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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”

    An eagle's head in the foreground, symbolizing freedom and strength, with an American flag and the text 'We the People' in the background.

    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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  • Are Dem Progressive and “Moderate” Wings Meeting in the Middle to Win in ’26 and ’28?

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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 polling voters and are claiming to actually want to respond to their wants and needs.

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  • Guys Going Galt: “How They Broke The Boys”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    It was in 2005 that I wrote about the “dehumanizing of men.” A half-decade earlier, the book The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers was published. Yet the anti-male spirit of the age marched on, and now the consequences are painfully apparent. In fact and in a way, young men today are going a sort of sex-specific Galt.

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  • “I Beat Hitler” Says 98-year-old Trump Supporter

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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 tyranny, having been thrust into WWII concentration camps.

    Piri’s story is a moving one of survival, but it also raises an issue. Since many people will say “Never again,” where does the threat of 21st-century tyranny really lie? And if history doesn’t exactly repeat itself but does rhyme, who today reflects Hitler- or Stalin-like despotism?

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  • Christian Refugee Fled Jihadists in Iraq — Then Was Killed by Jihadists in France

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Granting asylum to the persecuted is legitimate,” said a French politician recently. But “our uncontrolled immigration policy now leads us to welcome their executioners [too].”

    Unfortunately for a man named Ashur Sarnaya, a 45-year-old Assyrian Christian, he became a case in point. He and his family managed to escape Islamic State jihadist terror in Iraq in 2014, finding refuge in France.

    Or so they thought.

    Because the wheelchair-bound Sarnaya didn’t escape jihadist terror in his new home.

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  • Florida Schools to Teach Children About Communist Evils. Leftist Claim: “Birch Talking Points.”

    By Selwyn Duke

    Approximately seven years ago I mentioned to a young man I know, who was about 19, that communist governments have killed perhaps 100 million people. His eyes got wide as he registered shock.

    He had no idea.

    Note, too, that this fellow lived in an affluent suburb, had attended “good” government schools, and had basically conservative parents.

    He had no idea.

    No wonder socialism, and even communism, are again becoming popular among the young.

    But Florida seeks to remedy this, finally. Its government plans to include in its school curricula, including in kindergarten, enhanced lessons about the evils of communism.

    Not everyone is happy about this, though. In fact, one critic, using an old tactic, claimed that much of the proposed curriculum is “straight up John Birch talking points.”

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  • The Wrong Red Wave: More Than 250 “Democratic Socialists” Now in Office

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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 admires.

    Joining her on the Council is newly elected Jorge DeFendini. He’s not a member of the CPUSA — just the DSA. But both are part of a new old-style “red” wave:

    More than 250 DSA members now hold office across the U.S.

    And, reportedly, 90 percent of them have been elected just since 2019.

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  • Cop Being Investigated for “Misgendering” Man in Drag

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    By Selwyn Duke

    When dressing as a woman in the war-based sitcom M.A.S.H., character Corporal Klinger’s goal was expulsion from the military. It was taken as given back then (1970s), after all, that a man with such a compulsion had psychological issues. But times have changed. Now you may be punished if you take issue with a man in drag entering a women’s restroom.

    And, in fact, this is exactly what’s happening to a hapless Georgia police officer.

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  • Red Alert: Why Support for Socialism Is Growing

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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 shown, a frightening number of Americans are embracing socialism as remedy. Why, one poll finds that more college students favor it (67 percent view it positively) than “capitalism” (40 percent).

    A striking result of this is the recent New York City mayoral-race victory of communist-in-socialist-sheep’s-clothing Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Among Big Apple voters 18-29, 72 percent of men and 84 percent of women voted for him.

    Yet, notes one commentator, socialism has “failed spectacularly everywhere it has been tried.” So why is it again gaining currency?

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