Category: Election 2026

  • By Selwyn Duke “It’s more complicated when it’s about your own children.” So said a liberal in 2015, objecting to the “diversifying” of his kids’ school. Yes, and it’s also more complicated when it’s about your own money. Just ask one Grace Ryan, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member dubbed a “DSA Duchess.” A chocolate heiress living large…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • By Selwyn Duke Socialist candidate for the Wisconsin governorship, Francesca Hong, was leading by double digits in the run-up to Tuesday’s primary election. She lost by 0.45 percent. Oh, and she was defeated by a guy, David Crowley, who’d dropped out of the race during mid July. He said he had no path to the…

  • 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…

  • By Selwyn Duke “It’s not a harmless organization,” an ex-Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member recently said about the DSA. “These people seem perfectly willing to cohabitate with Maoists, Trotskyists and people who have this thrill to violence that’s profoundly troubling…” This warning, issued by one Jake Altman, may be a statement of the obvious…

  • By Selwyn Duke “I vote for the person, not the party,” people will proudly say. This is considered the enlightened position, taken by “free thinking” Americans unconstrained by partisan politics. Why, they’re fair-minded: They judge every politician as an individual. Here’s what no one says: In general elections, this is often what demagogues want you…

  • By Selwyn Duke The warning that there’s an “enemy within” certainly is not new. The description was used, for example, in 19th-century political and religious pamphlets. The Enemy Within would later become the title of books by commentators Michael Savage and David Horowitz, warning about the threat the so-called “Left” poses to civilization. Now another…

  • In 2006, it emerged that then-congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) had sent sexually explicit texts to a male congressional page. This made a continued career in GOP politics untenable, and he resigned from office the very next day. In 1989, it was revealed that a male prostitution/call-boy operation was being run out of the D.C. apartment…