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  • White and Wrong in Philly

    By Selwyn Duke When your article inspires a big-city mayor to refer your case to a "human-relations commission," you know you've hit a nerve. And when that article is the recent "Being White in Philly" piece by liberal Robert Huber, you know it doesn't take much truth to hit that nerve. That's the scary part.…

  • Why the NRA is Right about Hollywood

    By Selwyn Duke Upstate New York’s Catskill Mountain Range is a bucolic place near and dear to my heart. It’s where storybook character Rip Van Winkle enjoyed his legendary slumber, and its scenery hasn’t changed much since he was born of Washington Irving’s fertile imagination. Yet, like Van Winkle, if I’d fallen asleep for 20…

  • Revealing Gun-owners Names Reveals Truth

    By Selwyn Duke A birdcage liner in my county of Westchester, NY, The Journal News, has made national headlines by releasing the addresses of county residents licensed to own a handgun. The paper claims that in the wake of the Newtown shooting, citizens want to know more about the arsenals their neighbors may possess. Of…

  • Proof the Left Wants All Guns Outlawed

    By Selwyn Duke It has been said that to identify a liar, look for contradiction, because it’s hard keeping lies straight. It’s no revelation that leftists would like to effect gun confiscation (except for themselves and their bodyguards, of course), but they generally maintain plausible deniability so that the world’s Dirty Harry Reids can convince…

  • Conservatives Rationalize as America Circles the Drain

    By Selwyn Duke It’s often hard to accept the truth, especially when that truth is scary, when reality seems to offer you no solutions, only poison from which to pick. It’s as with a man I once knew who insisted it couldn’t be proven that smoking was bad for you. He knew better in his…

  • Ten Liberal Lies People Believe about Guns

    By Selwyn Duke In the wake of the tragic Newtown massacre, we’re hearing all the usual lies and misconceptions about firearms. And since it’s wise to be educated on a topic before advocating policy on it, this is a good time to explode the gun myths being bandied about. 1. The issue is automatic weapons.…

  • Election 2012: Sound Bites vs. Reality

    By Selwyn Duke Any good advertising man knows that a catchy slogan is worth a thousand words. A lot more customers are won by “Coke is It!” or “Just Do It” than are lost by the tedious expositions on side effects rendered at the end of drug commercials. Unfortunately, sound bites, true or not, are…

  • Study: Women Have Trouble Handling Bad News

    By Selwyn Duke It seems as if no news really is good news — at least if you’re a woman. So says a study out of the University of Montreal (UM), which found that women experienced stress after reading negative news stories while men did not. Writes William Raillant-Clark in a UM press release: The…

  • Michael Savage Back on Radio Tonight

    By Selwyn Duke After a legal win that allowed him to leave his former employer last month, award-winning talk-show host Michael Savage will return to the airwaves tonight. Savage will have not just a new syndicator, Cumulus Media Networks, but also a new time slot, 9 p.m. to midnight Eastern Time. His previous slot was…

  • Candy Crowley Plays Biggest Loser with Obama

    By Selwyn Duke You might think that with all the recent focus on media bias in debate moderation, Candy Crowley would have minded her p’s and q’s in last night’s presidential debate. But clearly, she doesn’t even know the ABC’s of her job.