Kerry embodies that attitude.

*Hillary Clinton ran in 2016 on the entitlement ticket: her husband was president, therefor it’s now “her turn.” Most Americans she lightly tossed into what she called “a basket of deplorables.” She wants a swollen government, gluttonous for more and more power, with herself at its head and all dissent suppressed by any means necessary. “I want it, I want it!” sums up her philosophy of government. Her reptilian personality makes this hard to swallow.

Imagine the damage any one of those three might have done, ensconced in the Oval Office. Oh, wait—we don’t have to imagine it. We have SloJo Biden.

When you recover from this exercise, then try to imagine all three getting in, one after the other. Talk about a fundamental transformation! The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed; make was for the USSA, United Soviet States of America.

If you think Big Tech is playing with our minds now, imagine what they’d be doing if we’d had those three in office.

It’s true that President *Batteries Not Included, having defeated straw men John McCain and Mitt Romney, turned race-baiting into a presidential priority and paved the way for “Critical Race Theory,” “gender reassignment,” and calling dissent “disinformation.” Donald Trump came along and did much good, most of which was quickly undone by the Biden Gang. But the Deep State and Our Free & Independent Nooze Media Inc. are determined that that much good must never be done again.

Well… it seems we’ve got a revival going—God knows we need one. Will the Holy Spirit pull us out of the tar-pit? Or should I ask, will we allow the Holy Spirit to rescue us? Here we are on unfamiliar ground.

But it may be for the best.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit… while we’re still allowed. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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What—No Consequences?

By Lee Duigon

February 16, 2023

It seems that no matter what they do, our Lords of Misrule never have to deal with any consequences and we’re supposed to grin and bear it.

Well, some of us aren’t grinning and we wonder why we have to bear it.

A few telling examples will suffice.

*The Afghanistan debacle—billions of dollars’ worth of modern military equipment abandoned to the enemy. Biggest and most shameful episode in American military history—at least since the Great Skedaddle at Bull Run in the Civil War. Why is General Chilly Millie still chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? No consequences for him! Because he says the most serious threat to American security today is “white supremacy.” Unless it’s that imaginary Climbit Change they’re always going on about.

I mean, gee, what does a general have to do to get fired, these days? Will he still be up there dremmeling when the Chicoms take over the White House?

*The Hunter Biden laptop scandal—which was actually about Biden family corruption… which included “the Big Guy” who is now our “president.” Ten percent for him. Why, that was nothing but “Russian disinformation”! Big Tech, Big Media, the CIA and the FBI worked feverishly together to suppress this news before the 2020 election.

Has anyone been fired over this? Has anybody gone to jail? Of course not. Grin and bear it, America!

*On the orders of the Justice Dept., Merrick Garland in charge, the FBI spied on parents who attended local school board meetings to object to local school board policies. Still grinning, everybody? How many gangsters slipped through the net because the FBI was busy spying on parents who didn’t like Critical Race Theory? Parents didn’t want their six-year-olds indoctrinated into aberrant sex and racial feuding—that was a crime? Of course it was: the National School Boards Assn. and the teachers’ unions said so.

Why wasn’t Garland impeached for this? Why wasn’t he fired? Is it just because the FBI has become nothing but a bunch of henchmen doing the Democrats’ dirty work for them? One hand washes the other?

*And this week we’ve learned that the FBI has been targeting Catholics for holding on to traditional Catholic beliefs and practices—on the word of the exuberantly Far Left “Southern Poverty Law Center.” Why, those Catholic traditionalists just must be White Supremacists—and “anti-gay,” too!

Meddling with the inner workings of America’s largest Christian church—and this from the jidrools who are always claiming “separation of church and state”. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has been inexplicably mute about this; but the public didn’t like it, so the FBI, um, “retracted” the leaked memo. “Retracted” means “pretend to stop but keep on doing it anyway, when no one’s looking.” Again, no one’s been fired, no one’s gone to jail. Religious freedom in America is just not as important as it used to be. We don’t need no stinkin’ freedom.

Not a peep out of the self-proclaimed “devout Catholic” in the White House. To say nothing of our former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi: another “devout Catholic” on board with our lawless FBI.

What they are doing is vandalizing our republic—and they do it with impunity. They’ve got our national elections just the way they want them, so they can do whatever they please. All they’ve got to do now is silence Elon Musk and they’re home free. Very awkward, all those Twitter scandals he’s uncovered. But at least he’s firing the bad guys. Gotta start somewhere.

How do we get our Constitution back?

I would tell you if I knew.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit… before the FBI breaks down our doors. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Have the Bad Guys Won?

By Lee Duigon

February 9, 2023

Our side seems to have a morale problem. It’s understandable—but it’s also just what Far Left Crazy wants. A demoralized enemy is beaten before the battle starts.

Victor Davis Hanson is a conservative commentator whom I respect. But when I read his piece, “Anarchy, American Style”, it knocked me for a loop.

He seemed to be throwing in the towel. Like, “Game over, man!” The Far Left radicals of the 1960s are now The Establishment. They’ve got a choke-hold on practically everything: our schools and colleges, “woke” corporations, our nooze media, the entertainment industry, our major cities, our minor cities, even some of our churches—you name it, they control it. They steal elections. They crush all opposition. And they abuse, insult, and demonize the rest of us. To Hillary Clinton we’re “deplorables.” To SloJo Biden, we’re “the dregs.” They’re constantly doing it and constantly getting away with it.

Did I mention that they’ve got the FBI and Justice Dept., too?

And then along comes the Grammy Awards, this week, and racks up 12.4 million viewers. Joy Reid exults: “The culture wars are over, and the Left won!”. Yessireebob, “total defeat” for conservatism. For America. What a rebound from last year’s Grammy debacle, a lousy 8.8 million views. The ratings don’t lie, Pancho! America is ripe and ready for Satanism, transgender, grooming little kids for sex, a drag queen on every street corner…

As Plato once said of sea monsters, “Perhaps the stories are not true.”

Those 12.4 million views are a misrepresentation. Yes, it was better than last year. But in 2020 the Grammies racked up 18.7 million viewers. Compared to that, 12.4 million is the kind of disaster that causes real-world businesses to bottom out.

So what they’re bragging about, the basis for their claims to victory, is nothing but a big finagle, another illustration of how statistics can be made to lie.

Did I mention that Disney’s stock is down by 44 percent? Not looking too good for “Groomers ‘R’ Us,” is it? A few more quarters like that and it’s sayonara, baby.

Leftids have worked hard, worked maniacally, to get to where they are today—gotta give ‘em that. But they have a glaring vulnerability: They think normal people agree with them and want what they’re selling. (Can I sell you 50 shares of Disney stock?)

They think we want their deluxe fun-pak! They think we want our children sterilized and fed to drag queens. They think we want non-existent national borders. And while we’re at it, we’ll be only too pleased to give up our cars, gas stoves, private home ownership, free speech, religion, and anything else they can lay their sweaty little hands on.

We know by now who is the enemy and what we have to do. Destroy the teachers’ unions. Chase the snakes out of our business. If they’re selling it, don’t buy it! You really should be able to get by without “Gay Day” at the old ballpark. Homeschool our children: without “public education,” the Far Left dies.

Nothing will ever convince these fanatics that they’re wrong. Don’t bother convincing them: beat them! And do it before they cook up another pandemic for us, and steal another national election.

Victor, Victor—live up to your name! We need all hands on deck. Stop crying the blues and help us give Democrats something to cry about.

Remember: they think they’re winning… and it’s just a lie, an illusion. Let them believe in it. We can’t afford to.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Pop in for a visit, make a liberal unhappy. My articles can so be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘Who You Are’ Trumps ‘What You Can Do’

by Lee Duigon

February 2, 2023

Because “Diversity and Inclusion” is now The Most Important Thing, Finland’s national figure skating tournament recently trotted out a 59-year-old man who says he’s a woman and let him compete for the women’s championship. And because stupid stuff doesn’t work, this guy took a prat fall in the first 45 seconds of his show.

There’s video galore, showing this ridiculous incident. One of the videos features a scrolled text at the bottom of the screen saying “They falls”—“they” being the latest wokism for “he” or “she,” because it’s important to support this blather with idiotic substitute pronouns.

Once upon a time, we believed that “what you can do” mattered much more than “who you are” by accident of birth. If “what you can do” is the standard, then anyone who can actually “do it” has an equal chance to be rewarded. But that’s history. Now we’re into “Diversity and Inclusion.” You get a reward, you get your kudos, even if you fall on your kiester in a figure skating competition. Because it’s So Important (!) to have some guy stumbling around on the ice because he says he is a woman.

Come to think of it, “what is”—that is, reality—now takes a back seat to “what you say is.” They used to lock you up for that. “I am a world-class women’s figure skater because I say I am!” And I am the Sultan of Swat.

What could be more shameful? What could be more slavish than to call “he” “they” because a lot of blooming idiots say you should? Has self-respect gone completely out the window? Along with truth? Are we trying to create a whole civilization based on mere delusion? On lies?

Sure looks like it.

“Transgender” has taken off like a rocket, and people who should know better have abandoned all trace of integrity so they can hop aboard the bandwagon.

Call me old-fashioned, but I still believe that truth is better than lies—and I write fantasy novels! If anyone were to call my books “true stories about things that really happened,” I would know there was something seriously wrong with him. Or her. Notice I don’t say “them.”

Maybe it goes back to handing out participation trophies and saying “Good job!” to every child whose Little League team never won a game. Where is the incentive to do better? Aren’t sports supposed to be about achievement? Check that—apparently achievement is now a dirty word. So now we talk about “pregnant people” instead of pregnant women, embracing twaddle and ignorance because that’s the only way we can be Inclusive. Don’t want to be Haters, do we?

The whole business is an affront to sanity, an international disgrace. This is culture rot, big-time. What will our posterity think of us? Presuming we even have any posterity.

Humanists detest the human race, and this “trans” garbage is their most effective gambit yet. It must ultimately lead to sterility—which seems to be something that the World Economic Forum passionately desires. They write most of us off as “useless eaters” who need to be sedated with drugs and video games until they decide what to do with us. Maybe they can erase a few billion of us by plunging the family into chaos. Once you’ve had your “gender reassigned,” you can forget about ever having any children of your own.

Some of us laugh at it and call it a joke, but it’s not funny.

It’s stupid, it’s not sane, and it has to stop.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Governed by Idiots

by Lee Duigon

January 26, 2023

Do you ever get the feeling that we are governed and (ahem!) educated by idiots? And if we are, it’s a serious problem. Public policies crafted by idiots cost rafts of money and damage our civilization.

Here are just a few examples.

In Norway, the University of Bergen has spent over a million dollars to “research” whether—how can I say this in a way that doesn’t sound ridiculous?—white paint is… racist… and “contributes to white supremacy”. You almost get a sense that Norway’s academic fat-heads are jealous of the stupidities practiced by their colleagues in other Western countries, and want very badly to catch up.

Uh-oh. Here in America we have this building called “the White House,” where a dotard claiming to be president lives when he’s not on vacation, or hiding. Well, they say America’s a racist hell-hole, don’t they? Next thing you know, they’ll be painting the White House black.

Meanwhile, Europe is on fire with war between Russia and Ukraine, the Chicoms are making noises about invading Taiwan, communists are taking over Brazil… but our State Dept. has other fish to fry.

This is another thing that’s going to sound silly. The baboons in our State Dept. have decided that all their documents must be reprinted in another type font. For some years they’ve been using Times New Roman. Now it seems that this typeface has to go… because it has serifs. Serifs supposedly make the documents “inaccessible” to readers with certain “disabilities.” Blah, blah. So they’re going to reprint everything in Calibri, a type face without serifs. How much this is going to cost, we have not been told.

But what about people who are illiterate, and can’t read no matter what type face you use? Maybe it will occur to some wizard in the State Dept. that it’d be an even bigger chunk of Social Justice not to print documents anymore at all. (I capitalize these things because leftids think they’re important.) Think of it—a State Dept. with no documents! Nothing written down.

I told you it sounds silly.

Speaking of stupid, a man in Texas, who choked his girlfriend and put her in fear of her life, was charged with kidnaping and assault—and the judge let him go free on $2 bail, a dollar for each count. Guess what happened next.

