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  • AOC: More Suburban Socialist Than Bronx Bolshevik — and All Marketing

    Image created using Grok AI. By Selwyn Duke “Sandy is the seashore — and Sandy is the sea.” “She can turn to anything that she would like to be,” sang the late Harry Chapin in 1975. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), or AOC, known as Sandy Cortez growing up in her posh suburb, wasn’t around when Chapin…

  • Donald Trump Is the REAL Black Lives Matter President

    By Selwyn Duke It’s arguably true that agitation by organization Black Lives Matter (tag-teaming with Antifa) hobbled President Donald Trump’s 2020 election chances. This is why it’s ironic that while he’s maligned as a “racist,” Trump may enjoy a unique status. He may be the real “Black Lives Matter” president. That is, in the sense…

  • Toronto Zoo’s Latest Exhibit: Drag Queens for Kids

    Image credit: DVSROSS/Wikimedia Commons By Selwyn Duke You take for granted that, despite the abundance of wild creatures, your children will be safe at the zoo. The secure cages and pens lend that sense of security. But it’s a false sense at the Toronto Zoo, where a certain “species,” some say predatory, roams about unfettered.…

  • The Untold Reason for Mamdani’s Mayoral Win

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a reason why, historically, demagogues have been so successful. It’s one we ignore at our own peril, too, because it holds the key to future political victory. The NYC mayoral Democrat primary race results have shaken the political world. Candidate Zohran Mamdani, described as a Marxist Muslim, was five months ago…

  • “Decolonization”: Woke Canada Renames Street Something Resembling “Strong Wi-Fi Password”

    By Selwyn Duke All of us in the West, or virtually all, have ancestors who were at some point colonized. But only a select few of us get to have, in “decolonization’s” pursuit, streets renamed something no one can pronounce. And only a select few can enjoy this despite their ancestors never having created streets…

  • Reversal? On Same-sex “Marriage,” Reps and Dems Now WIDER Apart Than in Decades

    By Selwyn Duke When Barack Obama announced in 2014 that he believed the Constitution requires states to recognize same-sex “marriage,” it was said he’d “evolved” — again. But Americans have thus “evolved,” too, with support for faux (“same-sex”) marriage having increased for decades across groups. That is, until now. In a development no doubt surprising…

  • France: Almost 150 Women at Music Festivals Attacked; Many Injected With Unknown Substances

    By Selwyn Duke It just keeps on getting more and more bizarre, life in the modern, “diversified” West. In recent years we’ve heard about knife, acid, and vehicular attacks in Europe and sometimes the United States. Now comes news that at least 145 music festival attendees, almost exclusively female, have been assaulted with syringes across…

  • New Poll Shows NYC May Have First Marxist-Muslim Mayor

    By Selwyn Duke He wants the police defunded, a full rent freeze, city-owned grocery stores, a $30 minimum wage, funding for illegals, millions for “gender-affirming” care — and more. Some people call him a Marxist; he calls himself a “democratic socialist.” But there’s something different still that New York City’s Zohran Mamdani may be called…

  • To MAGA, We Don’t Need “Virtue-signaling,” but Pure Virtue Itself

    By Selwyn Duke It’s a shame, and a sign of the times, that we mostly hear the term “virtue” via that misbegotten newer term “virtue-signaling.” Oh, the critique the latter denotes is absolutely valid, but packaging matters. (Thus do I use “value-signaling” instead.) Illustrating why was a reader reaction to one of my articles years…

  • Trump vs. Leftists on Juneteenth: Is It Just a DEI Holiday?

    By Selwyn Duke Affirmative-action holidays, encouraged by value-signaling white liberals, are quite something. A Zambian friend of mine once remarked that in Africa he’d never even heard of “Kwanzaa,” a supposedly African holiday coinciding with Christmas. Of course not. It was made up out of whole cloth in 1966 by black American activist and criminal…