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  • Ireland: Every Time I Try to Get Out, They Pull Me Back In

    By Selwyn Duke Over at JBS.org, Ann Shibler has an excellent piece about the European Union’s imminent arm-twisting of Ireland into acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty.  As some of you may know, the Irish recently rejected the treaty via a referendum, one in which 53.4 percent of the voters said nay (the margin was almost…

  • Daily Mail: White boy, 12, suspected of being Islamic extremist recruit after he showed beheading videos to classmates

    By Selwyn Duke It’s now well-known that the mainstream media studiously avoids identifying the race or ethnicity of criminals or terrorists.  When Moslems riot, for instance, usually absent from articles on the subject is any reference to the religious classification of the rioters.  Used instead is a characterization such as the generic "youths."  "Two-hundred ‘youths’…

  • Right-wingers Are the Nice-wingers, While the Left is Bereft

    By Selwyn Duke I remember experiencing one of my first insights into the true nature of modern liberalism. I was 19 years old, sitting in an Indian restaurant with an erstwhile high school "buddy" who was talking about his aspirations. He concluded by waxing idealistic and saying "I want to do good things."

  • This Really is Funny

    There are a lot of people who send me emails, and some of them contain humor.  I don’t usually print such things, but what follows is actually clean and funny.

  • A Socialist by Any Other Name . . .

    By Selwyn Duke One of the consequences of being right in an age of lies is that it brands you as a radical.  Remember that being an extremist doesn’t mean you’re wrong, but simply that your views deviate greatly from those of the mainstream.  If you say that 2+2=4 in a land where everyone else…

  • Supreme Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke If you asked people what the role of a Supreme Court Justice was, most wouldn’t know the answer.  I experienced this with a former acquaintance of mine, a septuagenarian millionaire who probably would have been thought sophisticated by most.  He did know that such justices rule on law, but when I asked…

  • Hate Speech Phonies

    By Selwyn Duke There are some people in the media who are content to recycle thoughts on a regular basis — I guess you could call it groundhog-day commentary.  I’m not one of them, so when I find it necessary to address hate-speech laws — something I’ve treated thoroughly — part of me just wants…

  • Environmentalists Orchestrating Our Oil Woes

    By Selwyn Duke One of the very best columnists on the journalistic scene is Walter Williams.  His articles aren’t filled with flowery prose or esoteric terms (like esoteric!); they just cut to the heart of the matter and provide simple, reasoned analysis.  In fact, I can hardly think of an instance where he has written…

  • Reader Email: Choosing Obama Based on Race is Fine

    By Selwyn Duke Today I’m responding to a reader who is quite dismissive about the truth regarding race and Barack Obama.  He is A.F. and writes:

  • Hitler and Christianity

    By Selwyn Duke    Long ago, during the darkest chapter of the 20th century, a movie was released entitled Hitler’s Children. While the film is virtually forgotten, I cannot forget a certain scene involving some words a Nazi official uttered to a dissident, a heroic Catholic bishop. Dripping with contempt, the officer said (I’m paraphrasing),…