That’s right—the thug was arrested just a few days later for attacking the same woman again. If it’s only going to cost you a dollar per count, why not? Well, this time somebody noticed he had eight prior counts of violent crime on his rap sheet, so a new bail was set at $60,000.

All over the country, insane judges and prosecutors are letting criminals get out of jail free. Somehow all the felons running around loose jacks up the crime rate in many of our cities. You have to be pretty desperate, these days, to take a ride in New York’s subway system. The level of violence there is staggering. But you aren’t any safer anywhere else.

How did we wind up in Stupid World? And more to the point, how do we get out of it? When they’re not physically assaulting us, they’re assaulting our wallets. How many stores have had to close because prosecutors won’t prosecute rampant shoplifting? How many parents are disconcerted when their sons and daughters come home from college babbling pure inanities?

We’re in this mess because the wrong people—way, way wrong!—are running our cities and “educating” our children—wrong people with disastrously wrong ideas.

We need to find a way of getting rid of them and putting sane people in charge.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit, if you’re not busy getting mugged on the sidewalk. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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When Will ‘Woke’ Come Crashing Down?

By Lee Duigon

January 19, 2023

I don’t know why, but lately I’ve had the strangest feeling that the whole “Woke” enterprise will come crashing down in little pieces—and a lot sooner than we think.

In the last century the world faced two horrendous threats, the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Both seemed unstoppable. But the Reich was brought down by military force, rigorously applied; and the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its own cruelty and inept and crazy economic policies.

In a fallen world, evil never lies dormant for long. Today we have two new threats to deal with: Communist China, and the globalist coven led by the World Economic Forum. Look at what they’re brewing up for us.

*They use our public schools to groom our children for sex, doing everything they can think of to encourage children to be “transgender.” The point of this is to destroy the family, which has always been an obstacle to authoritarian rule. “Transgender” not only subjects the family to chaos; it also has the potential to impose widespread sterility upon the human face: can’t reproduce if they’ve cut out your reproductive organs and shot you full of puberty blockers. Honk if you can find a WEF bigwig who doesn’t think the human population must be drastically reduced.

♦ Assisted suicide is now offered as an answer to life’s problems. In this Canada takes the lead—and here we go reducing the population again. Humanists have very little love for human beings.

♦ They want to take our stuff: gas stoves, privately owned cars, privately owned homes, our means of self-defense, and anything else they think we need to do without. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy”: that’s their pitch. If that appeals to you, get help.

♦ Big Government, Big Tech, and big corporations infested by wokies labor to smother all dissent. Gotta put a lid on all that “misinformation”! They use our universities to preach that free speech always leads to hate speech, so it has to be censored. For our own good, of course.

These are the evils that they’ve already launched at us. So what makes me think they might not be unstoppable, after all?

If we take tens of millions of our children out of “public education,” we can sit back and watch the teachers’ unions and teachers’ colleges shrivel up and die—and hamstring the Transgender movement while we’re at it.

And just how popular is the program described above? All around the world, the people hate it. Red China has mastered the art of suppressing its own people. How long can they keep it up? Surely not forever. What happens when God raises up leaders who will know how to stop the unstoppable? The enemy can rig elections—but can they rig the human spirit? What if the people say “No, you cannot take our stuff!”—what then? What if Herod’s men stop being Herod’s men, and refuse to trample down their families, friends, and neighbors? Remember the old woman in Moscow who stood before the tanks and wouldn’t let them pass; and the soldiers in those tanks refused to run her down. All it took, that day, was one old woman who said “No!”

And do we need point out that the policies embraced by tyrants are, in their own favorite word, “unsustainable”? They never fail to produce misery, poverty, and chaos. “Progressives” are too dense, too puffed-up with hubris, to see that. More fool them.

There’s always some tyrant, some cabal, who wants to rule the world: it’s a dynamic of history. Some get farther than others, but none has ever reached the finish line. Every form of crime and cruelty has been enlisted for that purpose. It’s no different now. The technology changes, new crimes are invented, but the dynamic is the same.

The Judge of all the earth will surely do right. And the stage will be swept clear until new idiots arise.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit—just to cheese off Democrats. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Are We ‘Terrorists’?

by Lee Duigon

January 12, 2023

Democrats do the darnedest things with words. You think you know what a word means, because you’ve used it all your life; but then they use it, and its meaning either changes drastically or simply disappears, leaving the word with no meaning at all.

Why do they do this? Because they want to control the language—and in so doing, control our very thoughts. You can’t think coherently without words. When “justice” means tyranny, and “peace” means war, and “good” means evil… well, you’re washed up on Nowhere Island, aren’t you?

By now they’ve even got Republicans doing it. Rep. Dan Crenshaw has apologized for calling some of his fellow Congressmen “terrorists” because they preferred not to vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Somehow he equated that with, oh, suicide bombing. And if he were a Democrat, he would’ve gotten away with it. It’s wonderful to have the nooze media in your pocket.

Once upon a time, you had to crash an airplane into a building, or drive a truck bomb into a crowd and blow up a dozen bystanders, or poison a lot of people you didn’t know: you had to do things like that to earn the label, “terrorist.”

Not anymore.

The National Assn. of School Boards, in cahoots with SloJo Biden’s grossly misnamed “Justice” Dept., slapped the “terrorist” label onto parents—yes, parents—who went to school board meetings to object to stupid, wicked, crazy school board policies. Stirring up racial paranoia, encouraging young children to “change your gender,” stocking school libraries with all kinds of pornography—a lot of parents weren’t exactly cool with such shenanigans. So Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the FBI to spy on them. The association apologized for this, but only after they got caught.

And don’t forget “stochastic terrorism.” You’re guilty of that if the Authorities decide that something you said in the social media somehow inspired some wacko 15 states away to commit a violent crime motivated by “hate.” Then it’s your fault! You don’t even know you did anything wrong until the armed FBI goon squad shows up at your door.

It has become fantastically easy to become a “terrorist.” Simply say or write something that a leftid or a noozie doesn’t agree with, and presto—you are now a terrorist. Just like joining Al-Qaeda. You can even be branded a terrorist just because what you write or say doesn’t go far enough to the Left. Or for no reason at all—not even for a silly reason.

Many thousands of people have been killed by terrorists. Real terrorists, I mean. Mothers and fathers who don’t like the schools indoctrinating their children into asking for puberty blockers… they haven’t killed anyone. The government just can’t tell the difference anymore. And do we really wanted to be governed by persons who are that stupid?

Satan is the author of confusion. Debasing and debauching the language spreads confusion. Those who do so are servants of evil.

The schools and, um, “universities” are the chief offenders here, although Hollywood and other “entertainment” media are also guilty. And how careless and out of touch are we, who continue to send tens of millions of our children to these indoctrination mills? Suddenly your son wants to be your daughter—and you don’t realize that his public school planted that delusion in his head?

But of course you mustn’t do anything about it—mustn’t complain, mustn’t demand they stop, mustn’t pull your children out of school and educate them at home—because that might make you a “terrorist.” And without blowing up a single building.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… you ol’ stochastic terrorist, you. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Some Snippets of Nooze

by Lee Duigon

January 5, 2023

The year is new, but the nooze is same-old, same-old. Here are just a couple of pieces of it.

*Do you ever get the feeling that some of the leaders of the Republican Party are in the bag for Democrats? Passing that $1.7 trillion potlatch, for instance. It’s like there’s a deal in place: “You let us run wild and ruin the country, and we’ll make sure you come home from Capitol Hill as rich as Croesus.” It would be very nice to think this isn’t going on.

*That $1.7 trillion deluxe fun-pack includes a provision to equip all new cars with a “kill switch” so that unspecified “authorities” can remotely shut off your car whenever they feel the urge for it. This is supposed to happen sometime within the next five years.

It’s for our Safety, of course—perish the thought that it’s just another dystopian scheme to rob us of our liberties. Your car will only work when they want it to work. So be careful what you say on social media! You’re probably guilty of Stochastic Terrorism.

*Meanwhile, Communist China has taken the lead in the development of a “virtual person” industry. Simply speaking, these are hi-tech electronic puppets intended to replace real people as “influencers” (as if the real ones weren’t bad enough) and “scandal-free icons” for pitching goods and services. You can get them in 3-D, or pay a lot less for two-dimensional figures.

Well, heck, it’s such an improvement over real people! You know the World Economic Forum thinks so. Virtual persons will never go on strike for higher salaries—in fact, once you’ve bought one, you’ll never have to pay it or feed it or tell it bedtime stories—nor will they ever show up drunk, or get caught sexually harassing their co-workers, or say or do anything politically questionable. No need to worry about a virtual person turning against The Party or The Corporation and going whistle-blower.

If you can’t get full compliance from real people, you can certainly get it from your hi-tech puppets. And full compliance is what ruling the world is all about.

Suddenly I’m fed up with the nooze. But let’s try one more snippet.

*Jane Goodall, who became famous in the 1970s for studying chimpanzees in the wild, gave a presentation to the World Economic Forum in 2020—the video has only just resurfaced—in which she declared that the earth needs to be depopulated… to fight (you guessed it) Climbit Change! She reckoned erasing 7.5 billion of us ought to do the trick—only half a billion left, after that. Hey, we’re mostly just a lot of “useless eaters,” right?

We are governed and lectured to by misanthropes who really, truly don’t like us.

We could hit them back by pulling tens of millions of our children out of public schools run by wackos in the teachers’ unions and “educators” who wish they had a seat at all those WEF wingdings at Davos. We could save a whole generation from being groomed for variant sex and encouraged to have their gender “reassigned.” Anyone who thinks this doesn’t need doing has simply not been paying attention.

We may not live long enough to see better news crowd out the bad; but it would be good to make some provision for our children’s sanity.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… before we’re all replaced by virtual persons who never make waves. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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A Satirist’s Sighs

by Lee Duigon

December 29, 2022

Once upon a time in ancient Wales, kings and chieftains were very careful in their dealings with bards, for fear they might be made the subject of a satire. It was believed that a sharp satire, driven by real passion and following all the formal rules of bardic satire… would come true! And you’d wind up blind, or silly, or walking backwards for the rest of your days.

Some twenty years ago, on a now-defunct website, I wrote a satire about the New Utopian Translation of the Bible—the N.U.T. Bible, featuring wacky theology cobbled together by Far Left crazies in a fictional seminary. A pastor in Seattle read it and gave a sermon about it. His daughter wrote a report of it for school. He was upset enough to contact me for more information.

“Uh… it was a satire,” I said. “I made it up, to poke fun at jive theologians who try to replace God’s Word with their own.”

After a long pause, the pastor said “What have I done? Oh, my! That’s why everybody in the pews was staring at me. N.U.T.—that spells ‘nut’. The Nut Bible! And my daughter had a hard time with it, too!” But he was a good sport about it. “It’s all my fault,” he said, “I should’ve realized it was satire.” I’ll bet his next sermon was a doozy.

It happened again. This time it was a satire that proclaimed “The government will pay you $100 cash to try gay sex! (Proof of intercourse required).”

The site’s editor was pumped up to write a scathing editorial about it, but first he called me to get more information.

“You can’t write that editorial,” I said. “It’s a satire. I made it up.”

“Oh, no!”

“Oh, yes. Look at the names. There is no Congressman named Izzy Kiddin. No assistant secretary of whatever named Y. B. Sane.”

It dawned on him, then, that he’d worked himself up about a hoax. He thanked me for not letting him touch off a broadside that would’ve sunk his own ship.

In the years between then and now, satire has become harder to write. No sooner do you invent something preposterous, even outrageous, than some expert or some public figure comes out with something just as foolish. How are you supposed to satirize people who are already satirizing themselves? How do you even begin to satirize “transgender”?

Sigh! And double-sigh.

Today’s new, forward-thinking and progressive public policies are yesterday’s satire. They were funny back then. They’re not so funny now.

I write satires because there’s nothing that libs and leftids hold dearer than the conviction of their own intellectual superiority. They need to be mocked! They need to be laughed at. And the public needs to see how ridiculous these people are. When we take them seriously, we give them the keys to the wrecking ball with which they’re battering our country—heck, our whole civilization.

