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February 26, 2026

Broken System: 97-year-old Woman Breaks Hip, Told of 10-day Ambulance Wait, Found Dying on Floor

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a story for you from what could be called the Warmth of Collectivism Files. A 97-year-old woman in Britain is diagnosed by a paramedic as having a broken hip. A serious injury such as that means you’re going straight to the hospital, stat, right?

Well, instead, the elderly woman is nonetheless told that she’s going to have to wait 10 days for an ambulance. In the interim, she suffers a fall.

She’s later found on her floor, struggling to breathe, and dies the same day.

So much for “to each according to his needs.”
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February 25, 2026

When Left-wing CBS’ Dan Rather Warned of Americans Being “Replaced by Foreigners”

By Selwyn Duke

Dropping the mask, some Western leftists are admitting they want to replace many of their countrymen with ideologically compliant “immigrants.” We just heard this stated unabashedly by a Spanish politician last month.

There actually was a time, though, when left-wingers might at least mouth the belief that “replacement” is a bad thing. And the Media Research Center (MRC), a conservative watchdog group, has uncovered just such a media clip.
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February 24, 2026

Warning: Civil War Is Coming to Europe — and It Will Be Bloody

By Selwyn Duke

In 1968, British politician Enoch Powell warned that the U.K.’s immigration policies were akin to “watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.” They would ensure the demographic transformation of British cities, he predicted. He later warned of “civil war,” too.

In reaction, Powell was expelled from the Conservative Shadow Cabinet and condemned as a “racist.” Yet almost 60 years later, demographic transformation is obvious, with indigenous Brits now a minority in multiple U.K. cities. Civil war hasn’t erupted yet, of course, but something else has: predictions of it.
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February 23, 2026

We Spent $30 Billion Making Education High-tech — and Bought a LESS Cognitively Capable Generation

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a point to ponder: Silicon Valley tech executives, including those from Apple and Google, have sometimes opted to send their own children to explicitly low-tech schools. Some also have raised their kids tech-free or with strictly limited screen time. These are people, too, who know technology as a baker does bread. Given this, a question is raised.

Wouldn’t it have been wise ascertaining why these experts insulated their own children from tech before inundating American schoolkids with it?

Instead, we spent $30 billion ensuring that every schoolchild could trade a textbook for a laptop. Why, it’s a bit like hearing about food manufacturers who will never, ever let their own kids eat their factories’ products.

And then turning around and saying, “Hey, my children just love these snacks. All the kids should be enjoying them — to their hearts’ content!”

In education’s case, though, we have gotten something unprecedented for that $30 billion.
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February 22, 2026

Warning: “Western Civilization Will Disintegrate Without Truth”

By Selwyn Duke

“Plato is my friend,” ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle reputedly said, “but truth is a greater friend.” This was echoed two millennia later by English scientist Isaac Newton. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend,” he said, “but truth is a greater friend.” And today many might say “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, Newton is my friend, but … my values are a greater friend.”

This attitude, too, is precisely why Western civilization is disintegrating, warned commentator Laura Hollis Thursday.
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February 20, 2026

Diversity’s Fruits: Islam’s Brutal War on Dogs Comes to the U.S.

By Selwyn Duke

“The dog is man’s best friend” the saying goes. Why, we humans argue about most everything, notes website History and Headlines. “If there is one thing most people agree on, though, it is dogs,” it continues. “How can you not love them?”

Maybe one Nerdeen Kiswani can answer that question. After all, Kiswani, a Palestinian activist, recently agitated against the American norm of keeping dogs as indoor pets.

As she put it in a tweet last Thursday, “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”
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February 19, 2026

Global Warming Claim: CO2 CAN’T Hold Heat — and Real Scientists Have Known This for Ages

By Selwyn Duke

President Donald Trump recently reversed the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” which had identified CO₂ as a public-health threat. Global-warming alarmists consider this a step backwards. But, says a man with actual hands-on experience working with so-called greenhouse gases, it’s a step toward sanity.

In fact, writes James T. Moodey on Sunday, “Real scientists have known the truth about global warming for decades.”

What’s more, “There’s an easy test to disprove global warming,” he states at American Thinker. “I did it myself.”
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February 19, 2026

More “Trans” Violence: Man in Dress Shoots Up School Ice Hockey Match

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s an interesting fact you won’t hear from legacy media: “Transgenders” are more likely to commit murder than be murdered.

Here’s another fact: “You fundamentally can’t change sex,” confessed former “transgender” Alan Finch years ago. “Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists.”

More and more people are again realizing what we once knew instinctively: Believing you’re the opposite sex is mental disorder. Given that it is, too, it’s not surprising that an inordinate number of “crazed shooters” are “trans.”
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February 18, 2026

Heating Up the Marxist Ovens, Mamdani Promises the “Warmth of Collectivism”

By Selwyn Duke

“My skin literally crawled,” said the shocked New York City Council member in early January. What so shook Vickie Paladino, a rare Republican in the Big Apple Legislature, was a comment Mayor Zohran Mamdani made in his inaugural address. It was so eyebrow-raising, in fact, that an editor of mine at first thought it was satire.

“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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February 17, 2026

The UN Calls It “Repugnant and Illegal,” but Sweden Has Cut Shootings by 63%

By Selwyn Duke

The United Nations calls the policies “repugnant and illegal.” What’s for sure, however, is that you can call them something else: effective.

The new criminal-justice measures in Sweden are so effective, in fact, that the nation has recently experienced a 63-percent decline in shootings. And what is the Land of the Midnight Sun doing to achieve this?

Its authorities are targeting migrant neighborhoods, where the crime mostly is, and the groups mainly committing it. Not surprisingly, this has been condemned as “racial profiling,” though who’s issuing the condemnations is instructive.
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