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July 6, 2026

Libs’ Air-conditioning Hypocrisy: Cool Living for Me, Sweating for Thee

By Selwyn Duke

“All animals are equally cool,” famously wrote George Orwell, “but some animals are more equally cool than others.” OK, he didn’t quite say that. But updating his line for the 2020s may be appropriate given the newly heating up air-conditioning wars.

That is, first we had a French leader blaming American AC use for “global warming.” Now we have this Sunday headline:

Dem equality: After telling New Yorkers to keep temps at 78, Mamdani’s City Hall enjoys 54 degrees in places.

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July 6, 2026

Banned in Germany and Canned by Critics, is “Citizen Vigilante” Terrifying Globalists?

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By Selwyn Duke

What’s yellow and green and shaking all over? Some would say it’s the globalist establishment, pondering the newly released film Citizen Vigilante (CV). If you haven’t yet heard of it, the movie is a hit with many fans while, some claim, fanning the flames of discontent. The antithesis of woke, it’s a wake-up call others contend, being sort of like Death Wish meets The Camp of the Saints.

The story, you see, follows businessman-turned anti-establishment crusader Michael Sanders, played by actor Armie Hammer. He’s a vigilante, but not your average one (if there is such a thing as an “average” vigilante). And the reason for this does explain why CV is effectively banned in Germany.

Sanders targets migrant criminals in Europe — and the immigrationist government officials who enable them. (That would perhaps be, too, most of the German government.) He becomes a social-media sensation and cult hero in the process.
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July 6, 2026

French Leader Blames U.S. for Deadly Heatwave Deaths. But Should She Really Blame Statism?

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s an interesting fact: Yearly, more people die from heat-related causes in Europe than from gunshots in the U.S. (The firearms data include suicides, too.) And this reality is on full display currently, with a recent heatwave having claimed 1,300 lives across Europe. This includes 1,000 excess deaths in France alone. Moreover, something else has heated up as well:

A brouhaha between a statist French politician and Americans over whom to blame.

Many U.S. journalists and social-media figures fingered Europe’s lack of air conditioning.

The politician, deputy mayor of Paris Audrey Pulvar, blamed America. Why?

You guessed it: because, the thinking goes, we’re inordinately responsible for “global warming.”
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July 4, 2026

1976 vs. 2026: A Tale of Two Birthdays

By Selwyn Duke

A man may look back 50 years, at an old birthday picture, and lament lost innocence and youthful vigor. So can people look back a half century on their land and wistfully observe what was and is no more. In America’s case, on our 250^th birthday, some may note that while we no longer call ourselves “these United States” but, rather, “this United States,” we’re now more divided than ever.

In fact, even patriotism itself now takes on the flavor of an ideological position, observers may say.
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July 2, 2026

Has the American Left Lost its Mind — and Do the Media Care?

By Selwyn Duke

If a major American political party had lost its collective mind, would anyone notice?

Given how tight midterm polling is currently, one could wonder, critics may say. Of course, some do notice. An example is one of those critics, commentator Becket Adams. Sounding an alarm Monday, he wrote:

“The American left has lost its mind, and the media seem unbothered.”
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July 1, 2026

Biden-era Woke Rules are Shutting Down Real Science — and Museum Displays

By Selwyn Duke

The Soviets tried creating ape-human hybrids and embraced Lysenkoism, which held that acquired traits could be inherited. Nazi academics, such as Philipp Lenard, promoted the idea that science itself had racial character. Looking back on such pseudo-science, we now just shake our heads. Yet those who shake their fists at the heavens of research objectivity haven’t disappeared; they’ve just rebranded.

In 2024, for example, the Biden administration announced that its bureaucracies could soon incorporate “indigenous knowledge” into their research. What could possibly go wrong? Try this on for size:
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June 29, 2026

Texas Will Now Require Students to Study the Bible, Triggering Christophobes

By Selwyn Duke

“Education is useless without the Bible,” stated Noah Webster (1758-1843), known as the “Father of American Scholarship and Education.”

“The Bible was America’s basic textbook in all fields,” he continued. “God’s Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.”

Texas is now taking this to heart. In fact, it has just approved a plan to require its five million-plus government school students to study Bible stories. This has, not surprisingly, inspired controversy. Among the criticisms, too, are claims — by figures such as Senate candidate James Talarico (D-Tex.) — that the proposal is “un-American.” This is an interesting response. After all, Webster perfectly reflected his time, as Bible teaching was essentially the norm in colonial and early American education. And it remained a foundational element well into the 19th century.

Now, were all the Founders and the generations that created America un-American?
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June 29, 2026

The Democrats Created the Democratic Socialist Monster Now Consuming Them

By Selwyn Duke

After a series of primary wins in NYC and other parts of the country, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are poised to spread their wings. Some Democrats are unhappy about this, too — often privately and occasionally overtly. Comedian and commentator Bill Maher has asserted that “democratic socialists” are “not Democrats.” (Of course, Democrats aren’t democrats, either.) And joining him now is veteran Democratic strategist James Carville.

“These people are not Democrats,” he said recently, referencing the DSA.

Perhaps not — but they are the Democrats’ demon children, critics may counter.
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June 27, 2026

Have Conservatives Ever Seen a Culture War Battle They Couldn’t Lose?

By Selwyn Duke

“Republicans are conservatives,” said author and CEO Kenin Spivak recently. “Conservatives are conservative.” This tautology was uttered to answer a question: Why do Republicans lose social and cultural wars despite winning elections?
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June 27, 2026

Trump’s DOJ Just Overturned Decades of Institutionalized Discrimination, Scoring a Victory for Merit

By Selwyn Duke

It was in 2014 that the Obama administration sued the Pennsylvania State Police for treating women equally. No, that’s not a typo. Already dumbed down fitness standards, applied to applicants of both sexes, were deemed discriminatory for applying equality. How?

It was nothing new even back then, but the product of long-embraced “disparate-impact theory.” This states that if different groups perform differently vis-à-vis even a fair test or hiring process, that yardstick is by definition “unjustly discriminatory.” It’s a way of trying to enforce equality of outcome when meritocracy would otherwise allow the cream to rise to the top.

Now, though, after decades of bureaucratic embrace, disparate-impact theory (DIT) is finally being rejected. President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has declared it unconstitutional (yes, it can do that). This means that federal bureaucracies will no longer enforce any discretionary applications of the principle.
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