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Month: May 2026

  • Are You Ready for One Billion “Americans”?

    By Selwyn Duke In 2020, journalist Matthew Yglesias insisted we use increased immigration to grow the U.S. population to one billion. Our current 343-million number is insufficient to compete with a future China and India, his theory goes. Yet before we MACA — “Make America China Already!” — we should first ask a question: “What’s So…

  • AOC, the Gal With an Economics Degree, Gets an Economics Lesson

    By Selwyn Duke It has been said that more suffering is caused by ignorance than intended iniquity. One of the best examples of this, too, may be in economics. And with socialism gaining currency in our society, economics warrants serious discussion.

  • Red States Betrayed Over Same-sex “Marriage”? Maybe They’ve Betrayed Themselves

    By Selwyn Duke A lawsuit last year called then-Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy’s Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) majority opinion “legal fiction.” This is for good reason, too. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it at the time, the Constitution “had nothing to do with it.” But then there’s what had a lot to do with it. That…

  • Woke Doctors Paying the Price: Major Victory Against Child “Transgenderism”

    By Selwyn Duke “‘Transgender’ is not a legitimate medical status, but an ideological one,” I wrote in 2019. “Yet this truth won’t stop our time’s Lysenkoists from performing our age’s version of lobotomies. What will is being sued into irrelevancy.” Now something approximating this is finally happening, too. The latest example comes out of Texas, where state…

  • Is the Republic Falling — With a Sudden Collapse in Our Future?

    By Selwyn Duke “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every…

  • What May Win the Midterms for Dems? Answer: Left-wing “News” and Social Media

    By Selwyn Duke “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper,” humorist Mark Twain once quipped. Of course, newspapers’ circulation these past decades has declined like that of someone gaining 50 years and 60 pounds. Yet their influence and that of other left-wing media sources is magnified — by social media…

  • Wokeness Is Dead? Think Again: The Statue Serial Killers Are Still at It

    By Selwyn Duke “When Will They Blow Up Mount Rushmore?” I asked that rhetorically in 2017, alluding to the continual left-wing efforts to clear cut our American cultural landscape. And it was not three years later, in 2020, that a leftist did propose doing essentially that. In fairness, though, Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wanted to be civilized…

  • Lib Politician Pushes Mass Migration, Then Loses Nomination to Immigrant. Now He Alleges Vote Fraud

    By Selwyn Duke Some would call it “progress.” Others would say it’s poetic justice or being hoist with your own petard. Whatever you call it, it certainly is ironic. First, a liberal Canadian politician pushes mass Third World migration because, well, Diversity™. Then guess what just happened this past Saturday? That man, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the…

  • SCOTUS Redistricting Decision Just Ended Affirmative Action — for House Democrats

    By Selwyn Duke Here’s a point to ponder: Despite being 31-33 percent Republican, New Hampshire has no GOP congressman. What would a Republican congressional district look like were the state forced to create one? Then, imagine Massachusetts had to forge a district for its gun owners, who comprise just 14.7 percent of the state’s population.…

  • Nuclear Debt Bomb: U.S. Debt Reaches Red Zone — 100% of GDP

    By Selwyn Duke For decades, there would be much talk among politicians about United States budget deficits (and the national debt). Yet this faded sometime after 2010, at the latest, after which our debt achieved elephant-in-the-room status. It’s perhaps just too scary or inconvenient — when you want or are promising free stuff — to discuss.…