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  • Ex-NY Lt. Governor: A National Conversation “Urgently” Needed on Immigration

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “You know, people say that demographics are not destiny,” said American “civil rights” attorney Judith Browne Dianis in 2019. “Well, we’re trying to make it destiny, so that’s the work that we are doing.”

    Among those who already considered it destiny was late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, speaking in 2006. “There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe — without swords, without guns, without conquest,” he stated. “The 50 million [Muslims] in Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

    Then there was a warning issued by the group Migration Watch UK, addressing how (im)migration is Britain’s main population-growth driver:

    Rapid population growth will continue to have a significant impact on public service provision, from the queue for social housing… to hospital, maternity and GP services as well as education, the environment and transport… Immigration may reduce access to social housing for the UK-born.

    These statements were made in different countries and directly referenced different places and different implications of immigration. Different people will disagree, too, on whether the immigration referenced/alluded to is beneficial or detrimental. Yet all the statements share one commonality:

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  • Warning: The “Commissar” is Coming for Elon Musk’s Wealth

    A man in glasses with a cheerful expression is surrounded by stacks of money on a table, appearing excited and happy.

    By Selwyn Duke

    “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money” goes the apocryphal saying. This satirizing of government’s spendthrift ways is more appropriate than ever, too. After all, our projected 2026 federal budget is $7.4 trillion and our national debt $39 trillion. Our federal tax revenue this year is projected to be $5.6 trillion. But the Washington leviathan’s minions always crave more — and now they’re targeting the world’s first one-trillion-dollar man.

    By crossing that $1 trillion threshold, industrialist and visionary Elon Musk has attracted renewed attention from statist money-grubbers. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) again passionately called for a “wealth tax.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) can’t be too happy, either, as last month she insisted, “You can’t earn a billion dollars.” Whether or not she believes the government “earns” the $5.6 trillion in taxes it’s seizing from Americans was not reported.

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  • Two Americas: Black Rednecks and Karmelo Anthony—and Civilization

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    By Selwyn Duke

    When thinking about poor Austin Metcalf, I sometimes wonder about his reactions during those last fatal moments on April 2 of last year. When murderer Karmelo Anthony drew that knife, could he not, being young and athletic, have avoided at least a deadly strike? Perhaps Anthony was just too quick. But then I realize something:

    The two boys were from vastly different worlds.

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  • Asked: “Should Cops be Feared or Respected?” The Answer Is…

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Is it better to be loved or feared?” the main mobster character, Sonny, was asked in the film A Bronx Tale (1993). His answer was that he’d like to enjoy both. But if he had to choose one, it would be fear, he stated, because “[f]ear lasts longer than love.”

    Of course, these are the sentiments of a criminal. Yet as such they’re most relevant to a recently asked question:

    “Should cops be feared or respected?”

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  • I Felt Like “Neo in the Matrix”: Jillian Michaels on Leaving Leftism — Left “Comes for Everyone”

    A young person with pink hair and piercings stands in front of a dark, coded background, holding out their hands. In one hand, a red pill labeled 'Truth' and in the other, a blue pill labeled 'Comfort.' A tall, bald figure in a suit stands beside them, creating a contrast between choice and consequence.

    By Selwyn Duke

    “There is no one as illiberal as a liberal with power,” goes the apocryphal saying. And a warning about this very phenomenon has come from a perhaps unexpected source: fitness icon Jillian Michaels. The Left “comes for everyone,” is how Michaels has put it while discussing her “conversion” from leftism. What a conversion it was, too, as the fitness trainer has said that she “felt like Neo in the Matrix.”

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  • Graham Platner’s Country-cat Kayfabe: Is the Farmer Just a Faker?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    He’s got his jeans and flannel shirt. He’s got the beard. He’s got the gravelly voice. He’s got the oyster farm.

    And he’s got the radical beliefs — communism included.

    Oh, Graham Platner, Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Maine, also has that Nazi tattoo. It gets all the attention, but there’s an unasked question:

    Is the man actually worse than his tattoo?

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  • Illinois DEI Training Equates Whites With Mosquitoes — Which Can be Killed With Fire

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    By Selwyn Duke

    If you want to know why there will be more Karmelo Anthonys — angry black youth all too willing to kill whites — look no further than diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training offered by the Illinois government. It portrays white people and police as mosquitoes inflicting “microaggression” bites that maddeningly accumulate over time. Don’t worry, though, there is a remedy.

    The training also shows a black woman using a flamethrower to incinerate the whites and cops mosquitoes.

    (Such propaganda may help explain why so many believe Anthony was justified in killing white teen Austin Metcalf.)

    You can, however, avoid this fiery fate by refraining from making certain comments. “When I look at you, I don’t see color” and “My best friend is Black” are forbidden. “Your English is so good” is, too. For these are all microaggressions — and who knows what else could be fancied so? So you just have to walk on eggshells with ballerina-like grace.

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  • Charles Murray’s Budding Faith: Is Science Finally Finding God?

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Sometimes smart people have a hard time believing stuff that everybody else knows.” So said the condemned (and possessed) convict in the “religious” film Nefarious (2023) to his self-assured atheist psychiatrist. Charles Murray, the famed political scientist and successful author, can certainly relate to this. Quoting his wife on religion, he stated last year, “We learned that smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore.”

    While this was never actually true, the perception that it is may finally be changing. It certainly has for Murray. Late last year he published his new book, Taking Religion Seriously, in which he discusses his journey toward theism. He says, too, that modern science may be pointing man back toward God.

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  • Cultural Revolution? GOP Support for Same-sex “Marriage,” and “LGBT” Generally, Collapses

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    By Selwyn Duke

    “Sex is not messed up because it was put in the closet,” goes a paraphrase of philosopher C.S. Lewis. “It was put in the closet because it was messed up.” Some Americans may be rediscovering this truth, too, if the latest Gallup poll is any guide. It finds that Republican support for faux (i.e., same-sex) marriage has fallen almost 20 points since 2021-’22. Even more strikingly perhaps, the percentage of Republicans who consider homosexual relations morally acceptable has declined 21 points.

    And it’s hard chalking this up to now-infamous polling incompetence. After all, 20 points is well beyond what any margin of error or sampling-bias phenomenon would explain.

    It isn’t just Republicans who’ve shifted on sexual devolutionary (“LGBTQ+”) matters, either. Registered Independents also exhibit declining support, though to a lesser degree. Democrats remain unchanged on these issues, though, which reflects the growing ideological chasm between the American Left and Right.

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  • New Oregon Measure Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing — and Even Standard Mouse Traps

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    By Selwyn Duke

    Got a rat problem on your property? Don’t worry, under Oregon’s new animal-rights act, you’d still be able to deal with it. You’d just have to eliminate the 20, 30, or 40 rats in your yard using live-catch traps. You can then deliver the rodents to, well, whoever’s itching to have dozens of pet wild rats.

    Alternatively, you could use birth-control bait and wait up to two years for the rodents to pass away from old age.

    No, this isn’t satire, but what is dictated by Oregon’s Initiative 28 (I-28), also known as the “Peace Act.” (I.e., People for Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions.) It would, writes its main sponsor, “extend the same legal protections our companion animals currently have to…other animals.” And, yes, this would disallow hunting and fishing — and more. As Ballotpedia relates:

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