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  • Mamdani’s Maniacal Minions: Mayor-elect Hiring Far-left Radicals to Run NYC (Into the Ground?)

    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 are a car-hating zealot who wants to build playgrounds in the middle of city streets and an “anti-cop extremist” who has called for ICE abolishment and tarred border policing as “inhumane.”

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  • NY Times Op-ed Writer Slams Whites: “You Lost”; “Your Culture Sucks”

    By Selwyn Duke

    Reacting to invasion (im)migration trends years ago, Ambassador Alan Keyes put it bluntly.

    “We’re being colonized,” he said.

    And if ever there was proof of this, and the low quality of many post-1965 newcomers—and of the lie of “diversity”—it’s a viral video posted by one Wajahat Ali.

    Mr. Ali is a Pakistani-descent Muslim whose parents came to the U.S. in 1965 and lived the American dream—and an un-American scheme. That is, they served prison time in the mid-2000s for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering for defrauding Microsoft out of millions of dollars.

    Some say Ali weaponized this experience, playing the victim.

    What’s for sure is that it didn’t stop him from becoming a Daily Beast columnist and New York Times op-ed writer. And that status didn’t stop him from something else:

    He went on a bigoted anti-white tirade on social media in which he made clear that he’s an enemy within who hates the Western people who founded our country. As he said in his video, which is making the rounds:

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  • 1,000 Professors (Supposedly) Flee the South. Reason? Their Universities Said “NO Wokeness”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    In “a school to-day the baby has to submit to a system that is younger than himself,” observed philosopher G.K. Chesterton in 1910. “The flopping infant of four actually has more experience, and has weathered the world longer, than the dogma to which he is made to submit.” Just imagine what Chesterton would say about college students today. In this case, the undergraduate has to submit to a system that’s younger than his baby brother.

    Try telling this, however, to the college professors — 1,000 of them, allegedly — now “fleeing” Southern universities. Many cite “policies that limit academic freedom,” states a summary by Copilot artificial intelligence. But some humans possessing natural intelligence might put it differently: The policies are “separating the weeds from the wheat.”

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  • “Third Wayism”: The New Evangelical Excuse for Retreating From the Political/Cultural War

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Pontius Pilate has a unique place in history; every even quasi-serious Christian knows his name. Pilate was, of course, the Roman governor who condemned Jesus to death despite acknowledging His innocence. It was easier, you see, and more expedient to publicly wash his hands and declare, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves” — and therefore avoid Jewish leaders’ agitation and maintain political stability and “neutrality.” It was easier to, instead of taking an unpopular stand and an underappreciated side, choose a third way.

    Thus is it intensely and sadly ironic that many Christians today are, with a like motivation, using a similar rationalization to avoid taking unpopular stands. Why, they even call it “a third way.”

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

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    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 another example of the revisionist history responsible for spawning millions of “Americans” who take no pride in their country or who, worse still, despise it.

    What’s more, the work is the result of almost eight years of toil. That’s more than long enough to get things right; instead, Burns got things left.

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  • An Ex-Muslim’s Warning to America

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    By Selwyn Duke

    It was in 2015 that Muslim refugee Dr. Mudar Zahran warned of the “soft Islamic conquest of the West.” Zahran was referring to the wave migration affecting Europe, which ultimately saw millions more Muslims enter the Continent. Now, a decade later, an ex-Muslim sounds the same alarm here in America. In fact, she says, operational in the U.S. is a decades-old, clearly stated plan for civilizational jihad.

    Only, like sheep to the slaughter, most Americans are unaware of it.

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  • Religious Revival USA: “God Is Back”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Skepticism has never lasted two generations,” said G.K. Chesterton in a 1931 debate with Scopes “Monkey Trial” lawyer Clarence Darrow.

    “The first generation laughs at the Bible,” goes a later elaboration on the idea. The “second questions the laughter; the third weeps because there is nothing left to laugh at.”

    And then, because pain like surprise opens eyes, people may see their way to finding faith again.

    This is happening, too, in our time, with many younger people — particularly men — in the U.S. and U.K. embracing Christianity. What’s more, even some “intellectuals” are coming to God. It’s all quite contrary to Darrow’s debate prediction that, under the “light” of science and reason, religion would fade away.

    In fact, demographers inform that the world will become not less but more religious in the coming decades. The only question is: Will the now secular West become part of this or be left in the dust of materialism?

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  • Bill Maher: Trump Right on Ending Education Dept.

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Here’s a question: How much replication do we need in government?

    How many levels of government must we have doing the same thing — and sometimes conflicting with each other?

    How many captains should there be on a ship?

    This could come to mind when pondering, oh, let’s say, the United States Department of Education (DoE). Efforts to eliminate it are met with resistance, but how many realize that it’s just one out of about 1,200?

    That’s right. Considering federal, state, county, city, and town education departments, there are approximately 1,150-1,200 coast to coast. Given this, if we nixed a quarter of them, let alone one, would they really be missed? Well, quite a number of Americans certainly wouldn’t miss the DoE, and one of them is comedian and commentator Bill Maher.

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  • “Pride” Flag Flies (in Victory?) Over Now-purplish ex-Catholic Church in Small-town USA

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Et tu, Mayberry?

    Just recently I took a couple of friends to visit old hinterland haunts in upstate N.Y., places I used to visit on vacation or when house sitting. At issue are one-horse towns in rural Delaware County, which went for President Trump in last year’s election by almost 60 percent. It’s not the kind of place you’d expect to find an ex-Catholic church painted lavender-purple (pictures below) and flying the Jolly Roger “Pride” flag. But there it is, right on St. Hwy. 30 in the bucolic little Town of Roxbury, N.Y.

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

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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 current embrace of democratic socialism, but at the same time touts something else: democratic capitalism.

    (Note: A better name is “economic freedom” because the term “capitalism” polls badly. This is no surprise, either: It was originated by socialists to demonize economic freedom, which they aimed to destroy.)

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