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By Selwyn Duke “We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe — without swords, without guns, without conquest — will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades,” said late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi in 2006. While Gadhafi’s numbers might’ve been a bit…

By Selwyn Duke Perhaps he could have known the word would be seized upon. After all, with the term’s opposite, “diversity,” being treated by so many today as a theological principle bestowed from on high, it’s not surprising that using the concept of “conformity” to defend an action would invite scorn. But perhaps this raises…

By Selwyn Duke A bad analyst observes only what can be seen; a good analyst observes what can be seen, and what must be foreseen. If New Jersey’s leaders had been mindful of this twist on a famous Frédéric Bastiat line, perhaps they wouldn’t have banned “single-use” plastic bags some years ago. Why? Because the…

By Selwyn Duke “The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes,” G.K. Chesterton once wrote. “The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” In this sense, a school board in Pennsylvania has ceased being conservative — and delivered a blow against progressivism — by reinstating its district’s Indian mascot a…

By Selwyn Duke When legendary wrestler Andre the Giant played in movies, he never complained about being limited to portraying, well, giants (he got to play Sasquatch, too). When you’re 7’2” and 500 pounds, after all, you’re not going to be cast as the jockey in Seabiscuit. Today, though, in a time in which identity is…

By Selwyn Duke “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians,” wrote Professor Thomas Sowell in 1986, “who must be civilized before it is too late.” This civilization process’ absence is most obvious where the family has most broken down: the black community. The schools are only exacerbating this…

By Selwyn Duke Are we truly a nation of, by, and for the people, as Lincoln put it, if our elected representatives aren’t the ones actually making the decisions affecting our lives? For a long time they haven’t been making many of those decisions, too, having essentially “outsourced” them to judges and bureaucrats. But two…

By Selwyn Duke “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive,” philosopher C.S. Lewis famously wrote. “It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” Our busybodies are neither omnipotent nor moral, though they crave to be the former and…

By Selwyn Duke The men who crafted the First Amendment, the giants who birthed the Establishment Clause, opened the very first U.S. Congress in 1789 with exclusively Christian prayers. This practice continues to this day, too — and the prayers are still mainly Christian. So clearly, the Constitution does not dictate that A, “religion must be…

By Selwyn Duke One generally unmentioned reason prices are so high is that government taxation and regulation increase businesses’ costs, which then are handed down to consumers. A prime example is a regulation dictating that not only must a herring fishing vessel have a federal monitor aboard, but that its owner also must pay the…