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  • Because She’s a Woman

    By Selwyn Duke It’s very easy to fall behind the times.  It is for this reason that you find parents who never seem to really know what the younger generation is involved in, older folks who still act as if a hot dog should be 10 cents, and people who fight yesterday’s social battles.  As…

  • Waiting for a Light Bulb to Go Off in the Liberal Mind

    By Selwyn Duke On the radio today I heard Congressman Anthony Weiner, a member of the New York contingent and a liberal of true Empire State pedigree.  You can’t miss Weiner; he’s a gangly sort, obviously the guy whose meals fellow NY Rep.  Jerrold Nadler has been stealing (take a gander at Nadler and you’ll…

  • Double-crossing the Boy Scouts

    By Selwyn Duke Few things get my dander up like the betraying of children’s trust.  Guilty of this is an attorney named Marsha Weinerman, executive director of the Cambridge, Ma., election commission, who has done the Boy Scouts dirty.   

  • Billionaires Aiding and Abetting the Enemy

    By Selwyn Duke During WWII, the medium of film was used to great effect in the combating nations’ war efforts.  Adolf Hitler had his propaganda filmmaker extraordinaire, Leni Riefenstahl, who exalted Nazi Germany.  But such film footage was used to demonize as well, and we certainly characterized the Japanese in less than flattering terms.  (The…

  • Why Hillary Clinton, “The Smartest Woman in the World,” is a Dim Bulb

    By Selwyn Duke We had a co-president during the Clinton reign who was dubbed "The Smartest Woman in the World." No, it wasn’t Bill; although considered intelligent, Bill didn’t benefit from the application of that superlative.   

  • Stereotyping 101

    By Selwyn Duke In a racial profiling lawsuit against the Maryland State Police (MSP), a plaintiff’s attorney named Eliza Leighton said that some training documents contain “startling examples of racial stereotypes about Hispanics.”  (Just so you know, when leftists use the word “startling,” it usually means, “Man, this truth hurts!”)  According to the Associated Press:…

  • Big Brother’s Window into Our Lives

    By Selwyn Duke A reader sent me an interesting piece on the "American Community Survey" (ACS), a 24-page, highly intrusive census questionnaire (perhaps you’ve heard of it).  This Orwellian bureaucratic nightmare is sent out annually, and the fines for failing to respond honestly can amount to, get the Digitalis, $50,000.

  • More Hate Laws

    By Selwyn Duke Again proving why George Orwell’s dystopian story 1984 was set in Britain, the English are contemplating even more efforts at thought control.  They are proposing legislation that could make it illegal to tell jokes about homosexuals and want to make offenses against the elderly "hate crimes."

  • Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Get Fiscal

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a type of political creature known as a fiscal conservative (FC).  This sort of animal doesn’t believe that we should tax and spend like a liberal nor does he believe that we should hew to traditional social values like a "paleo-conservative" (I’m not fond of some of these labels).  For instance,…

  • The Anti-Islamist Manifesto

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, “Manifesto: Together facing a new totalitarianism,” which is being disseminated widely on the Web. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, of Mohammed cartoon fame, it’s a vow to resist Islamism signed by 12 individuals hailed as “brave intellectuals.” I read it, and…