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  • The Clintons, Race, and the 50-year-old Calculation

    By Selwyn Duke Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here. They are political creatures first, most everything else second and statesmen last. For this to elude one, he must have his head planted…

  • A Strange Conception of “Cutting the Fat”

    By Selwyn Duke A New Mexico lawmaker aims to cut the fat – not in government, but through it. Educator-turned-legislator Gail Chasey (D) has proposed a measure dubbed the "Leave No Child Inside" bill, which would levy a 1 percent excise tax on televisions, video games and video game equipment to fund programs designed to…

  • Duke’s Latest WND Piece: Golf Walloped With PC Club

    By Selwyn Duke Golfweek magazine recently fired its editor, David Seanor, after a strong negative reaction to its January 19 issue, which featured a picture of a noose on its cover.  The image related to a story about embattled golf commentator Kelly Tilghman, whose recent comments referencing lynching brought her a two-week suspension. 

  • Election Year Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke To use a play on Winston Churchill’s cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage.  Another way to put it – at risk of sounding trite – is if it weren’t for nonsense, it wouldn’t make any sense at all.  Yet, if being trite were a…

  • An Attempt to Eliminate the Electoral Effect

    By Selwyn Duke New Jersey Governor John Corzine has just signed a bill that would deliver his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections, even if the majority of the Garden State’s voters choose another candidate.  This makes NJ the second state to adopt such a measure; Maryland…

  • Hoisted With Their Politically-correct Petards

    By Selwyn Duke What goes around certainly does come around.  The first black president’s wife isn’t black enough to be immune from charges of bigotry. Isn’t it delicious? I am, of course, speaking of the recent Democrat race war.

  • Trying to Kill the Immigration Card

    By Selwyn Duke With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two primary contests and Mitt Romney’s failures prior to Michigan, a fiction is being bandied about: The anti-amnesty position isn’t playing well in Peoria.

  • The Race for the American Mind

    By Selwyn Duke Last year’s scamnesty bill had widespread support among the powers-that-be, with the president, the Democrat majority and mainstream media all singing its praises. Yet it went down to defeat, slain by a new-media coalition of talk radio and blogosphere warriors.  Working tirelessly to expose the truth and rally the grassroots, they became…

  • Duke’s Latest WND Article: How Diversity Cops Actually Reduce Diversity

    By Selwyn Duke Very far from the Bible Belt but very close to the culture war is the Christian community of Ocean Grove, New Jersey.  The beachfront town is an anomaly: A bit of red in a state that tends blue.  It was founded in 1869 by the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which…

  • The Church of Huck: Growing Government in the Name of Religion

    By Selwyn Duke There is a candidate in the presidential race who has a serious religion problem.  No, it’s not Mormon Mitt or recently-religious Rudy.  It is Mike Huckabee. Just for the record, I share Huck’s faith in Jesus Christ.  Not only have I no problem with religion in public life, I also understand that…