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  • Earthquakes Aren’t Man-made, Poverty is

                         The tragedy behind the tragedy in Haiti By Selwyn Duke Natural disasters are bad. They’re far worse when they combine with unnatural disasters. We’re all calling the recent Haitian earthquake devastating, but it’s more correct to say that in Port-Au-Prince there is tremendous devastation. And there is a difference, as more “devastating” quakes have…

  • Tuesday’s Savage Nation Appearance: The Quayled Lady — Why You Should Forget about Sarah Palin

    https://selwynduke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/savage-presentation-the-quayled-lady-01-19-10.mp3 The Quayled Lady: Why You Should Forget about Sarah Palin – 01/19/10

  • Obama’s Healthcare Discrimination: Making Some More Equal than Others

    By Selwyn Duke One thing we get with our mother’s milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call “invidious” discrimination.  For the civil-rights lawyers who attained their status through the invidious discrimination known as affirmative action, the parenthesized word means “likely to create ill will” or “offensively or unfairly discriminating.”  Now, the problem with…

  • The Quayled Lady: Why You Should Forget Sarah Palin

    By Selwyn Duke Really, there’s precious little fairness in the world.  People tend to be slaves to emotion, and prejudices often reign supreme even (in fact, especially) in those who rail against prejudice.  This is why we’ll see millions of Americans reflexively dismiss a politician simply because of the letter following his name; it is…

  • A Foolproof Tax Plan: So Simple Even a Caveman IRS Commissioner Could do it

     What does it tell you when even the IRS commissioner doesn’t prepare his own taxes because the code is “complex”? By Selwyn Duke Given that my father had been a WWII-era prisoner of war in Germany, no one could accuse him of not doing his part for America. Yet he was no fan of Uncle…

  • The Economy is so Bad That . . . .

    OK, I usually don't post emails I receive, but this one is just too good.  I hope you enjoy it. The economy is so bad that: I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail. I ordered a burger at McDonald's and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?" CEOs…

  • Berkeley High Poised to Eliminate Science Classes Because They’re Too “White”

    By Selwyn Duke There are some things you just can’t make up — and many of them seem to originate in Berkeley, California. Berkeley really is stranger than fiction, and the latest example is a proposal to eliminate science classes at the city’s high school because, get the Digitalis, they’re too white. Thomas Lifson at…

  • Big Brother: France to Ban “Psychological Violence” in Marriages

    He said, she said? If she said he said the wrong thing, what he said won’t mean anything. By Selwyn Duke We’ve all heard of hate-speech laws. Well, now France will become the first country to enact rudeness-speech laws, making it a crime to commit “psychological violence” within a relationship. In other words, if Pierre…

  • “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”…

  • The Irrationality of the Left: Duke Responds to Reader on Constitution

    By Selwyn Duke Since an understanding of the Constitution is so rare nowadays, I've decided to respond to a poster who advocates the reckless and unlawful "living document" philosophy.  I address his points at length, and I think you may find elements of the response useful in framing your arguments when defending the Constitution. Robert…