It would be among the greatest things in the world if someday we all realized that we don’t have to listen to these windbags. Of course, what we laughingly call our education system has created a public that’s been made distressingly vulnerable to all manner of political quackery and pseudoscientific twaddle.

The day we finally refuse to allow teachers’ unions to “educate” our children will be our second Independence Day.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Visit us there and enjoy our annual Christmas Carol Contest. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Yes, It’s World War III

by Lee Duigon

December 22, 2022

An unguarded comment by the Red Pope suddenly gave me a clear vision of what this current phase of history is all about.

The Pope said World War III has already started—and he was right, although not for the reason he thought. He was talking about the shooting war between Ukraine and Russia. What he didn’t understand was that the Ukraine war is only an incident in a much wider war affecting the entire world. If it were to end tomorrow, the wider war would still be with us.

The theme of the war is easily summed up: ordinary people, whole nations’ worth, vs. a self-anointed globalist elite seeking limitless power.

The particulars of history are like the shifting patterns in a kaleidoscope; but the dynamics of history remain the same, always the same. They don’t change. Here we have one of the most ancient dynamics of all: There is always someone, somewhere, who wants more than his share of the world and is willing to do virtually anything to get it.

Once upon a time it was individuals—like Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, or Hitler—striving to become the masters of the world. They resorted to military force, and their achievements were short-lived.

Today’s masters of war are not individuals but groups and classes; and for the most part they have abandoned large-scale violence as the means to the end. Seduction, misdirection, lies, vast expenditures of money—these are their methods. Who needs war?

The enemy can be identified. Authoritarian politicians. Politically ambitious and morally bankrupt scientists. Free-lancing spooks and plotters of the Deep State, often found in “intelligence” agencies. Big Tech, a very key player. The Far Left news media. Leftist public education and politically powerful teachers’ unions. And don’t forget the entertainment industry: think “Disney Groomers Corp.”

They enjoy fabulous wealth, they’re already powerful, and they have a great advantage: they know what they want—global power and authority—and are willing to work hard and do extraordinary things to get it.

We, the people, have a disadvantage: hardly anyone realizes we are at war and that it’s not a shooting war. We should stop looking at Ukraine and look instead at the way the enemy insinuates himself into all our social, political, and economic institutions. Look, for instance, at one of their most masterful creations, the whole “transgender” movement. Listen to the No. 2 villain in the World Economic Forum, who labels most of us “useless eaters” and says we have to be sedated with drugs and video games until they can decide what to do with us.

And we can’t decide what to do with them.

The COVID-19 panic was a dress rehearsal for global government. Can they make everybody in the world obey them, all at once? Whether COVID was purposely cooked up in a Chinese laboratory and loosed against us, or some kind of accident, is more than I know. But the enemy jumped at the chance to test his power. Can they shut us all down? By and large, their experiment was successful: yes, they could. But they had not yet planned beyond a certain point, so they allowed the pandemic to die down.

Freedom is exotic. Throughout history it has only bloomed from time to time; and tyrants through the ages have found many ways to stifle it.

We have not yet learned how to defend ourselves against an enemy that hides in the shadows, lies to us with skill and daring, drapes itself in robes of “science” and “democracy,” has no problem with calling evil good and good, evil, corrupts and bamboozles us at every turn, and thinks itself a god walking on the earth (as Hegel once described the State). This we have to learn. They’ll devour us if we don’t. We are at war.

And it wouldn’t be amiss to appeal in prayer to the judge of all the earth.

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The Far Left Death Cult

by Lee Duigon

December 8, 2022

Christine Gauthier, a military veteran, injured her back in 1989 and has had to use a wheelchair ever since. In 2016 she represented Canada in the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Now, six years later, she wants (and needs) a chair lift for her home. But when she asked the government for help with that project, she was told, “Hey, sorry, but we can’t do that for you! Tell you what, though—how about assisted suicide? It’s a great deal!”

When in doubt, snuff ‘em out.

The news made for a black eye for Canada. Prime Minister Trudeau said the solution offered by the government—death—was “unacceptable.” The Mounties are now investigating four similar cases: it’s not nice to kill your veterans when they need help. The “agent” who handled those cases has been suspended.

Uh-huh. See what happens when they get caught? They all scramble around, trying to sound like human beings.

Consider the pillars of policy offered by Far Left humanism. Assisted suicide. Encouraging children to “try LGBTQ, you’ll like it!” Abortion—oh, yeah, abortion: should’ve made that No. 1. Surgical mutilation, puberty blockers, “gender reassignment”—and lifetime sterility. Wiping out national borders with mass immigration: just the thing we need to bring us under global government. And, of course, letting violent criminals go free without bail.

So you ask for a wheelchair lift and they offer you assisted suicide. Hot dog. We wonder why some philanthropic zillionaire doesn’t step up and offer to buy Ms. Gauthier a wheelchair lift with his pocket change. Why hasn’t that happened? Don’t tell me they’ve made it illegal or something.

If we really put our minds to doing all the things the Far Left tells us are good things, absolute necessities of public policy, we would bring about the extinction of the human race. Maybe that’s what they want. Load their minds, their consciousness, their personalities (if they have any) onto a computer in a robot, let—or rather, help—the rest of us die out, and then live forever, having the whole planet to themselves. Yuval Harari, the No. 2 schmendrick at the World Economic Forum, says we’re all just “useless eaters” anyway, to be sedated with drugs and video games until our masters figure out what to do with us.

I don’t think he likes us much.

“All they that hate me love death,” the Bible tells us (Proverbs 8: 36). How true is that!

Is it Iceland where they’re trying to wipe out Down’s syndrome by aborting all the babies that might have it? Who’ll be next? Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, thought it should be people who are not white. But I suppose every group will get its turn in the humanist crosshairs. Who’s more anti-human than a humanist? We’re getting very far from Mother Teresa, aren’t we?

Civilization, if it is worth anything, cares for and protects the weak. If it doesn’t, it’s only barbarism with gaudier toys.

Great evil is afoot in our age. We all know it. Moses asked, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”

It may be we’ll find out before much longer.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Stop in for a visit, before they offer you assisted suicide. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘Old’ Does Not Mean ‘Obsolete’

by Lee Duigon

December 1, 2022

I received a heartfelt comment a few days ago from a reader named Patrice, who was responding to my last week’s NewsWithViews column, “Why Is Retirement So Hard?”. Let me share it with you, with some minor editing.

“Why do younger persons, even those just ten or fifteen younger, find me—us retirees—so utterly boring and irrelevant, despite our having had decent higher educations (with a few extra degrees tacked on for good measure), meaningful careers, and lots and lots of travel and other adventures, from the mundane to the exceptional, under our belts?… [They] automatically want to exclude us, to look right past us, and want to put us, figuratively, in the back of the proverbial shelf of an out-of-the-way storage closet. It’s a lonely kind of feeling, but most of all it’s a horrible feeling—the feeling of being irrelevant.”

Patrice puts it down to “mass brainwashing,” which I take to mean our movies and TV shows, our politics, and what we persist in calling our—ahem!—education system. That’s who’s doing it. What we’d like to know is why they do it.

I learned a lot from my grandfather, and would have learned much more if only I’d realized how valuable his experiences could be to me! Eighty years’ worth of experience, insight, and thought. But when you’re eighteen years old and going to college, you think you already know more than Grandpa. He was not irrelevant. His insights were keen, and based on facts he’d seen for himself. Time spent with him was anything but time wasted.

If only I’d had the good sense to appreciate it. But of course you take your family for granted, assuming it would always be there for you… and then, one day, it isn’t.

We take our country for granted, too. Its prosperity, its liberty—they’ll always be there. But there are many once-thriving countries that aren’t with us anymore.

The problem is not being young. We’re all young once. It’s more a case of hucksters, phonies, hypocrites, pseudo-intellectuals, and shysters who exploit young people’s inexperience for their own profit.

Oh, I remember college! All the exploiters had to do was to overpraise the intellectually defenseless students in their audiences (they’d been hearing “Good job!” since they were toddlers), tell them over and over again how smart they were, how vastly superior they were to any previous generation… and the speaker had those students wrapped around his little finger. Eating out of his hand. Pet us and we purr. And then we’d go out and demonstrate and protest just to show our masters that their confidence in us was not misplaced. We danced to any tune they played.

No, Patrice, we have not become irrelevant. The truths we learned the hard way are still true. We are seen to be irrelevant by persons who’ve been lied to, gulled, and bamboozled all their lives. The political sharpies and Hollywood con artists pick up where college leaves off, and way too many people are still dancing to those tunes even as they stumble into middle age. It’s harder to outgrow your “education” than it used to be.

Once upon a time Herodotus said the Persians made their country great by teaching their children to shoot straight and tell the truth. What more can we do, than that? But those are not lessons that are taught in public schools or colleges, or fostered by airhead celebrities, or encouraged by political hacks who put themselves first and the country and its people last.

Let’s pray they don’t find out till too late just how relevant we are.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… while it’s still relevant. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Why Is Retirement So Hard?

By Lee Duigon

November 24, 2022

Which of these expectations turned out for you?

“I love retirement! Now I have time to do all these things I’ve always wanted to do but didn’t have the time. These are truly golden years!”

Or this: “How come, when I was going out to work every day, I was still able to get all these things done around the house? Rooms got vacuumed, furniture got dusted, groceries got bought as needed—and there was still time available for watching The Rockford Files. But now that I’m retired, I just can’t seem to do everything!”

Ask anyone. My sister, my brother, my daughter-in-law, my wife’s friends—they’ll all tell you the same thing. Since they retired, they just can’t keep up. Things don’t get done. Where in the world does the time go? Before retirement, we even had time to arrange these big family dinners, fifteen or sixteen of us around the table with this great big spread of lovely food. How did we ever manage that?

I’m a writer, so I don’t retire: just keep going till I can go no more. But somehow, when I was a reporter and editor working 60-hour weeks, a lot more got done around here. We even gave a party now and then. How did we do that?

Now it’s all we can do just to pull off a Thanksgiving dinner for just the two of us and relax with “Godzilla vs. Megalon” while the turkey’s cooking. There’s no one we can invite to join us, everybody’s either died or moved away. And somehow I’ve lost my taste for driving on the Garden State Parkway.

Whatever happened to “As you grow older, life grows easier?” Who was the madman who first said that?

Oh, the fun of showing up for Thanksgiving at my mother’s house with a pillow tucked under my shirt so she could see it and cry out “O holy Moses! What’s happened to you!” And the whole family in the living room, playing Mad Libs. Or even charades. And Grandma feeding the dog under the table. And my father played the spoons. Or that time the turkey got a late start and we all got hungrier and hungrier, with nothing to eat except pretzels; and they didn’t get us very far.

We are thankful to the Lord our God for His love, for each other, for our memories, for our food, for our great country and its tradition of liberty and the multitude of blessings showered on it. We are thankful for the work He gives us to do, and pray it may be fruitful in His service.

For these we still have all the time we need.

May the Lord bless you and keep you: in Jesus’ name, Amen.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Teachers Caught Making Dirty Movies In Their Classroom

By Lee Duigon

November 16, 2022

As a nation—one might even say “as a civilization”—how much trouble are we in?

In Arizona recently, two middle school teachers, a wife and her husband, have been fired for using the woman’s classroom as a studio for making pornographic movies starring themselves.

They thought they’d get away with it. After all, they weren’t doing it during school hours. They thought they could ensure that their “Only Fans” skin flicks wouldn’t be seen anywhere within their own school district. But of course once it’s on the Internet, everyone can see it; and everyone did. First students, then staff, then parents. Public uproar forced the local school board to fire the pair of them.

They did it, they said, to make ends meet: they couldn’t run their household on just two teachers’ salaries. Boo hoo. Well, heck—if you’re strapped for cash, what could be more natural than to make pornographic films and sell them on the Internet? Doesn’t everybody?

You want your children to be “educated” by characters like this because ______. Fill in the blank and win a tin-foil hat.

Now, if all they did was assign gay porn for reading, and encourage the kiddies to volunteer for “gender reassignment,” as public school teachers are now doing to their hearts’ content all over the country, they’d still have their jobs. And maybe the FBI would spy on parents who objected, and list them as “stochastic terrorists.” Certainly SloJo Biden’s administration would support them to the hilt—“transgender rights,” y’know.

