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  • O’Reilly: “Minnesota Is in Open Rebellion Against the Federal Government”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “There is now a rebellion on the part of certain states against the federal government,” announced commentator Bill O’Reilly Thursday. And front and center is Minnesota, where the governor and Minneapolis mayor are inciting people to violence, O’Reilly further expressed.

    The pundit was, of course, referencing these and other Democratic politicians’ opposition to federal immigration enforcement. Yet the reality is that much of this is performative. Certain demagogues are, in fact, fomenting opposition to and violence against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for political gain. After all, it’s a good way to distract people from the Somali fraud scandal.

    And for this reason, say many observers, the blood of the woman recently shot by ICE is on agitators’ hands.

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  • Dems’ Midterm Strategy: Hate Trump — and Then Hate Him Some More

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,” goes the paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton, “but because he loves what is behind him.” This comes to mind when pondering the Democrats’ now long-standing electoral strategy: Hate President Donald Trump.

    Then hate him some more.

    Then keep hating him — with the passion of a thousand burning suns — until, hopefully, most other Americans join your hate-fest.

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  • Mamdani’s “Tenant Advocate” Wrote in 2018, “Impoverish the ‘White’ Middle Class”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Suppression is necessary because the bourgeoisie [middle class] will always furiously resist being expropriated.” So wrote Russian Revolution author Vladimir Lenin in 1918. Fast-forward exactly a century and this spirit not only lives on, but with a racial (and racist) spin.

    Just consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “tenant advocate” appointee Cea Weaver. “Impoverish the ‘white’ middle class,” she wrote on X in 2018. “Homeownership [sic] is racist,” she continued — “failed public policy.”

    Weaver isn’t alone. Mamdani’s ex-director of appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa, wrote in 2016, “It’s important that white people feel defeated” (tweet below).

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  • Economic Blues: Are Blue States Driving the “Affordability Crisis”?

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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 AI analysis I ran. It found that the 30 states won by President Donald Trump had an average Q2 rate of approximately 4.2-4.5. In contrast, the approximate average rate of the 20 states Kamala Harris won was 3.2-3.5.

    This is significant when talking about “affordability” because rising GDP can mitigate that problem. Moreover, examining what affects affordability most directly, consumer price index increase (CPII), tells a similar tale. Conservative and liberal states are performing differently.

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  • Forever War — on Whites: Harvard Has Gone Full Racist

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    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s sadly ironic that a university founded in 1636 to train clergy has embraced the devilish religion of racist dogma. But this is the case, warns 40-year Harvard history professor James Hankins. In fact, it’s so bad that he has left the school.

    What’s at issue is damning, Hankins warns. Harvard University not only rejects teaching Western civilization’s virtues, but also won’t hire white males — no matter their qualifications. It has instead embraced a “hate whitey” philosophy that demeans the West and the European-descent peoples who birthed it.

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  • Mayor Mamdani Vows to Replace “Individualism” With “the Warmth of Collectivism”

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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 Thursday, January 1, “with the warmth of collectivism.” My, that’s quite the New Year’s resolution.

    Oh, it’s not as bad as stating, let’s say, that your end goal is “seizing the means of production.”

    Mamdani made that statement, too — while addressing supporters in 2021.

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  • South Winning the War Between the States — in Education

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    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s not just economic activity that has been moving from a waning North to a burgeoning South in recent times. Intellectual activity is also making that move — contrary to stereotypes.

    Just consider Mississippi, a state oft mocked by urban arts-and-croissant pseudo-sophisticates. Leading the post-Covid recovery, it has gone from 49th to seventh nationally in fourth-grade reading scores. This is even though it’s still our poorest state.

    Moreover, this just reflects a wider phenomenon dubbed the “Southern Surge.” It’s no mystery why it’s occurring, either. Unlike in liberal northern bastions, southern states have embraced not only early intervention, but also traditional learning and a very “unwoke” concept: discipline.

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  • Happy New Year!

    I wish you and yours a very happy New Year. May you be blessed with faith, health and joy.

    God bless,

    Selwyn Duke

  • Do the White Thing: Trump’s EEOC Tackling Anti-white Job Discrimination

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Here’s an interesting question for those claiming that anti-white bias, and anti-white-male bias in particular, is imaginary.

    Why do, as a 2021 study found, more than a third of white students claim racial-minority status on college applications? Is contagious masochism sweeping white America?

    The Donald Trump administration knows the answer, and its Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is, essentially, delivering it.

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  • Save NYC Housing by Destroying It? That’s Mamdani’s Socialist Plan

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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 place, thus ensuring the man would seek his “help.” Then, upon achieving his ownership position, he could see his own will done completely.

    This comes to mind with the incoming New York City Zohran Mamdani administration. While it doesn’t comprise mobsters, officially, anyway, it apparently may use similar tactics to seize control of private property. As the New York Post recently related:

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