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  • Holland’s Fear of Moslems

    By Selwyn Duke The Jerusalem Post has a short news piece about how Holland has delayed the release of a film critical of Islam for fear of reprisals from Moslems.

  • Duke’s Latest WND Piece: Golf Walloped With PC Club

    By Selwyn Duke Golfweek magazine recently fired its editor, David Seanor, after a strong negative reaction to its January 19 issue, which featured a picture of a noose on its cover.  The image related to a story about embattled golf commentator Kelly Tilghman, whose recent comments referencing lynching brought her a two-week suspension. 

  • Election Year Nonsense

    By Selwyn Duke To use a play on Winston Churchill’s cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage.  Another way to put it – at risk of sounding trite – is if it weren’t for nonsense, it wouldn’t make any sense at all.  Yet, if being trite were a…

  • An Attempt to Eliminate the Electoral Effect

    By Selwyn Duke New Jersey Governor John Corzine has just signed a bill that would deliver his state’s electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections, even if the majority of the Garden State’s voters choose another candidate.  This makes NJ the second state to adopt such a measure; Maryland…

  • The Myth of Martin Luther King

    By Selwyn Duke Writing at The New American, William Norman Grigg has an exposé of Martin Luther King Jr.  Grigg delves into King’s damnable habit of plagiarizing others’ work and his communist leanings.  As for the latter, Grigg illustrates just how egregious they were with a quotation from black civil rights leader Julia Brown: “If…

  • Canadians Going South for Health Care

    By Selwyn Duke Writing at American Thinker, Ethel Fenig has a little piece about how some Canadians must come to the United States for medical treatment because of the nation’s "overwhelmed and underfunded socialist health care system."  Fenig quotes the Toronto Globe and Mail:

  • Obama Calls Bill Clinton Pinocchio . . . in so Many Words

    By Selwyn Duke Thus far, the Euphemism of Campaign 2008  title may just belong to Barack Obama.  Commenting on Bill Clinton’s attacks on his candidacy, he said,

  • Hoisted With Their Politically-correct Petards

    By Selwyn Duke What goes around certainly does come around.  The first black president’s wife isn’t black enough to be immune from charges of bigotry. Isn’t it delicious? I am, of course, speaking of the recent Democrat race war.

  • Trying to Kill the Immigration Card

    By Selwyn Duke With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two primary contests and Mitt Romney’s failures prior to Michigan, a fiction is being bandied about: The anti-amnesty position isn’t playing well in Peoria.

  • Commentary by Walter Williams – 1/18/08

    As usual, my favorite economist (OK, I have a favorite economist; I’m a boring guy), Walter Williams, is right on the money.  In his latest column he talks about the energy czars. Tyranny Update Last December, President Bush signed an energy bill that will ban the sale of Edison’s incandescent bulb, starting with the 100-watt…