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January 14, 2026

Leftist Women: Even Crazier After All These Years?

By Selwyn Duke

More than 50 percent of young, liberal, white women have been diagnosed with some form of “mental health” problem, a 2020 Pew Research Center study found. What’s scarier still, the joke goes, is that this means close to 50 percent are running around undiagnosed.

This is a not uncommon joke for a reason. Observing leftist white women’s behavior during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s 2018 confirmation hearings, commentator Megan Fox identified the problem. “Screeching gorgons” are afoot, she wrote. Referencing those taking the lead in 2020’s left-wing protests, pundit Andrea Widburg fingered “hysterically angry white women” (HAWW). And millions of others speak of ever troublesome “Karens.”
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January 13, 2026

Ex-federal Prosecutor: Minneapolis Shooting Is Not Even a Close Call

By Selwyn Duke

“Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” noted Benjamin Franklin in 1775. This could come to mind with the response to the fatal Minneapolis shooting of activist Renee Nicole Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After all, far from being icy, as in cool-headed, many are running on fiery emotion and coming to risible conclusions.

But one man rising above the passion, and marshaling the facts, is ex-federal prosecutor Bill Shipley. And Shipley, who spent 22-plus years in his federal role, has drawn a definitive conclusion on the shooting.

It was absolutely just, he says — in fact, it’s “not even a close call.”
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January 12, 2026

Musk: AI Will Make Cash Worthless, Work Optional, Retirement-saving Obsolete — and More

By Selwyn Duke

If “work ennobles man,” as the saying goes, are we headed for a very ignoble future? If “cash is king” today, what will reign tomorrow? If an abundance of the material can bury the spiritual, are we headed for an ever-more intensified secularism?

These questions could and should be asked with a prediction billionaire industrialist Elon Musk recently made.

Our not-too-distant future is one, he says, in which cash will be worthless and work merely an option. Why, Musk adds, there may not even be a reason to save for retirement. How come?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will in a decade or two, he states, deliver a world of mechanical slaves that will satisfy every human need and want. In fact, the only limit to the abundance might be energy constraints and raw materials’ finiteness.
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January 12, 2026

O’Reilly: “Minnesota Is in Open Rebellion Against the Federal Government”

By Selwyn Duke

“There is now a rebellion on the part of certain states against the federal government,” announced commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. And front and center is Minnesota, where the governor and Minneapolis mayor are inciting people to violence, O’Reilly further expressed.

The pundit was, of course, referencing these and other Democratic politicians’ opposition to federal immigration enforcement. Yet the reality is that much of this is performative. Certain demagogues are, in fact, fomenting opposition to and violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for political gain. After all, it’s a good way to distract people from the Somali fraud scandal.

And for this reason, say many observers, the blood of the woman recently shot by ICE is on agitators’ hands.
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January 10, 2026

Dems’ Midterm Strategy: Hate Trump — and Then Hate Him Some More

By Selwyn Duke

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,” goes the paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton, “but because he loves what is behind him.” This comes to mind when pondering the Democrats’ now long-standing electoral strategy: Hate President Donald Trump.

Then hate him some more.

Then keep hating him — with the passion of a thousand burning suns — until, hopefully, most other Americans join your hate-fest.
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January 8, 2026

Mamdani’s “Tenant Advocate” Wrote in 2018, “Impoverish the ‘White’ Middle Class”

By Selwyn Duke

“Suppression is necessary because the bourgeoisie [middle class] will always furiously resist being expropriated.” So wrote Russian Revolution author Vladimir Lenin in 1918. Fast-forward exactly a century and this spirit not only lives on, but with a racial (and racist) spin.

Just consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “tenant advocate” appointee Cea Weaver. “Impoverish the ‘white’ middle class,” she wrote on X in 2018. “Homeownership [sic] is racist,” she continued — “failed public policy.”

Weaver isn’t alone. Mamdani’s ex-director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, wrote in 2016, “It’s important that white people feel defeated” (tweet below).
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January 6, 2026

Economic Blues: Are Blue States Driving the “Affordability Crisis”?

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s an interesting little fact: Texas’ real GDP growth rate for the second quarter of 2025 was 6.8 percent. New York’s was 1.5.

Sure, this is anecdotal, and not all conservative states are faring as well as Texas (or even New York). Yet it does apparently reflect a pattern.

Just consider an AI analysis I ran. It found that the 30 states won by President Donald Trump had an average Q2 rate of approximately 4.2-4.5. In contrast, the approximate average rate of the 20 states Kamala Harris won was 3.2-3.5.

This is significant when talking about “affordability” because rising GDP can mitigate that problem. Moreover, examining what affects affordability most directly, consumer price index increase (CPII), tells a similar tale. Conservative and liberal states are performing differently.
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January 4, 2026

Forever War — on Whites: Harvard Has Gone Full Racist

By Selwyn Duke

It’s sadly ironic that a university founded in 1636 to train clergy has embraced the devilish religion of racist dogma. But this is the case, warns 40-year Harvard history professor James Hankins. In fact, it’s so bad that he has left the school.

What’s at issue is damning, Hankins warns. Harvard University not only rejects teaching Western civilization’s virtues, but also won’t hire white males — no matter their qualifications. It has instead embraced a “hate whitey” philosophy that demeans the West and the European-descent peoples who birthed it.
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January 3, 2026

Mayor Mamdani Vows to Replace “Individualism” With “the Warmth of Collectivism”

Image created using Grok AI.

By Selwyn Duke

“My skin literally crawled.” So said New York City council member Vickie Paladino in response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. What gave Paladino the creeps was a comment so eyebrow-raising that an editor of mine first thought it was parody.

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism,” Mamdani said on Thursday, January 1, “with the warmth of collectivism.” My, that’s quite the New Year’s resolution.

Oh, it’s not as bad as stating, let’s say, that your end goal is “seizing the means of production.”

Mamdani made that statement, too — while addressing supporters in 2021.
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January 2, 2026

South Winning the War Between the States — in Education

By Selwyn Duke

It’s not just economic activity that has been moving from a waning North to a burgeoning South in recent times. Intellectual activity is also making that move — contrary to stereotypes.

Just consider Mississippi, a state oft mocked by urban arts-and-croissant pseudo-sophisticates. Leading the post-Covid recovery, it has gone from 49th to seventh nationally in fourth-grade reading scores. This is even though it’s still our poorest state.

Moreover, this just reflects a wider phenomenon dubbed the “Southern Surge.” It’s no mystery why it’s occurring, either. Unlike in liberal northern bastions, southern states have embraced not only early intervention, but also traditional learning and a very “unwoke” concept: discipline.
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