Meanwhile, down in the Swamp, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), who intends to be re-elected to his post, has a 7% approval rating, nationwide. And 80-plus percent of Americans think the country’s going in the wrong direction, big-time. Seven percent. Vladimir Putin could probably match that.

Historically, the president’s party loses, and often loses big, in the midterm elections. But not this time. It’s a miracle!

What are we to do when the government steers the country straight to the edge of the cliff and a national election somehow fails to put it right? What went wrong with this year’s elections?

Ooooh! That sounds like Election Denial! Better call the FBI.

Speaking only for myself, heh-heh, you’re damned right I deny it. Up, down, and sideways. There is certainly something wrong with our election process, and many people know what it is: mail-in votes, ballot harvesting (illegal in many states, but no one’s found a way to stop it yet), voter rolls full of dead people and people who don’t live there anymore and people who never existed in the first place. That is how you end up with miraculous Democrat victories. And the guy charged with leading the opposition in the Senate has a 7 percent approval rating! What was he leading us to?

Somehow Republicans squeezed out a hair’s-breadth victory in the House of Representatives. It should have been 40, 50, or 60 seats gained—in the aggregate, they received some 6 million more votes than Democrats—but mysteriously, unexpectedly, astoundingly, their resulting majority is only paper-thin. And now we can wait to see what they do with it. Last time we gave them good majority in both the House and Senate, they did… nothing.

Yo, Congress! We have teachers making dirty movies in their classroom, and the FBI intimidating parents, and $5-a-gallon gasoline—and you had freakin’ well better do something about it! Don’t let our House of Representatives be just a house of cards.

We’re running out of time to save our republic.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit—before the FBI does. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Now What?

By Lee Duigon

November 10, 2022

Just 24 hours before I sat down to write this, the Internet was buzzing with predictions and prognostications, all of them foretelling a Great Red Wave, a red tsunami, that would sweep the Evil Party out of office and save the country from their insane and wicked policies.

All wrong, every babbling one of them. No red wave. Couldn’t even beat that out-to-lunch jidrool in Pennsylvania. And as I write, we don’t even know yet whether we’ll have even razor-thin majorities in either house of Congress.

But whether we do or don’t, it’s back to work. Surrender is not an option. As Sun Tzu once said, “On death ground—fight.” Nothing else will do.

Well: if we do have a majority, even if it’s only one vote, here’s what we must do.

The Republicans must immediately vote to reopen the Keystone Pipeline. SloJo will veto that. Republicans must try to override the veto, forcing Democrats to stop them. And when that happens, we will have forced the Democrats to take sole ownership of crazy high gas prices. No one to blame for that but them.

They must be seen to own the policies that America hates. The non-existent southern border. Transgender madness. Critical Race Theory in the schools. Corrupt deals with the globalists and Chinese communists. Turning violent criminals loose to claim more victims. Vote against these follies to force the Democrats to vote for them. Let there be no doubt whatsoever that these are the fools who are so grossly damaging our country. Them and them alone.

And I guess we might as well stop listening to pollsters. How they could have been so wrong—again!—is baffling. Are they that incompetent, or simply that mendacious? Either way, they’re useless.

God once told His prophets that He would wait before he crushed the heathen nations of Canaan—that He would wait until they’d filled their iniquity. That would take a long time, but what is time to God?

Is He waiting for the nations of the world today to fill to the brim their own cup of iniquity? How much farther do they have to go? How many more children, worldwide, will be addled, drugged, surgically mutilated and rendered sterile for life, before that cup is filled? How many more babies will be aborted? How many more needless wars? How many more idols, like “transgender,” must be set up and given human sacrifices?

Can America any longer be Ronald Reagan’s shining “city on a hill,” inspiring the other nations? We are not a shining city today. What we are is a pathetic broken mess. Thank you, teachers’ unions, race hustlers, colleges that make us stupid, Hollywood, integrity-free news media, and all the rest of Woke! Thank you for corrupting us, abusing us, and stupefying all the nations.

It was all done in plain sight; and we failed to stop it. We didn’t know how. We still don’t, do we?

But we must put our trust in God and take the adventure that falls to us. He put us here to serve Him. Not for any worldly reward, but simply because that’s what God’s people do.

The rest is up to Him. And the judge of all the earth will surely do right.

One way or another.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit… while we can. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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You Have a Right to Be Wrong

by Lee Duigon

November 3, 2022

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“Misinformation” is a lively buzzword, these days. Our so-called government is trying to stamp it out. For our own good, of course. Otherwise we might actually listen to someone who is spreading “misinformation” about our beloved COVID-19 vaccines, Climate Change, or that pure-as-the-driven snow election that we had in 2020. Free speech is all well and good… but we don’t want to be subjected to Wrong Speech, do we?

But sometimes “wrong” turns out to be right, after all.

Consider Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865), a pioneer of antiseptic procedures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis). In those days, “childbed fever” was a killer. Women died from infections that set in during the birthing process. Semmelweis came up with the novel idea of requiring doctors to wash their hands before moving on to the next patient. He thus reduced the mortality rate among his patients to less than 1 percent.

You’d have thought he’d be hailed as a hero for saving all those lives. But you’d be wrong. Semmelweis scandalized the scientific establishment of his time. He went against the Settled Science! He was condemned, mocked, punished—and finally locked away in a lunatic asylum, where he died, probably as a result of being beaten by his keepers. They said he was crazy, evil, totally wrong.

But he was right. His Wrong Science is now the right science. Too late to do him any good, though. Because in his day, he was accused of Misinformation. By saving birthing women’s lives, he became a villain and a laughing-stock.

He wouldn’t have fared much better today. By bucking the establishment, he set himself up for a big-time hurt. Today he’d be censored, de-platformed, banned for life from the social media, deleted, and silenced. Probably they wouldn’t kill him today, but only because they don’t much do that anymore: just write him off as another misinformation-spreader. And cut him off from his audience.

Winston Churchill was wrong—and mocked and vilified for it—when he said they shouldn’t trust Hitler to honor his agreements and keep the peace. He turned out to be right, and it was a good thing he was still around to save his country when they needed him.

A general named Nicias was Wrong when he opposed the Athenian democracy’s hysterical decision to widen the Peloponnesian War by attacking Syracuse. Nicias was so hated for his unwelcome advice that they punished him by putting him in charge of the invasion. No one came back alive from that adventure. Nicias had been right, after all.

Even if “misinformation” doesn’t turn out to be true, our country’s founders still thought it well worthwhile to guarantee free speech. Truth can be made stronger by colliding with error. Sometimes the result of that collision is a third way that no one had yet thought of, and that way proves to be the right way. But when error is ruthlessly suppressed, no third way will be found.

Our own opinion-leaders try to silence all opinions but their own. That’s how they use the social media. They also egg on their followers to shout down “wrong” opinions and resort to riot if shouting doesn’t work. You can see that in action at many of our alleged universities.

You do not lose your First Amendment rights because other people think you’re wrong. Indeed, the amendment was drawn up to prevent that. Can you imagine Thomas Jefferson adding a clause that reads “except for Climate Change deniers, gender fluidity deniers, election deniers, and anyone else who dares to take issue with the prevailing point of view”?

We have a constitutional republic, not a “democracy.” God forbid we ever wind up in the clutches of “democracy.”

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week in my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit: we don’t care if you’re wrong from time to time! My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Do Or Die (Let’s Do!)

by Lee Duigon

October 27, 2022

Consider these two examples.

Stacy Abrams, the Democrat running for governor of Georgia: “Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas”. Want to stop inflation? Abort more babies.

And New York’s Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Kathy Hochul (incumbent), in a televised debate this week, responding to the Republican candidate’s concern for their state’s soaring crime rate: “I don’t know why that’s important to you”. Yes, she really said that. On TV.

Inflation isn’t caused by the government spending preposterous amounts of money on baldly questionable things. What’s a trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there? Oh, no—the problem is those stupid plebs out there who insist on having babies.

In New York City the Democrats’ disastrous “bail reform” turns criminals loose without posting bail—unless, of course, you commit a truly egregious offense like using the wrong pronoun. The official government figure is that New York’s crime rate is up 40 percent over 2021.

Well, heck, Gov. Hokum’s right. It’s no big deal. Silly of the Republican even to mention it. He must be a Racist.

How do these people get away with saying such things? Last year the whole Oakley, California, school board had to resign after a “streaming error” let everyone hear what they really thought of their constituents. They despise the people who elected them: had a lot of nasty things to say about their public. They were out of office toot-sweet.

But Kathy Hochul won’t resign, and Stacy Abrams won’t drop out of the race. Has God hardened their hearts, as He hardened Pharaoh’s heart so he wouldn’t let God’s people go? Pharaoh’s folly brought disaster on his country. We aren’t there yet, thank God; but no one can point to a single Democrat public action that hasn’t blown up in America’s face. Over-the-top inflation and skyrocketing crime rates are only two of many.

So you can’t walk down the sidewalk or ride the subway in New York without fear of being violently attacked by some yahoo who knows he won’t be jailed for doing it. What’s the big deal? It’s a small price to pay for “diversity and inclusion.”

So a couple million more babies get murdered in the womb if Ms. Abrams has her way. More than half of those babies will be black, by the way—but Stacy Abrams doesn’t care. And what if aborting all those babies doesn’t slow inflation? Oh, well, we tried!

How do Democrats get away with such self-destructive public policies? Erasing our border, using the schools to foment racial strife, herding children into early sex and pushing “transgender” as if their very lives depended on it, cutting off our energy supplies to stop imaginary Man-Made Climate Change—do they ever do anything that doesn’t hurt America? And turning the FBI into a Far Left goon squad to stomp on their political rivals—they’ve done that, too. The FBI may already be so badly corrupted as to be beyond repair.

We need to stop doing stupid things, all of them. But we can’t stop doing them for as long as Democrats, funded by teachers’ unions and Far Left billionaires like Zuckerberg and Soros, remain in office.

This year’s elections are very much a matter of do or die.

Let’s pray for “do”—and then go to the polls and do it.

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When Lawlessness Is Law

by Lee Duigon

October 20, 2022

In Britain they have a law against wasting police time with baseless or frivolous complaints. But what if it’s the police themselves who are wasting police time?

The Leicestershire Police Dept. got a thumping from the Home Secretary recently for putting out a social media message urging “transsexuals” to report “deadnaming” as a hate crime. “Deadnaming” is a made-up word for declining to address or speak of trannies using the names they had before “gender reassignment.”

The public didn’t like it, and Home Secretary Suella Braverman took the LPD out to the woodshed for an attitude adjustment. “This week,” she said, “I have seen confusion amongst police forces about what constitutes a hate crime. The police need to enforce actual laws and fight actual crime. Freedom of speech must be protected…” So the Leicester PD had to delete its controversial Twitter message.

Guess they were getting bored, trying to solve humdrum crimes like murder or robbery when there were all those juicy deadnaming incidents out there. Maybe they just took it upon themselves to Change The World—with or without actual laws to back them up. Maybe they don’t need no stinkin’ laws.

Meanwhile, here at home, our medical establishment—the American Medical Assn., the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Children’s Hospital Foundation—have written to our corrupt and predatory Justice Dept. calling on the government to take “swift action” to prosecute (!) and punish parents who won’t “affirm” their children’s “gender identity”.

Hey! Remember when you had to, like, break a law before they could prosecute you? Well, why not skip that step and proceed directly to the prosecution? Why not skip the trial and go directly to the verdict?

Ah! That very thought has already occurred to a Virginia legislator who has introduced a bill to criminalize parents who don’t go along with a child’s “choice” to have a sex-change. She hasn’t decided yet whether that should be a felony or just a misdemeanor, but that can come later. The important thing is to show parents who’s the boss. Let’s get those FBI goon squads pounding on people’s doors at midnight! Who ever said Changing The World was easy?

That such a law would be flagrantly, boisterously, toweringly unconstitutional means nothing to the Far Left Crazy. “Damn the Constitution! This is Transgender Rights we’re talkin’ here!” Whether you’re the Leicestershire PD or the AMA, you’re on the right side of history! I don’t know what that means, but far lefties always say it.

