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  • “Democratic Socialism” Is In, but Is It an Oxymoron?

    By Selwyn Duke Marketing is an interesting thing. The buyer always has to beware because labels and packaging don’t always reflect ingredients. Consider the following list, for example, asking: What’s the most common word among its elements? “Democratic,” obviously. Now note that 1 and 2 are communist countries, with the first (North Korea) being particularly…

  • Wokeness Is Dead? Think Again: The Statue Serial Killers Are Still at It

    By Selwyn Duke “When Will They Blow Up Mount Rushmore?” I asked that rhetorically in 2017, alluding to the continual left-wing efforts to clear cut our American cultural landscape. And it was not three years later, in 2020, that a leftist did propose doing essentially that. In fairness, though, Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wanted to be civilized…

  • Does America Sit on “Stolen Land”?

    By Selwyn Duke The first man who staked out a piece of ground and said “This is mine” was a liar, goes a paraphrase of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Yet that man also, the philosopher stated, “was the real founder of civil society.” Rousseau was no fan of our Western civil society, but perhaps that makes his statement even…

  • Heating Up the Marxist Ovens, Mamdani Promises the “Warmth of Collectivism”

    By Selwyn Duke “My skin literally crawled,” said the shocked New York City Council member in early January. What so shook Vickie Paladino, a rare Republican in the Big Apple Legislature, was a comment Mayor Zohran Mamdani made in his inaugural address. It was so eyebrow-raising, in fact, that an editor of mine at first…

  • Black Researcher: MLK, Jr. Was a Marxist Who Rejected Christ; “Pastor” Title a Ruse

    By Selwyn Duke One reason Martin Luther King, Jr. “is so celebrated today,” stated late left-wing NAACP head Julian Bond in 2010, is “because we celebrate a different kind of man than really existed.” You can say that again, too, researcher Chad O. Jackson might exclaim. In fact, if Jackson is any guide, King’s speech…

  • Does the West Lack That Prerequisite for Survival: A Reason to Get Up in the Morning?

    By Selwyn Duke “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose,” noted Austrian psychiatrist/philosopher Viktor Frankl. Much has been written about the need for meaning, in recent years especially. Without it, a person can descend into a morass of addiction, degradation, and self-destruction. The same, however, is true…

  • Ken Burns Burns America With Revolutionary War Revisionism in New Docuseries

    By Selwyn Duke Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “history is a series of agreed-upon myths.” Famed documentarian Ken Burns may agree, too, to the point where he has reportedly become one of the myth makers. At issue is a new six-part, 12-hour-long series titled The American Revolution (TAR) which, say critics, strays into anti-American fiction. It’s apparently…

  • Forget “Democratic Socialism,” Says Economist; Embrace “Democratic Capitalism”

    By Selwyn Duke “The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to make a profit,” wrote labor leader Samuel Gompers. This is also the sentiment with which economist and professor Mark Skousen opened a recent article. In it he urges readers to “share the wealth,” not “redistribute it.” And Skousen discourages the…

  • “I Beat Hitler” Says 98-year-old Trump Supporter

    By Selwyn Duke Meet Piri Katz, a strong supporter of a man whom she, at 98, can call “kid.” That man would be President Donald Trump. Katz may, too, have some choice words for those who’d impugn Trump as a “Nazi,” “Hitler,” or even just “authoritarian.” You see, Piri actually lived, and suffered, under Nazi…

  • Want Slavery Reparations? Go Ask Muslim Countries, Says Scholar

    By Selwyn Duke It’s arguable that the people who complain about slavery most actually may love it, in a perverse way. After all, it provides so many with excuses for failure, anti-Western talking points, and opportunities to extract hand-outs. Just consider “reparations,” which are now continually demanded (by people enslaved only by their own indoctrination).…