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  • The Media’s Inescapable Bias

    By Selwyn Duke I happened to tune in to a documentary last night titled "God’s Christian Warriors."  It’s one segment of a three-part series on religion that is the handiwork of veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour.  It caught my eye while watching the program guide, as I expected the usual anti-Christian double standards.  I was not…

  • Nancy Pelosi’s Treachery

    By Selwyn Duke In a place that truly meets the definition of the term "nation" — that is, one in which the people have a sense of national identity and a shared concern for the perpetuation of their culture  — certain things just won’t be debated. Like, for instance, the idea that the language of…

  • Emasculating the Viking

    By Selwyn Duke Truth is stranger than fiction, and it’s growing stranger by the day.  In Sweden, the Nordic Battlegroup’s coat of arms has always depicted a heraldic lion that wields a sword and, well, let’s just say, is anatomically correct.  But now that nation’s armed forces have agreed to emasculate the cat after a…

  • Normalizing Decadence

    By Selwyn Duke There was a local youth group in Pittsburgh that recently used a rather unusual activity as a vehicle through which members could become more comfortable with one another.  According to this piece, "[the] meeting had teenage boys taking off some of their clothes, wearing adult diapers, bibs and bonnets and being spoon-fed…

  • Selwyn Duke Responds to Reader

    By Selwyn Duke I will occasionally respond to reader emails at this site, but today is a first.   I’m going to respond to a poster, Ray Hicks.  Mr. Hicks has complained about my commentary on the free market, and he believes he has caught me in a contradiction.  Below are his two posts on the…

  • Why I’m Not a Free Trader

    By Selwyn Duke I certainly believe in a free market; that is, within the United States.  So a free trader I’m not.  I don’t think we need junk from China, or, at least, we wouldn’t if the internationalists hadn’t decimated our manufacturing base. 

  • The Mall Shooter: Why Did He Do it?

    By Selwyn Duke After the horrible mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, people are asking the usual questions.  Many want to know why shooter Robert Hawkins did it.  A better question would be: Why not? 

  • Adding Perspective to the Health Care Debate

    By Selwyn Duke Much bad policy is born of a lack of perspective.  This occurs to me when I think about our concerns over health care and the gravitation toward socialized medicine.

  • Some Children Become Human Sooner than Others

    By Selwyn Duke When does an unborn baby become human?  If our contradictory laws are to be believed, it all depends on geographical  location and whether or not the wrong person tries to kill him.  A case in point comes to us from Wisconsin, where a man, Manishkumar Patel, is being charged with first-degree murder…

  • Confusing Beauty With the Beast

    By Selwyn Duke Today’s topic is definitely one of the more amusing things I’ve treated.   Oh, it’s not fall-down-on-the-floor-and-rupture-yourself funny, but it is deliciously, give-the-phonies-just-enough-rope-to-hang-themselves, smirk-inducing funny.