Does the LPD simply not know that you can’t arrest people for breaking laws that don’t exist? Does the AMA not know that you have to break the law before you can be prosecuted? Does this doofus in the Virginia legislature not know that you simply don’t give 8-year-olds the power to make permanently life-changing decisions? I mean, they don’t give out drivers’ licenses and credit cards to children, do they? Does this dimwit not know that there are rather compelling reasons for that?

It’s bad enough that we often find ourselves governed—shall I say “lorded over”?—by people who hate us, despise us, and want to demolish our society. Must they also be so flaming stupid? And what kind of fools are we, calling it a “Justice” Dept. when it’s nothing but the Democrat version of the KGB?

We want our freedom back. We want our country to be sane again. And that is the message that had better come across loud and clear in next month’s midterm elections. We dare not settle for anything less.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit… before we’re all prosecuted for breaking laws that aren’t on the books. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Stirring Up Racial Strife

by Lee Duigon

October 13, 2022

Someone claiming to represent “WHITE POWER” posted a terrorist threat on social media recently, promising to massacre “NEGROES” at the Lee County Fair in Alabama. Investigators traced the post back… to a black teenager in Louisiana. Honk if you’re surprised.

Far Left crazies are always running to the authorities with lurid “threats” made against them by “extremists”—and how often does it turn out that they made those threats against themselves? The threats are hoaxes. They vandalize their own cars and say “extremists” did it. But investigating them, as the police must do, wastes police time and resources. We could spend all day guessing why these hoaxes are made. Are they that starved for attention, or are they seriously trying to make trouble?

I think what we like to call “education” in America has a lot to do with it. For instance:

The Maryland State Education Assn., which has 75,000 members and is affiliated with the big teachers’ union, the National Education Assn., has offered teachers bonuses of $1,000 each if they’ll agree to keep on teaching “Critical Race Theory”. You know: the doctrine that all white people are natural-born racists, and all non-whites hapless victims that need to be rescued by white liberals. The problem for the unions is that almost everybody in America detests Critical Race Theory, with good reason. Even a lot of teachers: and some have left the union rather than take part in a purposeful campaign to foment racial strife.

In addition to trying to solve the problem by waving a thousand bucks under teachers’ noses, the unions seek to fool the plebs by renaming CRT and pretending they don’t teach it anymore. So now they call it “restorative justice,” among other things. We’ll never see through that, will we? Plus we’ve got the Biden administration with a $468 million package for “community schools,” rewarding race-baiting and promotion of transgender, chock-full of brand-new euphemisms for CRT. Their idea of “community” is to break it all up into mutually antagonistic mini-communities defined by skin color and sexual practices.

Anyone would think they hoped to start a race war. At the very least, they’re inspiring race-hate hoaxes like the one described above.

Why do this? I don’t think you have to look any farther than “Divide and rule.”

Keeping us at each other’s throats, preventing us from ever coming together for the common good, is how Democrats hope to stay in power. Forever. Please understand that this is the Evil Party. Once upon a time it was inhabited by sane and normal people. It isn’t anymore.

So… let’s teach black kids that white kids have it in for them, and teach white kids that they’re born rotten and need taking down, and teach everybody that the only hope they have of not being crushed by the others is… ta-dah! The government! At least, as long as it’s a Democrat government. Republicans, according to our eminently defective “president,” want “to put y’all back in chains.” We’re “a threat to our democracy,” he says. I thought we had a republic, not a “democracy,” but evidently SloJo and Beto and the gang don’t see it that way.

What are the public schools, totally captive to the teachers’ unions, doing besides indoctrinating children to hate and fear each other, their country, or even their own families? They’re not going to stop doing it.

The only way we can stop them is to pull our children out of the unions’ schools and give them a Christian education, preferably at home. Parents, don’t forget all that Far Left guff you heard the “teachers” feeding your kids when the schools were locked down and they had to do “remote learning” at home—and remember how they tried to pressure you not to listen. You didn’t like what they were “teaching” your children, did you?

Break the teachers’ unions—and save America.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and check it out… while it’s still allowed. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Yes, They Want to Break Up the Family

by Lee Duigon

October 6, 2022

It was always just a cliché to say the Left wanted to do away with the family. But it’s not a cliché anymore.

The whole ruling class of the Western world has gone absolutely hooting, barking mad for “gender”—that is, the notion that we ought to be able to choose our gender and change it if we want to. We have a presidential administration that threatens school districts with cutting off financial aid unless the schools go full-throttle for Transgender.

How bad is it? Let’s take a look at current events in Virginia.

Virginia has a new state government that’s trying to rein in the craziness. The pro-trans mob, who’ve had things all their own way in recent years, naturally resist these measures. A group has emerged that devotes itself to breaking up families if the parents don’t want their children diving head-first into aberrant sexual behavior. It’s called “the Pride Liberation Project,” and it encourages and “helps” children and teens break away from their families: they’ll “re-home” kids who are discontented with their “unsupportive” parents, promising them “a couple hundred dollars,” a place to stay, and, as soon as possible, a new home with “queer-friendly guardians.”

The “couple hundred dollars” reportedly comes from a Democrat fund-raising group called ActBlue. There is a Pride Liberation Project website that invites readers to “Donate via ActBlue”. Dirty hands all around. So far they’ve raised $381. Doesn’t look like the fish are biting much, does it?

Meanwhile, last week the “Pride Liberation” cabal whipped up a walkout of students—12,000 students, they claim—protesting Virginia’s new “trans” policies.

Yeah, they want to help kids run away from home if they “hate their parents.” Has there ever been a single child, in all of human history, who never “hated” his parents? “What! You won’t buy me a new smart phone? I hate you for that!” Kids are like that. “No, you can’t go to that concert.” “I hate you!” We’ve all been there.

But helping teens run away from home because their parents won’t let them lop of healthy body parts and take powerful drugs to “change their gender”? It’s difficult to imagine what they could do that’d be more irresponsible and wicked than that.

To say nothing of the very real risk that more than a few of these kids will wind up in the clutches of sex-traffickers.

Oops—I almost forgot this caveat. Those queer-friendly guardians: “Please note that this adult will likely be white.” Gasp. “Didn’t you just teach us that white people are evil, they’re all racists?” Yeah, well, at least they’ll be queer-friendly. A comforting thought when they ship you off to China.

And if all else fails, says the Project, disgruntled teens can always “invoke suicide” to get what they want. I’m sure they’ll come up with something worse than this eventually, but I can’t imagine what that would be. It’d be nice not to find out.

I went to public school in the 1950s and Sixties. I never met even one transgendered student. I worked in several public schools throughout the 1990s. Never met a tranny.

Now it’s all over the place. Is that what they mean by “progressive”?

Once the “transition” to another gender is complete, that person will be sterile. If enough of them go through with it, there will be no next generation.

But that’s what globalists want, isn’t it?

It’s certainly what Satan wants. The whole transgender movement is Satanic to its core.

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The Kind of Imbeciles Who Rule the World

by Lee Duigon

September 29, 2022

Spain’s Minister of Equality (good night, nurse!) raised a few eyebrows recently when she declared that “children have the right to know that they can love and have sexual relations with anyone they want”. This ought to give you an idea of the kind of people who are governing the world’s nations, these days.

Did I mention she’s a communist?

But maybe things are changing.

Nancy Pelosi, Squeaker of the House of Representatives, dropped in on the Global Citizen Music Festival in New York City last week to treat her fellow leftids to a potboiler speech on Climate Change and how she and her Democrat playmates are gonna show Ol’ Man Climate who’s boss.

And got booed

How could this happen? It’s like losing at poker with four aces in your hand. Count ‘em: an audience of “global citizens” (whatever the dickens they are), a New York City venue, Central Park no less—and she’s as far out on the left as they are. And yet they booed her.

It couldn’t be just because they didn’t appreciate this dindle from San Francisco interrupting their concert for sleazy politics. What don’t these people politicize? You can’t even go to a ballgame anymore without being nagged about “transgender rights” and imaginary Climate Change. They don’t mind! So why boo when Pelosi did it?

Maybe, just maybe, Far Left Crazy is nearing the end of its rope. Maybe they’re just about ready to turn on each other. It’d be a treat to watch.

A recent election in Europe gives us hope. Giorgia Meloni, smeared by the nooze media as “far right”—as if these jidrools even knew anybody to the right of Bernie Sanders—will soon take office as Italy’s first female prime minister. Her Christian Brothers Party clobbered a coalition of left-wing dingbats, 2-1.

Ms. Meloni gave an acceptance speech that deserves to be quoted at some length:

“Why is the family an enemy? Why is the family so frightening? There is a single answer to all these questions. Because it defines us. Because it is our identity. Because everything that defines us is now an enemy for those who would like us to no longer have an identity and to simply be perfect consumer slaves.

“And so they attack national identity, they attack religious identity, they attack gender identity, they attack family identity. I can’t define myself as: Italian, Christian, woman, mother. No. I must be citizen x, gender x, parent 1, parent 2. I must be a number.

“Because when I am only a number, when I no longer have an identity, or roots, then I will be the perfect slave at the mercy of financial speculators. The perfect consumer.”

Stand up and cheer. This woman has it right.

Hey, World Economic Forum! Hey, Biden! You love to call us fascists, but obviously you don’t know the meaning of the word.

Fascism, as Mussolini invented and practiced it, is when an authoritarian government hops into bed with a few favored corporate nabobs (can you say Mark Zuckerberg? Bill Gates?) and together they enslave a nation. Juan Peron tweaked it by inviting a few favored labor unions to the party. In our country we call that “Obamaism.”

We are on to you, big-time. A few more leaders like Ms. Meloni, and we’ll have you in retreat. Start looking for countries which don’t have extradition treaties with your own.

You’ll need one.

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Governed by People Who Hate Us

by Lee Duigon

September 22, 2022

Why the United States armed services should have a “chief of diversity and inclusion officer” is well beyond my imagination. What does an eternal round of grievance-collecting have to do with successfully fighting a war? Is our top brass so confident that we’ll never have to fight again, that they can waste time on stuff like this?

And as if that weren’t foolishness enough, the gork they named to that post now has to be “investigated” for her over-the-top racist, anti-white tweets. Don’t worry—they’ll find “nothing wrong here,” as usual.

Here’s one of those tweets. They will keep posting their drivel on social media for everyone to see.

“This lady [a white woman] actually had the CAUdacity to say that black people can be racist, too [oh, gee—really?]. I had to stop the session [don’t ask] and give Karen the BUSINESS…”

“CAUdacity” is a word for “Caucasion audacity,” and “Karen” a derogatory term for a white woman. Nope, nothin’ wrong here. No hate here.

And then they wonder why recruitment is way down!

Stories like this are a dime a dozen in the nooze. Somehow we have wound up being governed by people who hate us. Our government is riddled with them.

But it’s not just the government. According to a Harvard poll, 73 percent of Democrats (wow!) believe “tens of millions of dangerous MAGA Republicans” pose “a threat to our democracy” and are “trying to overthrow the Constitution”. That would be the same Constitution that guarantees us a republican form of government, not a “democracy.” The same Constitution that Democrats routinely characterize as “racist.” But then everything these days is “racist,” isn’t it?

Tens of millions of us, who actually voted for Donald Trump’s re-election as president—what do you do with tens of millions of voters who threaten our non-existent “democracy”? A Democrat U.S. senator who does not want his name to be used because people make rude noises when they hear it has suggested a massive compulsory sensitivity training course for some 75 million of us. “Lock ‘em all up until their minds are right!” he says.

Or they could just lock us all down and make us wear masks until someone invents an anti-Trump vaccine and then they could “mandate” all of us to get another “jab.” The mandate would only apply to us democracy-threateners.

Who to blame? Well, of course the Democrat Party itself, big-time. And public schools and colleges and teachers’ unions. Hollywood. Our Free & Independent In-the-Bag-for Democrats nooze media. They’ve all worked very hard to drag us to this point. But if anyone on our side got up in front of the TV cameras, with a red light in the background and two Marines flanking him like Pretorian Guards, and called all these libs “dangerous” and “a threat to our republic”… why, he or she would be called a “hater.” And probably a racist, too, even if he or she never mentioned race at all.

It’s only wrong if we do it!

Take the kids out of the teachers’ unions’ public schools. Don’t send your sons and daughters to Far Left universities. Don’t fork over your hard-earned money to Hollywood so Disney can make movies celebrating sexual aberrations.

