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  • Are Powers-that-be Poll Dancing Again to Sway Midterms?

    By Selwyn Duke Could the Republicans say, paraphrasing Mark Twain, that rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated? Recent history of polling missteps and abuses — and a new story illustrating this problem — suggests that maybe they can. As many know, the Democrats have been counting on a “blue wave” to wash away their…

  • Oregon School Shooting: Same Old Response — or Same Old Complaints About It?

    By Selwyn Duke An interesting thing happened years ago when undercover reporters, posing as an anti-firearms group, approached liberal journalist Bob Braun with a large sign stating, “THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE.” They wanted to know: Would you support the cause and display it on your lawn? “I agree with you and I am…

  • Lindsay Clancy: One Hung Jury — One Hanged Jury System?

    By Selwyn Duke In the legendary 1957 film 12 Angry Men, one holdout juror initially prevents a conviction in a murder trial. “Juror 8” (played by Henry Fonda) says he’s just not yet convinced of the defendant’s guilt. Through persuasion, reasoned analysis, and a little shaming, he leads an effort that eventually results in a…

  • What May Win the Midterms for Dems? Answer: Left-wing “News” and Social Media

    By Selwyn Duke “Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper,” humorist Mark Twain once quipped. Of course, newspapers’ circulation these past decades has declined like that of someone gaining 50 years and 60 pounds. Yet their influence and that of other left-wing media sources is magnified — by social media…

  • When Left-wing CBS’ Dan Rather Warned of Americans Being “Replaced by Foreigners”

    By Selwyn Duke Dropping the mask, some Western leftists are admitting they want to replace many of their countrymen with ideologically compliant “immigrants.” We just heard this stated unabashedly by a Spanish politician last month. There actually was a time, though, when left-wingers might at least mouth the belief that “replacement” is a bad thing. And the…

  • Dems and Legacy Media: “I Am Outraged” — Over My Own Latest Lie

    By Selwyn Duke When called out for falsely claiming in 2012 that then-presidential nominee Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in 10 years, the late Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was unrepentant. “Well, they can call it whatever they want,” he self-assuredly said of his lie. “Romney didn’t win, did he?” Many would point out that this…

  • Affordability Crisis? Perspective and Propaganda

    By Selwyn Duke Some politics wonks may remember 2010’s JournoList scandal. It was revealed that hundreds of left-wing journalists, academics, and political activists had been colluding via a private online gathering place and coordinating strategies and talking points. In other words, the “independent” media people certainly weren’t independent of each other; they were operating as…

  • White “Ghetto Girl” Reflects Why MAGA Won’t be Easy

    By Selwyn Duke If politics is downstream from culture, and it is, we have a lot to worry about. This is frankly because American culture has long been rotting like a 10-day-old avocado in the sun. A good example, appearing in my X notifications yesterday, is a video of a white girl sporting corn-woven hair…

  • Manipulation: Media’s Illegal-alien Sob Stories Are Meant to Deceive

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a certain technique often used by journalists, one designed to get you not thinking, but feeling. It involves opening an article with a human-interest story, and it’s figuring prominently right now in the illegal-migration controversy. It may go something like this: Heart Over Head Of course, the idea is to engage…

  • Has Trump Broken the Left’s Propaganda Machine?

    By Selwyn Duke Image created with Grok AI. “There’s no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary,” quipped Irish writer and activist Brendan Behan. Yet the no-bad-publicity notion certainly isn’t true for politicians, who must win not only fame but elections. Hence an old pattern: Republicans would be condemned by a monolithic mainstream…