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  • 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…

  • Women in Combat: Battling Nature, Battering Reality

    By Selwyn Duke Senseless advice and nothing nice; that’s what little-girls-in-combat policy is made of. The obvious has already been said about placing women in front-line combat positions. Their presence will reduce unit cohesiveness; male soldiers’ natural instinct to protect women will influence battlefield decisions; there will be the problem of sexual impropriety within the…

  • The Great Gun Debate: Selwyn Duke vs. Brett Joshpe

    The following is my first entry in a gun debate with Politico writer Brett Joshpe. I will post a link to his response when it is published. By Selwyn Duke A few weeks ago, author and Manhattan-based lawyer Brett Joshpe penned a pro-gun-control piece whose thrust was that conservatives need to be sensible with respect…

  • Joe Biden: No Reason to Ban AR-15s

    By Selwyn Duke Okay, half-slow laughin’ Joe didn’t actually say that, but he might as well have. While defending his position a week ago that banning the rifles incorrectly called “assault weapons” won’t negatively impact upon Americans’ safety, he pointed out that you shouldn’t trouble yourself: shotguns would still be available — and they’re more…

  • Ten Piers Morgan Gun Lies, Untruths, and Deceptions

    By Selwyn Duke It’s probably not quite true that gun-control advocate Piers Morgan has been “standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook,” as Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro put it. It’s more correct to say that the cheeky Brit has been standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook, jumping up…