And by all means never, never, never vote for any Democrat, ever again.

Because they hate us.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit before they send us all to Uighur Camp. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Walking Away from Liberty

by Lee Duigon

September 15, 2022

We have never been closer to losing our country than we are today.

The Biden regime has launched a purge of President Donald Trump’s associates and political supporters. It’s not just former government officials now at risk. This week Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow, attempting to buy a meal at Hardee’s, suddenly found himself surrounded and blocked by three carloads of armed FBI goons. They confiscated his cell phone. That’s what you get for being an avid Trump supporter. It makes you a suspected “domestic terrorist.”

So far they’ve raided the homes of at least 35, and maybe as many as 50, citizens who exercised their inalienable right to vote for and work for their president. The raids occurred amid a near-total nooze media blackout. The regime didn’t want America to see this.

But Tucker Carlson discussed it on the air, Monday night. I was impressed by his presentation and posted twenty minutes of it on my blog, leeduigon.com.

Just hours later, readers let me know that YouTube had censored Carlson’s broadcast. I went to YouTube and the video was gone. If you clicked to see it on my blog, you got two minutes of babbling Biden. And now that’s gone, replaced by a black screen and a notice that the video had been pulled for “violating” this or that YouTube protocol. Someone had decided that we must not be allowed—yes, I said “allowed”—to see this video.

Later a reader found it on Rumble and sent me a link. You can see it here.

Do we see a pattern emerging here? “Justice” Dept. has the FBI spy on parents who don’t like their local school boards promoting transgender propaganda and racial strife. FBI goon squad—armed!—raids President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Next, a news blackout for FBI raids on several dozen “Trump allies.” Then they go after Mike Lindell. The FBI has turned into the kind of gangsters they used to chase.

How far in advance was this all planned—and by whom? Tens of millions of us voted for Donald Trump in 2020. Tens of thousands of us worked in his campaign, one way or another. How far down the hierarchy does The Regime mean to go? Is this a coup? A putsch? An organized, determined effort to take down our republic and replace it with an authoritarian one-party state? I know it sounds like crazy talk; but I’m not used to seeing my country run like a banana republic, and I don’t like it. Democrats to this day question the validity, the integrity, of the 2016 election and others. We question 2020—and that makes us criminals? Is there a First Amendment in the house?

Am I afraid? You’re damned right I’m afraid. And someday Democrats will be afraid, too, when our self-anointed elites and the powers of darkness decide that some of their people aren’t Democrat enough. But it may well be too late by then.

Step by step we are walking away from liberty. How many more steps must we take before we can’t find the way back?

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Symbols of Idiocy

by Lee Duigon

September 8, 2022

Every major moment in history needs a symbol that fixes itself in our minds and sums it all up for us. We have the image of SloJo Biden falling up the stairs to Air Force One, but I think we need a few more.

Ah! Here’s one.

Hobnobbing with our totally daft head of state, Commerce Secretary Gena Raimondo, fantasizing about wiping out the coal industry, assured the eventually unemployed miners that soon we would have “solar installations for abandoned coal mines” Yowsah. “We’re going to do solar installations on an industrial scale for abandoned coal mines”.

What did she mean by that? Are they going to put solar installations on top of the coal mines? But you don’t need coal mines for that; you could do that anywhere.

Solar panels contain highly toxic materials, posing a problem for safe disposal when the panels burn out. Well, okay: when that happens, simply bury the used-up panels in the mines.

But why wait till then? Why not install the panels underground in the first place? She didn’t say that in so many words, but what else could she have meant? Underground solar panels! What could possibly be a more telling symbol for this whole Green New Deal boondoggle? They may not generate any power underground, but at least they’ll be safe!

And here’s another.

A couple of tourists in West Virginia recently suffered the embarrassment of having their electric car run out of juice. They would have been stranded, but for half a dozen kindly miners who pushed the car up to the charging station at the mine. The car couldn’t be towed because the electric cars have plastic undersides that fall to pieces if you try to tow them.

Now that’s a symbol, isn’t it? We don’t generate enough electricity to run our electric cars. But that’s no problem—you just get out and push them. And if you never re-charge your electric car, you’ll never have to rely on that boo-hiss fossil fuel that has to be used to provide the electricity.

Not only that—but if everybody’s electric car has to be pushed by human beings at only a mile or two per hour, think of the impact on highway safety! No more fatal accidents, unless they accidentally push you off a cliff. No more five-car pile-ups. Sure, it’ll take you practically forever to get anywhere; but if it saves ONE life… (I put that in because that’s what libs always say about their insane public policies.)

But look, we want to get rid of privately owned cars anyhow, and who’s going to want a car that has to be pushed all the time?

And who says the plebs really have to go anywhere? If it’s not in walking or bicycling distance—stay home! That’ll really cut down on traffic jams. Naturally, our Necessary People who are not just “useless eaters,” as the World Economic Forum likes to call us, will keep their limousines and private jets. Can’t hitchhike to Davos, can you? Who would be so mean-spirited as to begrudge them their little luxuries? It’s a small price to pay for an ever-expanding government.

Heck, there ought to be a postage stamp with a picture on it of those miners pushing the conked-out electric car up a hill. As an image, it’s right up there with the Marines planting the flag on Iwo Jima. It memorializes a folly so sublime, so all-encompassing, so maddening, as to inspire future generations, and even our own generation, to eat bugs, and go to bed at sundown because, after all, who really needs electric lighting? And then we’ll see about doing without air conditioning.

I don’t think I want to imagine any more of this.

Governed by idiots… It’s not so funny, after all.

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Welcome to StupidWorld

by Lee Duigon

September 1, 2022

What is StupidWorld? It’s the theme park to beat all theme parks, the global celebration of “stupid.” And here you were, thinking that “stupid” is stupid!

But no—“stupid” is smart! How could it be otherwise, when the world’s most smartest people are behind it?

Someday StupidWorld will be the whole world. It’s already spreading out in all directions. Someday it will swallow up the countries and put the entire planet under theme park management.

But first, a little peek at what’s to come…

Stan Van Whatsit, former NBA coach, now a color guy on TV, recently demonstrated his commitment to stupid by likening Our Lord’s miracle of the loaves and fishes to our stupid president’s order to “forgive” student loan debts. Yeah, uh-huh. A piece of cheap political theater is equal to the miraculous feeding of thousands of people on a few loaves and fishes. Someday we will all be this stupid. Our schools and colleges are working on it.

Yup—giving away taxpayers’ money, that isn’t yours to give… is a miracle? It always did seem magical, the way Democrats make public money disappear. At $10,000 a head (or is it going to be $20,000?), and millions of heads, the estimated cost of this caper runs from $300 to $600 billion. Hum-baby.

Now that kind of stupid doesn’t grow on trees. Some seem to be born with a gift for it; but by and large it has to be assiduously cultivated. How many years did it take to erase every grain of sense that God gave Coach Whatsisname? To see Christ’s miracle as equaled by SloJo Biden’s crass vote-buying scheme is imbecility of a very high order. We are truly getting there!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a Sydney, Australia, nightclub has banned “staring” at someone “without verbal consent”. Looking at other people, babbles the management, thwarts its efforts to turn their joint into “safe space.” If they catch you looking at someone else, they’ll not only kick you out—the bouncers are now “safety personnel”—they’ll also call the cops! And you’ll be busted… for “unauthorized staring”? Gotta say “May I?” first.

Gee—what if the bar’s, well, crowded—as unlikely as that seems? How do you look anywhere without “staring” at someone? And how does anybody know you’re “staring” at them unless they’re staring at you?

How do they prove you stared at somebody? And if some ninny of a judge finds you guilty, what’s your punishment? Really, it doesn’t look like anybody thought this through.

But then if things like this made sense, they wouldn’t be in StupidWorld, would they?

They want a global government. Fine. But that’s a big job and a hard one. Even for an itsy-bitsy government in an itsy-bitsy town, people are always doing things they shouldn’t do, creating one problem after another. They quarrel, they break laws they never knew existed, have accidents, lose track of things, and insist on trying to make their own decisions—which are all too often not the decisions that the government wants them to make. And that’s without purposely committing crimes!

Which is why we need StupidWorld—where none of the “useless eaters,” as the World Economic Forum likes to call us, will be psychologically equipped to make any decisions at all.

Let them just enjoy the rides, eat bugs, and do as they’re told because they can’t do otherwise, it’d melt their brains.

And welcome… to StupidWorld.

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It’s Getting Confusing

by Lee Duigon

August 25, 2022

While “teachers” are feeding children roasted crickets in the classroom, we have two alleged law professors in the New York Times calling for the abolition of the U.S. Constitution. And if that weren’t enough, suddenly we have these weird polls claiming a great “surge” for SloJo Biden and his handlers and a big win for Democrats in the midterms.

Confusing, isn’t it?

The Constitution, we are told, is “famously undemocratic.” Could that be because it’s the constitution of a republic, not a “democracy”? Yeahbut, yeahbut! It’s “broken”! It doesn’t let Far Left Crazy do anything it likes. Getting rid of it, Congress could do all sorts of neat stuff with abortion and “labor rights,” whatever those are, “without having to bother with” the Constitution. It’s so inconvenient, having the law of the land written down for everyone to see! Getting rid of it, say the professors, we can “reclaim America.”

Reclaim it from what? For what? We aren’t told, but we can guess. Hey, we can always draft a new one! A whole mob of Ivy League professors, along with feminists, globalists, out-there politicians, and activists in 100 different flavors—they could all come together and draw up a brand-new “living Constitution” that changes every day, offers no certainty as to what will be the “law” on any given day, and show those wimps in Venezuela what a real socialist hell-hole looks like.

Meanwhile, Forbes.com tells us that thanks to “a recent stretch of accomplishments”—what?—Slojo and his sham of a presidency has shot up to a 47 percent approval rating. Good news for Democrats! They’ll keep the Senate, probably keep the House, and for sure keep their stranglehold on America.

What accomplishments? Our panicked skedaddle from Afghanistan? Doubling the price of gasoline? A mass invasion of illegal aliens? The transformation of the FBI into a partisan goon squad that raids an ex-president’s home and spies on parents as “domestic terrorists” when they object to crazy school board policies? And don’t forget this—“There is no inflation.” Try that on for size, in your next trip to the supermarket.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but these “accomplishments” are only lies. Big fat thumping lies. There are no accomplishments.

Yeahbut, yeahbut! We’ve got a Gender Revolution that we’ve got to finish! We’ve got to erase all limits on abortion! There’s racial paranoia to plant and cultivate and harvest! They can’t finish a Fundamental Transformation Of America in just two years—although they’ve already done more damage than anyone thought possible. Are those the accomplishments of this regime?

So why the up-with-Biden polls? How did we go from Red Wave to Blue Wave in the blink of an eye? Who’s believing all the lies? Who likes paying almost $5 a gallon for gas? And that was quite a show of applied hypocrisy: jack the price up to $5-plus, then shave off a few pennies to bring it to $4.75, and then jump up and down crying “We brought the price back down!” Who in his right mind has been taken in by this?

Maybe the polls are… well, dishonest. Maybe they’ve been purposely constructed to yield results that would, they hope, demoralize all the voters but the handful of delusional Biden zealots. I admit that I can’t conceive of any explanation for this weirdness.

So we’ll have to play it as a worst-case scenario in the making. Work hard, fight hard, and pray harder—

Because if we lose this election, I think we lose America.

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Teachers’ Unions… vs. America

by Lee Duigon

August 18, 2022

Has there ever been a worse idea than allowing public school teachers to unionize? Nothing springs to mind—except maybe the Soviet Union.

Teachers’ unions are dead set against Racism—right? Let’s see how right.

After a two-week teachers’ strike some months ago, the Minneapolis School District and the city’s teachers’ union have signed and just ratified a new contract… which is outstanding for its blatantly racist provisions.

According to the terms of the agreement, whenever the district has a need to reduce its teaching force, “white” (whatever that means) teachers are to be laid off first… and re-hired last. Because there have to be “Educators of Color protections” to make up for whatever “systemic racism” was practiced by other people in the past.

