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  • Permit to Pray? Town Clamps Down on Jews’ Worship — SCOTUS to Hear Case

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    By Selwyn Duke

    There shall be no law “prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” says our First Amendment about religious freedom. State constitutions, including Ohio’s, also have strong protections for exercise of faith. Yet you wouldn’t know it, critics may say, judging from the behavior of University Heights, Ohio. Because according to that municipality’s city fathers, poker night at your home would be okay, as one commentator puts it. But a Jewish prayer group at that home on the same night?

    Well, that’s a different story.

    It’s not a new story, though. In fact, in our country, founded in part on religious freedom, localities have long tried to suppress that freedom. The most notorious example, of course, was the forcible closure of churches during Covid — while liquor stores could remain open.

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  • Appraisal Artifice: The Legalized-theft Property-tax Racket

    A man with glasses and a blue argyle vest is enthusiastically surrounded by stacks of money on a table, expressing excitement.

    By Selwyn Duke

    “A man’s home is his castle.” Or, that’s how it’s supposed to be, anyway. Is it really the case, though, when government can breach the castle walls with property-appraisal increases anytime it pleases?

    Whose castle is it when you’re essentially paying rent to the government?

    Whose is it when, if you can’t cough up that rent, your property will be stolen by the state?

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  • “Trans” Man Leaves U.S., Fearing Trump; Begs to Return After Being Put in Muslim-heavy Asylum Center

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    By Selwyn Duke

    The grass is always meaner on the other side of the fence, could be the moral of this story. A “trans” man flees the United States, claiming he lived in fear with the rise of President Donald Trump. He then travels to Holland, a “tolerant,” recreational-drug-replete, “trans”-friendly land and claims asylum.

    So the Dutch honor his request and place him in an asylum center — with Moroccans, Eritreans, Somalis, Algerians, Syrians, and others. The kicker:

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  • That OTHER Jihad: Rubio Warns of Ignored, and Deadly, Terror Network

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    By Selwyn Duke

    What’s the greatest terroristic threat we face?

    Is it Islamic jihad?

    Is it “right-wing” terrorism?

    According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it’s something too often ignored, winked at, and, sometimes, even encouraged.

    It is, Rubio warned in a speech last week, left-wing terrorism. It’s a growing threat, too, yet pseudo-elite institutions often exhibit a perverse tolerance for it.

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  • The Democrats’ Man Problem — and Why They Lust After Women

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Here’s a staggering finding: American men’s testosterone levels have dropped one percent or more a year for decades. This means their T levels are now up to 35 percent lower than in 1987.

    Almost as staggering: This reality gets precious little coverage from the (left-wing) legacy media. Why is this? Try the following on for size.

    Researchers at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, discovered last year that “weakly affiliated Democrats” (WADs) had 19 percent higher testosterone levels than those strongly identifying with the party. The kicker:

    When these WADs were given additional testosterone, there was a “red shift” toward Republicans.

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  • First Amendment at Risk: Was Shiloh Hendrix Actually Convicted of “Hate Speech” — in America?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Here’s something many Americans don’t know: There is no category in American law such as “hate speech.” It doesn’t exist. Some people nonetheless behave as if it does — including many who sit on legal benches and juries.

    Some would say this is the reality, too, with a Minnesota court case that has gone viral.

    Shiloh Hendrix, a 37-year-old former resident of Rochester, Minn., was convicted Thursday of disorderly conduct. At issue was an incident last year that was captured on video by a Somali bystander. Hendrix was fined $1,000 and assigned 200 hours of community service; she also received a stayed 90-day jail sentence. Critics, however, are crying foul.

    Hendrix would never have been convicted, they assert, if not for her race and her words.

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  • Socialism and Islamic Supremacism: Two Strange Bedfellows Aiming to Destroy Our Republic

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Both want to change our system of law. Both hate the United States and Western civilization. And both detest Christianity. They also, by forming an alliance, become the strangest of bedfellows. They are socialism and Islamic supremacism in America — and both forces are growing.

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  • The Only Proper Way to Vote (Hint: For the Party, Not the Person)

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “I vote for the person, not the party,” people will proudly say. This is considered the enlightened position, taken by “free thinking” Americans unconstrained by partisan politics. Why, they’re fair-minded: They judge every politician as an individual. Here’s what no one says:

    In general elections, this is often what demagogues want you to do. In practice, though, voting for “the person” may just mean being distracted by personality — like a woman falling for a serial killer’s charms. More on that later.

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  • Mamdani’s Year Zero: NYC Whites Out White People From its History

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “When progressives say they want to dismantle ‘whiteness,’ they want you to believe they mean some complicated sociological phenomenon,” wrote commentator David Marcus in 2021. “They do not. They mean “white people.” They mean they want to dismantle the lives of white people.”

    This warning could come to mind when pondering Mayor Zohran Mamdani-led New York City’s recent erasure of “whiteness.” This amounted to omission of Italian-heritage (and, reportedly, Irish and Jewish) neighborhoods from a “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” map. Many don’t think it was an accident, either. After all, Mamdani was the guy seen in a 2020 photo giving the middle finger to a Columbus statue.

    Thankfully, this was when he was younger and more immature — way back in 2020.

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  • Are the Democrats Now a “Manchurian Party”?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    The warning that there’s an “enemy within” certainly is not new. The description was used, for example, in 19th-century political and religious pamphlets. The Enemy Within would later become the title of books by commentators Michael Savage and David Horowitz, warning about the threat the so-called “Left” poses to civilization. Now another observer has sounded this alarm, while naming a party and framing matters somewhat differently.

    The Democrats, he says, have become a “Manchurian Party.”

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