Category: Articles

  • Selwyn Duke Deputy Ben Fields has been condemned in the media and called names. He has been fired from the Richland County Sheriff's Department. And the federal government has launched a civil-rights investigation into his apprehension of a defiant student who was disrupting her class last Monday. Yet some of the people who know him…

  • Selwyn Duke While Islamic terrorists in various parts of the world are burning churches and executing Christians, crosses are being removed from some European churches — by church officials themselves. And it’s being done in deference to Muslim sensibilities. Read the rest here.

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman. And it helps when that boogeyman is real. When CNBC’s GOP debate moderators couldn’t help but be sanctimonious, supercilious, and self-important Wednesday night, they did more than provoke a response from their intellectual superiors. They…

  • By Selwyn Duke Officials have used terms such as "outrageous,” "reprehensible," and "shamefully shocking" to describe what they see in a video about a police officer who enforced rules on a girl. But do such reactions best characterize the cop’s behavior — or the girl’s? By now millions of people have seen the viral video…

  • By Selwyn Duke It’s a phenomenon that has led to riots and the killing of police officers. But that didn’t stop Barack Obama from defending the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement last Thursday at a White House criminal-justice forum. It was an action that, critics say, reinforced divisive misconceptions — ones that have contributed the…

  • By Selwyn Duke Death can happen suddenly, as when being shot or hit by a truck. But it’s more often a process involving steady and observable decline. It’s also true that symptoms can be confused with causes. Such is the case with listing Western civilization and the Muslim migrant crisis, opines the Wall Street Journal’s…

  • By Selwyn Duke Take the money and run. With the huge windfall enjoyed by the Mohamed family — of clock-bomb-arrest fame — in “Islamophobic” America, one might think that little clock-maker extraordinaire Ahmed Mohamed would head to Switzerland for an internship with Rolex. Instead, news is his whole family is moving to Qatar after the…

  • By Selwyn Duke Would Hillary Clinton ban guns in the United States? She apparently supported the idea last Friday, but then supposedly dismissed it three days later. It’s the difference between an on- and off-Teleprompter candidate. During an October 16 town hall meeting at Keene State College, a questioner asked Clinton if we could follow…

  • By Selwyn Duke The media has dubbed him “Clock Boy,” but critics have pointed out that he’s really just Crock Boy. This hasn’t prevented Ahmed Mohamed (shown), the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing to school a device that could be taken for a bomb, from making the rounds as a celebrity and meeting world…

  • By Selwyn Duke One thing worse than supporting bad policy is knowingly supporting bad policy. Worse still is knowingly supporting bad policy and shielding yourself from its destructive effects — while visiting that policy on children. There has been much debate recently surrounding so-called “gun-free zones,” places such as schools, where law-abiding people won’t carry…