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  • Socialism: Savior or Seductress?

    By Selwyn Duke A Rasmussen poll last September discovered something Americans once found unthinkable: Fifty-three percent of likely voters aged 18 to 39 want a “democratic socialist” elected president in 2028. And that’s not all. Seventy-six percent of these under-40s believe that major industries “like health care, energy, and big tech should be nationalized to…

  • “Fiscal Shackle” Revolution: Argentina’s Milei Aims to KILL the Debt State — for Good

    By Selwyn Duke “Rain will always fall downwards,” the saying goes. “Don’t try to change the impossible.” And government will always run up debt to buy votes and print “counterfeit” currency to cover the deficits. While this is taken for granted, a revolution led by Argentine president Javier Milei aims to break the cycle. If…

  • Ex-NY Lt. Governor: A National Conversation “Urgently” Needed on Immigration

    By Selwyn Duke “You know, people say that demographics are not destiny,” said American “civil rights” attorney Judith Browne Dianis in 2019. “Well, we’re trying to make it destiny, so that’s the work that we are doing.” Among those who already considered it destiny was late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, speaking in 2006. “There are…

  • Warning: The “Commissar” is Coming for Elon Musk’s Wealth

    By Selwyn Duke “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money” goes the apocryphal saying. This satirizing of government’s spendthrift ways is more appropriate than ever, too. After all, our projected 2026 federal budget is $7.4 trillion and our national debt $39 trillion. Our federal tax revenue this year is…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • Wealthy Leftists: Stealing Is OK for Us — and Sometimes Murder, Too

    By Selwyn Duke What happens when you raise generations not with virtue but with “situational values”? What’s the result when kids are pandered to, coddled, never told “No!” and get participation trophies? One result just may be wealthy, spoiled adults who believe its okay for them to steal and even, sometimes, murder. Oh, they have their rationalizations…

  • Study: More Americans Than Not Still Believe Overpopulation Myth

    By Selwyn Duke Elon Musk and Paul Ehrlich… Only a minority of people know who Ehrlich was; fewer still would know why I mention the two men together. But they represent diametrically opposed perspectives on a major issue: population growth. Billionaire tech mogul Musk has made news in recent years warning that our below-replacement-level fertility…

  • Eat the Rich? Will Wealth Taxes Buttress or Bust Dem-state Budgets?

    By Selwyn Duke “The trouble with socialism,” said late British leader Margaret Thatcher, “is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Socialism also, one might add, can make the people with money run out. This is a concern, too, with proposed and already-instituted “wealth taxes” on millionaires and billionaires. Yet there’s a reason…