Better Than Drudge

recent posts

about

Category: Media

  • Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy

    By Selwyn Duke After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare moderate in talk radio, although he’s most notable for only moderately deep thinking. He was talking about the Catholic Church sex scandal, and he fielded a caller proposing a…

  • Our Problem is a Lack of Health Care — the Moral Variety

    By Selwyn Duke There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday’s health-care vote.  It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby.  It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization they…

  • Why Many American Christians Really are Un-Christian

    By Selwyn Duke In this age of media insolvency and newsroom job cuts, I sometimes think that restaurant reviewers are doubling as religion writers.  After all, both today seem to treat their subjects as matters of taste.  In fact, I expect to soon open a modern newspaper’s religion page and read something akin to the…

  • Is “Journalist” Another Job Americans Won’t Do?

    By Selwyn Duke Whenever criticizing grammar and punctuation, you run the risk of being labeled punctilious.  Worse still, since even many good writers involved in Internet journalism disgorge the odd typo, there’s the chance you will come to be regarded as an expert on the glass-house real estate market.  Yet there’s no doubt that the…

  • Bravo to Brit Hume: Why Faith is Not a Private Matter

    By Selwyn Duke Not too many things raise my eyebrows in these days of through-the-looking-glass America, where I fully expect up to be down, left to be right and right to be wrong.  It’s not that I’m a pessimist — just a realist.  And this is why hearing mainstream-media newsman Brit Hume recommend Christianity over…

  • “Youths” in France Torch Cars to Welcome New Year

    By Selwyn Duke We really should start to wonder if the automobile has the same status in Islamic teaching as pigs and dogs — and as that of truthful language in journalism.  In an event that was largely ignored by the Lamestream Media, Reuters reports that “youths” in France burned, according to its headline, “hundreds”…

  • Ignorance in America

    By Selwyn Duke If ignorance really were bliss, anti-depressants would not be popped like M&M’s today. This is the conclusion we have to draw if a recent ABC News article entitled “Are We Becoming A Nation of Know-Nothings?” (ironically, ABC erred in capitalizing “a” in their title) is any indication of the true state of…

  • Chris Matthews – "It's not a crime to call Al-Qaeda" http://youtube.com/v/Iy1xYmK9sEE Chris Matthews is definitely the kind of man who could double his I.Q. with one serving of fish. Here he is addressing Major Nidal Hasan's terrorist leanings and what could have been done to prevent the Fort Hood massacre and says "It's not a…

  • The Blasphemy Resolution Story: A Clarification

    By Selwyn Duke Recently I wrote a piece titled "Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution," wherein I reported on Barack Obama's support of a Muslim-inspired United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution. In it I cited a liberal professor named Jonathan Turley, who wrote the following: While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama administration supported the effort…

  • O’Reilly and Coulter Take a Stupid Pill

    By Selwyn Duke So I was watching the O'Reilly Factor last night, and the pugnacious pundit had as a guest the always entertaining Ann Coulter.  Now, Coulter is usually a bit more on the mark than O'Reilly, who often doesn't perceive the Truth until a building falls on him (several years ago, when he was…