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  • What is More Troubling than Pat Robertson’s Remarks?

    By Selwyn Duke Of all the responses to the devastation in Haiti, the most copy-worthy is televangelist Pat Robertson’s claim that the earthquake was divine retribution.  In making his case, he told a story about how Haitian leaders long ago made a pact with Satan, promising to serve him if he would help vanquish their…

  • Bravo to Brit Hume: Why Faith is Not a Private Matter

    By Selwyn Duke Not too many things raise my eyebrows in these days of through-the-looking-glass America, where I fully expect up to be down, left to be right and right to be wrong.  It’s not that I’m a pessimist — just a realist.  And this is why hearing mainstream-media newsman Brit Hume recommend Christianity over…

  • The Christmas Controversy: Duke Responds to Reader

    Karl wrote: Mr. Duke: I sent your link to my list. This came in from a fellow who lives in south Africa. He's a good man. He gave me permission to forward to you. If you have time to correspond with him, I would be interested in being copied. Sent: 12/24/2009 12:09:14 P.M. Eastern Standard…

  • Pagan Propaganda: The Other Attack on Christmas

    By Selwyn Duke Ah, Christmastime.  Manger scenes and mistletoe, trees and tinsel, Santa and celebration, gift-giving and gratitude . . . and the ACLU roasting traditions on an open fire.  Sadly, the last thing has become as much a seasonal expectation as the others, and the American Communist Lawyers Union’s practice of suing our culture…

  • The Jihadists in America

    By Selwyn Duke It is a bucolic region of verdant meadows, rolling hills, and babbling brooks, a largely peaceful place where big city hustle and bustle and crime are very far away. Yet, like a pig in a beauty contest, within this pastoral setting lies something incongruent: a Jihadist training center. In this compound, women…

  • Black Friday: Materialism in America

    By Selwyn Duke It’s ironic that Black Friday, which has a negative etymology and connotation, should have become one of the more anticipated days of the year. And it’s sad that the holiday meant to be devoted to thanking God for what we have should be followed by — and increasingly subordinated to — a…

  • The GAP's Relativistic "Holiday Commercial" http://youtube.com/v/1JhyjQQ9Pcw While many wouldn't classify this GAP commercial as an "attack" upon Christmas, it certainly is an example of the demotion of it. It begins and ends with relativistic sentiments (using relativism is a more clever way of diminishing faith than overt attacks are) and lends credence to "Kwanzaa," that…

  • Jihad and America: The Land that Cried Sheep

    By Selwyn Duke People were shocked when Major Nidal Malik Hasan brutally targeted fellow servicemen at Texas’ Fort Hood with pistol fire, murdering 12 and wounding 31.  Yet, there is an aspect of this story that is far more shocking — or, at least, one that would be considered so in a sane society. We now…

  • Member of Major Hasan's Mosque: "I honestly have no pity for them [the Fort Hood victims]" http://youtube.com/v/npAvM-VWwhc By Selwyn Duke Here is a BBC interview with "Duane," a member of the Fort Hood shooter's mosque. A good example of the jihadist mentality harbored by some within our borders, he says that he won't "condemn" Nidal…

  • The Blasphemy Resolution Story: A Clarification

    By Selwyn Duke Recently I wrote a piece titled "Obama Pushing Secular UN Anti-Free Speech Resolution," wherein I reported on Barack Obama's support of a Muslim-inspired United Nations anti-blasphemy resolution. In it I cited a liberal professor named Jonathan Turley, who wrote the following: While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama administration supported the effort…