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  • GOP Midterm Surge? Polls Inflate the Democrats, but Underplayed Republican Support May Deflate Them

    By Selwyn Duke

    Back in 2016, late Democratic consultant Pat Caddell accused Reuters of rigging polls to turn a Donald Trump lead over Hillary Clinton into the reverse. “I suppose you can get away with it in polling because there are no laws,” an incredulous Caddell remarked. “But, if this was accounting, they would put them in jail.”

    And little has changed since then. So says another political consultant, ex-Democrat Dick Morris. Referencing an analysis of hundreds of polls taken over many years, Morris states that they routinely inflate Democrats’ numbers.

    That is, they do this over summer months. But then, to avoid embarrassment, they become more accurate in September and October, the politics wonk asserts.

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  • Is AI Creating a “Society of Cheats” — and Incompetents?

    By Selwyn Duke

    It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective.

    The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.”

    Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The tree itself, and the fruits and leaves, will be healthy.

    Our moral crisis has only worsened since Keyes’ pronouncement. It’s apparent in the massive support for killers Tyler Robinson, Luigi Mangione, Karmelo Anthony, and now Lindsay Clancy. And it’s evident in how, warns an academic who has taught ethics at both Harvard and the University of Chicago, we’re becoming a “society of cheats.”

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  • Historically Black University Enforces Strict Dress Code Amid Backlash

    By Selwyn Duke

    Pajama bottoms; crop tops; leggings as pants; du-rags; gangsta-style, sagging trousers; hoodies; and underwear showing. Modern times have become synonymous with declining standards, and all the preceding are seen in today’s schools. Not, however, at Tuskegee University (TU) in Alabama — and not under President Mark Brown’s watch.

    Historically black TU has made news for renewing emphasis on a student dress code. Some are calling it strict. Others would just call it common sense. If you would call President Brown out for his standards, however, don’t bother. For he’s already sent a definitive message to critics: I won’t back down.

    It’s not just tradition that informs why he shouldn’t, either. In fact, a body of research into “enclothed cognition” finds that attire really does influence thinking.

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  • Touting “Noblesse Oblige,” DSA Rich Girl Wants to Help the “Poor” — With Your Money?

    By Selwyn Duke

    “It’s more complicated when it’s about your own children.” So said a liberal in 2015, objecting to the “diversifying” of his kids’ school. Yes, and it’s also more complicated when it’s about your own money.

    Just ask one Grace Ryan, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member dubbed a “DSA Duchess.”

    A chocolate heiress living large off her parents’ fortune, Ryan wants you to know something.

    She really cares about the less fortunate.

    In fact, when pressed recently on being a limousine liberal, she had a champagne-socialist response at the ready.

    “But, like, have y’all never heard of noblesse oblige?” she asked.

    “I have a moral obligation to use my advantages to help those who are struggling.”

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  • Say What?! Abdul El-Sayed Equates Youth “Sex Changes” With Circumcision

    By Selwyn Duke

    “There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them,” goes a paraphrase of philosopher Bertrand Russell. Some of these ideas, however, are not so absurd that a campaigning politician wouldn’t mouth them. This could come to mind with a recent comment from Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.).

    Addressing his support for child “sex-change-oriented” treatments, El-Sayed delivered what’s been dubbed the “‘ding-a-ling’ defense.”

    If you accept circumcision, he essentially said, you have no business complaining about child sexual-distortion treatments (SDTs).

    Well, it’s good that’s cleared up.

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  • Midterm Madness: Is the GOP’s Texas Graveyard Drawing Near?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Fourteen years ago, I wrote a piece titled “Does the GOP’s Demographic Death Spiral End in a Texas Graveyard?” Its theme was that demographic and cultural changes were making it increasingly difficult for Republicans to win national elections. And once these factors turned Texas “blue,” the GOP would be singin’ the blues. That is, adding the state’s 40 electoral votes to the Democrats’ already assured number would make electing a Republican president an unlikely proposition.

    Is this Texas graveyard close to becoming a reality? Midterm polling numbers point to just that possibility.

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  • Election Rigging? You Just Won’t Believe the Dems’ Scam in Alaska

    By Selwyn Duke

    In 2000, candidate John Loew pursued a novel way to gain an advantage in his Los Angeles County assessor’s race. He legally changed his name to John Lower Taxes Loew so that it would thus appear on the ballot. He ultimately wasn’t the winner, though.

    But he was something else: a piker in the name-game business compared to Alaska Democrats. The scheme?

    The Democrats are running a man with a name almost identical to the incumbent GOP senator up for reelection. The idea is to fool enough voters and split GOP support so that, in mainly red Alaska, the Democrat will win.

    “Oh, how is this possible in a general election?” you may ask. The answer: It’s enabled by the ranked-choice-voting/open-primary system (RCV/OPS) Alaskans approved in 2020 (and have tried to rescind ever since).

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  • City Is “Lost”: Pastor Warns of Sharia in Dearborn — and Irish Language Need Not Apply

    By Selwyn Duke

    As the erasure of Western culture continues apace, two stories from the past week stand out. One involves a black Christian pastor in Dearborn, Michigan, who warned that “we have lost this city” to Sharia law. The second concerns a Nigerian-born “racism czar” in Ireland who just told the Irish to stop emphasizing their “Irish” language (She meant Gaelic.)

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  • Catholic Bishop: An Unregulated Border Is “Morally Very Dangerous”

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    By Selwyn Duke

    In recent decades, religious organizations in America have become synonymous with pro-(im)migration positions. Quite notably, Pope Leo XIV has criticized the Trump administration’s enforcement of our immigration law. But one Catholic bishop says, essentially, not so fast.

    Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, made his comments in a wide-ranging interview with commentator Bill O’Reilly. Barron, who earlier this year inveighed against socialism, struck a diplomatic note. While mentioning the humaneness imperative, he also emphasized government’s “right to maintain its borders [and] to enforce its immigration laws.” The prelate further warned “that an unregulated border is a morally very dangerous proposition.”

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  • The Devil’s Cleverest Trick? The DSA’s Communist-platform Misdirection Ploy

    By Selwyn Duke

    We all know that what’s presented in bold lettering may sound great — but watch out for that fine print. This is good advice not just when buying products and services, but also when buying what political candidates are selling.

    Just consider the burgeoning Bolsheviks at the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). They’ve been winning primaries against establishment Democrats coast to coast. And does it matter that their platform is one Karl Marx would endorse? It should. Yet when the DSA candidates begin running in the general election, they play magician. This means they don’t openly endorse their radical platform, but they don’t disavow it.

    Rather, they use misdirection.

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