Category: Election 2026
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By Selwyn Duke Call it a somewhat different version of Zohran Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism.” Candidate Shelly Headen, a North Carolina Democrat seeking a state House seat, believes that Trump supporters belong in death-camp crematoria. And that’s not all. Headen has also called for an attack on United States soil. This should “preferably” happen in…
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By Selwyn Duke Have the Democrats really transitioned from the radical party of just a few years ago to sanity? That’s certainly what the current marketing holds. Why, we’re supposed to believe Senate candidate James Talarico (D-Texas) has made that transition just during the last few months. But, warns billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, don’t…
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By Selwyn Duke “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” goes a paraphrase of philosopher Bertrand Russell. Some of these ideas, however, are not so absurd that a campaigning politician wouldn’t mouth them. This could come to mind with a recent comment from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.). Addressing…
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By Selwyn Duke Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece titled “Does the GOP’s Demographic Death Spiral End in a Texas Graveyard?” Its theme was that demographic and cultural changes were making it increasingly difficult for Republicans to win national elections. And once these factors turned Texas “blue,” the GOP would be singin’ the blues. That is,…
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By Selwyn Duke In 2000, candidate John Loew pursued a novel way to gain an advantage in his Los Angeles County assessor’s race. He legally changed his name to John Lower Taxes Loew so that it would thus appear on the ballot. He ultimately wasn’t the winner, though. But he was something else: a piker…
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By Selwyn Duke Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Senate from Michigan last Tuesday. Or, did he? That is, legitimately. The question is apt because a new investigation has proven something striking: Illegal aliens did in fact vote in that race. Now a question arises: Was the vote fraud great enough to have…
