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August 6, 2025

Good Jeans, Bad Jeans; Good Genes, Bad Genes — Sydney Sweeney Realities

By Selwyn Duke

“I learned long ago the difference between critics and box office.” So said late President Ronald Reagan, referencing what his experience as a Hollywood actor taught him. Box office is what matters whether you’re selling films, politicians, or anything else. And perhaps illustrating this reality perfectly is the much discussed “un-woke” Sydney Sweeney ad for American Eagle Outfitters (AE) jeans. Though the critics are livid, the lucid are laughing — and AE is laughing all the way to the bank.

In fact, while wokesters are calling the ad “Nazi” propaganda, AE’s stock has jumped 20 percent. It just goes to show that when selling jeans, having good jeans — and models with good genes — really does matter.

(And, yes, there are such things as “good genes.” More on that later.)

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August 5, 2025

Battle of Britain: Is Reform’s Rise Driven by White Working-class “Rage” — or Righteousness?

By Selwyn Duke

There’s a political revolution bubbling in what once was the motherland. The Reform UK party, founded just seven years ago as the “Brexit Party,” may now be poised to win power in Britain’s next election.

How significant the party’s rise is cannot be overstated. A poll earlier this year showed Reform leading the Conservatives and the Labour Party for the first time ever. Note here that the former can be analogized to our Republicans and Labour to our Democrats. Given this, the result is much like the Libertarians or Constitution Party out-polling the GOP and Democrats in the U.S. It’s breathtaking and historic.

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August 4, 2025

The Homeschoolers Who Proved That School Is a Waste of Time

By Selwyn Duke

“Work expands to fit the allotted time,” the saying goes. And that education is no exception holds a lesson: Some will say when pondering homeschooling, “I’m not qualified to teach my kids.” But, informs homeschooling advocate Brett Pike, it’s not just that you can teach your kids — and splendidly.

It’s that you can do it in a fraction of the time schools do.

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August 2, 2025

Duke Asks: “Is It Time To Ban Girl Cops?”

By Selwyn Duke

“Well, that’s very stylish.” So said tough silver-screen cop Dirty Harry Callahan, in the 1976 film The Enforcer, reacting to a feminist initiative. Its goal was, a woke female official informed, to “broaden the areas of participation for women in the police force.”

This was, of course, art imitating life, and today we’re so stylish that it doesn’t even seem stylish anymore. It does, however, seem dangerous and foolhardy to many — and you can count Duke among them.

I’ll let the reader figure out if this includes me. But right now I’m talking about Daily Caller senior editor Amber Duke. Fed up with the recent sad and tragic mob-attack spectacle in Cincinnati, Ohio, Duke asks, “Is It Time To Ban Girl Cops?”

My, my, now that is a third rail of American social commentary.

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July 31, 2025

Fake News: USA Today Claims People Are Smoking More. Actually, It’s a Liberal Thing

By Selwyn Duke

With the alphabet networks’ viewership down to 19 percent of the market — they controlled more than 90 percent in the mid-’70s — it’s safe saying the once-mainstream media aren’t exactly smokin’. The same is true of mainstream newspapers, and a recent USA Today article about smoking may illustrate why.

The headline, above a piece by one Andrea Javor, reads, “We know cigarettes are bad. So why are people starting to smoke again?” The problem?

They are — and they’re not.

That is, cigarettes are unhealthful. There are not, however, any data showing that people are starting to smoke more again. Yet it may seem that way to liberal journalists because, well, smoking is a “liberal thing.”

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July 30, 2025

Black Professor: Time to Kill “African-American”

By Selwyn Duke

It was decades ago that I warned against using the term “African-American.” It was three years ago that legendary black singer Smokey Robinson said, passionately, “I resent being called an African-American — I really do.” Now a black Ivy League linguistics professor is echoing this sentiment. Saying the term is “awkward,” he’s touting the “back to ‘black’ by popular demand” position.

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July 30, 2025

“Racism”: Want to Cancel Hulk Hogan? Fine, Then Muhammad Ali’s Got to Go, Too

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By Selwyn Duke

It wasn’t long after legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan’s passing that we heard the condemnations. Don’t honor him, the nattering ne’er-do-wells insisted—he was a stone cold “racist.” When evaluating this, too, I want you to consider the following quite telling and damning line:

“A black man should be killed if he’s messin’ with a white woman.”

Now, ESPN's David Dennis Jr., who sparked great controversy by writing a quite condemnatory article about Hogan while the flamboyant star’s body was almost still warm, was clear on how he feels about the man. “When you are a racist that is your legacy above all else. It’s not complicated,” Dennis unequivocally stated.

I’m glad he said that, too, because, you see, the above-quoted line about killing a white-woman-messin’ black man wasn’t actually uttered by Hogan. No, that remark, which sounds as if it could’ve been disgorged by the murderers of 14-year-old Emmett Till, was instead made by someone else:

Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.

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July 28, 2025

African-AmeriKings? Some Black Americans Relocating to Africa, Citing “Heritage”

By Selwyn Duke

Some black Americans, we hear, are moving back to the land of those who sold their ancestors into slavery. That’s one way of putting it, anyway. But as is said, home is where the heart is. The heart is often happier, too, when your formerly upper-middle-class self can now live like a king in a country of relative serfs.

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July 27, 2025

Will Media Matters Shatter? Left-wing Smear Group May Collapse Over Lawsuits and Investigations

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By Selwyn Duke

Some people may call it the chickens coming home to roost. Media Matters for America (MMfA), a George Soros-funded left-wing censorship group, reportedly may be on the verge of collapse. The organization is reeling after a series of lawsuits and government investigations, which are straining its already frazzled finances. (MMfA raised $19 million in 2023 — and somehow spent $20 million.) But here’s what some may consider poetic justice: The group essentially claims the government is now doing the Right’s bidding in an effort to destroy it.

This is the same group, a 2012 report held, that was previously coordinating with the government to destroy the Right.

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July 26, 2025

We Hear Gen Z Is “Shifting Right,” Yet 62% Like Socialism and 34% Like Communism

By Selwyn Duke

“Communist governments killed 100 million people during the 20th century,” I told a young man about seven or eight years ago. I’ll never forget the look of surprise that registered on his face. Though he was approximately 18 and had attended a wealthy suburb’s “good” government schools, he’d never heard that before. It’s a good example of why, as the saying goes, you should “never let your schooling interfere with your education.”

But that such interference is the norm today perhaps explains the results of a new poll. It found that among older Zoomers (18-29), 62 percent have a favorable view of socialism. The kicker (and it’s a kick in the head):

Thirty-four percent have a positive view of communism.

A second kicker: At the same time we hear that, as The Hill reported recently, young voters “are shifting right.” How can these seeming incongruities be reconciled? Is it that the polls are wrong (again), or is it something else?

(Spoiler: It’s something else.)

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