Category: Politics

  • By Selwyn Duke In the netherworld of vacuous political discourse, near the nadir of utter nonsense, even below blather about "experience," are platitudes about being a "uniter, not a divider."  Quite fittingly, the one who specializes in empty political rhetoric grandiosely delivered, Barack Obama, mentioned something to this effect in his Iowa victory speech. 

  • By Selwyn Duke Very far from the Bible Belt but very close to the culture war is the Christian community of Ocean Grove, New Jersey.  The beachfront town is an anomaly: A bit of red in a state that tends blue.  It was founded in 1869 by the Methodist Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, which…

  • By Selwyn Duke Perhaps you saw some of the Christmastime campaign commercials released by the presidential candidates.  The one receiving the most attention was Mike Huckabee’s "floating cross" spot, which was criticized for its Christian symbolism.  Although I have no use for Huck, his commercial was fine and the criticism nothing but anti-Christian tripe.  The…

  • By Selwyn Duke Of all the empty election-year talk, none rings more hollow than that about "experience."  We’re told Barack Obama lacks experience, but Hillary Clinton possesses it in abundance.  Does anyone ever wonder what such individuals have experience in?

  • By Selwyn Duke One of the more frustrating frailties of man’s nature is that he is prone to emotionalism and finds it very difficult to be objective.  People tend to view others through tinted glasses — either rose-colored or dark — and then see everything their object of adulation or animosity does in that light. …

  • By Selwyn Duke There is a candidate in the presidential race who has a serious religion problem.  No, it’s not Mormon Mitt or recently-religious Rudy.  It is Mike Huckabee. Just for the record, I share Huck’s faith in Jesus Christ.  Not only have I no problem with religion in public life, I also understand that…

  • By Selwyn Duke The only difference between Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee is their choice of instruments. After my expose of presidential aspirant Mick Huckabee (properly known as Huck "the Huckster"), I received numerous reader emails wherein people asked me, essentially, who was a better viable alternative.  A few of these emails follow along with…

  • By Selwyn Duke How quickly they forget.  Not that long ago, Manchurian candidate John McCain was reviled among traditionalists for siding with the open-borders crowd during the scamnesty debate.  Now, after languishing in campaign purgatory for months, he’s baaaack.  He has vaulted into second place in the New Hampshire Republican Primary.

  • The following are select quotations from the great Irish orator and statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797). On Freedom . . . Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites,—in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity,—in proportion as their soundness and…

  • By Selwyn Duke When evangelicals embraced Jimmy Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign, they didn’t know he would repudiate the Southern Baptist Convention a generation later.  Today the very same constituency has glommed onto Mike Huckabee, and I can’t help but lament how history truly does repeat itself.