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  • Will Politically Incorrect Opinion Become a Hate Crime?

    By Selwyn Duke Many of us have heard about Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian currently on trial in Holland because he criticized Islam. It’s shocking to many that you could be charged with a hate crime for expressing an opinion, but such prosecutions are not unheard of in the Western world beyond American shores. After…

  • Reader Email: Uncle Santa Clause, I want a Pony

    It’s Christmas Eve and Jimmy has just been tucked snugly in bed.  The anxiety for the day to come has him plum tuckered out.  As he drifts off to sleep, the last vision that passed across his mind is a photographic memory of the crayon written letter he sent to Santa: Dear Santa, It’s me…

  • 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…