Better Than Drudge

recent posts

about

Category: Snap Commentary

  • May You Hang? It All Depends on Your Color

    By Selwyn Duke Last month there was a story about a black firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and threatening note containing a picture of a noose in an East Baltimore firehouse.  But now it has been revealed that the fireman, Donald Maynard, planted the objects himself.

  • Pulling the Freedom of Speech Rabbit Out of the Hat

    By Selwyn Duke Sometimes I think claims of "freedom of speech" may be today’s last refuge of a scoundrel.  Like so many other places, the Lower Macungie Library in Pennsylvania stocks children’s books that seek to normalize perversion.  Certainly at least one book: King & King, which depicts two princes marrying each other and smooching.

  • Clinton Admits She Would Push Amnesty if President

    By Selwyn Duke While fielding questions in Iowa yesterday, Hillary Clinton admitted that she would push for amnesty for illegal aliens if elected president.  Of course, this isn’t surprising, as it’s more reiteration than revelation; what is surprising is that she didn’t try to muddy the waters.  Here was Lady MacBeth’s strikingly forthright answer: "I…

  • He’s Gonna Find Out Who’s Naughty or Nice . . . or Stupid

    By Selwyn Duke Sometimes I could believe I was living in the Matrix.  Only, I can’t imagine sentient programs creating a world as irrational as ours.  We’ve come to expect the usual Christmastime attacks upon tradition in the name of the mythical "separation of church and state"; the nativity scene on public property and school…

  • Thoughts on the News for Today – 11/29/07

    By Selwyn Duke There was some bad news today.  Mike Huckabee — the illegal-alien enabler who I dubbed "Huck the Huckster" — is leading in the last Rasmussen poll for the Iowa caucus.  Now, most of those gravitating toward his campaign are good people, so I must assume that they don’t know about his damnable…

  • Thoughts on the News for Today – 11/28/07

    By Selwyn Duke With the federal government’s abdication of its responsibility to secure the border, many local governments have stepped into the breach.  These cities and towns are fed up with the feds and are starting to enact laws designed to rid their jurisdictions of invaders. 

  • Sites That Help Married People Cheat

    By Selwyn Duke There’s a lot of trash on the Internet, but I cannot think of too much that’s worse than what I read about today: Websites that facilitate adultery.

  • Thoughts on the News, Silly and Serious – 11/25/07

    By Selwyn Duke "Radiation. Yes, indeed! You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year! They ought to have them, too." – Mad scientist in Repo Man.

  • The Culture of Death

    By Selwyn Duke There is a news story today about women who will not have babies because they don’t want to contribute to the strain on the environment.  The piece mentions an environmental charity worker named Toni Vernelli who said, "Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of…

  • China Rising

    By Selwyn Duke As preoccupied as we are with Islamic terrorism, it’s easy to ignore the perhaps even greater threat posed by China.   China is a burgeoning nation — ambitious, technologically savvy, ruthless — and she dwarfs us in population.  She wants to supplant us as the world’s "hegemon," and we had better take notice.