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  • Radio Host Sentenced to Prison on Child Porn Charges

    By Selwyn Duke Left-wing KGO radio host Bernie Ward has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for the distribution of child pornography. Most people wouldn’t take issue with this, as virtually all consider such material beyond the pale. But are some of our defenses of adult pornography also indefensible?

  • County Cracks Down on Illegals, Crime Drops

    By Selwyn Duke We really do live in a topsy-turvy world.   Today, no matter how based in common sense a measure might be, some people will always crawl out of the woodwork to tell you why up is down, hot is cold and left is right.  One example of this is opposition to cracking down…

  • O’Reilly Factor Discusses Hate Crimes

    By Selwyn Duke Laura Ingraham was filling in for Bill O’Reilly last night on his cable news show, and one of the segments pertained to an alleged rise in "hate crimes" in 2007.  She had as a guest Brian Levin, a civil rights attorney and Director of the Center for the Study of Hate &…

  • Convicted Murderer: Vote Obama

    By Selwyn Duke Before convicted murderer Dale Leo Bishop was executed on Wednesday, he urged people to vote for Barack Obama.  But he made a big mistake.  He should have voiced his support for the Illinois senator earlier.  He might have gotten off by reason of insanity.   

  • Texas Man Who Shot Illegals Will Not Stand Trial

    By Selwyn Duke The story began on November 14, 2007, when Joe Horn witnessed two men robbing a neighbor’s house. Like any good citizen, the 61-year-old grandfather called 911, but he also did something else — he fetched his shotgun. While the emergency operator implored Horn not to confront the burglars, the Pasadena, Tex., resident…

  • Businessman Arrested for Thwarting Crime

    By Selwyn Duke In my last piece, I wrote about some politically-correct insanity in Britain and said about it, "You can’t make this stuff up."  Well, you can’t.  Another, even more ridiculous example accosted my sensibilities today, as the Daily Mail is reporting on Steve Kink, a businessman who has been charged with assault because…

  • Supreme Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke If you asked people what the role of a Supreme Court Justice was, most wouldn’t know the answer.  I experienced this with a former acquaintance of mine, a septuagenarian millionaire who probably would have been thought sophisticated by most.  He did know that such justices rule on law, but when I asked…

  • Hate Speech Phonies

    By Selwyn Duke There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis — I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I’m not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws — something I’ve treated thoroughly — part of me just wants…

  • Al Sharpton at it Again

    By Selwyn Duke Well, Al Sharpton, a lowlife’s lowlife, is at it again.  Now he’s threatening to "close down" New York City because the three officers charged in the Sean Bell shooting were acquitted.  In other words, they weren’t lynched the way Sharpton would have preferred.

  • Girls, Cries, and Videotape

    By Selwyn Duke We’ve heard the stories about girls viciously beating rivals, and recently nine third-graders hatched a plot to kill their teacher. Yes, childhood misbehavior, once typified by Dennis the Menace or Leave it to Beaver’s Eddie Haskell, is now often more sinister in nature.