Category: Snap Commentary

  • By Selwyn Duke The Democrat governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on corruption charges at approximately 6:15 AM today.  The arrests are the result of a three-year federal investigation that involved secretly taping the governor's conversations with the help of his friend and confidant,…

  • By Selwyn Duke There is a reason why G.K. Chesterton once called common sense ". . . that forgotten branch of psychology."  It is because the field can reliably be used to govern your life; all you need do is listen closely to its prescriptions. And do exactly the opposite. 

  • By Selwyn Duke It isn't just Bill Ayers, the ex-Weathermen terrorist and self-described small-c communist, who is happy about Barack Obama's presidential victory.  No, the big-c variety are quite pleased as well.  Writes the red rag People's Weekly World (PWW {"People's" in a name is always a bad sign}):

  • By Selwyn Duke It's really quite strange when you encounter a theologian or man of the cloth who appears to have no faith.  One could really wonder why they devote their lives to something they seem to believe is a fairytale.  I suppose they're much like experts in ancient literature. Some people who fit this…

  • By Selwyn Duke Many people think it's crazy that some Americans are questioning whether Barack Obama is a natural-born U.S. citizen.  For instance, ST writes:

  • I wish you all a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving. Warmest regards, Selwyn Duke  "Thanks are the highest form of thought." — G.K. Chesterton

  • They say the more things change, the more they stay the same.  As the following quotations from Booker T. Washington indicate, at times this can certainly seem true.  Read them, and see if they remind you of anyone you know (or, to be more precise, know of) but wish you didn't.

  • Kenyan Ambassador Says Obama Born in Kenya! http://youtube.com/v/zH4GX3Otf14In this revelatory audio footage from the show "Mike in the Morning," the Kenyan ambassador Peter Ogego lets it slip that it's "well-known" Barack Obama was born in Kenya. The hosts asked the ambassador some light-hearted questions and engaged in some banter before casually asking him about Obama's…

  • Ex-KGB Defector on Demoralization in America http://youtube.com/v/qlpODYhnPEoThis is a very interesting video a reader sent me featuring Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov. He was a KGB man who was trained in subversion and who has some very interesting things to report about how communists work to corrupt the judgment and degrade the will of a targeted…

  • By Selwyn Duke Quite a while ago, I wrote a piece titled "Conservatism is Dead; Long Live Conservatism?" in which I explained the process by which the right loses the culture war and why the I won't call myself a "conservative."  A good example of the fault I describe in the article was exhibited on…