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April 7, 2026

Bulls Axe Jaden Ivey for Citing Christian Teaching on Homosexuality

By Selwyn Duke

Back in 1989, homosexuality activists Hunter Madsen and Marshall Kirk made what’s now an interesting prediction. In the future, those who “still feel compelled” to oppose homosexuality will be “cow[ed] and silence[d] … as far as possible,” they wrote in their book After the Ball. The pair also said that these “intransigents … will eventually be effectively silenced by both law and polite society.”

Enter NBA team the Chicago Bulls. Whether it’s part of polite society or just principle-lite society (or both), something is for sure.

It’s trying to silence one of its players, Jaden Ivey, because he cited Christian teaching on homosexuality.
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April 6, 2026

Lost Angeles? Poll Finds 48% of Angelenos Want Socialist Mayor

By Selwyn Duke

Will our second-largest city follow our largest in electing a socialist mayor? This may well be the case if a new poll is to be believed. It’s not just that it shows socialist Nithya Raman in the lead in Los Angeles’ mayoral race. It’s also, even more shockingly, that almost 50 percent of the metropolis’ residents want a “Democratic Socialist” leading the city.

Of course, what percentage of that percentage even knows what a socialist is was not reported.
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April 5, 2026

Writer Asks: Why Is Today’s Democratic Party So “Heartless”?

By Selwyn Duke

Not long ago I met a very impressive and unusual 20-year-old man. Having already imbibed great literary works and philosophical material as most of his age-mates do social-media dross, he is what the average 50-year-old philosophy professor would be if he actually, well, understood philosophy (i.e., that it is “a search for Truth”). He said something very interesting, too, when our conversation turned to politics.

He warned that if the Democrats ever gained enough power, they would kill “us” (meaning, their political opponents).
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March 31, 2026

New Study: Myocarditis Affects ONLY Covid “Vaccinated” Youths

By Selwyn Duke

An analysis of the first 15 months of the Covid pandemic in Germany, population 84 million, found that zero healthy children died of the disease. In this vein, epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski stated in March-May 2020 that children would be largely unaffected by Covid.

The response was censorship (e.g., YouTube removed an interview Wittkowski gave from its platform).

Another response was that Joe Biden administration authorities insisted that even children be given the largely untested Covid “vaccines.” This recommendation was eventually expanded to include babies as young as six months old.

And now another study, a massive one evaluating a million-plus kids, points to what a grave mistake this was. That is, it found that myocarditis and pericarditis (sometimes-fatal inflammatory heart conditions) affect only Covid “vaccinated” kids.
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March 31, 2026

Study: More Americans Than Not Still Believe Overpopulation Myth

By Selwyn Duke

Elon Musk and Paul Ehrlich…

Only a minority of people know who Ehrlich was; fewer still would know why I mention the two men together. But they represent diametrically opposed perspectives on a major issue: population growth.

Billionaire tech mogul Musk has made news in recent years warning that our below-replacement-level fertility rates are a threat. “If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble,” he has stated. “Mark my words.”

Ehrlich, an entomologist by training who passed away March 13 at 93, also had made news. Author of the once-(in)famous 1968 book The Population Bomb, he warned that overpopulation and scarcity would cause civilization to crumble. He once predicted the U.S. population would by 1999 have declined due to starvation — down to 22.6 million people. (Now Florida alone has about that many.) Then there was his prognostication about our friends across the pond. “If I were a gambler,” he’d stated, “I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
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March 29, 2026

Glenn Beck Warns: Islamist Ideology Is a Clear and Present Danger

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a good question:

What’s the point in sending the military to the Mideast to defend the West while also bringing the Mideast to the West?

One man who may nod approvingly at this question is commentator Glenn Beck. After all, in 1999 he predicted blood in Manhattan’s streets within 10 years — authored by Osama bin Laden. And now he’s again warning of a “green-red alliance” of Muslim jihadists and Marxist extremists working “hand in hand.” Oh, they are those strange bedfellows politics will make, as they have a shared goal.

Both groups aim to destroy the West.
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March 29, 2026

Left-wing Activists Live It Up in Havana and Support Commies While Cuban People Suffer

By Selwyn Duke

Some used to call them “limousine liberals.” Late Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov might have branded them “useful idiots.” Now perhaps they can be dubbed Five-star Faustians. Hundreds of left-wing activists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe traveled to Havana, Cuba, last Wednesday and over the weekend to, as they put it, deliver aid and “show solidarity with the Cuban people.” They’ve come under fire, however, as some have lived lavishly at five-star hotels while average Cubans suffer.

Of course, the best thing they could do for Cuba is encourage a transition from Marxism to economic freedom. But this won’t happen, as these activists are sympathetic to socialism/communism. Put differently, they’ll occasionally administer symptomatic treatment for political reasons (they’re against President Donald Trump’s sanctions). But they support the underlying disease that keeps the Cuban people perpetually sick.
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March 27, 2026

Yes, We Can, Brandon Johnson — Jail Our Way to a Safe Country

By Selwyn Duke

“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence,” stated Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson recently.

Actually, we can.

So might say a retired police detective who has witnessed the phenomenon firsthand.

And, no, this doesn’t require locking up 15 million Americans. All that’s necessary, says Mike McDaniel, that ex-cop-turned commentator, is delivering a surgical strike.
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March 26, 2026

Eat the Rich? Will Wealth Taxes Buttress or Bust Dem-state Budgets?

By Selwyn Duke

“The trouble with socialism,” said late British leader Margaret Thatcher, “is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Socialism also, one might add, can make the people with money run out.

This is a concern, too, with proposed and already-instituted “wealth taxes” on millionaires and billionaires. Yet there’s a reason leftists aren’t backing off from these measures.

That is, from their perspective, they appear to be “working.”
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March 24, 2026

Failing Calif. School District Spends $610K for Black Kids to Learn Rap

By Selwyn Duke

The Merced City School District isn’t exactly killing it — unless, that is, what it’s killing are its students’ academic fortunes. Only about 22 percent of its pupils are proficient at math, just 35 percent at reading. Black kids in the majority Hispanic California district are doing considerably worse still, too. So in response, you might expect its education officials to emphasize discipline and the three R’s.

Instead, they’ve spent $610,000 teaching black students how to rap.

Moreover, while the program is supposedly designed to eradicate “hate and ignorance,” its rap “take[s] direct aim at white patriarchy.”
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