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Category: The Socialist Threat
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s an interesting little fact: Texas’ real GDP growth rate for the second quarter of 2025 was 6.8 percent. New York’s was 1.5. Sure, this is anecdotal, and not all conservative states are faring as well as Texas (or even New York). Yet it does apparently reflect a pattern. Just consider an…
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By Selwyn Duke “My skin literally crawled.” So said New York City council member Vickie Paladino in response to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address. What gave Paladino the creeps was a comment so eyebrow-raising that an editor of mine first thought it was parody. “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism,” Mamdani said on…
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By Selwyn Duke If you’ve watched the 1990 film Goodfellas, you may remember the segment where mob boss Paulie becomes a partner in a restaurant, then purposely bankrupts the place and torches it to collect insurance money. But the true story is far darker still. In reality, Paulie surreptitiously orchestrated the restaurateur’s difficulties in the first…
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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…
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By Selwyn Duke Shortly after Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral victory, I asked in a headline, “In Power, Will Mamdani Be Socialist — or Sly.” Now it appears we may have the answer in an actions-speak-louder-than-words way. That is, the “democratic socialist” mayor-elect is appointing one far-left radical after another to his administration. Among his picks…
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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…
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By Selwyn Duke Word has it that the Democrats, divided between their progressive and “moderate” (read: only somewhat radical) wings and tired of having extremism lose them elections, are making changes designed to deliver 2026 and ’28 victory. Oh, it’s not a Road to Damascus moment, but a “Road to Just Ask Us” moment. That is, they’re…
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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…
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By Selwyn Duke Meet Hannah Shvets, a 20-year-old Cornell University sophomore and one of the newest members of New York’s Ithaca Common Council. Shvets is also a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She additionally has membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), as does New York City’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, whom she…
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s a question: What percentage of all the people who’ve ever lived on Earth is the average American richer than? Answer: 99.9 percent. We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet many people are still dissatisfied. They feel as if they’ve been denied some birthright, some societal bequeathment. And, recent survey data have…
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