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By Selwyn Duke We may argue about what authors meant to say through works they’ve written, but we don’t argue about whether they meant what they meant. So it’s rather interesting that the men who put the First Amendment in the Constitution opened the inaugural Congress, in 1789, with Christian prayers. This tradition continued (and…

By Selwyn Duke A “great man knows he is not God,” observed the great and greater G. K. Chesterton — “and the greater he is the better he knows it.” This came to mind when hearing something President Trump said recently — and brought to mind something Barack Obama said many years ago, something a…

By Selwyn Duke Much has been made in recent years of how “divided” the U.S. is, and it is a reality. Yet it’s also true, new research has found, that rank-and-file liberals and conservatives aren’t as far apart on the issues as they themselves think. Rather, each group believes the other is more radical than…

By Selwyn Duke Pascal Robert cannot be confused with a conservative: He favors socialized medicine and socialized education. He cannot be mistaken for colorblind: He has characterized whites as blacks’ “oppressors.” Robert also cannot be considered American in spirit: His parents emigrated from Haiti and he blames the United States for the poor country’s woes.…

By Selwyn Duke What does it say about a civilization when it feels compelled to place a satanic display next to baby Jesus at Christmastime? As a general question, you can answer that for yourself. But among other things, in our case it means too many Americans — including judges — wouldn’t know the Constitution…

I wish you a very merry and blessed Christmas. Let us remember the true spirit of the Holy Day and that today is just the beginning of the Christmas observance.  God bless, Selwyn Duke

Here's a nice article on a miracle in the WWI trenches. I wrote a piece on this topic in 2008, but it appears that it's no longer on the Internet. So I present the following. By Kurt Hyde In 1914, when the bulk of the soldiers on both sides of World War I were Christian…

By Selwyn Duke No one really knows the exact number of rats living in New York City (unless one means Gotham politicians). In fact, estimates range anywhere from two million to 72 million — which breaks down to roughly four people for every one rat to eight rats for every one person — proving that the rodents aren’t big…

By Selwyn Duke It’s ironic now, but years ago CNN did a segment entitled “Tracking America’s Pedophiles.” Apparently, the network should have started with its own production team. Some are drawing this conclusion with news that, as Fox News host Tucker Carlson put it this week, there’s a “pedo outbreak” at CNN. It’s yet another…

By Selwyn Duke The people putting men in women’s sports, boys in girls’ locker rooms, and the Grinch in Christmas are also pushing “gender”-neutral toys. But if they’re dreaming of woke Yuletide gift-giving, they may be disappointed with a new survey finding that most shoppers aren’t neutral on “gender”-neutral toys — they’re wholly uninterested in…