Month: October 2026
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By Selwyn Duke An interesting thing happened years ago when undercover reporters, posing as an anti-firearms group, approached liberal journalist Bob Braun with a large sign stating, “THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE.” They wanted to know: Would you support the cause and display it on your lawn? “I agree with you and I am…
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By Selwyn Duke Call it the Trotsky treatment, the Robespierre rub out, the Kronstadt-sailor stamp out. New York City’s avowedly socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has just learned something the hard way. You can never be pure enough for that ever-morphing malignancy: a left-wing revolution. The issue? The mayor has incurred the wrath of anti-Israel demonstrators…
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By Selwyn Duke Are we seeing a return to the days when “gay” meant happy? While I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that, a societal transition is afoot. Sexual devolutionary (“LGB”) identification, once all the rage among young people, is now diminishing. The group leading the decline is, too, the same group inordinately responsible…
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By Selwyn Duke What would you say upon hearing that 43 percent of a young demographic in America views Sharia law positively? Perhaps you’d complain about the rate of immigration exceeding the rate of assimilation. Now consider this: That 43 percent is young likely American voters in general — not just Muslim Americans. Now, perhaps…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s common, and tempting, to dismiss one’s political opponents as “stupid.” Liberals may call conservatives “mouth-breathers” or “MAGA-billies,” while conservatives may hurl pejoratives such as “libtards” or “Dumbocrats.” This can be emotionally pleasing and sometimes, perhaps, even rhetorically effective. But does conservatives’ “stupidity” narrative blind them to darker realities and deeper dangers?
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By Selwyn Duke It was 20 years ago now that three Duke University lacrosse players were indicted on rape and other charges after a stripper, Crystal Mangum, claimed she was attacked at a team party. It became a real media cause célèbre, with pseudo-elites everywhere condemning the male undergraduates. But the case blew up in…
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By Selwyn Duke The identity of the co-pilot who tried to violently take over a flydubai jet Wednesday hasn’t been released. Yet there’s now information indicating he was, as a source puts it, a “religious extremist.” And, no, this doesn’t mean a Quaker or Anabaptist. Many officials believe the Omani co-pilot, presumably a jihadist-minded Muslim,…
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By Selwyn Duke It was during the French Revolution, that bloody 10-year affair, that modern “leftism” was officially born. We’re seeing shades of it, too, in France currently, with widespread rioting, arson, vandalism, and looting. This is the result of what are called “protests,” ostensibly motivated by a desire for better school conditions. (And, of…
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By Selwyn Duke “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” a woman asked Ben Franklin in 1787, at the Constitutional Convention’s close. “A republic, if you can keep it,” he sagely replied. This exchange has been quoted widely. So has a line written in 1798 by our second president, John Adams.…
