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  • Midterm Realities: Would a Blue Wave Mean a Crime Wave?

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s an amazing, though ignored, story: Murder in the United States is at its lowest level since perhaps 1900. As for the violent-crime rate in general, it fell 9.3 percent in 2025. This is the largest year-to-year decline since the FBI began estimating national trends in 1936.

    Something else at its lowest since perhaps the ’30s is net migration. In fact, when the numbers are finalized, it may turn out that there was negative net migration in 2025. But this can happen when you deport, or induce to self-deport, up to three million people, as the Trump administration has done. Note, too, that approximately 190,000 of the ejected illegals had criminal convictions, and many thousands were gang members.

    Now, question: Could there be a connection between the reduction in crime and the reduction in illegal aliens?

    Moreover, is it coincidental that this rapid crime decrease occurred under the watch of a president who has prioritized crime-fighting?

    Third question: How can we know that the Democrats would, upon gaining power, re-enable criminals?

    Answer: They’ve said so — in so many words.

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  • For Democrats to Win Midterms, Must Americans Buy Into a Certain Myth?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Napoleon Bonaparte once said that history is “a series of agreed-upon myths.” Yet that current events can be, too, brings us to a question.

    Can the Democrats win the midterms only if Americans subscribe to a certain myth?

    That is, the idea that President Donald Trump’s second term has been a failure.

    A number of observers definitely think so. They point out that far from a failure, Trump’s tenure thus far has been a resounding success. And one of these observers, Rod D. Martin, founder & CEO at Martin Capital, has the receipts to prove it.

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  • Can We MAGA Unless We MAMA — Make America Moral Again?

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” So said George Washington during his Farewell Address on September 17, 1796. They’re powerful parting words, but also, today, controversial ones. They’re met now with protestations such as “Whose God?!” and “You can be moral without God!”

    Well, perhaps, but it certainly doesn’t show in contemporary America — not on the collective level, that is.

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  • Midterms: Is the “Religious Left” Trying to Con Conservative Voters?

    By Selwyn Duke

    One candidate has chosen a pastor who isn’t sure Jesus Christ existed and believes He didn’t die for our sins. Another supposes that Scripture got it wrong on sexuality. A third expressed discomfort at public Christian displays and suggests they should be rooted out. And a fourth opposes a ban on youth “sex changes” (aka sexual-mutilation surgery for kids).

    Welcome to the “religious Left.”

    All the individuals described above are currently running for office in the midterms. All are wearing their “faith” on their shirtsleeves. And all are citing it as a reason you should vote for them.

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  • “We’re Toast”: AI Godfather Says AI Is Now Conscious, and May Kill Us If We’re Not Friendly

    By Selwyn Duke

    Forget that uber-thin-skinned narcissistic neighbor — are we now going to have to walk on eggs around artificial intelligence (AI), too?

    It’s a staggering thought, but also, essentially, the claim of British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton. Hinton is no fly-by-night character, either — the 78-year-old Nobel laureate’s work on neural networks paved the way for AI. And now he appears to be saying that if we don’t befriend the tech, we could face extinction.

    Hinton, whose triumphs got him dubbed “the Godfather of AI,” is apparently as serious as a heart attack about this. In fact, he resigned his position at Google in 2023 over fears that, as the New York Post put it Tuesday, “the tech could manufacture killer robots capable of exterminating humanity.”

    Yet a question now presents itself. Taking Hinton’s warning at face value, would being “just” and “nice” to a self-aware machine ensure its good will? Or is there another, deeper prerequisite for valuing human life?

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  • “I Come From Your Future”: A Frenchman’s Warning for American Midterms

    By Selwyn Duke

    “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” So noted famed English author George Bernard Shaw, lamenting the British political system in 1944. And now a Frenchman, lamenting the French political system today, has a warning for Americans.

    Don’t be Paul.

    Paul believes promises. He gets pain — and maybe even poverty.

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  • Are Powers-that-be Poll Dancing Again to Sway Midterms?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Could the Republicans say, paraphrasing Mark Twain, that rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated? Recent history of polling missteps and abuses — and a new story illustrating this problem — suggests that maybe they can.

    As many know, the Democrats have been counting on a “blue wave” to wash away their Washington power woes. But not only are polls now tightening, they’re also frightening — in their inaccuracy. A case in point is a “polling organization” that just confessed it was issuing fake numbers that helped hard-core leftists. The entity claims it was conducting an “experiment” to illustrate polling’s perils. Critics, however, call this a cop-out designed to explain away the organization’s fraud.

    And whether or not at issue is damage control, damage had already been done. The fake polls could, arguably, have helped candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed win his Michigan Democratic primary.

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  • Catholic Bishop and Protestant Pastors Rally Voters to Confront “Evil” at Ballot Box

    By Selwyn Duke

    So often today we use weasel words, terms that just aren’t, you might say, “up to the challenge.” We may state that something is “inappropriate,” “suboptimal,” “problematic,” “misguided,” or “inadvisable” — even if it’s downright wicked. But not so with Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. He’s urging Catholics to “confront the evil in our world,” which, this November 3, is actually on Virginia’s ballot.

    Mounting a parallel effort on this front are more than 150 Protestant pastors. At issue are two proposed Virginia constitutional amendments on abortion and same-sex “marriage.” And all these clergymen are hoping that some moral clarity will rally voters against them.

    This gets at an even wider issue, too. Moral clarity informs that all elections are a matter of good and evil, right and wrong. This realization could perhaps inspire election turnout among church-going Christians, tens of millions of whom habitually fail to vote.

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  • “Khan” Soon to Be Most Common “English” Surname; 4 in 5 New U.K. Jobs Go to Migrants

    By Selwyn Duke

    No, it’s not The Wrath of Khan but The Rise of Khan — due to immigrationist policy.

    In 2023, “Muhammad” made news, overtaking “Noah” as England’s and Wales’ most popular boy’s name. And now biblical-flood-level migration will give Britain a new leader in surnames as well, with “Khan” poised to displace “Smith” next year.

    This is accompanied, too, by other telling news. Four of five new jobs in Britain over the last decade have been taken by foreigners, a think tank finds. Whether or not this results from migrants having a Khan-do attitude was not reported. What’s for certain, however, is that many native Britons feel as if they’re being “Khanned” right out of their culture.

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  • 6-year-old Black Boy Shoots Teacher, Then Behaves Psychotically on Bodycam

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” warned intellectual Thomas Sowell, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” And much we’ve seen for many years now raises a question:

    Is it already too late?

    With video-recording devices everywhere today, we get to witness little barbarians regularly. Few cases are as distressing, however, as newly released bodycam footage of a six-year-old black boy who shot his teacher. Because its most shocking aspect wasn’t even the shooting, but the child’s after-the-fact behavior.

    That is, while being held by another school official, he could be heard cursing at her, and others, for two minutes like a seasoned 19-year-old gang-banger. The incident points to a larger problem, too, in the black community — and in our wider society.

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