Normally, for years and years, everywhere in America, the standard for executing a reduction in force (“RIF,” in union parlance) was seniority. Teachers with the least seniority, regardless of skin pigmentation, were to be riffed first and rehired last. It was not a difficult rule to follow, and the unions seemed content with it. Until now.

How is this new standard anything but flagrantly racist? If the district were to apply the standard to favor “white” teachers at the expense of Educators of Color, the unions and the nooze media and what passes these days for our nation’s leaders would be crying bloody murder and demanding that a court nullify the rule toot-sweet. They’d also be calling for criminal penalties. So how is it just peachy-keen when the rule penalizes white teachers for being white? Heck, they could have drawn up a standard based on merit: best teachers, regardless of skin color, riffed last and rehired first. But then the usual suspects would be crying “racism!” as they always do whenever merit is even momentarily considered.

The union in Minneapolis trumpets “Public Schools—the Heart of Our Community.” God help us if that were true. It would denote a community with heart disease.

Let’s skip over to New Jersey now, where the New Jersey Education Assn. has just released a public service video that declares “Our schools are under attack by extremists… Some New Jersey schools are under siege… Extremists are attacking our schools.”

Extremists? What extremists?

Parents! Parents who don’t like the brew of racial paranoia, transgender propaganda, and sexual grooming served up by the public schools that they have to pay for. But the teachers’ union writes off objecting parents as “people who only want to fight to score political points.”

Pesky parents. Why can’t they just shut up and let our Far Left Crazy teachers’ union turn their kids into useful idiots who despise their families and hate their country? Who are they to complain? But we’ve been to teachers’ college!

The arrogance is so thick, you could cut it with a knife.

The whole public education enterprise is corrupt beyond repair. School boards, the omnipresent “school officials,” state and federal departments of education, teachers’ colleges, and way too many of the teachers themselves—they’re not going to change. They’re not going to give up their socialist fantasies, they’re not going to go back to being sane and decent. And the communities they prey on have no power to fire them all. It’s a major event if we can fire even one or two of them.

The only thing we can do is to pull our children out of public schools and let these communist weirdos preach to empty classrooms. Why in the world should we have to bankroll a racist school sytem? Why should we have to pay them to invent new pronouns? (I am presuming that the Democrat Party would never, never, never let us get rid of teachers’ unions.)

There is nothing that hurts our country more today than its overpriced, socialist, oversexed and underqualified public education system.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop by for a visit—before they give us all detention. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Caution! – ‘Educators’ at Work

by Lee Duigon

August 11, 2022

I didn’t have much contact with my high school guidance counselor, but I very much doubt he belonged to a criminal street gang. But if I were going to high school in Boston now, I wouldn’t be able to say that with any confidence.

An “academic dean” in the Boston Public School system has pleaded guilty to racketeering. One Shaun Harrison, 63 years old, shot a student. It turns out that Mr. Harrison belonged to the Latin Kings street gang and was using his position in the schools to recruit more members to the gang.

What? Did no one else in that school district know, or at least suspect, that this dean might be of a dubious character? Who interviewed him for the job? Who checked his record? Who voted to hire him? What in the world is a confessed racketeer doing, “helping problem students”? And was he the only one?

Yes, I know it’s a hard story to believe.

And here’s another one.

Inderkum High School, in Sacramento (we’re going coast to coast) had a “teacher” who bragged about having pledged allegiance to Antifa, displayed an Antifa flag in his classroom, along with posters of Mao Tse-tung and other communist all-stars, and proclaimed to the nooze media, “I have 180 days to turn them [his students] into revolutionaries.”

The school board that hired him has now paid him almost $200,000 to resign and go away without a lawsuit. Click the link—you’ve got to see the picture of this guy. *This* is a “teacher”? People go to work, pay their taxes… so they can have this wacko “teach” their children? Like, if Antifa is NOT a criminal or terrorist group, it’s not for want to trying. (Hint: Democrats protect them.)

What were they thinking when they hired him? What teachers’ college prepared him to get a teaching certificate? And they’ve paid him three years’ salary just to get lost!

We ask again: What do the public schools have to do to convince you that they want to break up your family and wreck your country? What have they left undone, that you persist in sending your children there? Ours is the costliest public education system in world history—and this is what it gives us?

And that’s without even mentioning Critical Race Theory, transgender propaganda, and an ongoing campaign by “educators” to groom children for aberrant sex. Here all they’re doing is hiring gangsters and communist fanatics to “educate” America’s children.

How did all these America-hating, family-hating, God-hating weirdos gain control of our education system? But they’ve been working at it for a long, long time. R.J. Rushdoony’s “The Messianic Character of American Education” uses the educators’ own words, and their own actions, to expose them as the termites that they are, gnawing away at the foundations of our country. A hundred years ago it was mostly ivory-tower theorists with crackpot notions—and they were opposed by, of all people, the teachers. But nowadays it’s not only theorists doing all the damage: it’s the teachers’ unions, teachers’ colleges, and state and local school boards, too. All together they’ve transformed our public education system into the travesty that it is today.

There’s no hope of repairing the damage. Our only meaningful response is to remove our children from the public schools. Homeschooling has never been more affordable, more effective, or more efficient than it is now; and it’s getting better all the time. Certainly better, by miles and miles, than anything that public education has to offer.

We don’t need our public education system anymore.

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Remaking God’s Creation

by Lee Duigon

July 28, 2022

Other than their self-evident odiousness, what do these nooze stories have in common?

Crayola Crayons decides to market their product, which is intended mostly for use by children, by hiring a “trans man” as its model. (No, I won’t show the photo; we’re already way too close to needing a barf bag.)

New Orleans takes down a statue of Robert E. Lee and replaces it with a monstrosity depicting a nude woman with a serpent coiled around her body. How can they not know what kind of message they’re sending?

Vice President Kamala Harris sounds the alarm, “Women are getting pregnant every day in America”—as if childbearing were a crisis that has to be “solved” by Congress passing some sweeping new “abortion rights” law for the entire country (which would probably be struck down by the Supreme Court for the same reasons they overturned Roe v. Wade—it’s unconstitutional).

Members of an Australian rugby team object to being forced to wear “Gay Pride”-themed jerseys in an upcoming match. The players were not consulted over this decision by management and some have declared that they won’t play if they have to wear jerseys advertising something that they don’t believe in. Compelled speech, dontcha know.

Michigan Channel 3 News is in hot water for inventing and “reporting” the results of Michigan’s Republican primary election… when the election will not be held until next week. They even invented the voting stats. A week before the election. Why bother to hold it, eh?

I’m especially intrigued by the statue of a naked woman in the coils of a snake. Hasn’t anyone in New Orleans read Genesis? They never heard of Eve and the serpent? Is Eve’s disobedience to God, egged on by the serpent, something that they want to “celebrate”? I don’t see how it could be anything else.

And a kids’ crayon company choosing to “embrace transgender”—why in the world did they do that? Why does a news network concoct a completely false coverage of an election that hasn’t even been held yet? Why make anyone pretend to be for “gay pride,” when they find the message morally revolting? And why carry on like the country’s in deep trouble and only widespread abortion can save it?

Here’s what the stories have in common: there’s something very, very wrong with the people who’ve made these decisions. “Male and female created He them” (Genesis 5:2, and elsewhere)—these self-anointed world-changers are in full-scale revolt against that teaching. They do not like the way God created the world and want to re-create it themselves, according to their own notions of what it ought to be. They have made idols of themselves, and worship them. Any fact, any truth that gets in the way, they ruthlessly sweep aside.

No good can come of this; and certainly no good can come to them.

So they’ll abort all the babies they can get their hands on, groom children for sodomy, persuade others to “change their gender,” which will make them sterile, force everybody to support positions that morally repel them, corrupt our elections… and when all else fails, just lie. As SloJo Biden has said, “We’re for truth, not facts.” And he walks it like he talks it.

And no good will come to us, either, unless we push back—and push back hard. Push all this stuff back into the hole it came from. Let Hell keep it.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit, while it’s still allowed. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Crazier and Crazier

by Lee Duigon

July 21, 2022

I have found the El Dorado of idiocy, the pot of pure twaddle at the end of the rainbow. Check it out.

“A new school of thought within archaeology pushes scientists to think twice about assigning gender to ancient human remains”.

A “school of thought”? Did they say “thought”? Wrong word, sunshine! If you have “thoughts” like this, you need a new brain.

And as for “assigning gender” to skeletons—well, God already did that, back when He created them. Nevertheless, as reported by The College Fix, “Anthropologists [Is that what they are?] call for an end to classifying human remains by biological gender.”

Why? You’re gonna love this. Because “they cannot gauge how a person identified at the time.” They can’t ask the skeletons which “gender” they “identified as” when they were alive—as if there were a bunch of Cro-Magnon men claiming to be women and demanding the right to compete in women’s sports.

This is the work of “gender activists” calling themselves The Trans Doe Task Force. Every pack of nincompoops has to have a task force or the other ninnies won’t take them seriously. Just to make sure we understand how the times they are a-changin’, they put quotes around “male” and “female” to remind us there are no such things.

It’s like someone, somewhere, threw a goofy switch and turned on all the crazy. So we have a Supreme Court justice who says she doesn’t know what a woman is, and the president of a “women’s law” society who says yeah, she’s a woman—because that’s what she “identifies as.” Saying so makes it so, as far as she’s concerned. And we have Church of England bishops who say that they don’t know, either.

Are they trying to erase women? Is there something about women that just plain freaks them out?

These are people who are supposedly adults, many of whom occupy highly-paid, high-profile, high-prestige positions in both the public and the private sectors. They can’t all be lunatics—can they? They can’t possibly be that ignorant. So either they’re simply saying things they know are not true, or something else more sinister is going on with them.

Let me propose a challenge. Is there anyone out there who can give a reason, even a thumping silly reason, why we should be doing this, and how we can possibly benefit from it in any way, even a galloping ridiculous way? Don’t be shy—give us a reason!

Once upon a time, in the middle of the 19^th century, the Xhosa people in southern Africa thought they could run the British out of Africa—but only if they first killed off all their livestock (this was history’s first Green New Deal) and burnt up all their crops. A (ahem!) prophetess told them this, and they believed her, so they did what she advised.

And starved very nearly to extinction. And the British colonists stayed.

It’s dangerous to listen to preposterously bad advice. And if it’s not actively a threat to life, it can at least be absurd, shameful, comical, and an assault on sanity and dignity.

We are getting that kind of advice here and now, in the 21^st century. The world’s on fire with it. Our ruling class has lost its marbles. Have you seen video of the massive riots in Sri Lanka that chased its president out of the country? That could be us. Or Canada, or the Netherlands, or Australia. SloJo Biden is not the only world leader who’s gone non compos mentis.

“Male and female created He them.” They want to tear down God’s creation and replace it with their own.

The people of Sri Lanka have rebelled against insane government policies that were reducing them to poverty and want. Our government, in addition to creating food and energy and baby formula shortages, is trying to poison us with “gender fluid.” Pushing transgender as if their lives depended on it.

This has to stop. It really has to stop.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit… before they come for your gender. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Big Government, Small Liberty

by Lee Duigon

July 14, 2022

You’ll own nothing, have no privacy… and you’ll be happy! Such is the promise offered to humanity by Klaus Schwab, Mr. World Economic Forum.

How’s that promise shaping up for us?

In Sri Lanka, ham-fisted government policies reminiscent of our own Green New Deal have exasperated the people beyond their means to tolerate it—booming inflation, shortages of food and other necessaries. They can’t stand it anymore; so they stormed the presidential palace and have chased their lunatic “president” out of the country. He was to have departed yesterday.

In the Netherlands the government’s goons are shooting at farmers who have been protesting equally insane new policies that will destroy their livelihoods. All in the service of Saving The Planet, dontcha know. There’s no indication that this mess will calm down anytime soon.

And in Canada, libs allied to the Trudeau Regime want the government to monitor “private communications” (which won’t be private anymore—so there!) so they can come down on anyone who has a difference of opinion with the rulers. Dissent in Canada has a new name: “misinformation.” We have not been told how they plan to control what is said in private communications. Will they steam open people’s letters? Create algorithms that will rat them out for any discouraging words posted on the social media? They’ll come up with something.

Is this whole world sliding into tyranny? Is freedom an endangered species?

