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  • Senator Rob Portman’s Homosexual Descent

    By Selwyn Duke In another case in the annals of conservative "adaptation" to yesterday's liberal innovation, Ohio Republican senator Rob Portman has just announced that he now supports faux marriage. The change was motivated, he said, by his son having come out to him and his wife as a homosexual. Well, it's a good thing…

  • Mississippi Bloomberg Burning

    By Selwyn Duke While I'm generally no fan of new laws, a law that prohibits stupid laws is a definite exception. And that's just what the great state of Mississippi is giving us by passing legislation that would prohibit localities from limiting food portion sizes, forcing restaurants to list calorie counts on menus, and banning…

  • Beppe Grillo, Just the Wacko We Don’t Know

    By Selwyn Duke When I see the hand-wringing over the rise of Italian politician Beppe Grillo, I can’t help but think of a man complaining about cigarette smoke while his own derriere is on fire. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Grillo is a wacko, for sure. I can’t even take issue with the claim that…

  • We Might be Muslim Today if….

    By Selwyn Duke The year is 632 A.D., and Muslim hordes have set their sights on the Mideast and North Africa — the old Christian world. And the Caliphate, as the Islamic realm is called, will not be denied. Syria and Iraq fall in 636. Palestine is next in 638. And Byzantine Egypt and North…

  • Hugo Chavez: Sic Semper Tyrannis

    By Selwyn Duke At a former workplace many years ago, I learned that a certain fellow was cheating the business out of rental fees. So I confronted him, but he showed no contrition. Instead he replied, “I deserve it [the extra proceeds].” In case you haven’t guessed, he was a devout leftist. This story is…

  • The Great Gun Debate: Duke Strikes Back

    By Selwyn Duke It’s easy to fall into the trap that ensnares liberals, that of thinking we can legislate ourselves to utopia. This occurs to me when pondering Mr. Brett Joshpe’s response to my last debate piece. In his response he very graciously states that my article contains many reasonable points, yet he also claims…

  • Unmasking the Grim Reaper’s Foot Soldiers

    By Selwyn Duke One day back in high school, a very interesting English teacher asked our class a moral question: if you could press a button and get a million dollars, but a little old man — with no family, friends, or ties of any kind — in the backwoods of China would die, would…

  • Barack Obama: the Liar’s Liar

    By Selwyn Duke If I had to credit Barack Obama with one thing, it would be knowing his market. He understands that with an America so dumbed-down, and a media so prostrate before him, he can get away with lies previous presidents wouldn’t dare contemplate. A good example — but far from the worst —…

  • John McCain’s “Racist” Joke that Wasn’t

    By Selwyn Duke Being a conservative just ain’t what it used to be. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) was recently accused of tweeting a “racist” joke — by another Republican. The issue arose when McCain, responding to Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remark that he’d like to be sent into space (not, I assume, by an Israeli…

  • The Great Gun Debate: Joshpe Responds

    By Brett Joshpe I greatly appreciate the opportunity to debate and respond to Selwyn Duke's piece, which makes many very reasonable points. Its biggest deficiency is that it never actually proposes measures –whether specific new regulations or repeal of specific existing ones — that would improve the current system. Instead, Mr. Duke says he would…