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  • An “Ancient Killer” Returns to California — Courtesy of Illegal Aliens?

    By Selwyn Duke

    If your three children all got sick the day after a new kid came over to play, you’d have a decent clue about who the vector of disease was. This comes to mind with the reintroduction in California of an ancient killer: tuberculosis (TB).

    The world’s deadliest infectious disease, TB caused an estimated 1.23 million deaths worldwide in 2024. In fact, approximately 10.7 million people were sickened by it that year. And the disease ranks among the top 10 overall causes of global mortality.

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  • Recently Asked: “Why Do Democrats Hate America?”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    It raised eyebrows when Michelle Obama said at a 2008 campaign rally, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” (And all it took was her husband becoming a probable presidential nominee.) But she’s not alone in lacking pride. In fact, a 2025 Gallup poll found that only 36 percent of Democrats are very proud to be American. (This doesn’t likely result from a spiritual quest to develop humility, either.)

    Critics may point out that much of this hinges on who controls government. Surveyed Democrats do, after all, register lower pride numbers now that President Donald Trump is in office.

    Yet this gets at a reality: When speaking of loving America, which “America” is at issue? Is it the republic of our Founding Fathers’ dreams — or of Karl Marx’s? Is it the one we once were heading toward or the one we’re now heading toward? Is it America or Amerika? Leftists very well may like the latter, in theory. (The experience of it would be quite different. See the Kronstadt sailors, et al.) But speaking of what these United States are meant to be, a commentator recently asked a question:

    “Why Do Democrats Hate America?”

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  • Anti-Christian Hate: Biden Attorneys Aimed to Target Nuns — Loathed Their Head Coverings

    A group of nuns in black robes and veils standing together in a courtyard with stone buildings in the background.

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    By Selwyn Duke

    In 2018-2019, Democrats lifted a ban on head coverings in the House so that newly-sworn-in Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) could wear her hijab. Democrats have also generally defended the “right” to sport Muslim headwear in schools, workplaces, and in interactions with government. But Democrats in former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department (DOJ) apparently showed no such affinity for Catholic nuns’ head coverings.

    In fact, it has emerged that senior DOJ prosecutors spoke of them with contempt. This was, too, all while salivating over the prospect of prosecuting some nuns who exercised their First Amendment rights.

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  • An Anti-“Hate Crime” Scheme Fails — Again

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Since committing a “hate crime” brings more prison time, we could wonder:

    Does committing a “love crime” reduce one’s sentence?

    This may sound silly, a bit like countering feminism with “masculinism” or Islamophobia with “Islamophilia.” Yet it also may put in perspective how silly the accepted terms are.

    Whatever the case, I’m old enough to remember when “hate crime,” per se, was not a thing. There’s a good case, too, for eliminating the category from the books. For not only does it allow for bias — that of the government in prosecution — but these laws appear otherwise counterproductive, too.

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  • Is Our “Equality” Obsession Destroying Our Nation?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Equality tells us nothing about quality.” This is a simple truth — hiding in plain sight. Would we, after all, rather have equality in poverty or inequality in abundance? Would we prefer the equality of all being deathly ill or the inequality of varying levels of health? Would we choose equality in abject stupidity or the inequality of differing degrees of brilliance?

    Brilliance isn’t required to know the answers, but, still, man so often kneecaps himself with equality efforts. Affirmative action — which metastasized into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) — seeks outcome equality at competence’s expense. And if a few more helicopters and planes crash, and more criminals escape miniature cops, well, eggs for omelets, ya know?

    This all raises a question: Is a “bad take on equality,” as a commentator recently put it, destroying our country? But then there’s a more fundamental question:

    Is the focus on equality itself, no matter how it’s conceived, tragically misguided?

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  • Digital Stepford Wives? Men Are Falling in Love With AI-generated Female Influencers

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    By Selwyn Duke

    In the “old” days of the internet, you perhaps had to be wary of some creep in a chat masquerading as an appealing romantic interest. But that was small ball. Today some men are falling for gorgeous female “influencers” — who happen to be generated via artificial intelligence (AI). The kicker:

    Some people are trying to forge relationships with these digital fictions even when knowing they’re AI-generated.

    The appeal is that with current technology, these “digi-entities” appear, behave, and interact just as real women do. (But without the moodiness?) What’s more, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

    When this AI is ultimately combined with ultra-sophisticated robotics, we could have real-life “Stepford Wives.” (This references the eponymous 1970s story about a town whose married women are gradually replaced with identical-looking, subservient, domesticity-oriented androids.) Moreover, this phenomenon’s acceptance is wholly congruent with today’s prevailing secular mindset.

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  • Mask Drop: Democrats Come Closer to Saying, “Let’s Just Ban All Guns”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    There’s a popular meme circulating online that relates the evolution of cultural devolutionary talking points. It goes like this:

    Stage 1: “You’re crazy; it’s not happening.”
    Stage 2: “Okay, it’s happening, but it’s exaggerated.”
    Stage 3: “It’s happening…and it’s actually a good thing.”
    Stage 4: “And if you disagree, you’re a bigot.”

    We see this pattern repeated with many issues, Second Amendment rights included. In fact, say some, we’re already at Stage 3 with respect to firearm seizure. As one commentator puts it, leftists have moved on from “nobody’s coming for your guns.”

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  • Wealthy Leftists: Stealing Is OK for Us — and Sometimes Murder, Too

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    By Selwyn Duke

    What happens when you raise generations not with virtue but with “situational values”? What’s the result when kids are pandered to, coddled, never told “No!” and get participation trophies? One result just may be wealthy, spoiled adults who believe its okay for them to steal and even, sometimes, murder.

    Oh, they have their rationalizations all assembled. The theft may be euphemized as “microlooting” and framed as an ethical statement or form of political protest. (Isn’t it admirable when people will sacrifice for their principles?!) As for the “justifiable” homicide, don’t worry, you won’t be targeted.

    That is, as long as you’re not guilty of “social murder” yourself.

    It gets complicated, though, because, as you might’ve guessed, you don’t actually have to kill anybody to be a social murderer.

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  • Study: GOP and Dems Have Changed on Opposition to Big Government

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Government is not the solution to our problem,” late GOP president Ronald Reagan famously said in 1981 — “government is the problem.” We don’t hear this much from today’s Republicans, however. On the other hand, then-Democratic President Bill Clinton proclaimed in January 1996, “The era of big government is over.” And we don’t hear this at all from today’s Democrats (and Clinton didn’t mean it). These changes are, too, examples of words reflecting actions, a new study reveals.

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  • The Left’s War on Comedy Is No Laughing Matter

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    By Selwyn Duke

    If pure-hearted laughter is divine, the suppression of it is demonic. This could come to mind with our Left’s war on comedy, which really is happening. It also really is a campaign common to leftists.

    Just ask USSR-born comedian Yakov Smirnoff, a man popular during the late Cold War period (the 1980s). As he quipped in an old Miller beer commercial, smiling, “In America, there’s plenty of lite beer and you can always find a party!”

    “In Russia, the Party always finds you!”

    He was joking, but not kidding. The Soviet Union practiced authoritarian censorship, and jokes had to be approved by a de facto “Department of Humor.” That was a colloquial name for a unit within the USSR’s Ministry of Culture. The latter’s job was to ensure the culture was communist.

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