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  • Can Obama Spell “Failure”?

    By Selwyn Duke There actually was a time when an “e” ended a political career.  Or, at least, the misuse of an “e.”  I refer to that fateful day in 1992 when Vice President Dan Quayle told a 12-year-old schoolboy that “potato” was spelled with an “e” at its end.  While the reality is that…

  • U.S. News and Hot, Sexy Chicks

    By Selwyn Duke If you’ve ever seen the movie Idiocracy, the title of this piece may seem familiar.  The film is a dystopian comedy about a futuristic America in which complete ignorance is the norm.  People are inarticulate to the point where even those of status — politicians, doctors, etc. — mangle the language and…

  • Bruno: Some Dare Call It Art

    By Selwyn Duke If art imitates life, then life is starting to seem an awful lot like death. This occurs to me when I think about Bruno, the latest film disgorged by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen, known for doing mock interviews as the characters Ali G and Borat Sagdiyev, has always specialized in…

  • Barack Obama’s Banana-republic Foreign Policy

    By rejecting the rule of law and siding with tyrants in opposing Honduras’ removal of its president, Barack Obama reveals his true colors. By Selwyn Duke When George W. Bush was waging what euphemistically became known as the “War on Terror,” the left rabidly denounced what many considered his unconstitutional actions. Nary a day went…

  • Too Much Media Action for Jackson

    By Selwyn Duke It seems as if Michael Jackson has done the impossible. That is, he appears to be getting more media coverage — and more of the favorable variety — in death than Barack Obama does in life. Ever since the notorious entertainer suffered his untimely demise on June 25, the news has inundated…

  • School Bans Girl from Wearing Pro-life T-shirt

    By Selwyn Duke Should expressing pro-life sentiments make you a pariah behind schoolhouse doors? Well, whether it should or not, a case out of Scotland indicates that it certainly can — and does. Writing about the story at Christian Today, Jennifer Gold tells us: Read the rest here.

  • Mark Sanford and the Left’s Romper Room Commentary

    By Selwyn Duke There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than a social conservative’s fall from grace.  Just witness the predictable feeding frenzy that ensued when South Carolina governor Mark Sanford confessed to marital infidelity.  Why, so voracious are his critics that a Google search for Sanford’s name in parentheses and the…

  • Michael Jackson and Our Modern Celebrity Culture

    By Selwyn Duke Despite all that is going on in the world, the biggest story for the past week has been the death of Michael Jackson. In fact, it's reported that his funeral, now scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 7 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, will be watched by tens of millions…

  • The Ugly Face behind the Mask of Liberalism

    By Selwyn Duke It has been interesting watching the response to the Honduran military’s recent ousting of its nation’s president, Manuel Zelaya.  Barack Obama called the action “not legal” and Hillary Clinton said that the arrest of Zelaya should be condemned.  Most interesting, perhaps, is that taking this position places them shoulder to shoulder with…

  • A Real Duke Rape Case

    By Selwyn Duke We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a “downtrodden”…