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February 22, 2026

Warning: “Western Civilization Will Disintegrate Without Truth”

By Selwyn Duke

“Plato is my friend,” ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle reputedly said, “but truth is a greater friend.” This was echoed two millennia later by English scientist Isaac Newton. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend,” he said, “but truth is a greater friend.” And today many might say “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, Newton is my friend, but … my values are a greater friend.”

This attitude, too, is precisely why Western civilization is disintegrating, warned commentator Laura Hollis Thursday.
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February 20, 2026

Diversity’s Fruits: Islam’s Brutal War on Dogs Comes to the U.S.

By Selwyn Duke

“The dog is man’s best friend” the saying goes. Why, we humans argue about most everything, notes website History and Headlines. “If there is one thing most people agree on, though, it is dogs,” it continues. “How can you not love them?”

Maybe one Nerdeen Kiswani can answer that question. After all, Kiswani, a Palestinian activist, recently agitated against the American norm of keeping dogs as indoor pets.

As she put it in a tweet last Thursday, “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets. Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”
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February 19, 2026

Global Warming Claim: CO2 CAN’T Hold Heat — and Real Scientists Have Known This for Ages

By Selwyn Duke

President Donald Trump recently reversed the Obama-era “endangerment finding,” which had identified CO₂ as a public-health threat. Global-warming alarmists consider this a step backwards. But, says a man with actual hands-on experience working with so-called greenhouse gases, it’s a step toward sanity.

In fact, writes James T. Moodey on Sunday, “Real scientists have known the truth about global warming for decades.”

What’s more, “There’s an easy test to disprove global warming,” he states at American Thinker. “I did it myself.”
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February 19, 2026

More “Trans” Violence: Man in Dress Shoots Up School Ice Hockey Match

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s an interesting fact you won’t hear from legacy media: “Transgenders” are more likely to commit murder than be murdered.

Here’s another fact: “You fundamentally can’t change sex,” confessed former “transgender” Alan Finch years ago. “Transsexualism was invented by psychiatrists.”

More and more people are again realizing what we once knew instinctively: Believing you’re the opposite sex is mental disorder. Given that it is, too, it’s not surprising that an inordinate number of “crazed shooters” are “trans.”
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February 18, 2026

Heating Up the Marxist Ovens, Mamdani Promises the “Warmth of Collectivism”

By Selwyn Duke

“My skin literally crawled,” said the shocked New York City Council member in early January. What so shook Vickie Paladino, a rare Republican in the Big Apple Legislature, was a comment Mayor Zohran Mamdani made in his inaugural address. It was so eyebrow-raising, in fact, that an editor of mine at first thought it was satire.

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism,” Mamdani said on Thursday, January 1, “with the warmth of collectivism.” My, that’s quite the New Year’s resolution.

Oh, it’s not as bad as stating, let’s say, that your end goal is “seizing the means of production.” Mamdani made that statement, too — while addressing supporters in 2021.
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February 17, 2026

The UN Calls It “Repugnant and Illegal,” but Sweden Has Cut Shootings by 63%

By Selwyn Duke

The United Nations calls the policies “repugnant and illegal.” What’s for sure, however, is that you can call them something else: effective.

The new criminal-justice measures in Sweden are so effective, in fact, that the nation has recently experienced a 63-percent decline in shootings. And what is the Land of the Midnight Sun doing to achieve this?

Its authorities are targeting migrant neighborhoods, where the crime mostly is, and the groups mainly committing it. Not surprisingly, this has been condemned as “racial profiling,” though who’s issuing the condemnations is instructive.
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February 16, 2026

Yes, Leftists are “Evil.” Here’s How They Got That Way—and Why You’ll Never Change Them

By Selwyn Duke

“They are programmed…,” Soviet defector and ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago about the ideologues we call “leftists.” “You cannot change their mind…. You are stuck with them.”

It’s common for people to say today when contrasting our two major ideological groups, “Conservatives think leftists are misguided; leftists think conservatives are evil.” I, though, am different.

I know leftists are evil.

That is, practically speaking. Theologically speaking, I’m not judging their souls or inborn nature. Putting it plainly, however, and alluding to the reality that leftists have embraced evil, I will say they are so. I’m going to now explain how they got that way, too, and why Bezmenov was right: You will never, ever change their minds.
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February 14, 2026

Must Trump’s Triumphs Be Hidden for Dems to Win Midterms?

By Selwyn Duke

Is the cynical quip that “sooner or later you must pay for every good deed” actually true? One could wonder with how President Donald Trump’s first year accomplishments are routinely ignored. In fact, there’s an obvious theory as to why there’s incessant (and biased) reporting on the Epstein files.

If the Democrats and their legacy-media PR team focus on actual policy and results, they can’t win the midterms.
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February 13, 2026

Happily Handicapped Nation: Almost 4 in 10 Stanford Students Claim “Disability”

By Selwyn Duke

“I’m disturbed, I’m depressed, I’m inadequate — I got it all!” So exclaimed Seinfeld sitcom character George Costanza, trying to woo a woman he believed had a psychologically oriented Florence Nightingale syndrome. It was a funny scene in 1993, and entirely fictional. But today, a generation-plus later, life has sort of imitated art.

For unlike with George, whose appeal fell flat, having a disability has now become a way to leverage advantage.

It’s so bad that at Stanford University nearly four in 10 undergraduates are registered as disabled. What’s more, this merely reflects a trend sweeping pseudo-elite universities in general. The issue?
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February 12, 2026

Trump Thinks Europe’s War on Speech Is Bad. Actually, It’s Worse Than That

By Selwyn Duke

Whether or not the pen really “is mightier than the sword,” as Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote, words can move mountains. As with music, they have charms that can soothe or incense — or inspire opposition to the powerful. So it’s no surprise that the powerful want to control words via censorship.

Enter Western Europe, which is now trying to kick its censorship into high gear.

Be warned, too: The same speech-squelching efforts were pursued by the Biden administration. And, do note, this will return with a vengeance the moment the Democrats retake the presidency.
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