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  • We Might be Muslim Today if….

    By Selwyn Duke The year is 632 A.D., and Muslim hordes have set their sights on the Mideast and North Africa — the old Christian world. And the Caliphate, as the Islamic realm is called, will not be denied. Syria and Iraq fall in 636. Palestine is next in 638. And Byzantine Egypt and North…

  • American Suckers

    By Selwyn Duke Really, I can’t completely blame foreigners who hold us Americans in contempt. I know that’s a controversial statement, but my reasoning is explained with two questions: Do people generally respect those who allow themselves to be used as a doormat? And, then, how do people usually feel about the character of a…

  • Losing the Future: The Fiscal-conservative Fantasy

    By Selwyn Duke With the loss of the 2012 election, there is much talk of how the Republican Party must do some soul searching. How will the GOP wage successful campaigns when demographic and cultural changes favor the opposition? Increasingly, the answer is that the party’s party is over, that it must move into the…

  • Petulant, Perturbed Obama Just Can’t Help Himself

    By Selwyn Duke As with the vice-presidential debate and Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s attitude in Monday night’s debate spoke more clearly than anything he said. No, he didn’t laugh like Bozo the Clown, giggle like a schoolgirl, shake his head, and roll his eyes like Jokin’ Joe did. But he looked petulant, perturbed, and on…

  • And That’s the Way It Isn’t: Ten Liberal Myths People Believe

    By Selwyn Duke When a big lie is repeated often enough and becomes “truth,” there can be serious consequences. For reality is like a jigsaw puzzle: If too many pieces (little pictures) are wrong, you’ll never be able to assemble them and see the big picture. The result is dislocation from reality. What follows are…

  • Pa. Court: Judge Uses Sharia Law to Free Muslim Assailant

    By Selwyn Duke In a shocking case out of Pennsylvania, an American judge has thrown out an assault charge against a Muslim immigrant based on Sharia law. The assault victim was the head of the Pennsylvania chapter of American Atheists, Ernest Perce V, who was marching in a Halloween parade as “Zombie Mohammed” next to…

  • The Link between the Contraception Issue and Islam

    By Selwyn Duke While I’m sure Barack Obama loves to stick it to traditional religious institutions any way he can, he certainly doesn’t want to stick it to himself in the process. This is why I’m fairly sure he and his advisors didn’t anticipate that his contraception mandate would result in a knock-down, drag-out fight…

  • What conservatives and the GOP dare not say about immigration

    By Selwyn Duke In a recent election piece, pundit Ann Coulter identified illegal migration as one of the two most important issues of our time.  She writes that if we fail at halting it, “the country will be changed permanently.”  She continues: Taxes can be raised and lowered.  Regulations can be removed (though they rarely…

  • Defend It Like Beckham: Soccer Star Condemned for Having Too Many Children

    By Selwyn Duke Adorning an article in the Guardian is a picture you might think represented a prototypical family: a handsome couple standing behind three healthy, well-grown children. But according to the British paper, the parents — soccer star David Beckham and his wife, Victoria — are to be condemned. The problem is that, with…

  • College Islamization: Yale Closes Initiative for Study of Anti-Semitism

    By Selwyn Duke It was 60 years ago that William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale, a book critical of the hostility toward religion prevalent at the Ivy League school. But now religion may be poised to make a comeback at the institution — at least, that is, if its god is called…