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  • What Everyone Forgets When Debating Gun Control

    By Selwyn Duke In the wake of the Aurora mass shooting, the usual pattern is playing out with respect to gun control.  People such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Piers Morgan and Bill Moyers are beating the drum to restrict firearm ownership, as others try to beat them back.  One side says we’d be safer if…

  • The Aurora Propaganda Award Goes to…

    By Selwyn Duke The New York Daily News.  Hands down. The winning entry is an anti-Second Amendment Rights piece written in the wake of the Colorado tragedy, one in which virtually every line contains a callow, melodramatic appeal to emotion or an outright falsehood.

  • Bill O’Reilly’s Anti-gun Blarney

    By Selwyn Duke We expect anti-gun nonsense from people such as Bill Moyers and Little Big Gulp Bloomberg, but we might hope that Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t evoke an eye-rolling “Oh, really!” when discussing the subject. But as the crusty commentator further proved last night while arguing with a guest, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah),…

  • The Injustice of Penn State’s Punishment

    By Selwyn Duke It is true that punishment should fit the crime, but it should also fit the criminals. The NCAA just announced what sanctions it will impose on Penn State University (PSU) in response to the horrible child sex-abuse scandal that rocked the nation. Almost none of the sanctions, however, make sense. This is…

  • Tea Party Targeted by “All the Bolsheviks’ Children” (ABC)

    By Selwyn Duke It wasn’t just that ABC’s Brian Ross was wrong in suggesting that the “Jim Holmes” he found on a Tea Party website was the same man who committed the heinous crime in Aurora, Colorado.  It’s that his comment was indicative of stupidity and corruption.

  • Handicaps and Handicapped Thinking

    By Selwyn Duke Just as mighty contests can rise from trivial things, mighty principles are often slain in their name. And good examples of this are often found in sports. There’s an Olympic runner named Oscar Pistorius who has made headlines for two very unusual reasons. First, he has no legs below the knee. Second,…

  • Where Obama is Right about Unearned Success

    By Selwyn Duke When Barack Obama said in Roanoke, Virginia, recently that “if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” he wasn’t all wrong. In fact, he knows well someone whose life thus attests. This person is a man of mixed race who billed himself as black. Growing up in a very…

  • Why Equality Must Die

    By Selwyn Duke One of man’s faults is that he always swings from one extreme to another, without taking more than a pit stop in that lonely land called Enlightened Distinction. For example, it’s understandable that the French Revolutionaries would have adopted “égalité!” as part of their battle cry, coming as they did from a…

  • Please, No Rice with That Romney

    By Selwyn Duke With the rumor that Condoleezza Rice is a frontrunner to be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick, she’s the talk of the town.  She’s so intelligent, so sophisticated, so statesmanlike and so scholarly that she could make you wonder if Hillary Clinton really ever was “the most intelligent woman in America.”  That’s the pitch,…

  • The Real Reason John Roberts Upheld ObamaCare?

    By Selwyn Duke It’s now well established that Chief Justice John Roberts had ulterior motives for upholding ObamaCare.  The usual theories involve his being concerned about the Court’s, or maybe even his own, losing of respect by seeming to operate in a partisan manner.  But, to ask what may appear a rhetorical question, why such…