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September 4, 2026

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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September 3, 2026

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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September 2, 2026

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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August 30, 2026

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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August 28, 2026

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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August 26, 2026

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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August 25, 2026

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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August 23, 2026

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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August 22, 2026

First “Trans” Man in Women’s Sports Backtracks: “I Was Selfish”

By Selwyn Duke

“I was selfish. I was looking out for myself. I was trying to do, first of all, what was good for me and making me happy, and only secondly, what was fair for the world.”

Before there was a “trans” agenda — before there even was a debate over men in women’s sports — there was “Renée” Richards. Oh, Richards is hardly a household name today. But he made big news in the ’70s as the first man, claiming “transsexual” status, to play women’s sports. Later, though, Richards would change his position.
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August 21, 2026

Not Only Jason Arday: That Old Gray PhD Just Ain’t What It Used to Be

By Selwyn Duke

“PhD” stands for “piled high and deep,” an old joke goes. This could come to mind with the recent and tragic Jason Arday scandal. Because the problem of Arday — a fabulist who had a fraudulent doctorate — isn’t limited to Arday. In fact, says an expert on the matter, the entire PhD evaluation process is flawed and corrupt. He even quotes an academic at a prestigious university who says that he never fails a PhD thesis — no matter how bad it is. In other words, Arday’s tragic death (he committed suicide) relates to a larger issue: the death of academic excellence.
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