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May 22, 2026

Is the Republic Falling — With a Sudden Collapse in Our Future?

By Selwyn Duke

“A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy.” This is then “always followed by a dictatorship.”

The warning also holds that the “average age of the world’s greatest civilizations” has historically “been about 200 years.” Given that the United States is now 250 years old and $39-trillion fiscally loose, what should be said about her?
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May 20, 2026

What May Win the Midterms for Dems? Answer: Left-wing “News” and Social Media

By Selwyn Duke

“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper,” humorist Mark Twain once quipped. Of course, newspapers’ circulation these past decades has declined like that of someone gaining 50 years and 60 pounds. Yet their influence and that of other left-wing media sources is magnified — by social media and Big Tech generally. In fact, the bias is so intense, warns one observer, that it may win Democrats the midterms.
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May 17, 2026

Wokeness Is Dead? Think Again: The Statue Serial Killers Are Still at It

The California pioneers monument stands prominently near the domed city hall building.

By Selwyn Duke

“When Will They Blow Up Mount Rushmore?” I asked that rhetorically in 2017, alluding to the continual left-wing efforts to clear cut our American cultural landscape. And it was not three years later, in 2020, that a leftist did propose doing essentially that. In fairness, though, Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wanted to be civilized about it.

Mt. Rushmore should be “removed,” he said, “but not blown up.”

That monument is still with us, of course (for now). And you may assume that statue-toppling was left behind with the heady George Floyd-sensitivity days of the early 2020s. Well, tell that to one Charles Collins, San Francisco Arts Commission president at large.
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May 17, 2026

Lib Politician Pushes Mass Migration, Then Loses Nomination to Immigrant. Now He Alleges Vote Fraud

By Selwyn Duke

Some would call it “progress.” Others would say it’s poetic justice or being hoist with your own petard. Whatever you call it, it certainly is ironic.

First, a liberal Canadian politician pushes mass Third World migration because, well, Diversity™. Then guess what just happened this past Saturday?

That man, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the favorite to win what essentially was a primary, got diversified right out of a political-office opportunity by an immigrant.
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May 15, 2026

SCOTUS Redistricting Decision Just Ended Affirmative Action — for House Democrats

By Selwyn Duke

Here’s a point to ponder: Despite being 31-33 percent Republican, New Hampshire has no GOP congressman. What would a Republican congressional district look like were the state forced to create one?

Then, imagine Massachusetts had to forge a district for its gun owners, who comprise just 14.7 percent of the state’s population. Would it or the New Hampshire district look anything like this?

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May 11, 2026

Nuclear Debt Bomb: U.S. Debt Reaches Red Zone — 100% of GDP

By Selwyn Duke

For decades, there would be much talk among politicians about United States budget deficits (and the national debt). Yet this faded sometime after 2010, at the latest, after which our debt achieved elephant-in-the-room status. It’s perhaps just too scary or inconvenient — when you want or are promising free stuff — to discuss. Regardless, what just happened is discussion-worthy. To wit:

U.S. public debt has reached 100 percent of GDP for just the second time (first was during the Covid pandemic) since the WWII-era. We’re now in league with debtor nations such as Greece, Italy, France, and Canada.
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May 10, 2026

Cuckoo’s Nest: Mental-health Awareness Is “Backfiring” and “Manufacturing Illness”

By Selwyn Duke

My time working with kids, decades ago, left me with some interesting stories. One of them involved a boy of about 10 — I’ll call him Joe (not his real name) — who’d been diagnosed with “ADHD.” His mother told me a mental-health professional gave them a book for him to read on children thus diagnosed. She ended up taking it away from Joe, however. Why?

He began, she explained, copying the bad behavior of the archetypal ADHD child in the book.
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May 10, 2026

This Capital City Just Banned Advertising for Meat, Fossil Fuels, and…

By Selwyn Duke

In the 19th century, European immigrants might write home a letter including something such as the following. “Dear Uncle Maarten, it’s unbelievable: Here in America, I can eat meat every day!” Such a lifestyle was unheard of in the Old World. And now there may be the 21st-century version of this incredulity. It goes something like this:

“Dear Uncle Maarten, it’s unbelievable: Here in America, I see meat advertisements every day!”

This isn’t so far-fetched now that Amsterdam, Holland, has just banned the advertising of all meat products. This comes on the heels, too, of another story about the “War on Meat.” In that case, cited were two “bioethics” professors who suggested spreading ticks whose bite can cause a severe meat allergy. (Yes, really.) Insofar as drug capital Amsterdam goes, however, meat is not the only target. As The Independent reported Monday:
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May 10, 2026

“Muslim Only” Day at Taxpayer-funded Texas Waterpark, Touting “Islamic Values,” Sparks Outrage

By Selwyn Duke

The Muslim Brotherhood once outlined a plan that “involved softening America through cultural influence, political infiltration, and demographic expansion,” as one ex-Muslim observer related it. And now critics have an Exhibit A in the cultural-influence department.

To celebrate the Islamic holiday Eid, there’ll be an event originally billed as “Muslims Only” at a taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark.

After a backlash, the organizer changed the messaging to, “modest dress only” and added “all are welcome” to celebrate Eid. But here’s the kicker:

However the event is framed, it appears legal.
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May 6, 2026

An “Ancient Killer” Returns to California — Courtesy of Illegal Aliens?

By Selwyn Duke

If your three children all got sick the day after a new kid came over to play, you’d have a decent clue about who the vector of disease was. This comes to mind with the reintroduction in California of an ancient killer: tuberculosis (TB).

The world’s deadliest infectious disease, TB caused an estimated 1.23 million deaths worldwide in 2024. In fact, approximately 10.7 million people were sickened by it that year. And the disease ranks among the top 10 overall causes of global mortality.
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