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By Selwyn Duke In keeping with the demagogue’s credo “Never let a good tragedy go to waste,” some among us are extracting as much mileage from the Jared Loughner massacre as they can. It is being used to raise money and reduce freedom, with the latter amounting to calls for gun and speech control. And…
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By Selwyn Duke It was wholly predictable. When the shooter of Democratic Congressman Gabrielle Giffords turned out to be a white male — one Jared Lee Loughner — it was a given that the blame gamers would use the tragedy to tarnish the right. And, sure enough, the onus is, in fact, being placed on…
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By Selwyn Duke Since I’m well aware of how leftists’ claims of erudition are as empty as their ideology, not many of their failures surprise me. But an exception came last Tuesday when Whoopi Goldberg was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. The two were discussing their differing views on the nature of the Islamic threat, with…
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By Selwyn Duke In a case of JournoList redux, mainstream media reporters have again shown that their business is propaganda, not news. In a shocking voicemail accidentally left on the cell phone of Alaska GOP senatorial candidate Joe Miller’s spokesman, Randy DeSoto, journalists can be heard scheming to manufacture stories for the purposes of undermining…
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By Selwyn Duke If anyone should feel loved right now, it’s social commentator Juan Williams. His firing by National Public Radio (NPR) for comments he made on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor has drawn harsh criticism from all quarters, left, right and center. And I join this defensive phalanx. Sacking a man for saying that he…
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By Selwyn Duke When people discuss the overall effects of the Internet, they will weigh the good and the bad. On one side, they may mention how the Web, along with talk radio, has broken the stranglehold over public opinion the mainstream media once enjoyed; on the other, they may cite the pernicious effects of…
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By Selwyn Duke Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the conservative standard bearer he’s reputed to be. On the O’Reilly Factor this on May 4, he supported a “path to citizenship” for illegals, otherwise known as amnesty. To be…
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Who is really lying about sexual abuse, the Church or the media? By Selwyn Duke If the pen is mightier than the sword, misuse of it can be a murderous act. As my faithful readers know, I’ve devoted much ink lately to the media abuse scandal — that is, their abuse of the Truth in…
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Sexual abuse is always a scandal, but there is only one unique scandal in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church. And those responsible don’t wear clerical collars.By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to say when the media became so concerned about the sexual abuse of youth, but I do have the time frame narrowed down…
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By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard the story. Hundreds of young sexual-abuse victims long afraid to come forward for fear of embarrassment and scorn, abusers escaping prosecution and quietly moving to different jurisdictions, authorities covering up the crimes to avoid scandal and litigation. It’s a saga of grave, grave sin.
