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  • Thoughts on the News for Today – 11/28/07

    By Selwyn Duke With the federal government’s abdication of its responsibility to secure the border, many local governments have stepped into the breach.  These cities and towns are fed up with the feds and are starting to enact laws designed to rid their jurisdictions of invaders. 

  • Moslem Group Attacks Michael Savage: The Battle Between Taquiya and Talk Radio

    By Selwyn Duke You will have to forgive me, but I have a difficult time taking the war against Moslem extremists seriously.  No, I haven’t become the latest in a line of anti-American quislings who say the war is “all about oil” or that Islamism is not a threat.  It’s just that I have trouble…

  • China Rising

    By Selwyn Duke As preoccupied as we are with Islamic terrorism, it’s easy to ignore the perhaps even greater threat posed by China.   China is a burgeoning nation — ambitious, technologically savvy, ruthless — and she dwarfs us in population.  She wants to supplant us as the world’s "hegemon," and we had better take notice.

  • 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.