Better Than Drudge

recent posts

about

Category: Politics

  • The Myth of Equality

    Seeking equality is a lot like seeking perfection — just without the perfection. By Selwyn Duke In a speech recently, Al Sharpton emphasized that the left’s white whale, equality, still eludes us. Martin Luther King’s dream “was not to put one black family in the White House,” said he; “The dream was to make everything…

  • New York Law Would Enroll All Residents as Organ Donors

    By Selwyn Duke Living in New York has long cost an arm and a leg. Now dying there may cost a kidney and a heart. Under a proposed law, all state residents would automatically be enrolled as organ donors — without their consent. Proposed by Democrat Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, the law would presume consent and…

  • Noam Chomsky: Rise of Far-right Imperils U.S.

          Will intellectualism ever intersect with wisdom? By Selwyn Duke A number of definitions of insanity have been put forth over the years, and a recent interview has inspired me to add the following: It is when one is wrong over and over again but still expects himself to be right. The interview was with…

  • Is Genocide Against Whites Coming to South Africa?

    By Selwyn Duke Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement even inspired a song: “Sun City.” With the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994, however, people lost interest in the faraway land. But with the murder of Eugene Terreblanche, leader of…

  • Is Turkey the Next Big Islamic Threat?

    While often hailed as a triumph in Muslim democracy, Turkey may ultimately pose a greater Islamic threat than Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, and even Iran, says former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat. By Selwyn Duke When we think of terrorism, our minds may go to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and nuclear ambitions, Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. But…

  • The States Must Rise Again: The Only Way to Combat Obama’s Socialist Agenda

    By Selwyn Duke With the passage of ObamaCare coming on the heels of government takeover of industries and taxpayer-funded bailouts of the irresponsible, many are wondering how we can turn the socialist tide.  They see Uncle Sam expanding, their rights and economic prospects shrinking and their voices ignored.  For these people, November cannot come soon…

  • The Insincere Media Hit Job on the Catholic Church

    Sexual abuse is always a scandal, but there is only one unique scandal in the recent coverage of the Catholic Church. And those responsible don’t wear clerical collars.By Selwyn Duke It’s hard to say when the media became so concerned about the sexual abuse of youth, but I do have the time frame narrowed down…

  • Ann Coulter, Hate Speech and Human Rights Commissions

    The conservative firebrand tries to hoist the speech-stifling left on its own human-rights petards. By Selwyn Duke Most of us probably remember that standard elementary-school threat, “I’m gonna tell!” which meant that an appeal to authority for redress was in the offing. The one issuing it was sometimes a tattletale, but, regardless, since children aren’t…

  • Our Problem is a Lack of Health Care — the Moral Variety

    By Selwyn Duke There was, of course, nothing unpredictable about Sunday’s health-care vote.  It was fairly obvious that the Chicago mobsters would, using the Escobarian silver-or-lead principle, scare up the votes needed to pass Obama’s baby.  It was plain that “pro-life” Democrats such as Bart Stupak would, after the requisite posturing, find the rationalization they…

  • Bart Stupak Was for the Health Bill All Along http://youtube.com/v/URr68joWr1E In this video from last fall, it is apparent that Bart Stupak planned to vote for Obamacare all along, regardless of its provisions relating to abortion. Watch it and you'll see how he had already conjured up a convenient rationalization to justify his support. He…