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  • City to Fine Residents for Putting Too Much Food in Garbage

    By Selwyn Duke Your refrigerator fails and you dump a large amount of spoiled food in the garbage? That could mean a fine under a new ordinance in Seattle. The measure is designed to encourage composting, and it empowers garbage collectors to conduct a “cursory” inspection of residents’ trash in an effort to find violators.…

  • Will the US One Day Force Same-sex “Marriage” on the Church?

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps you haven't heard. If you take a position that has been the default for 2000 years, a position most of the world subscribes to today, you're intolerant, a hater, and a bigot. That would be the position in favor of marriage. Britain's "equality minister," Lynne Featherstone, said that the Church of…

  • The New York Times Discovers the Rule of Law

    By Selwyn Duke Leave it to The Gay Lady to be a day late and a few brain cells short. The New York Times recently published an article by some journalism-school retread about the Cliven Bundy situation, a piece containing all the usual talking points about how the “racist” rancher’s reasoning is really risible. Rinse,…

  • Affirmative-action Baby Sotomayor’s Conflict of Interest

    By Selwyn Duke One day while serving as a fill-in host for radio giant Rush Limbaugh, black economist Dr. Walter Williams related an interesting personal story about affirmative action. He said that as a young man he declined an offer of a professorship at a prestigious Ivy League university, explaining to the institution that, since…

  • The Democrats’ Plan to Destroy Our Electoral System

    By Selwyn Duke While most people aren’t aware of it, there’s a movement afoot to completely change the way we elect our president — and its success would have serious consequences for our nation’s future. The plan is a National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that would neuter the Electoral College and give the presidency to…

  • The Plan for Police Nullification

    By Selwyn Duke “I [sic] give my left n** to bang down your door and come for your gun,” said the cop. This statement, made by Branford, Ct., police officer Joseph Peterson in a Facebook conversation earlier this month, created quite a blogosphere firestorm. Internet commenters from Sacramento to Saratoga struck a note of defiance…

  • Cop: I’d Love to “Bang down Your Door and Come for Your Gun”

    By Selwyn Duke How would you feel if a police officer you knew for 20 years told you that if an order was issued to confiscate your guns, he wouldn’t hesitate to “kick your door in”? This was the precisely the experience Connecticut resident, Navy veteran and former firefighter John Cinque had after commenting on…

  • Razing Arizona: Conservatives Succeed at Failing Again

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps Arizona governor Jan Brewer was sincere when saying that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SB 1062) she vetoed yesterday could “create more problems than it purports to solve.” After all, observers such as Napp Nazworth at The Christian Post contend that SB 1062 might actually — contrary to all the hysteria…

  • Suing Americans under International Law — in American Courts

    By Selwyn Duke Imagine you go overseas and give a speech advocating a cause, only to come home and find you’re being sued for “crimes against humanity.” No, what you did wasn’t illegal under American law or under the laws of the nation in which you expressed your words. You’re being sued under international law.…

  • The Coming Persecution of Christians

    By Selwyn Duke Sometime after Hurricane Sandy swept across the Jersey Shore, FEMA money swept into the state, helping to rebuild municipalities and morale. But one New Jersey town isn’t receiving Federal Emergency Management Agency funds despite having sustained millions in damage, losing half its boardwalk; its whole pier; entire buildings; and part of the…