Our Declaration of Independence, our country’s founding document, states that we “are endowed by [our] Creator with certain inalienable rights.” That means our rights are God-given and cannot and may not be sold or taken away from us. Not even by the government.

Oh, but they try! If they can’t buy our rights, they’ll use force. They’ll use fear—and chaos. Riots and all that. So they have the FBI spy on parents who don’t like what the teachers’ unions and race-baiting educators are “teaching” their children. Our national border is ruptured—on purpose. And the Biden Regime still has its sights set on establishing some kind of “Disinformation Governance Board” which would come down on anyone whose mind’s not right. It seems we don’t need no stinkin’ inalienable rights.

They want a world government, run by themselves, so passionately, they can taste it. And they don’t care who they have to hurt to get it.

As Plutarch observed some two thousand years ago, it’s not hard to impose a tyrannical regime on a city or a nation. The hard part is keeping it in being. He also remarked that tyranny is a nice lofty perch—but there’s no safe way down from it.

(And to think that all that King George III wanted was a stamp tax…)

They’ve thoroughly enjoyed subjecting us to mandates, lockdowns, an invasion of illegal immigrants, hysterical warnings of “insurrection,” Critical Race Theory, and transgender mania. Enjoyed every minute of it. This has to stop. If we can stop it with an election, good for us. But it does have to stop.

Let freedom ring! And when they try to stifle us… sing louder! And appeal to a righteous God who sets up nations and sets them down as He sees fit.

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Toward a World of Woke

by Lee Duigon

July 7, 2022

How do you get the Climate Change legislation that you really want? I don’t mean any half-baked toothless regulations for recycling your muesli cartons—no! I mean rock-hard, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners Climate Change laws. With jail time for anyone who dares to object.

Our friends at Far Left Crazy had to wear out their thinking caps, but they finally came up with something. Never underestimate the power of a modern education.

How do you get serious Climate Change legislation? Hold onto your birkenstocks.

**You glue yourself to famous paintings! And also slash people’s tires for having the wrong kind of car. But the caper with the paintings has grabbed all the headlines.

This is how you get a world without oil. Hey, wait a minute! Those are oil paintings, aren’t they? Well-hell! No way that slips past us! We didn’t take Nothing Studies for nothing.

So you find a classic famous work of art and you glue yourself to the frame! Make sure you’ve got your message printed on your T-shirt or a piece of cardboard: something catchy, something edifying. Like “No More Oil!” Oh—and make sure you use Crazy Glue or something equally strong, so no one can pull you loose.

This tactic really works! So far “climate protesters” have hit a Van Gogh in France, a Constable in London—and Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” The Leonardo was only a full-size copy, but you’ve got to give an A for effort. And in New York they slashed a bunch of tires.

Anyhow, there you are, glued to the picture-frame by Crazy Glue—and some enemy of the people asks, “What happens if you have to go to the bathroom?” Uh-oh. Well, who can think of everything? You practically burned out your brain just getting this far. I mean, you could have very easily brought along a jar of mayonnaise instead of the glue, and then where are you? Boy howdy, this is real life. It’s supposed to be harder than college.

But now let’s look at the bright side. If they ever want to enjoy this great art again, without having to look at social justice wackos glued to it—well, they’re just gonna have to give up fossil fuels, won’t they? You’ve got them over a barrel. Switch to origami-powered windmills, world, or say goodbye to Andy Warhol! Can’t you already hear them saying “Uncle”?

Every dindle knows the world will run just fine if the common people have no more access to the benefits of gas and oil, and have to eat bugs instead of meat. Save that Kobe beef, that fresh-caught sea bass, for big wheels at the World Economic Forum, as a reward for their inspired leadership. Politicians, movie stars, Big Tech grandees, and celebrities of every stripe deserve to live in luxury! It’s a privilege to work and sacrifice, if it keeps them in private jets, stretch limos, and mansions fifteen feet above the tide line.

It is amazing, though, that it took the Woke world so long to think of this can’t-miss scheme. And now that Extinction Rebellion has thrown in with us, it can’t fail.

Did somebody say “extinction”? But who cares? Everyone who deserves it will simply have xer brain uploaded into a computer and locked into a gender-fluid robot… and that will be that.

Imagine a world of infallible wokesters!

And without a single drop of oil.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit—before they come for us. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Losers Weepers

by Lee Duigon

June 30, 2022

Going back some decades, Democrats have frequently used the courts to ramrod new policies that had no chance of winning popular support. They smirked at our protests and kept right on doing it. Four examples spring to mind:

*Abolishing school prayer.

*The Kelo Decision (allowing government to seize private property and turn it over to developers ‘cause it’ll be good for everybody—a monstrous expansion of “eminent domain”).

*Same-sex “marriage,” by a 5-4 decision, Anthony Kennedy all by himself casting the deciding vote for a measure that never won majority approval in a referendum—not even in California.

*And of course the original Roe v. Wade, allowing the court to impose one-size-fits-all abortion policy on all 50 states.

Well, now the Dems are hopping mad because the Supreme Court has handed down four decisions that they don’t like:

*Allowing the people to use vouchers to send their children to religious schools.

*Allowing a high school football coach to perform silent prayer on the field without having his livelihood taken away.

*Affirming the right of law-abiding citizens to carry firearms for self-defense.

*And the big one, the one that has liberals screaming in the streets, undoing Roe v. Wade and allowing the states to draft their own abortion laws.

Those four decisions have driven Democrats absolutely crazy—even crazier than they were already. This one wants to impeach Supreme Court justices for voting against them. That one wants to pack the court with far-out lefty justices. And the other wants to abolish the Supreme Court altogether, although he doesn’t tell us how. And yet another had a plan to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.

What’s there to say but “Now you know how we feel! All those years of being told the Court has ruled, we have to suck it up—but now it’s your turn! How do you like it?”

Oh, but this is too much! How dare the court whittle down the immense power of the government? How dare they interfere with the fundamental transformation of America? If you believe Whoopi Goldberg, the court’s next stop is to bring back slavery. Why you should believe such twaddle is between you and your psychiatrist.

Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress had 50 years (!) to codify Roe v. Wade and make it into a real law—and they didn’t. How many opportunities did they have to do that, and didn’t do it? They never even tried. And now they’re screaming bloody murder over it? Not a dry eye in the house.

Conservatives have always had misgivings about leaving it up to the courts, instead of the legislature, to “make law.” Toldja, toldja, toldja! Somewhere along the line we seemed to have lost our grip on self-government and every controversial issue wound up being decided by a judge somewhere, which was most emphatically not the way to do it. Issue after issue, Congress ducked. Again and again they went running to the courts. And now, to their intense consternation, it’s their ox that’s being gored. I wonder if their heads would explode if the Supreme Court ever ruled that school prayer is all right, after all.

Damn! There they were, getting everything they wanted from the courts—and suddenly SCOTUS has bitten them where it hurts. Live by the courts, die by the courts, sunshine. You asked for it.

Now what we need is a midterm election that’ll chase these loonies out of Congress and put the Democrat Party out of business.

Once and for all.

I have discussed these and other issues throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit; you’ll be annoying the Democrats when you do. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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Governed by Ninnies

by Lee Duigon

June 23, 2022

If you’re looking to banish sleep some night, you can do no better than to imagine Vice President (heaven help us) Kamala Harris, by some unforeseen calamity, becoming president.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich has dropped his share of goofy comments, but when he recently discoursed on the fitness of our vice president, he was right on target. (Sorry, the link doesn’t work; you can find the clip on YouTube.)

In addition to being “crazy enough to satisfy the Left,” Harris, said the Speaker, “is the first product of our teacher union/woke education system to get anywhere.” She “knows nothing, and doesn’t know how to learn anything,” and is oblivious to whatever’s going on around her. In short, she’s a ninnie. And she’s got a lot of company.

If there’s one thing our schools and colleges do well, it’s to crank out an inexhaustible supply of nincompoops, many of whom will someday be called upon to run our business and our government. If you think our country’s in trouble now, with only a few of these dindles calling the shots, wait a few years. And if that doesn’t scare you silly, you’d better check to see if you can fog a mirror.

One thing King COVID did was to shut down a lot of public schools and colleges, resulting in an all-time high of families opting for homeschooling. Their number has quadrupled.

But! Will we have enough homeschooled young people to carry this country on their shoulders when they grow up, rather than let it fall into the fumbling, feckless paws of characters like Kamala Harris? What? You don’t think she’s that awful? Have you taken a look at our southern border lately? She’s supposed to be in charge of that! Oh—and now she’s also going to be in charge of protecting our ham-fisted button-brained public figures and journalists from Internet “harassment and abuse.” Never mind gas prices going up to $10 a gallon! What we’ve really got to do is protect our idiots from criticism. Like that fat guy with the wig and nail polish who calls himself a woman and has a high office in our Dept. of Health. And he’s only one of many.

Once upon a time at the Indiana State Fair you had to pay 25 cents to see such people in the freak show. Now they’re in our government. And “teaching” (LOL!) in our public schools.

Well, college enrollment nationwide is down 4.1 percent. That’s a good thing: not enough, but we have to start somewhere. The good news is that the only type of higher education experiencing record growth is “conservative religious schools”. Don’t tell me that surprises you.

Imagine a whole country taken over, lock, stock, and barrel with chumps who have degrees in Intersectional Feminist Ping-Pong Studies. Who cares if no one can land a plane safely anymore? All we care about is the racial component of our aviation and transportation industries! And let’s make sure we have plenty of tax money set aside for Pregnant Persons who still have penises.

We now have a (ahem!) “president” who’s spent his whole adult life in Washington and the only thing he’s learned is how to duck responsibility and shift blame onto others. While picking up a bit of dirty money on the side. That’s all he’s got to offer.

But what does the Democrat Party have to offer us, when it’s time to elect a new president? Imagine Kamala being the cream of the crop. Imagine leaders who make her look like Dwight D. Eisenhower.

I wonder how we sleep at night.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and drop in for a visit before they cart us off to a re-education camp. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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‘I Wanna Be in the Deep State When I Grow Up!’

by Lee Duigon

June 16, 2022

Where do these people come from? Out from under a rotting log?

What would you think if your child said this? “I wanna be in the Deep State when I grow up!” You might ask… why?

“Why? Are you kiddin’? When you’re in the Deep State, you can do anything you want to anybody and not get into any trouble for it! No one can touch you—most of the time they don’t even know who you are. You can spy on anyone you like; and if the president doesn’t like it, so what? You just take him down! Like they took down Trump.

“And even if you get caught doing something really bad, like cooking up a totally fake Russian conspiracy—so what? Ha, ha, ha! Then you just ‘resign’ and be on all the cable news shows and make piles and piles of money!”

Parents don’t like what their local school board’s serving up to them? They have the nerve, the gall, to show up to meetings and complain? What? They don’t like Critical Race Theory, transgender bathrooms, filthy pornographic books in the school library, or “teachers” telling first-graders all about their gross sex lives? Well! That makes them domestic terrorists, doesn’t it! And the Deep State will spy on them, and make sinister phone calls to their employers, and maybe even have them arrested. They’ll soon find out who’s boss!

Why, we can even call in foreign spies and sic them on any politician we don’t like. They can set up hoaxes and then we can, heh-heh, “investigate”! We can even get our friends in Congress to impeach!

And what can anybody do about it? Get us to investigate ourselves? “Nope, nothing wrong here! Everybody in the FBI is squeaky clean!” Like that guy in charge of the Justice Dept. is gonna clean up his own house!

The great thing is, we can go after anybody. No one’s safe! Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence! And if we did, we’ve got plenty of agents who can fabricate all the evidence we need. Who’s going to say we can’t?

It’s called Fundamental Transformation, baby! We are fundamentally transforming the country into anything we please. No one sees us, no one hears us, and by the time anybody comes even close to finding out what we’re up to, it’s too freakin’ late! We aren’t voted in, we don’t have to worry about being voted out. Wait’ll you see who’s waiting for you after Biden finally conks out!

But whoever it is… well, we’re always there, you can’t get rid of us. And we’ll nail you if you try.

What are the parents of Deep Staters like?

Or is that one of those things that it’s better not to know?

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and stop in for a visit… before the Deep State makes us all disappear. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

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