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  • Students Protest: Bring Back Officer Who Got Physical With S.C. Girl

    Selwyn Duke Deputy Ben Fields has been condemned in the media and called names. He has been fired from the Richland County Sheriff's Department. And the federal government has launched a civil-rights investigation into his apprehension of a defiant student who was disrupting her class last Monday. Yet some of the people who know him…

  • GOP Media Takedown: A Recipe for Victory

    By Selwyn Duke It’s long been known that a leader can gain power by rallying the people against a boogeyman. And it helps when that boogeyman is real. When CNBC’s GOP debate moderators couldn’t help but be sanctimonious, supercilious, and self-important Wednesday night, they did more than provoke a response from their intellectual superiors. They…

  • President’s Lies Matter: Obama Defends Black Lives Matter Movement

    By Selwyn Duke It’s a phenomenon that has led to riots and the killing of police officers. But that didn’t stop Barack Obama from defending the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement last Thursday at a White House criminal-justice forum. It was an action that, critics say, reinforced divisive misconceptions — ones that have contributed the…

  • The Muslim Migrants and the Death of the West

    By Selwyn Duke Death can happen suddenly, as when being shot or hit by a truck. But it’s more often a process involving steady and observable decline. It’s also true that symptoms can be confused with causes. Such is the case with listing Western civilization and the Muslim migrant crisis, opines the Wall Street Journal’s…

  • Hillary Clinton Unchained: Gun Ban “Worth Looking at”

    By Selwyn Duke Would Hillary Clinton ban guns in the United States? She apparently supported the idea last Friday, but then supposedly dismissed it three days later. It’s the difference between an on- and off-Teleprompter candidate. During an October 16 town hall meeting at Keene State College, a questioner asked Clinton if we could follow…

  • Ahmed the “Clock Boy” Meets with Obama and War Criminal

    By Selwyn Duke The media has dubbed him “Clock Boy,” but critics have pointed out that he’s really just Crock Boy. This hasn’t prevented Ahmed Mohamed (shown), the 14-year-old Texas student arrested for bringing to school a device that could be taken for a bomb, from making the rounds as a celebrity and meeting world…

  • The Evil of Gun-free Zones

    By Selwyn Duke One thing worse than supporting bad policy is knowingly supporting bad policy. Worse still is knowingly supporting bad policy and shielding yourself from its destructive effects — while visiting that policy on children. There has been much debate recently surrounding so-called “gun-free zones,” places such as schools, where law-abiding people won’t carry…

  • “Us-versus-them” Obama Again Slams Christianity

    By Selwyn Duke Some have mockingly called Barack Obama “Dear Reader” for his reliance on a Teleprompter. But considering that while speaking extemporaneously he has uttered comments such as Middle American voters “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them” and women shouldn’t be “punished with a baby,” his recourse…

  • Muslim Refugee Warns: This Is the “Islamic Conquest of the West”

    By Selwyn Duke He’s a Muslim refugee living in Europe. And he has a warning: Keep the Muslim “refugees” out of Europe. He’s Dr. Mudar Zahran, a Jordanian Palestinian academic and a leader of the Jordanian Opposition Coalition who is currently living in the United Kingdom, where he sought political asylum. Describing himself as an…

  • Trump and the Chumps: What’s a Serious Candidate, Anyway?

    By Selwyn Duke Ever since Donald Trump rose to front-runner status in the 2016 GOP presidential field, we’ve heard dismissive talk about how he’s not a “serious” candidate. Pundits and political-party leaders have made this claim, in efforts ranging from seriously intended but unserious commentary to the tactic of hoping that if you act as…